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I'm also the designated shopper. My wife hasn't left the house for more than short local walk in weeks...So, to answer Mrs. Peel's questions: getting occasional restaurant deliveries to stretch the reserves (or just for a refreshing change of pace)? We haven't bothered with delivery yet, but I been picking up take-out about once a week. Partly for the change of pace, partly to support the local restaurants that we really want to have still in business when things return to normal getting groceries delivered (if they have that in your area) to add to supplies? We looked briefly into grocery delivery, but the backlog was huge. We'd have been waiting a looooonnnngg time going out occasionally to grocery shop... again, to top off your food supplies? I usually go to the grocery store once a week, early in the morning. Most weeks I'll make a second trip out to Walmart or Home Depot. That's about it. I kinda like the opportunity to get out, even though shopping has become much more difficult. staying in entirely, and just living off what's in the house already? I think we could get by fine for three weeks without resupply, but the natives would get restless as the favorite foods run out and we're left with everything else. I know, first-world problems...

The problem is, governor gopher either doesn't recognize nonsense, or fully embraces it as public policy. He closed NJ forests today. What the hell kind of sense does that make?

I'd not heard that before. What would cause a case to shorten?

I can't write a line of code, but I helped manage Y2K remediation efforts the last time we had to drag COBOL programmers out of retirement. So put me down for one of those no-show NJ Government management jobs.

My company also had a lot of trouble finding COBOL programmers in 1999, to comb through tons of legacy code in advance of Y2K. Pulled a lot out of retirement even then. I think some of the code was so old that dates were stored as Roman numerals using the Julian calendar... Of course, we paid our programmers. I doubt NJ will have a lot of luck getting volunteers--that's a bizarre approach to even suggest.

I'd have to plant at least 20 deer and a few woodchucks before I could even think about planting a garden where I live.

I do NOT want to lose the option to reload.

I finally got to smoke two racks of beef short ribs yesterday. They're a lot harder to find locally than are pork ribs, but I'd been meaning to give them a try for quite awhile. I used the Myron Mixon method from his 'Smoking' cookbook. Applied the dry rub the night before, and yesterday smoked them for 5 hours over oak and hickory. Served, as always, with homemade cornbread. Good stuff! I plan to be running the smoker most weekends, now that I've got few other weekend activities to keep me occupied.

From what I'm reading in this thread, they even taste the same.

Yep, that is certainly a big contributor to the confusion.

Vaccines are cheap--and the margins are low for their producers. The various treatments being tested now are mostly off-patent, and are also cheap, and low margin. We need both. I don't see market forces favoring one or the other. I'm not surprised that the treatments in clinical trials and limited clinical use right now are showing mixed results--none of them were designed to fight this virus. It's just a happy accident that antimalarials may have some activity against the virus. If this coronavirus comes back year after year, I'd expect something much more effective will eventually be designed and patented and tested and approved. But that won't happen for a couple of years, and those next-generation drugs won't be cheap. So, we keep rooting for the cheap drugs being tested now to be useful, even if not as effective as we'd like.

#4 TBD could be misused, if Emma Peel is in charge of the FAQ. She'll use that section to push her views on what that odd pork product should be called. She may even promote it to #1.

I don't see mention of that on their website--where did you get the news? I've been wanting to get in there for years--it's supposed to be a great place to get mass quantities of meat for the smoker.

Nooooooo! I hope to return to Idaho someday, and don't want to find it filled with north easterners. The influx from California is bad enough.

So, why isn’t Identigo processing fingerprints? I couldn’t tell from your post.

I only got three minutes in, alarm bells went off almost immediately when he said he's quoting an anonymous source, and I stopped the playback when he said PCR is known to not work...(it works, it works well, and it's been working for 35 years). Yes, there are multiple families of coronaviruses, but that's been known for decades. Right now, there are believed to be 8 strains of the particular coronavirus that causes COVID19. That might account for the highly variable symptoms infected people are experiencing, though that could still also be due to individual differences among the patients. The highly encouraging news is that the 8 strains are very, very, similar to each other, which A), makes it more likely that a single vaccine will work against all, and B), makes it more likely that if the virus comes back each year, a one-time vaccination will continue to protect. A) and B) aren't yet proven, of course, but what we know so far makes both seem likely.

Fair point about tank rust, but all of my yard equipment has plastic tanks. The generator and the snowblower are really hard to drain, and since those are also the ones most likely to go unused after a fill, I store them empty. The gas stabilizer recommends no more than a year of storage anyway, so I'd still be stuck cycling the gas once a year regardless.

I don't bother with stabilizer. I have one 5 gallon gas can for all of the yard equipment; it gets used quickly enough that it needs no stabilization. I also keep multiple 5 gallon cans constantly filled for the generator. I write fill dates on these and every six months or less I dump them into the cars and refill on the same day, so I never have a gap of more than a few hours without my full supply of generator gas. I'd have to do that once a year anyway, even with stabilized fuel, so just save the cost of the stabilizer and rotate stock twice a year instead. Four to six times a year, I put just enough gas in my generator to run it for 20 minutes or so under load, then run it till the tank is dry for storage.

How long does the bag material hold up if buried? Asking for a friend.

Clearly, my kids need to step up their game. I've never found a rifle under the Christmas tree...

Looks like Optimum has it on demand, though not free.

Pina colada meatballs? Or more accurately, coconut margarita meatballs? I dunno....I've enjoyed both drinks, never once thinking "hmmm, this would really taste better if it had some ground chuck in it".

My youngest is finishing her college semester from home, and I learned that somehow she's never seen Animal House, Airplane! or Blues Brothers. So I'm filling gaps in her formal education by introducing her to the classics. We're up to Airplane!, scheduled for tonight, but I can't find my copy of Blues Brothers, and it's not on Netflix. Update: She liked Airplane!, but I learned she's never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. So that one is queued up for the weekend.

Yes, but NJ isn't fiscally FUBAR because income tax returns will come in late this year, NJ is fiscally FUBAR because they've been massively, stupidly, overspending for decades.

So you social distance the humans. All kinds of businesses are doing that--Home Depot was one of the most recent to start limiting how many people can be in the building at one time. Wouldn't be hard for a range to do the same. Limit of one person per port. Or every other port. Commercial ranges could require appointments be made in advance if they are worried about being overrun on the weekends. As noted previously, private ranges are normally pretty empty to begin with.