Day #226 of Corona Virus Diaries

Rained most of the day. I watched a big cat wander about in it. It was a different than the usual cats - this one was black and brown. At least I think it was a cat. It was mainly mist or drizzle, so the cat wasn't getting soaking wet or anything.

In the delivery business - LL Bean is fast. I ordered new sweat pants and boots last week, and they came today. Pottery Barn however - is not fast, but admittedly the coffee table is coming from California and it's a coffee table. I ordered the coffee table way back in September, it's supposed to arrive anywhere between Oct 9 and Oct 23, how much you want to bet it gets here sometime around Oct 23?

Meanwhile..Crazy Workplace never fails to amuse. Remember that email problem I was telling you all about some weeks back? And yesterday? Well...
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Also spoke to Jay for a bit, mainly about business stuff. She did tell me about her son, who is an airline steward. He's been flying again. And while they do have restrictions in place there are some, ahem, challenges.

The airline's rule is as follows: You are given two warnings to put on a mask, if you refuse on the third try, you are handed a card that states you will be put on the No Fly List. Then the steward has to take back the card (why, Jay had no clue). This poses some challenges for the Stewards. One of which is people don't stay in their seats, they move around the plane. For example, they might have started in Seat 12, but somewhere along the line they've moved to an empty row in the front of the plane.
So the Steward has to do some detective work to figure out who the person is.

She said her son launches into rants about this - and these crazy people. Oh, they sell KN95 masks at the airports now. I think they are also giving them out, according to Jay's son.

When he comes home - Jay and her daughter spray him with disinfectant, then he has to disrobe, put his uniform in the laundry and take a shower.

I think I'm going to avoid flying anywhere for the time being. It's not like I can go anywhere - the people I'd love to visit, wouldn't have me, it's not safe. And I don't want to put anyone at risk either.

Family
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New York vs. the Corona Virus

I'm still in the RED ZONE, but the cases have gone down slightly in my area, while the hospitalizations and case load has gone up in Long Island.
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Day# 17 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

This is Day #17 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

The prompt is a memorable theme song/credit sequence song or orchestration from a television series

It's really the credit sequence that I'm looking for...

Here's mine from "Weeds"

Little Boxes Theme Song Intro for Weeds

Weeds premiered on Showtime in the early 00s, and was a series about a suburban housewife who was also a marijuana dealer. Kind of the female version of Breaking Bad, but with much more biting satiric wit, and lot less violence. Mary Louise Parker played the lead. It's pure satire and theme song pretty much sets the stage.

Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama[1][2][3] television series created by Jenji Kohan that aired on Showtime from August 8, 2005 to September 16, 2012. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould), begins selling marijuana to support her family. Other main characters include Nancy's lax brother-in-law Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk), who moves in to help raise her children, naive acquaintance Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon), narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), who lives with her husband Dean (Andy Milder) and their daughter Isabelle (Allie Grant), as well as Nancy's wholesalers Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco). Over the course of the series, the Botwin family become increasingly entangled in illegal activity.

[It lasted eight seasons, I stopped after S5. Television shows really shouldn't go past five to six seasons. Just saying.]

Day #13 of the 30 Day Halloween Challenge

This is Day 13 of 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

A favorite villain in a film, book or television series.

The Weeping Angels from Doctor Who

Stephen Moffat created the weeping angels - which if you blink, they move and if they get close enough - they throw you into another time line.

The Weeping Angels were an extremely powerful species of quantum-locked humanoids (sufficient observation changes the thing being observed), so called because their unique nature necessitated that they often covered their faces with their hands to prevent trapping each other in petrified form for eternity by looking at one another. This gave the Weeping Angels their distinct "weeping" appearance. They were known for being "kind" murderous psychopaths, eradicating their victims "mercifully" by dropping them into the past and letting them live out their full lives, just in a different time period. This, in turn, allowed them to live off the remaining time energy of the victim's life. However, when this potential energy paled in comparison to an alternative power source to feed on, the Angels were known to kill by other means, such as snapping their victims' necks.

Source - https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel

I loved The Weeping Angels - best villain ever. I don't, however, consider them exactly monsters...