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Year 2 - Day 52
May. 7th, 2021 09:13 pmNot feeling well today at all - lots of drainage in the night, so been coughing off and on today. And very congested in the chest and head. Feeling a little better now - except for the intermittent coughing.
I think it's allergies. Could also be a cold. Although allergies makes more sense. I don't think it is COVID, because hello, vaccinated.
Also, I've been cool today. Wearing a sweater and jeans. It's in the 60s, no heat. So makes sense. Took temperature - it was 96.6 which mother informs me is normal.
* COVID & OTHER NEWS
( Pfizer goes for FDA Approval )
*( federal grand jury indicted Derek Chauvin & three other police officers on charges of violating George Floyd's Civil Rights )
* ( Part of China's largest rocket is tumbling in orbit and will probably fall to earth this weekend - don't panic ) [LOL! I love the "Don't Panic".]
* ( Elon Musk hosts this week's SNL... ) [In other words, SNL sold out?]
*( the quest for a deer-proof garden. It doesn't exist, but you can find ways to deter them, hint - first make sure your adversary are deer )
I've been emailing college buddy, who now fully vaccinated is gearing up to fly to Texas, pick up her mother, and drive said mother to Ashville, North Carolina, then to DC, then back to Ashville, then fly home. And pick her up in October, and drive her back to Texas. She's not looking forward to Texas which is among the idiotic states that have decided COVID isn't an issue any longer.
College buddy is the one who rec'd A Gentelman in Moscow to me, which I rather enjoyed and has stuck with me. Also Rules of Civility, which I'm currently listening too. The writer sneaks in plot.
The NY Times annoys me - it keeps telling me all the wonderful stuff folks have done. Like a 76 year old taking up the piano, or a 83 year old woman getting back on her bike. It makes it sound like a big deal or no big deal - what it doesn't say is not all humans are equal. My mother is 78 and has a broken hip. And we learned piano when I was kid - both were awful at it. Not everyone can just pick up the piano. What is also sticking in my head is Stephen Fry's comment that we don't have as much free will as we think, it's not as if people elect to become sociopaths. (It brings back a college debate we had, which resurfaced years later with other people on the ATPOBTVS fan board...about free will vs. determinism. I fall somewhere between the two. I think we do make choices and should be held accountable for them. But, at the same time, I do think to some degree our paths in life are pre-determined by DNA, Environmental factors, family, circumstance, opportunities, education, etc. I mean a child born in Ethiopia to a poor family while far differently from one born in say the US to rich white folks.
( Stephen Fry Quote about Free Will )
Stephen Fry Interview
I don't think that let's folks off the hook though. We still make choices after all, they just are kind of more limited than we may like to believe.
Anyhow, should sign off before it gets too late.
[The pictures are from yesterday. Didn't take a walk today because my allergies are driving me bonkers.]
I think it's allergies. Could also be a cold. Although allergies makes more sense. I don't think it is COVID, because hello, vaccinated.
Also, I've been cool today. Wearing a sweater and jeans. It's in the 60s, no heat. So makes sense. Took temperature - it was 96.6 which mother informs me is normal.
* COVID & OTHER NEWS
( Pfizer goes for FDA Approval )
*( federal grand jury indicted Derek Chauvin & three other police officers on charges of violating George Floyd's Civil Rights )
* ( Part of China's largest rocket is tumbling in orbit and will probably fall to earth this weekend - don't panic ) [LOL! I love the "Don't Panic".]
* ( Elon Musk hosts this week's SNL... ) [In other words, SNL sold out?]
*( the quest for a deer-proof garden. It doesn't exist, but you can find ways to deter them, hint - first make sure your adversary are deer )
I've been emailing college buddy, who now fully vaccinated is gearing up to fly to Texas, pick up her mother, and drive said mother to Ashville, North Carolina, then to DC, then back to Ashville, then fly home. And pick her up in October, and drive her back to Texas. She's not looking forward to Texas which is among the idiotic states that have decided COVID isn't an issue any longer.
College buddy is the one who rec'd A Gentelman in Moscow to me, which I rather enjoyed and has stuck with me. Also Rules of Civility, which I'm currently listening too. The writer sneaks in plot.
The NY Times annoys me - it keeps telling me all the wonderful stuff folks have done. Like a 76 year old taking up the piano, or a 83 year old woman getting back on her bike. It makes it sound like a big deal or no big deal - what it doesn't say is not all humans are equal. My mother is 78 and has a broken hip. And we learned piano when I was kid - both were awful at it. Not everyone can just pick up the piano. What is also sticking in my head is Stephen Fry's comment that we don't have as much free will as we think, it's not as if people elect to become sociopaths. (It brings back a college debate we had, which resurfaced years later with other people on the ATPOBTVS fan board...about free will vs. determinism. I fall somewhere between the two. I think we do make choices and should be held accountable for them. But, at the same time, I do think to some degree our paths in life are pre-determined by DNA, Environmental factors, family, circumstance, opportunities, education, etc. I mean a child born in Ethiopia to a poor family while far differently from one born in say the US to rich white folks.
( Stephen Fry Quote about Free Will )
Stephen Fry Interview
I don't think that let's folks off the hook though. We still make choices after all, they just are kind of more limited than we may like to believe.
Anyhow, should sign off before it gets too late.
[The pictures are from yesterday. Didn't take a walk today because my allergies are driving me bonkers.]