A day spent by the team at home sorting out incoming tasks. The day is over, while the tasks still remain.
One of the first cautious outings on the street. A plastic card expires, and its re-issue is delayed until the last moment. Ahead, are the weeks of announced isolation involving online orders and cashless payment of goods and services.
The upcoming adventure is exhilarating. One has to get to the bank located much further than the critical mark of one hundred meters mentioned in the alarming notice on the door of the house entrance.
According to the established tradition, a complicated expedition to distant lands is preceded with a call to the bank support service. The latter can nip all efforts in the bud due to full knowledge about the business of the branch. Adventure comes first.
The equipment is carefully selected and the operational plan is crafted. The dearest tourist walkie-talkies, which accumulate dust for years on the mezzanines of oblivion, are charged once again and back in service. As a potential data source for the tracking system, the phone is off.
An equally important accent is the choice of clothing, which shapes the opportunity to get lost in the army of household urban services, who usually fall out the focus of attention of executive organs. A cloak purchased years ago in a workwear store helps QUARANTEAM with this.
Despite the apparent brightness of the coloring and reflective details, it can provide camouflage and casualness for its owner.
Last-minute preparations are done. All words are spoken. Historical photos taken. A road awaits us.
Initiation of a no-touch attitude
It seems rather obvious that QUARANTEAM does not lose hope easily when faced with difficulties.
A call to Sberbank following an expedition to a bank branch that turned out to be closed does not shed much light on a possible solution to the problem (expired card). The call center operator was extremely nice, but he turned out to be a representative of another planet unaware of the earthly society's vital problems.
Saving faces and successfully presenting all the best qualities of mankind, QUARANTEAM members solve the problem on their own by issuing a digital card in the bank’s application, thereby giving a countdown to the new contactless era of the team.
IKEA FAMILY
In the meantime, at a place no less than the kitchen, a noisy emergency occurs. Having been reclusively neighboring with several IKEA products for several years, Tefal electric juicer refuses to fulfill its functions.
In a violent rumble that clearly surpasses its own efforts one can easily guess the repetition of the same sounds: SPRI - TT - A - SPRI - TT - A - SPRI - TT - A.
Completely acknowledging the autonomy of things within the framework of the popular rejection of dominant correlationism, we are looking for a code word on the Internet, and the very first result bears information about a related product manufactured by IKEA: citrus juicer SPRITTA.
The user manual on the website is perfectly suitable for QUARANTEAM, which only confirms the correctness of the taken steps.
Satisfied silence fills the kitchen, enveloping a family of things replenished with a new member.
ZOOM party
The time has come for the first serious ZOOM test. The reason for this is the most serious one – K.'s birthday.
QUARANTEAM carefully prepares for the meeting. With the thoroughness common only among the real theater and contemporary artists, suitable lighting and locations are selected to make the upcoming virtual meeting truly festive.
Here's a report on the outings undertaken during the day.
We walk past bypassers, but look them over with curiosity.
1st outing. N. goes to the store (to buy mushrooms). There were a lot of people at the checkout, but everyone including the cashier was masked, providing a sense of security.
2nd outing to the bank in an invisibility cloak with a disconnected telephone and a walkie-talkie. I try to walk casually and confidently. There is a queue at the ATM, but it seems like everyone is paying in, not withdrawing. A man in front of me wears single-use plastic gloves. A walkie-talkie does not work, I run back.
3rd outing to the store. I throw garbage away along the road. On the street, I face my neighbor and we are awkwardly “dancing” around each other, not understanding how to behave and keeping a distance. Slippery. It’s nice that it wasn’t much slippery yesterday when we traveled by car a lot. There are many people on the street and in the store. The cashier doesn’t understand my jokes.
4th outing – late-evening walk with phones off and away from highways. The atmosphere is peaceful. Bypassers are rarely seen. We are surprised at the small number of lit windows.
Routes map
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Чтение ги дебора
A day spent by the team totally on the road moving towards Moscow and not knowing what to expect.
A day spent by the team at home sorting out incoming tasks. The day is over, while the tasks still remain.
A day that invigorate QUARANTEAM immensely. Non-contact communication with ikea couriers, bright joy brought by support of online reality protest, pac-man strategy, and unconditional work and study of the team members.