Topic: Goodbye/Vacation Thread

@render ‘!’

my concerned inner narrator - “I thought he was blocked”

@colonelkilgore I am, muhhahahhahahaha!!!

Said to see Indoorhero go, seemed a nice person and was another one of us Star Wars geeks to add to the hype and conversation. Hope they're okay

Hola mi amigos! Having worked for the NHS and seeing that the pandemic would hit us all about Jan 2020, it's blowing my mind to be on a foreign holiday! Viva espana and genuine sunshine, I'm nearly tipsy enough from a few mojitos to post a real image of me having one! This community is an amazing group of of folk from across all countries and walks of life. I've had the opportunity to chat about games and non game stuff with the folks on here the last few years that's really helped ballast me during tough times. Cant wait to get back and hopefully jolly coop with you in some elden ring and some other games. It's a goal of mine to open up some more to some coop/multiplayer gaming!

@R1spam Have a good un fella, and will most likely still be in The Lands Between when you get back.

@R1spam have a great holiday dude, by your occupation I reckon you deserve one more than most 🍸

@R1spam Have a great holiday. I can imagine you need that well earned break and mojitos after these past few years so enjoy 😎

@JohnnyShoulder @colnelkilgore @Diamond_Dog @Renders cheers my peeps, there are shed loads of folks who have had a much rougher pandemic, I'm so lucky myself and family have stayed well. It's so nice to be somewhere where everything is outdoors, I'll catch you all soon

@Diamond_Dog Hey look after yourself and enjoy your time with the family etc. Hopefully it's going to be a nice spring and a great build up to the summer. I'm sure we'll all be here when you get back.

Keep on keeping on! 😀

@Diamond_Dog
Then I will look forward to your return. Later.

See ya soon @Diamond_Dog *salutes

@Diamond_Dog Enjoy Mass Effect 2 and your Spring

I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks, and it'll be in a location where cell service isn't really accessible, so I'll be gone for a while.

So long, my lovelies!

@Ralizah Lucky for some! Have fun, I’m sure you’ll miss nothing important. Unless that Silent Hill leak is real or Elon Musk buys Sony or something 😂

@Ralizah have a great time and catch you soon,!!

I'll respond in more depth tomorrow, but I did want to note that I'm back. It was... quite the vacation.

Among other things:

• I got to see multiple locations in Alaska, which was really cool.
• Went to Canada for the first time. I hate poutines. Sorry.
• My entire family and I caught covid-19, so we were unable to fly back to our home state (Tennessee). We couldn't hunker down where we were, though, because my mom was lacking more than a few days worth of her pills, and our animals were going to evicted from the boarder on Friday regardless of how much we were willing to pay extra.
• As a result, in a desperate bid to avoid these problems, we drove 2500 miles over the course of 2.5 days from Washington to Tennessee. Practically a trip from one coast to the other in less than half a week. Imagine being infected with covid, going 39 hours without sleep (at present; I intend to retire shortly), and completing the car ride from hell at the same time!
• Finally, just a few hours ago, I discovered my sense of smell was gone, and my sense of taste was extremely muted as a result. It's very weird to not be able to smell anything or taste food properly.

So, I'm gonna go sleep before I start hallucinating or something.

@Ralizah
... And the moral of the story is that you shouldn't wander to far from your comfort zone!?

Hope you get some well needed rest and all recover fine.

P.S. Off to Google what poutines are.

@Jimmer-jammer Honestly, I'd like to return one day. I only saw bits of Vancouver and Toronto.

@sorteddan It's unfortunate, but travel is always going to come with these kinds of risks when a pandemic is going on.

Better than coming back with ebola or monkeypox or something!

@lolwhatno I hadn't either. Once my brother-in-law described it to me, I knew it was exactly the sort of unique international food item I had to try!

@RogerRoger Thanks!

Yeah, gravy and cheese curds on french fries is... different. I wanted to be open-minded, but I don't get the appeal.

Then again, I've heard many non-Americans have similar reactions to our biscuit and gravy meals, and I love those, so I guess it just depends on what you grow up with.

I also ordered pancakes in a restaurant and received gigantic bread patties that weren't anything like the flapjacks you'd get in the States. Those actually didn't taste bad, though.

@HallowMoonshadow Thanks. Yeah, I feel a little more like myself now that I've gotten a few hours rest. Although I'll probably continue to take it easy as we figure out how the disease is going to progress. Top priority is keeping my mother comfortable, given her pre-existing conditions that make covid a big risk factor for her.

@Ralizah That is pretty wild. Did you all share driving? And how bad was the covid? And how bad was the traffic?

If it was quiet roads, and I wasn't very ill, and I was doing shifts I think I could handle it just about :') That's still a long way though.

@Ralizah What a nightmare! So sorry to hear about the struggles. Being a fellow American, I know how long and far of a car ride that is! Did you have to rent a car then? What a small fortune that must have cost in the current car shortages and exorbitant gas prices, notwithstanding the torture of crossing the wide open West and Central US.

And I sure hope the COVID is mild for you and your mom. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼