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Jan. 4th, 2018 05:30 pm1. Historic Bomb Cyclone Unleashes Blizzard Conditions from Coastal Virginia to New England, Frigid Air to Follow.
* My Mother got four inches of snow in Hilton Head, South Carolina. (They haven't gotten snow since 1989.) It's in the low 20s (F) and got as low as 19 degrees. (It's never that cold there. Normal temps for this time of year are 50s and 60s.)
* Disney World Closed due to frigid temperature for the first time in history.
* My Aunts in Florida (Tampa area) had temperatures in the 30s.
* There's blizzard like conditions in NYC today. So bad, the railroad sent us home at noon. And the lobby of the Air Train building was packed with stranded commuter, not to mention all the people waiting for buses.
I got home okay. Did get stuck on the G train at the Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn stop for about 40 minutes due to a sick passenger five stops away at the 7th Avenue Stop. They had to wait for the EMS to show up. Then they had to wait for the police to show up. Ugh. And there were drunk and somewhat nutty passengers on my train. I spent the whole time trying not to worry -- about getting stuck. (The MTA occasionally halts service on some of the lines. But they didn't do that today. They had a much better plan. The winds were the worst, 50 miles per hour, and it was 20 degrees, felt like 11.
Good news? My new winter boots were waiting for me at my front door when I got home. Good thing too, since old ones had worn out a bit and sprung a leak.
2. Sticking to my New Year's Resolution not to argue politics with folks on social media, especially family members, friends of family members, friends of friends, etc. It's counter-productive. You can't win. I learned that in 2016 and 2017. You can't win a political argument on social media.
That's just one of my many New Year's Resolutions and goals. Others include:
* Not worrying about how others feel towards me, I've no control over it. Just be happy and live my life.
* Stop coping with stress by eating chocolate, baked goods, and sugar, do more yoga, meditation and exercise.
* Be kinder to others, particularly people who irritate me and I disagree with. (It's easy to be kind to people you like and care about. It's the one's you don't like, despise, irritate you or are strangers that require more work.)
* Write more, worry less.
3. The Swedish romance novel that I've been reading is actually interesting in places, and different than the trope in that the female character is wealthy, and a smart businesswoman. Also it has some extremely strong female characters. And makes a rather pointed statement about women who define themselves by men, traditional female roles, and hate change. The male characters are slightly more complex than usual.
What's interesting is the setting is rather irrelevant. It could be taking place in NY or London for that matter. It's about an investment company taking over another one in a stock grab. Now, Sweden is supposed to be socialist, but the book reads as if it is free-market capitalist. Because that sort of stuff happens daily in the States. If it weren't for the place names and the character names, I'd have thought we were in NYC and Wall Street.
Which makes me wonder if Sweden is in reality a hybrid -- ie, neither strictly socialist or capitalist, sort of similar to Britain and France? Although the French apparently are anti-class hierarchy or anti-aristocracy. You don't brag about being rich or privileged in France apparently.
I don't know if any of this is true. I'm getting it from third party sources, who may or may not be reliable.
Meet a young woman in the laundry room who hailed from Isington (Sp?) London. She's been here three months and plans to become an American citizen. I wondered why with what's happening politically. She said it's better here than there. (Okay?) Or they aren't that different. (Good to know.)
4. Nashville, Lucifer, The Gifted, Runaways, and The Good Place are all back. So much television watching lies ahead.
Did see Lucifer last night. It's another stand-a-lone. Apparently one of the stand-a-lone's filmed last year? It didn't quite work for me. And felt mainly like a lame excuse for the writers to get Lucifer and Amen bare-chested and fighting each other in a cage. Which also didn't quite work or make a lot of sense. Actually the episode didn't make much sense at all. I just went along with it. Lucifer is just fun tv, it's not well...thought-provoking fun tv a la The Good Place and Buffy.
What I don't understand is why they felt the need to give us a new episode this week, but a rerun next week? Dear network programmers, please stop confusing the viewers by doing this sort of thing. It makes no sense.
( eh spoilers )
How's everyone else doing weather wise? 2018 really came in with a blast. Apparently the natural disasters aren't going to let up any time soon.
* My Mother got four inches of snow in Hilton Head, South Carolina. (They haven't gotten snow since 1989.) It's in the low 20s (F) and got as low as 19 degrees. (It's never that cold there. Normal temps for this time of year are 50s and 60s.)
* Disney World Closed due to frigid temperature for the first time in history.
* My Aunts in Florida (Tampa area) had temperatures in the 30s.
* There's blizzard like conditions in NYC today. So bad, the railroad sent us home at noon. And the lobby of the Air Train building was packed with stranded commuter, not to mention all the people waiting for buses.
I got home okay. Did get stuck on the G train at the Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn stop for about 40 minutes due to a sick passenger five stops away at the 7th Avenue Stop. They had to wait for the EMS to show up. Then they had to wait for the police to show up. Ugh. And there were drunk and somewhat nutty passengers on my train. I spent the whole time trying not to worry -- about getting stuck. (The MTA occasionally halts service on some of the lines. But they didn't do that today. They had a much better plan. The winds were the worst, 50 miles per hour, and it was 20 degrees, felt like 11.
Good news? My new winter boots were waiting for me at my front door when I got home. Good thing too, since old ones had worn out a bit and sprung a leak.
2. Sticking to my New Year's Resolution not to argue politics with folks on social media, especially family members, friends of family members, friends of friends, etc. It's counter-productive. You can't win. I learned that in 2016 and 2017. You can't win a political argument on social media.
That's just one of my many New Year's Resolutions and goals. Others include:
* Not worrying about how others feel towards me, I've no control over it. Just be happy and live my life.
* Stop coping with stress by eating chocolate, baked goods, and sugar, do more yoga, meditation and exercise.
* Be kinder to others, particularly people who irritate me and I disagree with. (It's easy to be kind to people you like and care about. It's the one's you don't like, despise, irritate you or are strangers that require more work.)
* Write more, worry less.
3. The Swedish romance novel that I've been reading is actually interesting in places, and different than the trope in that the female character is wealthy, and a smart businesswoman. Also it has some extremely strong female characters. And makes a rather pointed statement about women who define themselves by men, traditional female roles, and hate change. The male characters are slightly more complex than usual.
What's interesting is the setting is rather irrelevant. It could be taking place in NY or London for that matter. It's about an investment company taking over another one in a stock grab. Now, Sweden is supposed to be socialist, but the book reads as if it is free-market capitalist. Because that sort of stuff happens daily in the States. If it weren't for the place names and the character names, I'd have thought we were in NYC and Wall Street.
Which makes me wonder if Sweden is in reality a hybrid -- ie, neither strictly socialist or capitalist, sort of similar to Britain and France? Although the French apparently are anti-class hierarchy or anti-aristocracy. You don't brag about being rich or privileged in France apparently.
I don't know if any of this is true. I'm getting it from third party sources, who may or may not be reliable.
Meet a young woman in the laundry room who hailed from Isington (Sp?) London. She's been here three months and plans to become an American citizen. I wondered why with what's happening politically. She said it's better here than there. (Okay?) Or they aren't that different. (Good to know.)
4. Nashville, Lucifer, The Gifted, Runaways, and The Good Place are all back. So much television watching lies ahead.
Did see Lucifer last night. It's another stand-a-lone. Apparently one of the stand-a-lone's filmed last year? It didn't quite work for me. And felt mainly like a lame excuse for the writers to get Lucifer and Amen bare-chested and fighting each other in a cage. Which also didn't quite work or make a lot of sense. Actually the episode didn't make much sense at all. I just went along with it. Lucifer is just fun tv, it's not well...thought-provoking fun tv a la The Good Place and Buffy.
What I don't understand is why they felt the need to give us a new episode this week, but a rerun next week? Dear network programmers, please stop confusing the viewers by doing this sort of thing. It makes no sense.
( eh spoilers )
How's everyone else doing weather wise? 2018 really came in with a blast. Apparently the natural disasters aren't going to let up any time soon.