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Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:05 pm
by brian
No offense, but I hope whomever volunteers also gets paid and paid well.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:08 pm
by rass
Wife just read that De Blasio said the hospitals will reach capacity this weekend.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:10 pm
by rass

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:10 pm
by rass
ENSURE is heavy there

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:41 pm
by P.D.X.
TT2.0 wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm Unemployment claim submitted yesterday. If they approve me help is only a week or so away. nevermind what in the fuck im supposed to do in the meantime. comics are getting blacklisted for going live and asking for donations. underground poker games are getting the cops called on them. Where in the actual fuck am i supposed to get my rent money? More salient..where am I going to get grocery money? People talking so cavalierly about them just running it "another month" are scaring the fuck out of me. christ this is depressing. pray to the unemployment gods that they approve and pay me. thats all i got
Stream your set live on FB/Insta and throw up a venmo link. You'll get some scratch.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:49 pm
by mister d
rass wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:08 pm Wife just read that De Blasio said the hospitals will reach capacity this weekend.
Which means that all the "doctors will have to choose who lives and who dies" predictions were bang on. I don't know how you actually implement the process, but if there's an 85 year old on a ventilator and a 35 year old parent who needs to be on one, you have to make that switch.

(Related, we know a guy here who is on high/pure oxygen and I don't want to see if that means ventilator or not.)

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:27 pm
by The Sybian
Steve of phpBB wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:54 pm
TT2.0 wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm Unemployment claim submitted yesterday. If they approve me help is only a week or so away. nevermind what in the fuck im supposed to do in the meantime. comics are getting blacklisted for going live and asking for donations. underground poker games are getting the cops called on them. Where in the actual fuck am i supposed to get my rent money? More salient..where am I going to get grocery money? People talking so cavalierly about them just running it "another month" are scaring the fuck out of me. christ this is depressing. pray to the unemployment gods that they approve and pay me. thats all i got
That sucks, TT. What kind of employer were you working for? If it's a small business, they can take out a SBA loan and if they use that money to pay employees, that part of the loan will be forgiven. Are you in a position to advise them of this, so they can help you folks out?

Also, if don't have enough money to pay your rent, don't pay your rent. Though it'd be good to keep your landlord apprised of your situation (especially the fact that you got your unemployment application in). There's no way you are the only one in this situation, and the landlord has nothing to gain by going to court to try to evict you.
Excellent points. In addition to unemployment, you may qualify for Emergency Paid Sick Leave, though it's unclear if shelter at home work closure employees will qualify. The SBA loan Steve mentioned is the best option. Basically free money for employers to pay furloughed employees. New York and New Jersey have shut down the eviction process, find out if Texas has done something similar. I know banks are required to postpone mortgage payments for home owners out of work, not sure if some states have similar laws for renters out of work.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:37 am
by Pruitt
Last few nights I've had a series of nightmares - none of them are particularly virus-related but not fun. Because most of the time when I wake up, I stay up for a while.

Been up today since 5:30, taking the dog out soon.

But on the bright side, quarantine Saturdays were just made for napping.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:48 am
by A_B
Pruitt wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:37 am Last few nights I've had a series of nightmares - none of them are particularly virus-related but not fun. Because most of the time when I wake up, I stay up for a while.

Been up today since 5:30, taking the dog out soon.

But on the bright side, quarantine Saturdays were just made for napping.
I had an unusually long dream about a zombie breakout.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:36 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Fuck me. I just returned from my first bike ride of the year. Feeble as hell but at least I didn’t come near anyone.

Now I have a cough.

And the new numbers show a 36% increase in positive cases in my county over yesterday. That’s the worst daily increase in weeks.

Presumably the cough is just from deeply inhaling pollen for 45 minutes. But fuck.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:10 pm
by tennbengal
Allergies and exertion.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm
by tennbengal
But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:26 pm
by brian
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?
From what I’ve heard it’s a pretty unique dry cough. If it’s not hurting a little to cough you’re probably OK.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:28 pm
by tennbengal
brian wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:26 pm
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?
From what I’ve heard it’s a pretty unique dry cough. If it’s not hurting a little to cough you’re probably OK.
I’ve heard that too - but that’s why I was wondering why there wasn’t a simple easily findable audio file of it uploaded somewhere.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:08 pm
by A_B
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:28 pm
brian wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:26 pm
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?
From what I’ve heard it’s a pretty unique dry cough. If it’s not hurting a little to cough you’re probably OK.
I’ve heard that too - but that’s why I was wondering why there wasn’t a simple easily findable audio file of it uploaded somewhere.
Can you quit dying so I can record this cough?!?! Geez!

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:28 pm
by tennbengal
See - as I understand it - it’s possible to have the cough and not die or be dying! But perhaps not!

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:31 pm
by brian
Schrodinger’s cough.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:40 pm
by tennbengal
I’ve decided the cough is the thing that shows this is a false flag...

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:50 pm
by rass
Been listening in on my wife’s calls to positives. The ones that have the cough sound like shit, and I can hear that even though she isn’t on speaker. Only one so far had the runs, but he said it was non-stop. Not sure what that sounded like.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:03 am
by The Sybian
rass wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:50 pm Been listening in on my wife’s calls to positives. The ones that have the cough sound like shit, and I can hear that even though she isn’t on speaker. Only one so far had the runs, but he said it was non-stop. Not sure what that sounded like.
Record your wife’s calls and post them here!

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:19 am
by Steve of phpBB
brian wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:26 pm
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?
From what I’ve heard it’s a pretty unique dry cough. If it’s not hurting a little to cough you’re probably OK.
TB had it right. Old fat guy gets aerobic exercise for the first time in months.

I know the Corona cough gets really bad and painful ... but I assume it doesn’t start that way.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:14 am
by rass
The Sybian wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:03 am
rass wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:50 pm Been listening in on my wife’s calls to positives. The ones that have the cough sound like shit, and I can hear that even though she isn’t on speaker. Only one so far had the runs, but he said it was non-stop. Not sure what that sounded like.
Record your wife’s calls and post them here!
Man I was feeling so good last night that I don’t really remember writing this response.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:13 am
by Giff
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:28 pm
brian wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:26 pm
tennbengal wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:12 pm But out of general curiosity - has anyone on the internets who has the cough and diagnosis but not had to be hospitalized taken the time to upload what the cough sounds like ?
From what I’ve heard it’s a pretty unique dry cough. If it’s not hurting a little to cough you’re probably OK.
I’ve heard that too - but that’s why I was wondering why there wasn’t a simple easily findable audio file of it uploaded somewhere.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:45 am
by rass
I've been WFH since 3/12, and thanks to remote desktop saving my credentials haven't typed in my work/domain password since probably that morning. MS Teams decided not to log me in automatically this morning and... I can't fucking remember what my current password is. I could work off the Teams app on my phone, but that's annoying and I'll eventually need the password to reset/renew anyway, so I had to debase myself by admitting this to internal IT.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:41 am
by brian
rass wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:45 am I've been WFH since 3/12, and thanks to remote desktop saving my credentials haven't typed in my work/domain password since probably that morning. MS Teams decided not to log me in automatically this morning and... I can't fucking remember what my current password is. I could work off the Teams app on my phone, but that's annoying and I'll eventually need the password to reset/renew anyway, so I had to debase myself by admitting this to internal IT.
If that's the worst shit you have to bug your IT team with, it wouldn't even rate on them tooling on you behind your back.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:48 am
by rass
We worked it out and he didn't give me too much shit, other than setting my temp PWD to "whatismyproblem".

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:50 am
by duff
rass wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:48 am We worked it out and he didn't give me too much shit, other than setting my temp PWD to "whatismyproblem".
I do that shit all the time to people that forget their passwords. Most of the time it is either PleaseChangeMe or DontForgetMe

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:53 am
by Sabo
WhatAreYouFuckingSt00pid

Have to add the zeroes to make it comply to our password rules.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:58 am
by rass
Had this happen once before, years ago and with some secondary app (maybe our phone system, so I could redirect calls?) that I never accessed. Different guy this time (one of the VPs, wearing multiple hats because we're pretty small, and were even smaller back then), and he meant to reset it to "doofus2" or something like that but misspelled "doofus" as "dufuss" and I still occasionally make fun of him for that.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:24 am
by Nonlinear FC
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:41 pm
TT2.0 wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm Unemployment claim submitted yesterday. If they approve me help is only a week or so away. nevermind what in the fuck im supposed to do in the meantime. comics are getting blacklisted for going live and asking for donations. underground poker games are getting the cops called on them. Where in the actual fuck am i supposed to get my rent money? More salient..where am I going to get grocery money? People talking so cavalierly about them just running it "another month" are scaring the fuck out of me. christ this is depressing. pray to the unemployment gods that they approve and pay me. thats all i got
Stream your set live on FB/Insta and throw up a venmo link. You'll get some scratch.
Lovett did part of his show with a "live" Zoom audience and it actually sounded pretty good.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:27 am
by Nonlinear FC
duff wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:50 am
rass wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:48 am We worked it out and he didn't give me too much shit, other than setting my temp PWD to "whatismyproblem".
I do that shit all the time to people that forget their passwords. Most of the time it is either PleaseChangeMe or DontForgetMe
I had an IT guy reset mine to Just Hit Enter.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:30 am
by rass
TT, what does the blacklisted comment mean exactly? Does that mean clubs are holding it against comics for doing their own thing during this situation?

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:48 am
by The Sybian
Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:24 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:41 pm
TT2.0 wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm Unemployment claim submitted yesterday. If they approve me help is only a week or so away. nevermind what in the fuck im supposed to do in the meantime. comics are getting blacklisted for going live and asking for donations. underground poker games are getting the cops called on them. Where in the actual fuck am i supposed to get my rent money? More salient..where am I going to get grocery money? People talking so cavalierly about them just running it "another month" are scaring the fuck out of me. christ this is depressing. pray to the unemployment gods that they approve and pay me. thats all i got
Stream your set live on FB/Insta and throw up a venmo link. You'll get some scratch.
Lovett did part of his show with a "live" Zoom audience and it actually sounded pretty good.
It was great when he called out audience members by name to make fun of them.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:03 am
by mister d
rass wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:30 am TT, what does the blacklisted comment mean exactly? Does that mean clubs are holding it against comics for doing their own thing during this situation?
I assume its the middleman's fear of them seeing they can cut out the middleman.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:39 am
by TT2.0
rass wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:30 am TT, what does the blacklisted comment mean exactly? Does that mean clubs are holding it against comics for doing their own thing during this situation?
im just going to cut and paste the post from a pretty well known comic in houston and leave his name out to give you an idea of the kind of feelings about donations, and keep in mind that this guy is the booker for THREE rooms, so if he hates you you aren't working there...and he is by no means the only booker that feels this way.

Y’all should be ashamed of yourself for asking people for money to donate to you and most of these people on the same boat as yo ass... if you choose to do a LIVE Facebook show that’s your choice you doing that at your own risk but to charge people is fucking ridiculous... That’s my opinion and I said what I said 🤷🏾‍♂️

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:06 am
by Nonlinear FC
That's a very fucked up position to take. People aren't going to donate money they don't have to give. Not right now.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:12 am
by mister d
C'mon. Its a disingenuous stance over being cut out of the transaction.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:17 am
by A_B
mister d wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:12 am C'mon. Its a disingenuous stance over being cut out of the transaction.
100 percent. Also it's kind of stupid. If a person could reach an audience and then those people might eventually come out to a club to see said person. It's ridiculous.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:04 pm
by TT2.0
It is, but so much of these shows and bookings are political its a literal minefield.

Re: The Captain Trips Anxiety thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:09 pm
by Nonlinear FC
A_B wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:17 am
mister d wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:12 am C'mon. Its a disingenuous stance over being cut out of the transaction.
100 percent. Also it's kind of stupid. If a person could reach an audience and then those people might eventually come out to a club to see said person. It's ridiculous.
yeah, of course it is (disingenuous), as that had been established up thread. I was just pointing out that's not a very well thought out bit of bullshit.