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mk  ·  1219 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 25, 2020

We're going to do an outside Thanksgiving gathering. The weather looks permissive.

2200 deaths in the US recorded yesterday. The numbers are going to be awful mid-December. I saw someone tweet that we should forgive school debt for nurses. I agree. I think we should give anyone working in hospitals a massive 2020 tax credit too. Not just the nurses, technicians, doctors, janitors, etc.

My second session of my current painting:

I'm happiest with the very bottom, where there was snow amidst the green grass. I'll probably leave that as is.

Covid is probably a contributor, but I am feeling the urge to leave the neighborhood for the countryside. We have a wonderful city lot. I am spoiled. But part of me want to walk outdoors and not hear a road. Maybe it will pass when people aren't an infection risk.





WanderingEng  ·  1219 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My retirement dream is to have a small rural house. What I picture is something that could be called a cabin but is definitely four seasons. It's five minutes outside a small town and 45 minutes to the edge of a bigger city and 60 minutes downtown. I'm basically describing living outside Lodi, Wisconsin. Bonus points if it's west of town and that much closer to Devil's Lake State Park.

Aside: one of my phone's recommendations after "Devil's" is "lettuce." I'm certain I've never typed that.

mk  ·  1219 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On the topic, lettuce wraps don't work.

ecib  ·  1217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You need Boston Lettuce.

goobster  ·  1219 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your phone knows you are a pot smoker... aka, "The Devil's Lettuce".

dublinben  ·  1215 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It’s certainly more stressful to live in a crowded city during a plague. Nevertheless, the last place I’d want to be right now is a rural community where nobody is taking any precautions, and the nearest hospital is an hour away.

thenewgreen  ·  1215 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    but I am feeling the urge to leave the neighborhood for the countryside. We have a wonderful city lot. I am spoiled. But part of me want to walk outdoors and not hear a road. Maybe it will pass when people aren't an infection risk.

When we moved down to NC we had to rent a house at first. It was a fine home but in a subdivision where all the homes are right on top of each other. No yards. Now, we have moved in to a neighborhood that is very old, very spread out. If you go for a walk you’ll see a few people, but not many. We can spend all day in our yard, have bonfires and be outside without seeing a soul. It’s very nice. It’s had a positive impact on me. I need my space.

Could y’all go up north? Also, Airbnb’s are a fun way to have a new scenery and there are plenty of Michigan cabins to rent with WiFi. Since the kids are virtual schooling, now is the time to explore.

Edit: Also, I like the painting. Is that the one on canvas? That tree in the distance looks like it wants to be a willow. I like how you toggle the line between real and fantasy. It’s whimsical without the whimsy.

steve  ·  1218 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Isaw someone tweet that we should forgive school debt for nurses. I agree. I think we should give anyone working in hospitals a massive 2020 tax credit too. Not just the nurses, technicians, doctors, janitors, etc.

Yes please.

(With one possible caveat - not the lawyers or the CEO or other C-level shmucks who just add to the overhead costs of the hospital)

thenewgreen  ·  1215 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. CEOs are all evil.

steve  ·  1215 days ago  ·  link  ·  

bwahahaha.... you KNOW that's not what I meant...

thenewgreen  ·  1215 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know. And the last thing any c level person needs is a tax break. -not being sarcastic. But, they’re not all schmucks. I have a brother in law that is a C level leader and he goes in to this office not because he has to but for solidarity. If we still had offices, and I was requiring my team to go to them, I’d be first in and last out. Just because there is a “C” before the name doesn’t make them a schmuck. Many hospital CEO’s are physicians that practiced for years. Are some schmucks? Sure. But some nurses are too.

I know that complaining about C suite vilification will earn me the smallest sympathy violin playing in history, but they’re not all bad. Many, like a noble captain of a ship, would be the last to go down while the crew flees safely ashore.

But... some are definitely douche bags.

Edit: to be very clear, nurses and physicians and janitors at hospitals should all be heralded and financially rewarded. 100%