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The virus is viable up to 24 hours on cardboard.

My paranoid self brings them in, scrubs my hands, then i'll open them the next day. No disinfection needed.

Edit: It's not full force after 24 hours. It can just be found up to 24 hours. It doesn't mean you'll get sick. Here's a better representation.

I just don't know why my employer is not moving towards work from home

Because the majority of employers throughout history need to be forced to do the right thing or it'll never happen.

Hey,

I've been pretty screwed up since I was a kid in the guts department. Eating stereo typically healthy things, and I was constantly screwed up. I went to many doctors, test after test, and was diagnosed with IBD and given pills (which didn't freaking work). And was given pills for anxiety since I was having frequent attacks (I swore they were food related but doctors didn't believe me). I FINALLY got a handle on it.

How? I got pissed one day and started researching. I learned what a dietitian was and how that's the actual protected title for someone that knew what they were talking about. That they aren't just for overweight people and diabetics, and that there is any number of food sensitivities (but not allergies, and that there isn't a blood test for) that they could help me discover.

I called around to several places, looking for someone that specialized in my sort of symptoms and finally was referred to a friend of a friend of a dietitian I called, that actually knew something.

First meeting she said this all lines up, I know what you need to try and what you need to start narrowing (in my case, she had me on the FOD MAP diet and I varied from there).

It took me TWO YEARS, but I know damn near every one of my triggers and every one of my safe foods, and guess what? Half of it doesn't line up with common knowledge. Watermelon, cantaloupe and other melon's destroy me. Most fruits in general destroy me, certain vegetables like Brussel sprouts, asparagus, raw onion are no go's. VERY minimal soy (no more tofu, soy milk, soy concentrates which are in SO MUCH, etc...) No straight milk or other creamy things (but I can do cheese and butter all day long and New Zealand imported milk (WTF? I still don't understand what American's do to the damn milk)). No whey or casein protein concentrates, in anything. Most fried things were fine! Leafy greens like Spinach and Lettuce were fine in smaller portions.

Anyways, I could go on. My point is, I have a long list of things I can and can't eat. It absolutely conflicts with common knowledge and I am so glad I found someone to help me through it. They were worth every single penny.

I am regular damn near 100% of the time unless I break a rule. (I tried conch yesterday, that did not go well later...) Fucking decades of hell and not once was I referred to a dietitian. I'm so mad, yet so happy I have been good the last 3+ years.

If you haven't gone down the dietitian and limitation diet route, that's your next try, but you have to be super vigilant and patient as you really nail down what you can and can't eat.

You share the same criticisms as me. Whenever a Windows 8 thread comes about, I get down voted and get into an argument. These are real problems, the #1 being those damn Microsoft accounts "Oh, you want to install office 2013 on more than 5 computers without making a bunch of fake accounts and you want to know what serial number numbers 1-5 are? That'll be 50% more to join our volume license program." WHAT?! $200 vs $300... Not a single office has gone for that yet. NOT. ONE. I am so sick of making a bunch of bs accounts on catch all emails and then trying to keep track of them all and the serial numbers across all the companies I manage, it's ludicrous. I can't even use the 5 seat limit per account because it doesn't even hint at what serial number each drop down option corresponds to. Once again I get bitched at, and once again, people obviously have never had to do it, or they would completely understand why this is absolute hell.

Adobe started to pull this too.

Them: "Our cloud subscription for business is $70 a month"

Me: "Ok, can't I just make people accounts and pay $50 a month?"

Them: "Sure, but then you couldn't centrally manage your licenses"

Me: "Why in the hell would I pay another $20 per month per user then?!"

Them: "If centrally managed accounts doesn't concern you, then you don't have to get the $70 an stick with the $50"

Software companies are making it harder for businesses to buy their licenses and are charging more for the privilege to make it a little less hard. I am so sick of it, and I am sure plenty of other people are just as pissed. I can see Open Source software really taking off in the next 5 years.

My sister started taking classes at community college after watching this show. 2-years later, she's almost done with the ASL program. Don't let your dreams be dreams.