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I've noticed my online shopping is increasing dramatically as we are homebound for a few weeks due to the coronavirus. Even though we were forced by the governor to close our storefront business down, we have noticed a dramatic increase in our online sales. Fortunately we live in a small town, so a daily trip to the post office is just a matter of dropping off pre-labled packages. There is never more than one customer at a time in our P.O. even before this epidemic, so social distancing is not a problem.
 Since most local businesses are closed, we find ourselves buying more online than normal. I would rather support our local business, since i am one of them as well, but this seems to be where we are at with the current situation. i did get a new sledge hammer handle at the local Amish buggy shop, as they pretty much ignore much of what our government pushes on the rest of us.
 Hope you are all finding ways to keep sane while being "holed up" for a time.
crazydoug

I really can't call it "stuck" at home, because generally speaking there's no place I'd rather be. It's really about like pulling teeth to get me to go to town, so I do it as infrequently as possible, and that's even without the current virus concerns. My internet "looking" has increased some, but "shopping" remains about at the same level of excessive as is usual.

I have 5 cats. Since I'm stuck at home, Amazon is helping out with cat food and cat litter.

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I keep looking at the several new engines Jin is producing- very tempting......
crazydoug

Life for me is still pretty normal, driving a semi for FedEx we are considered essential , so off to work I go everyday, the town I service everyday has went to code red , so there's little to deliver or pick up from, I do have one large seed corn & farm chemical supplier that is doing a pretty good job of filling me up right now, but that is seasonal & will be dried up in 2 weeks. I try to find something to buy on the internet ...but nothing good has popped up that I must buy, I must admit...with this Covid-19 thing , it has me reevaluating buying from China , its not just the disease thing , but supporting Americans more when I can.

I found myself ordering my Christmas present from Roundhouse yesterday which is scheduled to be built in October but the way things are going who knows, by then  I might be sitting on the mantle in my little vase so won't care if it's late or not. Also gave in to an idea to haul my cat Maggie around behind my RC4WD Cruiser - ordered a trailer to carry the "lion's cage" I'll have to build.

Mostly I've been a pretty good boy, even though there have been many temptations out there.

But I just recently ran into some really like new condition, old survey items from a North Dakota college that no longer offers those courses. Bought one item from ebay for a super bargain, and then got hold of the fellow handling the sales outside of the bay by email, and he seems to want to make me deals I really can't say no to, even though disposing of my small amount of disposable income this early in the month is always problematic ... more especially so now, during these very uncertain times! If I go for this deal, it is almost certain that some highly desirable, long looked for item will crop up shortly, and I'll not have a chance to try for it. On the other hand, the same can be said for these very items now under consideration .... thus the dilemma!?!?

Sometimes life just isn't fair .... but then one must always consider the Murphy factor, and realize that "he" is our lawd & master, and always watching out for us, so that he can dumpeth upon us at the most inopportune moments!!!

I have been tempted several times, I feel like I'm missing out on some good stuff but you never know what else will come with it.
Besides there so many unfinished projects laying about my place. this is a probably a good time to busy myself with some of them.