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Wisconsin 2020 Off-season thread - Serenity Now!

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MadCityRich said:
Social chat anyone?

°How is everybody doing? Mentally? Physically?
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Family is doing alright here. Tired of being at home though.

MadCityRich said:
°Are you a working "essential" or "non-working non-essential"?

°If you ARE working, are you concerned about catching the virus?
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Both my wife and I are working "essential." She is a nurse though (and is ventilator trained,) so there is a bit of stress worrying about her getting sick eventually.

Every time I'm out of the house, I'm shocked at how many other people are out as well, even with the stay at home order. I hope all of you and your families are doing well and that you all come through this without any issues.
 
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I work for a small company and am in construction (essential) but sit behind a desk and bid/order stuff/coordinate, so I just go from work to home every day and that it, other than a weekly grocery run. I am very busy right now. I'm avoiding going out in the field.

The wife works from home for 1 job and delivers meals to elderly people for another. The County seems to have their crap together.

Son 1 is a financial planner who is essential (LOL Evers), but is working from home.

Son 2 is a RotoRooter guy, he's in people's houses very day but is rather suited up anyway due to the nature of his job and the home owners are typically not anywhere near him LOL.

We have bunkered my parents in their home, they are not allowed out. My wife's parents are in assisted living places who are also bunkered in.

I read that if a person sneezes the virus can hang in the air for hours in places with no or minimal air curculation, so I and a bit freaked out by that. My Menards/Fleet Farm runs are over.

Our niece has it (Dr has not tested her, but she has all the symptoms). Haven't seen her for months. Dr told her to stay at home and let it run it's course unless her breathing goes south, then to the ER ASAP. If she ends up in the ER they will test her then to confirm.
 
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Great video from respiratory doc in NY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wr9Z_enNQ4 Tim this should help you feel better about things.

I am similar to Tim in construction as an estimator and am working at the office, but I typically have one or two or no other people on the whole floor. So I have the office to myself pretty much.

I was to Menards yesterday to get my fisher peanuts and some other supplies and they were wiping down the card reader after every transaction. and every employee had gloves on.

But lots of people there nonetheless. I keep my distance and sanitize before touching my car.
 
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Was exposed to someone with coronavirus 3 or 4 weeks ago. She did not know she had it at the time. Sat next to her for an hour at a Board Meeting. I either didn't get it or had no/minor symptoms. Her brother was 55 and died from coronavirus. They both contracted it on a trip they were on. Really a sad deal. My wife actually hugged another person who was on the trip who also turned out to be positive but my wife had no symptoms either. We feel fortunate to have really dodged a couple of bullets.

I have two partners and we just started our own financial business late last year. Have kept the office open and I have worked from home for past 3-4 weeks while they have been at office. Stayed separate since we are a small operation in the event the office was exposed so all 3 of use would not be exposed at same time. One of them has a pre-existing condition that would make coronavirus fatal as well, so reducing chance of exposing them.

Stay healthy everyone.
 
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DPlaya said:
Was exposed to someone with coronavirus 3 or 4 weeks ago. She did not know she had it at the time. Sat next to her for an hour at a Board Meeting. I either didn't get it or had no/minor symptoms. Her brother was 55 and died from coronavirus. They both contracted it on a trip they were on. Really a sad deal. My wife actually hugged another person who was on the trip who also turned out to be positive but my wife had no symptoms either. We feel fortunate to have really dodged a couple of bullets.

I have two partners and we just started our own financial business late last year. Have kept the office open and I have worked from home for past 3-4 weeks while they have been at office. Stayed separate since we are a small operation in the event the office was exposed so all 3 of use would not be exposed at same time. One of them has a pre-existing condition that would make coronavirus fatal as well, so reducing chance of exposing them.

Stay healthy everyone.
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The tough thing about the situation that you describe is that you may have just been a carrier but never got the symptoms. It's such a messed up virus and it's brutal that we don't know if anyone has had it or not unless they have been tested.
 
MadCityRich said:
Social chat anyone?

°How is everybody doing? Mentally? Physically?

°Are you a working "essential" or "non-working non-essential"?

°How are you managing free time if you aren't working?

°If you ARE working, are you concerned about catching the virus?

MrsMadCity is in an essential field where the public is locked out all the time anyway, but she is a bit worried about catching it from another employee. We're pretty much staying away from anybody except for an occasional grocery or Menard's run.

I'm a bit concerned about MadCityJr who works in cardio-pulmonary surgeries at Mayo. He pretty much looks like a spaceman from the second he enters that place, so he's concerned but not really worried.
MissMadCityJr is an essential also, but she's around 7 or 8 others who are quite serious about safe at home, but one never knows.

You guys stay safe & be well.
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Doing okay so far. Working from home. Unfortunately, mrs. Solo is out of work🙁

With more spare time i’m Catching up on reading. So many books on the shelf that I’m going to get through in the next few months (cause, you know we won’t have sports till at least August).

I’m trying to stay away from reading about the virus and economy right now, it’s incredibly depressing.

Also...for someone who is slightly misanthropic i’m missing my co-workers quite a bit.

Stay safe everyone!!!
 
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Also, stay clear of the Covid thread here... 4-5-6, that is something that will raise your tension and anger levels over and over.
 
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gwhinwi said:
Also, stay clear of the Covid thread here... 4-5-6, that is something that will raise your tension and anger levels over and over.
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I was reading it for about 2 pages and haven't been back.

I agree, it's pretty much a schitt show and I'm surprised it has lasted THIS long.
 
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MadCityRich said:
I was reading it for about 2 pages and haven't been back.

I agree, it's pretty much a schitt show and I'm surprised it has lasted THIS long.
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Ugh... I really just need to know when to stop looking at things. If the rest of you have steered clear, consider yourself better people for that.

On another note....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Jnq1XTpFw

Still looking for more old Wisconsin games to watch. I started a thread looking for old games. If anyone has any old tapes or anything, let's try and figure out a way to get them online.
 
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MadCityRich said:
I was reading it for about 2 pages and haven't been back.

I agree, it's pretty much a schitt show and I'm surprised it has lasted THIS long.
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The women's side has Covid thread that stayed very nice, though it's petered out a bit now.

I've got probably 50 vhs tapes of UW games from the late 80 & 90's. If someone was bored and wanted to convert them to dvd or another digital form, I'd be ok with allowing that to happen to my tapes. Years ago myself, a poster named Terry Switzer and maybe one other person traded tapes with each other, so that added to my library. I even picked up some 1980 Olympic games.
 
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Timothy A said:
The women's side has Covid thread that stayed very nice, though it's petered out a bit now.

I've got probably 50 vhs tapes of UW games from the late 80 & 90's. If someone was bored and wanted to convert them to dvd or another digital form, I'd be ok with allowing that to happen to my tapes. Years ago myself, a poster named Terry Switzer and maybe one other person traded tapes with each other, so that added to my library. I even picked up some 1980 Olympic games.
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I got rid of my last VCR when I moved back up here from Georgia. Now I'm kicking myself about getting rid of it.

I got a copy of all of the 80's Olympic coverage a while ago. It's not the best quality, but it's every game, but I think it's all of the footage that was on TV.
 
Timothy A said:
The women's side has Covid thread that stayed very nice, though it's petered out a bit now.

I've got probably 50 vhs tapes of UW games from the late 80 & 90's. If someone was bored and wanted to convert them to dvd or another digital form, I'd be ok with allowing that to happen to my tapes. Years ago myself, a poster named Terry Switzer and maybe one other person traded tapes with each other, so that added to my library. I even picked up some 1980 Olympic games.
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I’d pay money for any/all 1990 games. Parents are 91’ alums. I’d be interested to see the type of hockey they saw at my current age.
 
Timothy A said:
The women's side has Covid thread that stayed very nice, though it's petered out a bit now.

I've got probably 50 vhs tapes of UW games from the late 80 & 90's. If someone was bored and wanted to convert them to dvd or another digital form, I'd be ok with allowing that to happen to my tapes. Years ago myself, a poster named Terry Switzer and maybe one other person traded tapes with each other, so that added to my library. I even picked up some 1980 Olympic games.
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This company in Madison could digitize vhs to dvd for you.

http://www.sooperdooper.net/
 
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gwhinwi said:
All I can get you is the '90 championship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBrFhUH7No

I put that one online a while ago.
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A lot of you aren't aware of the significance of Badger Hockey success in those days and the atmosphere in Madison regarding major Badger sports.

°Up until 1991"ish" The football program was one of the worst in the country. (Alvarez started in 1990). The football program was in disarray, with a debt of over $2 million and with only about 30,000 SOLD tickets (not gate counts) at the 77,000-capacity stadium.

°The basketball program was crappy as well. NO NCAA appearances and a couple of NIT invites. Attendance was "said" to be in the 7,000 range, but fans (in what was called "The Faithful 5,000"), always laughed at any reports over 6,000 in the field house.

Badger hockey was IT (now it's **it). Traveling fans made national news. There was a waiting list for tickets. Unless you "knew" somebody, you couldn't have season tickets for both nights.

This was all we had to cheer for back then.
 
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MadCityRich said:
A lot of you aren't aware of the significance of Badger Hockey success in those days and the atmosphere in Madison regarding major Badger sports.

°Up until 1991"ish" The football program was one of the worst in the country. (Alvarez started in 1990). The football program was in disarray, with a debt of over $2 million and with only about 30,000 SOLD tickets (not gate counts) at the 77,000-capacity stadium.

°The basketball program was crappy as well. NO NCAA appearances and a couple of NIT invites. Attendance was "said" to be in the 7,000 range, but fans (in what was called "The Faithful 5,000"), always laughed at any reports over 6,000 in the field house.

Badger hockey was IT (now it's **it). Traveling fans made national news. There was a waiting list for tickets. Unless you "knew" somebody, you couldn't have season tickets for both nights.

This was all we had to cheer for back then.
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I remember those days fondly. It was amazing to be able to get a ticket to a game at the Coliseum, and the energy in the building was insane. I was born in 74, so I grew up in a golden age of UW hockey and will never forget it.
 
Timothy A said:
Thanks. My wife bought a thingamajob that can do the trick. I also have tons of original Iron Chef's that I need digitized. That is my all time favorite show. I also have some older F1 and Indycar races I need done too.
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No problem. Whoa! Any races with Senna v Prost?
 
MadCityRich said:
A lot of you aren't aware of the significance of Badger Hockey success in those days and the atmosphere in Madison regarding major Badger sports.

°Up until 1991"ish" The football program was one of the worst in the country. (Alvarez started in 1990). The football program was in disarray, with a debt of over $2 million and with only about 30,000 SOLD tickets (not gate counts) at the 77,000-capacity stadium.

°The basketball program was crappy as well. NO NCAA appearances and a couple of NIT invites. Attendance was "said" to be in the 7,000 range, but fans (in what was called "The Faithful 5,000"), always laughed at any reports over 6,000 in the field house.

Badger hockey was IT (now it's **it). Traveling fans made national news. There was a waiting list for tickets. Unless you "knew" somebody, you couldn't have season tickets for both nights.

This was all we had to cheer for back then.
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That’s exactly as I recall it. When my Dad moved the family from Chicago to Brookfield, wi the badgers were mediocre or terrible in b-ball and football but the hockey team was winning NCAA championships, selling out every night and the Great Dane was referred to in SI as the Montreal Forum Of college hockey.

The atmosphere was incredible!
 
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