Yeah I'm like yeah someone caught on there like backyard security camera looking for food and trash but that's really where I think.


That's crazy. Yeah. What? Yeah, yep. Sometimes they'll come down from northern Minnesota like looking for food too.


Oh yeah yeah yeah all kinds of wildlife.


But yeah that's very rare in them where I live to see you there. Mhm.


You have squirrels up there.


Yes, tens of yeah.


Yeah.


Do you?


Yeah we have squirrels and groundhogs and chipmunks and those are the common ones I think around here.


Okay more. Last week I went outside to find the girl dog holding a squirrel in her mouth.


Oh yeah sure.


Oh my God. Yeah so I got her dropping and I think it had fallen out of the tree and just like stunned and then she got it.


Mhm.


Um but then it took off like we were able to and then we have chipmunks that are pestering her to run across the deck and every time she hears it squeeze she had to go chase it and then it hides under the grill.


Oh boy. Yeah sure that's funny.


It's like their daily gold. We don't have like groundhog so I don't think or not that I see.


Yeah they're good they're gonna hiding I think they're hibernating now. Maybe two But they hibernate for like six or 7 months out of the year or something.


Oh they they tunnel right like okay.


Yeah. Mhm.


So I feel like I've seen on next door people say that they have groundhog because they have like the whole regard.


Yeah normally there if there's like one you probably have a like a whole colony nearby so yeah they don't range very far I don't think.


Oh interesting. We do have um What I say possum but do you say opossum?


Yeah I don't really know to be honest.


Oh we have like possum show up one night it tripped the backlight and they look so prehistoric because they have like pointy noses.


Oh yeah the glowing eyes.


Yeah I know what the heck is it was like wanders in our yard.


Yeah. Yeah.


Everyone's wrong, trips the motion detector and hangs up that and then goes away so.


Yeah they don't do much nice baby books maybe and so yeah they're good they're good for the environment and they eat some nasty bugs and I don't know.


Oh do they? Well I'm not that anything that gets rid of the gross pugs is fine with me.


Yeah mm. Yeah that's cool a little freaky but the mosquitoes so that's cool with me.


Uh Yeah.


Yeah. We need more, more bats. I think. I haven't noticed any like like we'd hear them like if we had a bonfire you could hear like wings and what?


Really mm. Oh yeah I don't know.


I haven't heard any Forever 64.


Maybe the city finally drive away. Right. Um And that was something I was gonna say earlier when I can't remember what it was.


If you go to school for him.


Um exercise and sports science so all right.


Oh well what is your, like, what do you know what you want to do with that?


Yeah, I I would like to be a strength coach. So I did an internship in the like the athlete weight room where I basically helped the real coaches um with the like the varsity teams, their training sessions and I had a great time there And I did some observation that like a um like like not like they weren't there like a regular gym, they have a couple like they train the pro soccer team in the area but it also like it across the classes and stuff.


Okay. Okay, cool.


And I worked with some high schoolers there and they have like a high school strength conditioning class class and that was a good time to so I'm thinking somewhere in there. So currently unemployed.


Mm It's funny like when I went to high school, like we didn't do any like strength training.


So you know.


Like there was like most girls because I played tennis and basketball and softball where we would go work out.


Yeah. Oh, nice.


But you never like, that was never a thing back in like the 80s and like what a big deal an important part of right?


Yeah. Yeah, for sure.


Yes or hope.


It's really important. I mean I know that obviously, but even like even at night when I was in high school we like there was a weight room and I think maybe the football team and the basketball team used and that's about it. So it's been really good to see that. It's like that kind of thing is on the rise now, which is good for me.


Yes. And especially doing it with all teams.


Uh huh Yeah.


Like we, the health club, we go, there's just like a small club down the block and it's like open, you know, you can just go in whenever, but they do train a lot of like high school teams and stuff.


Yeah.


It's kind of fun to see and it's like kind of like motivating to see like these young kids like you know what they do and how they work out and stuff.


So yeah.


Yeah, there's something, there can be some pretty creative stuff depending on the sport, you know, especially when you say like once you get into the in season stuff, you're not supposed to do a lot of heavy stuff. So you do kind of lighter, more dynamic he looks, that's all the cool like spinning and jumping and whatever.


Uh huh. Uh huh.


So yeah, he said you did basketball and tennis in high school and this.


Cool. Mm. Yeah. Yes. And what? In software? Yeah. So yeah, basketball. I'm super short. So I only move, I only play booby for three years.


Uh huh.


Tennis. I played all four years and then softball, I tried to play in high school but I always had mono in the spring for some reason, so that then I played just in the summer like aspect.


Mm Yeah. Jack, you do any of that after graduation?


I can call drinking.


Uh for played softball for a long time and also broomball. Um you don't know what the hell is yet so well is on the ice and you have boots on that have like foam on the bottom, we're that kind of like grip the ice and then you have a stick, it looks like a broom but it's like actually like plastic and then you ball that's like smaller than the soccer ball.


Yeah, sure. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Right.


And so it's like hockey only with like running in a different stick and a bigger mouth.


Mhm. Okay.


Sure.


Okay. Yeah. Sounds like you get that something I would like to be honest.


No.


I was like like floor hockey and stuff down here and yes, yeah.


Or Oh fun. Yeah I played that in college. It's one of those we have to like something to do in winter to live here because you're crazy with You know when it gets to be like $20.


Being stuck inside taking into like crazy low temperatures up there.


Yeah. So Yeah so we've had like last year we had some days that were like 20 below like just and then the wind chill on top of that brings into like 40 below.


I like below freezing for below zero. For sure. One. Oh yeah, but so I think it's been below freezing here.


But that's not like we don't get that a lot so.


Probably. I can count on one hand the number of times.


Mhm.


It's not below freezing, sorry, below zero.


Coffee.


So yeah, I think it's no every once in a while, not that not like he probably wouldn't call us now. It's like an inch maybe.


Yeah. Exactly. That's when you say that because I went to las Vegas one time to meet my husband for his work was out there and you got like a dusting of snow and it completely shut down on the las Vegas airport rerouted us to California.


Uh huh. Yeah.


So is it like that they're like where everything stops and Yeah.


You yeah, it's crazy. There's every time it snows anything more than any time it snows at all. Honestly, there's always like the news is like all about the giant wrecks on the highway and then stand still. The bread is gone from the stores, the milk eggs.


Uh huh.


I don't know what they're gonna do with all those may make french toast maybe. I don't know. But yeah.


It's funny.


Sounds like kind of a disaster. But Oh well.


Yeah it's still fun driving in the snow so I totally get you know.


Yeah. Yeah, it can be a key. Especially if no one around here has any parents doing it. So american we can't have, we can't use chains on their tires either.


Yeah. Yeah.


It's illegal. And let's see the post office.


Oh really? That makes sense.


Yeah.


Well I guess.


Because that I guess like maybe the roads aren't meant to hold up to that kind of thing down here.


Yeah. Oh yeah.


I'm not sure.


I don't even know people like in where I live that use chains maybe like in northern Minnesota where it's like you know to get a lot of like zero you know 30 below 010.


But I didn't who can ruin the roads but none of us can money.


Gotcha. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know why the no change thing has been so impressed on me. But every time it snows, I'm like only the postal service in the strange today. Thanks. So I don't know. But yeah. Yeah I guess they're the only ones who have a valid reason or something. I don't know. Whatever has reasons for everything you know?


Yeah exactly.


Yeah. Um Actually probably don't get any hurricanes out there.


No property landlocked although we did have last night the rains were really bad and like whipping you know like the tops of the trees blowing.


Yeah. Yes.


Then that's like my impression of like a hurricane is like, you know just like the sideways rain.


Mhm. Mhm.


But I'm sure it's like, do you get all her things down there?


Yeah actually um I'm near Raleigh so we're again kind of towards the middle of the state so it's usually it's not too bad usually just raining a little wind by the time it gets to us but every once in a while there's some like down tree branches and not a couple trees knocked over especially if they're big and old.


Wow, mm Okay.


Yeah actually had a pretty big hailstorm not too long ago. Like two inch hail was pretty significant especially for here. Um That was kind of like like one of the the arms of the hurricane, Some hurricane was passing by us and that gave us a little bit of something. So yeah, yeah, especially in the gulf, I don't know, like halfway through the greek alphabet or something by now.


It seems like it's been kind of a bad year for hurricanes. Yeah. Yeah, wow.


It seems like I ran out of the, the abc names.


Oh is that what they do not extend the greek girl? Okay.


Yeah, they like alpha beta. I don't know after that. Delta. Yeah.


I was wondering how they came up with Delta because I keep confused of the airline every time I see a way.


Mhm Okay. So yeah, Delta's in the goal and I'm sure that there all the time.


Well, yeah. Well yeah, I'm surprised you're not louder right now.


Yeah. Um Yeah, I don't know. I still haven't remembered what I thought about earlier, but sure is about pets or something.


Canal they are snoring and the old dog has finally settled in.


Yeah. Are they snoring?


He gets um, I feel like he gets weird now at night, like he wants to go to bed like when it gets dark at six o'clock today, when I was starting to get dark, he was already getting antsy and like, but he doesn't want, he wants everyone to be together with them.


Mhm. Thanks.


And it's like, dude, you can go like link form but we're not, the whole family is not coming to lay down with you right now.


Yeah.


So go to Oh, funny.


Yeah, we have one dog that kind of does that too. If you did. So I see most to go to bed. She goes in there and then if people keep doing their stuff, that was wine big, come on coming, you know?


Yeah. That's funny.


What program?


Oh, I remember um I played ultimate frisbee in college, so I don't know.


So All right, so ultimate frisbee.


Mhm.


Is that the one that's like football?


Yes, firstly footballs.


Okay.


Some people know by that name too.


Yes, because I've seen it on ESPN before.


Yeah. Yeah, it's seven on seven.


Um so how is that? So is it do you have the same number of players that you do football? Like 11 or whatever? Okay.


And after every time there's a touchdown or a goal we call it and you can swap out. Usually most people swap out. So it's a fresh seven people. But I guess it's pretty similar in football. But yeah, no, it's it's non contact.


Do you tackle? Okay.


So um you throw and you catch and once you if you have the frisbee, you can't run with it so you catch and you slow down and stop and then after that you have to find someone else to throw it to. So there's no like and you can't run into the end zone, you have to catch it there for the count.


Okay. And is it like plastic Frisbees or is it like the fabric ones that like I have for the dog that are like okay.


It's a plastic one. It's like yea big And it's the way it is 175 g. I don't know if that means anything to you but Yeah.


Yeah. What was saying, pardon?


Yeah. It's pretty cool. I have a good time. Um It's more support than people realize I think. But um my brother and my older brother by two years, he played it in college and my dad when he was in college played just for fun and Uh huh.


Did you play in high school like how did you get into playing that? Okay.


There they have pretty good teams that you didn't see. So I was like I'm gonna give it a try because like I said I was I was tired of doing running so try something new.


Yeah.


Yeah. I don't think that it's as a popular appear just because snow and stuff like we did, we were at a park last weekend where they had the frisbee golf, you have like the things, you know, set up for you like into, but I've never seen, I've only seen on ESPN where they played ultimate frisbee, I've never seen it in person or any like teams locally that do that.


Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's I know teams of north, there's not that many but the ones that like the good ones that do play up north, they have like the bubbles with the turf field is covered in the big white bubble thing they put in there.


Oh yeah, Yeah.


That's not very fun. I don't think so. Not a lot of people are interested in that.


And I bet you had said like gross like fake grass where it probably hurts school.


Yeah it is.


Yeah. Yeah, we have a lot of domes around here, but it just doesn't seem like, I mean, I guess it's good in the offseason, but like to play it.


Yeah. Yeah.


No, I don't think it would be as funny.


Yeah there's there's no wind in there which is it's normally a big part of the game.


Oh, interesting.


It's like it's kind of it's really weird to play with just like the air so dead, it makes everything echo.


Yeah, no, I didn't even think about the wind factor of it, so I'm never like, is there like tips for like how to throw a physically streaks?


And it could be way too. Yeah.


I feel like I throw it and it's like either like sideways or it's like wobbly. Like I never like, I don't know if you like, I have to release it, somebody Okay.


Yeah so the two main things or when you throw it you gotta keep it flat. So if you tilt it up like this or like this then they kind of like do some wonky curve stuff and then you like snap your wrist like a like a whip or a baseball.


Uh huh Okay.


So those two things though, I should fix you up real quick.


Oh, that would be hard to get used to I think wouldn't Okay, so you have like positions like, like any other sport hours and it's like certain, like, okay, cool, wow.


Yeah it takes it takes a lot of practice to be honest. Um And still I've been playing for real for four years and I didn't throw it pretty well but not very accurately. And uh and the downfield receiver type player so I just ran around and catch. Yeah. Yeah. It's not so strict as other sports, but there's like the kind of the group of players that are better throws and end up doing more of the throws. And then the other group with it like me that are not as good as throws and do more of the running around. So yeah, normally the the throwers are like ex softball players or I don't know some other aren't tennis tennis players. Good good arms that they've already developed there and they just they already have the strength to the throat. And then you know the cross country kids run around for hours on the other side of the field and just catch whatever they throw.


Mhm. Burning out some energy. What's the thing you'll keep playing now that you're Oh, Oh yeah, yeah, I forget that everything is kind of like on hold the contract stuff.


Yeah, exactly. I hope so. Yeah. It's been a bit tough in the current endemic. Yeah. Yeah. There's usually like, I know around here at least there's like summer leagues and like winter indoor pickup and stuff. Uh for adults too. So once once things kinda clear up, I'll definitely be looking into that. So yeah, even if it's low level, I think I'd still like to play just for fun.


Yes. Yeah, for sure.


Pick up. Yeah.


A lot of interesting people, you need to bring that to, you just pick up brooms and things like that.


Mhm. Yeah, it's a yeah, it's a good little community that's I'm glad to be part of it.


Cool. I'm gonna have to check it out.


Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you have a ton of luck finding, finding people up there, but yeah.


Yeah, no, but every fun to watch and see people actually finds.


Yeah, I think there is the men's protein and like a good club team up there. They do like halftime things for the Vikings every once in a while they're like exhibition games there.


Okay, okay, we'll check it out.


I see clips, but every once in a while that, so, which is really cool. Honestly, I mean, there's always the replacing them like in the end zone and the people of the crowds like.


I never watch football so I would never who never going to take me.


Mhm. Yeah.


It's coming Awesome.


Yeah, awesome.


Well we made it 30 minutes, can you believe?


A couple extra minutes for buffer. Right.


Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah. Well, who is that, I guess?


So now there are simple.


Yeah. I don't know if you just X out of the Tabernacle. Mhm.


I don't know either. I kept the other thing open. I mean, yeah, you just come back and do exit out.


Yeah. And do the survey. No. Well, I guess I'll just uh yeah, I don't see any buttons anywhere. Oh yeah, it was nice meeting you julie.


It's fun talking to you, Julia. Have a good day, right?


Yeah, you could.


Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


Hello?


Uh huh.


Mm hmm.


Pretty good. Everyone.


If you're you.


Okay. Um Mhm Yeah, I'm going to be tired but overall good.


There we go. How are you doing today? Uh huh.


How about yourself?


I'm a little and I'm a little anti, I just found out that I had another one of these like 10 minutes ago because they didn't want, I did one yesterday and normally they tell you when you're scheduled, but they just told me they sent me an email an hour ago saying you have one at one PM today.


Mhm. Oh really? Right. Oh yeah.


And so I'm really your, we're both lucky that I checked my email because I just found out that I had to do one of these.


Mhm No, no, you're actually, I kind of forgot about his new little world, luckily had an alarm set down down.


So pardon me if I'm a little Anthony. Uh huh. What? Oh, it's a great, this is probably my favorite thing on prolific.


That was one of those days.


25 minutes.


I won't yeah, it's such good money for what it is.


15 bucks. Okay. And they don't make you wait, they pay the same day, This is my 3rd 1.


Yeah. It's pretty awesome. Like I've done it about, it's going to be my fourth time for their family. Yeah. Mhm.


So, uh, what's your name?


Yeah. All right.


I'm Griffin, nice to meet you.


Yeah. Place um these things are just play a lot of video games mostly.


So what kind of stuff are you into, man? Yeah. Yes.


Um Yeah.


Good start. Yeah, Yeah.


Really just been doing like all mine work and stuff like that since Hey, that's my beer too.


Oh, okay. Yes.


Mm. Mhm.


Don't mind me, I'm not drunk or anything so don't worry about it.


Well you're going person definitely what are usually drink?


It's an unbelievably cheap At my local store, you get two for under $6 and it's a lot weaker than the stuff that I used to drink.


Oh, nice. Uh huh.


So it's a step in the right direction generally.


Okay. You know? Yeah.


Yeah.


Well, I'm trying to like hold back my fault.


Uh huh. I'm a bit of a literal alcoholic.


Oh. Mhm. Yeah.


So uh I just have to, it is what I was drinking before was 14% and that's danger zone that I might as well be drinking hard liquor, which is just not that good.


Yeah man. Mhm. Yeah.


Look, I can function drinking this stuff and I can go about my day and you know uh my worst habit is is messaging people when I'm drunk.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just always don't feel my so much embarrassing. Shut Okay, stocks. Mhm. Mind you just like a black lives on it or something that you had a foreign but you use it.


Like I I wish that I could just ban myself from facebook messenger when I was drunk because I wake up in the morning. Yeah. Right. All right, so I will wake up, I will wake up and I'll just be so anxious like what did I say?


Thanks. Thank you. Okay. What?


What did I uh God, but I haven't had any issues in quite a while.


Mm. Yeah. Okay, that's good.


What kind of games do you like man?


Uh well um and been playing a lot of that, you know?


What have you been playing?


So lately yeah, I started playing it like the whole spirit came out just we didn't really like it either mostly because it's like the whole class system and stuff that I've had.


Oh, I have never actually, I tried it like really early and we hated it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.


Like it's completely different from all the other like other stars games picked it up again like maybe a couple months ago and it's it's better but it's basically the same thing. It's a big, yeah, I don't know a lot about that.


Well I I really like eldest girls lower, kind of a big dork about it and they like, like sludge muppet and stuff, but uh but they've messed up a bunch of the lower and so I don't know.


Yeah, it's necessarily good. Okay. Yeah like all them books and stuff that shouldn't even be around yet.


All right. Oh, the usual.


It's retarded.


I actually got the urge to play an MMO pretty recently and I got into final Fantasy.


Oh that final fantasy 14.


Yeah, yeah.


Mhm.


And I played it for like two weeks straight.


Yeah.


I like no life it and I reached max level and then I just stopped.


I don't know like I just didn't feel that like because there was Endgame stuff and I really didn't like the community, maybe it was my service and and really gross, Really gross.


You know yet? Okay Yeah. weeks and I start playing because the community there really bossy, I just do that to be able to handle.


They're like the most horny group of online gamers I've ever encountered in my entire life, unpleasant to be around when luckily I was playing like a male care, like a generic human male, so I wasn't slobbered over like lots of things are in that game, but I don't know, I reached level 80 black maids and was like good.


Mm Okay. The mhm Yeah Great okay. Mhm Yeah you can I've never even heard of that one.


And then I just never picked it back up again. I've been playing games can impact a little bit, which is pretty bad, but pretty good against an impact.


Okay.


Is it's like, have you, have you played breath of the wild?


No Mhm.


Well, it's it's a lot like the New Zelda, it's like open world, pretty kind of sandbox Dealio but tension impact is free to play.


Yeah. Mhm. Yeah yeah yeah.


Uh But it's a gotcha with anime, anime characters. It's really, it's it's really good is the problem.


Uh My dad mhm Yeah yeah yeah people mhm Yeah yeah I'm actually kind of looking for something else to play really burn out on here.


Like, I should hate it and I know that they want you to spend money on it, but I'm not going to spend any fucking money on it and it's gorgeous and free and you can play it the same account on your phone, on your computer, kind of dope. You might want to check it out. I would not spend any money on that shit. But I know people that have Uh huh uh huh.


I am please take me description things about to end and I'm not even gonna into it right?


I only, I like the Xbox game pass a lot because they just add free shit all the time, like truly good titles and and I like Rogue lite Roguelikes, Roguelikes and they add those constantly.


Yeah. Yeah. Yes yeah yeah yeah yeah mm Okay it's pretty cool.


So with like that once uh I just check it like once a week and there's almost always something new to play on it. Yeah, but I've been playing, I've been playing some other weird shit. Uh I've been playing Dagger Fall Unity back.


Yeah. Gary Era better.


Yeah. Well Dagger Fall, it's the second elder scrolls game, but they put it into the Unity engine and made it not terrible to play and it has mob support and that's also totally free.


Mhm Mhm mhm Oh I'm gonna have to look into that.


Yeah, Dagger Fall Unity is pretty, pretty damn it because you can just download Dagger Fall because you need like the ace files for it.


Their people Okay. Yeah yeah think mhm mm Actually just type that ends, I wouldn't forget about it.


Like you can get those free from Bethesda because they don't charge for that game anymore because it's from dos. I want.


Very good thank you.


Yeah, there's a popular Youtuber who does really long streams of Niagara Fall Unity and he has a list of mobs that he uses that I used as the basis for my list of mods.


Okay. Okay. Yeah yeah yeah.


It is a big damn dork. But uh it's fun. I have probably, I don't know, 30 hours on this character and it's fun.


Mhm Yeah, Yeah, that's what I uh seem like Damn.


It's it's very dungeon Crawley the world is super huge. It's literally the size of great Britain. Yeah, it's it's unbelievably stupid, huge. But it was all procedurally generated.


Mhm Yeah, I think, yeah, Yeah, Like multiplayer now 1st.


And then in a similar vein I just be more wind on open, more wind because I own moral in and that they put that on a new engine to and made that better. Not that it was bad. Oh, I've never done that but that would be super fun.


Yeah. Apparently you can do it on your phone.


Yeah. If oh I hate playing things on my phone unless I can use it.


Yeah. I don't think I could play morrow and then I fall more.


I don't know a lot of but unless I can use this guy The eight bit though.


That's just a bit much. Okay. Yeah. Me.


It's an eight bit though so it has Bluetooth, I can connect it to my phone but not everything supports that.


Yeah. Yeah, Thank you. Okay.


That's the best controller ever made by a man in my opinion.


Yeah, mm hmm. I am kind of got stuck, like I've never beaten the DLC for marwan yet.


Yeah.


Like I kind of got like stuck in this like habit of doing like permanent runs with it and I always just end up doing something stupid like get myself killed and so thank you.


Get yourself. Yeah I get yourself like that. Well I like I like Tribunal a lot which is the first of the D. L. C. S.


And I think that that one is just great because it deals with the tribunal. You get to deal with Alm alexia. You get cool narrow marine stuff you get to see. So Sill who's my favorite of the Tribunal Blood Moon?


Mhm. Yeah.


I hated and in fact my last play through I stopped like halfway through because it was so boring and fetch questions and I I don't I don't want to be aware wolf.


Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.


So uh Oh well it's sort of like based around it you get like the special ring that her sings ring that makes your where willpower better and you can do it, it will.


Yeah, paramount to like a lot of hunger model animal just bombarded with rebels that happening. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Does that work?


I don't know I did not I did not take that one And I really tried, I really and I pushed through I gave it like five hours or something like running around and it's just like man, I just don't care about any of these.


Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.


It was the last expansion pack for that for that to that game and writing just wasn't very good police in my opinion, but more wins general writing and it's storytelling is just unbelievably good.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I've only played three and elders hold like, of course 34 and five for one is definitely my favorite.


Yeah. Yeah I have a soft spot for it because I had it at release and it was the first game I ever wanted and so yeah and so I've played dog shit out of it when I was like I don't know, 12 or 13 or whatever, however old I was in that without you know.


Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Quite a living in first and then tomorrow.


Mhm Oblivion I believe it is good.


Oblivion is good. I I replayed it like two years ago and like fully broke the game like just fully like made the most unbelievably overpowered character.


Okay. Mhm. Okay.


Use the glitch where you can use the staff and you can clone people so you can get items.


Mhm. Mhm.


Yeah it's the school of corruption and you can clone a dead body.


Mhm.


And so like for example in the arena there's a guy who has a shield that grants 100% resistance to magic but you can't pick up, you can't pick up items from the arena normally, But you can use that glitch to be able to pick it up and then you have 100% resistance magic one slot and I just I just broke it and it was pretty fun but I don't really want to play it again.


Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Okay. You can, yeah.


Not for a while anyways.


Yeah.


What kind of music do you like?


Okay. Uh Yeah, terrorist depends um really big in the modest mouse burger while um I don't know.


Okay. Right. Right.


I've been looking into a lot of Shannon Bennet and which is I know it's really lame, but yeah, Sharon van etten.


Oh from a lot of what? I don't know who that is so I can't make money.


All right.


I don't wear.


Is you seem embarrassed?


Mm. Well, I mean secondary fact.


I don't know. I listen to I don't know, I listen a lot of weird shit.


I listen to a lot of folk punk.


Um I listened to a lot of whatever my Spotify recommends me because it recommends me, you know that it gives me like a weekly playlist and it's like bedroom park and I don't know weird yet.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm.


I mean if I were to say my favorite band is probably the strokes.


Yeah, there we are.


Uh huh Which is pretty free.


That's what I'm okay.


Uh huh. My mom was really into them when they were first releasing their first albums like is this it? And then I got into them and I just never stopped like um like my comfort music, you know?


Great. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.


Sorry, I smoke a lot.


No, you're fine. I'm a smoker too. I just don't smoke inside because this room has like no ventilation at all.


Mhm. It's a requirement for me.


Yeah.


I need to be able to smoke in my bedroom because I hate having to get up and do the whole I brought a lot of incent.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.


So.


Yeah. Do you have any that's Yeah.


Right. Right. You have any what? Um I don't But in in the main house because I'm in a guesthouse, they have My mom has two dogs and then my brother and my niece have three cats.


Yeah. Mhm. Okay.


And I I like the little dogs.


Mhm, mm.


My mama's little dogs are really cool, but I I'm not really into cats.


Yeah. Yeah.


I think they're assholes.


Mhm. I like that one pack up.


Uh huh. I'm just uh they just they just vomit in stupid places and dicks hair.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah.


There were a lot of blacks. Always pet Harold.


That's why you just get a black cat.


No. Right. True. No, sure now. So he has a black cat and she's she's a siberian and her hair is like it's actually like almost brown so it still shows.


Yeah. Mhm. Big Oh yeah, I had a partner at one of them right there.


Although I'm I'm interested in getting rats. I would like a couple of fancy rats because I think as long as long as you get pet rex and not like featurettes and try to keep those because that doesn't work out the same.


They're pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm.


They're really smart and sweet and don't take up a whole lot of space.


Mhm.


You can hang out with them and then you can put them away sort of up my alley.


Yeah.


My room is pretty small.


Mhm. Mhm.


I wouldn't be able to have like a dog or anything.


Yeah. Yeah.


Madness. Yeah. Timer We have we're doing good we're doing good 12 minutes.


Okay. Mhm.


I think we'll just stop at 30 after if that's good with you.


Yeah. Yeah. Like They're like eight or so.


Yeah. Just because they say you have to do at least 25 minutes and there's no wiggle room so you want to go over a little bit, I think from Yeah.


Yeah. Yeah. 25. or so. Yeah. Yeah, I'm horrible.


But people like the conversation.


All right.


So like these things like stress me the fuck out.


Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, I'm pretty easy going man, so you don't gotta worry.


Honestly.


I think you're pretty nice. Do you have any hobbies?


Uh not really like any gonna build ships in bottles or anything like that.


Oh, that would be a pretty cool hot.


Yeah.


Uh Madam kind of ended like herbal medicine sometimes.


All right, That's cool.


That very important.


I got really I got really into that conceptually when I was like 14 and like mortar and pestle and got all these books from Bookman's about it and stuff.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


I think it's a cool idea.


Yeah. So I'm pretty useful to come in, especially when you don't really have a lot of money, you know?


Mhm. Sure, sure we used to make bombs used to make bombs for all kinds of things, They probably still have some bombs I like uh well I play UKulele um and I make shit, I make all kinds of stuff.


Mm hmm. I think, yeah.


I make skateboards, I do art.


Right.


Uh I do poetry sometimes.


Yeah. Yeah. Bang like freaking renaissance man up in here.


Uh Uh huh.


Well I have I have a low attention stand so I need to have vast interest to keep me interested in something because I can't do one thing for too terribly wrong.


Okay. Mhm. Yeah.


I'm also pretty dang good cook. I say so myself. I'm like a poor foodie, you know.


Right. Mhm. Yeah. Like I'm really good at making mind. I mean a lot of like a couple bucks.


Right. Yeah. What's your favorite food? If you had to choose like right now, just off the top of your head? Like what your food?


Yeah, bread, definitely bread.


Oh, I'm in love with red beans and rice.


Yeah. Do you like, I've never been too big in the beans or rice actually like a lot of starches and stuff, but yeah.


Oh well I went to Louisiana because I live in Tucson Arizona and Running through Tucson Arizona is the interstate 10 And we drove the entire length of the I-10 all the way to Florida and we stopped in Louisiana to visit my friends, family.


Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm, mm hmm.


And uh we had just this unbelievable feast of southern food and I ate my weight in red beans and rice and I've just never turned back from it being like uh the perfect food.


Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Mhm.


I can eat it like every day with club crackers.


Mhm. Mhm.


Right? I hate it when you put the cigarette out but it doesn't actually go out, we'll just keep burning and then you smell it smell it and it smells like shit.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. But when the water I hate that week.


Like what the fuck? It didn't smell like shit a minute ago. Uh huh.


Yeah.


Go ahead man.


Mhm. Yeah.


We can talk about video games, we can talk about video games all day.


Okay.


Probably.


Um moral.


Mm Well no, I found it pretty interesting.


Mhm. Yes, it is right.


Go ahead. Go ahead.


Because if you had to like worship one of the elder scrolls gold, which one would be, yeah, I mean that was, that's kind of like what I was thinking about a boy asked, but mhm.


Come on, come on. Same would absolutely. Oh that's Deidre. So I mean they still okay yeah. Come from at this stage of worship. But if I was gonna I was gonna go for the idea of the Deidre, I would probably go with sanguine because of the debauchery and the Dionysus aspect of it.


I mean, mm hmm. Yeah.


But for a dra the nine Divines I think probably Giuliano's because I like magic.


Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


I I play I play a wizard and everything including quickly.


Yeah. I was playing, I need more pumpkin with like just usually like a ranger or something.


Okay. Yeah.


But with a little bit imagine feel, you know, just for utility apartment telephone.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I in every game that I possibly can I play a male wizard including D.


Mhm.


And D. And I've I've had probably like six male human wizards. Indian media because I'm boring. But it's what I like.


It yeah, there.


I think magic is fucking awesome. My most recent run in Skyrim was con duration only own and it was pretty awesome so I could use swords but only bound weapons.


Mhm. Yeah. Wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm.


Do you like some in the swords and just like army of skeletons kind of a leo which is neat and with the ritual stone unmodified because I played pretty model but with unmodified the ritual stone you can bring back to life like all the dead things in a huge ass area so you let kill abandoned camp and cast the ritual and they all become your like an army of people become your Thrones and that's pretty funny.


Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Uh huh.


Pretty overpower. Welcome to certain situation.


Mhm. I like overpower, I'm cheesy, I mean I've beaten all the dark souls, so it's not like I mind challenges but I can work towards breaking the game and becoming really strong.


Mhm. Yeah. In the basement. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


I will because that uh well it's like power fantasy sort of stuff, I like that, I like that in comic books too just because you know like I don't like batman or Spiderman because it's just so street level and so earthly and so basic I want like God's fighting God sort of shit, you know and that's actually one of the things that I do.


Thank you. Thank you. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah.


Uh I make skateboards like I said but I make them out of cut up comic book pages, like you collages on the bottoms of skateboards with real comic book pages and then I like steal it in acrylic varnish.


Mhm. There we are. Okay. Yeah. Right. Mhm.


They're a giant pain in the I don't have my deck in here, otherwise I'll show you their joint pain in the ass to go Montreal.


Mhm, mm hmm, grandpa. And I was like super hardened paypal McKay or something at first. But no, that's actually way level.


All right, he'll do like a late, like a thick ash layer of acrylic varnish. But they take me like three months to make and I've had people like, want me to make them one like, yeah, it's going to be expensive and it's gonna take a feeling on time.


Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. You don't have a three.


And then when I'm, when I'm done, I'm not gonna want to give it to you because it took me so long to make it.


Mhm.


And actually the saddest thing, my last board, because I had a connection with a skate company in southern California, That was a one man, a board making shop.


Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, yeah. Mhm.


He like hand pressed the boards. His name was Sambo.


He closed.


Yeah.


Unfortunately, it's super sad, but I had a Sambo board, an old school deck with a kick tail, like super meat and I did all DC comics.


Then I had like the first page of Sandman on it.


Yeah. Mhm.


It was just gorgeous. Two layers of lacquer and they stole it off my porch.


Okay. Oh, damn, Yeah.


Some, some, somebody stole it was like sticky still. It was not finished.


Right.


Yeah. I haven't made another one because I have, I have a blank deck over here, but I haven't, I haven't had the heart to make another one yet because uh, asshole.


Yeah. Become a brushing like a lot of work.


I'm sure that they like realized it was sticky and they couldn't do anything with it. They probably ended up like throwing it away.


I don't know, pain in my ass.


Mhm. No drinking bouts.


Yeah, Well I just won't varnish things in the front yard anymore.


Oh, sure.


You figure like it doesn't seem like something that you would come and if like the, the standard was on was all covered in varnish, like messy and like that probably looks like it's wet or something crab.


Yeah. Really be enough reasonable.


I don't know, people and life we are almost done.


Mhm. All right.


You're almost done.


Mm hmm.


So tell me a story.


Um yeah, something horrible. Storyteller.


Oh, now you don't give yourself enough credit.


Like I uh yeah, no, no, I've definitely tried. Like it's bad.


Yeah.


Mhm Yeah. Well, really the only story I've ever told was, you know, like cigarette the whole song.


Yeah. Um like that was like my favorite story for the longest time. Like when I was a kid, I read like a ton of mythology and stuff.


Mhm Uh huh Oh, it's a, it's just yeah.


No, I might always stuck with me. But when I like, I remember with like the major plot points, but just actually telling the story, making it enjoyable. I kind of like I ruined the top of the story. So, but if you want partners, I got you all the smart notes.


Mhm. Mhm It's, it's storytelling is one of those things. I think that being told really good stories teaches you a lot about how good stories are told and like I think that would help me a lot was I read like my whole childhood, I read, I read like crazy and I still have a little library over here and I think that helps.


Okay. Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Yeah.


And the biggest thing is density entity of your words, you know like, like how much can you like saying a whole lot without having the stay a whole lot, you know what I mean?


Mhm. Yeah, like knowing. Um, yeah, I know what you mean, right?


And that's and it's the same thing with writing like and with my pros and stuff that's been published, it's about writing really densely and not not literally the verbosity so much.


Yeah, I think, yeah, bunch of people.


It's just like getting a lot of information across without too much flowery language.


Mhm. Yeah.


Uh then people just lose interest. You know, we get all drifting trump up.


Mm hmm. Oh, fluffing things out and making like one count. Because I do someone for text broker and you know, they have like a word count without, but it's like these boring ass articles that you spend like three hours.


Uh huh Uh huh Right.


We're just looking forward to make like five bucks. So I'm like, I think I perfected the way that you can just throw in a bunch of killers shit and nobody or well, nobody's noticed that don't call me out on it, so.


Yeah. I'm bad. I'm bad at that. Okay. And in fact in the survey that we're going to do after this, there's three blocks where I have to write 50 words And I have trouble filling in the 50 words because I there's just not 15.


Mhm. Yeah. Really? Yeah. All right. So I just won't hold up.


I know.


What?


Yeah. Then you just kind of, you just kind of roll with it la la la la la la la la but like I can get the entire point of the conversation across and like three sentences for something, you know?


Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Like I just need like one or two. Something needs to answer your question. I could.


Thank you. Yeah, I think the first one I was like and by the way, 50 words is a little excessive, Requiring 50 words just means that people are going to do that, they're just gonna build.


Okay. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to be away from everybody's time here. Like the person reading it writing that.


Uh huh. Mhm. I mean 25 words would be fine like so you're not doing just two words and you're required to do at least two sentences or something.


But 50 words come on guys.


Mhm, mm hmm.


You know you're watching this scientist if he were a little excessive. So what do we have?


Uh huh.


Uh we got one minute that one minute one minute remaining I'm gonna roll a cigarette.


Uh huh. Mhm. Mm. That one. What's your favorite color?


Yellow, I fucking love yellow and black and grey.


All right. Okay.


Black and grey and yellow. Mm.


All right. Great to dream against like a gray sky or anything.


Okay. Uh huh.


It's just fucking beautiful to me. Awesome.


Especially like yellow, yellow. Like glossy plastic yellow.


Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


Like I had, my sunglasses are heart shaped and they're colossi plastic yellow.


Uh huh. The tree.


And I don't know.


Okay.


I don't know if that's something to my brain.


Right.


I love it.


Yeah. Yeah. Mhm.


Well, all right brother. I hope you have a great rest of your name.


What?


It was nice talking to you.


Likewise?


Uh huh.


Mm.


It's a real man.


Yeah Yeah, mm Oh thank you. Oh yeah. Well Oh mhm Yeah mhm Yeah mhm Yeah, mm Mhm mhm No mhm, mm hmm. No. Mhm Yeah.


Mhm. Mhm. Hello?


Uh huh Okay.


Can you hear me?


Full Yes you can hear me.


Hi, can you hear me? Yes, I have a loud roommate or downstairs neighbors, so I had to put my headphones on.


No, you're good. You're good problem.


How are you?


I'm good. How are you?


Good, And where are you located? Can I ask?


Yeah, I'm in texas. Austin texas.


Oh wow, I'm in Chicago.


Yeah. Oh my gosh. Must be so much nicer up there right now.


Yeah.


Mhm Like weather wise We don't get like much rain in Texas.


Nicer. Mhm. It's freezing. Are you getting lots of rain?


It's pretty dry right now.


Uh huh.


It's like I didn't think in the 70's mhm Yeah.


Oh, okay. Yeah, here, it's like 35. Yeah. So when you said that, I'm like, okay, you haven't been to Chicago in the like winter, have you?


People but mhm role?


Because this is it's nice and sunny here, but it's like the temps are dropping, so I just got home from getting groceries because our city is going into a like a shutdown for Covid. Yeah, so it's like crazy at the the grocery store, like you can only take one thing of toilet paper in, like six cans of canned food at the whole foods that I live here.


So it it was crazy.


So the grocery store was packed.


Is it really bad up there?


Like this is all right.


Yeah, it's it is really bad and um It's concerning actually because I think our positivity rate is like 14% right now. Yeah, so I work from home normally and I guess I'm just going to like hunker down.


Uh huh. No.


I mean we've kind of been doing that anyway, but I don't know have you had a lot of had to stay home and stuff, wow.


Yeah. Yeah. Throughout I'm a university student. So in March we just all like went back home, we just stayed with our families in their system basically March. Very extended spring break.


Yeah. So are you your home like with your family in texas?


No, when college started back up I moved to my apartment near the university.


Okay. Okay.


Figure it's better for working conditions wise.


Yeah, that's cool.


Oh, I never got your name.


I'm amy grazie, nice to meet you.


Amy, I'm daisy Yes, this is my 7th point I think.


Have you done other video calls like this? Yeah, I've done quite a few as well and I've just met people from like everywhere, It's been so cool.


Mhm. Is there like a particular person that you remember like the most?


Well yeah, there is because it was crazy. One time I was talking to a woman from Portland and her dog started having puppies.


Yeah. During the video.


Yeah, and I thought she was with her daughter and I said you know, do you have to go? And She was like, no, it's okay. My daughter's got this, she was like, her daughter was like maybe 18 or something like that.


Yeah. Mhm.


I mean Yeah, so then I saw a little puppy that was just born, so that was pretty memorable and I someone else I talked to via this program, you know, um chat program or doing asked me the same thing and I was like, well it's just kind of hard to be because who sees like puppies being born on their video chat?


Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Yeah.


It was kind of funny.


Yeah. Yeah. I don't have anything particularly memorable like that at most. It was like my first call was with an ex cop and this was around the time of the whole like police like protests and I was kind of like, I don't know what to say.


That was probably was it an interesting conversation though?


I think we steered away from like the more controversial things because people find out you're a cop.


Yeah.


I was like okay, he's probably very opinionated about what's going on. So I'm just gonna lean towards the other side.


Yeah, that would be I've always like been matched with people that seemed to have kind of a similar, you know, approach to life I guess. But I was thinking like what if what if I matches someone who's viewpoints are just completely opposite of mine?


Mhm.


And that would be so cool because I don't really run into people that in Chicago that like our, so like trump voters. Are you a trump voter?


I personally am not cost is very liberal city.


Okay, right.


That's what I mean. Like Chicago is also a very liberal city.


Yeah, I think that's yeah, I think.


So yeah, I haven't had a chance to like, you know, chat with someone from the other side. Actually have extended family members.


Right.


But no, no, my family is in michigan, most of them.


Are they all in Chicago also or just like mm Yeah, I was born in michigan so.


Like my cousins and stuff. Like there are some trump voters and that I don't, I'm not really in touch with them. But anyway. Yeah. Really?


Yeah, I know like the kind of general area used to take trips to Chicago during like summer as a child.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What part of michigan?


Uh Kalamazoo, that area?


Oh, okay. My mom is in grand rapids.


Uh Mhm.


Yeah. So I went to high school there, you know? And then my brother and I like left right after and now, yeah, my mom and my aunts and uncles are there.


Yeah, mm.


So I go back there quite often.


Mhm. Yeah, it's a fairly easy drive.


It's pretty mm hmm. It is totally. And um we go like to northern michigan a lot like my mom and I, so that's pretty cool. Yeah, wow.


Have you ever been to Mackinaw Island?


I actually got engaged there When I was like 25 And yeah, it was like my high school sweetheart and I got engaged on Mackinac Island.


I'm island that Oh no, it's like despite being born in michigan, it's kind of one of my like trips that I want to take look.


So have you been there? It's awesome. I highly recommend it. It's like, I think it's changed quite a bit from, you know, way back when, when there weren't any cars allowed. I think they let cars on there sometimes now or something. Or maybe that was just one I think mike pence went there and everyone was mad because they had SUVs on Mackinac Island.


Oh no.


Yeah, it was kind of a big deal but I think it's amazing. And it's really good to nice to hike around there like there are all these trails and stuff like that, it's pretty cool.


Yeah, I'm debating going back for either like next summer or next year spring break or something.


Yeah, that would be amazing.


See if I can finally make that trip. Mm Yeah.


Maybe things will be like kind of normal again. Yeah, let's hope.


Oh if you don't mind me asking, are you still married to your like high school spirit?


No, no, no, no.


Okay. Like you mean it kind of sounds like you were together and I wasn't sure.


I'm actually not married, I'm on my own right now so I'm dating a couple of people but that's really hard during this time period like especially right now because the mayor of Chicago basically said the other day, you know, stay home, don't get together with your friends, don't have thanksgiving.


Yeah. Right.


So it's been kind of hard to to date. So I've just taken this time is like a um work on myself period.


Yeah. Yeah. Pick up new hobbies in Washington's.


Uh huh. All right. How has it been for you? It has Covid affected your world a lot.


Oh yeah, I mean online classes is not ideal, but like relationship wise and everything.


I guess It has from school, right? Mm.


We're keeping like a covid bubble because it's not as bad in like where I am right now.


But mhm That's good.


And so she's been like me and my roommates and that sort of thing.


And luckily you get along.


Yeah.


Uh huh.


It's a lot easier than being at home where it's just like just yourself and your family and there's like not much you can do in the suburbs.


Yeah, I feel like I can stay with my mom For like a two weeks maximum and then we kind of started like it's like I got to go back to Chicago and she wants me to okay well it's I mean I'm really close to my mom now actually because my father passed away last year like really unexpectedly and my brother lives in Seattle with his family.


Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't change even when you're older. Mhm.


So um I go and help my mom out a lot and so we've become really close. We used to not really get along very much at all. So I guess that's a silver lining you know of Yeah it's just been we were talking about it like 2019 was such a weird year because my father died and then at the beginning of this year our whole family is like okay we're going to re engage with our lives and move forward and celebrate dad.


Yeah. I'm sorry about that.


And then Covid happened. And it was just been like the weirdest year because nothing is normal, you know?


Uh huh. Mhm.


Yeah, I guess like it affects some people more than others.


Right.


But um I don't know, I'm ready for this to be done.


Yeah. Is it just you like quarantine by yourself or do you have a roommate or like a pet?


Well, I have a cat who's like 20 and he's pretty funny. But I I live by myself and I live in like a large apartment building.


So I definitely have like neighbors and I have friends and we have kind of like, I have, you know, like a bubble of friends that I see and hang out with.


Oh.


You know, in some we hang out outside, some one person will like come over, so I'm not really by myself too much. But I have to be careful because my mom has um an immune system issues. So um she takes medication that suppresses her immune system.


Uh At least you're being safe and everything.


So I have to like get tested every time I go home and like quarantine myself before I go there. And so I feel like you know, it's really affected me on that level, you know?


Never been before.


Yeah, I mean for sure that's what's most important.


Have you been doing any like hobbies or watching anything?


Yeah. Yeah. Well in the summer I do urban agriculture. So I was like in a garden growing stuff all summer, which was really awesome and I bike a lot. So you know, it was wonderful here in the summertime and now I have all these projects I'm gonna do inside plus play my guitar.


Mhm. The Mhm. Uh huh. I started like an apartment kind of garden.


How about?


So I have like basil cutting road rosemary.


Oh wow.


Oh it's sorry to be a second. We need something.


Uh huh.


Yeah. Yeah, But your dad is 20 Oh my gosh.


Yes, he is. Yeah, he I got him like when I got out of college and um yeah, he's just like really feisty.


Yeah.


I was showing to you but he's sleeping like under a blanket and I would upset him if I got I was too.


Uh mm I'm more of a dog person so I can't say I know too much about cats but Uh huh.


And then so a long time ago I had a dog, a big golden retriever. And like when I first moved to Chicago and he didn't like being in the city.


Mhm.


Um he was just really nervous and stuff. So my friend who lived in the suburbs took him and he was much happier but I was really sad and my friend brought me a kitten and I was like I'm not a cat person, I'm a dog person.


And now my cat is 20 and he's awesome.


Okay. Yeah.


Like he's it's such an easy thing to have a cat I think in an apartment I mean and I can travel with him really easily.


Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.


Um now that he's 20, like he has to travel with me because he has special needs so maybe a little harder with a dog I think.


Oh yeah, then you don't have to walk a cat either.


No and I mean they just have really funny personalities. I mean he's like, you know, just runs the show basically. But I want to talk how I was just gonna say, I do really want a dog, but I can't have a dog while I have my cats.


I was Chicago and all. Sorry?


So it might be a while.


Yeah. Does your cat just not get along with dogs happened?


He doesn't like, he's, he just doesn't like other cats, other animals. So anyway, he's awesome.


Yeah.


His name is max.


Well I have a dog back home.


Do you have a dog?


I have a Pomeranian right?


Oh, it's like it, eat something, take a nap, watch out the window, take a nap.


And she's also quite old so she does she's a bit more cat like these days than dog like uh she's surviving. Yeah, more now, see Mhm.


That's my cat. And then he, he wants to always drink the water from the bathtub closet. So if it's not dripping, which we all want to save water. So I usually shut it off and if it's not dripping, then I have to turn it on for him. Like hell me up.


Uh huh Is it like he drinks straight from the faucet or is there like a bowl in the faucet?


Yeah, he's just really has his routine. No, I just like let it drip and he drinks the drips.


That's so interesting.


So if you leave like a bowl of water out, he doesn't drink it.


So no, no, it has to be like moving water.


Yeah, cheap.


So anyway, it's he's like an elderly person like that. He has very particular need.


Uh huh.


It is I love elderly people and animals for sure.


Okay. Can take up, yeah, mm.


But anyway, So what are you studying in school?


Mhm. I am a medical laboratory science major, but like pre med mm It's more like, you know when you get like blood drawn and like they come back and they're like, oh your vitamin levels are low or something.


That's interesting. So when that means you'll do research, Do you want to go in that direction?


That's like my type of what my major funnels into like that job.


Uh huh, wow, that's great.


And then I want to do med school after that son Out of 2nd outing.


It seems like it makes it's kind of um seems like a super interesting time to get into medicine with like all the alternative therapies that are popping up, you know, with like cancer research and stuff like that.


But yeah. Mhm.


It's it just seems like not only with cancer but with everything. Medicine is changing.


Hopefully for the better. I mean, I've seen a lot of those like dr stories over covid where like they don't have enough protection.


Yeah. Right.


I'm kind of like, do I really want to do this? Right. Thanks.


Yeah. But I kind of feel like my own observation because Covid has been around this pandemic has been going on since March, right? I feel like the things that are happening right now because like where I live, it's getting bad again. Everybody is prepared. And I feel like there isn't such a there's kind of a panic at the grocery store, but I feel like, you know, in my state they really worked on getting PPE for everybody. So I don't know if that governor is just trying to reassure everyone and go overboard. But it just seems like people are more pandemic prepared now as far as like hospital systems and stuff.


Just good.


Like we have no reason not to be at this point, right? Like shame on on the United States if they don't like provide that for people, it's like, but it seems like, I don't know like this type of thing could happen again pretty easily, you know?


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. I can't say that texas is the most prepared. I think our state itself hit like a million cases yesterday or a couple of days ago.


Uh huh I read that.


Yeah.


Yeah I saw that in the news but it's weird like maybe it'll be different when joe biden is president, maybe there will be more of a national strategy.


Yeah that's what we're hoping.


Yeah I know it's wow.


Okay.


I feel like I am done with talking about the trump administration and just go away.


Mhm. All right. Before pandemic during like holidays with your family, get into the whole like thanksgiving politics and arguments.


Well my mom made me and my dad when he was alive made me swear. I wouldn't talk about politics with my cousins that like trump because it would probably cause like arguments and stuff.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah and uh safe living.


So there was always like a little group of us that would talk about how awful trump was. And then my cousin like cousins were there, we couldn't talk about it but they're like they're people that love, the reason they like trump is because they're kind of survivalist people. They love guns and hunting and yeah they like gardening so I could talk to them about that, but that's about it because my family like it's pretty liberal are my parents, my brother and me, you know everybody pretty much anti trump.


It's and mm.


Yeah. Yeah when you were talking about urban like gardening is that like in the public spaces you do that or like what what is it?


Mhm. Um Well what I got involved with many years ago is starting an urban farm in an area that's um there was a piece of vacant property that was owned by an affordable housing company and we started growing food for the people in the housing so um because there at that time wasn't really a great place to get groceries, like fresh vegetables. So we ended up getting some grants to plant, you know like Squash, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, fruit trees, like it's a space that's about, it's on a corner in this city, so it's literally like 200 ft wide by like I don't know like 350 ft long.


Mm. Yeah.


It's not very big but we do everything really intensively. So we bring dirt and compost and put raised beds in and then Planet like really intensively to get a high harvest and then we give the produce away. So we have like cooking classes people can come to and then take veggies home or they can come and pick their own. Like we had a peach tree that we had to cut down so people could like come and pick peaches or berries.


Uh huh.


So it's pretty fun. I mean I do graphic designs. Um that's my business and I would love to be a farmer instead.


Mhm. Yeah.


But yeah it's I mean in the summer I ate like most of my vegetables came from that garden. I get we feed probably I would say like 50 people from that space.


Mhm. That's right.


Yeah, it's really fun. And I mean a lot of people like who would come in to get veggies wouldn't like maybe they hadn't had eggplant before or you know um Swiss chard or something kind of unusual.


Mhm.


So people I think once they taste the veggies that are really fresh, they kind of get interested in cooking with them and I feel like we've some people that have come to get vegetables have then come back again and again.


So yeah, but it's nice like living in Chicago specifically just because it's such a busy city and just to have a place to go to like be in nature and relax and it's awesome.


Good. My dad's a farmer so we have like our like his family were farmers back in china.


Really wow, that's amazing.


So like you brought the whole like gardening mindset back to texas. So if you look at our backyard it's also like a bunch of vegetables year round, we have like three orange trees. It's I I know what you mean about the fresh vegetables, it just hits different.


It is like I mean since I've grown tomatoes, I have a really hard time buying them at the store And here, you know our season of growing outside is ending because now our temperatures are getting down to freezing at night.


You know they'll go down to like 30, and you know unless you have a greenhouse you can't really grow over the winter.


So um you know I a lot of people do grow in greenhouses here but we don't at our garden we just have like a hoop we put over a certain area so we have greens like spinach and colors and stuff until maybe december. But I feel really jealous that your family can grow around like the year round.


Mhm. Yeah texas doesn't get I think maybe it gets to freeze things like maybe a week or two a year, it's not long.


I know that's awesome. So do you like hang out with your dad and grow stuff with him or enjoy the veggies?


Uh huh. I'm not a big I'm making like dirt like I'm okay with like just handling the vegetables but it's the dirt and the bugs that kind of bothered me a bit. I'll appreciate the food.


Yeah. I'm like I will admit like I love soil, I like I love composting, I'm kind of the weirdo in our garden.


Mhm. You always need someone who can manage the soil though.


Yeah, I mean here there's so many problems. I don't know if your dad ran into this in their backyard um like with just lead levels or you know something that's really out of balance like it's been really interesting working with the soil and trying to like um you know bring up certain minerals and then sequester lead.


You know we have a lead problem in Chicago.


Yeah. Uh huh.


Mhm. But is this soil pretty nice in texas?


It's very clay like it's a weird combination of just clay and sand.


Yeah.


There's not much else.


Mhm.


I mean it's he's managed it so far. I think every couple like years he'll get like some new soil or like do some fertilizers to help with all of the defeated minerals and stuff.


Oh yeah it's like that room. My mom lives too, it's a lot of clay and like there's not good drainage so we have to always like add tons of stuff.


The midwest like Chicago has really good soil. It's just depends on what was on the site before you made it a garden because like some of it can be really contaminated.


All the housing buildings in Chicago.


Yeah. Uh But people here like if that's the case we can put down like a blocker on the ground and build the beds above the ground. So problem solved.


Okay. Uh huh. Yeah. That's awesome. I miss fresh tomatoes because I know they grow like an abundance there like weeds almost, but then having to buy them in the store, it kind of hurts me a little because I know they grow so like easily.


Mhm. Right. Yeah. I mean you could probably like grow them right, where you live? It looks like it's very bright fine.


Yeah. Well, yeah.


I mean you'd have to put it outside for pollination but try it like a cherry tomato.


Mhm. Yeah. Oh, and I think we got in time to, Yeah.


It's just a bad time to be without tomatoes. Right? But anyway, were you gonna say something?


So I said I think we're going time to just as a heads up.


Oh okay. Um I lost the tab with a timer on it. It's like I closed it.


Oh, nice to meet you too.


But anyway, it's nice to meet you daisy. Yeah. I hope everything goes well in texas and go back with school.


Thank you. I hope your cat is healthy and your doing good throughout that new quarantine.


Thank you so much. Take care. Have a good weekend.


Bye.


Yeah. Hey Oh wait can you?


Hey, how are you? Mhm Can you hear me?


Oh sorry you hear me?


Yeah, I can hear you.


Okay I can hear you know I had volume accidentally muted for a second.


Could nobody How are you doing?


Not bad, how about yourself?


I'm doing good, thank you. How's the day?


Good. Uh Not too bad. Got a little bit of work done you know had some breakfast earlier and yeah I'm just kind of chill day.


Mhm Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah that ah yes, it's one even though even I am myself sitting close to the ring though I see the sun on this side.


Yeah can you see okay with this window I can move around maybe with the light. Okay. Mhm.


Yeah. Yeah, it's fine. I like I like lights and you know some so what you do, you're working, studying?


Um A little of both. I also did a little studying this morning, I'm kind of I'm working a little from home right now just freelance so I did some transcription work.


Oh right.


I do what I can get, I do some translation when I can get it some transcriptions, some editing. Hopefully I have an editing job coming up soon that will pay better and be better work than the transcription I'm doing now which is it's not it's boring and it doesn't pay great you know but it's work.


Mhm Yeah.


Um you can do it from home you know? Which is good during pan whole pandemic thing.


Yeah.


Uh Yeah, yeah, hold on, I'm gonna put my headphones on my computer sound isn't that great?


Impact a lot with you like in terms of your work and etcetera, is it impacting a lot of things around here? Okay.


Oh yeah, can you still hear me?


Yeah, Thank you.


Okay, cool. Yeah, I can hear you a lot better now.


So what?


Is the pandemic impacting a lot of your work or how is it going to the Okay.


Yeah. Um Not really because I was mostly working from home anyway. Um Yeah, but and I'm living out in the middle of nowhere right now, I'm I'm staying with my mom again for now um just out here in the country, which is, you know, also a good place to be um Yeah.


Mm Yeah. Like from the crowd and other people where you make, you know, Yeah, less risk, you know many.


Mhm. Right, so it's, I mean it's, you know, working from home is also easier here anyhow. Um So it's yeah, I was doing a little bit of other stuff in in the city, but it wasn't enough that it makes a huge difference, you know, to be to be just working from home so Mhm And yeah.


Mhm Yeah. This whole thing has been so crazy and it's uh like 10 months now, Around 19 months but it's still a month.


Yeah. Yeah.


No, it no report the ending stone.


You know it you know that you know who knows how long I mean even once they get a vaccine you know that's not going to be the end of it because they have to get enough doses and send it out and then people have to actually take it and then it's still going to take time for immunity to build up and everything else.


Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah.


So and I was yeah, because for for you yeah, yeah.


And I was reading a couple of years ago directing the fighter of this in Vietnam. It has to be stored and so low temperature like -94 Fighting hate it's still really being next to impossible for all these pharmacies and doctors offices to store it, wow.


Ever been in office before. Mhm mhm I see.


You know? So as of now, I mean those sticks could also be a challenge of Yeah, a few others as well.


Yeah, I know Astrazeneca is also in Phase three trials of one and there's a few others. But given that Yeah.


Just now. Right before we call, I was reading about the rats in Russia. So Sputnik vaccine, they fighter announced Our success.


Yeah.


It is 90%. There were Russian announced our success rate is 92%.


Yeah. Uh huh.


Um this is like you know, you know that kind of thing like we are better than this that Yeah, mm.


Oh yeah. Oh they're making it up they're just they're lying through their teeth. That's a very typically Russian and I'm not you know I'm not really typically Russian government, like I've lived in Russia you know Russian people aren't bad people but the government yeah the oh yeah and they fit all with their numbers.


Mhm. Government because it is really we can't really trust what are the credible sources coming out from there that yeah.


They always want to talk up. They want to go back to the glory days of the soviet union and Russian empire basically.


You know that.


Mhm.


Something. Yeah.


Okay.


That was a big deal in that time.


Yeah I mean that's they're calling it Sputnik.


Right That's yeah.


Yeah exactly that you know around the USSR time.


Uh huh.


Yeah exactly.


It's like vintage for them.


With my victim.


It's like legacy.


Yeah.


Well, I'm glad everything everybody is around around you is staying well and all for the same as well.


Yeah. Oh good.


You know this has just been for me.


What we know?


I have also been working from my work in I.


T. In retail and most of my world can be done from home.


Mhm. Okay. Yeah.


But there have been instances where some things can only be done enough either Justin or where and you know all these kind of things, There are things within them in office.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah.


I've been to office three times but mostly remote now I'm in Ohio and I don't know now faces are increasing in Ohio as well.


Yeah. Great. Yeah. Yeah mm. Right okay. Mhm.


So they believe we have the address from the government statewide Oklahoma we're going to do because At some point right around like at least a month ago cases came down to around 700 800.


Oh. Uh huh. Uh huh. No what it's something else?


This is really good. Now again you can pass through this, this is like 5000 plus Goes to the US.


Oh yeah. Right. Yeah I just I just heard on the news last night the cases just exploded across the U. S. So yeah.


and every day they had 100,000 plus cases, you know.


Yeah I haven't looked I should check in Washington state which is where I am. Um I know Washington has been doing better than the midwest and the south.


Mm. Yeah. Yeah and in the beginning it was bad around there right there are really in the beginning it was bad.


Um Just because of yeah, that the government has been pretty strict but a big oh it was that was, it was one of the early epicenters, which is why the government, the government got really strict about it really early on. So. Perfect.


It was pretty bad it was there yeah and then new york was pretty bad too.


Mhm. For that. Yeah, because that I mean it's coastal right? There's big airports and lots of people coming in and out of the country and Mhm.


Yes. Exactly. Yeah they don't like high graphic ideas, you know?


Mhm.


Yeah.


How long you've been doing this prolific thing?


Um a couple of years.


Oh yeah.


You know, it's it's a little bit of extra income so especially because I'm on the computer um you know all the time for for work and whatnot.


Uh huh.


So just have the tab open and uh Yeah.


Yeah. Thanks, leave it on the side and do it when you see anything.


Yeah, I think, I mean a couple of years I think we're just here for months since we're working from home anyway so it doesn't hurt you know and explains on doesn't it goes well Anything I need a nerve using about some politics.


Uh huh. Mhm. Every day more. Yeah. Um Well just I mean in terms of, you mean in terms of work or extra stuff.


Yeah. In terms of all these extra incomes serving and all that.


Oh um just this right now because it's the only thing I'm, you know, that's the only thing I really know of online and I've heard of like mturk and mechanic that, but I heard that it's really for your time it's so time consuming that it's not really worth it versus prolific but.


I know. Yeah. I heard the same thing about him. It's like very time consuming and not that rewarding as compared to prolific where you spend the same amount but even more rewards with problems that it's like more quality surveys.


Mhm. Yeah.


First of all diverse service.


It's not like repetitive. There are some of the website where you get like same surveys and all at the end of the survey you get rejected and they don't care. Unit Yeah.


Yeah. Yeah, I tried a couple of those other little survey type sites and it's, yeah, they're just frustrating. You can.


At least with this there are chances that it won't be rejected and you get a quality of survey.


Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, pretty much if it shows up in your thing, you know, it's your accepted into the survey as long as you pass the attention checks or whatever.


Yeah. Yeah.


So Yeah, this is like my 5th 1.


Yes. And this video chat thing have you don't need me both crop.


So I did, I was, I did all that I was eligible before at first I was only eligible for four and then it came out with a new one that said you're eligible for seven all together now, so.


Thanks. Yeah same thing.


Mhm.


This is my I think Turner forced on her and I believe you.


Yeah I think they keep on launching like after a couple of weeks the new one is gonna come and then you sign up again.


Yeah. It is interesting because I like it better.


Yeah.


The reason is it is directly from the university, most of it from the research probably for the men who are working on their major projects and other things good Anderson and very good quality.


Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, I love you. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of them are actually interesting, you know? It's Mhm. Wait wait.


You don't know a lot about it and.


Mhm. Okay. Okay.


Yeah I mean and it's like if it shows up and then you are able to reveal your place you get it.


That's what they and it's not like you will be rejected later or something like that.


Mhm. Mhm. Right. Mhm. Right.


My experience so far has been really good with a compared to work couple of others and so.


Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah I used to I guess I should I should start doing it again, just troll through craig's list, like gigs on craigslist and I've actually gotten a couple of phone surveys through there.


Yeah. Oh, Oh well then.


There was one that was like it was like half an hour an hour and I got paid 60 bucks I think I got like a check in the mail or something. Um And what, I was still living in the Vancouver Portland area, I would get stuff on there that was like um in person surveys or like testing or testing products or whatever.


Mhm. Ah Well these gigs are on craigslist as well.


So you go down there and you know do something and get like $90 for trying something out or in person survey or whatever these things are producing. Yeah. Yeah.


Mhm.


Um It's usually under the so you'll see like the jobs category and then you just choose gigs instead of like yeah.


Well, okay, I I have ever um tried credit because my experience is paved with is like kind of, you know, whether it's genuine or not or those kind of things.


Mhm. Right. Waste yeah off uh Yeah that's that's mostly what I've used it for myself.


The only time I used the example to find an apartment. Mhm. Yeah, exactly.


Yes.


Uh that you know, there are so many spans and all those things on the credit.


Mhm. Oh yeah, for sure. But you can usually tell I mean with like the research studies and surveys and stuff, you can tell if it's a genuine because you'll have a web link that you click and you go to a site, you know, so.


Okay. Yeah. Family correct. And if it's from universities and from, you know those study groups, those seem pretty gentlemen.


Mhm. Mhm.


Yeah. So how's the weather over there right now?


Yeah.


Getting it is great.


Uh Today it's a sunny day and it is the last one. It's gonna be for quite a while just being the pacific northwest. Right. Um Yeah it's actually going to snow tomorrow. We're a little bit up on mount Adams and we're a little bit further east from from Seattle so we get like a little bit more four seasons, a little bit more of a cold weather.


Oh what?


You know wind winter so it's supposed to snow tomorrow but then after that it's going to warm up and just rain for like the rest of the forecast so sunny day and since I work you know self employed I'm thinking you know after this this afternoon I'm going to go up in the woods and just walk around for the rest of the day.


Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


Take advantage of you know the last day.


Well, the name Yeah, I remember I went Seattle for a week for some of my things.


Mhm.


I stayed there and I'm like France plays and then every day it was running every day it rains a lot here and yeah and I went there and I was living in florida at that time I'm like florida is hard and here it rains every day you know?


Mhm. Yeah it's a good part of the year.


It does um It actually doesn't.


8 30.


What's interesting is Seattle doesn't get a huge amount of precipitation in terms of inches compared to a lot of other cities like cities in the south like florida Louisiana get as much maybe or closely with much precipitation in Seattle because they get these huge storms in the winter and stuff.


Mhm. Oh yeah. Yeah some hurricanes and all, yeah.


I mean in the summer or so. Yeah. Yeah. Um Whereas see it but Seattle gets more so many more rainy days, but it's like steady small smaller amounts of precipitation over forever.


Oh all right. Mhm. Small time from Yeah exactly and there's something now I'm in Ohio and here the weather is you know we get pretty much all the seasons, It doesn't get crazy cold over here, it doesn't get crazy holder.


Mhm. Mhm.


Also here I know in part I used to be like at least 105 have experienced there. It is that bad here and colder also it was.


no but not like smell like every day like crazy but it will smell like a couple of times heavy snow, but that's about it.


Mhm. Yeah, we've it can get there was a year Here, I think it was 2017 because I stayed here for a while a couple of years ago as well, and summer of 2017 it was up to 105 for days on end, so somebody can get hot here as well.


Well yeah, yeah.


And obviously more so than they used to when I was a kid just because we're warming.


Global, yep.


Um Yeah um and winters are not as cold as they used to be for the same reason.


It is mm Yeah and you plunge your close to California beaches around there, you know the weather is over there.


Uh But we still get definitely get snow every winter. Um, not as much as it seems like we used to get when I was a kid, but for sure we get snow. Uh huh. That's a pretty long drive to California to get to California from here.


How how long will be the nearest beach in California? Like if you drive from the Oh yeah you have to Okay.


I mean we're in Washington, so shit to go all the way down. I mean to get to like Lincoln city in Oregon. So first of all, it's first, you have to get to the coast from here, which is going to be, so it's like an hour to Portland and then it's another hour or two to the coast.


Yeah. All right. I think.


So get to the coast, it's a good three hours probably.


All right.


And then to drive all the way down through the state of Oregon is gonna be five hours.


All right. Yeah.


Yeah, but there, there's good, there's nice beaches in Oregon though. Um, it's not, you know, As warm as California, but in the summer, in the summer it gets nice and warm.


Yeah in right, I know a lot of people lay who live close to Seattle close to Oregon sunny, they do show up in Oregon because it's a texting state and a lot of people do like bulk shopping from Oregon and then come back my name's Bird, it's in and around.


80s, 80s. In the 80s. Oh yeah, yeah, Mm Hmm. We live we live right close to the Oregon border about 12 miles away, so we definitely shop in Oregon. Yeah, everybody here does, Yeah.


Yeah.


Mhm. Well, especially, I mean, if you think, like, if you just think about the way the tax scheme is set up, if you're living in Washington is also the town, the towns here is much smaller.


Yeah. Oh uh huh And uh huh.


The towns are much smaller, there's really one town and there's some or unincorporated communities like the big towns are really on the Oregon side. Um The main big town that's, there's one that's closer to us and there's one that's further east, that's bigger. But you know, so a lot of people live in Washington and work in Oregon.


So if you live in Washington, Washington doesn't have a state income tax but it has a high sales tax and it has property tax.


Mhm. Mhm.


So if you live in Washington and you work in Oregon but then you still have to pay the Oregon income tax. So if you shopped in Washington then you'd also be paying the Washington sales tax right?


Yeah. Yeah.


So you'd be paying like triple taxes if you didn't stop in Oregon so don't get along these things.


Okay. Yeah that is also like around east coast areas. A lot of people do the same thing with Delaware.


A lot of people. What?


Delaware.


Mhm.


Oh no, text and Delaware has a lot of banking industries and all the other, that's what a lot of people I I personally know a couple of friends who just shot from there like big stopping like all things kind of something on the yeah, yeah, everybody shops yeah.


That yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. That's also where, yeah because the bigger towns are across the river. That's also where the I mean that's where the big store stores are in that everybody shops you know supermarkets. There's like there's like a small grocery store on this side of the river.


Mhm mm.


Um And a couple other little places like a pharmacy and a hardware store but you know it's not where you do substantial shopping anyway, so yeah.


All right. Yeah, very, very well, yeah, so you've been just working from home since pandemic and you were working before as well?


You speak what? What? Thank you.


A lot of mhm bomb and my think of yeah, because it doesn't hurt you know and she's trying to get into coding and development.


Yeah, pretty much. Um And then I'm doing some uh online because I'm a university of michigan alum, so I have, you can get some free online courses, so I'm studying python and yeah, I'm learning some html. Also some CSS I figure I might as well I have some time on my hands, you know. Mhm. Yeah, I mean it's interesting, it's something new to learn and um you know, like there's so many, it's always so many openings in the field and it's not like you have, you know, I've talked to friends and I have a friend who's an engineer.


It is, yeah.


Um He was a former he's a former Russian student of mine um from the U.


Mm.


Of M. And he said, you know, you really don't need like a four year computer science degree. And I was also looking at graphs, you know, it's like, so, so here's how many positions are opening up in the industry and here's how many computer science graduates there are every year, right. Like, so, yeah, they're not, there aren't enough of them to fill the positions anyway.


Oh yeah, you're always open indiana. Yeah.


Yeah.


I said, you know, learn, learn the skills, you know, create some projects, put stuff up on gIT hub, you know, do some stuff show that you can do some stuff and start from there.


Yeah a lot of universities, a lot of these third party websites have started like especially because of pandemic is starting some pre courses you know and return.


Mhm. Yeah, I get these for free because I'm alum, so, yeah, yeah, yeah.


Yeah, you get that from the city side. Yeah that's that's a good thing to learn. Yeah. And the same thing with you like I do testing for these products for example all the software applications, mobile isn't so for our website so that is fun to you know what the developers and closely enough try to get those things fixed.


Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah it is interesting area and always there is always the area to learn.


Mhm. Yeah. All right. Right.


You know I'm trying to learn more love like automation as well in terms of their like testing couple type manual of the nation's from automation is more profitable I would say in terms of my memory this thing is more redundant.


Mhm, mhm, mm. Yeah. Right. Mhm.


Also more that's what it did and monotonous.


Okay, mm hmm.


Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah, I'm also learning my way around unique systems, so yeah, that's not bad to know.


You think? Okay.


I mean, I use Lennox, you know, as an operating, I use man jaro right now, just for my computer as an operating system and you know, some learning also how to use it.


Mhm. Right.


Uh just in terms of as a shell, like online, um so you know, might pick up a little bit of the systems administration stuff that way too, learn a little of everything starting out, I don't know.


Well yeah. So these are operating system Windows or MacOS or UNIX or others?


Um in terms of, I mean, I I do, I kind of know Windows, but I haven't used it in so long and I haven't used Mac, I've never owned a Mac, I've used it, you know, in in the university, just like casually in the computer lab or whatever.


Yeah.


But um I'd be used to Lennox Since like on my personal computers since like 2013 or 2014.


Yeah longer.


So yeah, that's pretty much what I know, I mean, you know, windows is easy, I can sit down and use windows.


Right.


Yeah. So let me, yeah I haven't used Lennox in a very very long time.


Mhm Oh yeah, Lennox is the one I'm using now, man Jaro is based on Arch, so it's like a rolling system.


I don't even remember the last time when I saw how often do you get updates and Lenox like for example Windows and Macs there are new Os like all the time you know. Mhm.


So basically it's it's constant, like it's constantly updating.


Um wow.


They don't even provide, it's not even like they come out with, you know, 14.0 point 14.0 point one, like unto does it just it's a it's rolling updates.


Oh yeah.


So even before I want to install, you know, something new on my system, I I have to go in and do like, you know, pseudo uh s y you like system update to make sure everything is is current before I install anything, so I don't break anything like um Yeah.


Mhm. Yeah. Right. Well that's that's interesting because with all these Mac OS and Windows there always update if I don't turn on my laptop or don't do any update on my Windows laptop for a week after of India are like more than 100 of these and so.


Uh huh. Well, just to make broke All right, because it's not a problem. Look mr publicly. Absolutely. Uh huh. The nice thing about it is it doesn't force you to do it before you can open the computer though, you know what I mean?


Oh is that what it does in clinics?


No, it doesn't Lennox doesn't do that because Windows, I remember I had Windows um as like a dual boot thing on my last computer.


Yeah. Yeah.


Um and I would open Windows and it would be like no you have to do the updates before you can even use Windows, it's like I yeah, are you okay?


Car and like some similar like like I have iphones but there will be so many apps which have made but if you want to open it now you have to update it first.


Uh huh. Of the. Uh huh. Mhm.


Otherwise there are some apps which you can ignore or you can update later or find that or you can do what our date.


Okay. Mhm.


But there are some apps which definitely they want you to of the first and then only you can often have.


Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah.


At least I have an iphone as well um and you know at least because it it's kind of irritating when it wants you to update the OS and it reminds you like every time you pick up the phone uh but at least you can use it, you know, without updating it until you get around to it, because it's not like I have necessarily half an hour to sit my phone down and update it right that second.


Mhm. Right. The doctor. Yeah you know that or and also operates sometimes I do like photo plate away and put it on the charging and it will be distributed overnight.


Mhm.


So do you like iPhone 12 go on the recent recently launched.


I actually have an eight, I don't have enough money to get like a new one.


Okay.


Everything they come out, so I'm going to use this one until it's, you know, not supported anymore probably.


Yeah, and then then get whatever the new one is.


I mean right now you have most current I.


What's that? Yeah.


R. S. On a trade.


Yeah, yeah, yeah, they support them for, you know, five years or whatever, you can keep getting the most current IOS Yeah mike yeah.


I just they say they. Yeah I haven't looked at I control yet but looks in the pictures and the video looks interesting but More of more of it has been like similar design from past 56 years not like drastically has been changed from past vibrations but Apple has I believe the good marketing skills and on just to get away with it.


Mhm Right. Oh for sure. Although I think, you know, my next forward, I might just get an android um Yeah or something, you know, Apple is kind of just in terms of as a company that kind of ears taste because everything is proprietary, you can only buy their hardware that you can only have their sandbox software, you know, you can't get the google app store and Uh huh.


And so yeah. And you cannot install her party app only. Yeah, If you jailbreak it, then you lose the warranty and all the other things but things.


Yeah. Mhm. Uh huh.


Yeah. That, that is an interesting thing in android device devices. You can customize it based on your needs.


Yeah.


Yeah. And I think with android you also get, I mean you just get more bang for your buck in terms of as a phone with, you know, hardware inspects and everything so you're not paying for the brand.


And I told, right, I always think like if there is a way to put an IOS in an android phone, I'll take it.


Mhm. Yeah, I mean I do that's one thing I do like about Apple is it's just you know, I've had an iphone for my last one, it's so easy, it's like it's so intuitive, you know, it's simple, like I don't have to think about it.


So is. Yeah. Yeah. And then when I look at the picture quality, the camera quality, the images, you know the screen itself on the Samson phone. I'm like Apple is nowhere near to these homes in terms of that quality.


Mhm. Mhm.


But when I look at the IOS, I'm like embryo is nowhere close to the IOS.


Yeah. Yeah.


If they can just put in something together, you know that uh and yeah, so it looks like we should be done right?


Uh Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah, yeah, I'll head out, I'm you know, kind of want to get up in the woods, we might want to get, you know, give it another minute just so they don't they don't say, oh you only went, you know, five seconds, not enough.


Yeah. What?


I had that happened one time and they were nice enough to at least still paid.


All right. At the oh my God, that is that.


But I think we went up to like 25 or 26 minutes and they were like, no, because you didn't start. I don't know. Yeah.


You know, unfortunate. I know they, in their message they put in like just have a couple of extra minutes just to just to be sure that you have.


Yeah, I know because I'm probably the one who made them put that in.


Beautiful.


There were probably multiple other people or something because they had that happen.


Oh, but what I noticed this, you know the tab that I clicked and then there's our window open.


I don't know. But yeah.


There is a time around that as well with which keeps running at the bottom.


Yeah. Yeah. No, there is.


I just realized that. But right.


Oh yeah, you're right. Okay. Although I yeah, I had mine open before I joined the conversation.


I think this also includes better time after you clicked on the link.


Yeah. Mhm. Oh.


Right?


Oh.


Yeah.


Uh huh. Okay.


I believe maybe.


All right. Anyway, I think we're probably good now.


So yeah, I'll head out, get up, get up in the forest and see what I can see.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


What happened?


All right. Yeah.


You enjoy it?


They're talking to you. Yeah, take care.


Nice talking to you. Bye.


Bye, bye.


I used to


Yeah. Mhm, mm. Yeah. Okay. Oh mm. Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah yeah.


Yeah true.


Mhm. Mhm.


Okay. Yeah.


I don't know.


Hey can you hear me?


Yeah.


Hey man how you doing?


Good, How about you?


Good thank you.


Second hair?


Sure I have yeah.


Sorry, I'm trying to use my headphones and it's coming out of my speakers here um Just a second.


Yeah I see. Yeah.


Um Okay uh sorry, I'm going to set up.


Country. Mhm. What Well no problem.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah okay so Uh huh.


Oh.


Yeah there yeah, so I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to be talking about what Pretty good, I mean, you know the whole corona things been pretty crazy.


Mhm. Perfect. Yeah I don't know man how things were going for you generally? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah it's an unusual situation.


Uh huh. Yeah, just kind of getting used to it now I guess.


Yeah it's been, how long have you been?


Uh huh. Oh.


I know the like rules have been different in different places but how long have you been like staying at home for most of the time?


Mhm. Well I'm still going to work actually um Yeah because I work in the transit and transportation company so um we're essential workers I guess, but uh I've been working remote sometimes as well, so it's been like I don't know, probably two months now I guess.


Oh wow okay. Mhm. Okay. I see. Yeah. Mhm wow okay. Yeah.


Yeah.


Yeah you get used to the lifestyle after a while and now.


Yeah totally, totally.


How long have a year? How long have you?


Um I think it's been like a month and a half since I started working remotely full time.


Yeah. Mhm.


Uh huh. So yeah it's crazy it's just uh I live right near a beach and I see people like standing right outside of it wanting to go like wanting to resume their normal activities surfing and what not and it's just like yeah okay awesome.


Yes. Uh huh. Yeah, that's it, it's weird like get rid of, you know, when you go to the store and he's wearing like a mask and stuff, it's just like, oh, it's like that movie or Yeah.


Yeah, yeah yeah. No, uh, I don't know if you've heard of or seen the movie contagion but war Well it's probably like 10 years old, but the streaming rates of it went way up then.


Yeah. Yeah. River, you need to watch it. Yeah, I think I heard that.


All sense of the outbreak started.


Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, totally. It's, that's weird. But you're able to work and everything like remotely 100%.


Yeah. So I'm are PhD researcher.


Well, no.


I'm a PhD student.


Nice.


I do chemistry research in the lab and probably like 50-75% of my job. I can do remotely. Um, I'm just doing those things.


Mhm.


I mean some projects are on hold obviously, but I'm doing what I can.


How nice. That's awesome.


Yeah, and I'm thinking, hey, thank God.


Let's go. Yeah, totally. I know it's crazy.


Yeah, Private paycheck.


Yes. So many people like, that's crazy. They work for like a transit agency and like data analyst and uh they laid off like 300 people like through the bus drivers like on friday and it was just like, oh God, Yeah, exactly.


Oh my God, The longest period on a friday. Huh?


Like you can come pick up your sex.


Yeah.


I mean, they kind of do, they weren't working really and anticipate.


What? Right. Yeah.


And like I'm like people aren't riding the bus as much and stuff, but you know, there's like, I was surprised how many companies are like apparently always just on the verge of not being a company anymore.


You know it's like a few months of like fund saved or whatever.


Yeah. Yeah.


I don't know how companies work really. But american airlines.


You think like the bigger like kind of corporations would have stuff in place?


Yeah it's like one week with no flights and you're just like completely fucked forever.


Yes. Yeah. Yeah. No, totally.


I will not more ready.


I know, but I mean, I understand like, you know, like a local like mom and Pops place like, you know.


Right. I'm really worth. Do you have any favorite local businesses nearby that you're worried about?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like a bunch of them really and getting into, they're all doing like, like uh The takeout stuff right now, but like it's just like, I don't know, is it like 20%,, you know, your normal way, you know, revenue stream or whatever?


Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah.


That's crazy. But uh hopefully, I mean, doesn't sound like it's going to a new attempt soon, but yeah.


What is it? I know. Yeah. It could be a year.


Yeah. It's, I'm starting to get a cab in favor of it place, blah locked up now.


Yeah. Is the weather like nice enough where you live you can just step outside. It is impossible, wow.


Um Sometimes it is, you have a minute organs, so.


Oh I see.


Yeah.


Yeah, clue.


Yeah, we get a lot of right in here. Yeah.


So, but I mean it's not been getting nicer like what about of it?


Mhm.


But Yeah.


Oh yeah.


I live in SAn Diego so thankfully back here. Yeah.