H has medication delivered in those coolers and YES! they are the best! The only thing with those is 1) they’re a strange shape/size 2) I need to figure out a way to add a strap and 3) we prefer a soft sided cooler.
We end up throwing many of them away which makes me sad. I’ve offered them up on some local FB groups and nobody ever takes me me up on the offer.
I used to have medication delivered in a cooler once a month, but the waste bothered me ,so I started going to pick it up instead. That all ended in March.
The little cube shaped coolers are pretty sturdy, and those freezer gel packs seemed to multiply in the dark! I advertised them for free on our neighborhood list serve a few years ago and they were taken by someone “in charge” of jello shots for a Mardi Gras parade, lol.
I’ll try to give away the new ones I have. It will be interesting to see where they go. Maybe fishermen would be interested.
I posted this on the travel thread but there have been no responses, so I thot I’d try here.
“I am hoping to visit family (New York State, VT, MA, with a preference for VT) sometime in July. There appear to be travel restrictions that will make this difficult (e.g b&b s only renting to in staters, etc. These states are currently requiring a 14 day quarantine. I’m having trouble finding out specifics of what that means. Are you confined to hotel room? Can you go to a grocery store? Etc.
If VT it would be the Rutland area. If MA it would be the Berkshires. If NY, it would be upstate. I’d love to rent someplace where we could bring our family members together (large house or multiple hotel rooms, etc(
Any insider info would be appreciated. We would be driving up from georgia.”
New York is definitely planning to quarantine out-of-state people: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-new-york/new-york-new-jersey-connecticut-to-quarantine-visitors-from-states-with-high-coronavirus-infections-idUSKBN23V2FB
Vermont requires a 14-day quarantine before traveling to the state: https://www.healthvermont.gov/response/coronavirus-covid-19/traveling-vermont
I can’t find anything out about Massachusetts. Apparently there’s no qarantine requirement in place.
In MA you are “urged” or “recommended” to quarantine. The governor is of the opinion that mandatory quarantines don’t work for the entire population because people won’t obey it anyway. So why try to make it a questionably-legal law and then have police/etc getting 911 calls all day long about so-and-so not quarantining.
Plus it’s not clear whether the state even has legal authority, most ability to enforce a quarantine lies with the local Boards of Health (351 of those in MA), and for many of those their authority is limited to people known to be sick (i.e. no mass quarantines), and in some cases is limited to specific diseases like smallpox (shows you how old these laws are). That’s my understanding anyway.
VT lets you quarantine in your home state for 7 days if you then get a negative test, or for 14 days without a test, if you are driving your own car there. Public lodging places will require you to submit an affidavit that you meet the requirements. And I think that requires you to drive directly there, which is a long haul from GA.
Seems like an awful lot of trouble . . .
Whereas I agree that this is a lot of trouble, I have a 7 month old grandchild I haven’t seen since her birth. They are currently unable to travel. So if we can make this work somehow, it would be well worth it!
Thank you for the info. It let’s me know what we’re up against.
Oh, if there’s a grandchild involved, that’s a whole different story!!
Somebody, somewhere needs to figure this out. The saddest stories are of births and deaths without loved ones present.
If you can stay with family then I would ignore the quarantine rules and just do whatever your family feels comfortable with. If you have to rent someplace it does get tricky.
I didn’t get see my new granddaughter for three months, it sucked.
Unfortunately, they have no room.
It is a puzzle.
Tent in the backyard? Rent an RV?
There’s a thought!
Any thoughts on a $30 or under gift for a older man recovering from a 5-way bypass surgery? He’s very nice and lives in FL, but I don’t know him very well, just have met him twice professionally and spoken with him a few times in addition. A mutual friend sent him an orchid plant.
Oh well, bought him Bananagrams and had it sent to him via Amazon.com. Bought another friend a little ice cream maker that she can use with her husband and daughter as she switches from her original job to a new one, as well as adjusting to the new home they just moved to. Also having it shipped via Amazon.com, where I purchased it.
New topic: iPods.
First, does anyone use them anymore to listen to music and podcasts, or does everyone in this day and age use their phone to do this?
I have a very old iPod – probably 12 or so years old – that I use for my music whenever I work out. It plays music just fine, the battery runs down after about 12 or 15 hours, I recharge it, and it’s great. However, it no longer syncs with my computer. And I can’t pull up anything iPod-related on my computer. So, I can’t add or delete songs from my iPod because my computer won’t bring any of it up.
So I’m thinking I should buy a new iPod, one with more memory than I have on my current one, so I can add more songs and even podcasts. However, it occurs to me that no one does this anymore – that streaming stuff, not storing it, is the way to go. Can someone explain to me how that works??
TIA.
My husband does. 
He had one and it finally died 2 months ago. He missed it and replaced it. He has a lot of music stored but also uses Spotify a lot. However, he does not use a smartphone.
MY son does the same. He actually is the receiver of all old iPhones when someone gets a new one and will use that for his music only. I believe he is currently using my old iPhone 6; unfortunately when I got my 11, I had to trade in my 6S, so he didn’t get that one.
@snowball: So he uses an iPhone, not an iPod??
Yes, we wipe the data off the Iphone and he uses it for music only. He can also use it on wifi for other things, but has his phone for that. He doesn’t like the music on his phone for some reason, so having a second device works for him at the gym. It also means if he loses it, he hasn’t lost his phone!