Gloomy day that cleared up to become a frigid one. Although not that frigid, but cold enough for a jacket and a hat...and now I'm wearing my sweat pants, which I bought from Lands End.
Oh, just when I was debating whether to cancel my HBO subscription to get HBO Max - Amazon Prime informed me that since I had subscribed to it under Amazon Prime, I would get HBO MAX free of charge. The Universe decided to give me an early Christmas gift - or maybe it's just telling me that it is okay to binge-watch television shows, write, read, and walk around my neighborhood during the holiday season?
On the reading front? I'm just reading
X-men X of Swords comics at the moment. While the plot admittedly makes no sense (it rarely does in X-men comics - one does not read superhero comics for plot any more than one watches daytime soaps for plot), there's some excellent character bits and some great world-building, and art. I really like the art in some of the issues. It's a mixed bag of course - but for the most part rather well done.
And the characters - they are examining characters that are rarely examined.
Apocalypse of all people - has depth. And Cypher - gets a psychological analysis and a story arc. I always found Cypher to the most interesting and most underrated of the New Mutants. To get a bit more story on characters that were for the most part sidelined during the last ten years, is rather nice for a change of pace.
Also doing the audio books - Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, and Illona Andrews.
Here's a picture of the tree with the bird's nest outside my home office/living room window. I've been watching the little sparrows all summer long, but until they started flying into my window on occasion - I didn't realize they had a bird's nest.
In hunting the pic, I almost fell down the rabbit hole on FB. FB finally decided the election was over, we won, and we could go back to posting funny stories and jokes, intermixed with pleas to help with the election in Georgia and COVID.
Speaking of COVID, it's time for our continuing coverage of
New York vs. the Corona VirusThe latest? There's been a slight set-back. The infection rate rose above 3% finally - which most likely will close schools again. Although, I agree with the European model - which is close the restaurants, salons, gyms and bars, leave the schools open. NY, of course, is doing the exact opposite - mainly because it figures schools will survive - restaurants won't. I disagree.
But I'm guessing they'll have to figure this out on their own, won't they?
( Tonight's email from the New York Governor - for anyone just joining us, I subscribed and the Governor sends me emails on COVID updates )To date? COVID STATS in NEW YORK.
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On Crazy Company front..
I got an email asking me to volunteer to hand out masks on subways, trains and at stations. Entitled : Mask Up New York Campaign. Tempting, but my blood pressure is still higher than it should be. And I'm trying to get it down, also I've taken reasonable accommodation to remain working remotely from home.
Potential good news...
Immunity to the virus (once achieved) may last up to several years( excerpt )I guess only time will tell? I've resigned myself to not seeing family or friends until Spring 2021. And not getting a vaccine until then. Even if there is one tomorrow, as my mother put it, I'm at the bottom of the folks who need to get it. I can work remotely from home and I'm under 60 years of age. Also I live in New York City.
Considering I've yet to get tested, that says something.
Watching this whole thing play out is kind of fascinating from a sci-fi horror novel perspective, and a historical one. People are doing what I predicted and really not, at the same time. Apparently I gave my home state very little credit, I'm relieved to state. I was half-expecting that I'd have to find a way to Escape from New York. Relieved this did not turn out to be the case. I'm weirdly safer here than elsewhere. Who'd have thunk it?
I honestly did not think New York would handle a lock-down well - surprise, surprise it did. Better than most of the country actually. New Yorkers continue to amaze me. On the other end - our Federal Government unfortunately lived down to expectations. And the science community kind of missed the boat. That said, they are working rather hard to redeem themselves with not one but two vaccines in development.
I don't know about anyone else but, I am having nightmares. Last night I had the dreaded waking nightmare - where you wake up into another nightmare and can't get out of it. It was a loop - where I was trying to get somewhere - I'm thinking work, but I forgot my mask, and couldn't find one, and kept trying to use other things - and other people weren't wearing masks either, some were, some weren't...and I got lost and had nowhere to sleep, and it was cold. (Possibly because it was cold in my apartment.)
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