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We're starting to get the remnants of Hurricane Elsa, although we've been having thunderstorms nightly anyhow. It's also hot and very humid in NY.
The day started out well enough...work wise. BYT manager liked my write-up of one of my modifications. We have to write a ten page memo to file for every modification or contractual award. It's a financial and legal business paper, complete with footnotes, attachments, references, etc - justifies the cost, and details what we did. I'm still getting compliments on my writing - it's the one thing I've managed to excel at in my life.
I may never become a famous writer, or win huge awards, but I don't really want it either. Fame is kind of painful.
Did laundry. Or rather sweated doing laundry - it's humid today. I'm wearing a very soft, new, white cotton t-shirt from Talbots. Which I love.
Talbots has become my online shopping - source. Along with Amazon. And Macy's. Although Macy's can be hit or miss at times.
Anyhow...then I talked to mother, who managed to scare me. ( Read more... )
Enuf.
There's worse things. ( Read more... )
***
When I went down to pick up a package - CBD Relax and Rise Gummies from Winged - I ran into Super's wife, who showed me security footage of a man staking out their van, and stealing from them.
( Read more... )
***
The Universe decided, you know what? I'm frigging bored, so I know, let's go scare and depress the heck out of shadowkat again tonight. See this is why I stopped watching horror films for the most part - I'm scared enough as it is.
I took a CBD and listened to more of Kathleen Turner On Acting - it's not very good. Way too much patting on the back and ego-stroking, not enough information. The interviewer/writer kind of falls over himself complimenting her.
I don't know what I'm going to do about my parents. Or my family. Or my situation. Just lumber on, I guess. What can you do? Making connections is really hard. So much of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time, or meeting the right people who can hook you up or want to.
Wales brought up at lunch on Monday - that neither of us really saw this happening with our parents. I told her - no, I've actually been dreading it for some time, but had hoped it wouldn't happen.
NY vs. Covid
Good news? Super's wife told me that she was vaccinated, and she'd gotten her husband and was getting her son vaccinated as soon as was possible. In short she made him do it. She's smart as a whip.
Bad news? COVID cases are going up again. Went from .6 to .7 to 1.7 percent. Also co-worker told me - one of my project managers, who gets reliable data on it due to his job.
Why are they going up? Because there are dingbats out there who won't get vaccinated. And unvaccinated ones not wearing masks. With the dangerous Delta Variant running rampant - it's now the main variant in the US.
Here's the skinny from the New York Department of Health and New York Governor's Office:
( from the Governor's weekly emails )
Not really COVID related - It looks like Eric Adams is declared the winner in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. He'll most likely win the General Election. He's a good choice since he gets the police issue better than anyone else does. Wales doesn't think he understands the housing issue and supports real estate developers - some of which funded his campaign, but I don't know. He won't be the first black man in the office - we had Mayor Dinkins before him. But we did get close to having a woman, so the glass ceiling is getting very close to being broken. Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley came very close.
The World vs. COVID
( Read more... )
***
Other news
Super's wife talked about the assassination of the Haiti President.
( Read more... )
The world is on fire. Still. And there's lots of civil unrest. It's 2021, and I still want to retreat to a beach in New Zealand with my entire extended family, and maybe Wales. I may look into retiring there - and writing. Set myself up in a beach house, and write and paint and draw, and maybe play with cats. Assuming they have them in New Zealand.
Co-worker and I were chatting about this over the phone today - about how 2020 changed everything. Everything was going to be different. The job was going to be different. Work was going to be different. It was all changing.
It was a watershed year that makes 9/11 look like nothing in comparison.
Mainly because it was global not just NY and DC. We're all in it together.
***
My moods seem to fluctuate like the tides. This morning, I was in a good mood, which got better as the day progressed, then while talking to mother, I cried, then cried when I read the news about the woman who lost her only son, then realized I was sad and scared, then finally...comfortably numb.
I don't know if anyone else feels like this? But I feel like the Universe is Lucy from the Peanuts Cartoon holding up a football, while I'm Charlie Brown - and every time I go to kick it, she yanks it away.
It makes it hard to plan, to hope, to create, to do much more than just keep on trucking and crossing out the days as they drift across my calendar.
The day started out well enough...work wise. BYT manager liked my write-up of one of my modifications. We have to write a ten page memo to file for every modification or contractual award. It's a financial and legal business paper, complete with footnotes, attachments, references, etc - justifies the cost, and details what we did. I'm still getting compliments on my writing - it's the one thing I've managed to excel at in my life.
I may never become a famous writer, or win huge awards, but I don't really want it either. Fame is kind of painful.
Did laundry. Or rather sweated doing laundry - it's humid today. I'm wearing a very soft, new, white cotton t-shirt from Talbots. Which I love.
Talbots has become my online shopping - source. Along with Amazon. And Macy's. Although Macy's can be hit or miss at times.
Anyhow...then I talked to mother, who managed to scare me. ( Read more... )
Enuf.
There's worse things. ( Read more... )
***
When I went down to pick up a package - CBD Relax and Rise Gummies from Winged - I ran into Super's wife, who showed me security footage of a man staking out their van, and stealing from them.
( Read more... )
***
The Universe decided, you know what? I'm frigging bored, so I know, let's go scare and depress the heck out of shadowkat again tonight. See this is why I stopped watching horror films for the most part - I'm scared enough as it is.
I took a CBD and listened to more of Kathleen Turner On Acting - it's not very good. Way too much patting on the back and ego-stroking, not enough information. The interviewer/writer kind of falls over himself complimenting her.
I don't know what I'm going to do about my parents. Or my family. Or my situation. Just lumber on, I guess. What can you do? Making connections is really hard. So much of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time, or meeting the right people who can hook you up or want to.
Wales brought up at lunch on Monday - that neither of us really saw this happening with our parents. I told her - no, I've actually been dreading it for some time, but had hoped it wouldn't happen.
NY vs. Covid
Good news? Super's wife told me that she was vaccinated, and she'd gotten her husband and was getting her son vaccinated as soon as was possible. In short she made him do it. She's smart as a whip.
Bad news? COVID cases are going up again. Went from .6 to .7 to 1.7 percent. Also co-worker told me - one of my project managers, who gets reliable data on it due to his job.
Why are they going up? Because there are dingbats out there who won't get vaccinated. And unvaccinated ones not wearing masks. With the dangerous Delta Variant running rampant - it's now the main variant in the US.
Here's the skinny from the New York Department of Health and New York Governor's Office:
( from the Governor's weekly emails )
Not really COVID related - It looks like Eric Adams is declared the winner in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. He'll most likely win the General Election. He's a good choice since he gets the police issue better than anyone else does. Wales doesn't think he understands the housing issue and supports real estate developers - some of which funded his campaign, but I don't know. He won't be the first black man in the office - we had Mayor Dinkins before him. But we did get close to having a woman, so the glass ceiling is getting very close to being broken. Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley came very close.
The World vs. COVID
( Read more... )
***
Other news
Super's wife talked about the assassination of the Haiti President.
( Read more... )
The world is on fire. Still. And there's lots of civil unrest. It's 2021, and I still want to retreat to a beach in New Zealand with my entire extended family, and maybe Wales. I may look into retiring there - and writing. Set myself up in a beach house, and write and paint and draw, and maybe play with cats. Assuming they have them in New Zealand.
Co-worker and I were chatting about this over the phone today - about how 2020 changed everything. Everything was going to be different. The job was going to be different. Work was going to be different. It was all changing.
It was a watershed year that makes 9/11 look like nothing in comparison.
Mainly because it was global not just NY and DC. We're all in it together.
***
My moods seem to fluctuate like the tides. This morning, I was in a good mood, which got better as the day progressed, then while talking to mother, I cried, then cried when I read the news about the woman who lost her only son, then realized I was sad and scared, then finally...comfortably numb.
I don't know if anyone else feels like this? But I feel like the Universe is Lucy from the Peanuts Cartoon holding up a football, while I'm Charlie Brown - and every time I go to kick it, she yanks it away.
It makes it hard to plan, to hope, to create, to do much more than just keep on trucking and crossing out the days as they drift across my calendar.