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shadowkatWe have no idea if we're headed back into the office en mass next week or not. Except, the pattern I'm seeing around me seems to be suggesting it.
Lovely just in time for the Nor'Easter this weekend. Although I go in regardless on Monday. (Unless of course, I claim a personal day.)
And crazy new org is doing some bizarre town meeting next week - wanting everyone to come (virtually). Probably to scare the hell out of all us, while attempting to do some bizarre marketing spin.
They sent us an email with the date and time, but no virtual location or explanation.
AA brought in chocolates - dollar for each candy bar - for his daughter's group activity. He said they had them last year too - but no one was in the office, and never quite made it through the box. As a result - I got his chocolates, and free ones from LD. I was buzzing about by 3 PM, and irritable as hell. But I did kind of get stuff done. Also spent a gadawful amount of time on the phone fixing a password issue.
Support: Your call is important to us, and we will take in the order it is received. Your wait time is 59 minutes.
Me: 59 minutes??? Frak this, I'm switching to my cell phone and earphones.
I dial again - this involves going through IT numerous times. Finally get
back to Support.
Support: Your wait time is 45 minutes.
So I wait, while doing something else.
When they got around to helping? It actually took less than 10 minutes.
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I have restless leg syndrom - most likely due to what I ate - chocolate and Against the Grain's Pizza (aka a lot of cheese). In short - my fault.
Restless leg syndrom is usually caused by digestive issues or pressure on a nerve, resulting in wanting to stretch your legs constantly.
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People are getting lazy about the masks again. It's going to get even worse when the NY Supreme Court struck down the mask mandate as unconstitutional, only to put it back in place again. They apparently changed their mind?
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York State’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect after an appeals court judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that had abruptly struck down the rule and created confusion across schools and businesses.
The decision on Tuesday came after a ruling on Monday by Justice Thomas Rademaker, of State Supreme Court in Nassau County, who had said the rule requiring masks violated the State Constitution.
Depressing, ain't it? I guess I'm going to have to upgrade to the N95's soon.
What they don't tell you about the past several pandemics, although the information is there if you look for it, is that people always did this. In the Sherman Brother's documentary - the Mary Poppins tune "Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down" originated from one of the Sherman's kids coming home from school after orally ingesting the polio vaccine - they got the kid to take it witha spoonful lump of sugar. [ETA: Sherman changed it to a Spoonful of Sugar because works better rhythmically in a song.] A lot of people refused (they either died or were crippled with polio). Same with small pox, there's a political cartoon that I saw which said Misinformation and then Smallpox.
Anyhow, living in a big city dealing with this crap isn't easy. I've figured out that I'm mostly safe - as long as I wear a good KF94, KN95 or N95 mask, social distance, and don't do group gatherings indoors.
Exterminator came by, and he has no clue how to wear a mask. It was hanging below his nose half the time. I don't have a big nose - so I'm guessing getting it over a big nose is difficult? He sprayed around the kitchen while I was cooking my gluten free Against the Grains pizza. I'm fine. He didn't spray inside the oven or on the pizza or any of the counter tops. The guy who came before this one, was much better. This one was put out because he had to do it between 5-8pm (because none of us is home prior to that time, we have jobs).
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I'm annoyed with television for the moment. I may go back to watching The Expanse. Or watch the episodes of S2 Superman & Lois that I've got on the DVR, although I'd rather watch it on HBO Max - no commercials.
Random Photo of the Evening..
Lovely just in time for the Nor'Easter this weekend. Although I go in regardless on Monday. (Unless of course, I claim a personal day.)
And crazy new org is doing some bizarre town meeting next week - wanting everyone to come (virtually). Probably to scare the hell out of all us, while attempting to do some bizarre marketing spin.
They sent us an email with the date and time, but no virtual location or explanation.
AA brought in chocolates - dollar for each candy bar - for his daughter's group activity. He said they had them last year too - but no one was in the office, and never quite made it through the box. As a result - I got his chocolates, and free ones from LD. I was buzzing about by 3 PM, and irritable as hell. But I did kind of get stuff done. Also spent a gadawful amount of time on the phone fixing a password issue.
Support: Your call is important to us, and we will take in the order it is received. Your wait time is 59 minutes.
Me: 59 minutes??? Frak this, I'm switching to my cell phone and earphones.
I dial again - this involves going through IT numerous times. Finally get
back to Support.
Support: Your wait time is 45 minutes.
So I wait, while doing something else.
When they got around to helping? It actually took less than 10 minutes.
**
I have restless leg syndrom - most likely due to what I ate - chocolate and Against the Grain's Pizza (aka a lot of cheese). In short - my fault.
Restless leg syndrom is usually caused by digestive issues or pressure on a nerve, resulting in wanting to stretch your legs constantly.
**
People are getting lazy about the masks again. It's going to get even worse when the NY Supreme Court struck down the mask mandate as unconstitutional, only to put it back in place again. They apparently changed their mind?
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York State’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect after an appeals court judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that had abruptly struck down the rule and created confusion across schools and businesses.
The decision on Tuesday came after a ruling on Monday by Justice Thomas Rademaker, of State Supreme Court in Nassau County, who had said the rule requiring masks violated the State Constitution.
Depressing, ain't it? I guess I'm going to have to upgrade to the N95's soon.
What they don't tell you about the past several pandemics, although the information is there if you look for it, is that people always did this. In the Sherman Brother's documentary - the Mary Poppins tune "Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down" originated from one of the Sherman's kids coming home from school after orally ingesting the polio vaccine - they got the kid to take it with
Anyhow, living in a big city dealing with this crap isn't easy. I've figured out that I'm mostly safe - as long as I wear a good KF94, KN95 or N95 mask, social distance, and don't do group gatherings indoors.
Exterminator came by, and he has no clue how to wear a mask. It was hanging below his nose half the time. I don't have a big nose - so I'm guessing getting it over a big nose is difficult? He sprayed around the kitchen while I was cooking my gluten free Against the Grains pizza. I'm fine. He didn't spray inside the oven or on the pizza or any of the counter tops. The guy who came before this one, was much better. This one was put out because he had to do it between 5-8pm (because none of us is home prior to that time, we have jobs).
**
I'm annoyed with television for the moment. I may go back to watching The Expanse. Or watch the episodes of S2 Superman & Lois that I've got on the DVR, although I'd rather watch it on HBO Max - no commercials.
Random Photo of the Evening..
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Date: 2022-01-26 09:58 am (UTC)I think that's a myth - putting pills in jam and nasty-tasting medicine in something pleasant is a possibly centuries-old tradition for getting children to take them (and probably one of the first Simple Tricks children's nannies learnt!). And the polio vaccine was on sugar-lumps, not in spoonsful (at least in UK). Spoons would have been a very inefficient method - either disposable (wasteful) or a lot of washing-up - to avoid cross-infections.
I suspect this goes in the same box as false etymologies.
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Date: 2022-01-26 01:45 pm (UTC)Anyhow, yes, it was done the way you state. But that wouldn't work for the song. So they made it a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down - better metaphor rhythmically, than say a vaccine on a lump of sugar.
His son came home and said it had been put on a lump of sugar, and Sherman came up with the Spoonful of Sugar song.
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Date: 2022-01-26 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-26 09:18 pm (UTC)Interesting historical note - my first dose of polio vaccine was actually by injection, it was only later oral dosage came in.
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Date: 2022-01-26 03:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, if they're put out because of stuff that's unavoidable, I've no sympathy and they picked the wrong job. It's like taxi drivers who don't like where you want to go and when.
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Date: 2022-01-26 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-26 11:21 pm (UTC)So I wait, while doing something else.
When they got around to helping? It actually took less than 10 minutes.
I share your pain there. Although the worse part is the long wait followed by someone complicating what should have been a simple matter.