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Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
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    #32
    [Deleted User]
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    Candie wrote: »
    I've just realized I'm reading AVB's posts in Dr Evils voice, which is quite entertaining.

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    #33
    Carry
    Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'm finding this lockdown this rather difficult to be honest. I've never found the idea of working from home all that appealing, and my usually legendary productivity has taken a hit as a result. It reached a 'rock bottom' for me last Thursday when I spent the day working from home while wearing runners, pyjamas bottoms, and an easy-iron shirt. It got so bad that I even started reading the comments part of a Journal.ie article.

    You are letting yourself down, sweetie.
    Take advice from a a sucessfull and productive homeworker like myself (you can leave out the beauty routine, of course, but it is recommended):

    I get up in the morning, feed the cat (wash hands), switch on the laptop, do a bit Tai Chi in the garden (weather permitting, and wash hands), have coffee, a shower and then prepare for the day of (non-)working:

    Apply makeup, choose colour of eyeshadow, depending on weather and mood (green goes well when determined, brown is always neutral, add a touch of gold later in the day and when having video calls with clients and/or collegues, in that case don't forget to powder your nose, and wash hands), choose carefully what you wear, match jewellery and for good measure spray expensive perfume liberally (nobody is going to smell it anyway). Wash hands.

    Make phonecalls standing up, wear high heels. It makes you feel aloof. Wash hands after each phonecall, though I don't know why.
    Do that all morning, then slump down and think about when it is wine o'clock and which wine to chose.

    Have a healthy lunch at the dining table (never near the laptop), wash hands, read an inspirational book while doing so (or a crime novel). Wash hands.

    Spend the afternoon with actually doing work, ponder about the windows, if they need cleaning. You might consider clearing out the cutlery drawer and even might find that pizza cutter you thought you've lost. Wash hands. Intermittently.

    Think about texting the neighbour if a socially distanced wine o'clock suits. If yes, break the rules. Wash hands. If not, there is always video call wine o'clock. Or you cook dinner and go freelance on the wine o'clock. Wash hands anyway.

    Otherwise send silly gifs and videos to all in your whatsapp list. Wait until there are replies and more silly gifs and videos you can then send on, well you now the score of networking. Dont't forget to wash your hands.

    Feed the cat. Wash hands!

    Feel fullfilled when stumbling into the bedroom. Don't forget to wash off all the make-up and brush your teeth (and hands!). Slip into that old t-shirt and just hope that it was all a bad dream.

    Get up in the morning, rinse and repeat.


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    #34
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    Carry wrote: »
    You are letting yourself down, sweetie.
    Take advice from a a sucessfull and productive homeworker like myself (you can leave out the beauty routine, of course, but it is recommended):

    I get up in the morning, feed the cat (wash hands), switch on the laptop, do a bit Tai Chi in the garden (weather permitting, and wash hands), have coffee, a shower and then prepare for the day of (non-)working:

    Apply makeup, choose colour of eyeshadow, depending on weather and mood (green goes well when determined, brown is always neutral, add a touch of gold later in the day and when having video calls with clients and/or collegues, in that case don't forget to powder your nose, and wash hands), choose carefully what you wear, match jewellery and for good measure spray expensive perfume liberally (nobody is going to smell it anyway). Wash hands.

    Make phonecalls standing up, wear high heels. It makes you feel aloof. Wash hands after each phonecall, though I don't know why.
    Do that all morning, then slump down and think about when it is wine o'clock and which wine to chose.

    Have a healthy lunch at the dining table (never near the laptop), wash hands, read an inspirational book while doing so (or a crime novel). Wash hands.

    Spend the afternoon with actually doing work, ponder about the windows, if they need cleaning. You might consider clearing out the cutlery drawer and even might find that pizza cutter you thought you've lost. Wash hands. Intermittently.

    Think about texting the neighbour if a socially distanced wine o'clock suits. If yes, break the rules. Wash hands. If not, there is always video call wine o'clock. Or you cook dinner and go freelance on the wine o'clock. Wash hands anyway.

    Otherwise send silly gifs and videos to all in your whatsapp list. Wait until there are replies and more silly gifs and videos you can then send on, well you now the score of networking. Dont't forget to wash your hands.

    Feed the cat. Wash hands!

    Feel fullfilled when stumbling into the bedroom. Don't forget to wash off all the make-up and brush your teeth (and hands!). Slip into that old t-shirt and just hope that it was all a bad dream.

    Get up in the morning, rinse and repeat.

    You gave too much away, no point purchasing the novel now.


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    #35
    Carry
    Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Candie wrote: »
    Feeding baby, changing baby, Netflix, feeding baby, changing baby, Netflix, feeding baby changing baby, eating, feeding baby, changing baby, sleep.

    You have a baby? Did I miss something?
    Congrats! I'm pleased for you. :):):)


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    #36
    PmMeUrDogs
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭PmMeUrDogs


    Candie has a baby now? :D congratulations!



    I'm off work, trying to keep busy. Currently learning a new language, which is resulting in me interspersing my atrocious attempts at pronunciation with swear words. Practising guitar, cooking, lots of cleaning, and listening to lots of podcasts. I'm bored silly.


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    #37
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Looking after my daughter (playing Barbies, trampoline, fort building, colouring, VR headset), housework and reading.

    Honestly, my life's not too different to a month ago except I have way less free time and more money. Trying to only drink 4 nights a week instead of 6 (used to 3 nights before this, but needs must).

    Learning the piano, or at least I am when I have the time, which is rare.

    My wife works lates and earlys and it's tough on her so I try to take most of the burden off her - dinners, cleaning, homework, baths etc.

    Luckily for us we live in the countryside with a ginormous garden so we have it better than most and our income is still the same. I cannot imagine being in an apartment with a couple of kids right now. I have a friend with 3 kids under the age of five and I really feel for her.


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    #38
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,014 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


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    Close to completing it at this stage


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    #39
    Carry
    Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You gave too much away, no point purchasing the novel now.

    Wait for the tv series :D


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    #40
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,926 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    exercise

    study

    read a book

    study

    boards/amazon,youtube

    watch a film


    im really enjoying it. havent been bored since this started.


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    #41
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    Asking stupid questions in Interview person below you!


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    #42
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'm finding this lockdown this rather difficult to be honest. I've never found the idea of working from home all that appealing, and my usually legendary productivity has taken a hit as a result. It reached a 'rock bottom' for me last Thursday when I spent the day working from home while wearing runners, pyjamas bottoms, and an easy-iron shirt. It got so bad that I even started reading the comments part of a Journal.ie article.

    This couldn't continue, so I sat down on Sunday afternoon and spent an hour working out a plan for how to deal with this extraordinary situation we all find ourselves in. My new routine is already bedded in, and starting to deliver positive results.

    I won't bore you with all of it, but I practice meditation for 20 minutes 3 times a day. Upon waking; mindful eating at lunch, a loving kindness meditation at 8PM. I use the sauna twice per day, and am also glad of having invested in a Peloton bike when they launched in Germany. I've rediscovered my love of rustic French cooking, and look forward to the time I spend in the kitchen preparing the sort of food that you'd find in a small bistro in Lyon.

    Apart from that, I'm using a wonderful app called Blinkist. It takes books (mostly, but not exclusively, about personal development, business, and current affairs), and distils them down into 15 minute vignettes.

    Tough times. Hope everyone is ok.

    Don't get the point of that Blinkist site. I associate it with that 'book porn' culture that has cropped up which seems to suggest if you read and by extension cultivate knowledge, you'll be the next Warren Buffet. Every self help guru on youtube seems to be in this camp.


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    #43
    Wanderer19
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Wanderer19


    Still working part time, have college assignments due. No time to be bored. Have paint bought for when I have time to redecorate, garden needs a makeover and house needs decluttering. If lockdown continues sndy assignments are done then I'll do an online course. No time to be bored, or lazy.


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    #44
    RedXIV
    Registered Users Posts: 8,406 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    I'm exhausted. Trying to fit in normal working hours but trying to prime a teenager for state exams (who doesn't believe they will happen which is its own battle), keep two primary school kids occupied and a toddler who has discovered the power of a well timed tantrum.

    All this while the better half is on the frontline so likely to get busier and busier.

    Deeply envious of my friends who are working reduced hours or from home with all this extra time to focus on new projects. I've tried to start a few new things but honestly, I'm pretty much switching between working, parenting and waiting for the opportunity to play a few games to relax.

    If this happened in about 5 years from now, the kids ages would make it much more fun


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    #45
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Actually as busy as normal week days to be honest.

    My wife is off work but looks after the kids during the day and does school stuff with them as well. I'm working from a home office from early until about 4.30. Do daily training drills with my sons (sent by their coach) and play for about an hour. Then go for a run and I'm also doing any shopping required by us and my parents about twice a week.

    Weekends pretty lazy though and lots of food, TV and alcohol.


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    #46
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    fryup wrote: »
    no one's mentioned
    wankin
    :o

    here ya go.
    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'm finding this lockdown this rather difficult to be honest. I've never found the idea of working from home all that appealing, and my usually legendary productivity has taken a hit as a result. It reached a 'rock bottom' for me last Thursday when I spent the day working from home while wearing runners, pyjamas bottoms, and an easy-iron shirt. It got so bad that I even started reading the comments part of a Journal.ie article.

    This couldn't continue, so I sat down on Sunday afternoon and spent an hour working out a plan for how to deal with this extraordinary situation we all find ourselves in. My new routine is already bedded in, and starting to deliver positive results.

    I won't bore you with all of it, but I practice meditation for 20 minutes 3 times a day. Upon waking; mindful eating at lunch, a loving kindness meditation at 8PM. I use the sauna twice per day, and am also glad of having invested in a Peloton bike when they launched in Germany. I've rediscovered my love of rustic French cooking, and look forward to the time I spend in the kitchen preparing the sort of food that you'd find in a small bistro in Lyon.

    Apart from that, I'm using a wonderful app called Blinkist. It takes books (mostly, but not exclusively, about personal development, business, and current affairs), and distils them down into 15 minute vignettes.

    Tough times. Hope everyone is ok.


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    #47
    Ultrflat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Ultrflat


    So I was due to start a job the week the lock down started. Pretty faustrating I've no access to money. I'm sitting here waiting to start. I've 100% got a job.

    The dish washer broke so I have to hand wash everything. Play some games, movies house work. Sort the garden out, stuff like that.


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    #48
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    Im actually enjoying this lockdown. Im getting loads of sleep and sleeping to my own body clock. No matter how early I go to bed I either cant sleep or if I do sleep and wake up for work at 7 after 8 hours of sleep, I feel like ive been hit by a train, just cant do early mornings at all and they were really wearing me down.
    Bought some decent leggings online so im going to start going for runs in the evenings when its quiet outside.
    Been reading books I never have time to read, watching movies and series on netflix and generally just doing what I want. It's actually great. If only the circumstances where different. I feel guilty for enjoying this time while people are literally dying and health workers are risking their lives.


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    #49
    snoopboggybog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭snoopboggybog


    Start work at 8.30 A.M, set my alarm for 8.25 and login to work laptop from bed.
    Stay in bed doing work till about 12PM. Its a bit weird having meetings in bed.

    Get up then and have shower, brunch and go to my recliner and work from there and find something on netflix/youtube to watch on the TV till work finishes at 5PM.

    5PM - Cook Dinner, then Some free weights for 20 minutes and a 40 minute walk.

    Around 7PM i launch into cans of beer and play Playstation, watch Netflix along with plenty of masturbation.

    Bed about 2AM and rinse and repeat.

    Weekends is generally the same but start drinking around 3.


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    #50
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    about time to break out the board games... Monopoly should be fun for an hour or five.

    Risk, haven't played that yet, looks like it could be fun


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    #51
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    about time to break out the board games... Monopoly should be fun for an hour or five.

    Risk, haven't played that yet, looks like it could be fun

    Can't go wrong with a bit of cluedo.


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    #52
    [Deleted User]
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    I’ve been cooking more.
    Yesterday I made a Spanish stew, delish!


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    #53
    notsoyoungwan
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭notsoyoungwan


    I’m a hospital doctor so still going to work. I wish I didn’t have to. I wish I had a job which meant I could work from home instead of exposing me to risk every single day. I wish I didn’t wake in the early hours with a knot of anxiety in the pit of my stomach. I’m so envious of those who can stay at home. I’m sure it’s boring and cabin fever sets in, but with a little thought and imagination it really doesn’t have to be too bad. I hope those people appreciate the fact their risk and exposure is much less than others. And I’m angry at those who are flouting the rules. It’s stupid, selfish and utterly reckless.


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    #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Two people in house, two people in another house. What’s a good solution to play a board game or cards?


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    #55
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Two people in house, two people in another house. What’s a good solution to play a board game or cards?

    Knock down the wall in between the houses?


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    #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    Knock down the wall in between the houses?

    There’s quite a few walls, and miles, between the houses.


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    #57
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    There’s quite a few walls, and miles, between the houses.

    A tunnel?


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    #58
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Coffee, eating, a bit of work, listen to the little one crying for f*ck all reason, more coffee, food, go for a walk or a run to get away from the crying, arsing about on the internet, work, myself and the missus getting thick with eachother, fags, more work, a beer or two, a bit of TV, the odd ride, sleep. I wash the odd time too. I like to spoil her.


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    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    notsoyoungwan wrote:
    I’m a hospital doctor so still going to work. I wish I didn’t have to. I wish I had a job which meant I could work from home instead of exposing me to risk every single day. I wish I didn’t wake in the early hours with a knot of anxiety in the pit of my stomach. I’m so envious of those who can stay at home. I’m sure it’s boring and cabin fever sets in, but with a little thought and imagination it really doesn’t have to be too bad. I hope those people appreciate the fact their risk and exposure is much less than others. And I’m angry at those who are flouting the rules. It’s stupid, selfish and utterly reckless.


    I just want to say thank you for what you do every single day for all of us, going to work must be a truly terrifying experience now for you


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    #60
    FTCV041
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭FTCV041


    I have a four-month old, so keeping occupied is not an issue!


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    #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    A tunnel?

    A tunnel of electronic ones and zeros.


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