OR gaslighting diaries... or gaslighting on roller-coasters diaries..
Even though the sign on the door stated the power would be off all day in the apartment complex - it wasn't. Thankfully. But I worried about it going off up until 3PM. After 3 - I figured it wasn't happening, and I was safe. They didn't put up a notice about a change in days, so I think I'm fine for now.
And I woke up with the sinus/tension headache from hell this morning - which did not dissipate until 5pm. (
I used ice packs, sinus headache meds, chocolate, water, and finally just lay down for a bit listening to a non-fiction audio book (I've discovered audio books, which I can listen to - even though podcasts tend to bore me. I don't understand myself either.). For a while I worried it was COVID, because I was blowing my nose and coughing for a bit (no more than five minutes.)
Mother: Do you have a fever? Have you taken your temperature -
Me: No, I don't have a fever.
Mother: Cough -
Me: No more than five minutes if that -
Mother: I have that - for years. It's not COVID.
I keep wondering if I should brave the lines and wilds of hot spot Brooklyn and get tested for COVID.
( Read more... )Last night one of the folks at Bible Study Zoom announced she had Mono - a development that she found highly amusing. Apparently that's going around too - since my niece also had it. (Most likely from the idiot boy she made out with last winter in the movie theater. He apparently made out with her best friend too. Hey they don't call it the kissing sickness for nothing.)
New York vs. the Corona VirusPer the governor's email, who also had a conference call with reporters:
Yesterday 145,000 tests were reported to the state — a record high number. We're focusing our testing efforts in two areas — statewide and then we are doing additional testing in hot spot ZIP codes. The positivity rate in the hot spot ZIP codes is 5.8 percent, while the statewide positivity rate, excluding these ZIPs, is 1.01 percent. Our robust testing efforts allow us to narrow hot spot areas down to the range of a block. As part of our Cluster Action Initiative, there are new restrictions in six clusters in the State, which allows us to stop the spread from these clusters and protect our progress in the fight against COVID-19. Look up your address to see if you live in a COVID-19 Hot Spot Zone and take precautions as always. Well, that's not all that bad. It could be worse. We were at a 20-30% infection rate in the spring.
Guess whose zip codes are in the COVID Hot Spot Zone? They announced on my FB neighborhood page that our zip code made it into the Hot Spot Zone. Actually I live literally on the boundary line between the red (hot spot) and orange (semi-hot spot) zones. Lovely. My area has a 5.86% infection rate. And my crazy org still hasn't backed off of the 10% reduction in pay.
[Note - living in the hot zone doesn't change anything all that much - at least not for me.
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Meanwhile according to
news (I've not seen it but I've also not exactly been gallivanting about the area) orthodox jews are erupting into violent outbursts or protests about not being allowed to worship en mass, and being discriminated against. Also it turned into a Doofus Rally. All the while - we're starting to hear ambulances again. Each day, I hear sirens. Not all day, but at least once a day now.
The White House vs. the Corona VirusWell..this made me laugh - which I'm kind of embarrassed to admit, but you know, 2020..
( Yes, the idiot in the white house among other things is a raging hypocrite, but what's new? )I found it ironically funny. But that's how I stay sane - my ironic dark sense of humor. I mean we have a crazy idiot in the white house, who is on stereoids - which makes relatively sane people crazy - and he's pushing a highly experimental drug that is made from material taken from an aborted fetus, while pushing for a Supreme Court nominee that is anti-abortion and running on an anti-abortion platform, and...his administration has fought to outlaw drugs utilizing aborted fetal tissue. I mean can we get anymore absurd? (I fluctuate between wanting to strangle him and laughing at him. Seriously Trevor Noah is right - it's like watching a giant asteroid headed towards earth that is shaped like a penis. You can't help laughing and being terrified at the same time.)
Meanwhile, the Governor felt the need to criticize the idiots in the White House again in a telephone conference. I wish he'd refrain. I know it's hard. But it would work better if he refrained.
Granted I'm not one to talk - I got into a pointless debate with a Doofus Supporter on FB - friend's FB.
( Read more... )FamilyMother got their ballots today.
Mother: Now, I need to get someone to witness it...maybe we can get our neighbors..
Me: Or you could get the home health care aids to do it.
Mother: Oh, I hadn't thought of that.
Apparently the health care aids at the Preston won't help mother put father into the car to get him home.
Me: The home health care aids won't help put him in and out of a car?
Mother: No, no, they will - just the one's at the Preston.
Me: Okay.
Mother: Nor will the drivers..
So apparently they have a driver.
Father is confused. He thought he was going home today. I get it. I thought today was Friday too - partly because I'm taking tomorrow off. I've vacation time to burn. So am taking lots of four day weekends. It helps stretch out the work - of which I don't have as much as I'd like. I have work, but I fear running out of it. Particularly since I have to fill out Work From Home Logs detailing what I'm doing each day.
Brother still has no power - and it's cold up there. Poor niece. She went to school today - because no power. She doesn't have class on Friday's.
BooksI'm not reading books at the moment - I'm listening to audio books. Why? Because my eyes can't take it. Too much time on lap-top. Also I'm having difficulty focusing.
Current audio book is
Zealot:The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazereth - read by Reza Aslan who is also the author of the book and narrator.
It's the book selection of my Bible Study Group.
( Read more... )Anyhow better than expected, and weirdly calming. I listened to it when I lay down after work to get rid of my head-ache and it did the trick.
Regarding
Crazy Workplace - I got the reasonable accomodation but the 10% reduction is still in effect. Ugga Bugga. Maybe things will change next week..at least I appear to be off the roller coaster ride for crazy apartment complex. One down, four to go.
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