From SJG on TestosteroneLifeBoat: These posts by SJG on his website are the most relevant NOT those he sent to herbcat specifically to re-post on TUSCL.
They describe how the covid lockdown severely disrupted his life and more importantly impaired his coping skills so much that he opens up here about his distress now and in the past. Note he admits this the opposite of his usual 'no personal disclosure rule' = "first of all, I never take questions about my affairs. I rarely even offer much"
Apr 3, 2020 at 4:54pm by Admin on Apr 3, 2020 at 4:54pm
This shelter in place order hit me like a sledge hammer.
How first of all, I never take questions about my affairs. I rarely even offer much. But what has just happened forced some changes, so the post is past.
- My public office is gone.
- My residence is screwed up and will change.
My public office was a retail operation I was a principle in. We got shut down by the shelter in place order.
My residence was communal. Not good during this kind of an order.
So I was offered a chance to hide out in the mountains, in a shack, no electricity, telephone, or internet.
But as a that time I though I had COVID-19, I took it, and I slept for over a week. Two weeks there total.
Today, I am not sure about COVID-19, but it does not matter.
I let people make an in kind buy out of my share in the retail op. They need to marshal their resources to make it pull through.
So I will have a new office and a new living space soon. Now I am in a trasitional space, another associate, the people who will make up my organization.
Never wanted to live like a bourgeois. Especially not after my divorce. Still inspired by the super cute black girl I was making out with at New Century.
So lots are changing, and for the better. I am not alone, I have partners, colleagues, comrades, something I never had while married.
Apr 6, 2020 at 6:35pm by Admin on Apr 6, 2020 at 6:35pm
This is not a time to be moving about. My living, private office, and public office situations, are tied down. BUt not implemented. I am getting web access via a friends retail biz. TUSCL is on an adult site list and blocked. I have to be gracious, so I don't say anything.
Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26pm by sjgliveson on Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26pm
Is this InstaCart system a way that strip clubs could get out from under CA SB-5?
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Manic thinking, it happens some times. Like try to think about X1, but thoughts get invaded by X2, X3, ... Xn.
I think what is happening is that one's world view is changing, and so one needs to re-evaluate all kinds of past experiences and plans. I see this as positive.
Most extreme time was when I graduated from college, last final exam. Supposedly studied all night, but I was unable to sleep or study. All just thinking.
I had always wrote HP Calculator programs to do the math. So I sat down for the 3 hour exam. Had it all done in about 20 minutes. Went around the programs and checked my work by pressing the buttons manually. Looked it all over again. Nothing to do. 40 min past, turned it in. Aced it and got an A for the entire class.
BUt the real question was, what was I to do with my life next, and this was what all the manic thinking was about. Everything changed.
This corona shelter order, destroyed my living and working set up. New arrangements set, but can't really implement until things go back to normal.
SJG
