Wannabe Astronaut @space_cadet@aus.social

I had a tooth extracted a week ago because I had had enough of it hurting all the time. Now I've got a dry socket where the tooth used to be and Holy Mother of God it hurts like living hell. I've exceeded maximum dose of Panadol and Neurofen in the last 24 hours and I cannot sleep. Jee. Zus.

The Wisdom Of The Walking Cane in the Age of COVID-19.
There is a book called '49 uses for a Walking Stick by Frank Hopkinson (2019). I would like to add a few more. <clears throat>.... Ahem.

50. Pushing ATM/Elevator buttons
51. Enforcing Social Distancing in shops
52. Carrying shopping bags at arm's length
53. Poking sick people lying on the ground to see if they are dead
54. Tap your forehead/hat brim instead of shaking hands.
55. Whacking the modem when the NBN freezes again
56. your turn:

Right. So my quarantine-almost-jobless plan is:
1.) Write the 3 conference papers that I've been wanting to write
2.) Learn C++
3.) Start a business that I can keep growing even after we emerge from hibernation and eventually leave forever the awful hell that is Consulting Engineering.
4.) Lose 15 kg
5.) Learn the Blues Harmonica

So where is "You and your wife just lost your jobs at the start of a global depression due to a global pandemic that has utterly razed the global economy. Now is the perfect time to start a business!"?

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The next time you are feeling inadequate, or are letting your ego get too big, this guy was a Medical Doctor, a Navy Seal and an Astronaut by age 35.

Jonny Kim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

Should we be renamed aus.social.distancing

A positron moving through space is mathematically and physically identical to an electron travelling through space BACKWARDS IN TIME. And vice-versa. The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine.

Well I'm working from home starting today until further notice. My wife lost heaps of hours per week starting today. My daughter just got made redundant.
And so it begins.

ScoMo hasn't shut Australia down because he is a religious fanatic who believes that Hope is some kind of magical force that he can command and control and twist its energy into a force field of good luck that will pervade the island continent of Australia and keep all the good white Christians safe and sound and ready to die on command when the time is right, when Jesus 2.0 is installed and says "OK all my thralls, pack your Bibles in your backpacks, we're all going on a holiday in the sky."