Day 9 - of the 30 days meme - Song that makes you happy

The problem with this meme for me - is I don't remember the names of songs or performers very well. I have a great memory, but it's poorly indexed.
I'm trying to remember a song that is about it being a sunnier year. But I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. If you can figure out what the name of that song is? Kudos.

So, after listening to 50-60 different songs, I've settled on ...Joy to the World by Three Dog Night. The other two, I considered, made me cry - Louis Armstrong's It's a Wonderful World and Rachel Loy's Big Sky (and that's tomorrow's selection.) I also considered Moondance - but I've already done one by Van Morrison, and Bad Bad Leroy Brown. I wish I could remember the one about how it's going to be a sunny year.

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Day # 149

I survived the paint job, now my apartment smells like paint - although it is receding so there's hope. There's always hope.

Crazy Workplace has appeared to schedule the Microsoft Teams Staff Meeting to say a fond farewell to Lando. Unless it's just a teams meeting, but I doubt it. My boss isn't into Teams, he was talked into it by Chidi. This is pure speculation on my part of course.
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I did go out for a brief walk - it's too hot and humid (mainly too humid) for a longer one. I felt like I was trudging through water again - and my allergies tend to flare up.

Also, at lunchtime, got a brief scare using the elevator. ( Read more... )

Other than that - a relatively uneventful day.

Here's a flower.

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1. In case anyone was wondering why Twitter has horrible punctuation, and why folks under the age of 30, seem to have forgotten how to punctuate while on social media or text messaging?

Here's why: Periods What Are They Good For (My initial reaction, was nothing good as far as I can tell - but I was thinking of another...ahem...type of period. Which refuses to start by the way, with alls sorts of annoying hormonal and physical side effects. But alas, that was not what she was talking about.)

Apparently proper grammar has tonal issues on social media. If I end a sentence with a period - it looks rude. Okay.

This I have difficulty wrapping my brain around. Keep in mind that for me, the internet did not really come about until ahem, my 30s. And social media didn't take off until I was in my 40s. I bought my first smartphone when I was about 43 or thereabouts. Prior to that I had flip phones that you could not text on. Twitter came about when I was 45, and I didn't join it until around that point.

My introduction to the internet was voy forums, professional listserves on yahoo, and IM Chat rooms - which I abhorred. Also, I almost killed myself learning proper punctuation. It came easily to my niece, who disregards it online, along with her parents - which it also came easily too.And I was taught to NEVER use an exclamation mark - whenever I did - I got kicked. No matter where I used it.

So, yes - the article annoyed the hell out of me. I wanted to smack her.
But I've also been very irritable lately. Been mediating, mainly to deal with the overwhelming desire to smack people upside the head.

Maybe I need a punching bag?

2. I don't know if this is good news or bad news?

( the Big 12 announced they are going to do a football season )

Apparently the Big 12 is going to try. Even though the Pac 12 and the Big 10 chickened out? I don't know how it is going to work - but it should be interesting to watch.

Anyone else feel like they are stuck in horror film written by Monty Python?

3. Remember when I told you that our Governor is test happy and that NY is obsessed with testing? How could you not - I keep repeating it. It's become a theme!

Well...apparently it's also trying to out test California (it won't, California has more people) but it is making a good attempt. So Test happy and competitive.
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4. Per the Governor's Newsletter: "Mental health resources are available to any New Yorker who needs them. We don't underestimate the impact this pandemic is having on mental health. New Yorkers can call the state's hotline at 1-844-863-9314 to get free emotional support, consultations and referrals to a provider or visit headspace.com/ny for free meditation and mindfulness resources. "

Right now, headspace is working and CBD, and talks to mother, and texts to family, and social media interaction and coworker interaction via the computer and phone. But it is nice to know it's out there - if needed.

5. All motor vehicle passengers 16 and older must wear a seat belt in every seat. We know that seat belts save lives and yesterday, I signed legislation requiring all passengers in motor vehicles over the age of 16 to wear a seat belt, even in the back seats. New York was the first state to pass a mandatory seat belt law in 1984 and we building on this legacy for a safer New York. - honestly, I thought this was already a law. I feel bad for not taking advantage of it not being a law when I had the chance, not that I'm in a car that often. Very rarely actually.

My mother is amused by my brother's nervousness and anxiety regarding teaching his daughter to drive. Driving came naturally to my brother. He doesn't have any of the issues that I do. No coordination issues. No flipping of left and right, etc.

When my parents taught me to drive - I drove them nuts.

Dad: Turn left at the corner.
Me - I start to turn right.
Dad: Left! Left!
Me turning right
Dad: LEFT!
Me turning left at the last minute.
Dad cursing in fear.

I can't tell left from right to save my life. Now I have little tricks, but I have to think about it.

6. Hmmm..apparently all 64 Suny College Campuses (these are the New State Colleges - and are basically free to various residents) figured out how to do a COVID-19 re-opening plan and submitted on time. Suny Campus Re-Opening.

While New Jersey kind of gave up and is doing it all remotely.

My niece has some issues. She has one in-person class. But there's another class that she is going to have to do remotely on-campus, because there's not enough time between classes to get to it. Only 10 minutes. She's in a high school/college hybrid. She'll graduate with an Associates Degree.
They discovered it was cheaper.

I asked my mother how that was going to work. My mother stated she'd have to use the cafeteria or the library or somewhere...safe to use her lap-top.

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7. The NY Botantical Gardens has re-opened in phases, apparently. Not that I've ever been to it, or could conceivably go to it. But it's nice to know in any event.

8. So these memes are all the rage right now..this is the best I've seen to date, from the movie Clue COVID Calendar Meme. It's better than the movie, which frankly bored me.

9. Also from Twitter Favorite Movie Cats Meme (As a side note - I'm getting these from Smart Bitches, I'm never on Twitter. Twitter gives me a headache.)

10. Apparently Harris County (Houston) got desperate and put a commercial on Twitter. Commercial for Curbside Pickup at the Barbara Bush Library in Harris County

11. Who's On First Sketch for the 21st Century

12. Worker Burnout - I don't think it is just working from home, it's the uncertainty - not knowing if you are going to work from home forever or brought back into the office at any given time. That's why people feel the ground shifting beneath them.

Also the sense of not enough work, or too much.

Plus the inability to get away from it. Some can, but a lot like myself can't. And work never goes away. I get emails from work now - all the time.

I am turning it off. But it can be taxing. Walking helps. As does writing in this space. And calling co-workers or emailing them, which I do. So not burned out yet. (Fingers crossed.)

13. What he says regarding Kamala Harris as VP pick.

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