I returned from warm and beautiful Arizona to cold and crappy New York. And I’m wondering why I did. After being in a state where the COVID crap is much more measured and reasonable, the people are less insane, and the snow is also much more measured and reasonable, I’m really not sure why I came back.
As I was in airports it was truly like the people got more insane the closer I got to New York. Travelers in Arizona? Pretty chill.
In Baltimore? Every traveler I encountered in the airport was a lunatic.
A Middle Eastern man threw a temper tantrum at Starbucks when they didn’t have sugar packets out. The Middle Eastern kid working behind the bar at Starbucks said it would be just a moment, he’ll go get sugar packets when he was done making my drink.
The customer then started calling everyone assholes and demanded to speak to the manager. The black woman behind the cash register came over and said she is the manager, and the customer laughed in her face. Said there’s no way she could ever be manager, but if she really is, he’ll “take it up the chain” so he could get her fired.
Oh, and he did this all in front of his 12 (ish) year old son.
He was by far the worst lunatic I encountered.
But, then I had the misfortune to be in the boarding line behind a Progressive Karen (surely there is a demonym for progressives who hail from Karenlandia?) who was bragging about all the people she yells at about wearing masks. She let loose on her husband and her son. People who were in the boarding area eating without masks on. And also a crew member who came in from the Jetway and had a scarf on instead of a mask.
Back in New York, I come across a lot of people like this, but fortunately not everybody here is a complete lunatic.
I currently tend bar at what appears to be the last bastion for libertarians in the state. I have half a dozen conversations every day with random libertarians.
Last night I was chatting with a couple at the bar, and my husband told our boss he doesn’t understand how I can talk to people so effortlessly.
I told him it’s because I can generally spot libertarians within 10 seconds of them coming into the bar. Libertarians are the ones who are like, “Yeah, these rules are complete bullshit, but I don’t want your business to get shut down.”
And sure enough we always end up in a conversation about all the COVID theatre, and our very own dictator.
Oberstgruppenführer Cuomo is truly running New York like his own little country. Bars have been closing at 10pm for months. Now it’s OK to be open until 11pm. As if that one hour makes a fucking difference? Really?
Across the board, things here are much worse than they are in Arizona, and coming back was a giant pain in the ass.
I have another post coming soon about the insanity I went through to get back into New York. But that’s neither here nor there at the moment.
What is here and there (I feel like there’s a Schrodinger joke waiting to be made), are my links and other random goodies from my browser history.
A pretty cool solar system quilt from 1876.
Thin Man Brewery. I love the movies; I’m iffy on the beers. Their Blanket The Seasons fruited sour was pretty fantastic though.
Bears Ears is on my list of places to visit.
I’m currently reading the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Gyaltsen Choden reflects on the Tibetans’ journey in exile.
What is this newspeak? I have not heard that one.
*tried to read the rest…taps out*
It’s not a muzzle.
It’s a niqab. Cover yourself, whore.
Including Halley’s comet, very cool!
Howdy WD!
I’d have bought that quilt. Makes me wonder about the person who designed it, and how it was received by her contemporaries, vs a classic geometric design.
Ooh, there are lots of non geometric designs in old quilts. See Story quilts, for example.
As some here know, I’m an internationally collected quilt artist. (Since there are thousands of us, I’m not doxxing myself.)
Check out the International Quilt Museum to see the breadth and depth of quilt making historically as well as now.
Multi-talented seems to be insufficient as a descriptor. And to think, you accomplished it all by age 7!
Precocious, I am.
What sort of person am I looking for to mend an older quilt that needs mending yesterday?
This quilt is over 100 years old, and has a feed sack as it’s backing. I’m just not sure where to start the search.
Local museum or local university art department (textiles)
Email me. Sp@ this domain
Music?
https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Love the quilt. Hate Cuomo. Miss you!
Right back at you SP.
That quilt is fantastic.
Thanks for the travelogue of insanity. I am glad I do not have to venture into airports these days since it seems half the world has lost its mind. I have been roaming in the wilds of grocery stores and such maskless for months with not a word said. I only comply when at work when around an upper crustacean. And even most of them think it is all bullshit yet we all comply like good rats in this experiment. Life’s a trip.
Progressive Karens = Portlander.
And holy cow that Atlantic article is bad.
“Karens don’t believe in vaccines.” Uh huh. It just got worse from there.
“Karens are white.”
kthx
I actually tried reading it. It just meanders from semi valid to utter nonsense beginning to end.
I’d suspect that the article itself is a reflection of karenhood, but Karens never hit the Semi-valid stage.
Now do the “greeted by the National Guard” part.
As a fellow prisoner this is what I want to know.
No spoilers, but that will be next week’s post!
I haven’t been more than a mile away from my house in over a year. I can only imagine what’s going on out there.
Well, L.A. traffic is still pretty decent. I’m taking 47 minutes to get home everyday. Used to take 90 minutes some days and 75 every day.
Holy fuck that quilt is awesome
I haven’t been to my new office in Downtown Chicago yet but now we’re discussing whether we want to work from home permanently or do a hybrid model. I think most people chose hybrid. But I started to think about the bars and restaurants servers who made big bucks serving angry and stressed out professionals during happy hours and work events. I remember the bars on Thursdays and Friday nights after work (especially during the Spring and Summer) being filled to the gills but are now either empty or closed.
Fuck the politicians and their cheerleaders who destroyed these people’s lives. The fucked up part is that the ones who are being assholes about the masks and shut downs are the ones who are sitting comfortably in their homes being able to work while lecturing others about shared sacrifice. Whenever I hear someone used that term, I ask, so what have you sacrificed? Have you lost your job? Has your pay been cut? If not, don’t lecture anyone on shared sacrifice until you are willing to do your part.
I miss not having to prepare lunch every day.
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That’s about all I miss about the office.
At first I hated working from home but now it’s awesome to not have to catch the Metra especially during the winter and not having to spend 300 dollars a month for a Monthly Metra ticket or give the village 75 bucks a month for a parking spot at the train station.
The extra 2-3 hours to myself every day are pretty nice, too. Although I miss my reading hours on the train.
I’ve been working in the office for all but a handful of days since June. On the one hand I’d have gone crazy if I had to continue working from home. On the other hand I’m elated so many of my coworkers have declined to return.
It definitely helps that nobody coming in regularly takes the mask nonsense or social distancing seriously. There’s been no talk about requiring vaccination or even helping employees get vaccinated. It’s very much don’t ask, don’t tell around here.
My work has been pretty steadfast in saying we don’t have to return to the office if we don’t want to. I think my office opened months ago – I forget how many since I have no intention of returning there under the current climate.
Yeah, the little college town here has been hammered by this bullshit. A once vibrant downtown that catered to both the college crowd and many of the outlying areas is now devastated, with empty storefronts up and down the streets, a massive homeless encampment just down the way, and a now shaky real estate market.
Thank the 9th Circus and the city of Boise in part for the homeless takeovers. It’s bad all over and the legislature is trying to force on the smaller towns that have been resistant to the homeless activist demands.
Only twenty years ago, there not one but two nicer menswear stores in downtown cowtown.
The ruling(s) on the homeless are infuriating. I doubt any of them will make it to the Supreme Court. I have my doubts they would survive if they did.
My sneaking suspicion is the city of Boise was happy with the outcome. It basically establishes municipalities have a duty to provide shelter. There was a longtime pissing that the local shelter there was a private Christian ran one rather than a public (or public supported irreligious grifting non-profit) shelter.
Call me a misogynist, but that Atlantic article just goes on and on. Nag, nag, nag.
That’s the first I’ve heard of Karens being exclusively white. I’ll say I’ve seen some very pissed off black women and they deserve a reputation too. There’s a hilarious video of some teenager out at one of the protests/riots and his mom comes and berates him while dragging him out of the place.
You’ve never heard of the “angry black woman” stereotype?
Yes, but I don’t think “angry black woman” is a useable name for it. Maybe, “Shareekeria” or something? I don’t know.
Though I agree in principle, I’m not touching that with a 10m pole.
“Oberstgruppenführer Cuomo is truly running New York like his own little country.”
At least that’s limited to his own state. If the Dems had their way, the whole country would be like that. Decentralization is much better, even though there will be large pockets of stupidity, which I am very familiar with being in California.
Dems need us to be uniform throughout the states do that people can’t indicate their preferences by voting with their feet.
I think we can file this under “No Shit, Sherlock.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/02/17/unemployed-workers-retraining/
Like all the bar maids at my favorite live music bar that the government killed dead just for sport?
No, the pandemic killed those jobs. Or Trump. Take your pick.
I know they didn’t do it for sport. They did it to win an election.
We have yet to venture to our home away from home haunt. It sucks. Those bartenders are our friends and they are reduced to pushing only big gamblers to sit at the bar.
Ill continue to drink at home I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8
*raises glass to OBE*
Excellent
They’ll just learn programming and have a better life. Or do a Green job.
AOC has this covered.
The United States needs to invest more in retraining workers, economists warn
When is that ever not their answer to any circumstance or incident, wartime and peacetime, pandemic or whatever, always and forever?
That insanity is my fucking life right now and it’s driving me to the edge. I feel for you, Webdom, I really do. Every day the only thing we talk about is how we can clamp down ever harder, how we can become ever woker, how we can crush the individual. The insanity is worldwide with a few state holdouts it seems like.
Side note…thanks for everyone who’s responded to my Gliba forum post. Still don’t know what to do but I’ve got some time to decide.
That’s my big worry. And it happened so fast.
It’s creepy.
In the words of Andrew Sullivan, we all live on campus now.
Didn’t see that, but hope you’re doing well. I’d hate to be a young couple trying to navigate this nonsense.
We just had our first kid too. You know how heartbreaking it is that my family won’t see their first grandchild until she’s almost a year old because of travel restrictions?
Every time she encounters someone with a mask, including me, she is confused. When we remove our masks she lights up! It’s tragic!
Yep. The tryants’ sycophants are incapable of seeing the negative effects of what they are advocating. Cognitive dissonance 101 and explains why they are so often filled with rage and hatred. Allow me to be cliche: at least you guys have each other.
It may be cliche but it’s always good to be reminded of it.
Every time she encounters someone with a mask, including me, she is confused. When we remove our masks she lights up! It’s tragic!
Yup. We’ve noticed the same thing. Babies don’t like it when everybody has a mask.
We are basically throwing her at people because everyone is terrified to hold her unless they’ve bathed in hand sanitizer.
I keep reminding myself that you can’t hold water in a clenched fist.
These fuckers are gonna fail.
I hope you are right my friend. I think so too, but between now and their failing is the part that worries me.
Tundra is wise. So are you. Keep your head on a swivel.
It is going to happen, sooner or later, the only real question is how much damage will be done in the meantime.
I uncharacteristically placed an order with KFC for pickup, hoping my sick hubby woul eat chicken tenders and mashed taters.
As I waited by the “online order pickup” spot, I saw all these workers juggling food orders and fulfilling them, getting closer to more strangers in 10 minutes than I’ve been around in 10 months.
The delivery workers, fast food workers, at-home car servicers—they are bearing the burden of lockdown far more than the white collar workers Zooming at home.
And the multigenerational Hispanic households are over represented in those jobs.
I read one article that acknowledged that fact. Then the article says “despite” near constant exposure to people, the Hispanic community see
D to have achieved herd immunity.
Um, shouldn’t that “despite” be changed to “because of”!
In spite of all that, which is admirable, turnover up here is terrible, from Meijer to my shop, no one seems to want to work.
very high turnover, and nice secure, well paying jobs for these parts, sheesh,
Nine times a Nazi? Blimey!
You’re once, twice, nine times a Nazi…
Elon, he’s so smart he forgets the word Perpendicular, because he’s on a roll?
If I’d never heard of the guy and someone asked me to judge a person named “Elon Musk”, my guess would be moron or genius.
He owns Rocket ships and a Volcanic Lair, how cool is that? Plus He’s African American,
Privateers!
“Global supervillain” would have been my guess. And it’s not too late.
But I don’t want to interrogate my whiteness. Not even sure how you do that. Can I start with water boarding my toaster?
Gin. You always do it with gin.
Like this?
https://youtu.be/zy1FiOk5FPY
Listen straff, we can do this da easy way or da hard way, your choice bub. For da last time ima gonna aks nicely. We know you know where da whiteness is at.
Very cool quilt. I am sharing that article with some non-Glibs.
The UT Bears Ears are okay. The entire Colorado Plateau has incredible amounts of stunning places. But, all in all, my favorite Bears Ears are the pair in the central part of the Wind River Mountains (WY). Distance, altitude, and the relatively meh climbing in the area keep them rarely visited.
I spent a week by myself camping (?) in my Vanagon at Arches. It was surreal and boy do I miss solo camping.
I’ve been solo camping for a year now, Fuck That, I needs me a Woman,
Probably can’t be much help for ya on that front, Yusef.
We gotta get you a woman!
It’s odd up here, the only thing around are large sand dunes they call hills, there are rumors’ of mountains to the East, probably rocks covered with sand,
/ I miss my home
Mirf in skin tight leather pants, riding her electric assist mirf mobile.
https://ibb.co/HgPHdws
“Mirf”
I laughed. Going to hell.
Apparently the way is paved with Grand Slams and mobile phones.
Now we’re guaranteed not to get snow or ice – Fairfax County govt is essentially shut tomorrow (i.e. 100% telework or use paid leave). I will wake up to bright & sunny skies for sure.
Same for Fedgov (telework means we never get snow days)
Yes, another reason I don’t like working from home.
I have a friend that is in Texas. She says she will have no power for a couple days. She for some reason doesn’t own a flash light or candles. Who doesn’t have Candles.
Where in TX?
Me, I have a shit ton of prep shit, I need candles, thanks for reminding me,
When we had rolling blackouts after the big Earthquake and Tsunami, candles were hot sellers. Because we use them for cooking nabe, almost every house already had the little gas cartridge stove. Also, being regular campers, we already had most of the stuff needed.
We didn’t need to break out the camping stove or emergency supplies here. The rolling blackouts were predictable enough that we could just wait until the next on cycle to warm the house back up and cook a meal.
I still picked up a few “nice to have” supplies to cover some gaps that were exposed this week.
Those little extras are awesome, aren’t they? Glad to hear it’s going as smoothly as possible.
I have duraflame logs, a butane stove, and a fie pit with wood, in my van, along with my van bug out bag, I’m good for a week. the house is packed with a month’s supply of food and water, TP etc. my boating supplies are well stocked, and the lake is frozen, maybe time for an attack Kittah?
And I thought these are an absolute need, get some,
https://www.amazon.com/FOSTAR-Ferrocerium-Waterproof-Bushcraft-Multi-Tool/
“sorry, we couldn’t find that page”
I have bad ass flashlights and my wife has an assemblage of candles that all smell like a chick’s bathroom. The most important thing to have here is a running motorcycle. Decent earthquake and the cars ain’t going anywhere. Never mind that you can’t get any gas because the pumps run on electricity. Last time (’94) I had to have a friend drive up with a can of gas to get mobile again. The whole valley was without power for about a week and a half. My bike gets 45 mph, and it’ll get past almost any obstruction.
I suddenly picture you as Daryl from The Walking Dead
Norman Reedus (Daryl from The Walking Dead) had an excellent motorcycle travel show (“Ride with Norman Reedus”) for a couple of seasons.
Motorcycles, travel, eating, and art. Is there a more complete show?
couple = 4
Hehe.
Blackjack,
Have you seen the Ewen McGregor and Charlie Boorman shows (Long Way Up, Long Way Round,…)
ooh smart. I mean, I’m still not going to get a motorbike because I would die trying to ride it, but that’s definitely a post-apocalypse must-have.
“The Stand” covered that;
*spoiler alert for a 43 year old book*
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After the protagonist nearly kills himself on a Harley, he switches to a bicycle.
No candles, but I have enough flashlights, headlamps, and battery-powered LED lanterns to light and shoot a movie.
I need to get a better stove than my little backpacking gizmo. That’s on the list.
Our kitchen stove is gas, but I keep my old Coleman Peak1 as an emergency backup, and I have an esbit stove I keep in the back of my pickup with some emergency supplies if I hit the boonies.
I am sending my two funky Euro stoves to my friend who loves old backpacking equipment, he loves that shit.
Some (((Glibs))) (and (((adjacent)))) may appreciate that “emergency candles” on Amazon includes a bunch of yartzeit candles
That would be one hell of an emergency.
Maybe I should add candle making to my list of skills in the Aftermath.
Tallow candles would not be as nice as beeswax, but they’d give off the required light.
Gf did the Partylite thing for a bit. We’re well stocked on candles and candle decorations.
I read this review of a book on Mao’s Red Guard and the Cultural Revolution.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/what-are-the-cultural-revolutions-lessons-for-our-current-moment Should be interesting, I thought. And it was, right up until the end where she compares them to… the Proud Boys. No thought or mention of Antifa and BLM, this summer’s riots, and the whole of the Wolk. Just asinine.
Or, you know, the Democratic party.
Honestly, I know I should be able to read stuff like that, but I can’t. Getting bombarded with idiotic and unaware shit like that has filled up my capacity for bullshit.
The weavers arrived to the emperor’s court and placed a large chest at his feet. “These garments are of the latest designs from around the world.” The emperor gestured for the chest to be opened as saw it was empty. “What is this silliness!” he roared. “Your Majesty, these are made by the greatest critical theorists of the day” the weaver explained and held up a pair of Kendi underpants. “Only racists can’t see the wonderful design on the crotch or the delicate buttons on the back door” the weaver insisted. The emperor said that he, indeed, did see that and by “silliness” he meant that it was silly that nobody had shown him these fantastic undies before. The weaver emptied the already empty chest on the floor. “We’ve prepared an entire wardrobe for you, your Majesty.”
*Next Day*
“Daddy, what are you watching on TV”
“It’s called The State of The Union, Honey.”
“Really, cuz it looks a lot like your browser history”
fantastic undies
So, he’s Mormon?
(sorry, Mojo & co, couldn’t resist).
Good stuff, regardless.
I am dangerously low on jalapeno stuffed olives.
Hmm, wonder if Hyperbole is good his pickle stock.
I don’t want to talk about it.
That reminds me, I need to remember that I have a jar of pickled jalapeños when I make my eggs tomorrow.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in these uncertain times.
What do you stuff jalapeños with?
Habaneros
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cream cheese and then wrap with bacon. Grill. Eat. Be well.
Also ?
Check out West Marine or other outdoor equipper for the “MPOWERD–Luci® Outdoor 2.0 Solar Inflatable Lantern” or similar item.
When the batteries get a full day charge I find mine works at least 6-8 hours on the low setting. When not in use it is as flat as 5-6 paper beer deckels (aka coasters). When you want to use it, just blow it up. Mine has worked multiple years even when soaked by rain.
I keep mine in the dual use plastic bin: no power in neighborhood/ overnight sailing trips / hunting trips
Maybe I’ll just walk around and drink beer for a while.
Maybe I’ll get myself a quilt and take a nap in the park.
Maybe this Iranian will sell me some dope.
Sounds like one helluva afternoon.
First day off in a few weeks. Wife at work, kid in school. The old man is free.
And you’re still sober?
Dreams do come true.
How often do you see someone smoking grass in Japan?
That is a really nice space quilt. I would pay for a reproduction of that.
It really sucks that there seems to be a contingent that never wants to get back to what we had stolen with lockdowns. Unsurprisingly, it has been far more prevalent in the Blue states and areas. We have been waiting for a pendulum swing for a while now. So far, Europe has shown more resistance to lockdowns, although I know that there’s more than a few areas of the US that didn’t quite destroy the small biz sector like here, but I would like to see more concerted, organized efforts to show lockdowns as the response of totalitarians and that to boot, largely do not work. We need it for now of course, but more importantly we need it so it doesn’t happen again.
They’re already lining up yo declare “climate emergency” so we can lockdown to save Mother Earth. Or so they claim.
The rank and file who buy that notion are the same people who think Cubans drive 1950s cars because they’re quaint and like the aesthetic.
The powermongers on the other hand just want control. It’s a lot easier to control a few big behemoth companies than it is to control thousands of independent shops.
Destroying the economy shuttered many small businesses, while Amazon, Costco, Walmart, etc got bigger. All very convenient for the Top Men. Just like consolidating thousands of ISPs (ca. 2000) into just a few across the country. Makes it easy to create choke points that can be used to influence the behavior of the common man. It’s a central planners dream.
We resisted communism and most socialism for decades. The Cold War was real, and we knew what was at stake. But our hard fought position of freedom and self-ownership was bloodlessly pushed aside by a virus and the fear of death, however misplaced.
There will be no going back to the before times without a major reckoning, I fear.
I really really hope you are wrong, but I fear you may be right. Hopefully the reckoning won’t be too disruptive in our daily lives, that is one of my fears, along with a slow slide into totalitarianism complete. I absolutely know they are going to try some similar bullshit with Climate Emergency!! In my optimistic moments (I was once almost a full time optimist) people resist hard against these same tactics and methods for climate panic. When I can’t sleep at night, I believe we will continue to exist in some kind of bizarre combo of 1984, Brave New World and Idiocracy.
Re: optimism.
I by nature am also an optimist.
I believe if people recognized the power grabs for what they were, and had likeminded people from whom to draw courage, they wouldn’t go gently into serfdom.
We have to at least defend the internet so that we can communicate with one another and spread the truth.
Working out in the garage on some stuff for the business, neighbor that likes to gossip and engage in topics he only knows from his reliable sources of CNN says to me “if Texas would have cared about their energy industry regulations as much as they care about their guns, people would have power”. I pulled a Hank Hill and said, “mmhmm” and continued working on the generator.
“They should be more like California in regards to energy regulation.”
Yours was probably a better response though.
It ran through my head but I felt I was better off just mumbling and sipping beer. We get along much better that way.
I BEAT!!
Had a very full day at work. Then I had to do all the housework in preparation for my houseguest, whom I’m getting from the airport tomorrow evening.
Since my husband has lost either the will to live or the ability to do so, he didn’t do any of the things he’d said he would, so I had to compress all fo his chores into one evening.
I’m looking forward to my friend‘a visit. After she’d already made plans to come visit, she got laid off so she’s really ready for a break and a.change of scenery.
It will be a little awkward what with my husband going through whatever he’s going through, but there it is. He’s set to go to his doc Friday so maybe the doc can help figure it out and get a game plan in place. Some of the symptoms of “long Covid” seem to fit. We shall see.
Mornin’ Glibs, Thursday already,
Morning, Yusef!
It’s Friday Eve! : D
It’s 4th Monday for me!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-winter-storm-sea-turtles-cold-stunned
Save the ???
https://6abc.com/shooting-philadelphia-police-olney-transportation-center-septa-station/10348270/
Yeah, but were they wearing their masks?
Snow is gonna fuck up my work day.
*grumble*
We had a snow free day, and this afternoon, Boom! back again,
Sup Sean,
As long as it’s good honest snow, you should be fine.
It’s that rain/sleet/snow mix crap that creates treacherous roads.
Yup. I had no trouble getting to work in the GTI.
I did have a bunch of employees call out though.
/frowny face
Morning Yusef and the rest of you Glibs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg
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I see that Rudh Limbaugh passed away from the cancer he’s been fighting.
I wasn’t a fan, but I am grateful for what he did to pioneer talk radio as a means of showing a non-leftie non-mainstream point of view.
Rush paved the way for many other radio hosts from conservative to libertarian. He kept me sane in 2000 through the Florida recount, when I was living in a blue state for the first time and wondered if I was the only one who felt the way I did about the left’s attempt to steal that election in broad daylight.
May he rest in piece.
I will avoid all mainstream media and Twitter. I don’t want to read messages of hate.
A fine tribute from Mark Steyn.
https://www.steynonline.com/11078/the-indispensable-man
Morning, Glibs.
Morning, UCS.
How goes things? (work, weather, reading, cooking, knitting, etc)
Work was fairly quiet yesterday, as my boss was taking his biweekly WFH day. That didn’t mean he left me alone, though. Happily, the things he asked me for were pretty quickly and easily completed and sent to him.
We’re supposed to have “snow showers” today. I hope it doesn’t mean much more accumulation.
In SV, I’ve reread through Part 16, which is where I’d left off before backtracking. I now have a much better grasp of how everything got to this point. (I’m no longer trying to read little bits at a time.)
Nothing remarkable to report re: cooking, knitting, crochet, etc. How go YOUR things?
Appsian is holding a “Peoplesoft Innovation Summit” series of webinars that lasts way longer than my normal workdays, but doesn’t involve me arguing with people.
My food processor is on a delivery truck today, but my can opener broke.
I have never successfully knit or crochetted a single stitch.
Mentally I’ve been trying to cheoreograph the events that interrupt the holiday in Yothos in On Unknown Shores, as well as having figured out a better reason for Thaddeus to become obsessed with capturing one particular pirate ship in Fili Invictus than I’d originally come up with. Of course none of that has made paper yet.
Oh, weren’t you going to send me some detailed opinions?
Yes. I’ll try to do so by early this evening.
I’m looking forward to it, I’ll need something to distract me from all the peoplesoft innovation.
https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/spotsylvania-restaurants-license-suspended-for-pandemic-violations/article_b1ad5787-9f75-5f95-9107-39478d8f2d4d.html
Local Karen’s complained about violations of Governor Blackface’s orders. The health department has suspended his license, but he refuses to close.
If I were anywhere near there I’d stop in for food.
It’s too far for a day trip though.
I’ll proxy a meal for you.
Mornin’ Glibbies! Yesterday was about as “meh” as a Wednesday could possibly be but I’ll take that over the shit-show that we’ve been living in for the past year. Still muzzled, still steaming mad.
Morning. Yesterday was a string of meetings from 1030-1700. They were merciful enough to give me a lunch break.
I didn’t get a lunch break, in fact at one point I had two concurrant meetings. Today looks like more of the same, only instead of running until 7:30 pm, it will wrap up at 6:30pm.
You’re just going to waste that hour on yourself.
“Doin’ Toobin’ ain’t got no end, Son!”
An hour? when I do get a lunch break, it’s half an hour.
Admittedly, I did choose that so that my day would end a half hour earlier…
Long breaks suck. I’d rather take five or six ten minute breaks than the mandated 15-30-15.