There are certain topics I just have to put in the mental equivalent of a cast and not even “touch” because they are too sensitive and will make me start crying. Like I almost did on my rounds at work today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trebuchet
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There are certain topics I just have to put in the mental equivalent of a cast and not even “touch” because they are too sensitive and will make me start crying. Like I almost did on my rounds at work today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trebuchet
After certain news last night I had to borrow an unused dvd player, I need to escape in movies. Plus I have to spend sometime away from a screen like going outdoors. Not everyone can go out right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
I’m really lucky to be working as a Park Ranger at the moment, I think I’d be even more of an emotional wreck if I wasn’t outside in the woods so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Backroad Astronomer
I am lucky too around here there is a lot of space between people, o you have distance to do stuff. I think 2020 should be called the year of the snafu.Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
I think of 2016 as The Year That Should Not Have Been, 2020 is The Second Year That Should Not Have Been.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Backroad Astronomer
We put in Doctor Who, from 2005! Eccleston is probably my favorite Doctor.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Backroad Astronomer
I've been kicking the news habit for several years. It non-trivially annoys, distresses and depresses me. Not just the reported news items themselves, I'm also distressed by the quality of the journalism and editing, and the proliferation of punditry. (Don't even get me started on the headline writing!)
When I see an article that I consider reliable on a topic that matters, I prefer to go straight to the source materials as soon as possible, and often skip the bulk of the article itself. Even then I keep a skeptical eye open. As far as TV news goes, I consider most of it the equivalent of supermarket tabloids and celebrity magazines.
Wife: Honey, watcha doin'?Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
Husband: Just a little reading.
Wife: Reading what?
Husband: A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Wife: ... Uh ... that's a 2020 calendar.
My sister has to get a new job. All the available stuff in her field is at best, half her current pay. We're in for some belt-tightening. We may have to move, too.
What happened in 2016?Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
I think it's something we're not really allowed to discuss here.Quote:
Originally Posted by 21st Century Schizoid Man
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Originally Posted by Jens
State secret?
Politics.Quote:
Originally Posted by 21st Century Schizoid Man
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Originally Posted by Jens
Well, not just that, but a lot of people I admired died, I walked into two lampposts in one weekend and nearly got a concussion, I got food poisoning in Greece, and I had to start the year at grad school with pinkeye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noclevername
My sister's sick now. Not a Covid scare this time, but nasty all the same. She can't work but at least she doesn't need to be quarantined.
I got sick this morning. My first inclination is to check my blood sugar, but if it isn't that, my readings are weird. Maddingly so. At 6 am, my reading was completely normal. Post puking, it's through the roof. I want to say I didn't wash my hands well enough or something, but now I am waiting to lunch to take a new reading. If it wasn't contamination, it not a good point of data anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noclevername
Considering how I feel now, it's not the blood sugar.
Of course, this is happening between two medical visits. Yesterday I spoke to my diabetic councilor and tomorrow I see the doctor. Why couldn't this doctor's appointment be today?
Sorry to hear you're not feeling well, Solfe. Hope your visit has a positive effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solfe
I didn’t get any sleep last night because I had terrible period cramps and gas all night.
Fortunately my boss let me take sick leave when I called to explain.
Feel better soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
Again feel better soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by KaiYeves
Edit - Sorry double post.I have this annoying problem that I sometimes don't register pain correctly. I broke some teeth last week and started puking from the "referred pain". Not sure if that's the right word, so quote marks. Getting them fixed, or at least out next week.
I have this annoying problem that I sometimes don't register pain correctly. I broke some teeth last week and started puking from the "referred pain". Not sure if that's the right word, so quote marks. Getting them fixed, or at least out next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noclevername
Best of luck. Broken teeth - ooh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solfe
Our former landlord has decided to send our "debt" to collections despite the notice we sent him about how we do not, in fact, owe him for these things. Allegedly, what we owe is to replace the carpet. I told the women from the collection agency who called that it was expired when we moved in. She said, "The lifespan of a carpet in Washington is eight years." Which is how old the carpet was when we moved into the apartment. And then we lived in it for ten years.
Geez, Gillian, that's awful. You don't deserve that.
Meanwhile, I've been tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths in the USA in a spreadsheet since the beginning, using data from Worldometer. The 7-day average of new cases has now exceeded 70,000 for the first time ever, and over a thousand people died yesterday. This is gonna be with us for a while.
Not so trivial:
That this Halloween, ghosts and goblins are the least scary things happening.
Indeed. After a record number of new USA cases Wednesday (per Worldometer), yesterday exceeded that number by almost 1000. And we STILL have denialists.
Split a tooth over two years ago. Went under for oral surgery and ended up in the ER with tachycardia. Had heart ablation the next spring, recovered from that. Last month half the tooth just fell out. It's been over two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solfe
Well that all stinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by grapes
A fact I'm sure they're not thrillered about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noclevername
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