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shadowkatIf I get this thing it will be from doing laundry.
I went down at 3 - and a woman was sitting down there, maskless, watching her laundry in the washers. I thought okay, I'll come back down at 4 after work. Also work - decided to send me a flurry of emails that required work, at 3PM. On a Friday. Administrative Assistant - who spends half the day gardening, sent a change order log to me at 3:30 PM to fix. I fixed it - but it was problematic and gave me a headache - an excel spreadsheet in the Microsoft One Drive - with everyone fixing it at the same time. So I'd see something and it would disappear.
Then I went down again at 4 PM, thinking oh, the woman will be gone, it will be fine. Uh. No. I entered the laundry room only to discover people without masks, three of them. Super's wife, her son (who had it around his neck) and an idiot guy wearing it around his neck. And I...considered turning around and going back upstairs.
Super's wife: No, no, you can use these two vacant machines.
Me: Okay. But hey, this is an enclosed space with almost no air circulation, and it's hot. So we really all need to be wearing masks down here. I don't want to be bother, but I don't want to get sick. So I'd really appreciate it - if everyone wore a mask. (Guy and Super's son put on Masks. And Super's wife apologizes for forgetting.)
Me: I understand, but please wear a mask. I don't want to get anyone sick either. Just please do it. Especially here.
So put my laundry in and run into the guy who'd had no mask on earlier, now with only a towel around him and a t-shirt and no mask. I back up, say excuse me, and with terrified eyes make it to the elevators.
The elevators are fun, at one point I had to back up into the hallway of the basement with my cart, while a woman with a mask took one elevator, and a guy without one waited for the other. The woman with one - was holding it open for me too. But I said "no, no, go , go, I'll get the next one" - do people NOT read signs? The signs clearly state one person per elevator for safety reasons. And geeze alot of the men in my building refuse to wear masks. The bearded guy in the apartment next door isn't wearing one when he left his apartment in front of me today, I steered clear of him, and he did turn his back to me. And downstairs the guys didn't. This explains why there's more men who die of COVID-19 then women. A lot of men are idiots. My brother is thankfully smart, but he's never given into macho stupidity. The reason the US has the most cases and most deaths is we are stuptid. Americans are idiots.
I've decided if I get it - I'm going to tell the contact tracers to focus on the Super's family and idiots in the laundry room.
The men in my building and neighborhood are Darwin Award nominees - I wish they'd claim theirs and bugger off this mortal coil.
I'm venting.
I'm very nice and polite in person. I hate conflict.
Difficult day, I celebrated the end of it and the week with the last of my Rum Mai Thai's, and those things are strong. My teeth and fingers go numb after drinking them. Little tipsy now.
Didn't take a walk through Greenwood today due to Tropical Storm Fay - which has been meandering through the area. All we got was heavy rain. It's supposed to have high force winds, but I'm not seeing anything. And while it did rain and have a few down-pours, nothing major. I think the worst went east and north of me.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
Well, the Governor of New York in his email tonight advises ...
When New York was experiencing our worst days, we were moved by the generosity of states around the country. We promised we would pay that forward when other states were in need, and today we are doing just that.
New York will deliver a shipment of the medication Remdesivir to Florida tomorrow as the state struggles with a surge of cases. Remdesivir is a drug that has shown promise in treating COVID patients. We are 50 states — but we are one country.
What a lovely thing to do. That drug is wickedly expensive and helps people. It's nice to know my state is trying to help the other states. Go Team#NewYork.
(Although it may be worth mentioning that there are a lot of New Yorkers who have retired in Florida.)
Florida is doing odd things - it's supposed to re-open schools in August, and has had 7,000 children come down with the virus. Also Disney World is re-opening slowly next week. Hmm. I think Disney is worried about staying closed for too long.
New York is also slowly re-opening things...that it feels are safe.
1. Today, malls in Phase 4 regions can open if they have advanced HVAC systems. HVAC systems will be required to include advanced filters that help filter out the COVID-19 virus. Other ventilation protocols include increased outdoor air, reduced circulation, longer system run times and frequent filter checks.
2. Starting July 20th, New York will allow visits to nursing homes and long-term care facilities on a limited basis. Visits will be allowed at facilities that have been free of new COVID cases for at least 28 days. Only two people are allowed to visit each resident and must undergo a temperature check, wear a mask and social distance while visiting.
3. Yesterday the State conducted 73,558 tests, of which 786, or 1.06% were positive. Total hospitalizations fell to 826. Sadly, we lost 8 New Yorkers to the virus.
4. The newly renovated West Games Area at Jones Beach is now open. As part of the NY Parks 2020 plan, the renovation features a new mini-golf course, refurbished and new court games, new benches, tables, fencing and lighting, and additional site improvements. There are also new and improved activity areas including new cornhole and pickleball courts and refurbished courts for shuffleboard and paddle tennis. Read more.
5. The Bronx Zoo is reopening July 20th. The zoo will be open to members only through July 23rd and will open to the general public on July 24th through advance tickets.
I'm still playing it safe. Or trying to. Kind of hard to be perfectly safe in a 77 unit apartment building in a major city in the middle of a pandemic - although the only person I've really interacted with is the Super's wife. Unfortunately she's also been in and out of everyone's apartments and interacting with everyone. Also a lot of men think they are above wearing masks. I saw one of the members of the NYC DOT not wearing one - he was checking the water main yesterday, after putting in the gas pipes. Apparently they sliced through a pipe so everyone on the Beverly Road end of the building had to have their water off for about ten to twenty minutes this morning. My end of the building was fine.
Miscellaneous...
Facebook Jean Grey Fan Page
Poster: Wolverine and Jean appear to be making out and having sex in this scene, it's heavily implied. Gross.
Me: Well, it's been heavily implied by the writer that Wolverine, Jean and Scott are engaged in a threesome for quite some time now. I'm just not sure if Emma is involved or not. Seems unfair not to include her, somehow.
Some people liked my comment, some were shocked by it.
I'm growing weary of the culture wars, and want to tell folks to grow up already.
Honestly, why people can't tolerate and appreciate people that are very different than they are is beyond me. I've never understood this. I find people who are different from me to be more interesting. If I was surrounded by people just like me - I'd be bored. Get over yourselves, spank your inner monkey, and accept that people are different and celebrate the differences.
I'm tired. The week exhausted me. The weeks drag, the months speed on by, maybe because I'm dreading the fall? Don't know. I've decided to take a little time off in August. Also some four day vacations in the fall. Just about accepted the fact that I'm not seeing my parents this year. I may however be able to finagle another trip to see the brother and his family. Don't know yet.
Oh, found out via Facebook that the lates Harry Dresden novel came out, Peace Talks. I might buy that and read it. And once again, it sounds like they are moving furniture above me. I suppose it could be running up and down steps - but if sounds like moving furniture.
Yeah, I know it's creepy, but the picture fits my mood today.
I went down at 3 - and a woman was sitting down there, maskless, watching her laundry in the washers. I thought okay, I'll come back down at 4 after work. Also work - decided to send me a flurry of emails that required work, at 3PM. On a Friday. Administrative Assistant - who spends half the day gardening, sent a change order log to me at 3:30 PM to fix. I fixed it - but it was problematic and gave me a headache - an excel spreadsheet in the Microsoft One Drive - with everyone fixing it at the same time. So I'd see something and it would disappear.
Then I went down again at 4 PM, thinking oh, the woman will be gone, it will be fine. Uh. No. I entered the laundry room only to discover people without masks, three of them. Super's wife, her son (who had it around his neck) and an idiot guy wearing it around his neck. And I...considered turning around and going back upstairs.
Super's wife: No, no, you can use these two vacant machines.
Me: Okay. But hey, this is an enclosed space with almost no air circulation, and it's hot. So we really all need to be wearing masks down here. I don't want to be bother, but I don't want to get sick. So I'd really appreciate it - if everyone wore a mask. (Guy and Super's son put on Masks. And Super's wife apologizes for forgetting.)
Me: I understand, but please wear a mask. I don't want to get anyone sick either. Just please do it. Especially here.
So put my laundry in and run into the guy who'd had no mask on earlier, now with only a towel around him and a t-shirt and no mask. I back up, say excuse me, and with terrified eyes make it to the elevators.
The elevators are fun, at one point I had to back up into the hallway of the basement with my cart, while a woman with a mask took one elevator, and a guy without one waited for the other. The woman with one - was holding it open for me too. But I said "no, no, go , go, I'll get the next one" - do people NOT read signs? The signs clearly state one person per elevator for safety reasons. And geeze alot of the men in my building refuse to wear masks. The bearded guy in the apartment next door isn't wearing one when he left his apartment in front of me today, I steered clear of him, and he did turn his back to me. And downstairs the guys didn't. This explains why there's more men who die of COVID-19 then women. A lot of men are idiots. My brother is thankfully smart, but he's never given into macho stupidity. The reason the US has the most cases and most deaths is we are stuptid. Americans are idiots.
I've decided if I get it - I'm going to tell the contact tracers to focus on the Super's family and idiots in the laundry room.
The men in my building and neighborhood are Darwin Award nominees - I wish they'd claim theirs and bugger off this mortal coil.
I'm venting.
I'm very nice and polite in person. I hate conflict.
Difficult day, I celebrated the end of it and the week with the last of my Rum Mai Thai's, and those things are strong. My teeth and fingers go numb after drinking them. Little tipsy now.
Didn't take a walk through Greenwood today due to Tropical Storm Fay - which has been meandering through the area. All we got was heavy rain. It's supposed to have high force winds, but I'm not seeing anything. And while it did rain and have a few down-pours, nothing major. I think the worst went east and north of me.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
Well, the Governor of New York in his email tonight advises ...
When New York was experiencing our worst days, we were moved by the generosity of states around the country. We promised we would pay that forward when other states were in need, and today we are doing just that.
New York will deliver a shipment of the medication Remdesivir to Florida tomorrow as the state struggles with a surge of cases. Remdesivir is a drug that has shown promise in treating COVID patients. We are 50 states — but we are one country.
What a lovely thing to do. That drug is wickedly expensive and helps people. It's nice to know my state is trying to help the other states. Go Team#NewYork.
(Although it may be worth mentioning that there are a lot of New Yorkers who have retired in Florida.)
Florida is doing odd things - it's supposed to re-open schools in August, and has had 7,000 children come down with the virus. Also Disney World is re-opening slowly next week. Hmm. I think Disney is worried about staying closed for too long.
New York is also slowly re-opening things...that it feels are safe.
1. Today, malls in Phase 4 regions can open if they have advanced HVAC systems. HVAC systems will be required to include advanced filters that help filter out the COVID-19 virus. Other ventilation protocols include increased outdoor air, reduced circulation, longer system run times and frequent filter checks.
2. Starting July 20th, New York will allow visits to nursing homes and long-term care facilities on a limited basis. Visits will be allowed at facilities that have been free of new COVID cases for at least 28 days. Only two people are allowed to visit each resident and must undergo a temperature check, wear a mask and social distance while visiting.
3. Yesterday the State conducted 73,558 tests, of which 786, or 1.06% were positive. Total hospitalizations fell to 826. Sadly, we lost 8 New Yorkers to the virus.
4. The newly renovated West Games Area at Jones Beach is now open. As part of the NY Parks 2020 plan, the renovation features a new mini-golf course, refurbished and new court games, new benches, tables, fencing and lighting, and additional site improvements. There are also new and improved activity areas including new cornhole and pickleball courts and refurbished courts for shuffleboard and paddle tennis. Read more.
5. The Bronx Zoo is reopening July 20th. The zoo will be open to members only through July 23rd and will open to the general public on July 24th through advance tickets.
I'm still playing it safe. Or trying to. Kind of hard to be perfectly safe in a 77 unit apartment building in a major city in the middle of a pandemic - although the only person I've really interacted with is the Super's wife. Unfortunately she's also been in and out of everyone's apartments and interacting with everyone. Also a lot of men think they are above wearing masks. I saw one of the members of the NYC DOT not wearing one - he was checking the water main yesterday, after putting in the gas pipes. Apparently they sliced through a pipe so everyone on the Beverly Road end of the building had to have their water off for about ten to twenty minutes this morning. My end of the building was fine.
Miscellaneous...
Facebook Jean Grey Fan Page
Poster: Wolverine and Jean appear to be making out and having sex in this scene, it's heavily implied. Gross.
Me: Well, it's been heavily implied by the writer that Wolverine, Jean and Scott are engaged in a threesome for quite some time now. I'm just not sure if Emma is involved or not. Seems unfair not to include her, somehow.
Some people liked my comment, some were shocked by it.
I'm growing weary of the culture wars, and want to tell folks to grow up already.
Honestly, why people can't tolerate and appreciate people that are very different than they are is beyond me. I've never understood this. I find people who are different from me to be more interesting. If I was surrounded by people just like me - I'd be bored. Get over yourselves, spank your inner monkey, and accept that people are different and celebrate the differences.
I'm tired. The week exhausted me. The weeks drag, the months speed on by, maybe because I'm dreading the fall? Don't know. I've decided to take a little time off in August. Also some four day vacations in the fall. Just about accepted the fact that I'm not seeing my parents this year. I may however be able to finagle another trip to see the brother and his family. Don't know yet.
Oh, found out via Facebook that the lates Harry Dresden novel came out, Peace Talks. I might buy that and read it. And once again, it sounds like they are moving furniture above me. I suppose it could be running up and down steps - but if sounds like moving furniture.
Yeah, I know it's creepy, but the picture fits my mood today.
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Date: 2020-07-11 08:01 am (UTC)If you knew the things I think when some asshat motorcycle dude (or even a deliberately pointlessly loud vehicle of any type) goes roaring down my (residential neighborhood) street at 60 or 70 MPH, so loud if can even make me jump, well...
But since I have no wish to spend my remaining years in jail, I... feel thankful I have the gene that allows me to effortlessly separate fantasy and reality.
The noise is one thing, albeit ridiculous. I still fear the day some child gets run over by one of them, or even an adult. And it's like the fireworks, the number of these cretins has really ramped up in both the last few years, and now last few months.
On the good side, though-- the fireworks have gone down substantially since the 4th. Got it out of their system, bored, like you said? Hoping so!
ETA-- Bird on angel's head: AWESOME!! The kind of moment I live for as a photographer! Yessss!!
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Date: 2020-07-11 06:37 pm (UTC)On the good side, though-- the fireworks have gone down substantially since the 4th. Got it out of their system, bored, like you said? Hoping so!
I think they ran out, to be honest. Apparently there's a shortage and the stores ran out of fireworks. Hee Hee.
With you on the 60 or 70 mph idiots in residential areas.
Ugh.