Day #316 - Baby, It's Cold Outside...
Jan. 29th, 2021 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatYes, I know the song is problematic - but the sentiment remains, it's cold outside.
In the teens (F) with windchill. Tomorrow slightly warmer, in the 30s or 20s with windchill. I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow. This afternoon? I made brownies at 3 pm. Which wasn't really playing hooky, since I got a lot done today - and went back to work while they were baking. Then mother called when they were almost done, so I had to keep interrupting our call to check on them.
They are nice and fudgy. I decided to treat myself tonight, had my against all grains frozen pizza (which is the best), salad, a cosmopolitan, and the brownies.
Work was productive at least. Had a nice long call with the LM, who I commiserated with. ( LM was the co-worker who had stopped talking to me in 2018 or 2019? But got over it in 2020. Now we're buds. She also had a falling out with cubical mate, who she used to be very close to. Which goes to show you? Everything is temporary and relationships change constantly.)
Found out from LM that everyone feels much the same way I do - frustrated with work, lonely, isolated, and scared of boss. Also a tad leery of staff meetings from doom, which they kind of wish we'd have less frequently.
In short, I'm not alone - I'm still on the roller coaster ride from hell with about a billion other people.
LM, who is six months pregnant, worries about getting the vaccine. And if she even can. Her husband has to go into work every other week. She'd raced into work yesterday to pick up the transportation pass - when boss scared everyone at the meeting about it - asked a few questions and discovered that no, the transit passes weren't available yet. Backing up what I'd discovered.
I'm going to wait a bit, and race in to work sometime in mid-Feb to pick up the pass and ID.
[Note - I stole the picture below from a college friend's FB page - she took it while snowboarding in Maine or somewhere around there. At -4 degrees. She's a bit nuts - she goes swimming in 20 degree weather in a wet suit, and snowboarding in -4 degree weather.]
COVID
Well for those who live in New York? Appointments are avialable again. I'm debating about getting one for Jacob Javits, or just waiting for my workplace to schedule one for me.
Technically, I'm eligible as a public transit and state agency employee. But I'm not front line. Also going to the Jacob Javits Center is going to be a headache.
Apparently NY got more doses finally. More and more of my friends go it on FB. The Canadians, though, are lagging behind. The teachers, however, have gotten them for the most part.
Per the Governor's newsletter:
We're using the limited supply of vaccines as efficiently as possible and continuing to stop the spread of the virus and we're also focused on safely getting the economy back on track while safeguarding public health. The restaurant industry is the lifeblood of New York City and we are all too aware of the economic hardship they have endured at the hands of COVID. Thankfully, if our current trajectory holds, we will be able to reopen New York City dining at 25 percent capacity on February 14th, Valentine's Day. Additionally, other larger events that follow strict guidelines will be permitted beginning March 15th. We cannot become complacent now—we must all continue to do our part to keep beating back COVID. Our collective actions determine how quickly we can return to some of what we've missed throughout this pandemic.
1. COVID hospitalizations fell again to 8,357. Hospitalizations are down 916 from a peak of 9,273 on January 19th. Of the 270,518 tests reported yesterday, 12,579, or 4.65 percent were positive. There were 1,543 patients in ICU yesterday, down 41 from the previous day. Of them, 1,012 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 151 New Yorkers to the virus.
2. As we get more supply of the vaccine, new appointment slots are coming online at New York State vaccination sites. We are currently vaccinating eligible New Yorkers who are part of Phase 1a and 1b. See if you're eligible and schedule an appointment.
3. Effective March 15th, marriage receptions can be held under limited state guidelines. Events must be approved by the local health department and there will be mandatory testing of all guests before an event. Capacity at weddings and receptions will be limited to no more than 150 people or no more than 50 percent of the venue's capacity, whichever is lower. All patrons must be tested prior to the event. This upcoming change in guidelines follows the success of the Buffalo Bills program, which allowed fans to attend home games with mandatory testing.
4. As of 11am this morning, 95 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,316,032 first doses administered of the 1,387,840 allocations received from the federal government. So far, 244,644 second doses have been administered out of 618,115 second doses received. See data by region on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
Today at the Governor's live briefing he addressed the nursing home issue - which honestly was that, yes, they regret people died - but a lot of people died not just in nursing homes. And the counting was convoluted. And I can't remember 90% of the briefing anyhow.
And this is just...
Blame “Roaring Kitty.”
That’s the social media handle of a Massachusetts man — Keith Gill, 34, a former financial educator for an insurance firm — who helped fuel the frenzy around GameStop. His $53,000 investment in the company briefly reached $48 million in value this week.
Mr. Gill and a small crew of individual investors who gathered around him inspired hundreds of young online traders to take GameStop’s stock on a wild ride. Robinhood, the online trading app used by many of the GameStop investors, was forced to raise an emergency infusion of more than $1 billion from its investors to handle the fallout.
Amid the chaos, the world’s richest man egged on disruption, securing Elon Musk’s status as a “capitalist hero, a glossy magazine celebrity and a bomb-throwing troll with 44 million Twitter followers,” our colleague David Gelles writes.
By the close of trading on Friday, Wall Street had suffered its worst week since October, falling by 3 percent.
Sundance is apparently going online with tickets to watch via the computer?
Uhm no. I don't pay money to watch things on my 13 inch laptop. I spend enough time on it as it is.
I looked through the news and realized I'm tired of the current news cycle. Watched Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist - which was kind of off this week. It's at its best when there's lots of cool musical numbers. (I tend to watch musicals more for the musical numbers than anything else, although I do like the characters in the series - except for Zoey who is weirdly kind of a cypher.)
My soap is uneven. There's three to four excellent stories, and one horrible one. Which is kind of par the course for soap operas. You're always going to have one story you don't like - which is there for someone else who doesn't like the stories that you like. It's how they keep going, actually.
True also of fandoms - fans will always love characters I don't like and love characters than I do, and hate characters that I love, and hate characters I hate. And no matter the fandom, we'll fight over it. We're currently fighting over a dead character that the moderator of the board, who is privy to spoilers, keeps stating will return from the dead (which is annoying to everyone who hates the character.). I remember the Spike Wars, which I found annoying. It made it impossible to talk about my favorite character in a venue that was half-way intelligent. When emotions get riled, logic dissolves. It's easier actually discussing shows that you don't ship a character strongly in - on the other hand, my interest usually isn't there.
What am I reading? Still listening to Promised Land - which I'm admittedly stretching out as long as I possibly can. And Blood Heir by Illona Andrews - which believe it or not, was a non-traditionally published book (aka self-published) and made number 5 on the NY Times Best Seller List, and Number 2 on the USA Today Best Seller List. Take that you evil NY Publishers!! Bwahhahha. The authors have disclosed that they are taking a year off from the publishing industry, and working on "self-published" books. Courtney Milan started self-publishing a while back as well - in part to have more freedom and write what she wanted, without being forced inside a box. These writers are doing much the same thing.
Okay, enough. With any luck the things in the world that annoyed me this week, will be gone next week...but it's unlikely. Until then looking forward to the weekend. My parents will at least get the vaccine this weekend, so progress!
It's cold. It's late. And I'm tired.
Oh...this was kind of cool..found on Twitter.
How we wash our hair in space. I'd never thought much about it. Don't know why.
In the teens (F) with windchill. Tomorrow slightly warmer, in the 30s or 20s with windchill. I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow. This afternoon? I made brownies at 3 pm. Which wasn't really playing hooky, since I got a lot done today - and went back to work while they were baking. Then mother called when they were almost done, so I had to keep interrupting our call to check on them.
They are nice and fudgy. I decided to treat myself tonight, had my against all grains frozen pizza (which is the best), salad, a cosmopolitan, and the brownies.
Work was productive at least. Had a nice long call with the LM, who I commiserated with. ( LM was the co-worker who had stopped talking to me in 2018 or 2019? But got over it in 2020. Now we're buds. She also had a falling out with cubical mate, who she used to be very close to. Which goes to show you? Everything is temporary and relationships change constantly.)
Found out from LM that everyone feels much the same way I do - frustrated with work, lonely, isolated, and scared of boss. Also a tad leery of staff meetings from doom, which they kind of wish we'd have less frequently.
In short, I'm not alone - I'm still on the roller coaster ride from hell with about a billion other people.
LM, who is six months pregnant, worries about getting the vaccine. And if she even can. Her husband has to go into work every other week. She'd raced into work yesterday to pick up the transportation pass - when boss scared everyone at the meeting about it - asked a few questions and discovered that no, the transit passes weren't available yet. Backing up what I'd discovered.
I'm going to wait a bit, and race in to work sometime in mid-Feb to pick up the pass and ID.
[Note - I stole the picture below from a college friend's FB page - she took it while snowboarding in Maine or somewhere around there. At -4 degrees. She's a bit nuts - she goes swimming in 20 degree weather in a wet suit, and snowboarding in -4 degree weather.]
COVID
Well for those who live in New York? Appointments are avialable again. I'm debating about getting one for Jacob Javits, or just waiting for my workplace to schedule one for me.
Technically, I'm eligible as a public transit and state agency employee. But I'm not front line. Also going to the Jacob Javits Center is going to be a headache.
Apparently NY got more doses finally. More and more of my friends go it on FB. The Canadians, though, are lagging behind. The teachers, however, have gotten them for the most part.
Per the Governor's newsletter:
We're using the limited supply of vaccines as efficiently as possible and continuing to stop the spread of the virus and we're also focused on safely getting the economy back on track while safeguarding public health. The restaurant industry is the lifeblood of New York City and we are all too aware of the economic hardship they have endured at the hands of COVID. Thankfully, if our current trajectory holds, we will be able to reopen New York City dining at 25 percent capacity on February 14th, Valentine's Day. Additionally, other larger events that follow strict guidelines will be permitted beginning March 15th. We cannot become complacent now—we must all continue to do our part to keep beating back COVID. Our collective actions determine how quickly we can return to some of what we've missed throughout this pandemic.
1. COVID hospitalizations fell again to 8,357. Hospitalizations are down 916 from a peak of 9,273 on January 19th. Of the 270,518 tests reported yesterday, 12,579, or 4.65 percent were positive. There were 1,543 patients in ICU yesterday, down 41 from the previous day. Of them, 1,012 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 151 New Yorkers to the virus.
2. As we get more supply of the vaccine, new appointment slots are coming online at New York State vaccination sites. We are currently vaccinating eligible New Yorkers who are part of Phase 1a and 1b. See if you're eligible and schedule an appointment.
3. Effective March 15th, marriage receptions can be held under limited state guidelines. Events must be approved by the local health department and there will be mandatory testing of all guests before an event. Capacity at weddings and receptions will be limited to no more than 150 people or no more than 50 percent of the venue's capacity, whichever is lower. All patrons must be tested prior to the event. This upcoming change in guidelines follows the success of the Buffalo Bills program, which allowed fans to attend home games with mandatory testing.
4. As of 11am this morning, 95 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,316,032 first doses administered of the 1,387,840 allocations received from the federal government. So far, 244,644 second doses have been administered out of 618,115 second doses received. See data by region on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
Today at the Governor's live briefing he addressed the nursing home issue - which honestly was that, yes, they regret people died - but a lot of people died not just in nursing homes. And the counting was convoluted. And I can't remember 90% of the briefing anyhow.
And this is just...
Blame “Roaring Kitty.”
That’s the social media handle of a Massachusetts man — Keith Gill, 34, a former financial educator for an insurance firm — who helped fuel the frenzy around GameStop. His $53,000 investment in the company briefly reached $48 million in value this week.
Mr. Gill and a small crew of individual investors who gathered around him inspired hundreds of young online traders to take GameStop’s stock on a wild ride. Robinhood, the online trading app used by many of the GameStop investors, was forced to raise an emergency infusion of more than $1 billion from its investors to handle the fallout.
Amid the chaos, the world’s richest man egged on disruption, securing Elon Musk’s status as a “capitalist hero, a glossy magazine celebrity and a bomb-throwing troll with 44 million Twitter followers,” our colleague David Gelles writes.
By the close of trading on Friday, Wall Street had suffered its worst week since October, falling by 3 percent.
Sundance is apparently going online with tickets to watch via the computer?
Uhm no. I don't pay money to watch things on my 13 inch laptop. I spend enough time on it as it is.
I looked through the news and realized I'm tired of the current news cycle. Watched Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist - which was kind of off this week. It's at its best when there's lots of cool musical numbers. (I tend to watch musicals more for the musical numbers than anything else, although I do like the characters in the series - except for Zoey who is weirdly kind of a cypher.)
My soap is uneven. There's three to four excellent stories, and one horrible one. Which is kind of par the course for soap operas. You're always going to have one story you don't like - which is there for someone else who doesn't like the stories that you like. It's how they keep going, actually.
True also of fandoms - fans will always love characters I don't like and love characters than I do, and hate characters that I love, and hate characters I hate. And no matter the fandom, we'll fight over it. We're currently fighting over a dead character that the moderator of the board, who is privy to spoilers, keeps stating will return from the dead (which is annoying to everyone who hates the character.). I remember the Spike Wars, which I found annoying. It made it impossible to talk about my favorite character in a venue that was half-way intelligent. When emotions get riled, logic dissolves. It's easier actually discussing shows that you don't ship a character strongly in - on the other hand, my interest usually isn't there.
What am I reading? Still listening to Promised Land - which I'm admittedly stretching out as long as I possibly can. And Blood Heir by Illona Andrews - which believe it or not, was a non-traditionally published book (aka self-published) and made number 5 on the NY Times Best Seller List, and Number 2 on the USA Today Best Seller List. Take that you evil NY Publishers!! Bwahhahha. The authors have disclosed that they are taking a year off from the publishing industry, and working on "self-published" books. Courtney Milan started self-publishing a while back as well - in part to have more freedom and write what she wanted, without being forced inside a box. These writers are doing much the same thing.
Okay, enough. With any luck the things in the world that annoyed me this week, will be gone next week...but it's unlikely. Until then looking forward to the weekend. My parents will at least get the vaccine this weekend, so progress!
It's cold. It's late. And I'm tired.
Oh...this was kind of cool..found on Twitter.
How we wash our hair in space. I'd never thought much about it. Don't know why.
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