Y2/D251 - Rainy Days & Mondays & COVID

Was sprinkling on the way to work today, so not too bad. Cleared off by the time I was ready to commute home. The commute is harder than I remember - I think it is the waiting for trains, and rushing to get a seat on the G train that's so exhausting. With less people, and more trains, not so bad. But they've had service cuts - so I'm waiting about fifteen to twenty minutes for the ride home, sometimes five, if lucky. So could be much worse.

Crazy workplace

The petition that was going around to get a letter to the head of Crazy Org fell apart. ( Read more... )

I got stuff done today at least. ( Read more... )

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The two soap stars who didn't get their vaccines, exited the soap. Or rather their characters exited stage left. Both were fairly easy to write out - they sent one off to Australia for business, and the other was buried alive in a cave-in in Greece. No one knows if he survived or escaped. So he's presumed dead. This kind of leaves the door open for 1) recast, 2) return of actors once they get vaccinated, 3) keeping them gone. It's an easy way to write a character out quickly without having to immediately recast them.

Meanwhile fans are still fighting over why they got booted off the show.
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I didn't say any of that - of course. I just hid the idiot and blocked them. Arguing with idiots on social media - is kind of pointless.

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I loved Superman & Lois. Absolutely loved it. I don't know why. It just worked for me. I keep replaying sections in my head.

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I'm debating doing work over the holiday break - I can - I've got remote access now. But I should give myself a break. Oh, well, I'll play it by ear.

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COVID

From the Times:

"More than 90,000 coronavirus cases are being reported each day in the U.S., comparable to early August, and more than 30 states are seeing sustained upticks in infections.

Federal medical teams have been dispatched to Minnesota to help at overwhelmed hospitals. Michigan is enduring its worst case surge yet. Even New England, where vaccination rates are high, is struggling; Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire are trying to contain major outbreaks.

Across the Atlantic, European governments are toughening their antivirus measures in the face of soaring infection rates and popular resistance, with violent protests over the weekend in numerous countries.

The German health minister, Jens Spahn, warned that by the end of this winter, “just about everyone in Germany will probably be either vaccinated, recovered or dead.”

[Well that's not all that reassuring, is it? Stupid anti-vaxxers.]

* "Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, was charged after authorities said he drove into a Christmas parade on Sunday, killing at least five adults and injuring more than 40 others.
( This is just horrible )

* Ridley Scott is blaming millenials for tanking his film The Last Duel when it hit theaters in October.

( Scott's rant at millenials for not seeing his film )

Uhm, we're still in a pandemic? The news is grim. And this is a film that takes place in Medevial Times, about a man (Adam Driver) who sexually assault a woman. Her husband challenges him to a Duel. The Duel will decide whether she's telling the truth. If her husband loses, she dies. The story is told in three perspectives, the husband's, the rapist's, and the wife's.

I don't know about any one else? But I don't want to pay $15-20 to see that in a movie theater in the middle of a pandemic. I can watch that on Netflix for free. Or HBO Max or Hulu for that matter. I want to see a big splashy special effects laden superhero flick where men and women join together to defeat monsters and save the world.

And I'm GenX.

* And our erstwhile former Governor continues to get blasted ...seriously the nursing home scandal has kind of killed his administration. That's why half of the top brass at the New York Department of Health resigned.
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Well, we kind of always knew he was corrupt. I mean everyone around him was, why not him? Lando used to speculate on when he'd get investigated why back in 2016.

The above was mostly about COVID though. If you've been reading my posts since 2020, you'll notice an interesting story going on with our Governor, who went from national hero to national embarrassment in the blink of an eye.

* I think Jeff Bezos much like Bill Gates before him is trying to redeem himself for being well...complicated?

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* Ah, Thanksgiving. I'm not doing anything but planning on going to a movie with a friend on Saturday - which for me is major. Well that and getting the flu shot via my doctor's appointment on Wed.

1. Most health experts agree that it’s OK to have a holiday gathering.

2. Thanksgiving will be the biggest test of the airline industry’s resilience since the pandemic began, with millions more passengers than last year. [Chidi and Wales are both traveling home for Thanksgiving this week - Chidi to Alabama, Wales to Kansas City. My family is staying home, and apart. Mother down in Hilton Head, Bro in upstate NY, me in NYC. We're okay about it. Traveling at Thanksgiving is a nightmare at the best of times.]

3. The vaccination status of your guests might become a topic of conversation — and conflict. Here’s some guidance on how to keep the peace.

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