Y2/D308 - Mercury in Retrograde or Definitely Feels like it..

I went into the office today. And, ran into CB and Jay (who are on the A schedule).

CB and Jay: Hello SK
Me: Uh, wait...

I wander about and run into Chidi and Moscow (who are not on my schedule. I'm on the B schedule, they are on the A schedule).

Me: Okay, am I here on the wrong day?
Moscow: Yup.
Chidi: Hi Sk, oh, you came in on the wrong day.
Me: But, last week was Monday, Wed, Friday -
Chidi: The holiday threw everything off.
Moscow: I can give you a print-off of the right schedule? If you want it.

Silly me, I figured if last week was Monday, Wed, & Friday. This week would be Tuesday and Thursday. Apparently I was wrong. I swear everyone in my organization flunked logic 101.

Me in an email to management: So, I didn't get the updated schedule and came in on the wrong day. Not a problem, I can just WFH tomorrow and come in again on Friday.
BYT: Do you need the updated schedule, I can send it to you?
Me: Moscow already did.
BYT sends it anyhow.
Me in followup email: Or maybe I should just come in tomorrow and stay out Thursday and Friday?
BYT: No, stay out Wednesday only.
Me: Okay, now I'm confused. Do I stay out Wed and Thursday or just Wed?
[Also, am I being penalized for an honest mistake?]
BYT: No, I'm not penalizing you, I'm trying to work with you.
I meant to say stay out Wed and Thursday, and go back to the B schedule on Friday.

Chidi was upset at the end of the day for spending the entire day talking to his cubicle wall mate, and not getting work done. Apparently he's suffering from the same cabin fever that I am. I honestly think I came in on the wrong day - because I could not handle being cooped up another day in my apartment. Three was more than enough.

( the last half of the January Meme, because I drew a blank on the first half and want to answer it briefly, besides it is the end of January any how.. )

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Mother called to inform me that she just ordered the free COVID test from the US federal government online. While I informed her that I had purchased about $85 worth of masks and sent them to her.

ME: They are available? (the tests, not the masks - the masks have been available for ages and alas, are not free).
Mother: Yep, just ordered one online. I just called to tell you that.

Mother has finally accepted the fact that she cannot bring my Dad home. She no longer can envision him with her, and the person she does envision is no longer him - it's who he was before COVID began. He's too far gone now. It's as if he's living inside his dreams, with mother, and the rest of us, occasionally jumping in and out of them. Today he was doing a cross-word puzzle in his head, with various old co-workers, and hunting the key to it, so he could win a $1000. It made no sense, and sounded like a dream. It's true in a way, as some of us age the membranes between dreams, memories and reality seem to grow thin. Reality blurs.

The mind is weird.

Anyhow, the US Government has decided to send the highly accurate rapid at home tests to all residences within the US starting the last week in January.

"COVID-19 tests will start shipping in late January. USPS will only send one set of 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests to valid residential addresses."

Go HERE.

This is a savings of $28-60 per box. That's how much they were charging for the things at pharmacies, until they ran out of them.

At work, co-workers advised that most folks had either been exposed to COVID or had it. And that the true number of people who either had it or tested for it or died, wasn't recorded. I agree with that - I know too many people who tested positive that aren't in the system, because they took the at-home test, which is accurate in regards to positive test results.

Wales informed me that she definitely had COVID and tested positive, got it from the Met, most likely. Poor thing. She had herself all revved up, going to opera, delivering food - and wham. Oh, getting the tickets she got for the MET is a sign of the times - normally it's completely sold out.
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I kind of fell down the rabbit hole on Twitter regarding the Whedon article. There are some true assholes on social media, mainly hanging out on Twitter, hence the reason I'm careful on Twitter. People tend to ignore me on Twitter - I only have 41 followers, and most of them are folks I knew here, or on Soap Twitter. I like being ignored. Being a Big Fan Name is something I do not want ever again. I kind of became that once - in the Buffy fandom, and it was scary.

The Whedon interview was weird. ( Read more... )

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Should go to bed. Current game plan is to get up at the same time as today, 5:40 am, and do laundry at 6 am. The laundry room opens between 6 am and 9pm.

Maybe no one will be down there? One can hope.