Pubski opened so early today! Work! Yo y'all need to stop doing anything. Lock yourselves in your houses and hibernate for a month or so. Cases up hard. I've opened up 17 new facilities in the past week. Three of the past five working days had five opened per day. The facilities are doing a good job of reporting cases to the department, but my colleagues also apparently don't know how to report to me, so a lot have fallen through the cracks until the state yells at me. I've also become the only person doing congregate living settings, so now I get to do the weekly emails and meetings that I never had to do before. I was worried about the responsibility aspect of things when I took the job but that's going really well which is great. My old job still isn't filled. The supervisor over there thought it'd be filled by January. Pool season is rapidly approaching. No one is going to be trained for it and it's going to be a disaster. The dryer broke. It's 15 years old at least. Hell of a good run. I was in favor of repairing it. I think only the heating element broke. Appliances seem to be getting moor poorly made so I'm guessing something from 15 years ago might be a little better to repair than buying a whole new one. Also less waste. Also cheaper. We've gone through three refrigerators in the past few years. One broke every few months like clockwork starting not a month after the warranty ended. Two was shipped damaged and defective. Three arrived a few weeks ago. Warranty on all three was just a year. Also why the fuck the fridge need to connect to wifi. I'm all for the old dumb dryer not whatever shit is coming. New one has touch controls which just says to me a new piece to break that's not a dial and easy to fuck with if if breaks. But whatever not my money. And I'm moving somewhere soon so there's that. Living with the parents is... going. They have absolutely no respect that my job is like super HIPAA shit and I'm WFH two days per week, so they're running around all the time. They're both WFH every day and are using bedrooms for offices so I'm in the kitchen. They are so clearly listening to everything I say and as has always been the problem with them -- no privacy. We're not releasing what facilities have cases but my mom works with a bunch of these places and tries to find everything out. I can't and don't give it to her and she gets a bit pissy. But I'm doing my best. Less than four more months so that's nice. I need to ask my boss in a few months if I can go full time remote or if I get to train a replacement. I hate working remotely but money is money. And I'm about to be in debt. A lot of debt. I appealed the financial aid decisions of "you get federal loans and jack shit else" and all three lovely institutions laughed at me. How much has y'all's endowment grown over the past year. Y'all have the money. Give me some. Please. Anyway, the big question. The answer you've all been waiting for. It only feels right to let y'all know before anyone else (including the school!) And the answer is... Emory! CDC, puclic health capital of the world, lots of global health organizations, cheap enough living, still a global focused degree. It just feels right. Thanks to everyone listening to my ranting and throwing me advice throughout whatever this process has been y'all have been great.
We finally gave up on our old (gas) dryer, it was too expensive to move the gas lines and I'm not comfortable doing that myself. I did try but couldn't get the nuts to loosen without flexing the line. The dryer works fine, I replaced the belt a couple of times and the element once. It was purchased in 1986 according to the sticker on the back. We remodelled our kitchen in 2008 and bought a beautiful set of appliances from Sears. The dish washer is having issues and I have had to repair the feed hose twice for leaks. Our refrigerator we bought new for $1600 is no longer made and the new compressor that it needs is $1000 without labor. We got a great deal on it, separate freezer / fridge setup like a commercial kitchen. Then we designed the kitchen around it. To get a new matching set is going to cost like $3000. It'll be cheaper to get a normal fridge and rework the cabinets.
I AM BACK ON DAY SHIFT ROCK CLIMBING OUTSIDE THIS WEEKEND RUNNING A TRAIL MARATHON NEXT WEEKEND SECOND ROUND OF VACCINE THE WEEK AFTER THAT
I'm doing a virtual half marathon this weekend, hopefully the last virtual event. The current debate is: pick a fast, flat course and go for a PR, or go run 6.55 miles of the Ice Age Trail out and back. I'm leaning towards the latter because it will be better training for other events this summer. It also looks cooler on Strava.
My SO's mom faked breaking her back for 2 days to get out of her vaccine appointment. She was shitting in diapers, and making her husband change her saying she couldn't move for two days (but we couldn't call and ambulance bc the EMTs would give her covid) and 2 hours after her appointment has passed she has suddenly made a miraculous recovery and is deep cleaning the kitchen. This is fucking unreal. Is this real life? Hubski, what is your mother in law like?
I told my anti mask anti vaxx in laws to get bent back in May of last year. "Its my choice!" Well it's my choice to shame you as a bucktoothed incestuous, iron age theo-fascist hillbilly piece of excrement who lives in their parents basement and never see or talk to you again.
OK, I've read and circle-dotted everything up to 3:38 p.m. whether it made sense or not. Regarding mk's lament below, I'm on my way to walk to the clinic to pick up a lab requisition and small container to get a sample to take to my mom's as she might have a UTI. Maybe you do too, mk. A UTI can also cause delirium, so watch out. mk's comment below makes the USA feel even more like a very foreign country. As for me, spring spring. Maybe. We'll see. While we do not have four 169-gallon steel feeding troughs for vegetable gardens, like goobster, we do find discarded furniture -- deep book shelves and chests -- in dumpsters and along alleys that we fill with soil to plant vegetables. Kale kale kale last year and cherry tomatos. This year, kale, snow peas (very exciting!), maybe cucumbers, and so on. Onward! Meanwhile, Covid continues to be worsening here and vaccines are slower coming than yours. In that way, you are FIRST WORLD. Booked for dose #1 on Saturday.
I've kinda fucked myself at work. Been unable to produce much, at all, for about two weeks. I am now within three days of three massive project deadlines, which I cannot miss because the documents need to be filed by a specific date/time to even be considered. Just can't find my mojo. And the next three days (and probably my weekend) are going to SUCK because of it. But we did figure out the design for our front yard that used to be a desert that used to be a lawn. Parking spot for my car. Dogwood tree. Japanese Maple. Various gorgeous low-lying plants like this Japanese sword grass, daphne, a butterfly bush, and about 6 other varieties of flowering and pretty-year-round perennials. Of course now I have to borrow a truck to get the rental rototiller so I can till up the fresh soil we brought in last year, so I can drop another 6 yards of fresh new growing soil on top of that, so all these plants will have something to grow in... and need to have that done before next week so I can smother the ever-encroaching grass before it goes to seed and becomes a Serious Issue for my fledgling garden. Oh. And i need to fill the four 169-gallon steel feeding troughs that are going to be our vegetable garden, so my wife can plant those right away so we can get some produce this year. And then I need to finish the back patio that I got 3/4 finished last year before the weather changed and I couldn't work outside any more. And I still need to replace the deck with the new composite (TimberTech Azek) decking. And I need to do all this without using my right wrist too much and exacerbating my tennis elbow/nerve issue. And I have my second vaccine dose tomorrow... which might not affect me at all, but also could put me out of commission for Thu/Fri this week, when I need to make SIGNIFICANT progress on my three projects that are due (one on Friday, two on Tuesday). And yesterday my wife and I committed to helping produce a Rugby 7s tournament in Seattle in August. So ya know. Same old same old. Boring stuff, really. :-)
UPDATE: Lost my phone at some point just before I posted this ... and now, 6 hours later, one of the big projects is DONE. I got into the zone and just RIPPED THROUGH everything I needed to do on one project (due Fri) and sent it off for review. This of course has nothing to do with losing my phone, I am sure.... :-/ Lesson learned.
I am late to the pub. Couldn't drink with a hangover yesterday. Thesis Am I supposed to feel this bad? I thought handing in my thesis would be great. But now I am sitting here two days later and I feel like shit. Turns out I read the wrong checklist for handing in (there is a covid-list and and old list. I was supposed to read both). So I had to correct many technical things in my (already printed) thesis and run around hungover to get it fixed. Then, I get an e-mail from my already very shitty boss that the costs of my thesis printing are higher than he expected (even though I told him how much it will cost). Looks like I will be sitting on these costs... So I ended up binge watching the rest of The Expanse yesterday. Love the show, highly recommended. Love Two weeks ago I ended (yet another) short relationship. I feel like shit. I am making steps in the right direction but just don't seem to get lucky in the dating world. COVID My grandmother still doesn't want to get vaccinated. I just got off the phone with her, where she asked me if I want to come to her 85 birthday party this Saturday. I declined. Still not vaccinated, waiting patiently. Maybe I will get lucky and get some residual vaccination this Sunday. And she is blaming the government and politicians and the pharmaceutical industry. And I can hear my aunts voice coming out of her mouth... All her grandkids have degrees in biology/medicine. But somehow she chooses to ignore that and trust conspiracy theories. All of this comes after she traveled to Poland for a funeral of a family member that died of covid (and did not get vaccinated). Friend The mother of a close friend died last night. 3 weeks between diagnosis and death. Cancer in her liver. Checking if I can go and be there with her. It feels like the only thing I can really do right now. So yeah. I am not doing well, even though I should
Even voters that don't like taxes don't typically bother the government about military spending. It's never much of a campaign issue although the costs are very high. I believe the problem has to do with a perception of what is valuable, and the political advantage in arguing about it at election time. That said, I'd pay a subscription for access to clean toilets all around. You could make an AirBnB-like service where businesses with toilets could allow members to use them without having to buy a slice of pizza, etc...The government wants to provide for poor people and other people. It doesn’t want to make them pay — or old people — they don’t want to pay, but the government doesn’t want to raise taxes and provide their healthcare.
Lol "fake boujee" -- we're not kidding ourselves. There's literally a white trash TV show (excellent watch btw if you can) in which the costume designer went to local Wawa stores and took pics of people to use. Good to see you back though! Sorry that the badging for chat feature didn't work. Hoping you stick around, you're good company, even if you are under the false impression anywhere is better than Wawa, because, and I cannot express this fact enough, Wawa is undeniably the best convenience store, except some weird place I've never been. Also, I've never seen a fan-made Sheetz song...
I think I'm back. The situation with my MIL being crazy was escalating and I didnt feel like socializing much in that constant state of anxiety. FIL I kicked her out about 2 months ago tho, and life has been returning to new normalcy so I think I'm back c:
Great! Glad everything is coming along. A lot of people come and go in waves of activity, but we normally don't get newbies back if they leave.
My boyfriend's birthday weekend was a blast. I had a good time, much needed connection time with friends and kicked out some unwanted guests from our party. It was a tricky situation because the party was on "communal" ukrainan land where my friend has a cabin, so the unwanted guests are technically allowed to be on the territory. And because of Covid, we were not allowed to have this gathering because it's on private land - even if it's outside and the same gathering in a public park is okay. One fun moment from the birthday weekend was one of my friends doing a little fire toy demo. We had some balloons filled with propane, and a bow with flaming arrows. We were just about to shoot when a confused looking lady walks down the path (because she had to park her car outside the locked gate). I just have to wonder what was going through her head, as she was approaching us pointing flaming arrows in her direction. She asks if John is here, as she has an amazon delivery for him. We know of no John, and she leaves... We also bought a little camper trailer yesterday! Because of laws in Quebec, it will never be road legal, but my summer project is to convert it to a nice little sleeping spot at my friend's cabin. No more sleeping in the living room for us! And the hope is to get a piece of land in that same spot for ourselves - but it's a bit of a long shot since it's all managed by the Ukrainian church and no one knows how things actually work. My boyfriend's in good standing since he's been the kids summer camp director for a few years, and is actually Ukrainian. But he also never went to church, and decisions are made by some old farts that have historically kept the 3 available lots vacant there for decades. That land is on a loan to the community from the Canadian government - and the loan expires in 30-40 years. Somehow some people have built cabins there back in the day, but it's not allowed anymore. And there is deep history and immigrant squabbles about every little detail. Like the fact that even my friend's cabin is only his de-facto (for that past 15 years). He never paid full price to the priest he bought it from, so he never got any papers for it. And when the priest dies, his kids can come and claim for it back. So he's always hesitant to invest any money in repairs and improvements. The nicer it is - the likelier the kids will want it back! It's honestly a fun little distraction from the pandemic worries of the city, building our little village in the woods, dealing with drama with neighbours and visitors.