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Day #113
I feel like my world has been compressed to my laptop, apartment, and an approximate five to six mile radius from it. Oh well, it could be worse.
That's the lovely thing about life, it can always be worse, it could always be better. Nice to have something to work towards.
Last night, while trying to save my novel - I'd just written about two more pages of text - somehow I lost twenty pages of it. I looked throughout my files, but apparently the last saved or recovered file was in May - so I lost twenty pages. It's not a bad thing - really. Since the portion I lost wasn't quite working and I was having troubles letting go of it. But it was painful all the same. I was going to attempt to reconstruct it. But alas..life and work intervened.
This morning, I discovered that the upstairs apartment's A/C was dripping through my kitchen window pane into my kitchen window sill. So I sent a photo to the Super.
Super: I go now, old lady, talk to.
Me: I'm 53.
Super's wife: ?
ME: I'm Not old.
Super's wife: Lady on 5th floor is 95.
Me: Ah. (although why she's talking to the woman on the 5th floor is beyond me.)
Later.
Super's wife knocks on door. She's hesitant to come in because you know, pandemic. But she's wearing a mask, I'm wearing a mask and we stay six feet apart, so life is good. She thinks the leak is in the living room for some reason. No, I tell her - kitchen. So she checks it out and texts the upstairs neighbors, who fix their air conditioner. (I had her husband install mine - so mine doesn't leak into anyone's apartments.) This simplifies things greatly. Then we discuss the junk that the apartment building next door left in their backyard. (Apparently I'm not the only one who was annoyed by it. Although I haven't complained, because honestly what can she do about it? It's not her property.) She told me that it was a co-op apartment that cleaned out the junk.
Super's wife: Jewish family had relative die. Hired cheap Hispanic labor to clean out junk. They throw in back yard.
Me (wondering why we need the descriptors, and finding it kind of ironic - I mean she's Polish Catholic): I watched them do it - took pictures.
Super's wife: The office below them on the third floor knew and complained, and various others have to their building's manager. But co-op.
Me: Can you complain to the building inspector? I mean it has to be a health code violation - they should be fined.
Super's wife: we see about it. It's frustrating, since so nice back there, green, and now junk.
Ah life in a city, with such nutty people in it.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
Yes, it's time for the next installment of our on-going saga of NY vs. the Coronavirus. Honestly, if this ever got made into a movie or television serial - it would be hilarious in places. (Depending on your sense of humor of course. I make fun of the patently absurd and often find horror flick funny - it keeps me sane. Actually, I make fun of everything. Including myself.)
New York (along with its partners - CT and NJ) has now decided to add 3 more states (Kansas, Oklahoma, and Delaware) to its ever lengthening list of quarantined states. This is basically the list of states that are not allowed to visit New York, and New York State Employees and Residents shouldn't visit. He can't really keep NY State residents from visiting them, but he can take measures to prevent NY State Employees such as myself from doing so. Such measures take the form of forfeiting paid COVID-19 sick leave. (I honestly don't blame him for this. I'd do the same thing.)
I don't know New York is beginning to look a tad isolated up there. Actually the whole Northeastern Corridor looks kind of huddled together up there. I honestly think we may all be considering defecting to Canada soon. Frak the US.
What's its criteria - any state that a 10% infection rate or higher - joins the quarantine list. Anyone traveling from those states must submit to a 14-day quarantine period.
NY has also chosen to cancel its state fair. It's considering doing a ball game between the NY Yankees and Washington Nationals with no audience in attendance, but the Yankees and Nationals players and management remain skeptical and somewhat reluctant. They aren't quite sure how this will work, considering various players keep coming down with the virus. Two Yankees players came down with it last week.
While various state pools and beaches have opened up, indoor bars and restaurants in NYC are remaining closed. NY is investigating a special type of air conditioning filter that can filter the virus out of the air - if this works and is affordable - they can open department stores, malls, movie theaters, schools, etc. But it's in the early stages. It exists, it's just a matter of finding air conditioners that it will fit into.
NYC has decided to do a 150,000 COVID Anti-Body Tests of health care workers, first responders, police, etc in one day. Or maybe a week. It's supposed to start next week. Also, tomorrow is considered open COVID testing day. They are going to open up a bunch of new testing sites around the Five Burroughs, specifically targeting the hardest hit communities.
I did tell you that NY is test happy, right? Once they figured out how to create their own COVID-19 tests, and discovered they were accurate for the most part - they've been testing people like crazy. Multiple times. If it were up to our esteemed Governor and Health Department - every citizen in New York State will be tested for this virus five times by December, the regular test far up the nostril and the antibody test. They are testing everyone they can get their grubby little paws on. (I did an antibody test - negative. But they aren't necessarily highly accurate - although I've been told by experts that they have a higher false positive rate than negative rate.) They've decided if they can figure out where the pesky virus is - they can contain and control it. That's what has worked to date. It's what they've done with all of their hotspots and how they kept the death toll down.
Go Team#NewYORK!
Of course we're still fighting with the nitwits who declare their right not to wear a mask. Please let a bus hit them. Target the non-mask wearers - MTA bus drivers! You know you want to.
And how dare we shame them for it. Personally, I think we should make them sign a form that denies all hospital benefits, healthcare benefits, and employment benefits. Also fine them. But that's just me.
Idiot on Instagram: "It's not mandated that you wear a mask, it's just recommended."
Everyone wearing masks: "It's mandated in many states and countries now, you idiot. NY has mandated."
Idiot on FB: "It's not mandated in NY."
Me: Yes it is. (I provide link). It's been mandated by Executive Order of the Governor of NY since April. (Where have you been? Sniffing up your own asshole?)
Ugh. People irritate me. Also scare me. The guy on instagram - who someone reposted on FB, scared me. This is why I'm not wandering about too much.
Damn virus can cause dementia.
Greenwood Cemetery & Grocery Store
After work took a walk through the humidity around Greenwood Cemetery. It was overcast and threatening to rain. Wish it would - take care of some of the tension and humidity in the air. It's in the seventies.
The walk wasn't that long - since "humidity!" and I wasn't sure if it would rain. Also, it kind of felt like trudging through water. But it was meditative and the edginess and irritability that I'd felt prior to it - slowly melted away. Greenwood Cemetery has become my sanctuary during this crisis - a place of hope, comfort, and calm. I'm able to somehow find peace within its borders. I don't know what I'd do without it - I guess try to make Prospect Park work?
Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words.
After said walk, where I blessedly saw few souls, I detoured on the way home to the Grocery Store. Where, alas, I keep forgetting to get stuff. I decided to go grocery shopping this week instead of Foodkick because our intercom/door buzzer is broken, which means getting deliveries is going to be difficult for a bit. This is going to be a bigger problem for others in the complex than myself. Oh, NYC is losing tenants. Cooper Union's Stuyvesant complex - which is the biggest housing unit in Manhattan has lost more than half its tenant - people have been fleeing the city. (Not dead, just fleeing. No longer able to pay rent and sick of being confined in a city during a pandemic.) My brother says I might be able to get a really cheap nice apartment in 2021.
We'll see. Not moving now. Also the rumbling above me is most likely people running up and down the steps. I'm next to the steps. This explains everything.
Anyhow, Grocery Store wasn't that bad. Everyone wears a mask now. People seem to be coming into it individually not as couples. And there's better social distancing. Also they have security now. Arrows marking where to go. Six feet apart circles. Signs stating that you can't be in the store without a mask per NY State Government Mandate. If you don't have one, you'll be ejected. Safest I've ever felt in that store. And the cashier was less hassled. There was protection around her. Also, they had hand sanitizers for our use on the way out.
Progress. Actually most New Yorkers are being smart. There's a few nitwits out there, but most of us are bonding together and hanging tough.
I'm rather proud of this little state of 19 million. Much happier to be here than Kansas. Kansas is spiking at the moment.
Oh according to the COVID MAP OF DOOM, Maricopa County, Arizona (aka Phoenix) has surpassed Brooklyn with most cases per county, so too has Cook County (aka Chicago). LA is it at the top, with Queens just below it.
Miami Dade is not far behind Maricopa in surpassing Kings (Brooklyn).
In regards to countries? The US, Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Chile, and the UK are competing for first. Sorry, guys, you're going to have to work really hard to catch up to the US, we're at almost 3 Million cases now, and 131,000 deaths. Brazil, though, is trying. Today their leader contracted it. I really wish the Doofus and his cronies would, but we've decided that the virus won't infect him - he's enabling it, it needs him. It's a wickedly smart little virus - it's keeping the nasty people enabling it untouched.
On that note? I'll leave you with another picture:
That's the lovely thing about life, it can always be worse, it could always be better. Nice to have something to work towards.
Last night, while trying to save my novel - I'd just written about two more pages of text - somehow I lost twenty pages of it. I looked throughout my files, but apparently the last saved or recovered file was in May - so I lost twenty pages. It's not a bad thing - really. Since the portion I lost wasn't quite working and I was having troubles letting go of it. But it was painful all the same. I was going to attempt to reconstruct it. But alas..life and work intervened.
This morning, I discovered that the upstairs apartment's A/C was dripping through my kitchen window pane into my kitchen window sill. So I sent a photo to the Super.
Super: I go now, old lady, talk to.
Me: I'm 53.
Super's wife: ?
ME: I'm Not old.
Super's wife: Lady on 5th floor is 95.
Me: Ah. (although why she's talking to the woman on the 5th floor is beyond me.)
Later.
Super's wife knocks on door. She's hesitant to come in because you know, pandemic. But she's wearing a mask, I'm wearing a mask and we stay six feet apart, so life is good. She thinks the leak is in the living room for some reason. No, I tell her - kitchen. So she checks it out and texts the upstairs neighbors, who fix their air conditioner. (I had her husband install mine - so mine doesn't leak into anyone's apartments.) This simplifies things greatly. Then we discuss the junk that the apartment building next door left in their backyard. (Apparently I'm not the only one who was annoyed by it. Although I haven't complained, because honestly what can she do about it? It's not her property.) She told me that it was a co-op apartment that cleaned out the junk.
Super's wife: Jewish family had relative die. Hired cheap Hispanic labor to clean out junk. They throw in back yard.
Me (wondering why we need the descriptors, and finding it kind of ironic - I mean she's Polish Catholic): I watched them do it - took pictures.
Super's wife: The office below them on the third floor knew and complained, and various others have to their building's manager. But co-op.
Me: Can you complain to the building inspector? I mean it has to be a health code violation - they should be fined.
Super's wife: we see about it. It's frustrating, since so nice back there, green, and now junk.
Ah life in a city, with such nutty people in it.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
Yes, it's time for the next installment of our on-going saga of NY vs. the Coronavirus. Honestly, if this ever got made into a movie or television serial - it would be hilarious in places. (Depending on your sense of humor of course. I make fun of the patently absurd and often find horror flick funny - it keeps me sane. Actually, I make fun of everything. Including myself.)
New York (along with its partners - CT and NJ) has now decided to add 3 more states (Kansas, Oklahoma, and Delaware) to its ever lengthening list of quarantined states. This is basically the list of states that are not allowed to visit New York, and New York State Employees and Residents shouldn't visit. He can't really keep NY State residents from visiting them, but he can take measures to prevent NY State Employees such as myself from doing so. Such measures take the form of forfeiting paid COVID-19 sick leave. (I honestly don't blame him for this. I'd do the same thing.)
I don't know New York is beginning to look a tad isolated up there. Actually the whole Northeastern Corridor looks kind of huddled together up there. I honestly think we may all be considering defecting to Canada soon. Frak the US.
What's its criteria - any state that a 10% infection rate or higher - joins the quarantine list. Anyone traveling from those states must submit to a 14-day quarantine period.
NY has also chosen to cancel its state fair. It's considering doing a ball game between the NY Yankees and Washington Nationals with no audience in attendance, but the Yankees and Nationals players and management remain skeptical and somewhat reluctant. They aren't quite sure how this will work, considering various players keep coming down with the virus. Two Yankees players came down with it last week.
While various state pools and beaches have opened up, indoor bars and restaurants in NYC are remaining closed. NY is investigating a special type of air conditioning filter that can filter the virus out of the air - if this works and is affordable - they can open department stores, malls, movie theaters, schools, etc. But it's in the early stages. It exists, it's just a matter of finding air conditioners that it will fit into.
NYC has decided to do a 150,000 COVID Anti-Body Tests of health care workers, first responders, police, etc in one day. Or maybe a week. It's supposed to start next week. Also, tomorrow is considered open COVID testing day. They are going to open up a bunch of new testing sites around the Five Burroughs, specifically targeting the hardest hit communities.
I did tell you that NY is test happy, right? Once they figured out how to create their own COVID-19 tests, and discovered they were accurate for the most part - they've been testing people like crazy. Multiple times. If it were up to our esteemed Governor and Health Department - every citizen in New York State will be tested for this virus five times by December, the regular test far up the nostril and the antibody test. They are testing everyone they can get their grubby little paws on. (I did an antibody test - negative. But they aren't necessarily highly accurate - although I've been told by experts that they have a higher false positive rate than negative rate.) They've decided if they can figure out where the pesky virus is - they can contain and control it. That's what has worked to date. It's what they've done with all of their hotspots and how they kept the death toll down.
Go Team#NewYORK!
Of course we're still fighting with the nitwits who declare their right not to wear a mask. Please let a bus hit them. Target the non-mask wearers - MTA bus drivers! You know you want to.
And how dare we shame them for it. Personally, I think we should make them sign a form that denies all hospital benefits, healthcare benefits, and employment benefits. Also fine them. But that's just me.
Idiot on Instagram: "It's not mandated that you wear a mask, it's just recommended."
Everyone wearing masks: "It's mandated in many states and countries now, you idiot. NY has mandated."
Idiot on FB: "It's not mandated in NY."
Me: Yes it is. (I provide link). It's been mandated by Executive Order of the Governor of NY since April. (Where have you been? Sniffing up your own asshole?)
Ugh. People irritate me. Also scare me. The guy on instagram - who someone reposted on FB, scared me. This is why I'm not wandering about too much.
Damn virus can cause dementia.
Greenwood Cemetery & Grocery Store
After work took a walk through the humidity around Greenwood Cemetery. It was overcast and threatening to rain. Wish it would - take care of some of the tension and humidity in the air. It's in the seventies.
The walk wasn't that long - since "humidity!" and I wasn't sure if it would rain. Also, it kind of felt like trudging through water. But it was meditative and the edginess and irritability that I'd felt prior to it - slowly melted away. Greenwood Cemetery has become my sanctuary during this crisis - a place of hope, comfort, and calm. I'm able to somehow find peace within its borders. I don't know what I'd do without it - I guess try to make Prospect Park work?
Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words.
After said walk, where I blessedly saw few souls, I detoured on the way home to the Grocery Store. Where, alas, I keep forgetting to get stuff. I decided to go grocery shopping this week instead of Foodkick because our intercom/door buzzer is broken, which means getting deliveries is going to be difficult for a bit. This is going to be a bigger problem for others in the complex than myself. Oh, NYC is losing tenants. Cooper Union's Stuyvesant complex - which is the biggest housing unit in Manhattan has lost more than half its tenant - people have been fleeing the city. (Not dead, just fleeing. No longer able to pay rent and sick of being confined in a city during a pandemic.) My brother says I might be able to get a really cheap nice apartment in 2021.
We'll see. Not moving now. Also the rumbling above me is most likely people running up and down the steps. I'm next to the steps. This explains everything.
Anyhow, Grocery Store wasn't that bad. Everyone wears a mask now. People seem to be coming into it individually not as couples. And there's better social distancing. Also they have security now. Arrows marking where to go. Six feet apart circles. Signs stating that you can't be in the store without a mask per NY State Government Mandate. If you don't have one, you'll be ejected. Safest I've ever felt in that store. And the cashier was less hassled. There was protection around her. Also, they had hand sanitizers for our use on the way out.
Progress. Actually most New Yorkers are being smart. There's a few nitwits out there, but most of us are bonding together and hanging tough.
I'm rather proud of this little state of 19 million. Much happier to be here than Kansas. Kansas is spiking at the moment.
Oh according to the COVID MAP OF DOOM, Maricopa County, Arizona (aka Phoenix) has surpassed Brooklyn with most cases per county, so too has Cook County (aka Chicago). LA is it at the top, with Queens just below it.
Miami Dade is not far behind Maricopa in surpassing Kings (Brooklyn).
In regards to countries? The US, Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Chile, and the UK are competing for first. Sorry, guys, you're going to have to work really hard to catch up to the US, we're at almost 3 Million cases now, and 131,000 deaths. Brazil, though, is trying. Today their leader contracted it. I really wish the Doofus and his cronies would, but we've decided that the virus won't infect him - he's enabling it, it needs him. It's a wickedly smart little virus - it's keeping the nasty people enabling it untouched.
On that note? I'll leave you with another picture:
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I've been considering it since... well, a long time. I've told the kids repeatedly since they hit middle school that they should plan on university out of the country, with an eye to permanent emigration.
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Canada is nice. It's cooler. It has trees. And there's no crazy Republicans.
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At least I live where people are a little smarter. (grin)