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1. Mother's close friend, Anita, (aka "MG" or "Mean Girlfriend") passed away at 11 am this morning. ( kind of painful and triggering for anyone who has lost someone to cancer )
As an aside, I feel at times when I tell stories of my relationships with people in these posts, you see the relationships ebb and flow and change. As do I. It's poignant in a way. If I ever decide to read back on it.
2. I'm in spreadsheet hell at work. I've decided to create logs of the things I'm doing, to keep track of the work and to give myself something to do.
The only problem is I'm horrible at keeping track of stuff in spreadsheets or lists - because I have a tendency to forget I have them or that I'm doing them or where I put them. I'm the sort of person who will write up a grocery list and forget to bring it. I have a calendar pill container to keep track of the pills I take each day - because otherwise I'll forget to take them. Sometimes I take them out of the wrong day and get confused.
I suck at outlining for this reason - I start out well enough, then forget where I'm going with the outline and get caught up in the numbering and lettering scheme. I'd have made a horrible academic, and a horrible lawyer, both are into outlining.
3. Commute
5:30 pm Tuesday - Wales: I'm waiting for the bus, because someone was struck by a train at 15th Street Station.
8:30 pm Tuesday - Me: Oh, just two hours later they were struck by a train at 4th Avenue and 9th Streets..
10 AM - Wedensday- Wales: There were 4 people struck by trains within a 24 hour period in Brooklyn yesterday.
This is getting bad.( Read more... )
4. Bridge Collapse.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
We've been discussing this at work, mainly because some of us have done bridge construction contracts/procurements and know what is entailed.
It was a flimsy bridge - came down like a toy bridge when that container ship hit it. Also a fairly recent one, all things considered, built in 1975. (Most bridges are older than that.) Granted the 70s weren't known for quality construction methodology.
They are going to replace it - kind of have to - it serves over 30,000 commuters daily. It's has four lane highway on it. And the workers on the bridge were able to clear it and close the bridge to traffic prior to its collapse, saving thousands of lives, but alas, not their own. eight workers were on the bridge filling pot holes when it collapsed, two appear to have survived.
5. Meanwhile, there was a fire in my neighborhood that spread from East Third Street between Beverly Road and Avenue C - where about three homes caught fire and two were completely destroyed. One woman was in critical condition. ( Read more... )
6. My apartment smells oddly of soap. I think this is due to the lighting of various candles to cleanse the apartment of various smells from cleaning out the fridge? And people cooking next door and in the apartments around me? It worked, now I just smell soap. But I didn't realize the candles smelled like soap when I bought them.
As an aside, I feel at times when I tell stories of my relationships with people in these posts, you see the relationships ebb and flow and change. As do I. It's poignant in a way. If I ever decide to read back on it.
2. I'm in spreadsheet hell at work. I've decided to create logs of the things I'm doing, to keep track of the work and to give myself something to do.
The only problem is I'm horrible at keeping track of stuff in spreadsheets or lists - because I have a tendency to forget I have them or that I'm doing them or where I put them. I'm the sort of person who will write up a grocery list and forget to bring it. I have a calendar pill container to keep track of the pills I take each day - because otherwise I'll forget to take them. Sometimes I take them out of the wrong day and get confused.
I suck at outlining for this reason - I start out well enough, then forget where I'm going with the outline and get caught up in the numbering and lettering scheme. I'd have made a horrible academic, and a horrible lawyer, both are into outlining.
3. Commute
5:30 pm Tuesday - Wales: I'm waiting for the bus, because someone was struck by a train at 15th Street Station.
8:30 pm Tuesday - Me: Oh, just two hours later they were struck by a train at 4th Avenue and 9th Streets..
10 AM - Wedensday- Wales: There were 4 people struck by trains within a 24 hour period in Brooklyn yesterday.
This is getting bad.( Read more... )
4. Bridge Collapse.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
We've been discussing this at work, mainly because some of us have done bridge construction contracts/procurements and know what is entailed.
It was a flimsy bridge - came down like a toy bridge when that container ship hit it. Also a fairly recent one, all things considered, built in 1975. (Most bridges are older than that.) Granted the 70s weren't known for quality construction methodology.
They are going to replace it - kind of have to - it serves over 30,000 commuters daily. It's has four lane highway on it. And the workers on the bridge were able to clear it and close the bridge to traffic prior to its collapse, saving thousands of lives, but alas, not their own. eight workers were on the bridge filling pot holes when it collapsed, two appear to have survived.
5. Meanwhile, there was a fire in my neighborhood that spread from East Third Street between Beverly Road and Avenue C - where about three homes caught fire and two were completely destroyed. One woman was in critical condition. ( Read more... )
6. My apartment smells oddly of soap. I think this is due to the lighting of various candles to cleanse the apartment of various smells from cleaning out the fridge? And people cooking next door and in the apartments around me? It worked, now I just smell soap. But I didn't realize the candles smelled like soap when I bought them.