OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.

[Anonymous]

OP you got this. You wrote an amazing brief the first time and you'll do it again. What happened SUCKS but take the advice of some other posters and call the Apple help line. You made it through April with surgeries and kids. You've got what it takes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am home with 4 kids ages 8, 5, 3, and infant. My 8 year old talks to me all. Day. Long. Like follows me around underfoot and talks to me. It’s insane. We try to go play outside, he won’t play, won’t help with chores, just wants to sit next to me and talk while I pull weeds or whatever. Whyyyyyy is he like this?!? I love him to death but omg there is no quiet.

Are you working with four kids at home? That sounds rough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am home with 4 kids ages 8, 5, 3, and infant. My 8 year old talks to me all. Day. Long. Like follows me around underfoot and talks to me. It’s insane. We try to go play outside, he won’t play, won’t help with chores, just wants to sit next to me and talk while I pull weeds or whatever. Whyyyyyy is he like this?!? I love him to death but omg there is no quiet.

My kid just turned nine and is the same way. I love him dearly and Innoway I’m grateful because I know it wont always be this way but JFC it’s exhausting.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you SURE it's unrecoverable? There are ways to get deep into your HD...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am home with 4 kids ages 8, 5, 3, and infant. My 8 year old talks to me all. Day. Long. Like follows me around underfoot and talks to me. It’s insane. We try to go play outside, he won’t play, won’t help with chores, just wants to sit next to me and talk while I pull weeds or whatever. Whyyyyyy is he like this?!? I love him to death but omg there is no quiet.

Lol my son is 10 and he’s the same.

[Anonymous]

Me in the safe

[Anonymous]

I’ve been taking kodeine to the face to cope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am home with 4 kids ages 8, 5, 3, and infant. My 8 year old talks to me all. Day. Long. Like follows me around underfoot and talks to me. It’s insane. We try to go play outside, he won’t play, won’t help with chores, just wants to sit next to me and talk while I pull weeds or whatever. Whyyyyyy is he like this?!? I love him to death but omg there is no quiet.

love this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am home with 4 kids ages 8, 5, 3, and infant. My 8 year old talks to me all. Day. Long. Like follows me around underfoot and talks to me. It’s insane. We try to go play outside, he won’t play, won’t help with chores, just wants to sit next to me and talk while I pull weeds or whatever. Whyyyyyy is he like this?!? I love him to death but omg there is no quiet.

love this!

I'm sure it's making you bonkers but it is quite endearing.... Do you have a grandparent you could call and put on the phone with him?

[Anonymous]

OP I am so sorry!
One of my direct reports works on contracts for Intel agency consulting. She never gets any sensitive or classified info - but because of a security incident her computer was confiscated by security. She was given an hour to drive to an office and hand over her computer to security in the parking lot. She lost 2 years in email because someone in IT messed up her cloud settings.
Crappy on a normal day, but extra frustrating with kids at home, home schooling, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you SURE it's unrecoverable? There are ways to get deep into your HD...

Or if a junior was working on it wouldn’t the earlier version be in an email or something??

[Anonymous]

I write a lot, often the technical sections of public health proposals. Every once in a while I’ll lose something like you did. The thing is, it is always better the second writing. Always. You may have forgotten it consciously, but the ideas, structure, etc is still in your brain, along with some brewing ideas on how to make it even better. Yes, it totally sucks. You should have a good vent, eat a bowl of ice cream and binge watch some shows, and then go write that sucker even better than the first time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a small vent.

When I go to the grocery store with plastic gloves and a face mask, it takes me 3 mins to open up the plastic produce bags. I usually lick my fingers to get the plastic produce bag open but now with the plastic gloves and not being able to use the saliva from my tongue, I can not get the produce bag open to put my green onions in (or whatever vegetable I want to buy).

Certainly nowhere in the realm of losing a major document for work (sorry to hear that by the way) but it's my own personal struggle with COVID and something that gets me way more frustrated than I care to admit.

OP here -- valid complaint! rub the end of the bag back and forth between your fingers really quickly, it might help. That's how I open those bags.

Rub your gloved fingers onto some of the water from the wet vegetables that the store periodically waters. Then you should have the friction you need without using spit -- I discovered this a few weeks ago!