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[palhockeymomof2]

No, it isn't. But the remaining ones are more expensive than what we booked. So I'm wondering if I will have to pay the difference. I guess I'll sit tight for now and see if I get any official word from southwest about it. Maybe Monday? I guess we will see.

See if you can change online...they should let you without the fee increase unless the website isn’t set up for it yet

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I believe I agree with @SouthFayetteFan. I don't care for the internal busses at the mods...they are time consuming. Unless you have a car, in that case I'd go with POFQ or CSR.

You’re so right. I feel like that the bus situation really impacts the experience there and they just don’t do enough to differentiate themselves from the values. BUT we don’t spend a lot of time at the resort, and we typically visit when swimming isn’t guaranteed or even likely so I’m certainly coming from a POV that’s founded in my preferences.

 

[CyndiLouWho]

Sorry for the extra long post but I’ve not been here in a few days.
DH started WFH Monday since no school, but by Wednesday his company mandated WFH (BIL works at major insurance company, who is now mandating WFH as well, which leaves BIL working 18 hour shifts and not showering for days on end as he is the IT guy in charge of setting up all the remote phone lines and call centers)
I tried WFH Thursday, it was weird and seemed to take me twice as long to get stuff done but I’ll probably WFH at least 2 days per week, probably more as this progresses. I saw one of the doctors in the elevator yesterday and she commented how it’s pretty quiet now but it’s the calm before the storm. Most of the doctors and nurses I work with are anticipating the worst. Supplies are already running low and we don’t have any confirmed cases yet. My guess would be that we have seen a few cases but testing was denied early on and now some patients have died before we even have results back (FWIW we are now using a private lab-state health dept denied every request we submitted-and it’s taking 72 hours for results.)
Tonight will be family movie night and will be buying Onward. DS wanted to see it in the theater so I figured I might as well buy it. We will pop popcorn and make an evening of it.
As for groceries, hit or miss here. Walmart has stopped grocery delivery and online ordering with pickup so I have to get my moms groceries as well. Stopped at Target on the way home yesterday and found a lot of what I needed but many bare shelves (no bread, meat, frozen veggies, beans, pasta, paper goods, sanitizer). This morning local grocery chain had a freaking long line and out of much of the same. They did have random cuts of meat but they are expensive. I could get chicken legs or wings or organic whole chicken for $10 per lb, so skipped that. No ground meat of any sort. I grabbed the few items I can’t get at Aldi and waited in line 20 minutes. Lady behind me not good at social distancing and actually touched my cart and moved it at one point. Stopped at Aldi afterwards, no line but I think I got there 30 minutes after opening and the initial rush was exiting then. No meat there either but I did get frozen fish and shrimp plus veggies I need.

This happened to me yesterday when cancelling flights for our Spring Break Maui trip. I needed to cancel 4 flights for each of the 4 of us. I did not receive email confirms on one of my flights and one of DS's companion flights, even though the flights were gone from our accounts. Mine was a points flight, and those points weren't returned to my account. I gave it overnight to see if the system would right itself, but the points still weren't there this morning. I called Customer Relations at 1-855-234-4654 and they were able to straighten it out and put the points back in my account. Hold time was only 2 minutes, and the whole call took around 10 minutes.

My SW points were not returned after canceling online, so I gave it until that night and then Tweeted. They noted the problem and had fixed it within a couple hours of original tweet.

I’m glad you were able to get some!! Bummer about the paper products. I do feel bad for anyone who is working at a grocery store during this. My SIL works for Walmart and has been doing online grocery pick up.

Walmart in Chicago area is not even doing online grocery pickup or delivery

I’m a born and bred Floridian. I LOVE Florida especially Miami but there’s a reason why we got the nickname Flori-DUH.

I keep half joking that Florida is going to fall off the US in a flaming ball of coronavirus. They need to get with it. Old people/snowbirds + oblivious spring breakers = disaster

Yep. And us 30-50 year olds think we are safe and we're not.

I just wish the neighborhood kids (elementary school age) would stay inside. I totally get how much it stinks to be cooped up inside but I see these kids out my office window going from house to house. It's also beautiful here so that's not helping.

They can go outside, stay in their own yards but no going house to house

We usually eat out once or twice a week, here on LI everything switched to pick up or delivery earlier this week including alcohol. We ordered in the other night to support a local restaurant.
NY just changed to 100% working from home for all non essential businesses and no social gatherings of any size

Glad they did, I think NY was a little late on the restrictions.

Everything I'm doing at work is related to what's going on in the economy because of COVID-19. I think I'm going to get an ulcer.

I did find out (as I suspected) that quizzes and tests done while the kids are learning virtually won't count. Now I just have to keep that information from DS

Our state school board has said this is an act of god and no e-learning can count for grades. A co-workers school district is making kids check in online 9-12 or 1 every day and marking them absent if they don’t . Plus they even have band and PE homework. Seems a bit much.

I think it was a pangolin.

Justified.

Thank goodness. Freakin FL is giving me a heart attack and I’m in CA

Right?

That’s why I only leave the house for walks. We drove around earlier because I needed to just get away for a little bit. It hasn’t even been a week since we’ve been at home

My mom stays in most of winter. She hasn’t been out of the house since January except to my sisters twice and my house once and the hospital once a month for infusion. She was complaining how bored and lonely she was this morning.

We did Chinese takeout tonight too. We don't tend to eat out much, as I really love to cook, but it's so important to support our local businesses that we are going to up our take out to at least once a week, if not more. Our fav Chinese place was super busy this evening when we picked up so I am thinking many are stepping up and trying to help out.

We ordered pizza last night for this reason (plus DS was practically begging). I tipped the driver twice what I usually do, I feel so bad.

My son works in an emergency room in a county that has been hit hard with the virus. He says they were slammed last week (and now have 3 docs in quarantine). Yesterday, he said things were quieter as fewer people are coming in for non-emergencies.

Hugs to him. It’s so scary out there. One of the nurses I work with commented “I know I’ll get it, the question is will I be in the 80% that is mild or in the 20%?”

I took a look at some of my speculative travel later this spring on SWA. Flights as far out as Memorial Day are ridiculously cheap. I want to be optimistic that by Memorial Day the worst will be over.

Fingers crossed

My son in law is a ATC...some controllers at his Islip enroute facility have tested positive for the virus so the FAA as of now did a ground stop of departures out of all NYC area airports, Philadelphia and some others due to staffing issues....arrivals may be diverted or delayed

All ATC at his facility must quarantine for 14 days

MDW in Chicago also had 3 positives this week, so is restricting/canceling flights. It is a SW hub & SW has ceased flights from MDW. Coincidentally the hospital I work at is one of the 2 hospitals closest to MDW (over the years I have seen lots of travelers at our hospital.)

 

[palhockeymomof2]

My son in law is a ATC...some controllers at his Islip enroute facility have tested positive for the virus so the FAA as of now did a ground stop of departures out of all NYC area airports, Philadelphia and some others due to staffing issues....arrivals may be diverted or delayed

All ATC at his facility must quarantine for 14 days

following up...they assigned the Islip airspace to other enroute facilities airports are back open

 

[mgarbowski]

I am by nature impatient with people who don't know how to walk in public: not staying to the right, clustering at choke points instead of in wide spaces a few yards away, walking 3+ abreast. But now it's all I can do to not just keep yelling "SIX FEET YOU MORONS!"

 

[disneybirds]

DS forgot it's Saturday and got ready to do his class online meeting. The days are blending.

The days are definitely blending together. My DD asked this morning if my DH had any conference calls today and I told her no since it was Saturday!

 

[Herding_Cats]

UUUUGH. The frontier cancellation policy is NOT money back, it's a credit toward a new ticket that you have to schedule within 90 days of cancelling. Bonus, if we cancel by Monday we each get an additional $50 voucher. So much for flying out of our local airport. Or saving money. With 4 kids it's pretty much never cheaper to fly, so having vouchers doesn't do us much good. The only way this is worthwhile to me is if they publish their calendar for February by June as my SIL and I are discussing doing the princess 10k (if we can get registered).

Does anyone know if the credit is "use it or lose it"....as in....if I cancelled the current flight, got the credit, booked the SAME flight at the new fare, do I still retain the unused portion of the credit?

 

[Oscar Madison]

OT - which moderate resort is everyone's favorite? I'm planning some back up reservations if our May DVC BCV trip gets cancelled, and not sure I'll find availability on points, so I'm thinking I'd book a moderate with the AP Sun and Fun offer. We stayed at CSR in rehabbed room a few years ago and enjoyed it, but thought maybe CBR for the skyliner, or POFQ to try something new. Thoughts?

POFQ is a family fav.

 

[Judique]

Daughters got the call from their work and do not have to report to their offices. They will get more info soon and how to get set up with what they need to work from home. They had both been on spring break this past week. Whew! At least I'm relieved.

 

[Calfan]

Now that the runDisney Rival Run weekend has been cancelled, I DM’d Delta on Twitter late yesterday afternoon about cancelling my flight from BOI to MCO, returning miles to my account and refunding taxes. Woke up to a reply DM that it has been taken care of, and I see the miles back in my account! I still have the return on SW to cancel, but I’m going to wait on that one until I see some extensions on travel fund dates hit my account so I know their new system is working. That just leaves one British Air flight deal with, but BA continues to be completely unresponsive. So unimpressed with their CS. They have already cancelled the long haul portion of the flight on their end but won’t respond about canceling the whole itinerary and returning Avios. Will be avoiding any future bookings directly through BA.

 

[smmco]

I am a nurse and am getting daily messages in the group text to see who wants to take an excused absence. With no elective procedures (inductions) things are really quiet on our floor. I am supposed to be at Disney right now, so I haven't worked in a week to see for myself, but I am scheduled Monday pm so I'm interested to see how things are.

I hate to say it but I’m really enjoying the no visitor restriction.

 

[Killer Fish]

My hotel is closing on Wednesday....it is crazy what has happened to the travel industry. I am lucky that I will remain working a couple days a week and using vacation days for the rest along with a few other people but feel sick for all of our colleagues that no longer can work and not knowing exactly when we will be reopening...

Trying to find a positive though is MSR finished on Citi premier and grabbed a ton of beer from Tampa Bay Brewing company at neighborhood pricing.

 

[Artygal90]

OT - which moderate resort is everyone's favorite? I'm planning some back up reservations if our May DVC BCV trip gets cancelled, and not sure I'll find availability on points, so I'm thinking I'd book a moderate with the AP Sun and Fun offer. We stayed at CSR in rehabbed room a few years ago and enjoyed it, but thought maybe CBR for the skyliner, or POFQ to try something new. Thoughts?

I have stayed at CSR pre-rehab and POR post-rehab and enjoyed both, although we weren't at the resort often enough to take full advantage of all the amenities. I don't love the spread-out nature of the mods or the internal bus loop, so if we do a mod next time I'm wanting to try CBR for the Skyliner. It would be so convenient to be able to get to and from Epcot or Hollywood Studios without transferring, and the overall vibe seemed really cool from what we could see at Riviera.

 

[Haley R]

Wow Kindle Unlimited is terrible. I went through my entire list of books I want to read and none of them are offered. I did the free 2 months just to see what they had. I'm glad I didn't pay money for it

 

[Artygal90]

A tiny bit of personal good news: my CIU app was approved! Just in time for me to get a $350 medical bill in the mail! Yay...do we think it's risky to SM and ask the card to be expedited?

 

[havaneselover]

Wow Kindle Unlimited is terrible. I went through my entire list of books I want to read and none of them are offered. I did the free 2 months just to see what they had. I'm glad I didn't pay money for it

I love Kindle Unlimited. I go through 5+ books per month and never have an issue finding something I want to read.

 

[smmco]

We did Chinese takeout tonight too. We don't tend to eat out much, as I really love to cook, but it's so important to support our local businesses that we are going to up our take out to at least once a week, if not more. Our fav Chinese place was super busy this evening when we picked up so I am thinking many are stepping up and trying to help out.

I hate to admit it I support our local business all 52 weeks a year. My New Years resolution was to cook more, but I failed.
My dh went to Costco yesterday and bought way too much food...really why now?

 

[gottalovepluto]

We arrive on June 24... does that mean more crowds that week?

Probably not. The day of Dapper Days is the craziest when I went a couple years ago and the weekend gets busier leading up to that Sunday. I'd think they'd be pretty well cleared out by Wed.

 

[Haley R]

I love Kindle Unlimited. I go through 5+ books per month and never have an issue finding something I want to read.

I have a list of 30 books and not one of them is on there. Maybe it’s the type of books I read?

 

[WVMomof3]

I used to read a lot of world news by googling newspapers online. Then they started charging subscriptions for the leading articles. I still do the googling and then will google stories to try to get the details for free elsewhere they might be printed. The US world news is somewhat limited, I think, because it is such a large country with so much going on here that not as much world news filters in. It's not that it's prevented - it's just that it's overwhelming, and then newspapers and other media here are going to print the stuff that sells such as Harry and Megan. I absolutely loved reading @WVMomof3 's daughters interpretations on her trip to South Africa as she touched on the reality of life in that nation. When I have been out of this country I've not felt so insulated as I do in the US.

She is supposed to have some exciting new adventures to write about starting later this year. We are hoping that it is still happening. She feels in limbo not sure if she should be looking for a different job with graduation coming up or hold onto the hope that this one will still happen.