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Ached all over most of the day. No clue if side-effect, or just due to weather, tension and how I was sitting. Came home, put joint cream (menthol/CBD) on shoulders, took CBD Relief capsule, and two tynenol extra-strength. Appears to have done the trick.
Work was slow. So played around with my book for most of it, when I wasn't dozing off to sleep. I could have done filing and archiving, but chose to wait a bit.
It was hard to concentrate due to the aches and pains.
Checked out tickets for SIX and...I can't afford SIX. Tickets range from $125 - $750. The $122-$165 tickets are Mezzazine. The $250-$350 or more are Orchestra. Only available ones right now are Premium at $449.
I texted Wales - and she was shocked.
We'd be better off waiting until January, they come down considerably. It's trendy now - so is the idea of going to the theater. People are nuts.
Been up since 5:45, actually 5:20, I woke up before the alarm. I was tired at 3pm. Seem to have gotten second wind - bolstered purely by frustration, but I don't ache any longer - so progress. Also note to self - CBD and tynenol and menthol plus heat therapy actually work.
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* The Times discusses the Big Quit...which is basically folks feel much like I do..tired.
At first, everyone tried to make the best of a bad situation: gathering on Zoom, launching projects in the kitchen and cheering on health care workers, and ourselves, with daily quarantine clapping.
Pretty soon, though, we began languishing, and then had moments of existential burnout that left us feeling drained and rudderless. Now, many are calling it quits on aspects of life that seemed indispensable before the pandemic.
Over the last 19 months, an outsized number of Americans have left cities, their marriages and organized religion. Some have recently tried dumping social media. It seems that many see 2021 as a year to finally leave prepandemic lives behind and embrace the idea of a fresh start.
Perhaps the most pronounced example is what economists are calling “The Great Resignation.”
( the Big Quit )
I've not done it, because I'm not that miserable. Also I know what unemployment is like. And I don't know what else to do with myself. Plus, say what you will about crazy org, they let me work remotely for a long time, got me vaccinated for free, and provide me with free transportation.
And, I've worked in a lot of jobs and industries, I'm not naive enough to think there's a better place out there.
But give it a few more months, I may change my mind.
***
Hmmm...
( Covid around the world and vaccines.. )
* Flu rates were so low during the pandemic that one strain of the virus may have been eliminated, ABC News in Australia reports. [We didn't get rid of COVID, but we managed to get rid of one of the flu viruses...]
***
Other news.. The [dingbat] Supreme Court again refused to block Texas’ abortion law, but agreed to fast-track suits challenging it. Arguments are set for Nov. 1.
The court will consider two appeals: one from the Justice Department and one from abortion providers in Texas. The arguments will be limited to the procedural question of whether the Texas law is subject to review in federal court given its novel structure, which was designed to evade judicial challenges.
The Texas law, which makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape, deputizes private individuals to sue anyone who performs an abortion or “aids and abets” one.
Sighs.
And..( they are investigating a deadly shooting on the set of a Western being shot in New Mexico - where Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun - killing the director of photography and injuring the director )
This was just weird. And reminds me (and everyone else apparently) of Brandon Lee's death on the set of The Crow back in the 1990s.
* Russia is trying to bring the country’s once freewheeling internet to heel, with a digital censorship push perhaps exceeded only by China.
The Kremlin’s censorship infrastructure — made up of black boxes installed at telecommunications companies — gives it sweeping powers to block, filter and slow down sites, affecting the vast majority of the country’s more than 120 million wireless and home internet users. Civil society advocates fear a new age of digital isolation — and similar efforts from other authoritarian governments.
[Note: if you have an Live Journal Account - now may be the time to back it up to DW, and delete it? Yes, Russia can censor you on LJ - the server is in Russia, so Russia has jurisdiction over your content and its laws govern. And no, it doesn't matter if you are paying for it.]
* Separately, U.S. intelligence officials said that American companies need to secure critical technologies as Beijing seeks to develop the world’s largest bio-database. Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world. [ Oh dear. And the Chinese have no intellectual property regs or regulations on anything really. They are basically a free market economy under dictatorship rule.]
***
I'm tired. Going to bed...I think. And maybe a hot shower.
Work was slow. So played around with my book for most of it, when I wasn't dozing off to sleep. I could have done filing and archiving, but chose to wait a bit.
It was hard to concentrate due to the aches and pains.
Checked out tickets for SIX and...I can't afford SIX. Tickets range from $125 - $750. The $122-$165 tickets are Mezzazine. The $250-$350 or more are Orchestra. Only available ones right now are Premium at $449.
I texted Wales - and she was shocked.
We'd be better off waiting until January, they come down considerably. It's trendy now - so is the idea of going to the theater. People are nuts.
Been up since 5:45, actually 5:20, I woke up before the alarm. I was tired at 3pm. Seem to have gotten second wind - bolstered purely by frustration, but I don't ache any longer - so progress. Also note to self - CBD and tynenol and menthol plus heat therapy actually work.
***
* The Times discusses the Big Quit...which is basically folks feel much like I do..tired.
At first, everyone tried to make the best of a bad situation: gathering on Zoom, launching projects in the kitchen and cheering on health care workers, and ourselves, with daily quarantine clapping.
Pretty soon, though, we began languishing, and then had moments of existential burnout that left us feeling drained and rudderless. Now, many are calling it quits on aspects of life that seemed indispensable before the pandemic.
Over the last 19 months, an outsized number of Americans have left cities, their marriages and organized religion. Some have recently tried dumping social media. It seems that many see 2021 as a year to finally leave prepandemic lives behind and embrace the idea of a fresh start.
Perhaps the most pronounced example is what economists are calling “The Great Resignation.”
( the Big Quit )
I've not done it, because I'm not that miserable. Also I know what unemployment is like. And I don't know what else to do with myself. Plus, say what you will about crazy org, they let me work remotely for a long time, got me vaccinated for free, and provide me with free transportation.
And, I've worked in a lot of jobs and industries, I'm not naive enough to think there's a better place out there.
But give it a few more months, I may change my mind.
***
Hmmm...
( Covid around the world and vaccines.. )
* Flu rates were so low during the pandemic that one strain of the virus may have been eliminated, ABC News in Australia reports. [We didn't get rid of COVID, but we managed to get rid of one of the flu viruses...]
***
Other news.. The [dingbat] Supreme Court again refused to block Texas’ abortion law, but agreed to fast-track suits challenging it. Arguments are set for Nov. 1.
The court will consider two appeals: one from the Justice Department and one from abortion providers in Texas. The arguments will be limited to the procedural question of whether the Texas law is subject to review in federal court given its novel structure, which was designed to evade judicial challenges.
The Texas law, which makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape, deputizes private individuals to sue anyone who performs an abortion or “aids and abets” one.
Sighs.
And..( they are investigating a deadly shooting on the set of a Western being shot in New Mexico - where Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun - killing the director of photography and injuring the director )
This was just weird. And reminds me (and everyone else apparently) of Brandon Lee's death on the set of The Crow back in the 1990s.
* Russia is trying to bring the country’s once freewheeling internet to heel, with a digital censorship push perhaps exceeded only by China.
The Kremlin’s censorship infrastructure — made up of black boxes installed at telecommunications companies — gives it sweeping powers to block, filter and slow down sites, affecting the vast majority of the country’s more than 120 million wireless and home internet users. Civil society advocates fear a new age of digital isolation — and similar efforts from other authoritarian governments.
[Note: if you have an Live Journal Account - now may be the time to back it up to DW, and delete it? Yes, Russia can censor you on LJ - the server is in Russia, so Russia has jurisdiction over your content and its laws govern. And no, it doesn't matter if you are paying for it.]
* Separately, U.S. intelligence officials said that American companies need to secure critical technologies as Beijing seeks to develop the world’s largest bio-database. Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world. [ Oh dear. And the Chinese have no intellectual property regs or regulations on anything really. They are basically a free market economy under dictatorship rule.]
***
I'm tired. Going to bed...I think. And maybe a hot shower.