Happy birthday, @shawbridge ! Your new home sounds great.
Hope everyone is still hanging in there. Both H and I are busy working remotely, so we’re fortunate not to have any interruption to our finances. The two pups keep us busy.
Stay safe!
Thanks, @college_query. We are really enjoying things and ShawWife is making a wonderful birthday dinner.
We are taking advantage of the site. We have created four separate outdoor seating areas – DR, LR (couch, two chairs and a little table, our coffee area (two chairs and a tree stump), and a duck area (two chairs observing the area where the wild ducks come every day to hang out. They are already so comfortable with us that they will just walk by.
In our town, a lot of people seem as busy as before. I am finding prospective clients have decided that they can’t hunker down indefinitely and are starting to call us. That will make me very busy this fall.
Congrats on the house Shaw! How exciting. Haven’t been checking as often as prior. Working from home still. I’m currently scheduled to go back to the office at the end of July timeframe. We shall see although cases in NY are down. SIL is back in the office. H and S are still working from home. D is still on maternity leave. Ends the beginning of Aug and then she will take a week vacation before going back to work. Current plan is all of us will go to Cape Cod for the week. We have 2 condo’s rented on the beach but we of course are going to check things out before going and make sure it’s safe for all. Would be fun though to get away with the 4 grandkids. We have started seeing everyone in person again. That started about 3 weeks ago as things started opening up in our area. Restaurants are open for indoor seating again - although much different then before. We have not tried it yet. With the 4 little ones we are still be cautious.
Checking in with folks - still working from home. Not much has changed EXCEPT we will be moving again in November. H does temporary assignments, and the average length is 18 months. My job is remote so no change for me.
Hope you are all hanging in there.
Hanging in there. Older son is marrying next month-we will witness by zoom only- larger celebration to follow once people can gather safely in larger numbers. Hello to all and hope you and your families are doing okay through all this. Good luck with your move, @college_query !
@RochesterMom, I hope the vacation on the Cape worked out well.
@college_query, best of luck with the move.
@sevmom, congratulations. Sorry you won’t be able to be there for the first one in person.
ShawD and her BF have not gotten engaged yet. There have been a hint or two, but they have to do it so who knows?
ShawSon and his GF broke up a couple of months ago. Dating is more challenging in the era of COVID. First messaging followed by Zooming. Then, socially distanced meetings. Then, at some point, the person jumps into your 4 or 5 person bubble. He is now doing online dating. Three observations: First, in prior years, probably the most socially skilled and/or prettiest women might never have made it to online dating (maybe also true for men), but there are no other alternatives at this point (except arranged marriage, I guess). So, the pool of people online is everyone. Second, he has concluded that lots of women looking for a 30 yo male are looking for someone who looks like him – smart (elite schools), ambitious (co-founder of venture-backed startup), tall (seems to matter), etc. He is using an app where women make the first contact and has been overwhelmed by the interest he has received (he had 50 emails in his inbox to respond to, which isn’t great for a dyslexic kid who can’t outsource this to his staff). ShawD is concerned that he it might be hard to distinguish the women who are interested in him and not just in his accomplishments/likely success in life. Third, online dating encourages one to think about categories, but in fact, what matters the most is personal connection. Should be interesting to watch from afar. Things will clearly go slower at the beginning (e.g., no sex early on) but then faster later on (moving from dating to exclusivity).
ShawWife’s studio is under construction. Looks like it will be very nice.
Update. We are loving living in the new house. Wild ducks that we feed every day. Wildlife of all stripes. So relaxing. This morning, two of ShawWife’s closest friends came over with birthday cake and we sat outside along the river with them. Hens and guinea hens came over from the farm next door. I just went out and we had 6 Muscovies, 1 American Pekin, two mallards and one unidentified duck hanging out right outside the house.
Studio is looking great. Exterior finished. Interior work is supposed to be done by end of January.
ShawD hinted to us about engagement but no announcement yet.
ShawSon very systematically did online date. Four one hour Zoom dates per weekend day and some at night. Eliminated poeple who weren’t interesting. Narrowed it down to three and one seemed especially interesting. Went from 0 to 100 in short order. Elite school grad like him including elite MBA, good career in tech industry, loves board games and is nerdy, is very pretty and surprisingly given who he has dated before is Caucasian and not Asian (the vast majority of women in the tech world seem to be Asian and he has always gone out with extremely petite, non-Caucasian women). They sem very affectionate and he seems very happy. Early days, but seems delightful on Zoom calls.
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