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shadowkatAlthough the snowstorm (pretty while it lasted) turned to rain around 3 pm, and appears to be clearing at the moment. The sun actually came out and is kind of filtering it's light through the clouds, which is sort of pretty in a way.
This is not my favorite time of year. I always fall into a depression somewhere between February 14 and March 15. Then I'm fine. With the damn, pandemic - it's worse.
So to fend it off - been doing various things - today? I posted pictures of all the things I found in my photos which I'm grateful for on Facebook.
[I'm grateful for beaches. This one was taken in Hilton Head.)
I don't think anyone noticed - they are too busy whinging about other things - apparently I'm not the only one who hits the wall this time of year?
On the funny side, a friend posted this... PLEASE STOP MAKING SEXULLY SUGGESTIVE SNOW SCULPTURES AT CITY HALL! We have camera footage of the persons involved and the police will be investigating.
Hee Hee. It's a satire page, so not actual. But still worth a chockle.
Also grateful for this - which I may print off and frame.
While typing this I keep nodding off and jerking awake. I also lit up my little Christmas Tree in my window to cheer myself up.
Brother, according to mother, was able to social distance with a friend this weekend. On Sunday, they met a friend outside, and had barbeque. It was a friend from Hawaii who was in town to see her daughter (at the University) - she's from Hawaii. I was mildly envious, but mostly just happy for him. (Bro is a tad more social than I am - while it's normal for me not to go out to eat and see folks rarely, it's not normal for him.
You'd think I should be living in the boondocks and he would be living in the city, but alas, no.
My mother felt the need to inform me that my former junior high school had been demolished and turned into a retirement center, and the elementary school and been torn down and completely rebuilt. Someone has money. The spent a lot on a new gymnasium first.
Brother and niece sitting in a hammock last fall. He'd kill me for posting it - but a) he doesn't know this blog exists, b) it will be gone in a month.
I felt sorry for the Whedon Studies Association - so posted a link to the article about how they could continue analyzing and teaching the art, frak Whedon. They were quite pleased with me. I also told them that it is important to teach these works of art and how to analyze them, outside of the creator. Since a lot of people have not been taught to do that. I was taught how to do it with far worse content - I was taught to do it with Westerns among other things.
The above picture is of my UU church, which I have a love/hate relationship with.
New York vs. The Coronavirus
New York opened up the largest vaccination center in the State in Brooklyn. It's nowhere near me - it's near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on the opposite side of Prospect Park - in Crown Heights. Currently it is for anyone in Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East NY, Prospect Lefferts, Bedford Stuyvesant, Besonhurst, and I think Midwood. So I'm not eligible for it yet anyhow.
[Hence the reason I took my agency's invite and am going to the agency only site in Downtown Brooklyn.]
The Governor is trying to convince people to take the vaccine.
Governor: Look, I get why you are hesitant. The Black Community has been mistreated by the scientific community in the past - but there are black scientists who are in favor of this vaccine. My mother took it. She's in the over 65 club. And now, I'm not giving out her age. I'm 63, it would be biologically impossible for her not to be at least 65 - even though she doesn't look it.
Also I get why you don't trust the Trump Administration who approved it. I don't either. But we vetted it - that's why I had the NY Department of Health test it.
This is a safe vaccine. And it is how we win this war. Please take it!
Poor Governor. This pandemic has aged him.
Mother in better times - able to walk on the beach, and upright. Hopefully she'll be that way again soon.
Oh it's kind of a pretty skyline - a pink and white...like the sun is shining behind the clouds and making them glow pink.
I'll end this post with one last thing to be grateful for...
This is not my favorite time of year. I always fall into a depression somewhere between February 14 and March 15. Then I'm fine. With the damn, pandemic - it's worse.
So to fend it off - been doing various things - today? I posted pictures of all the things I found in my photos which I'm grateful for on Facebook.
[I'm grateful for beaches. This one was taken in Hilton Head.)
I don't think anyone noticed - they are too busy whinging about other things - apparently I'm not the only one who hits the wall this time of year?
On the funny side, a friend posted this... PLEASE STOP MAKING SEXULLY SUGGESTIVE SNOW SCULPTURES AT CITY HALL! We have camera footage of the persons involved and the police will be investigating.
Hee Hee. It's a satire page, so not actual. But still worth a chockle.
Also grateful for this - which I may print off and frame.
While typing this I keep nodding off and jerking awake. I also lit up my little Christmas Tree in my window to cheer myself up.
Brother, according to mother, was able to social distance with a friend this weekend. On Sunday, they met a friend outside, and had barbeque. It was a friend from Hawaii who was in town to see her daughter (at the University) - she's from Hawaii. I was mildly envious, but mostly just happy for him. (Bro is a tad more social than I am - while it's normal for me not to go out to eat and see folks rarely, it's not normal for him.
You'd think I should be living in the boondocks and he would be living in the city, but alas, no.
My mother felt the need to inform me that my former junior high school had been demolished and turned into a retirement center, and the elementary school and been torn down and completely rebuilt. Someone has money. The spent a lot on a new gymnasium first.
Brother and niece sitting in a hammock last fall. He'd kill me for posting it - but a) he doesn't know this blog exists, b) it will be gone in a month.
I felt sorry for the Whedon Studies Association - so posted a link to the article about how they could continue analyzing and teaching the art, frak Whedon. They were quite pleased with me. I also told them that it is important to teach these works of art and how to analyze them, outside of the creator. Since a lot of people have not been taught to do that. I was taught how to do it with far worse content - I was taught to do it with Westerns among other things.
The above picture is of my UU church, which I have a love/hate relationship with.
New York vs. The Coronavirus
New York opened up the largest vaccination center in the State in Brooklyn. It's nowhere near me - it's near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on the opposite side of Prospect Park - in Crown Heights. Currently it is for anyone in Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East NY, Prospect Lefferts, Bedford Stuyvesant, Besonhurst, and I think Midwood. So I'm not eligible for it yet anyhow.
[Hence the reason I took my agency's invite and am going to the agency only site in Downtown Brooklyn.]
The Governor is trying to convince people to take the vaccine.
Governor: Look, I get why you are hesitant. The Black Community has been mistreated by the scientific community in the past - but there are black scientists who are in favor of this vaccine. My mother took it. She's in the over 65 club. And now, I'm not giving out her age. I'm 63, it would be biologically impossible for her not to be at least 65 - even though she doesn't look it.
Also I get why you don't trust the Trump Administration who approved it. I don't either. But we vetted it - that's why I had the NY Department of Health test it.
This is a safe vaccine. And it is how we win this war. Please take it!
Poor Governor. This pandemic has aged him.
Mother in better times - able to walk on the beach, and upright. Hopefully she'll be that way again soon.
Oh it's kind of a pretty skyline - a pink and white...like the sun is shining behind the clouds and making them glow pink.
I'll end this post with one last thing to be grateful for...
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Date: 2021-02-23 02:49 am (UTC)The pics outside the plane window were cool - because we were so high up and it was clear enough that we could see the curve of the earth.