// #30+ — 2020-11-22
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16:01:00 <Kaz^> no probably me
16:01:00 <Kaz^> well its certainly been a long time since i've been on mIRC
16:03:00 <Kaz^> back in the days of WildRose & Kadith & Cloudbase. don't know if you remember those regulars also?
16:04:00 <Kaz^> they were a married couple from Melbourne
16:05:00 <Kaz^> ok well its probably that long since i've been here as a regular
16:05:00 <Kaz^> i have popped back from time to time but not many people around these days
16:07:00 <Kaz^> i think those guys also stopped using mirc a long time before i did also
16:07:00 <Kaz^> its been so long since i've been here that i belong in a channel titled 50+ now
16:08:00 <Kaz^> how long have you been using mirc?
16:09:00 <Kaz^> that's probably sometime around the time i first found out about it. i started using it more regularly a couple of years after that
16:11:00 <Kaz^> pretty sure the people i mentioned above would have been around in the late 90's
16:13:00 <Kaz^> i think back in the beginning i was using the nick kassieree. then i changed it to Kaz^ and have only used that since i changed but it wouldn't have been registered since way back when i last used the program but can't remember the date
16:17:00 <Kaz^> yes both of those names are definitely familiar
16:20:00 <Kaz^> i met WildRose and Kadith and another lovely lady from Melbourne called Luluu and i also met Cloudbase who was from Sydney but other than that i didn't ever meet anyone from the channel
16:20:00 <Kaz^> i am from north of sydney
16:21:00 <Kaz^> so you came back from China after studying and then went back again?
16:22:00 <Kaz^> and when you say currently in Traralgon do you plan to go back again at some stage?
16:24:00 <Kaz^> did you only come back because of the border closures or were you already home when that happened?
16:30:00 <Kaz^> but weren't they already locked down in WuHan back then?
16:33:00 <Kaz^> so you missed the lockdown in China but copped a harder one here in Melbourne?
16:37:00 <Kaz^> the regional lockdowns were ridiculous given that you didn't really have any cases outside of Melbourne
16:39:00 <Kaz^> i work on the outskirst of Northern Sydney but i live an hour north of there on the Central
16:39:00 <Kaz^> Coast halfway between Sydney & Newcastle
16:40:00 <Kaz^> we have been working from home since March and they were going to start slowly moving us back to the office so that we'd be on a roster of 1 week in the office and then 2 at home
16:40:00 <Kaz^> but when the 2nd wave happened in Melbourne they decided to wait and at this stage we probably won't be going back to the office until March next year at the earlies
16:41:00 <Kaz^> and even then i think they'll be working it on a rotating roster of 1 week in and 2 at home
16:42:00 <Kaz^> i think the idea is to have minimal contact with other people in each team and the company as a whole
16:46:00 <Kaz^> i refuse to wear a mask and i won't be having any vaccine either
16:50:00 <Kaz^> i think contact tracing to show you've been inside a premises so they can contact you if there's a confirmed case that was there is ok. i wasn't sure how i felt about the app
16:54:00 <Kaz^> the one and only flu vaccine i had was in 2015 just before my grandson was born. haven't had one since as i felt worse after that than i ever did with the flu. took me months to feel normal again
17:04:00 <Kaz^> so what kind of work of work do you do?
17:05:00 <Kaz^> what do you engineer
17:07:00 <Kaz^> i work in customer service for a medical company. Monash Uni buy our products for their nursing students
17:16:00 <Kaz^> my husband lost his job when the lockdown's started in March. the day i started working from home was Mar 18th and he went to work for a staff meeting to be told they were all being made redundant due to no work because kids couldn't go on school excursions or trips anymore
17:28:00 <Kaz^> gotta run.. good to chat
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