Spontaneous Musings

I get Knocked Down

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:01:48 GMT

Title is from a song playing on This is Us which I'm half-watching, decided it didn't fit, then changed my mind, since it kind of does? Use your imagination and really I'm not sure I care if no one else sees the connection..."I get knocked down, but I get up again.."

I do. Sometimes. But lately, part of me just wants to stay down. One gets tired. You know?

But in a romance novel I've been reading on the train to and from work...there was a statement about how life is rather capricious, and precious, and we're all lucky to have it - since it's kind of a gift and all we have.

So. There's that.

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Last night I got annoyed, at 10 pm, reading emails, so had troubles settling down for sleep. Note to self - don't read emails at 10 pm or later.

1. Email #1 was from credit card telling me that they'd declined my payment request on two items - because I hadn't paid the last amount, even though I paid in mid-March. And was only five-eight days late. [I discovered it while buying more masks on Amazon - because I'm almost out of KN94's again.]

Mother: What? Why not just charge a late fee?
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But it was annoying. Since it's into me paying on the due date - I set up auto minimum payments.

2. Email #2 was from Weaving Fabric of Diversity - about an auction at the church. Only problem? Two folks in the group responded that since there was segregation going on in the church - they were setting up their own event.

Author of original email (AOE): Segregated? What??
MDW (respondent): We're segregated because the church requires people to be vaccinated to wear masks - so those of us who don't want to (lists all the reasons in tiny print), are segregated.
( what pissed me off )

Okay. Last Night I was furious. And it took me a little bit to calm down. I did - I've been meditating for well over five years now, and can kind of do it on my own. Push things off to one side - the uncontrollables - and dear god, there are so many. Aren't there? Uncontrollables? My father used to call them that - he'd tell me, "Don't sweat the uncontrollables" - the things outside of our control. And try as I might? I cannot control what other people do. Or the choices they make. I can only control my own and even that - is often questionable.

I knew the hardest part of the pandemic wouldn't be the beginning of it, but this section here - after we got the vaccine. Because I've read my history books and seen it happen over and over again. People don't trust things, easily. And the things they do trust often make no sense.
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Subway Shooter - was caught today. ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow, I may throw caution to the winds and find a place to eat with project manager. Poor guy - just returned from a vacation in Northern Mexico with his wife who is from there. He doesn't have COVID.

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Finished watching This is Us episode which is about a divorce, and a remarriage. I liked it, and didn't at the same time. ( Spoilers )

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Romance novel is slightly better. In it, the heroine's father is blown off a jetty by a wave, and she never sees him again. That I can buy. And isn't quite as cliche tragedy.

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Off to bed. Wish me luck tomorrow - I just want to make it through the first site tour I've had since 2020. (I've been dreading it for well over a year now, tried to get out of doing it twice - I can't. And the guy I could have convinced to sub for me - took off. So I'm stuck with it.)

Leaving you with... I get Knocked Down....

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Crazy Workplace is trying to kill me again...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:01:49 GMT

(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.]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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Yet another Mass Shooting in America...

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 02:45:36 GMT

1. Mass Shootings in the US Since Sandy Hook, utilizing data from the National Gun Violence Database

Since Sandy Hook, there have been 1,885 mass shootings in the US.

So far in 2018, 290 people have been killed and 1216 wounded in 299 mass shootings.
Methodology

Mass shooting data comes from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as events in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed at the same general time and location. GVA’s definition differs from other definitions of mass shootings, which may require that four or more people are killed or exclude certain shootings, such as gang-related and domestic events.

2. Deadliest Mass Shootings in the US 1984-2017

3. Co-worker on Friday: "They had another shooting, three people killed."
Me: Really? Where?
Co-worker: Some business. They just announced it. It's almost as if they've gotten so used to it now, that CNN doesn't even bother reporting it in depth, unless it's more than a handful of people.
Me: Ugh. Guns. Ugh.

We've had two shootings this week alone.

Three Hate-Filled Crimes in the space of 72 Hours

Buffy: Guns? Never Useful. (She bends it in half.)

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