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Day #346 - Clearing...
Mother is home from the hospital - but facing problems. She has to figure out how to arrange out-patient physical therapy at a facility away from her retirement center, without having the ability to drive to and from said facility.
My desire to strangle unhelpful and incompetent people continues, just so you know.
They took forever to release her today - because they had to do two parts of the heart stress test. But apparently all is well - they finally gave her the results at 4PM, and she made it home by 5PM. I spoke to her around 4:10 pm for about five minutes and then again at 5Pm.
I wish I could drive, I wish could have found a job on Hilton Head, I wish I lived down there - and could take her places, and support her.
Mother: You probably wouldn't be able to get in anyhow due to the pandemic.
This is true. However, if wishes were horses...yaddah yaddah yaddah.
I did try by the way - way back in 2006 to get job in Hilton Head - at the hospital actually, as a contract administrator. But alas, it didn't pan out. And we tried to get me to drive around the island, but it made no sense - to drive for five days, when the rest of the year I didn't drive at all. I live in a city, have depth perception issues, confuse directions along with my left from my right, and driving is stressful. I've learned to drive. I drove in Kansas and Missouri. But I can't drive here.
It is what it is. There's not a lot I can do about it, one way or the other.
And I can't change it at the moment. But it is painful knowing I can't help my mother physically in any way - and I'm so scared of losing her. If I lost her - I'd lose more than just a mother, I'd lose my best friend. The only person in this world that I can tell anything to and loves me no matter what
I don't know if I can survive losing her. So I try not to think about it.
And push it aside. And she's still here, now. Now is really all that matters. Tomorrow and Yesterday can take care of themselves.
I wonder sometimes if I'm oversharing here. TMI. I don't know.
Talked to Chidi today, who called about a work-related issue. We talked about getting the vaccine. He gets his second dose of the PFIZER tomorrow. He'd gotten his first dose through the Jacobs Javits Center - which apparently is a nightmare to book an appointment through, but fast and easy to get the vaccine. In short booking the appointment on the site - nightmare. Getting the vaccine - twenty minutes tops. The state has the vaccine distribution down. The City needs help. My friends were right, I should have voted for Lhota instead of DeBlasio. The man is a menace. The quicker he leaves the better. Seriously, you know there's a problem when you start to miss Bloomberg.
Mother: So what happens to your agency and this whole tranformation thing - at your workplace, if your Governor is forced to resign?[Erstwhile Governor is behind the big insane merger at crazy workplace - mainly because he can't keep his hands to himself and thinks he can fix everything, during a pandemic no less. But instead he just made crazy agency crazier - it was doing just fine without him.]
ME: Well, I'll be surprised if he does.
Mother: He's had two allegations. And what he's apologized for and admitted to- if true, that's truly awful.
Well, I've always said he was the liberal version of Trump. It's not like everyone didn't already know all of this. I just don't understand why it had to come out now. Ugh. Lando had been talking about the Governor getting caught for the last six years - because half of the man's administration is behind bars for corruption. Hello. It was only a matter of time. Also he screams at people for no reason. Everyone at crazy company hates him.
Like I said, the liberal version of Trump. I'd just rather convict Trump first - Cuomo, I can sort of live with. Oh well, maybe this will distract him from tinkering further with my crazy workplace? One can always hope.
Mother: So do you know what would happen with this tranformation if he had to resign? I know he's the one spearheading the merger, and pushing everything?
ME: I have no idea. Right now I think that's a runaway train that has long since left the station.
Be nice to think otherwise. But.
Now? His resignation would probably just plunge everything into chaos. As if things weren't chaotic enough as it is. I mean the Mayor is far worse than the Governor. I'm considering voting for Shaun Donovan for Mayor - he ran FEMA under Obama, and Obama spoke highly of him in Promised Land. The others seem to only know how to posture. I don't want an ideologue, I want a pragmatic leader. Although I'm not sure what De Blasio's views are.
If only this stuff came out five years ago, then maybe we could pull back that train.
I didn't take an actual walk - I just decided to post an interesting photo I took last month for the hell of it.
I was flirting with an affordable virtual reality head set at Best Buy - called Occulus Galaxy Quest 2 from Facebook. Then realized half-way through, who was I kidding? Those sort of things give me a headache. I don't like 3 D. Having something heavy over my head and eyes isn't going to work for me. Also I live in a small apartment - there's not a lot of room to play with virtual reality gear.
Instead - I bought birding binoculars - outside of photography, my new hobby is watching animals outside my window or in the cemetery. I've decided it would be nice to have some binoculars - so I can see them better. Plua I'd be wandering about outside with them in Prospect Part and Greenwood. Also, once this stupid pandemic is over - I'm thinking of taking hikes around the city and upstate New York and Long Island.
But still flirting. Last year - before the lock-down, I went out to eat, went to a movie, and had a massage on my birthday weekend. The previous weekend, I got my hair-cut. This round? I got the vaccine - dose on, and I'm thinking of maybe getting take out. Or getting a pastry after the doctor's appointment on the 10th.
Hmm, I'm thinking of getting a haircut this coming weekend...my salon sent me an ad that they do it on Sundays now, and they have safety protocols in place. I may skip on the color though.
New York vs. the Coronavirus
So some good news? "Today, the New York State Clinical Advisory Task Force unanimously recommended the use of the Janssen Pharmaceuticals/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine has less restrictive storage requirements that will make it easier for the state to reach more New Yorkers, faster. We expect to receive approximately 164,800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week. There's a lot of work ahead, but with this vaccine's approval—the third one—we have cause for optimism as we move forward to a post-COVID future. "
That should get most of the city vaccinated by June. I may be able to wander around again? Possibly even see Wales?
They also added hotel workers to the eligible group. But for some reason the percentage of vaccines done out of the supply remains a steady 92%? But hey we went down to 80 dead as opposed to 96 the week before, that's progress, right? And down in hospitalizations. State is at 3.98% infection rate now as opposed to the 8-9% infection rate it was previously holding steady at.
They've also opened up the big mass sites at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and York College in Queens to all eligible New Yorkers that live in Brooklyn or Queens. The State is running those sites. Still the best is Jacob Javits, or through my agency, apparently. Chidi scored Jacob Javits.
I was happy with my agency's in downtown Brooklyn - because that's easy. It would be like getting it at my Doctor's office, although much better. I didn't expect that - I was thinking I'd have to go Jamaica.
Everyone else vs. the Coronavirus
California, Riverside County is the first in the nation to prioritize farm workers for Covid vaccination. Epidemiologists say such programs will need to expand to have any chance of ending one of the biggest threats to the stability of the country’s food supply.
In Gila County, Ariz., about 90 miles from Phoenix, any resident over the age of 18 can walk into a clinic without an appointment right now and get a vaccine. The county offers a glimpse of what the rest of the country could soon look like — when age and health status aren’t barriers to getting a Covid shot.
In Britain, which has a higher per capita virus death toll than any other large country, the government has laid out plans for a gradual reopening. But in the nation’s cramped intensive care wards, teeming with patients and doctors near despair, the battle is unrelenting. We report from behind the lines of Britain’s Covid war. Behind the Lines of Britains COVID WAR
Okay, on my soap opera fan board - they posted an article about Emma Sams, a British Actress - known for Dynasty and Holly on General Hospital. She's suffering COVID Long Haul. Contracted in the Spring of 2020, and she's still spending most of her time in and out of bed. Is fatiqued. Has no energy. Etc. Be safe British friends. Please.
Other News
The ex-president of France was convicted and sentenced to jail on charges of corruption.
Nicolas Sarkozy, above, at the courthouse today, was accused of trying to obtain confidential information from a judge by offering to help him land a job. He received a sentence of at least one year, but said that he would appeal.
It’s only the second time in modern French history that a former president has been convicted of a crime. The conviction does not bar Mr. Sarkozy, who still holds considerable sway among conservatives, from running for office, although he has not publicly expressed any such desire.
Curious to see what Obama thought of that - he talks a lot about Sarkozy in Promised Land. Also, if France can do this - why can't we? Come on! Convict the Doofus already! He makes Sarkozy look like a veritable saint in comparison. Convict the Doofus, then let him die in prison. Disband the Conservative Party as a terrorist organization.
Some good news?
The president of one of the largest adoption and foster care agencies in the U.S., Bethany Christian Services, in announcing that it will begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide.
The move is a significant departure for the 77-year-old Protestant organization, which previously referred openly gay prospective parents to other agencies in most states. YAY! This gives me hope.
On that bright and shiny note, I'm calling it a night.
My desire to strangle unhelpful and incompetent people continues, just so you know.
They took forever to release her today - because they had to do two parts of the heart stress test. But apparently all is well - they finally gave her the results at 4PM, and she made it home by 5PM. I spoke to her around 4:10 pm for about five minutes and then again at 5Pm.
I wish I could drive, I wish could have found a job on Hilton Head, I wish I lived down there - and could take her places, and support her.
Mother: You probably wouldn't be able to get in anyhow due to the pandemic.
This is true. However, if wishes were horses...yaddah yaddah yaddah.
I did try by the way - way back in 2006 to get job in Hilton Head - at the hospital actually, as a contract administrator. But alas, it didn't pan out. And we tried to get me to drive around the island, but it made no sense - to drive for five days, when the rest of the year I didn't drive at all. I live in a city, have depth perception issues, confuse directions along with my left from my right, and driving is stressful. I've learned to drive. I drove in Kansas and Missouri. But I can't drive here.
It is what it is. There's not a lot I can do about it, one way or the other.
And I can't change it at the moment. But it is painful knowing I can't help my mother physically in any way - and I'm so scared of losing her. If I lost her - I'd lose more than just a mother, I'd lose my best friend. The only person in this world that I can tell anything to and loves me no matter what
I don't know if I can survive losing her. So I try not to think about it.
And push it aside. And she's still here, now. Now is really all that matters. Tomorrow and Yesterday can take care of themselves.
I wonder sometimes if I'm oversharing here. TMI. I don't know.
Talked to Chidi today, who called about a work-related issue. We talked about getting the vaccine. He gets his second dose of the PFIZER tomorrow. He'd gotten his first dose through the Jacobs Javits Center - which apparently is a nightmare to book an appointment through, but fast and easy to get the vaccine. In short booking the appointment on the site - nightmare. Getting the vaccine - twenty minutes tops. The state has the vaccine distribution down. The City needs help. My friends were right, I should have voted for Lhota instead of DeBlasio. The man is a menace. The quicker he leaves the better. Seriously, you know there's a problem when you start to miss Bloomberg.
Mother: So what happens to your agency and this whole tranformation thing - at your workplace, if your Governor is forced to resign?[Erstwhile Governor is behind the big insane merger at crazy workplace - mainly because he can't keep his hands to himself and thinks he can fix everything, during a pandemic no less. But instead he just made crazy agency crazier - it was doing just fine without him.]
ME: Well, I'll be surprised if he does.
Mother: He's had two allegations. And what he's apologized for and admitted to- if true, that's truly awful.
Well, I've always said he was the liberal version of Trump. It's not like everyone didn't already know all of this. I just don't understand why it had to come out now. Ugh. Lando had been talking about the Governor getting caught for the last six years - because half of the man's administration is behind bars for corruption. Hello. It was only a matter of time. Also he screams at people for no reason. Everyone at crazy company hates him.
Like I said, the liberal version of Trump. I'd just rather convict Trump first - Cuomo, I can sort of live with. Oh well, maybe this will distract him from tinkering further with my crazy workplace? One can always hope.
Mother: So do you know what would happen with this tranformation if he had to resign? I know he's the one spearheading the merger, and pushing everything?
ME: I have no idea. Right now I think that's a runaway train that has long since left the station.
Be nice to think otherwise. But.
Now? His resignation would probably just plunge everything into chaos. As if things weren't chaotic enough as it is. I mean the Mayor is far worse than the Governor. I'm considering voting for Shaun Donovan for Mayor - he ran FEMA under Obama, and Obama spoke highly of him in Promised Land. The others seem to only know how to posture. I don't want an ideologue, I want a pragmatic leader. Although I'm not sure what De Blasio's views are.
If only this stuff came out five years ago, then maybe we could pull back that train.
I didn't take an actual walk - I just decided to post an interesting photo I took last month for the hell of it.
I was flirting with an affordable virtual reality head set at Best Buy - called Occulus Galaxy Quest 2 from Facebook. Then realized half-way through, who was I kidding? Those sort of things give me a headache. I don't like 3 D. Having something heavy over my head and eyes isn't going to work for me. Also I live in a small apartment - there's not a lot of room to play with virtual reality gear.
Instead - I bought birding binoculars - outside of photography, my new hobby is watching animals outside my window or in the cemetery. I've decided it would be nice to have some binoculars - so I can see them better. Plua I'd be wandering about outside with them in Prospect Part and Greenwood. Also, once this stupid pandemic is over - I'm thinking of taking hikes around the city and upstate New York and Long Island.
But still flirting. Last year - before the lock-down, I went out to eat, went to a movie, and had a massage on my birthday weekend. The previous weekend, I got my hair-cut. This round? I got the vaccine - dose on, and I'm thinking of maybe getting take out. Or getting a pastry after the doctor's appointment on the 10th.
Hmm, I'm thinking of getting a haircut this coming weekend...my salon sent me an ad that they do it on Sundays now, and they have safety protocols in place. I may skip on the color though.
New York vs. the Coronavirus
So some good news? "Today, the New York State Clinical Advisory Task Force unanimously recommended the use of the Janssen Pharmaceuticals/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine has less restrictive storage requirements that will make it easier for the state to reach more New Yorkers, faster. We expect to receive approximately 164,800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week. There's a lot of work ahead, but with this vaccine's approval—the third one—we have cause for optimism as we move forward to a post-COVID future. "
That should get most of the city vaccinated by June. I may be able to wander around again? Possibly even see Wales?
They also added hotel workers to the eligible group. But for some reason the percentage of vaccines done out of the supply remains a steady 92%? But hey we went down to 80 dead as opposed to 96 the week before, that's progress, right? And down in hospitalizations. State is at 3.98% infection rate now as opposed to the 8-9% infection rate it was previously holding steady at.
They've also opened up the big mass sites at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and York College in Queens to all eligible New Yorkers that live in Brooklyn or Queens. The State is running those sites. Still the best is Jacob Javits, or through my agency, apparently. Chidi scored Jacob Javits.
I was happy with my agency's in downtown Brooklyn - because that's easy. It would be like getting it at my Doctor's office, although much better. I didn't expect that - I was thinking I'd have to go Jamaica.
Everyone else vs. the Coronavirus
California, Riverside County is the first in the nation to prioritize farm workers for Covid vaccination. Epidemiologists say such programs will need to expand to have any chance of ending one of the biggest threats to the stability of the country’s food supply.
In Gila County, Ariz., about 90 miles from Phoenix, any resident over the age of 18 can walk into a clinic without an appointment right now and get a vaccine. The county offers a glimpse of what the rest of the country could soon look like — when age and health status aren’t barriers to getting a Covid shot.
In Britain, which has a higher per capita virus death toll than any other large country, the government has laid out plans for a gradual reopening. But in the nation’s cramped intensive care wards, teeming with patients and doctors near despair, the battle is unrelenting. We report from behind the lines of Britain’s Covid war. Behind the Lines of Britains COVID WAR
Okay, on my soap opera fan board - they posted an article about Emma Sams, a British Actress - known for Dynasty and Holly on General Hospital. She's suffering COVID Long Haul. Contracted in the Spring of 2020, and she's still spending most of her time in and out of bed. Is fatiqued. Has no energy. Etc. Be safe British friends. Please.
Other News
The ex-president of France was convicted and sentenced to jail on charges of corruption.
Nicolas Sarkozy, above, at the courthouse today, was accused of trying to obtain confidential information from a judge by offering to help him land a job. He received a sentence of at least one year, but said that he would appeal.
It’s only the second time in modern French history that a former president has been convicted of a crime. The conviction does not bar Mr. Sarkozy, who still holds considerable sway among conservatives, from running for office, although he has not publicly expressed any such desire.
Curious to see what Obama thought of that - he talks a lot about Sarkozy in Promised Land. Also, if France can do this - why can't we? Come on! Convict the Doofus already! He makes Sarkozy look like a veritable saint in comparison. Convict the Doofus, then let him die in prison. Disband the Conservative Party as a terrorist organization.
Some good news?
The president of one of the largest adoption and foster care agencies in the U.S., Bethany Christian Services, in announcing that it will begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide.
The move is a significant departure for the 77-year-old Protestant organization, which previously referred openly gay prospective parents to other agencies in most states. YAY! This gives me hope.
On that bright and shiny note, I'm calling it a night.
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I have some Tasco binoculars right here, I should try looking at some squirrels or somesuch.
I don't know if Cuomo can practically finish out his term, I guess we'll see. Others will probably come out and Spitzer couldn't hold on.
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Also, we weren't in the middle of a pandemic. And the next election isn't that far away. And when Spitzer resigned, his replacement was such a disaster - that Cuomo stepped up.
And the allegations are rather minor in comparison to the ones people threw against Trump, and he wiggled out of it.
But he has stopped doing those live press briefings he loved so much. LOL!
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