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Where to start?
Let's go backwards through the day, or since I don't think lineally, up and down and sideways through the day.
Before I forget - just got off the phone with mother, who regaled me with stories of foreign travels to and from Europe and the US. Apparently this is not as easy as it looks. Or rather not as easy as it used to be at any rate.
( Traveling during a Pandemic to the UK from the US )
Germany is not much better, apparently. ( Traveling to and from the US and Germany during a pandemic for cancer treatments )
Also according to mother - you have to get a negative COVID test prior to flying to Hawaii. But my brother didn't need one to fly down to Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Another thing - the lack of pilots is a problem. ( Read more... )
Hmmm, I think I'm going to hold off going anywhere until the fall, and only to visit mother. I'm in no hurry to do anything at the moment. Baby steps.
I should ask college buddy if she needed to take a test prior to flying to Houston. I doubt it - it's Texas. Hawaii makes sense.
***
Our erstwhile Governor is acting as if the pandemic is kind of over - it's not. But now that a little over half the state is vaccinated and we have the lowest infection rate in the nation, he wants to go back to business as usual. (We don't, I actually think Vermont's is lower and their vaccination rate is higher - along with New Hampshire...but whatever. He's a New Yorker - he has to be the best at everything, it's annoying.)
I ignored most of his briefing except for the section in which he discussed the Mayoral Candidates. He seemed to prefer the front-runner Eric Adams. I honestly think Eric Adams has the whole thing sewn up. I've mixed feelings about him - he's the Brooklyn Borough President and I've been following his FB page for some time now. I don't always agree with him. But the Governor made a good point - we need someone who can run a city/manage a city, and demonstrates confidence to lead. Also the City is mainly in charge of police, sanitation, fire, and infrastructure of the city. It oversees some of the educational issues with direction from the state. The main issue right now is crime and policing. And it's a controversial one - since half the people want a strong police force, and the other half want to defund them. (Actually it's more like 30% want strong police, 30% want to defund, and 40% is somewhere in between.) De Blasio took the political approach - he did nothing - which according to the Governor is the worst thing you could do. (I agree with that. I dislike De Blasio - he's more social activist/politician than leader/manager.)
Adams - is the front runner because he is the best choice for the police/crime problem. He's a former NYPD cop and a black man. So sees both sides of the issue, rather clearly. Also knows the politics behind it.
***
Crazy union vs. Membership or me and my co-workers (actually pretty much our entire department, which is frankly fed up with crazy union and sick and tired of being lied to and jerked around.)
( Read more... )
****
Started listening to the Menopause Manifesto - which I got as an audio book. So far, pretty good.
Menopause Manifesto: Women should talk about menopause, our culture should talk about it. The stigma against it - is a direct result of the patriarchy.
Sisinlaw: I refuse to talk about Menopause with anyone.
Me: How incredibly patriarchal of you.
[Note, we'd never have this conversation. Sisinlaw is scary. And I don't have the guts. But it is a nice fantasy.]
Mother: yeah, I agree - why not discuss it? Men talk about their prostrates.
My mother has no problems talking about the human body - she doesn't understand why other people do.
( Read more... )
In other news, I did finally set up an appointment for my mammogram. The radiology clinic that I went to - reached out to me to set it up. They mentioned that I skipped 2020, which was understandable, but I really should get one now - and all I really needed was a few weeks to a month between the vaccine and the mammogram.
I still need to do dental, eye, and endocrinologist.
***
Mother is hanging in there. She's navigating my father's illness, and her own as best she can. She figured out the clock radio finally, now she has to figure out the tv, apparently they misplaced the smart tv remote.
**
Mother told me this over the phone. Apparently a cheerleader got upset when she didn't make the varsity cheerleading squad - and told the school, the judges, and the squad to go "fuck" themselves on SnapChat. The school found out about it and suspended her from cheerleading.
Me: They can't do that.
Mother: Well, apparently the Supreme Court agrees with you. In an 8-1 ruling. The one was Clarence Thomas.
Me: Well, he's an idiot. It's a violation of freedom of speech. All she was doing was venting on social media. You can do that. She could hold a sign across the street from the school as well. Just not on school property.
Mother: That was pretty much the ruling.
( Read more... )
**
COVID redux
The vaccination effort in NYC - has moved towards home vaccinations. You can now get vaccinated in your home. So if what has been keeping you from getting vaccinated - is an inability to get to the site, fear no longer.
( what about the breakthrough COVID Cases or those who get it, yet were vaccinated? ) [Source: NY Times - all are the NY Times.]*
Gist? It's rare. If it happens to you - do the same thing you'd have done if you weren't vaccinated.
* The Governor of NY is lifting the New York's State of Emergency regarding the Pandemic, which has been in place since March 2020, tomorrow. He insists it will not be put in place again.
* They are banning alcohol at the Tokyo Olympics. (interesting)
* Why are people worried about the Delta Variant
( excerpt )
***
After work took a long walk around the cemetery, about 2.7 miles. I've been either working out at home or walking. I hope to get up the nerve to rent a bike for a bike ride soon. I want to be able to use that as an option. I may not be able to drive, but I should be able to ride a bike. But first, I need to buy a bike helmet.
They are doing a better job with the bike lanes and parking spots. They put in both and just narrowed the lanes to one for through traffic, which I thought was clever.
Let's go backwards through the day, or since I don't think lineally, up and down and sideways through the day.
Before I forget - just got off the phone with mother, who regaled me with stories of foreign travels to and from Europe and the US. Apparently this is not as easy as it looks. Or rather not as easy as it used to be at any rate.
( Traveling during a Pandemic to the UK from the US )
Germany is not much better, apparently. ( Traveling to and from the US and Germany during a pandemic for cancer treatments )
Also according to mother - you have to get a negative COVID test prior to flying to Hawaii. But my brother didn't need one to fly down to Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Another thing - the lack of pilots is a problem. ( Read more... )
Hmmm, I think I'm going to hold off going anywhere until the fall, and only to visit mother. I'm in no hurry to do anything at the moment. Baby steps.
I should ask college buddy if she needed to take a test prior to flying to Houston. I doubt it - it's Texas. Hawaii makes sense.
***
Our erstwhile Governor is acting as if the pandemic is kind of over - it's not. But now that a little over half the state is vaccinated and we have the lowest infection rate in the nation, he wants to go back to business as usual. (We don't, I actually think Vermont's is lower and their vaccination rate is higher - along with New Hampshire...but whatever. He's a New Yorker - he has to be the best at everything, it's annoying.)
I ignored most of his briefing except for the section in which he discussed the Mayoral Candidates. He seemed to prefer the front-runner Eric Adams. I honestly think Eric Adams has the whole thing sewn up. I've mixed feelings about him - he's the Brooklyn Borough President and I've been following his FB page for some time now. I don't always agree with him. But the Governor made a good point - we need someone who can run a city/manage a city, and demonstrates confidence to lead. Also the City is mainly in charge of police, sanitation, fire, and infrastructure of the city. It oversees some of the educational issues with direction from the state. The main issue right now is crime and policing. And it's a controversial one - since half the people want a strong police force, and the other half want to defund them. (Actually it's more like 30% want strong police, 30% want to defund, and 40% is somewhere in between.) De Blasio took the political approach - he did nothing - which according to the Governor is the worst thing you could do. (I agree with that. I dislike De Blasio - he's more social activist/politician than leader/manager.)
Adams - is the front runner because he is the best choice for the police/crime problem. He's a former NYPD cop and a black man. So sees both sides of the issue, rather clearly. Also knows the politics behind it.
***
Crazy union vs. Membership or me and my co-workers (actually pretty much our entire department, which is frankly fed up with crazy union and sick and tired of being lied to and jerked around.)
( Read more... )
****
Started listening to the Menopause Manifesto - which I got as an audio book. So far, pretty good.
Menopause Manifesto: Women should talk about menopause, our culture should talk about it. The stigma against it - is a direct result of the patriarchy.
Sisinlaw: I refuse to talk about Menopause with anyone.
Me: How incredibly patriarchal of you.
[Note, we'd never have this conversation. Sisinlaw is scary. And I don't have the guts. But it is a nice fantasy.]
Mother: yeah, I agree - why not discuss it? Men talk about their prostrates.
My mother has no problems talking about the human body - she doesn't understand why other people do.
( Read more... )
In other news, I did finally set up an appointment for my mammogram. The radiology clinic that I went to - reached out to me to set it up. They mentioned that I skipped 2020, which was understandable, but I really should get one now - and all I really needed was a few weeks to a month between the vaccine and the mammogram.
I still need to do dental, eye, and endocrinologist.
***
Mother is hanging in there. She's navigating my father's illness, and her own as best she can. She figured out the clock radio finally, now she has to figure out the tv, apparently they misplaced the smart tv remote.
**
Mother told me this over the phone. Apparently a cheerleader got upset when she didn't make the varsity cheerleading squad - and told the school, the judges, and the squad to go "fuck" themselves on SnapChat. The school found out about it and suspended her from cheerleading.
Me: They can't do that.
Mother: Well, apparently the Supreme Court agrees with you. In an 8-1 ruling. The one was Clarence Thomas.
Me: Well, he's an idiot. It's a violation of freedom of speech. All she was doing was venting on social media. You can do that. She could hold a sign across the street from the school as well. Just not on school property.
Mother: That was pretty much the ruling.
( Read more... )
**
COVID redux
The vaccination effort in NYC - has moved towards home vaccinations. You can now get vaccinated in your home. So if what has been keeping you from getting vaccinated - is an inability to get to the site, fear no longer.
( what about the breakthrough COVID Cases or those who get it, yet were vaccinated? ) [Source: NY Times - all are the NY Times.]*
Gist? It's rare. If it happens to you - do the same thing you'd have done if you weren't vaccinated.
* The Governor of NY is lifting the New York's State of Emergency regarding the Pandemic, which has been in place since March 2020, tomorrow. He insists it will not be put in place again.
* They are banning alcohol at the Tokyo Olympics. (interesting)
* Why are people worried about the Delta Variant
( excerpt )
***
After work took a long walk around the cemetery, about 2.7 miles. I've been either working out at home or walking. I hope to get up the nerve to rent a bike for a bike ride soon. I want to be able to use that as an option. I may not be able to drive, but I should be able to ride a bike. But first, I need to buy a bike helmet.
They are doing a better job with the bike lanes and parking spots. They put in both and just narrowed the lanes to one for through traffic, which I thought was clever.