Day #24 of the 30 Day Book Challenge

The prompt is A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

Rest of the meme is HERE

Hmm..I've either lost count or the person who did this meme did? It looks longer than it should be. I'm guessing I did. But who knows?

A book I was supposed to read in school but didn't. First of all - school was a VERY long time ago - I don't remember most of it.

Ah, I am going to go with two books for a Myth and Meaning Course I took in undergrad - that I somehow managed to avoid reading.

1. The Odyssey by Homer

and

2. Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis

I managed to bluff that I'd read them, when I hadn't. I read a portion, gave up, and bluffed.

Day 21 of the 60 Day Gratitude Meme

The prompt is What small item do you use daily that you are grateful for?

My MacBook Air Laptop. I don't think I could live without it. I'm using it to work remotely, visit with people electronically, watch church services, and write.

Day 250 of the Lockdown/Corona Virus

Sigh.

I've decided to do a family Zoom chat on Thanksgiving. Not with my immediate family (they don't do Zoom), no with the extended one. The immediate family doesn't need Zoom nor care. They also aren't living by themselves in the middle of a pandemic in NYC.

We'll see how it goes. It's with my father's crazy-ass siblings and my cousins, of which I've many - so many, they decided to go the Zoom route over the FB chat route. We could have upwards of twenty people on this call.

Oh, also, they are scattered across the country-side. I've a group in PA, a group in Florida, a group in Texas, a group in Illinois, a group in California, and a group in Washington and Oregon (although I think the one in Oregon moved to Montana during the fires). That's just my father's side. Mother's side is scattered around Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, and Washington.
Mother is in South Carolina. They all voted for Biden, except for the idiot priest in Florida, that we all sort of tolerate.

Also doing a Zoom chat tomorrow with 500 and some people at crazy organization. It's a town hall meeting - god knows why it's happening. Considering the current situation - the news doesn't look good. (I'm skipping yet another Staff Meeting of Doom this week - taking the day off, ha! for a doctor's appointment - which I thought was at 10AM, but is actually at 11:40AM. My doctor likes to change the appointment times on me.)

New York vs. the Corona Virus

The Governor is trying to convince the pesky New Yorkers to stay home during Thanksgiving and not go gallivanting around the countryside to visit folks.
Acting as if there is no virus and just having a fine old time. With mixed results.

I know this because I keep getting emails from various meetup groups and organizations advertising all sorts of social functions.( Read more... )

Reporters: So, in regards to funding and infrastructure -- can't you just raise state taxes?
Cuomo: No, that would just cover $2 Billion worth.
Reporters: Is it just the Congestion pricing?
Cuomo: No, it's everything - the Federal Department of Transportation is the only agency that failed to approve Laguardia project, the Hudson Tunnel rehabilitation, the Congestion pricing, the 2nd Avenue Subway...the list goes on. Without federal funding, we're in trouble, all of us are. If you have 50 states declare bankruptcy, the entire country declares bankruptcy.

And we're going to need $6 billion to distribute the vaccine in each state.

The governor's briefing..

( from the governor's email tonight )

The World vs. COVID-19

This is from the NY Times Briefing on the virus, some of it is...well..

* Hong Kong’s government said it would give cash payments of about $650 to residents who tested positive for the coronavirus, a policy designed to encourage people to be tested.[I get that - I don't want to get tested unless I absolutely have to.]

* A $50 million marketing push is underway to persuade skeptical Americans to immunize themselves once coronavirus vaccines are ready.[Yeah, makes sense - I don't trust the frigging vaccines at the moment.]

* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that “all people” should avoid traveling on cruise ships worldwide “because the risk of COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high.” [Why would anyone in their right mind take a cruise right now?]

* Over 1 million travelers were screened at area airports, the highest since the pandemic began in March

Sigh. People. Sigh.
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