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shadowkatStill here. Still well. Outside of allergies - itchy eyes, and some scratchy throat that went away once the Xzfal kicked in.
Well, the good news is the number cases went down slightly in NY, it's still high but we appear to have plateaued or rounded the curve. The bad news is the death is high, kicked even higher when NY, the first state to do so, added all the probable deaths due to the virus or resulting from the virus that were from folks who died before they could be tested or hadn't been tested. Most likely including a co-worker's brother-in-law who was fifty years of age, contracted it, and dead within a week. In perfect health. That was enough to make me want to stay indoors and away from grocery stores for the foreseeable future. (Except I did attempt a short walk at 7:15, thinking there would be less people out at that time. But alas no, the dog walkers were out in full force.
Today, the Mayor and the Governor initiated orders that you wear a mask if you are in any public situation. If you come in contact with someone and you can't social distance you wear a mask. When my Super's wife opened the door to come out, I hung back six feet and to the side, to wait for her to pass. She thanked me and said: "Social Distancing?" I responded, "at least trying to." More people were in masks, I only saw one person without - who probably thought taking their dog out for a walk wouldn't be a problem - but it is if you live in the residential section of a densely populated city.
The Governor in his address today stated that New Yorkers were doing a good job of the impossible - with little to no enforcement measures or fines - which is staying indoors and social distancing. Getting New Yorker's to do this is hard - unless you lay out the facts to them so they can understand it. Then they will comply. So New York State is going overboard - with a huge ad campaign, briefings, etc.
Tonight, at Bible Study - via Zoom, we heard for the first time the 7PM cheer for the heroes on the front lines - it was beautiful. It's every night now at 7PM.
Also, I found out that the New York Post has furloughed or laid off a good portion of its staff - the freelance writers, etc for 90 Days, and NYU has been hit especially hard, and may have to lay off thousands. The numbers are grim. When I asked why, I was told it's because no one wants to send their kids to college at the moment.
We all live in dread of going back to work, of getting on a subway, of cross-contamination. Although I wouldn't say I'm paranoid. I just keep my distance. I still go outside, I have gone grocery shopping. I am procrastinating laundry - but that's because I have to take a decrepit elevator to the basement multiple times, with unexpected close counters with others. It's not agrophobia - so much as a logical fear of getting stuck in a small confined space with viral jellyfish. But I will attempt it next week.
The problem is that a good percentage of the people who get this thing aren't tested. Why? Because you can't get tested. It's close to impossible. NY has tested the most people to date of any State in the country at 500,000 tests and we have 19 million people. And that's in one month. They've done more testing than most countries have - and they can't find a way of doing enough tests. Right now they are trying to manufacture their own.
Ah, anyhow, overall, I'm okay. My family is okay. My father, however, is confused and his dementia is getting progressively worse.
Mother: Your father is confused by the Governor of New York's briefings. It's this new technology, it looks like the Governor is talking directly to us.
ME: Yeah, I get that.
Mother: He keeps asking if the Governor can see us, see him? If we are supposed to ask him questions. I keep telling him no.
So my mother keeps curling up with romance novels and escaping. My father does art, but he can't do puzzles, or some of the other things they suggest. And my mother can't really help him with the art. Instead she reads to him from one his old buddy's books on WWII. Watches television with him. And tries to keep his mind off things - such as their finances, etc.
For entertainment? I watched two more episodes of Steven Universe last night, I'm four episodes in now, another episode (a REALLY good episode) of Runaways - possibly the best I've seen to date, and 101 Dalmatians - the animated version. There was a group of Disney animated films down by the same artists/vocal talents and music composer, in the late 1960s/early 1970s - 101 Dalmatians, Jungle Book, Aristocrats, Robin Hood and I think the Rescuers were the last of this period.
It was the period between Snow White, Cinderella, Lady & the Tramp, and Dumbo, but before the weak animation period of The Rescuers, Sword in the Stone, Black Cauldron...there's about five different animation period with Disney.
1. 1930s-1960s Snow White/Cinderella/Pinnochio/Alice in Wonderland/Dumbo/ Fantasia and Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty - soft cell animation, with a lot of musical opera style singing.
2. 1960s-1970s -101 Dalmatians/Robin Hood/The Aristocats/Jungle Book - most of these had a more comedic approach and comedic songs. Many sung by Phil Harris.
3. 1980s-1990s - The Rescuers/Black Cauldron/The Sword in the Stone/Emperor's New Clothes/Hercules- the weak period - less songs, more action, and animation not quite as good.
4. 1990s-early 00s - Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess & the Fog, The Lion King, Mulan...this was the renaissance period or resurgence of Disney Animation. Going back to the soft cell and musical style of the 1930s and 60s, less sharp lines and more ballads.
5. Pixar and computer animation - 21st Century - Tangled, Up, Frozen, Onward, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Wreck-it Like Ralph, Inside Out - which is kind of a combination of the catchy action numbers and the soulful - with less soft cell and more computer three-D, also more of an emphasis on social justice themes.
One of my cousins, who is bisexual, is project manager who put together and launched the Disney + platform. We're very proud of her.
Yes, I'm an animation nerd. I actually know various people who work in the field. My brother's childhood friends do. I'm kind of envious, art is very meditative. Today on the wake up, via my headspace app, I watched an artist create an abstract work of art using thousands of colored paper clips. He patiently placed each on in its proper place and created an optical allusion. I envied him in a way - it seemed very meditative. I need to draw something. Find a picture and attempt to draw it. But I find I have no time - working from home the way I am. When I'm done with work, I call my mother, make dinner, take a walk, watch television, update my journal, do a zoom hang out with my church, interact on social media...then wind down for bed.
Often just watch television. Disney + and Hulu are a joy to behold. Streaming provides animation and sci-fi/fantasy choices...just what I need in these crazy times.
What I'm trying to do is keep the anger at bay. I'm furious with the Federal Government and those who brought it about. And that is not helpful. It's better to let go of it. I can't do anything about it until November anyhow.
Well, the good news is the number cases went down slightly in NY, it's still high but we appear to have plateaued or rounded the curve. The bad news is the death is high, kicked even higher when NY, the first state to do so, added all the probable deaths due to the virus or resulting from the virus that were from folks who died before they could be tested or hadn't been tested. Most likely including a co-worker's brother-in-law who was fifty years of age, contracted it, and dead within a week. In perfect health. That was enough to make me want to stay indoors and away from grocery stores for the foreseeable future. (Except I did attempt a short walk at 7:15, thinking there would be less people out at that time. But alas no, the dog walkers were out in full force.
Today, the Mayor and the Governor initiated orders that you wear a mask if you are in any public situation. If you come in contact with someone and you can't social distance you wear a mask. When my Super's wife opened the door to come out, I hung back six feet and to the side, to wait for her to pass. She thanked me and said: "Social Distancing?" I responded, "at least trying to." More people were in masks, I only saw one person without - who probably thought taking their dog out for a walk wouldn't be a problem - but it is if you live in the residential section of a densely populated city.
The Governor in his address today stated that New Yorkers were doing a good job of the impossible - with little to no enforcement measures or fines - which is staying indoors and social distancing. Getting New Yorker's to do this is hard - unless you lay out the facts to them so they can understand it. Then they will comply. So New York State is going overboard - with a huge ad campaign, briefings, etc.
Tonight, at Bible Study - via Zoom, we heard for the first time the 7PM cheer for the heroes on the front lines - it was beautiful. It's every night now at 7PM.
Also, I found out that the New York Post has furloughed or laid off a good portion of its staff - the freelance writers, etc for 90 Days, and NYU has been hit especially hard, and may have to lay off thousands. The numbers are grim. When I asked why, I was told it's because no one wants to send their kids to college at the moment.
We all live in dread of going back to work, of getting on a subway, of cross-contamination. Although I wouldn't say I'm paranoid. I just keep my distance. I still go outside, I have gone grocery shopping. I am procrastinating laundry - but that's because I have to take a decrepit elevator to the basement multiple times, with unexpected close counters with others. It's not agrophobia - so much as a logical fear of getting stuck in a small confined space with viral jellyfish. But I will attempt it next week.
The problem is that a good percentage of the people who get this thing aren't tested. Why? Because you can't get tested. It's close to impossible. NY has tested the most people to date of any State in the country at 500,000 tests and we have 19 million people. And that's in one month. They've done more testing than most countries have - and they can't find a way of doing enough tests. Right now they are trying to manufacture their own.
Ah, anyhow, overall, I'm okay. My family is okay. My father, however, is confused and his dementia is getting progressively worse.
Mother: Your father is confused by the Governor of New York's briefings. It's this new technology, it looks like the Governor is talking directly to us.
ME: Yeah, I get that.
Mother: He keeps asking if the Governor can see us, see him? If we are supposed to ask him questions. I keep telling him no.
So my mother keeps curling up with romance novels and escaping. My father does art, but he can't do puzzles, or some of the other things they suggest. And my mother can't really help him with the art. Instead she reads to him from one his old buddy's books on WWII. Watches television with him. And tries to keep his mind off things - such as their finances, etc.
For entertainment? I watched two more episodes of Steven Universe last night, I'm four episodes in now, another episode (a REALLY good episode) of Runaways - possibly the best I've seen to date, and 101 Dalmatians - the animated version. There was a group of Disney animated films down by the same artists/vocal talents and music composer, in the late 1960s/early 1970s - 101 Dalmatians, Jungle Book, Aristocrats, Robin Hood and I think the Rescuers were the last of this period.
It was the period between Snow White, Cinderella, Lady & the Tramp, and Dumbo, but before the weak animation period of The Rescuers, Sword in the Stone, Black Cauldron...there's about five different animation period with Disney.
1. 1930s-1960s Snow White/Cinderella/Pinnochio/Alice in Wonderland/Dumbo/ Fantasia and Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty - soft cell animation, with a lot of musical opera style singing.
2. 1960s-1970s -101 Dalmatians/Robin Hood/The Aristocats/Jungle Book - most of these had a more comedic approach and comedic songs. Many sung by Phil Harris.
3. 1980s-1990s - The Rescuers/Black Cauldron/The Sword in the Stone/Emperor's New Clothes/Hercules- the weak period - less songs, more action, and animation not quite as good.
4. 1990s-early 00s - Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess & the Fog, The Lion King, Mulan...this was the renaissance period or resurgence of Disney Animation. Going back to the soft cell and musical style of the 1930s and 60s, less sharp lines and more ballads.
5. Pixar and computer animation - 21st Century - Tangled, Up, Frozen, Onward, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Wreck-it Like Ralph, Inside Out - which is kind of a combination of the catchy action numbers and the soulful - with less soft cell and more computer three-D, also more of an emphasis on social justice themes.
One of my cousins, who is bisexual, is project manager who put together and launched the Disney + platform. We're very proud of her.
Yes, I'm an animation nerd. I actually know various people who work in the field. My brother's childhood friends do. I'm kind of envious, art is very meditative. Today on the wake up, via my headspace app, I watched an artist create an abstract work of art using thousands of colored paper clips. He patiently placed each on in its proper place and created an optical allusion. I envied him in a way - it seemed very meditative. I need to draw something. Find a picture and attempt to draw it. But I find I have no time - working from home the way I am. When I'm done with work, I call my mother, make dinner, take a walk, watch television, update my journal, do a zoom hang out with my church, interact on social media...then wind down for bed.
Often just watch television. Disney + and Hulu are a joy to behold. Streaming provides animation and sci-fi/fantasy choices...just what I need in these crazy times.
What I'm trying to do is keep the anger at bay. I'm furious with the Federal Government and those who brought it about. And that is not helpful. It's better to let go of it. I can't do anything about it until November anyhow.
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Date: 2020-04-16 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-16 02:17 am (UTC)I had sinus/migraine headaches with vertigo for three Spring - Fall seasons straight. So bad, I spent a small fortune on various ENT's to get it resolved. Also got paid FMLA - in case I had to call in sick repeatedly. Only sick days I called in were for that. Finally figured it out - combination of perimenopause, diet, and seasonal allergies. If I take Xzfal morning and night, along with Flonause - and use the Neti Pot, no problems. Also take a Tyenol/Phenylphrine decogestant aka Tyenol or Advil Sinus Headache - I do not get the vertigo with the barometric shift.
Then sometime around 2019 - they went away.
It's hard to know if you have this stupid thing or had it. I'm constantly battling the onset of hypochrondia, so is my brother - according to my mother.
I mean up to about two months ago - I had a horrible dry cough and shortness of breath - to the extent that I had a chest X-Ray. (It turned out to be the blood pressure meds I was on, once I switched to another one - I was fine, the cough went away eventually.)
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Date: 2020-04-16 01:45 am (UTC)Oh, you'll like Connie.
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Date: 2020-04-16 02:09 am (UTC)