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Mar. 22nd, 2020 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Took a long walk to Prospect Park yesterday. [I'd share photos, but it's really not worth figuring out how to do it on DW. I honestly don't know how others are doing it as easily as they are. I keep forgetting all the hurdles I have to go through to do it.] It was a beautiful day, in the 50s, people were out, but not en mass, and I was for the most part able to keep six feet away from them. Prospect Park is a huge city park in Brooklyn, NY. It has a waterfall, rolling hills, trees, a lake, creeks, etc. I didn't make as far as the waterfall. I did make it to the lake and short walk around the trees.
It helped getting out in the fresh air. Also did a movement exercise via my Headspace App, along with more meditation - which has been helping keep anxiety and depression at bay.
Trying not to focus too much on the virus. [Easier said than done. I deal with stuf by becoming as informed as possible and then venting about it and informing everyone else. Annoying, I know, but there it is.] There's not a lot I can do about it. [I wish I could go around and pick up supplies for folks but don't own a car and I'm immune compromised.] Except isolate myself as much as possible. Try to reach out to people electronically, and do my job from home the best I can.
2. I keep getting emails from various places I've bought from in the past two years and who as a result have my email address. To date:
* Macy's has shut down all its department stores. (Apparently one of their retail clerks came down with it and their solution was to shut down immediately. They are, however, continuing shop by mail. I'm hoping this is the case because my mother informed me yesterday that my father has gained weight and can't fit into any of his shorts and she's not sure what to do. My father is slowly becoming someone else - and my mother is struggling to keep up with the changes. The man hasn't really gained weight in over 75 years, now at 83 he is.]
* Good news, UPS has been deemed essential service by all 50 State Governors. So it can continue to be in operation. As a result - yes, we can still send each other stuff by UPS. Now getting to the UPS store or drop off points is another issue entirely.
* Best Buy is creative - you can shop by car. They will sell items to you "curbside", so you can drive up to the store, they'll sell and give you the item, and you can drive away. Or you can order online, drive up to the curb and they will give it to you. The latter sounds more doable. The former? I'm not sure how that works exactly. Also you can continue to shop online, but they have discontinued their installation and take away service. They also won't deliver inside the building but will take it up to the front door. (Not sure how this will work in apartment complex's like mine. Do they take it up to the apartment door? Because if they are leaving it on the street -- that's kind of like giving it away to thieves. Makes me very glad that I bought my TV last year, and my new phone two months ago. I can live with the lap top. Don't have the room or desk space for a monitor/desk top anyhow.)
3. The meetup groups are getting creative as well as my church. Everything is going online. The Sci-Fi Book Club that I joined is now hosting online discussions of the books. The church is hosting online worship services via Facebook Streaming and Zoom. My Bible Study Group is doing it via Zoom. Zoom is the successor to Skype and FaceTime. I prefer Zoom, it's more doable. Also I can not engage video. My Mac has a built in camera and microphone - so this works well. (It's actually better at this sort of thing than my Dell Desktop Monitor at work -- which doesn't work well with this type of thing at all.)
One meetup was hosting letting off anxiety, singles walks in neighborhood parks -- which I don't think works. Because your still with people, folks. And unless you are all walking 6 feet apart...
4. I did find things to watch on television, after a lot of skipping about. Also, apparently, a lot of the television shows that I was watching and taping on the old DVR had their final "filmed or taped" episode this week. Grey's Anatomy, 9-1-1 Lonestar, Station 19, A Million Little Things and Stumptown. And some of them ended on cliff-hangers.
I've mixed feelings about Stumptown. Am kind of done with Grey's and Station 19. On the fence about 9-1-1 Lonestar, and weirdly comforted by A Million Little Things.
Rented Charlies Angels - the Elizabeth Banks version, with Kristen Stewart and Patrick Stewart. It was actually more entertaining than the previous versions, and feminist. I needed a feminist film this week badly. Elizabeth Banks sounds and acts a lot like Parker Posey. I get the two confused. They sound almost the same.
It helped getting out in the fresh air. Also did a movement exercise via my Headspace App, along with more meditation - which has been helping keep anxiety and depression at bay.
Trying not to focus too much on the virus. [Easier said than done. I deal with stuf by becoming as informed as possible and then venting about it and informing everyone else. Annoying, I know, but there it is.] There's not a lot I can do about it. [I wish I could go around and pick up supplies for folks but don't own a car and I'm immune compromised.] Except isolate myself as much as possible. Try to reach out to people electronically, and do my job from home the best I can.
2. I keep getting emails from various places I've bought from in the past two years and who as a result have my email address. To date:
* Macy's has shut down all its department stores. (Apparently one of their retail clerks came down with it and their solution was to shut down immediately. They are, however, continuing shop by mail. I'm hoping this is the case because my mother informed me yesterday that my father has gained weight and can't fit into any of his shorts and she's not sure what to do. My father is slowly becoming someone else - and my mother is struggling to keep up with the changes. The man hasn't really gained weight in over 75 years, now at 83 he is.]
* Good news, UPS has been deemed essential service by all 50 State Governors. So it can continue to be in operation. As a result - yes, we can still send each other stuff by UPS. Now getting to the UPS store or drop off points is another issue entirely.
* Best Buy is creative - you can shop by car. They will sell items to you "curbside", so you can drive up to the store, they'll sell and give you the item, and you can drive away. Or you can order online, drive up to the curb and they will give it to you. The latter sounds more doable. The former? I'm not sure how that works exactly. Also you can continue to shop online, but they have discontinued their installation and take away service. They also won't deliver inside the building but will take it up to the front door. (Not sure how this will work in apartment complex's like mine. Do they take it up to the apartment door? Because if they are leaving it on the street -- that's kind of like giving it away to thieves. Makes me very glad that I bought my TV last year, and my new phone two months ago. I can live with the lap top. Don't have the room or desk space for a monitor/desk top anyhow.)
3. The meetup groups are getting creative as well as my church. Everything is going online. The Sci-Fi Book Club that I joined is now hosting online discussions of the books. The church is hosting online worship services via Facebook Streaming and Zoom. My Bible Study Group is doing it via Zoom. Zoom is the successor to Skype and FaceTime. I prefer Zoom, it's more doable. Also I can not engage video. My Mac has a built in camera and microphone - so this works well. (It's actually better at this sort of thing than my Dell Desktop Monitor at work -- which doesn't work well with this type of thing at all.)
One meetup was hosting letting off anxiety, singles walks in neighborhood parks -- which I don't think works. Because your still with people, folks. And unless you are all walking 6 feet apart...
4. I did find things to watch on television, after a lot of skipping about. Also, apparently, a lot of the television shows that I was watching and taping on the old DVR had their final "filmed or taped" episode this week. Grey's Anatomy, 9-1-1 Lonestar, Station 19, A Million Little Things and Stumptown. And some of them ended on cliff-hangers.
I've mixed feelings about Stumptown. Am kind of done with Grey's and Station 19. On the fence about 9-1-1 Lonestar, and weirdly comforted by A Million Little Things.
Rented Charlies Angels - the Elizabeth Banks version, with Kristen Stewart and Patrick Stewart. It was actually more entertaining than the previous versions, and feminist. I needed a feminist film this week badly. Elizabeth Banks sounds and acts a lot like Parker Posey. I get the two confused. They sound almost the same.