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Drain is gurgling again..
May. 24th, 2022 09:02 pmIt is in the kitchen sink. It does that. Once the super wondered about it, and I said, it just does that.
Work was productive but also headache inducing.
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Oh, AA called in sick today - didn't see him at all. Thank god. Not because I don't want to see AA, but because I don't want someone who is sick wandering about infecting me. I just got over a bout with COVID, I don't want to get sick again on top of it. Speaking of? The fatigue is completely gone now. So are the other ailments, such as the tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, feeling of being winded, residual cough, and overall brain fog. Felt so much better today - which was a good thing since I had to host and facilitate a qualification hearing over MS Teams. BYT Manager came in late and listened in. She didn't insert herself at all, so I figure she liked how I handled it.
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Journeyed home without incident. Stopped off at the pharmacy to pick up some stuff most of which I probably don't need - such as Breyer's Natural Vanilla Ice Cream (which I've a weakness for - it's the only vanilla that I tend to like), Salsa, Nuts, Water, Kleenex, cheese sticks, hard boiled eggs, and ...remember when we could get fresh water from the tap without any worries?
Oh well, at any rate, came home. Took shower. Called mother back. Made dinner. Watched stupid soap opera - which I'm hate watching with mother at the moment (we'll see how long this lasts - mother and I don't hate watch well, we eventually get fed up and stop). Stupid soap opera (and it really is stupid at the moment - the writing is so bad that you can drive a truck through all the plot holes. And worse, it's boring. It had the worst sweeps of all the soaps - yes the soaps still do ratings sweeps) - but I digress.
It was interrupted at the end by the news announcing the Texas Elementary School Shooting, with 21 dead and counting. Some nitwit gun freak 18 year old armored himself up and took two assault rifles into an elementary school and killed a bunch of kids and teachers, after he shot his grandmother or his mother, I can't remember which.
Social media was agog with the information.
Mother: I don't remember any of this when I was a kid or you were kids -
Me: Well we didn't have our media back then -
Mother: No, they'd have reported it.
Me: It's the availability of guns. I wrote a book about it - in my first chapter I talk about how easy it is to get a gun and the type of damage a gun can do to the human body. But Americans romanticize guns.
Mother: No other country does this. I listened to the President speak at 8:30 pm and he was furious and fed up.
So am I. I'm also tired. A 48 year old investment banker was shot in the chest on the Q train on Sunday. Last week a gunman, a young man, shot up a grocery store in upstate New York. Today, over 21 people, most of them children, were shot and killed in a Texas Elementary School.
Americans unlike other countries - romanticize guns. We have a "gun" culture in the US, it is why we have always made the Most Dangerous Countries in the World List.
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Sorry. Not Sorry. I hate guns.
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New book is more entertaining, and I actually look forward to reading it, as opposed to zoning out during it. It also sparks my own imagination and ideas. This is Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong, who is a good writer. The dialogue is distinctive, not everyone sounds the same, and it furthers characterization and story. Also the description is informative and interesting. There's more of a precision of language and deftness of technique.
My only quibble? Is the time travel bit - I don't quite buy it. But we've already covered my issues with Time Travel. It is also a ghost story, and quite scary in places. Last night's chapter spooked me. It's an interesting novel, a romance wrapped around a ghost story, a time travel story, and a mystery.
( what the book is about )
Work was productive but also headache inducing.
( Read more... )
Oh, AA called in sick today - didn't see him at all. Thank god. Not because I don't want to see AA, but because I don't want someone who is sick wandering about infecting me. I just got over a bout with COVID, I don't want to get sick again on top of it. Speaking of? The fatigue is completely gone now. So are the other ailments, such as the tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, feeling of being winded, residual cough, and overall brain fog. Felt so much better today - which was a good thing since I had to host and facilitate a qualification hearing over MS Teams. BYT Manager came in late and listened in. She didn't insert herself at all, so I figure she liked how I handled it.
**
Journeyed home without incident. Stopped off at the pharmacy to pick up some stuff most of which I probably don't need - such as Breyer's Natural Vanilla Ice Cream (which I've a weakness for - it's the only vanilla that I tend to like), Salsa, Nuts, Water, Kleenex, cheese sticks, hard boiled eggs, and ...remember when we could get fresh water from the tap without any worries?
Oh well, at any rate, came home. Took shower. Called mother back. Made dinner. Watched stupid soap opera - which I'm hate watching with mother at the moment (we'll see how long this lasts - mother and I don't hate watch well, we eventually get fed up and stop). Stupid soap opera (and it really is stupid at the moment - the writing is so bad that you can drive a truck through all the plot holes. And worse, it's boring. It had the worst sweeps of all the soaps - yes the soaps still do ratings sweeps) - but I digress.
It was interrupted at the end by the news announcing the Texas Elementary School Shooting, with 21 dead and counting. Some nitwit gun freak 18 year old armored himself up and took two assault rifles into an elementary school and killed a bunch of kids and teachers, after he shot his grandmother or his mother, I can't remember which.
Social media was agog with the information.
Mother: I don't remember any of this when I was a kid or you were kids -
Me: Well we didn't have our media back then -
Mother: No, they'd have reported it.
Me: It's the availability of guns. I wrote a book about it - in my first chapter I talk about how easy it is to get a gun and the type of damage a gun can do to the human body. But Americans romanticize guns.
Mother: No other country does this. I listened to the President speak at 8:30 pm and he was furious and fed up.
So am I. I'm also tired. A 48 year old investment banker was shot in the chest on the Q train on Sunday. Last week a gunman, a young man, shot up a grocery store in upstate New York. Today, over 21 people, most of them children, were shot and killed in a Texas Elementary School.
Americans unlike other countries - romanticize guns. We have a "gun" culture in the US, it is why we have always made the Most Dangerous Countries in the World List.
( Read more... )
Sorry. Not Sorry. I hate guns.
***
New book is more entertaining, and I actually look forward to reading it, as opposed to zoning out during it. It also sparks my own imagination and ideas. This is Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong, who is a good writer. The dialogue is distinctive, not everyone sounds the same, and it furthers characterization and story. Also the description is informative and interesting. There's more of a precision of language and deftness of technique.
My only quibble? Is the time travel bit - I don't quite buy it. But we've already covered my issues with Time Travel. It is also a ghost story, and quite scary in places. Last night's chapter spooked me. It's an interesting novel, a romance wrapped around a ghost story, a time travel story, and a mystery.
( what the book is about )