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Jackalope

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Just electronically filed mine today. Will still have to wait for my refund. But if you owe them mofos, you better send it by April 15th.

Screw them, the couple of years that I owed I always filed an extension and paid a buck. See you bitches in October. Sure they charged me a half percent interest over that 6 months, but the rate of inflation is usually higher over that period so even with their piddly interest is pay them less valuable money later. #PettyLikeThat.
 

Dannmann801

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So went to the stores tonite. Got some bulk stuff at Sams, no big deal. Line at the gas pump was 3-4 deep, Crazy.

Went to dinner, had some wings and ribs, probably the last time we'll eat out for a while.
Went over the list of things I wanted to get with the wife. I gotta say, I'm surprised and proud of her at the turnaround in her attitude toward preparedness.
For a long time we'd agreed to disagree, and she just stood aside while I do what I need to do to be comfortable in regards to taking care of my family.
For the last few weeks she's thought this virus thing was being overblown, but now with things spiraling up and what she's seeing at work, she's come around to admit that being prepared is not a bad thing, and actually agreed to and went shopping with me and participated. We made a night of it, and she was actually throwing things in the cart. I know if was a difficult night for her, both mentally and physically (she was tired). But she hung in there.

Alot of stuff was wiped out at Kroger, but they had a helluva lotta stuff in stock, and some good buys on some of the items I was looking for.
Looking at what people had in their carts was interesting.

I finally convinced my younger coworkers in the office today to go shopping tonite, hope they did well.
 

Jackalope

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So went to the stores tonite. Got some bulk stuff at Sams, no big deal. Line at the gas pump was 3-4 deep, Crazy.

Went to dinner, had some wings and ribs, probably the last time we'll eat out for a while.
Went over the list of things I wanted to get with the wife. I gotta say, I'm surprised and proud of her at the turnaround in her attitude toward preparedness.
For a long time we'd agreed to disagree, and she just stood aside while I do what I need to do to be comfortable in regards to taking care of my family.
For the last few weeks she's thought this virus thing was being overblown, but now with things spiraling up and what she's seeing at work, she's come around to admit that being prepared is not a bad thing, and actually agreed to and went shopping with me and participated. We made a night of it, and she was actually throwing things in the cart. I know if was a difficult night for her, both mentally and physically (she was tired). But she hung in there.

Alot of stuff was wiped out at Kroger, but they had a helluva lotta stuff in stock, and some good buys on some of the items I was looking for.
Looking at what people had in their carts was interesting.

I finally convinced my younger coworkers in the office today to go shopping tonite, hope they did well.

Awesome Dan! Awareness, preparation and information is a powerful defense.
 
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MoonLab

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Was at krogers to get bunch of canned food, shitload of ramen noodles,..nothing big. Went got toilet paper as well because I was down to 2 rolls. Now I have 10...that'll last me for awhile. In the pic you see TP about all out.
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Bigcountry40

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If needed our local schools plan on running thru summer if required. Some homes don’t have computer access.
I said this once before, it will be a mixture of schools using programs such as canvas and google classroom and extending the school year. The kids and families that do not want to figure it out/get the work done will use "we don't have internet/computers" as an excuse and there will be a small percentage of student population that doesnt actually have access to computers. Each school district in Ohio is basically just waiting on the edge of their seat waiting for Dewine to shut them down, I see teachers having to report to schools with no students to justify paying us.
 

Bigcountry40

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So, what would it take to cross over to a home school scenario? Wouldn’t that be an option for some?
No home school we have state testing in the middle of April, guarantee kids are magically back in school for that. Withdrawing kids and home schooling them officially is a processes, its extremely difficult to do that with high school kids because their class, credit hours, etc count towards graduation, elementary kids can be withdrawn fairly easy.
 
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giles

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My wife has done the same turn as you Dan. It was the talk I had with her and another friend last week about planning. What is the plan you two have if they close school doors? Two days, two weeks, two months? What is your plan? They laughed at me.

Tuesday I rained out at work so I was home when Rosa (the friend) came to pick up her daughters. It was a different story and we had a talk. A bit more concerning kind of talk. She went grocery shopping Tuesday evening. 👍🏼
 
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Jackalope

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Just a reminder so we don't forget. The only reason we're facing a country wide pandemic of unknown proportions is because our state and local governments were an utter failure at even a measly attempt to contain this. I knew they were completely inept when they went to get the passengers on the cruise ship in Japan and blew containment almost immediately. Even still we are not testing, isolating, or contact tracing nearly enough. It's a reactive treatment plan instead of a proactive protection plan.