Day #87 of Self-Isolation

1. Apparently if you walk through a Cemetery long enough, you will eventually stumble across a tombstone/statue with your last name across the bottom of it.



No, I'm not going to show the bottom of the statue. Oh, I don't know if this is an omen or what, but apparently there's a Bear Statue right behind it.



The statue looked old (the angel statue not the bear), circa 1800s. So, make of that what you will.

Anyhow on the highlight of my wandering through Greenwood - a walk that I treated myself with after a long week cooped up in my one bedroom apartment working - was the rare sighting of not one, but two white-tailed hawks. Lovely big birds. I'd been walking down a path, looked straight ahead and then he was. I was trying to avoid people and there was a couple walking up the road I was about to enter, and another stopped on it. Then after taking a photo of it, I turned and looked up and another one was sitting on top of the statue that I was standing next too. So close. Yet so far away. (Far away in that it is VERY hard to take pictures of wildlife on the cell phone - there's not telescopic lense and it has a way of distancing things, I have to reformat, crop, and enlarge to get it to work. Also you can't get up in the bird's face - it will either fly away or attack you. It's not a flower or a statue. And for some reason what seems up close with the naked eye the cell phone camera or a camera in general likes to make seem far away. Unless of course you have a telescopic lense, which I do not. My brother was a photography major at one point - hence the reason I know all this. He likes to lecture me on it. Lecturing folks on a wide variety of topics is a family trait apparently - I think it may be genetic.)



( more white tail hawk or attempts at pics of them )

2. New York vs. Coronavirus, Racism and Police Brutality - mostly just Police Brutality and the Coronavirus...

New York has been busy,busy,busy. It really went to bat after getting caught with its pants down the first week of March. It did not take that sitting down, oh no, it got up, put on its boxing gloves and jumped into the ring. And not just the Coronavirus, but pretty much everything the Universe is sending its way. The latest? The Black Lives Matter Protests - which have about thirty to forty thousand people protesting across the State daily since George Floyd's death.

And our Governor, has a been a busy little Governor. I'm considering calling him "super-governor". Between fighting to restructure the hospital system, getting everyone in the state tested, building airports, restructuring crazy workplace, cleaning all the buses, trains and subways, and fighting the Federal Government...he's also found time to find a way to get the local communities around the state to restructure their police force. Plus, he hold press briefings every day.

What did he do today? He passed into law four bills and signed an executive order. What did it entail...ah...
( an all-encompassing series of police reforms )

They are however still protesting in my neighborhood. The picture was taken from across the street - because I am social distancing and still afraid of the virus. Even though it currently has a 1-2 % infection rate in New York according to their testing. And they have gone nuts with the testing.
( a really bad pic of protestors because I was too chicken of the corona virus to get much closer )

On the Coronavirus front? New York has really gone nuts with testing. ( Read more... )

3. My hair is growing out or rather long enough to pull back into a short pony tail, which I'm rather happy about. It's finally out of my face. The haircut I got in March was cute, but it was always flopping into my face. Now, not so much.

I see no reason to go back to the hair salon, and do not understand the people who feel the need to. Why? I can wait until 2021, no problem. ( Read more... )

4. Crazy Workplace

Spoke with Chidi today. He likes to call me with questions, he's fun to talk to. I asked him if he was protesting - he's not and has no inclination to do so.
( Read more... )

In other news - regarding Crazy Workplace, I spent most of the day fighting my work place's technology. I had to find work-arounds for a lot of things. For the remote - had to go to Windows Virtual Drive, as opposed to Citrix which crashed, yet again. For awhile I thought I was the only one it crashed on - but the Admin came out with an email about using WVD if you can't use Citirix and how much easier it was to use. Which in turn resulted in two emails - one stating that they couldn't get into WVD if their wife was alread logged into it in their computer and they were sharing, and two, that it didn't work for people with citrix boxes. (So apparently getting the tower and getting rid of the citrix box prior to being sent home - was a good thing? Note Citrix crashed at the office too - hence the reason I got the tower finally. IT got tired of all of my service requests - my citrix system crashed five times a day. Poor thing, it just wasn't designed to be used in this fashion.)

I was going to say technology won, but I guess I did?

5. All in all not a bad day. I finally got the Amazon order that I was fretting over. ( Read more... )

I did have a fun moment in the Cemetery. ( Read more... )

6. I'm going to leave you with...a view of my poor embattled city from the highest peak in Brooklyn, Battle Hill. Battle Hill is the site of major battle in the Revolutionary War - the Battle of Brooklyn.