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Dec. 17th, 2021 09:28 pmOne more day until I fly down to see my Momma, and my father.
She's feeling better, so head cold. She cancelled her dinner plans for Saturday and didn't see my Dad today, because head cold.
The head cold is going around. In the era of COVID, everyone is afraid its COVID.
Sigh, I want to smack Wales.
( Read more... )
I am weirdly not stressed at the moment, which makes me realize a lot of this could be attributed to work stress. My workplace is somewhat chaotic.
But I got everything I needed to get done, done. Everything that isn't completed can be done in January. (I'm going to be very busy in January, I'm half-way hoping we go remote again. But if we do, I may have to get Optimum to upgrade the wi-fi.)
Also, I don't have to pack until tomorrow. (I learned never to pack until the day before a trip. Otherwise I will stress about it constantly, and keep packing and repacking. I also finally realized the trick to packing is to accept that no matter what I pack it will be the wrong things. Because, honestly, it's a guessing game. And it's not like I can bring my entire closet with me. Although David Bowie apparently did, he also had a private plane.) Packing always stresses me out, because it's a guessing game, and I'm terrified I'll forget something crucial.
Talked to cubicle aisle mate today about it. She said she's learned to fill her head with positive thoughts. And not to stress over what she can't control. Push the rest away.
***
COVID has risen in the city. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, Omicron is now virulent across the state. In three days the infection rate in Brooklyn jumped from 3% to 6.7% and the total rate in the state to 7.8%, first such jump since July. It's the unvaccinated that everyone is concerned about.
They do not want to do another lockdown. I don't know, I kind of do want another one. But that's my anxiety talking. It likes lock downs. It can huddle in my apartment and not have to deal with that many people.
Broadway has cancelled various shows due to cast members contracting the virus. (They are fully vaccinated). Cornell in Ithaca, NY has gone remote again due to an outbreak - all 900 of its students were vaccinated. Restaurants have closed due to staff calling in sick with the virus. Crazy workplace has upped its testing protocols, and now has drop in boxes for the saliva test. There's a box you pick up in, and a box you drop it off in, and they have staffed testing at various locations. It's also indicated various rules regarding what you do if you get COVID. I printed them off just in case.
On the Train ride home today, there was a bunch of idiots not wearing masks, young adults mostly at the front end of the car. Those of us with masks, retreated to the back end and got off there. I went to the front, saw a guy with his bike, someone with a scooter, and two other folks, with no real mask on outside of a bandana, and retreated quickly to the back of the car. Usually more folks are wearing masks. I wear a KN94. It's disposable and I have a new one each day. Also have KN95's. And the cloth and surgical masks. Hard and soft. (Basically I have a collection of masks in my closet.) I wear them everywhere I go, outside or inside. I live in a city. I wear them all day at work except in my own cubicle - because of the mask mandate and its not safe.
Work is getting slightly better - in that I get along with BYT better than expected and much better than I did with Boss. Also about the same as Jay.
I understand how she thinks. And she's not Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, thank god.
***
Mother informed me that she felt no anxiety driving to the airport to pick me up on Sunday, which is good, since I'll probably have enough for both of us. I'm considering re-thinking this whole visiting at Xmas deal. It's incredibly stressful. I'm not uncertain that any other time of year would be far less stressful.
***
COVID
( Dealing with Omicron )
Yeah, I've done all of this. I'm using a home test before traveling. I am wearing masks. I am social distancing. Staying out of crowded settings as much as I can. Sunday, I'll be going into one. But then I'm with mother, and we can most likely limit it.
There's information on masks in the NY Times. I have KN95 and KF94's made in Korea. The KF94's are the best - mainly because you can speak through them, breath, they have no gaps, and 95% filtration. I wear them at work. I adopted the buggers over the summer. Moved gradually from the cloth to the surgical, to the KN95 to KF94. Double masking isn't going to work - I won't be able to breath.
The N95's are hard to find. But available. Also not as comfortable.
( more on Omicron )
Yeah, that's why I'm took the home rapid tests. Also, I've got the booster - got it in October. And got the Flu shot in November.
There's two mobile outdoor testing sites in my neighborhood, next to the subway, one outside Atlantic Terminal, an urgent care testing site, Wallgreens apparently does it, and so does my work place. Rapid Home Tests come in and out of Wallgreens. They came in on Wednesday and were sold out before Friday. They can't keep them on the shelves. I bought two boxes. One for before I go down, and one for when I return. Mother bought two boxes too.
( Read more... )
Sigh. Traveling by plane is going to be fun. But the truth is - I've been commuting in and out of the Air Train Building - a major transportation hub off and on since July. Taking trains, and subways with folks who may be sick and not gotten tested.
I've not gotten sick outside of an allergy attack that lasted just one day.
Elsewhere:
* France plans to tighten restrictions on the unvaccinated.
* Britain recorded more than 93,000 daily infections, a new high.
* For the staff at one inundated Michigan hospital, “you come back to work and you ask who died.”
* Boeing joined other federal contractors in dropping its vaccine mandate.
* An Italian province has relied on pure air and herbal remedies. But nature isn’t protecting it from the coronavirus.
* Three Iranians tried to sue the country’s supreme leader over Covid but were jailed before they could file the complaint.
* The N.F.L. rescheduled three games amid an outbreak of “a new, highly transmissible form of the virus.”
***
Random Photo of the Evening...
She's feeling better, so head cold. She cancelled her dinner plans for Saturday and didn't see my Dad today, because head cold.
The head cold is going around. In the era of COVID, everyone is afraid its COVID.
Sigh, I want to smack Wales.
( Read more... )
I am weirdly not stressed at the moment, which makes me realize a lot of this could be attributed to work stress. My workplace is somewhat chaotic.
But I got everything I needed to get done, done. Everything that isn't completed can be done in January. (I'm going to be very busy in January, I'm half-way hoping we go remote again. But if we do, I may have to get Optimum to upgrade the wi-fi.)
Also, I don't have to pack until tomorrow. (I learned never to pack until the day before a trip. Otherwise I will stress about it constantly, and keep packing and repacking. I also finally realized the trick to packing is to accept that no matter what I pack it will be the wrong things. Because, honestly, it's a guessing game. And it's not like I can bring my entire closet with me. Although David Bowie apparently did, he also had a private plane.) Packing always stresses me out, because it's a guessing game, and I'm terrified I'll forget something crucial.
Talked to cubicle aisle mate today about it. She said she's learned to fill her head with positive thoughts. And not to stress over what she can't control. Push the rest away.
***
COVID has risen in the city. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, Omicron is now virulent across the state. In three days the infection rate in Brooklyn jumped from 3% to 6.7% and the total rate in the state to 7.8%, first such jump since July. It's the unvaccinated that everyone is concerned about.
They do not want to do another lockdown. I don't know, I kind of do want another one. But that's my anxiety talking. It likes lock downs. It can huddle in my apartment and not have to deal with that many people.
Broadway has cancelled various shows due to cast members contracting the virus. (They are fully vaccinated). Cornell in Ithaca, NY has gone remote again due to an outbreak - all 900 of its students were vaccinated. Restaurants have closed due to staff calling in sick with the virus. Crazy workplace has upped its testing protocols, and now has drop in boxes for the saliva test. There's a box you pick up in, and a box you drop it off in, and they have staffed testing at various locations. It's also indicated various rules regarding what you do if you get COVID. I printed them off just in case.
On the Train ride home today, there was a bunch of idiots not wearing masks, young adults mostly at the front end of the car. Those of us with masks, retreated to the back end and got off there. I went to the front, saw a guy with his bike, someone with a scooter, and two other folks, with no real mask on outside of a bandana, and retreated quickly to the back of the car. Usually more folks are wearing masks. I wear a KN94. It's disposable and I have a new one each day. Also have KN95's. And the cloth and surgical masks. Hard and soft. (Basically I have a collection of masks in my closet.) I wear them everywhere I go, outside or inside. I live in a city. I wear them all day at work except in my own cubicle - because of the mask mandate and its not safe.
Work is getting slightly better - in that I get along with BYT better than expected and much better than I did with Boss. Also about the same as Jay.
I understand how she thinks. And she's not Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, thank god.
***
Mother informed me that she felt no anxiety driving to the airport to pick me up on Sunday, which is good, since I'll probably have enough for both of us. I'm considering re-thinking this whole visiting at Xmas deal. It's incredibly stressful. I'm not uncertain that any other time of year would be far less stressful.
***
COVID
( Dealing with Omicron )
Yeah, I've done all of this. I'm using a home test before traveling. I am wearing masks. I am social distancing. Staying out of crowded settings as much as I can. Sunday, I'll be going into one. But then I'm with mother, and we can most likely limit it.
There's information on masks in the NY Times. I have KN95 and KF94's made in Korea. The KF94's are the best - mainly because you can speak through them, breath, they have no gaps, and 95% filtration. I wear them at work. I adopted the buggers over the summer. Moved gradually from the cloth to the surgical, to the KN95 to KF94. Double masking isn't going to work - I won't be able to breath.
The N95's are hard to find. But available. Also not as comfortable.
( more on Omicron )
Yeah, that's why I'm took the home rapid tests. Also, I've got the booster - got it in October. And got the Flu shot in November.
There's two mobile outdoor testing sites in my neighborhood, next to the subway, one outside Atlantic Terminal, an urgent care testing site, Wallgreens apparently does it, and so does my work place. Rapid Home Tests come in and out of Wallgreens. They came in on Wednesday and were sold out before Friday. They can't keep them on the shelves. I bought two boxes. One for before I go down, and one for when I return. Mother bought two boxes too.
( Read more... )
Sigh. Traveling by plane is going to be fun. But the truth is - I've been commuting in and out of the Air Train Building - a major transportation hub off and on since July. Taking trains, and subways with folks who may be sick and not gotten tested.
I've not gotten sick outside of an allergy attack that lasted just one day.
Elsewhere:
* France plans to tighten restrictions on the unvaccinated.
* Britain recorded more than 93,000 daily infections, a new high.
* For the staff at one inundated Michigan hospital, “you come back to work and you ask who died.”
* Boeing joined other federal contractors in dropping its vaccine mandate.
* An Italian province has relied on pure air and herbal remedies. But nature isn’t protecting it from the coronavirus.
* Three Iranians tried to sue the country’s supreme leader over Covid but were jailed before they could file the complaint.
* The N.F.L. rescheduled three games amid an outbreak of “a new, highly transmissible form of the virus.”
***
Random Photo of the Evening...