Day #329 - Busy or Busier than usual
Feb. 11th, 2021 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI got more work assigned to me!
And the virus is in a decline. (Well, for the most part at least. Boss reported yesterday that crazy workplace had an uptick in cases, lots of asymptomatic, lots of symptomatic, and one death. Small wonder - from what I saw on Wed - a lot of idiots who can't wear a mask or buy a good one. It's not hard - the KN95 and KN94 are fairly cheap on Amazon. I bought my mother a bunch.)
So, I'm busy again at work. Also distracted - the Whedon thing was distracting me. I kept responding to emails notifications on DW, and to the FB discussion on Whedon Studies (who doesn't quite know how to handle it.) Truth is I think most of us have kind of moved on? Also, to be honest, the only work of Whedon's I truly loved with fannish devotion was Buffy. Everything else, I had issues with. And Whedon himself - I always had issues with, I'll admit that - and I was a fan who loved the show more than those who created it.
Don't know.
Oh, James Marsters, 58, filed for divorce from his wife, 34 after 10 years of marriage. Guessing the pandemic killed that marriage. The pandemic has been killing a lot of marriages lately. There's nothing like being quarantined together for a year to test the strength of a marriage or a relationship - any relationship. Most people don't spend THAT much time together. I suppose, in a way, I'm lucky - I'm in lock-down with just myself, we get along quite splendidly actually. It does help if you get along well with the individual you are locked down with and enjoy the same things. I think the only argument we've had to date - is whether I should have another gluten free iced cupcake at lunch time.
Another picture from yesterday's field trip.
The Impeachment Hearing is still raging on-wards.
What's amusing me, however, is it keeps preempting my soap opera, General Hospital - which keeps pushing back its episodes to the next day. On Tuesday, they said, "oh okay we'll air today's episode tomorrow". Then on Wed, "oh okay, we'll air Tuesday's episode on Thursday". Now on Thursday, "oh Okay we'll air it on Friday".
Good luck with that. Honestly, wouldn't it make more sense to just make the decision to air it on Monday and be done with it? I mean you have to know that the hearings will go until at least Sunday, right?
It's amusing the heck out of me. But, my poor DVR is going to be very confused. Actually it is confused - it keeps taping portions of the hearings thinking the hearings are General Hospital. So I click on General Hospital and get the hearing. (The hearing isn't telling me anything I didn't already know. I asked mother about the hearings - and she said it was just focusing on how people were affected, which we all kind of knew already.) Oh well, thanks to a lovely social media friend - I have Hulu.
Jon Favearu (show runner of the Mandalorian and the director behind Iron Man, along with one of the actors in the Iron Man series, who's very liberal) posted on Twitter..."Wow, I didn't realize that they had filmed footage of the rioters screaming Trumps tweets as they marched."
I tweeted back, because I couldn't help myself: "The rioters film themselves doing it. And then they posted it to youtube." [ They were doing it for posterity. And yes, that's actually what happened. This is why satire is dead, they've out satirized themselves.]
Meanwhile, speaking of the Mandalorian? Remember that cool female mercenary character? Lucasfilm fired Gina Carano from the Mandalorian for her incendiary tweet
What happened? [I told my mother about this, and she found it odd enough to tell my brother.]
Me: Remember that female mercernary on the Mandalorian?
Mother: Yes...kind of. I just watched an episode last night.
Me: Well, they fired her for tweeting that the Democrats were treating the conservatives and Trump supporters the same way that Jews had been treated in the Holocaust.
Mother: WHAT? That's just...that's absurd. That's ridiculous. If anything it is the exact opposite. Is she an idiot?
ME: Well, yeah, she got fired.
Mother: How do people come up with these things? I mean Trump is the epitome of fascism, how can't she see that?
I truly worry about some people's sanity. As does my poor mother.
It's a shame - I really liked the character and how she portrayed it. Should she have been fired? Well, yeah - freedom of speech only extends so far. Also, Disney is very image conscious. People keep getting themselves into trouble on social media. Armie Hammer did. Ingo (the actor who played Jax) did. People remember if posting on Twitter, particularly if you are famous and posting under your full real name - is akin to posting a billboard in the middle of Times Square. You'd think these idiots would have figured that out by now. Apparently not. She deleted her tweet - but alas it got copied and retweeted.
In regards to the impeachment hearing? We got a problem and it is called the Greedy Old Prick Party. They are in the midst of committing hari kari as we speak. Honestly, I keep waiting for to see how far they'll go to hang onto a crumb of power and they don't disappoint. I've seen multiple opportunities for them to do the right thing and turn this around, and each time they do the worst thing possible ...it's astonishing really. I don't expect them to convict the asswhipe - I think they are selfish assholes with no morality and no sense. There's nothing I can do. As a social media friend reported today - she can't convince her own father that Trump is a bald faced liar. I don't understand why anyone in their right mind would believe that man - I look at him and I see demon scum. The whole thing is so infuriating.
The pandemic has not shown our country at its best or rather it's not shown the Greedy Old Prick party at its best.
This is a fancy air purifier that has been put in the bathroom at crazy workplace now.
Oh well, when pandemic is over - at least crazy workplace will be insanely clean, so too will all the trains and subways and stations. Seriously after 20 some years in NYC, I've not seen them that clean in my life.
Also the guy that I accidentally friended on FB, is attempting to clean up Brooklyn. (Wish he could get rid of the crazy alt-right conservatives in South Brooklyn, but alas, not happening.)
Spot of good news regarding pandemic: the virus is in a decline in the US. The combination of vaccines, number of people who've had it, social distancing, and masks has helped. Or so we think. NY is back to 3.98% for the first time since November.
Also NY is opening up a host of mass vaccination sites with the Federal Government's assistance.
And..per the Times...(I've a subscription to the Times)
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, said today that most members of the general public could become eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine as early as April.
“I would imagine by the time we get to April, that will be what I would call, for better wording, ‘open season,’” he said. “Namely, virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated.”
Still, Dr. Fauci said, it will take several months to administer the vaccines. He said that he hoped an overwhelming majority of people in the United States could be vaccinated by mid- to late summer.
"Will we have enough vaccine doses to meet Dr. Fauci’s timeline?"
Let’s just do the math. We have about 260 million adults in the U.S. The country already has a deal with Moderna and Pfizer for enough doses for 200 million people by halfway through this year.
And then there’s Johnson & Johnson. We have the results from their clinical trial and we know it works — especially against what we all care about the most, which is severe disease, hospitalization and death. The F.D.A. is considering its application as we speak, and we could expect the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be authorized as early as the end of this month.
If that happens, we would have another 100 million doses — enough for 100 million people because it’s a single-dose vaccine. So with Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson we have enough to vaccinate the entire adult population by the middle of the year — with some left over.
I've gotten emails from my doctor's office on how to access medical eligibility records for those with high risk issues after the 15th. If I want to get an appointment via the NY State Web site on my own.
I still think I'll probably get it sometime between March and April. I've a doctor's appointment scheduled for March 10.
And a final photo from yesterday's work field trip...this is of the new rainbow entrance at Jamaica Train Station. It's the new entrance and platforms for the Brooklyn and Penn Station Trains.
I had a food order due today from Imperfect Foods - which is a sustainable food source that sells foods that are in excess. It's also cheaper than most places. I save money, and help the environment.
But it is delayed until tomorrow. I was beginning to wonder about it. I checked twice while doing laundry. But na-da. (Actually was glad it didn't show up while doing laundry.) Then got a notice that it might show up at 10:16pm and I thought, ugh. No. And right after that - an email stating they were delaying it until tomorrow. It was on its way but had nine stops. So delaying until tomorrow makes sense.
Laundry was a pleasant experience. No one was in the basement. So I was able to clean my comforter - which desperately needed it - it had two small stains. And my sheets, and clothes, and the sweats I bought from LL Bean and been wearing a lot this winter. They are like very warm pjs. Best sweat pants I've ever owned. I just wish them came in a color other than gray. I don't have anything that matches gray well. Except maybe black. I'm wearing a floral blue print shirt with them at the moment - just because. It's kind akin to wearing makeup with a mask.
Oh, and while I did the field trip and all day today - I listened to JAZZ on my iphone. It's the Essential Jazz Collection on Apple Music. Wonderful. Very calming. I discovered it on Tuesday, and been listening to it all week long. Music calms me. I used to listen to it - to go to sleep at night. That's actually the reason that classical puts me to sleep, along with heavy metal selections such as 9 Inch Nails - I listened to it to put myself to sleep. Jazz, I did not ruin for myself in that manner, thankfully. (I've insanely broad taste when it comes to music, actually I've insanely broad taste when it comes to everything. My mother tells me that I'm not overly discriminating.)
And the virus is in a decline. (Well, for the most part at least. Boss reported yesterday that crazy workplace had an uptick in cases, lots of asymptomatic, lots of symptomatic, and one death. Small wonder - from what I saw on Wed - a lot of idiots who can't wear a mask or buy a good one. It's not hard - the KN95 and KN94 are fairly cheap on Amazon. I bought my mother a bunch.)
So, I'm busy again at work. Also distracted - the Whedon thing was distracting me. I kept responding to emails notifications on DW, and to the FB discussion on Whedon Studies (who doesn't quite know how to handle it.) Truth is I think most of us have kind of moved on? Also, to be honest, the only work of Whedon's I truly loved with fannish devotion was Buffy. Everything else, I had issues with. And Whedon himself - I always had issues with, I'll admit that - and I was a fan who loved the show more than those who created it.
Don't know.
Oh, James Marsters, 58, filed for divorce from his wife, 34 after 10 years of marriage. Guessing the pandemic killed that marriage. The pandemic has been killing a lot of marriages lately. There's nothing like being quarantined together for a year to test the strength of a marriage or a relationship - any relationship. Most people don't spend THAT much time together. I suppose, in a way, I'm lucky - I'm in lock-down with just myself, we get along quite splendidly actually. It does help if you get along well with the individual you are locked down with and enjoy the same things. I think the only argument we've had to date - is whether I should have another gluten free iced cupcake at lunch time.
Another picture from yesterday's field trip.
The Impeachment Hearing is still raging on-wards.
What's amusing me, however, is it keeps preempting my soap opera, General Hospital - which keeps pushing back its episodes to the next day. On Tuesday, they said, "oh okay we'll air today's episode tomorrow". Then on Wed, "oh okay, we'll air Tuesday's episode on Thursday". Now on Thursday, "oh Okay we'll air it on Friday".
Good luck with that. Honestly, wouldn't it make more sense to just make the decision to air it on Monday and be done with it? I mean you have to know that the hearings will go until at least Sunday, right?
It's amusing the heck out of me. But, my poor DVR is going to be very confused. Actually it is confused - it keeps taping portions of the hearings thinking the hearings are General Hospital. So I click on General Hospital and get the hearing. (The hearing isn't telling me anything I didn't already know. I asked mother about the hearings - and she said it was just focusing on how people were affected, which we all kind of knew already.) Oh well, thanks to a lovely social media friend - I have Hulu.
Jon Favearu (show runner of the Mandalorian and the director behind Iron Man, along with one of the actors in the Iron Man series, who's very liberal) posted on Twitter..."Wow, I didn't realize that they had filmed footage of the rioters screaming Trumps tweets as they marched."
I tweeted back, because I couldn't help myself: "The rioters film themselves doing it. And then they posted it to youtube." [ They were doing it for posterity. And yes, that's actually what happened. This is why satire is dead, they've out satirized themselves.]
Meanwhile, speaking of the Mandalorian? Remember that cool female mercenary character? Lucasfilm fired Gina Carano from the Mandalorian for her incendiary tweet
What happened? [I told my mother about this, and she found it odd enough to tell my brother.]
Me: Remember that female mercernary on the Mandalorian?
Mother: Yes...kind of. I just watched an episode last night.
Me: Well, they fired her for tweeting that the Democrats were treating the conservatives and Trump supporters the same way that Jews had been treated in the Holocaust.
Mother: WHAT? That's just...that's absurd. That's ridiculous. If anything it is the exact opposite. Is she an idiot?
ME: Well, yeah, she got fired.
Mother: How do people come up with these things? I mean Trump is the epitome of fascism, how can't she see that?
I truly worry about some people's sanity. As does my poor mother.
It's a shame - I really liked the character and how she portrayed it. Should she have been fired? Well, yeah - freedom of speech only extends so far. Also, Disney is very image conscious. People keep getting themselves into trouble on social media. Armie Hammer did. Ingo (the actor who played Jax) did. People remember if posting on Twitter, particularly if you are famous and posting under your full real name - is akin to posting a billboard in the middle of Times Square. You'd think these idiots would have figured that out by now. Apparently not. She deleted her tweet - but alas it got copied and retweeted.
In regards to the impeachment hearing? We got a problem and it is called the Greedy Old Prick Party. They are in the midst of committing hari kari as we speak. Honestly, I keep waiting for to see how far they'll go to hang onto a crumb of power and they don't disappoint. I've seen multiple opportunities for them to do the right thing and turn this around, and each time they do the worst thing possible ...it's astonishing really. I don't expect them to convict the asswhipe - I think they are selfish assholes with no morality and no sense. There's nothing I can do. As a social media friend reported today - she can't convince her own father that Trump is a bald faced liar. I don't understand why anyone in their right mind would believe that man - I look at him and I see demon scum. The whole thing is so infuriating.
The pandemic has not shown our country at its best or rather it's not shown the Greedy Old Prick party at its best.
This is a fancy air purifier that has been put in the bathroom at crazy workplace now.
Oh well, when pandemic is over - at least crazy workplace will be insanely clean, so too will all the trains and subways and stations. Seriously after 20 some years in NYC, I've not seen them that clean in my life.
Also the guy that I accidentally friended on FB, is attempting to clean up Brooklyn. (Wish he could get rid of the crazy alt-right conservatives in South Brooklyn, but alas, not happening.)
Spot of good news regarding pandemic: the virus is in a decline in the US. The combination of vaccines, number of people who've had it, social distancing, and masks has helped. Or so we think. NY is back to 3.98% for the first time since November.
Also NY is opening up a host of mass vaccination sites with the Federal Government's assistance.
And..per the Times...(I've a subscription to the Times)
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, said today that most members of the general public could become eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine as early as April.
“I would imagine by the time we get to April, that will be what I would call, for better wording, ‘open season,’” he said. “Namely, virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated.”
Still, Dr. Fauci said, it will take several months to administer the vaccines. He said that he hoped an overwhelming majority of people in the United States could be vaccinated by mid- to late summer.
"Will we have enough vaccine doses to meet Dr. Fauci’s timeline?"
Let’s just do the math. We have about 260 million adults in the U.S. The country already has a deal with Moderna and Pfizer for enough doses for 200 million people by halfway through this year.
And then there’s Johnson & Johnson. We have the results from their clinical trial and we know it works — especially against what we all care about the most, which is severe disease, hospitalization and death. The F.D.A. is considering its application as we speak, and we could expect the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be authorized as early as the end of this month.
If that happens, we would have another 100 million doses — enough for 100 million people because it’s a single-dose vaccine. So with Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson we have enough to vaccinate the entire adult population by the middle of the year — with some left over.
I've gotten emails from my doctor's office on how to access medical eligibility records for those with high risk issues after the 15th. If I want to get an appointment via the NY State Web site on my own.
I still think I'll probably get it sometime between March and April. I've a doctor's appointment scheduled for March 10.
And a final photo from yesterday's work field trip...this is of the new rainbow entrance at Jamaica Train Station. It's the new entrance and platforms for the Brooklyn and Penn Station Trains.
I had a food order due today from Imperfect Foods - which is a sustainable food source that sells foods that are in excess. It's also cheaper than most places. I save money, and help the environment.
But it is delayed until tomorrow. I was beginning to wonder about it. I checked twice while doing laundry. But na-da. (Actually was glad it didn't show up while doing laundry.) Then got a notice that it might show up at 10:16pm and I thought, ugh. No. And right after that - an email stating they were delaying it until tomorrow. It was on its way but had nine stops. So delaying until tomorrow makes sense.
Laundry was a pleasant experience. No one was in the basement. So I was able to clean my comforter - which desperately needed it - it had two small stains. And my sheets, and clothes, and the sweats I bought from LL Bean and been wearing a lot this winter. They are like very warm pjs. Best sweat pants I've ever owned. I just wish them came in a color other than gray. I don't have anything that matches gray well. Except maybe black. I'm wearing a floral blue print shirt with them at the moment - just because. It's kind akin to wearing makeup with a mask.
Oh, and while I did the field trip and all day today - I listened to JAZZ on my iphone. It's the Essential Jazz Collection on Apple Music. Wonderful. Very calming. I discovered it on Tuesday, and been listening to it all week long. Music calms me. I used to listen to it - to go to sleep at night. That's actually the reason that classical puts me to sleep, along with heavy metal selections such as 9 Inch Nails - I listened to it to put myself to sleep. Jazz, I did not ruin for myself in that manner, thankfully. (I've insanely broad taste when it comes to music, actually I've insanely broad taste when it comes to everything. My mother tells me that I'm not overly discriminating.)
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Date: 2021-02-12 06:34 am (UTC)Heh... came across this toon while I was filtering through the Wondermark archives to come up with ones to post this week, and for some reason thought of you!
Hey, there's cheerleaders for other sports, so... ;-)
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Date: 2021-02-13 03:43 pm (UTC)Honestly, I think they'd still be together if it weren't for the pandemic. They are in California. California is almost in complete lockdown at the moment - it has more cases than anyone else in the US and now, more deaths.
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Date: 2021-02-12 05:37 pm (UTC)I don't see any of it happening in this case. Gina Carano seems firmly set in her strange beliefs and Disney doesn't want extra PR problems
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Date: 2021-02-12 05:57 pm (UTC)Gunn is also getting himself into trouble again...approving and liking the online bashing of Carano.
Oh god.
I am sorry that Gina Carano is leaving Star wars. I really loved her character. But I understand the Disney's decision.
Agreed. I felt the same way - I understand their decision.
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Date: 2021-02-12 07:21 pm (UTC)I expect I'll get vaccinated through work in the end. Should be easy enough in terms of arranging, when the time comes.
Yeah, I don't expect the GOP to impeach Trump, unless McConnell decides this is his best (last?) chance to turn the GOP back toward what it was.
Hadn't thought about the pandemic causing divorces but, yes, that makes so much sense given the usual post-holidays peak.
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Date: 2021-02-13 04:19 am (UTC)No, the GOP won't impeach Trump unless they have something to gain out of it. I do however think it will take them down with him. Which may not be a bad thing. We'll see. The American public likes to worship nasty people.
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Date: 2021-02-12 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-13 04:17 am (UTC)Agreed. Dang conservatives are fighting to save her. But I agree with their decision. God, I wish people would think before posting.