Y2/D297 - Home for a Snowy Day
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shadowkatAnd, it's the remote day on the hybrid schedule. I basically go into the office every other work day now. Three times next week, two times the week after.
Work was frustrating today, but not stressful.
Project Manager: If we don't get this project done by such and such date, we'll get fined. We have a tight schedule.
Me to Manager: If lawyer is unavailable, can we get it assigned to another lawyer?
Manager: That is not an option.
Alrighty then. I told this to mother who was flabbergasted. "They don't have anyone else to cover for him?"
Me: Apparently not.
Mother: No wonder there's a bottle neck.
Me: Yup. And they are lying to the public about how efficient they are. I'd say something, but I'm not suicidal.
I can see why the guy is sick - he works constantly, and they were pulling everyone into the office the last few months. This is on them. Dingbat agency. (And before you claim private industry is better - it's not. I worked for private industry - it's evil. These guys are just nuts. Private industry is evil. You can't win.)
***
Good news? My latest PCR test, the most accurate I've taken to date - it's the saliva test, came back Negative. I've no traces of SARS-COVID-19 in my system.
Yippee Ki Yay, right?
Oh well, I may still have a residual cough, but it is not caused by COVID. Most likely a combination of allergies (I need to robot vacuum and dust again) and the cold I got.
***
It snowed about 6-8 inches in the city and the immediate outskirts according to the news. I'm guessing the most was out on Long Island.
It was pretty. Also the feral cats wandered about in it - since I saw their paw prints in the backyard.
***
We were discussing super couples on Soap Twitter. Soap Twitter is aghast that Luke and Laura were a super couple.
Soap Twitter: Luke and Laura were NOT a super couple.
Me: Depends on what your definition of a super couple is. Their wedding is still the most watched television episode in soap history.(1) Kind of created the whole concept. Soap Opera super couples are by definition dangerous, star-crossed, impossible pairings that we do not want in real life.(2)
1. It should be noted that I didn't watch it when it aired, I was in school, and no I didn't play hooky. Mother wasn't into GH at that point, she was watching Another World, which was more interesting - since we had Ruby and her mummified boyfriend that she was hiding. Far more entertaining in my 12 year old opinion. Actually, I think it's more entertaining from a 50 something perspective. I found Luke and Laura kind of irritating to be honest.)
2. Luke and Laura would never happen now. Every once and a while the writers of GH decide to remind the audience of why that is - which continues to amuse me. I expect them to do it again shortly with Luke's death announcement. Also it's the 40th anniversary of Luke and Laura's wedding and the writer's decided to celebrate by killing off Luke, with Laura Mayor of the town and happily remarried to someone else, a psychologist. LOL!
***
It's odd, but as much as I enjoy writing meta about television shows and films, I've no desire to be paid for it. I think it's because I don't want to have to watch everything and write about it.
Collider had a position opening for television writers.
I'd rather do what I do for a living than that.
It's good to know these things about oneself.
***
I restrained myself from telling a casual acquaintance from church - who I've not seen in years - on FB that her excitement over the Governor's Greenlight of a new Brooklyn to Queens Subway Line is kind of premature.
I know more about this than most folks do. I keep having to bite my tongue whenever anyone talks about infrastructure in NYC.
Our new governor, Kathy Hochul, just green-lighted the MTA project of my dreams.
There's an old freight track near my home, barely used, crumbling old infrastructure, that transportation geeks have long wanted to turn into a subway line to benefit hundreds of thousands of poorly served New Yorkers.
The priciest parts of subway construction are land acquisition and "grading"--creating proper terrain for a track. Here, that work has already been done.
A major transit geek myself, the rehabilitation of this line has been one of my big urban fantasies.
So, thank you Governor Hochul for the plan and President Biden for the federal infrastructure funds.
This is a truly
Oh dear. So much wrong with this FB post. First of all, if the governor changes, this could be cancelled by the next one. Also just because she greenlighted it, doesn't mean it will happen. Second, no, the priciest bits aren't land acquisition and grading. There are other items, such as signal system, tracks, the laying of the track, tunneling where required, and scheduling. The longer it takes - the more costly the overhead. There's so many details she's overlooking. Also the crumbling old track has to be abated for lead, and asbestos, possibly remediated, or at least reviewed for it.
It should take about ten years to do it. Add to this we're currently bottle-necked. Have massive maintenance and repair projects that require attention. And various projects that if we don't complete within a specific timeline - we'll be sued.
This is a political ploy by the Governor, who is up for election this year, wants to get NYC on board, and may not get re-elected. It could get cancelled out of the box. Look what happened to Cuomo's Air Train to LaGuardia Project, which we had two designs, two, done for. That was cancelled out of the box by Hochel.
***
Random Picture of the Evening..
Work was frustrating today, but not stressful.
Project Manager: If we don't get this project done by such and such date, we'll get fined. We have a tight schedule.
Me to Manager: If lawyer is unavailable, can we get it assigned to another lawyer?
Manager: That is not an option.
Alrighty then. I told this to mother who was flabbergasted. "They don't have anyone else to cover for him?"
Me: Apparently not.
Mother: No wonder there's a bottle neck.
Me: Yup. And they are lying to the public about how efficient they are. I'd say something, but I'm not suicidal.
I can see why the guy is sick - he works constantly, and they were pulling everyone into the office the last few months. This is on them. Dingbat agency. (And before you claim private industry is better - it's not. I worked for private industry - it's evil. These guys are just nuts. Private industry is evil. You can't win.)
***
Good news? My latest PCR test, the most accurate I've taken to date - it's the saliva test, came back Negative. I've no traces of SARS-COVID-19 in my system.
Yippee Ki Yay, right?
Oh well, I may still have a residual cough, but it is not caused by COVID. Most likely a combination of allergies (I need to robot vacuum and dust again) and the cold I got.
***
It snowed about 6-8 inches in the city and the immediate outskirts according to the news. I'm guessing the most was out on Long Island.
It was pretty. Also the feral cats wandered about in it - since I saw their paw prints in the backyard.
***
We were discussing super couples on Soap Twitter. Soap Twitter is aghast that Luke and Laura were a super couple.
Soap Twitter: Luke and Laura were NOT a super couple.
Me: Depends on what your definition of a super couple is. Their wedding is still the most watched television episode in soap history.(1) Kind of created the whole concept. Soap Opera super couples are by definition dangerous, star-crossed, impossible pairings that we do not want in real life.(2)
1. It should be noted that I didn't watch it when it aired, I was in school, and no I didn't play hooky. Mother wasn't into GH at that point, she was watching Another World, which was more interesting - since we had Ruby and her mummified boyfriend that she was hiding. Far more entertaining in my 12 year old opinion. Actually, I think it's more entertaining from a 50 something perspective. I found Luke and Laura kind of irritating to be honest.)
2. Luke and Laura would never happen now. Every once and a while the writers of GH decide to remind the audience of why that is - which continues to amuse me. I expect them to do it again shortly with Luke's death announcement. Also it's the 40th anniversary of Luke and Laura's wedding and the writer's decided to celebrate by killing off Luke, with Laura Mayor of the town and happily remarried to someone else, a psychologist. LOL!
***
It's odd, but as much as I enjoy writing meta about television shows and films, I've no desire to be paid for it. I think it's because I don't want to have to watch everything and write about it.
Collider had a position opening for television writers.
I'd rather do what I do for a living than that.
It's good to know these things about oneself.
***
I restrained myself from telling a casual acquaintance from church - who I've not seen in years - on FB that her excitement over the Governor's Greenlight of a new Brooklyn to Queens Subway Line is kind of premature.
I know more about this than most folks do. I keep having to bite my tongue whenever anyone talks about infrastructure in NYC.
Our new governor, Kathy Hochul, just green-lighted the MTA project of my dreams.
There's an old freight track near my home, barely used, crumbling old infrastructure, that transportation geeks have long wanted to turn into a subway line to benefit hundreds of thousands of poorly served New Yorkers.
The priciest parts of subway construction are land acquisition and "grading"--creating proper terrain for a track. Here, that work has already been done.
A major transit geek myself, the rehabilitation of this line has been one of my big urban fantasies.
So, thank you Governor Hochul for the plan and President Biden for the federal infrastructure funds.
This is a truly
Oh dear. So much wrong with this FB post. First of all, if the governor changes, this could be cancelled by the next one. Also just because she greenlighted it, doesn't mean it will happen. Second, no, the priciest bits aren't land acquisition and grading. There are other items, such as signal system, tracks, the laying of the track, tunneling where required, and scheduling. The longer it takes - the more costly the overhead. There's so many details she's overlooking. Also the crumbling old track has to be abated for lead, and asbestos, possibly remediated, or at least reviewed for it.
It should take about ten years to do it. Add to this we're currently bottle-necked. Have massive maintenance and repair projects that require attention. And various projects that if we don't complete within a specific timeline - we'll be sued.
This is a political ploy by the Governor, who is up for election this year, wants to get NYC on board, and may not get re-elected. It could get cancelled out of the box. Look what happened to Cuomo's Air Train to LaGuardia Project, which we had two designs, two, done for. That was cancelled out of the box by Hochel.
***
Random Picture of the Evening..
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Date: 2022-01-08 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-09 03:39 am (UTC)I got more readers not doing that - then they actually did. Which was interesting. Mainly because I was publishing the meta for free on various forums, and across platforms and fan sites. They weren't free and required folks to subscribe. Limited their audience to academics and students. Had a specific syntax and format, while I was writing more broadly then they were, and in style that was more accessible than the formal academic format.
A lot of the television media writers now - are sloppy writers, and do the exact opposite of slayage. They write in slang. Use the grammar of texting. And in some respects are aggressively unpleasant - with a lot of curse words.
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Date: 2022-01-10 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-10 05:43 pm (UTC)I realized when working for the HW Wilson Company, acquiring content for on-line library reference databases - how little journals made, and if you published in them - it was for the prestige not the money for the most part. I was on two listserves back then - American Library Digital Copyright and the Journal Publisher/Writers Copyright. They did not see eye-to-eye, and the Journal publishers/writers feared their content was being stolen and traded for free, while the Librarians felt that the free distribution of information should be the end goal - or accessibility to it.