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Y2/D361- Brrr..
The winter storm whirled in with rain, and snow gales that left little snow in its wake. But it did get cold. Partly due to poorly ventilated windows, and crisp wind. But the radiators hissed to life, and the apartment grew warm again. Yet still cool enough, that I threw on a comfy purple alpaca sweater that I've not been able to put on until now - not been cold enough.
On Twitter?
Ava Forever - who lives in Ottawa Canada: It just go cold in my house. Wait. Is there a Ghost in here?
Michigan poster: You're in Canada and I'm in Michigan, it's freaking cold.
Mother's flowers look prettier today than they did yesterday if that's possible. But I've decided not to take another photo.
Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time - which my brother is thrilled by, and looking forward to, along with the Canadians on Twitter. Apparently none of these people have to get up at 5:45 am in the morning, and head to the office at 6:30 am? Without seeing the sun most of the day, until they go home again. My maternal grandfather hated daylight savings time - he was a cattle farmer, and the animals didn't know the difference, they got up at the same time everyday. The farmers do. My brother isn't a farmer, he's a website designer turned gardener. I just don't get the need for it - we get more daylight eventually anyhow. By April or May, it's light by at least 8 or 9 pm. And light as early 5 am. So why fiddle with it? Just do Standard or Daylight Savings Time.
This in a nutshell is my difficulty with humans. We like to play with the nature to make it conform to our needs - and worse? We're indecisive about it.
Watched television today while knitting.
* The Adam Project starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner...and the actress who was in Being John Malkovich, among other indie hits, but I can't remember the name of.
The story is about a time traveler who is heading back to 2018 to find his partner who didn't return from her last time jump. Instead of 2018, he lands in 2022 and meets up with his twelve year old self. He's traveling from 2050. (Remember when these time travel movies were traveling from 2010 or 2020? And back to the 1980s or 1950s? Good times.)
The best part of the movie was the bickering between Reynolds and his twelve year old self. The rest, eh, it was okay. The Time Travel stuff annoyed me. But it always annoys me. I've only seen Time Travel done well by Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Marvel Comics. Everyone else doesn't seem to realize that you don't change your time line - you only create a new one, the existing time line continues to exist, or you create a temporal anomaly.
Also a little of Reynolds bickering can go a long way, after a while I wanted to smack him. Poor Jennifer Garner - since Alias, she's been relegated to the Mom supporting category in films.
* Legacies
This has actually gotten more interesting. Although the introduction of Greek and Roman gods and mythos to the world - is kind of jarring.
Characters: Wait? Now we have to deal with Greek and Roman Gods and Monsters?? Really? Why?
Me: Because the writers got bored with your run of the mill supernatural characters and decided to spice things up a bit?
Vulcan is apparently a weed smoking teenage girl who says "Dude".
But I like evil Hope, and Lizzie on the run with Hope's nemesis Aurora who stole Chloe's mystical inspiration. I should have seen the Greek Gods coming though with the introduction of Chloe the Muse.
It and Superman & Lois are the only CW shows I'm watching at the moment. (I grew bored of Nancy Drew, and I can't find Naomi.)
* A Million Little Things
It still feels at times like a million whiny little things. Basically it's the show "thirty-something", but more diverse, and a touch whiner in places, also soapier. (I may be the wrong demographic for it. I keep watching because I do like the characters, and enjoy emotional drama.)
Maggie who is currently dating a hot hockey player, who threw her a big 30th birthday party and has been insanely cool about everything, decided she wants to go back to being with her ex-boyfriend Gary. Again. She kisses him in an elevator during the party.
They spend the next episode tip-toeing around it and her current boyfriend.
Who I started to feel sorry for - he deserves better. Maggie is starting to get on my nerves, she just jumps from guy to guy, while Gary mopes in the background. I actually liked Gary better with the PTSD army vet turned physical therapist named Darcy, but the writers clearly disagreed with me.
And wrote Darcy out of the show - she moves away, with her son, and has a kid with her ex-husband - after Gary royally screws up - by helping someone beat up a child molester.
I know, it sounds soapy. Actually, sometimes I think it is soapier than the actual soap that I'm watching.
Meanwhile, Katherine is having a lesbian affair with Greta, her ex-high school best friend, who is a tattoo artist and separated from her wife. I'm not sure this makes sense. But, it is definitely hot. Much hotter than the previous pairing - and Katherine has more chemistry with this woman than she did with either Eddie or the other guys she dated. I love Greta. Can we ditch Katherine and keep Greta? Eddie (Katherine's ex who is confined to a wheel-chair and a former addict/rock star, now uber driver) appears to be fine with it - although it probably helps that he's dating the ex-wife of the guy who masterbated in front of his friend's kid, whose husband Gary beat up. (God, it does sound soapy, doesn't it?) I doubt her kid will be okay with it though - or her mother. I was glad Eddie was - I like Eddie and didn't want to feel the need to smack him. I have enough people in this show I want to smack.
* The Gilded Age - is growing on me. It is still awfully preachy in places (sigh Julian Fellows), but ingratiating as well. I like period dramas, and there's some great scenes, plus the costuming and sets are excellent.
It probably helps that I live in NYC and am interested in seeing what a 19th Century NYC looked like.
There's a funny line in one of the episodes that Christine Baranski's character Agnes states in response to her sister Ada. That works well if you live in Brooklyn or happen to know it well.
Agnes: Where has Marion gone?
Ada: She took pity on Miss Scott, who is visiting her family in Brooklyn. And decided to pay them a visit.
Agnes: Oh dear, I would take pity on her as well - I'd die if I had to live in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn has beautiful brownstones, and various well-to-do black families live in them. Marion, who is white, visits and is looked at oddly, and immediately feels out of place.
We've progressed some since then. My neighborhood and workplace are diverse. And no one is made to feel an outcast. But there are times - that when I walk into a neighborhood or area that is racially segregated, that
I feel like I stand out and uncomfortably so. Racism is unfortunately much like its twin sexism ingrained in our society - so deeply, and so well, that all of us have racist behaviors and tendencies that we all have to work on a daily basis to overcome.
It helps if you work with and live around folks who do not look like you, I think. I know it has helped me - become more aware of it in myself and fight against it. Also, I have hope - the world has changed, and people with it, incrementally, but there are definite changes. People are no longer segregated. Also, when I first joined crazy org, everyone was older then me, mostly male and white. Now, they are younger, half female, half male, with female managers, and mostly POC.
And Downton Abbey had no black characters or POC, while Gilded Age does. Actually I like Peggy Scott's story better than Marion's - she's a writer, working for the New York Globe, and the guy running the Globe is hot and interesting - far more so than Marion Brooks love interest or storyline.
Covid
Canadian on Twitter states COVID is over now - in terms of restrictions. She went shopping without a mask. And can see people freely.
Sigh.
I'm still taking precautions. Granted I live in a densely populated urban area and not the rural Canadian wilderness.
I pointed out the differences to my cousin who lives in Chicago. And she agreed, there is a big difference between living in a urban area during a pandemic and in a rural area.
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Still ignoring the news. Outside of what I've seen on DW and Twitter that is.
Here's a picture.. since it's getting late, and I promised myself I'd go to bed early tonight. Or early for me at any rate.
Black sandy beach in Costa Rica. Although no one swims there because of alligators. I know, you wouldn't think alligators would be a problem in the ocean, but apparently the river flows into it, and these are salt-water alligators? At any rate - people stay off them.
On Twitter?
Ava Forever - who lives in Ottawa Canada: It just go cold in my house. Wait. Is there a Ghost in here?
Michigan poster: You're in Canada and I'm in Michigan, it's freaking cold.
Mother's flowers look prettier today than they did yesterday if that's possible. But I've decided not to take another photo.
Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time - which my brother is thrilled by, and looking forward to, along with the Canadians on Twitter. Apparently none of these people have to get up at 5:45 am in the morning, and head to the office at 6:30 am? Without seeing the sun most of the day, until they go home again. My maternal grandfather hated daylight savings time - he was a cattle farmer, and the animals didn't know the difference, they got up at the same time everyday. The farmers do. My brother isn't a farmer, he's a website designer turned gardener. I just don't get the need for it - we get more daylight eventually anyhow. By April or May, it's light by at least 8 or 9 pm. And light as early 5 am. So why fiddle with it? Just do Standard or Daylight Savings Time.
This in a nutshell is my difficulty with humans. We like to play with the nature to make it conform to our needs - and worse? We're indecisive about it.
Watched television today while knitting.
* The Adam Project starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner...and the actress who was in Being John Malkovich, among other indie hits, but I can't remember the name of.
The story is about a time traveler who is heading back to 2018 to find his partner who didn't return from her last time jump. Instead of 2018, he lands in 2022 and meets up with his twelve year old self. He's traveling from 2050. (Remember when these time travel movies were traveling from 2010 or 2020? And back to the 1980s or 1950s? Good times.)
The best part of the movie was the bickering between Reynolds and his twelve year old self. The rest, eh, it was okay. The Time Travel stuff annoyed me. But it always annoys me. I've only seen Time Travel done well by Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Marvel Comics. Everyone else doesn't seem to realize that you don't change your time line - you only create a new one, the existing time line continues to exist, or you create a temporal anomaly.
Also a little of Reynolds bickering can go a long way, after a while I wanted to smack him. Poor Jennifer Garner - since Alias, she's been relegated to the Mom supporting category in films.
* Legacies
This has actually gotten more interesting. Although the introduction of Greek and Roman gods and mythos to the world - is kind of jarring.
Characters: Wait? Now we have to deal with Greek and Roman Gods and Monsters?? Really? Why?
Me: Because the writers got bored with your run of the mill supernatural characters and decided to spice things up a bit?
Vulcan is apparently a weed smoking teenage girl who says "Dude".
But I like evil Hope, and Lizzie on the run with Hope's nemesis Aurora who stole Chloe's mystical inspiration. I should have seen the Greek Gods coming though with the introduction of Chloe the Muse.
It and Superman & Lois are the only CW shows I'm watching at the moment. (I grew bored of Nancy Drew, and I can't find Naomi.)
* A Million Little Things
It still feels at times like a million whiny little things. Basically it's the show "thirty-something", but more diverse, and a touch whiner in places, also soapier. (I may be the wrong demographic for it. I keep watching because I do like the characters, and enjoy emotional drama.)
Maggie who is currently dating a hot hockey player, who threw her a big 30th birthday party and has been insanely cool about everything, decided she wants to go back to being with her ex-boyfriend Gary. Again. She kisses him in an elevator during the party.
They spend the next episode tip-toeing around it and her current boyfriend.
Who I started to feel sorry for - he deserves better. Maggie is starting to get on my nerves, she just jumps from guy to guy, while Gary mopes in the background. I actually liked Gary better with the PTSD army vet turned physical therapist named Darcy, but the writers clearly disagreed with me.
And wrote Darcy out of the show - she moves away, with her son, and has a kid with her ex-husband - after Gary royally screws up - by helping someone beat up a child molester.
I know, it sounds soapy. Actually, sometimes I think it is soapier than the actual soap that I'm watching.
Meanwhile, Katherine is having a lesbian affair with Greta, her ex-high school best friend, who is a tattoo artist and separated from her wife. I'm not sure this makes sense. But, it is definitely hot. Much hotter than the previous pairing - and Katherine has more chemistry with this woman than she did with either Eddie or the other guys she dated. I love Greta. Can we ditch Katherine and keep Greta? Eddie (Katherine's ex who is confined to a wheel-chair and a former addict/rock star, now uber driver) appears to be fine with it - although it probably helps that he's dating the ex-wife of the guy who masterbated in front of his friend's kid, whose husband Gary beat up. (God, it does sound soapy, doesn't it?) I doubt her kid will be okay with it though - or her mother. I was glad Eddie was - I like Eddie and didn't want to feel the need to smack him. I have enough people in this show I want to smack.
* The Gilded Age - is growing on me. It is still awfully preachy in places (sigh Julian Fellows), but ingratiating as well. I like period dramas, and there's some great scenes, plus the costuming and sets are excellent.
It probably helps that I live in NYC and am interested in seeing what a 19th Century NYC looked like.
There's a funny line in one of the episodes that Christine Baranski's character Agnes states in response to her sister Ada. That works well if you live in Brooklyn or happen to know it well.
Agnes: Where has Marion gone?
Ada: She took pity on Miss Scott, who is visiting her family in Brooklyn. And decided to pay them a visit.
Agnes: Oh dear, I would take pity on her as well - I'd die if I had to live in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn has beautiful brownstones, and various well-to-do black families live in them. Marion, who is white, visits and is looked at oddly, and immediately feels out of place.
We've progressed some since then. My neighborhood and workplace are diverse. And no one is made to feel an outcast. But there are times - that when I walk into a neighborhood or area that is racially segregated, that
I feel like I stand out and uncomfortably so. Racism is unfortunately much like its twin sexism ingrained in our society - so deeply, and so well, that all of us have racist behaviors and tendencies that we all have to work on a daily basis to overcome.
It helps if you work with and live around folks who do not look like you, I think. I know it has helped me - become more aware of it in myself and fight against it. Also, I have hope - the world has changed, and people with it, incrementally, but there are definite changes. People are no longer segregated. Also, when I first joined crazy org, everyone was older then me, mostly male and white. Now, they are younger, half female, half male, with female managers, and mostly POC.
And Downton Abbey had no black characters or POC, while Gilded Age does. Actually I like Peggy Scott's story better than Marion's - she's a writer, working for the New York Globe, and the guy running the Globe is hot and interesting - far more so than Marion Brooks love interest or storyline.
Covid
Canadian on Twitter states COVID is over now - in terms of restrictions. She went shopping without a mask. And can see people freely.
Sigh.
I'm still taking precautions. Granted I live in a densely populated urban area and not the rural Canadian wilderness.
I pointed out the differences to my cousin who lives in Chicago. And she agreed, there is a big difference between living in a urban area during a pandemic and in a rural area.
***
Still ignoring the news. Outside of what I've seen on DW and Twitter that is.
Here's a picture.. since it's getting late, and I promised myself I'd go to bed early tonight. Or early for me at any rate.
Black sandy beach in Costa Rica. Although no one swims there because of alligators. I know, you wouldn't think alligators would be a problem in the ocean, but apparently the river flows into it, and these are salt-water alligators? At any rate - people stay off them.
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It only gets to 8 or 9 PM in April or May because of DST. Latest it gets dark here in south-central PA is 9 PM. If we weren't on DST, it'd be 8 PM. Summertime is a good time to get out and do things in the evening hours for many people, so the extra hour of daylight is often appreciated.
I agree that it would be nicer to have STD / DST either/or, but if you make one part of the population happier, the other part won't be, so wacky as it can be for a bit until we adjust, it seems to me a reasonable compromise.
This in a nutshell is my difficulty with humans. We like to play with the nature to make it conform to our needs - and worse? We're indecisive about it.
And who exactly dictated that we have to get up at 5 AM? Or 8 PM? Or 9, or noon? In early human society, there was no technology, and pretty much everything that happened to humans was synced pretty exactly with the travel of the sun, regardless of the season. However, it would not surprise me to discover (not sure how at this point) that those early humans had the same natural differences in their individual circadian rhythms as we do now. If not, perhaps we evolved as technology advanced over the millennia, and so adapted to the need to accomplish different tasks at differing times.
For example, I am an "owl", not a "lark", as one researcher named the two general groups of people in an science article I read a few decades back. I do not function well in the early morning, never have. When I was in elementary school, and later even in high school (when I really had to get up early), I was told "All kids are like that. You'll grow out of it."
Nope, no sir, nuh-uh-uh. Never did, and later I found out that I wasn't alone, not remotely, and those people telling me otherwise were wrong. Fortunately, once I was out of high school, and in the working world, it was pretty easy to chose a job (and later, every one after) that had hours more suited to my nature.
So, for me, DST is a blessing, because it give me that extra hour later in the day. Now, I do understand if one has work that requires them to get up early, such as what you have, it's a PITA, so I am sympathetic, truly. But, if there is some consolation, in the fall, it goes the other way, so you get your revenge then! :-)
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Instead of getting up at 5:45 am, I am now getting up at 4:45 am.
So to benefit you - I lose sleep. And to benefit you and people like you - thousands of people will die this week. Thousands. There are people who die because of the time change - actual deaths result from the switch. Not everyone works out of their home, or can get up at 8 or 9 to go to work, or maybe 7. It's dangerous. To give people an extra hour to play with their families or night owls an extra hour of daylight - people die. That's humanity in a nutshell.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/experts-to-public-daylight-savings-time-is-a-434m-problem-we-could-easily-fix.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.htm
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/daylight-saving-can-make-driving-less-safe#Fatal-car-accidents-spike-when-we-spring
Why does this happen? Because people are now getting up at 3, 4, 5 am to get to work as opposed to 4, 5 and 6 am. And instead of going to bed at 8 or 9 or 10, they are going to bed at 10 or 11 pm. Their cicadian rhythms are off - and they are sleep deprived. They get behind a car, tractor, plane, train, etc - and voila.
So sure if you are retired, or not driving to work, or just jump up and go to work in your home office - it's not an issue. But it is for someone driving a truck, flying a plane, driving a train, etc. And that's why it is dangerous and fatal and should not be done. An extra hour of sunlight for people to play outside between 8-9pm is simply not worth that.
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One of the things noted in the articles you referenced was that this is not simply a matter of traffic fatalities, bad as that is. LOsses occur in many other ways, due to sleepiness affecting other aspects of judgement and personality. Our society, IMO, has traditionally paid little attention to matters of its citizens being able to obtain proper sleep habits. In fact, there are substantial cases, in the military, schools, or the business world where sleep is discouraged, seen, and often openly stated as "a waste of time."
I won't even get into medical schools and hospitals, where I do know there have been increasing complaints of sleep denial, and well prior to the pandemic.
In my original reply above, I noted my own experience in school where my complaints of being chronically tired for much of the morning were treated in this kind of dismissive fashion. There is no question that my grades suffered as a result. Being told "to go to bed earlier" did not help, I simply lay awake.
Thanks again for the links, this is definitely a more serious problem than I knew.
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