FOH: A Week In Pictures.

[Colt45]

High tide and a brisk northerly for this morning's constitutional

 

[SirVantes]

Under social distancing rules, we are having a virtual dinner party involving 3 separate households. The food is respectively steak, tagine and seafood. Life goes on. More importantly, the wine:

 

 

 

 

 

[prodigy]

Been busy the past few weeks!

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[Connoisseur Kim]

V-Cut is not only seen in cigars. It can be everywhere in unexpected things or places including food! The V on this bread reminds me my favourite cigar cutter, Colibri V-Cut ??.

[nKostyan]

Positive effect of self-isolation - in a week I finished the sauna, which I started building last winter

[Connoisseur Kim]

Since my hair and beard gone wild, I went to my favorite barbershop Myeongdong Ibalgwan (old school Korean word for Ibalso, which means barbershop), which is located in Sae maeul Traditional Market. After receiving trimming and haircut, I became Don Connoisseur Kim from bushy P.O.W. hair with the power of old school slick back hair (used Layrite Superhold Pomade for styling) ?! The cost of haircut, shaving, and beard trimming were ₩13000 (approx $11-12).



Interior and Exterior of barbershop:



After that, I had Korean street food in snack bar Orange Bunsik. It was super tasty as hell ?!



Note. Hair salons are still more popular in Korea (young lads prefer to have haircut with bang to look younger, beards aren't that popular too unfortunately), but the fancy barbershops are quite popular since the rise of pomade in my country. Fancy barbershops are similar to American and European's (some of them are run by veteran barbers or offer cigars and boozes) but also that their prices are insanely expensive as hell! The popular haircuts in Korean barbershops are new school haircuts such as low fade side part and slick back undercut (same as Europe and America).

[StogieSteve23]

Had some time to organize our storage unit for work this week.  We moved offices back in December and I never had a chance to straighten up the warehouse afterwards.  I'm the only one who goes there and uses it for our tournament, so I figured it was safe to go do, now having so much time on my hands.

Bonus of it all is that we had an extra roll of astroturf carpeting that I have been saving for 3 years and knew would come in handy one day..  I cut a few pieces off and made a little chipping area in my backyard.  With golf courses closed, I needed to find a way to get some swings in!! 

[Connoisseur Kim]

Received a brand new smartphone stand from Joby. It's stiff as hell, but does its job especially in Virtual Herf. I also can place it on poles which is great for me!

[ElJavi76]

Easter dinner! Delicious rack of lamb.

[99call]

6 hours ago, ElJavi76 said:

Delicious rack of lamb.

The King of meats.

[nKostyan]

I accidentally saw yellow carrots in the store and decided to cook Uzbek pilaf on Sunday.

[SigmundChurchill]

My week in a picture.

[99call]

29 minutes ago, SigmundChurchill said:

My week in a picture.

Keep up the good work fella, 

Good to see you've got all the gear.  Here in the UK, there is still disgraceful instances of nurses wearing bin bags and the like.  

[The Squiggler]

On 4/8/2020 at 12:31 PM, Connoisseur Kim said:

Hair saloons are still more popular in Korea

Serious question: Is that a hybrid of a hair salon and bar?  I noticed the sign with the avocado product and the pint of beer next to the barber shop, which makes me think, a beer while you get your hair cut is not a bad idea... though a few beers beforehand might be disastrous.

[Connoisseur Kim]

9 minutes ago, The Squiggler said:

Serious question: Is that a hybrid of a hair salon and bar?  I noticed the sign with the avocado product and the pint of beer next to the barber shop, which makes me think, a beer while you get your hair cut is not a bad idea... though a few beers beforehand might be disastrous.

The answer is no, since hair salon just provides hair cut and management service only (they mostly offer tea or coffee, snacks while waiting, but not booze). On the other hand, the new school barbershops that I mentioned above have booze and cigars.

[The Squiggler]

2 minutes ago, Connoisseur Kim said:

The answer is no, since hair saloon just provides hair cut and management service only (they mostly offer tea or coffee, snacks while waiting, but not booze). On the other hand, the new school barbershop that I mentioned above has booze or booze and cigars altogether.

Ah okay.  The spelling threw me... hair saloon vs. hair salon

I like the idea of the new school barbershop though.. I'm going to have to track one down some time for a beer, shave, cigar

[Connoisseur Kim]

29 minutes ago, The Squiggler said:

Ah okay.  The spelling threw me... hair saloon vs. hair salon

I like the idea of the new school barbershop though.. I'm going to have to track one down some time for a beer, shave, cigar

I was extremely sober when I posted haircut experience (wrote at midnight LOL), so I had a hiccup during that day which is unusual!!!! ??

I also like the idea of the new school barbershops with cigars and boozes, but they're pricey as hell unfortunately.

[SigmundChurchill]

53 minutes ago, 99call said:

Keep up the good work fella, 

Good to see you've got all the gear.  Here in the UK, there is still disgraceful instances of nurses wearing bin bags and the like.  

I am lucky enough to work in a very wealthy hospital, that can afford the exorbitant costs of PPE in this era of price gouging.  The majority here in the US are not so lucky, and have to deal with the same disgraceful circumstances that you are experiencing in the UK.

Even with the proper equipment, I am in constant fear of contracting the virus, so I can only imagine the level of fear in all the doctors and nurses that are not properly equipped. 

[Connoisseur Kim]

The election held yesterday and had landslide won against far right winged politicians ?! However, there are some bats%#t insane things happened in some places like Gangnam (N Korean Defector who has controversial issues got elected by Gangnam residents for their greed ?)...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52304781
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52305447

and Korea Post so far:

4-10-20

Korea Post has suspended processing of outbound mail to the following additional countries listed below until further notice.

Effective date: April 7, 2020

Countries: Germany, Russian Federation, Singapore, United Kingdom
Target items: outbound airmail (letter and parcel-post)
Exception: only EMS is accepted for these countries.
Effective date: April 10, 2020

Countries: Guam, Lithuania
Target items: all outbound airmail (letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items)

[Homer]

On 4/13/2020 at 4:33 PM, SigmundChurchill said:

My week in a picture.

Are you orthopedic surgeon?
I am ENT surgeon and in my workplace we don’t have enough FFP3 stage masks.

We mainly use regular surgical masks that are not good enough:(

[Homer]

DIY face mask. Hahaa? I made this.

 

 

[RichUK]

Crazy busy with work here, we might be at home but the pace certainly hasn't dropped off. Have therefore really enjoyed my time away from my desk and getting out with the dog for some fresh air. In the woods close to our home there is this wonderful patch of wild garlic, you could smell it a long time before you could see it.

 

[SigmundChurchill]

5 hours ago, Homer said:

Are you orthopedic surgeon?
I am ENT surgeon and in my workplace we don’t have enough FFP3 stage masks.

We mainly use regular surgical masks that are not good enough:(

No, I am an Anesthesiologist.  Here in the US, intensive care is a sub-specialty of Anesthesiology.  

And since basically the entire hospital is now an ICU for COVID patients, we dont have nearly enough Intensive Care docs to cover all the patients, so the anesthesiologists are treating them.  This is not just in my hospital, but in all of the ones that are overrun with COVID patients.  After all, there are only emergency surgeries anyway, so they dont need us in the operating rooms.

We commandeered these Stryker space suits from the orthopedic department.  We retrofitted the air intake with hepa filters, and we wear them when we intubate covid patients.  Intubating these patients is extremely dangerous for both the doctor and the patient.  We are right in the mouth, and the process of intubating aerosolizes the virus, so we wear these suits and make everybody else leave the room and we close the door, in case the patient coughs during the intubation.  

It is dangerous for the patient because we dont mask ventilate them.  Mask ventilating them REALLY aerosolizes the virus.  The entire room would be filled with virus within a minute or two.  So we have no way of getting oxygen into the patient after we paralyze the patient.  We have to find the vocal cords and get the tube in quickly before the patient dies.  Strange times we are in.

[Islandboy]

That’s amazing and scary stuff you’re doing @SigmundChurchill, thank You.

I’m betting you could use a pic of an empty beach on Maui to remind you of better times to come:

[Homer]

14 hours ago, SigmundChurchill said:

No, I am an Anesthesiologist.  Here in the US, intensive care is a sub-specialty of Anesthesiology.  

And since basically the entire hospital is now an ICU for COVID patients, we dont have nearly enough Intensive Care docs to cover all the patients, so the anesthesiologists are treating them.  This is not just in my hospital, but in all of the ones that are overrun with COVID patients.  After all, there are only emergency surgeries anyway, so they dont need us in the operating rooms.

We commandeered these Stryker space suits from the orthopedic department.  We retrofitted the air intake with hepa filters, and we wear them when we intubate covid patients.  Intubating these patients is extremely dangerous for both the doctor and the patient.  We are right in the mouth, and the process of intubating aerosolizes the virus, so we wear these suits and make everybody else leave the room and we close the door, in case the patient coughs during the intubation.  

It is dangerous for the patient because we dont mask ventilate them.  Mask ventilating them REALLY aerosolizes the virus.  The entire room would be filled with virus within a minute or two.  So we have no way of getting oxygen into the patient after we paralyze the patient.  We have to find the vocal cords and get the tube in quickly before the patient dies.  Strange times we are in.

Those Strykers space suits look great. I am glad you have those. I am rhinologist and we have now cancelled allmost all of  our surgeries because of the risk aerosolizing the virus.

COVID sucks.

Stay safe and healthy my colleague!