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It’s interesting to see that COVID stats for the US are worse than those for India, even if their populations were the same. Meanwhile, China is way
down the list.
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I'm back to work - after having 4 days on end off, Saturday to Tuesday - yesterday was beyond hard but today I managed, quite happy about that. I'm
worried about the state of me in connection to my job, which has been little but stress for the past 18 months.
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BF sent me this impressive video of the German flood, before and after:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVhf0obxd8
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So is dealing with difficult customers the problem?
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That doesn't help, certainly. Let's say the amount of people I've had on the line asking me out has decreased sharply since Corona. The only upside to
having 2 hour waiting queues is that the clients you do get to speak, are very patient.
We have been flooded with help questions since the Corona outbreak, and it's hard to imagine how badly it is - to the point that we received over a
thousand mails per day where 50 would be a normal amount. During Corona the company learned that 200 calls is the max amount of calls we can receive
at a time - we often received more than 200 calls at the same time, while previously 20 was almost unheard of. This is for the most part still
continuing. It has unfortunately led to completely halting parts of our service that aren't vital but that are crucial for client satisfaction, and
that is hard to swallow.
Due to the overflow not even all half-urgent work can be picked up. Our workload has changed because of it - before we were not to touch e-mails or
letters that were written by lawyers - now we have to unless it's a court case. Of course the low-level job that we have means we have largely no
relevant education (even the ones that did weren't set to do that kind of work) to do any work of that kind - and we don't have a salary to match
either.
There is a pile of work ahead of us that is so endless that it's depressing. If you ever do something right so that you'd normally give yourself a pat
on the back - there's no time for this now.
It happens so often that I see a cancellation mail that was not picked up in time because of the mail overload - I've cancelled bookings of which the
client asked us to cancel over a year ago.
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The fourth and last part of the prize came in.
I bought a Cluedo keychain. It is a keychain with a box that contains everything you need to play Cluedo - pawns (though only 4), 2 dice, all 21
cards, a playing board, instructions, notepads, and since it's a new game, Cluedo cards.
It cost €6,98. But I had to pay €6 in shipping, so the price approached €13.
It has come in by mail today. Had to pick it up at a post point. The assholes charge €7 import costs.
I paid €20 for something that should only have cost €7.
Am looking into this, looks like VAT has been charged double.
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Sorry to hear about your job difficulties I can see that's a tough situation.
Those import costs are alarming - sounds like a rort to me. Our customs service hasn't caught that disease as yet.
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Stayed up way too late... they were showing the Alex Winter doc on TV here...
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I’ve forgotten if you mentioned it before. Is that the first time you’ve seen it?
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Yep. At the time of the crowdfunding I wasn't in a financial position to support it, so I don't have it, but we taped it off the TV.
Ruth Underwood is a dear.
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You can see that Ruth was between a rock and a hard place when it came time to move on from Frank Zappa. Any other instrumentalist with the skills
built up working for him, who wanted to continue in live performance, would have a significant chance of finding work elsewhere, but who else in the
music business was hiring mallet percussionists?
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Went to town on my day off and twisted my ankle.
That one's for the poll.
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So how did they like your Cubby Checker impersonation?...
Broomp Pishhh
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Bonny: For the poll?
Huck: How’s it going?
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Great to see you here Huck!
My pool that I ran at the Zappa forum years ago 
http://forum.zappa.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11129&p=471083&a...
Weekend!
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Okey dokey, taking bets on what bad things can happen to you?
Not very positive thinking, Bonny.
BTW, 2010 was probably the worst year of my life. September of that year, things were starting look up again.
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For me too - my grandmother passed away, my father lost his job and I broke my ankle.
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Well I had a stroke in 2016 and applied for Social Security and got it.
I moved back to my hometown and have had my own studio for 4 years while my kids are doing great.
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That's wonderful to hear! <3
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Huck, how has the stroke affected your drumming?
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