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Y2/D246 - This week is dragging...
Nov. 17th, 2021 06:28 pmDo I want to regale you with co-workers stories? Or just meander...about other things? I don't know.
I'm tired. Not been sleeping well - I go to bed around 10:30-11, and manage to wake up four times each night. Last night? I woke up at 12:49, 2 Am, and 4:45 AM, and had to get up at 5:45 AM. You do the math.
My project manager for the latest group of projects I've been assigned courtesy of ex-cubical mate, apparently got COVID twice, her husband almost died of it, and her father did die of it. (She's POC. Notably all the co-workers that I know of that contracted COVID are POC. But I've also had family members get it.)
Project Manager: Did you get it? Or were you one of the lucky ones who got to avoid it?
Me: You mean COVID? I didn't get it. (Well except for a weird thing I got in November 2019 that lasted until March 2020, but was completely gone one week before we all locked down for COVID. I still don't know if that was COVID or not, and I never will - because by the time they could test for it - it would have been gone.) Did you?
Project Manager: I got it twice - horrible both times. Not quite as bad the second time. I almost lost my eye-sight the first round. The second time it was just flu-like symptoms. But the first go around, my face swelled up so badly, my eyes wouldn't open.
ME: Did you go to the hospital?
Project Manager: No, and my husband almost died of it - and he refused to go too. See, my father got it at the hospital - he's since passed.
Me: Oh, I'm so sorry.
See, this is why I'm afraid of COVID. 1) I don't want what I got in November 2019 again, and 2) I've heard all the horror stories.
It would help greatly if people would wear masks on public transportation. For the most part they do. It's a federal mandate by the way. But difficult to enforce. Which is why it is so amazing that 90% of New Yorkers do wear masks everywhere. Out of over 50 people on the subway, only five didn't wear masks. They are more crowded now.
I don't understand why they threw us back into the office. My colleagues don't either. We work on computers and phones. There's really no need for us to be in the office - unless we can't work on computers and phones at home and most of us can. Those who had to come into the office - actually preferred it - when we weren't there.
It's not as bad as I expected. People are social distancing for the most part and wearing masks everywhere. It's taken some adjustment to wear a mask every day, eight hours a day, except in my cubical. But the hybrid schedule did help us all adjust or get used to the routine.
Mother: Your brother thinks you'd have made a great librarian.
ME: No, I wouldn't.
Mother: That's what I told him. ( Read more... )
***
What is guaranteed to give me writer's block is thinking about publishing or attempting to get a work published, or anyone reading it. I'm better off not worrying about all of that until after I've written the work and revised it a few times.
This comes to you courtesy of perusing a Twitter thread on how to submit a piece of writing to an editor or publisher. It was an exhausting albeit realistic thread.
***
Work is hectic, but I'm getting next to nothing accomplished - I blame the brain fog that seems to be plaguing me at the moment. I can't focus. And I feel oddly strung out. Could be lack of sleep?
Alec Baldwin is getting sued for misfiring the gun that killed a co-worker because apparently the script didn't call for him to fire it at all. Saw that coming from a mile away. My guess is it is the first of many. Also the incident has increased gun safety regs on film and television sets, with many sets doing away with fire arms and guns that fire blanks altogether.
I think the lawsuits may do the most to change the industry.
**
COVID
Time for the Governor's weekly email..
( Governor's update on COVID in NY )
Workplace is offering free booster shots now. And vaccines are readily available just about everywhere. A new urgent care facility just popped up next door to Wallgreens and the subway stop. I'd feel better about it - if it had not put an "e" on the end of "flu" shot, so it states "flue shots" available. It's called SWIFT.
Apparently I'm right about pesky Eastern Europeans and COVID...
( Germany, German speaking territories and Eastern Europe are resisting vaccines resulting in surges in the virus and infection rates )
From my quick skim of the above - it appears that they are having the same issues that the US is for the same reasons. I also think it is cultural - I've noticed that the Eastern European mind-set is whatever is coming out of the government or politicians is fake, and they'll only believe populist leaders who are outsiders, often to their own and other detriment. In short the flaw in their logic most likely will over time obliterate them from the population. Or not. They could just build up a tolerance over time, and continue on.
Other soundbites...
* The White House estimated that nearly 10 percent of 5- to 11-year olds have gotten a first shot.
* The W.H.O. said deaths in Europe jumped 5 percent in the last week, making it the only region in the world where fatalities from the virus are increasing.
* Ireland added new restrictions, including early pub closings.
* A standoff over vaccines for troops has intensified between Oklahoma’s governor and the Pentagon. [You'd think the Pentagone would have jurisdiction, but maybe because they are in Oklahoma - Oklahmoa does.]
* Cities around the world are trying to tackle the mountains of waste caused by personal protective gear. [face masks...they aren't recyclable. Nor are gloves. It's become a problem in NY.]
* Disney Cruise Line will require all passengers 5 and older to be fully vaccinated. [ I'd found this out today from a co-worker - who'd recently been to Disney World - he said it was packed, so not that pleasant. He'd missed the window. But all the employees were vaccinated and Disney was a stickler on the whole mask thing. You had to wear it at all times in their parks. Disney isn't fooling around. Expect to see various film and televisions stars leave shows and films due to their refusal to be vaccinated. 9-1-1 lost an actor (Angela Bassett's ex-husband). Emilio Estevez got fired from The Mighty Ducks. And a couple of General Hospital Actors got the boot.]
* The F.B.I. said that a couple convicted of stealing Covid funds is on the run.
* Europe’s Covid culture war pits the vaccinated against the unvaccinated.
( Read more... ) [It's basically the same problem that we have, a preference for alternative/holistic medicine combined with a distrust in rules imposed from a government with an ecosystem that knows how to exploit it. The anti-vax movement came up through the holistic health care movement. It's not just the far right, but also the far left.]
***
In other less depressing news..
* Las Diablillas, or the Little Devils, a women’s softball team from a small community in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, have become a national sensation.
Yawn...random photo of the night..
I'm tired. Not been sleeping well - I go to bed around 10:30-11, and manage to wake up four times each night. Last night? I woke up at 12:49, 2 Am, and 4:45 AM, and had to get up at 5:45 AM. You do the math.
My project manager for the latest group of projects I've been assigned courtesy of ex-cubical mate, apparently got COVID twice, her husband almost died of it, and her father did die of it. (She's POC. Notably all the co-workers that I know of that contracted COVID are POC. But I've also had family members get it.)
Project Manager: Did you get it? Or were you one of the lucky ones who got to avoid it?
Me: You mean COVID? I didn't get it. (Well except for a weird thing I got in November 2019 that lasted until March 2020, but was completely gone one week before we all locked down for COVID. I still don't know if that was COVID or not, and I never will - because by the time they could test for it - it would have been gone.) Did you?
Project Manager: I got it twice - horrible both times. Not quite as bad the second time. I almost lost my eye-sight the first round. The second time it was just flu-like symptoms. But the first go around, my face swelled up so badly, my eyes wouldn't open.
ME: Did you go to the hospital?
Project Manager: No, and my husband almost died of it - and he refused to go too. See, my father got it at the hospital - he's since passed.
Me: Oh, I'm so sorry.
See, this is why I'm afraid of COVID. 1) I don't want what I got in November 2019 again, and 2) I've heard all the horror stories.
It would help greatly if people would wear masks on public transportation. For the most part they do. It's a federal mandate by the way. But difficult to enforce. Which is why it is so amazing that 90% of New Yorkers do wear masks everywhere. Out of over 50 people on the subway, only five didn't wear masks. They are more crowded now.
I don't understand why they threw us back into the office. My colleagues don't either. We work on computers and phones. There's really no need for us to be in the office - unless we can't work on computers and phones at home and most of us can. Those who had to come into the office - actually preferred it - when we weren't there.
It's not as bad as I expected. People are social distancing for the most part and wearing masks everywhere. It's taken some adjustment to wear a mask every day, eight hours a day, except in my cubical. But the hybrid schedule did help us all adjust or get used to the routine.
Mother: Your brother thinks you'd have made a great librarian.
ME: No, I wouldn't.
Mother: That's what I told him. ( Read more... )
***
What is guaranteed to give me writer's block is thinking about publishing or attempting to get a work published, or anyone reading it. I'm better off not worrying about all of that until after I've written the work and revised it a few times.
This comes to you courtesy of perusing a Twitter thread on how to submit a piece of writing to an editor or publisher. It was an exhausting albeit realistic thread.
***
Work is hectic, but I'm getting next to nothing accomplished - I blame the brain fog that seems to be plaguing me at the moment. I can't focus. And I feel oddly strung out. Could be lack of sleep?
Alec Baldwin is getting sued for misfiring the gun that killed a co-worker because apparently the script didn't call for him to fire it at all. Saw that coming from a mile away. My guess is it is the first of many. Also the incident has increased gun safety regs on film and television sets, with many sets doing away with fire arms and guns that fire blanks altogether.
I think the lawsuits may do the most to change the industry.
**
COVID
Time for the Governor's weekly email..
( Governor's update on COVID in NY )
Workplace is offering free booster shots now. And vaccines are readily available just about everywhere. A new urgent care facility just popped up next door to Wallgreens and the subway stop. I'd feel better about it - if it had not put an "e" on the end of "flu" shot, so it states "flue shots" available. It's called SWIFT.
Apparently I'm right about pesky Eastern Europeans and COVID...
( Germany, German speaking territories and Eastern Europe are resisting vaccines resulting in surges in the virus and infection rates )
From my quick skim of the above - it appears that they are having the same issues that the US is for the same reasons. I also think it is cultural - I've noticed that the Eastern European mind-set is whatever is coming out of the government or politicians is fake, and they'll only believe populist leaders who are outsiders, often to their own and other detriment. In short the flaw in their logic most likely will over time obliterate them from the population. Or not. They could just build up a tolerance over time, and continue on.
Other soundbites...
* The White House estimated that nearly 10 percent of 5- to 11-year olds have gotten a first shot.
* The W.H.O. said deaths in Europe jumped 5 percent in the last week, making it the only region in the world where fatalities from the virus are increasing.
* Ireland added new restrictions, including early pub closings.
* A standoff over vaccines for troops has intensified between Oklahoma’s governor and the Pentagon. [You'd think the Pentagone would have jurisdiction, but maybe because they are in Oklahoma - Oklahmoa does.]
* Cities around the world are trying to tackle the mountains of waste caused by personal protective gear. [face masks...they aren't recyclable. Nor are gloves. It's become a problem in NY.]
* Disney Cruise Line will require all passengers 5 and older to be fully vaccinated. [ I'd found this out today from a co-worker - who'd recently been to Disney World - he said it was packed, so not that pleasant. He'd missed the window. But all the employees were vaccinated and Disney was a stickler on the whole mask thing. You had to wear it at all times in their parks. Disney isn't fooling around. Expect to see various film and televisions stars leave shows and films due to their refusal to be vaccinated. 9-1-1 lost an actor (Angela Bassett's ex-husband). Emilio Estevez got fired from The Mighty Ducks. And a couple of General Hospital Actors got the boot.]
* The F.B.I. said that a couple convicted of stealing Covid funds is on the run.
* Europe’s Covid culture war pits the vaccinated against the unvaccinated.
( Read more... ) [It's basically the same problem that we have, a preference for alternative/holistic medicine combined with a distrust in rules imposed from a government with an ecosystem that knows how to exploit it. The anti-vax movement came up through the holistic health care movement. It's not just the far right, but also the far left.]
***
In other less depressing news..
* Las Diablillas, or the Little Devils, a women’s softball team from a small community in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, have become a national sensation.
Yawn...random photo of the night..