Day # 2 of the 30 day Music Meme

"A song you like with a number in the title..."

Figure 8 from Schoolhouse Rock and "The Squid & the Whale" soundtrack. I love this song.

Here's the Squid and the Whale version.

And ( Here's the Schoolhouse Rock Version )

It brings back memories of childhood - I watched Schoolhouse Rock as a small child, also the melody has a kind of nostalgic soft feel to it. It also reminds me of ice skating as a child - although I was never quite that talented.

There's a weirdly melancholy but comforting feel to it. Also the last two lyrics of the song always send a chill up my spine.

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Day # 142

Well, everyone I work with lost power but me. Apparently half of New Jersey, Queens, Long Island and Brooklyn are without power, along with a portion of upstate.

Feeling thankful I have power and that I can breath. And that I still have a good job. And that all my family members are alive and well. And that my city has a 1% infection rate. And that our governor and mayor aren't idiots, although there are days that I wonder about the Mayor. It's the little things.



Crazy Workplace

Boss notified us that he had to reschedule the two meetings I was dreading because he did not have power.

Also...Assistant Project Manager called to explain yet another change order to me out at the Rail Yard. Apparently the Crazy Workplace's Communications Department somehow managed to damage a fiber optic cable that they were supposed to complete the installation of - basically pulling and inserting it into another opening. (Readers? I burst out laughing when he told me about this.)( Read more... )

Crazy Family

Neice: I've decided take up hobbies.
Me: Oh, what hobbies?
Niece: Skateboarding and Aerial Yoga, which I'm not that good at it - it's a lot harder than I thought it would be.
Me: Well, you might want to start with something a little easier - such as, maybe downward dog? Also I'm having troubles figuring out how you are doing this? Is it from between two trees? The loft in the house? A beam in the barn?
Neice: Haha, very funny and possibly true. It's from a beam in the barn.

I shared this with mother - who asked niece about it, and niece texted mother pictures. (No, you won't get to see them since I can't figure out how to get them from my phone to DW, without going through FB first.)

Meanwhile, cousin is worried about schools opening up in the Chicago area (she needn't have - apparently they aren't). And has stepped back from doing the lunch program this year - she has a heart condition, and already got the damn virus once this year - no interest in a return engagement.



It would help greatly if I could remember what photos I've posted and which I haven't. So if this is a repeat? My utmost apologies.

New York vs. the Coronavirus

New York keeps changing it's travel advisories. I wonder if other countries have this problem? Probably - Europe had to reshuffle recently with Spain, and Asia with Japan.

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On the school front - god, who knows.

From the NY Times Briefing:
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I've been listening to the Mayor, and I honestly don't see how they are going to manage it. It's a logistical nightmare. Many countries have given up, and the ones that did manage it - have had "issues". As have the states that have done it. My brother chose to have his kid take online courses with just one - in person lab. He was not going to let her board.
And they live in the country, with a school that isn't THAT populated.
NYC schools on the other hand...

In fact the conversation today between the Mayor and a reporter for Channel 7 News regarding the opening of gyms was rather instructive.
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[What was interesting - was old college pal in Arizona was touting our esteemed Mayor as the epitome of leadership. Which I guess from her perspective - he is? New Yorker's do not agree. NY does not like its Mayor. Governor yes, Mayor, no.]

I was talking to my mother about it. When you think about NYC and how much revenue is made from certain "indoor" establishments that happen to have huge amounts of people - or attract large groups, it's staggering. We are trying to get Major League Baseball off the ground - but its not working.
Only the hockey and basketball are - and that's because they are being played in "bubbles".
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Soap opera is interesting. I can't really tell that they are doing anything that different, except in some scenes, where the actors occasionally look like they are second-guessing themselves. They want to move forward and embrace the other actor but realize, no, wait, we can't do that, and back up a step. It's subtle but there. Also if they shake hands, the actor has this look on his/her face that they want to wash their hand immediately. Also if one actor gets up in their face in a shouting scene, the other one kind of flinches back.



I didn't get an email update from the Governor's office tonight. I wonder if they got overwhelmed or just tired of doing it finally?

I'm tired of it. I desperately want a vacation.

Everyone is going camping. Or visiting relatives they aren't scared of infecting. I've been invited camping - in my brother's barn. Someday I'll provide pics of the inside of the barn.

I get it - it's very hard to know how to deal with this thing. You can't see it. Everything looks fine. No one looks sick. It's not like The Stand or Contagion. It's like this really surreal psychological horror movie, where you feel like you are being gaslit.

Work was slow this morning and I kept drifting to sleep - so I listened to the Essential Beastie Boys, then Cher. The Beastie Boys were better, sorry to say. Cher gets better with age, but there are some songs that she recorded in the 1960s that just do not work well for her. She can't sing Bob Dylan well, for example.

Oh well, have some flowers...