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(I'm exaggerating. This is my sense of humor, which apparently runs in my family.)
Me: Checking in - I'm safe. Subway shooting was nowhere near me.
Bro: Yea, I checked you're proximity and figured you'd have a hard time getting a gun. Too soon? Sorry.. Glad you're okay.
Mother: LOL!
Me: Every time I take the subway with the "children" on it, I have two thoughts, 1) I'm glad I never had kids, and 2) the sudden desire to go back in time and neuter my entire generation.
Mother: LOL!
So see? We have a dark sense of humor in my family. [I find the MASH theme song amusing.]
***
Luckily for me - I left for work at 6:30 am, and got there at 7:54 am. I was seated at my desk, working away, when some nitwit decided to board a subway with a gas mask, and open fire on the poor passengers. It was on a "moving" train and during rush hour (8:30 or thereabouts). 16-19 people were injured, at least 10 fatally shot. Scary and tragic.
The subway line was the R line. I take the G train, or the Q, if it's not working. Sometimes the F to the R if hard pressed, but that's further north. And not today.
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COVID
Less and less masks on subways and stations. It's annoying. Also hardly anyone wears them at work - outside of a few colleagues in my area of cubicle land. I told folks going on the site tour - that since it is being held outdoors - we weren't enforcing masks.
According to Mother, the Mayor has COVID now.
And my Doctor wants me to get the fourth shot or second booster. (I would rather rate until it is easy to come by. Since she's not giving it to me, and neither is crazy company...I see no rush. Doc is recommending it to all patients over 50.) Doc also wants to increase Metroformin to 1000 at night, and 500 in the morning, with statins for Cholesterol.
Mother is throwing caution to the winds and going to see Hamilton in Charleston with her retirement center in July. She figures her knee will be healed by then. If not, she'll find someone who can buy her ticket.
***
I may not get to see my niece in April after all. Apparently her boyfriend is coming up for her birthday, and then she's expected to go back with him to Virginia. Apparently, he's been traveling to see her - so now it's her turn? Oh poor baby - he had to go all the way to London and Scotland to see his girlfriend. Must be tough. The travails of the rich.
I foresee issues in my niece's future regarding social work. From her perspective there's the extremely wealthy and there's my niece's family.
Mother: well she is studying poverty.
Me: Not the same thing.
***
Determined that the woozy/dizziness of yesterday, which I felt again today - was most likely not do to the CBD as previously thought, but due to the combination of allergies and shifts in barometric pressure playing havoc with my ves·tib·u·lar system. (When you look up a word on Google - it has an audio of the word, and phonetic spelling. I looked it up because while I have a great vocabulary, I can't spell. ) Anyhow, I figured this out when it happened again at work this morning - and was quickly remedied with a tynenol sinus allergy pill.
**
Anyhow, hoping everyone has a safe night and a safe rest of the week. No crazy gunmen disrupting it. Workplace sent out an email telling us to be safe. (It did not say avoid the trains - since obviously we couldn't.) Also I happen to work for a transportation agency. On the way home, there were police all over the place. Atlantic Avenue Terminal had cops with dogs. Why they needed dogs, I don't know. Can the German Shepards sniff out guns? (They always use German Shepards, and Doberman's for some reason.)
Me: Checking in - I'm safe. Subway shooting was nowhere near me.
Bro: Yea, I checked you're proximity and figured you'd have a hard time getting a gun. Too soon? Sorry.. Glad you're okay.
Mother: LOL!
Me: Every time I take the subway with the "children" on it, I have two thoughts, 1) I'm glad I never had kids, and 2) the sudden desire to go back in time and neuter my entire generation.
Mother: LOL!
So see? We have a dark sense of humor in my family. [I find the MASH theme song amusing.]
***
Luckily for me - I left for work at 6:30 am, and got there at 7:54 am. I was seated at my desk, working away, when some nitwit decided to board a subway with a gas mask, and open fire on the poor passengers. It was on a "moving" train and during rush hour (8:30 or thereabouts). 16-19 people were injured, at least 10 fatally shot. Scary and tragic.
The subway line was the R line. I take the G train, or the Q, if it's not working. Sometimes the F to the R if hard pressed, but that's further north. And not today.
( Read more... )
***
COVID
Less and less masks on subways and stations. It's annoying. Also hardly anyone wears them at work - outside of a few colleagues in my area of cubicle land. I told folks going on the site tour - that since it is being held outdoors - we weren't enforcing masks.
According to Mother, the Mayor has COVID now.
And my Doctor wants me to get the fourth shot or second booster. (I would rather rate until it is easy to come by. Since she's not giving it to me, and neither is crazy company...I see no rush. Doc is recommending it to all patients over 50.) Doc also wants to increase Metroformin to 1000 at night, and 500 in the morning, with statins for Cholesterol.
Mother is throwing caution to the winds and going to see Hamilton in Charleston with her retirement center in July. She figures her knee will be healed by then. If not, she'll find someone who can buy her ticket.
***
I may not get to see my niece in April after all. Apparently her boyfriend is coming up for her birthday, and then she's expected to go back with him to Virginia. Apparently, he's been traveling to see her - so now it's her turn? Oh poor baby - he had to go all the way to London and Scotland to see his girlfriend. Must be tough. The travails of the rich.
I foresee issues in my niece's future regarding social work. From her perspective there's the extremely wealthy and there's my niece's family.
Mother: well she is studying poverty.
Me: Not the same thing.
***
Determined that the woozy/dizziness of yesterday, which I felt again today - was most likely not do to the CBD as previously thought, but due to the combination of allergies and shifts in barometric pressure playing havoc with my ves·tib·u·lar system. (When you look up a word on Google - it has an audio of the word, and phonetic spelling. I looked it up because while I have a great vocabulary, I can't spell. ) Anyhow, I figured this out when it happened again at work this morning - and was quickly remedied with a tynenol sinus allergy pill.
**
Anyhow, hoping everyone has a safe night and a safe rest of the week. No crazy gunmen disrupting it. Workplace sent out an email telling us to be safe. (It did not say avoid the trains - since obviously we couldn't.) Also I happen to work for a transportation agency. On the way home, there were police all over the place. Atlantic Avenue Terminal had cops with dogs. Why they needed dogs, I don't know. Can the German Shepards sniff out guns? (They always use German Shepards, and Doberman's for some reason.)