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Day #120
I suppose looking back at this journal years from now, I'll wonder what was going on today...then again maybe not. It might be gone entirely.
Struggling with the inconvenient re-concurrence of vertigo headaches. I keep fending them off with Tylenol Sinus Headache and Xyzal antihistamines. Also chocolate seems to help. If you've never experienced this phenomena, consider yourself lucky. It's not COVID, I have been having them off and on since 2014. But, I did go a year without them.
And, had a little temper tantrum today - possibly due to the fact that I almost had another vertigo headache at noon, while on the phone with mother, I moved my head slightly to the side, and felt the room tilt as if I were on the deck of a ship. It tilted back luckily. But this made me irritable, among other things - and I began to look forward to my walk. It wasn't as hot today - so I thought I'd take my walk earlier - around 4PM or 4:30PM and get in a nice two hours around the Cemetery. But alas, no, earnest manager decided to send us all a spread sheet requiring the remaining balance on all our contracts. She sent this to us at 2:45 PM and told us it was extremely urgent and due by the COB today. Uhm, it had been a slow day until 2:45 PM.
Frigging hell. Also she decided to give me two of her contracts to track down the amounts of.
To find the amounts, you have to hunt down the purchase orders in your remote computer's hard drive on the network, then jump over to the crazy organization's purchasing system and hunt down the activity records in that section. It's hard enough on two large monitors, but at home - I'm doing it off of a small laptop, and small desk. I used a pad of paper to write down all the purchase numbers and then plugged them into the purchasing system to find the amounts remaining on each. Then took the total awarded amount, and the total invoiced amount to date, plugged those numbers into a separate excel spreadsheet, subtracted, and took that number and plugged it into the spreadsheet earnest manager sent us. ( I know why they asked for it, they are planning on robbing "peter to pay paul", aka take money from contracts that aren't really needed and throw it into ones that are. (I know because they've done it before in less desperate times.) ). This took me two hours.
And I threw a mini temper-tantrum during it - mainly because I was furious at earnest manager for throwing this at me at the very end of the day, and providing a difficult to use format, and making me hunt down her contracts along with my own. I wanted to throttle her.
As I told mother later over the phone - this is the woman who keeps "hoping I'm enjoying my summer."
Mother: Does she mean that sarcastically?
Me: No. She says it earnestly - "I hope you are enjoying your summer despite the pandemic." I've been ignoring it.
Meanwhile Crazy Agency keeps sending me notices to complete "Return to Work Training" - which is not in the place they are telling me to look for it.
I can't find it. Unless it's called something else?
And boss asked us all to gather information on something or other by 12 noon tomorrow - I've no idea what he is looking for or if I've already provided it. I decided to ignore it until tomorrow morning. Then he sent us a message just now that he's rescheduling tomorrow's staff meeting/conference call to 11:30 AM tomorrow. (The problem with working from home - is you are kind of living at work. I've been sticking to a schedule. I do not work outside of it. And so far that's been working - well for the most part, on some occasions - I'm given no choice by Crazy Company.)
On top of all this - I had to figure out how to get into the NY State Financial Disclosure website to complete my financial filing. I'm considered a "policy maker" (whether I consider myself a policy maker is immaterial) so have to complete a form stating where I get all my income from. It's annoying, but a lot easier to fill out since it went online a few years back. When we had to do it manually - it was worse. The difficulty was getting into the stupid thing. The instructions were out of date, so when I went in - it didn't match the instructions they'd sent.
After all that, I did manage to get a nice long walk in, topped off by a trip to the grocery store. I've discovered that 6:30pm on Tuesday nights is a good time to go to the grocery store. No one is there or rather only five to six people are in the store. There's relatively no line. It's easy to social distance for the most part. The worst part about grocery shopping is the trip home. I need to learn to go down Abermerle towards Ocean Parkway, and then down one of the side streets to Church, then down another one to Beverly, as opposed to taking MacDonald Road to Beverly and Beverly to Ocean Parkway. The second route is a dangerous and highly annoying human being obstacle course - thwart with people who don't wear masks (men, smokers (usually male smokers)), traffice, wayward MTA buses, homeless people, food trucks (there's two now in front of the Walgreens), construction workers, and today the NYSDEC was spraying - I've no clue why. (I know who they are - it's the New York State Dept of Environmental Conservation. But why they were spraying water around the Wallgreens and cleaning that sidewalk is beyond me. I tried to walk around them with mixed results.) Plus various trash bags.
At one point a twenty-something boy on a bike was riding towards me on the sidewalk, he had a helmet on, but no mask and I glared at him through my sunglasses and mask. Then looked heaven-wards - "Really? What are we doing wrong here, kid? Let's me think." Oh, and there were the two guys who walked past me chatting, no masks, grinned at me, and one coughed in my direction.
Frigging stressful walking home from the grocery store. Thank god, I don't have to commute to work any longer - because that would be the trip I'd be taking daily from the subway. Also, add to that, I saw a guy going into the subway today with no mask.
I'd do a roundup of the news, but it made me want to cry.
So..I won't.
Instead...pictures from my walk around Greenwood Cemetery. If anyone asks what I did during the 2020 pandemic? It was work from home and walk around a cemetery in Brooklyn. That's it. Also donate money to various charitable causes in an attempt to keep people going, futile as it seems.
Struggling with the inconvenient re-concurrence of vertigo headaches. I keep fending them off with Tylenol Sinus Headache and Xyzal antihistamines. Also chocolate seems to help. If you've never experienced this phenomena, consider yourself lucky. It's not COVID, I have been having them off and on since 2014. But, I did go a year without them.
And, had a little temper tantrum today - possibly due to the fact that I almost had another vertigo headache at noon, while on the phone with mother, I moved my head slightly to the side, and felt the room tilt as if I were on the deck of a ship. It tilted back luckily. But this made me irritable, among other things - and I began to look forward to my walk. It wasn't as hot today - so I thought I'd take my walk earlier - around 4PM or 4:30PM and get in a nice two hours around the Cemetery. But alas, no, earnest manager decided to send us all a spread sheet requiring the remaining balance on all our contracts. She sent this to us at 2:45 PM and told us it was extremely urgent and due by the COB today. Uhm, it had been a slow day until 2:45 PM.
Frigging hell. Also she decided to give me two of her contracts to track down the amounts of.
To find the amounts, you have to hunt down the purchase orders in your remote computer's hard drive on the network, then jump over to the crazy organization's purchasing system and hunt down the activity records in that section. It's hard enough on two large monitors, but at home - I'm doing it off of a small laptop, and small desk. I used a pad of paper to write down all the purchase numbers and then plugged them into the purchasing system to find the amounts remaining on each. Then took the total awarded amount, and the total invoiced amount to date, plugged those numbers into a separate excel spreadsheet, subtracted, and took that number and plugged it into the spreadsheet earnest manager sent us. ( I know why they asked for it, they are planning on robbing "peter to pay paul", aka take money from contracts that aren't really needed and throw it into ones that are. (I know because they've done it before in less desperate times.) ). This took me two hours.
And I threw a mini temper-tantrum during it - mainly because I was furious at earnest manager for throwing this at me at the very end of the day, and providing a difficult to use format, and making me hunt down her contracts along with my own. I wanted to throttle her.
As I told mother later over the phone - this is the woman who keeps "hoping I'm enjoying my summer."
Mother: Does she mean that sarcastically?
Me: No. She says it earnestly - "I hope you are enjoying your summer despite the pandemic." I've been ignoring it.
Meanwhile Crazy Agency keeps sending me notices to complete "Return to Work Training" - which is not in the place they are telling me to look for it.
I can't find it. Unless it's called something else?
And boss asked us all to gather information on something or other by 12 noon tomorrow - I've no idea what he is looking for or if I've already provided it. I decided to ignore it until tomorrow morning. Then he sent us a message just now that he's rescheduling tomorrow's staff meeting/conference call to 11:30 AM tomorrow. (The problem with working from home - is you are kind of living at work. I've been sticking to a schedule. I do not work outside of it. And so far that's been working - well for the most part, on some occasions - I'm given no choice by Crazy Company.)
On top of all this - I had to figure out how to get into the NY State Financial Disclosure website to complete my financial filing. I'm considered a "policy maker" (whether I consider myself a policy maker is immaterial) so have to complete a form stating where I get all my income from. It's annoying, but a lot easier to fill out since it went online a few years back. When we had to do it manually - it was worse. The difficulty was getting into the stupid thing. The instructions were out of date, so when I went in - it didn't match the instructions they'd sent.
After all that, I did manage to get a nice long walk in, topped off by a trip to the grocery store. I've discovered that 6:30pm on Tuesday nights is a good time to go to the grocery store. No one is there or rather only five to six people are in the store. There's relatively no line. It's easy to social distance for the most part. The worst part about grocery shopping is the trip home. I need to learn to go down Abermerle towards Ocean Parkway, and then down one of the side streets to Church, then down another one to Beverly, as opposed to taking MacDonald Road to Beverly and Beverly to Ocean Parkway. The second route is a dangerous and highly annoying human being obstacle course - thwart with people who don't wear masks (men, smokers (usually male smokers)), traffice, wayward MTA buses, homeless people, food trucks (there's two now in front of the Walgreens), construction workers, and today the NYSDEC was spraying - I've no clue why. (I know who they are - it's the New York State Dept of Environmental Conservation. But why they were spraying water around the Wallgreens and cleaning that sidewalk is beyond me. I tried to walk around them with mixed results.) Plus various trash bags.
At one point a twenty-something boy on a bike was riding towards me on the sidewalk, he had a helmet on, but no mask and I glared at him through my sunglasses and mask. Then looked heaven-wards - "Really? What are we doing wrong here, kid? Let's me think." Oh, and there were the two guys who walked past me chatting, no masks, grinned at me, and one coughed in my direction.
Frigging stressful walking home from the grocery store. Thank god, I don't have to commute to work any longer - because that would be the trip I'd be taking daily from the subway. Also, add to that, I saw a guy going into the subway today with no mask.
I'd do a roundup of the news, but it made me want to cry.
So..I won't.
Instead...pictures from my walk around Greenwood Cemetery. If anyone asks what I did during the 2020 pandemic? It was work from home and walk around a cemetery in Brooklyn. That's it. Also donate money to various charitable causes in an attempt to keep people going, futile as it seems.
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