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Post by Bevo on Jun 1, 2020 18:18:52 GMT
Everybody still have a home and/or place of work?
Hero? Go any rioting squirrels out there in the sticks?
Louisville has been hit pretty hard in the downtown area. Not much in the burbs yet.
About a month ago, I told a German friend of mine that the next 6 months, leading up to the election, were going to be "wild", and I wasn't certain our country would survive it.
He thought I was nuts.
Now, he's not quite so sure.
Our politics have devolved into a no-holds-barred fight that only one side will survive.
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Post by ajbuckeye on Jun 2, 2020 3:50:59 GMT
Home and work are good. Just moved my son to UC campus as his new job is about 10 minutes away at a smuckers plant. No issues getting him moved in but tried to go to Mad Tree Brewery for Dinner and they shut the place down due to the riots.
In Beavercreek Ohio where my office is at, they had protest going on but I am still working from home. May go in tomorrow for a bit.
Things have gone a bit loco. I do think the isolation of the coronavirus probably had something to do with the level of destruction we have seen. I try to hold back on my social views and politics but you nailed it. It is a no holds barred fight.
My facebook account got hacked and I can no longer access it. It happened about 2 month ago. It is probably the best thing that has happened to me this year.
Take care my friends and be safe.
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Post by tigercpa on Jun 2, 2020 12:43:47 GMT
Work and home good.
I think the discussion of why anyone needs an AR-15 with a 30 round magazine has been put to bed.
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Post by doc on Jun 2, 2020 13:28:24 GMT
No issues getting him moved in but tried to go to Mad Tree Brewery for Dinner and they shut the place down due to the riots. When you come down to Cincy (when all this crap subsides and life is a bit more normal) a couple breweries for you to check out. Sonder is in Mason right behind the P&G Research facility. Really nice place, outside seating and they brew a decent variety of beers - You Betcha (NE IPA) and Rally Cap (lager) are my favorites. Their food is pretty good, as well. We live about 10 minutes from there so we'll go there a couple times a month. The second brewery is set to open later this month. It's called Third Eye Brewing Company and it's right across the street from the Sharonville Convention Center. Two of the owners are our neighbor and his brother - the place has been about 5-7 years in the making. I've been a guinea pig for many of their beers and we were involved in a tasting for their food menu. The place is beautiful and I'm really excited to see it finally open - they've had a few set-backs but it's cool to see the excitement around their opening. The only problem is it's about 20-25 minutes from home so we may be running up an extensive Uber tab in the near future. As for this threads topic, I've been working from home since mid-March and things are peaceful in Mason, OH. I know there have been some demonstrations in Cincinnati, particularly the Over the Rhine area. I don't think I'll be venturing down that way anytime soon. Our daughter returned to Minneapolis on Sunday so that has us a bit concerned. She said she lives about 20 minutes from where all the demonstrations have been occurring. It was so nice to have her home the past couple months - I've been really struggling the past couple days, really miss her. That's probably escalated by the fact she returned to a pretty volatile area but I also hate that she's 11 hours away. When she was in Detroit we could easily drive up for the weekend - not so much Minneapolis. She's been there since October and we haven't visited yet. We do have plans to go up the second week in July - I sure hope all this crap is behind us and we're able to have a nice visit. But even if we just sit in her apartment that would be fine by me. |
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Post by doc on Jun 2, 2020 13:47:15 GMT
The president of our university shared a letter he wrote as a reflection on the current turmoil in our country with the campus community yesterday. The following excerpt basically sums up my thoughts on this matter...
"Some hijack the grief of others for their own dark
purposes, destroying the work and livelihoods of those they claim to stand with and protect. Their
behaviors deserve our full-throated condemnation if for no other reason (and there are many other
reasons) than what they do allows others to change the subject and not talk about the deeply
ingrained, systemic structures of racism that riddle our society, and to talk instead about "the
looters."
People will certainly remember George Floyd's death but the riots, looting, burning and acts of violence overshadow the attention people with the best of intentions are trying to bring to this problem. My guess is a good number of the rioters and looters couldn't even identify George Floyd by name - they just took advantage of his death to create hovoc, intensify hatred and create an even larger canyon between the police and the communities they are sworn to protect.
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