26th
February
2021
This afternoon, a survey popped up on my screen. A university group trying to determine how people are reacting to pandemic restrictions. It offered me a chance to add my two cents to the discussion, with anonymity (although, unfortunately without immunity). I went one step more, using my second language to complete the form. And the questions really were pointless.
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posted in health |
24th
February
2021
Outside, with my shovel, in shortish pants; time to clear the thin layer of barely ice from the deck. Temperatures are above the point where ice retains solidity, so the job didn’t take long. Barely enough time for my coffee to cool to the comfortable drinking point. We do live in balmy times. Now, I’m enough of a realist (with a long memory) to accept change. As in, winter might roll in, tomorrow or the next day. For now, though, I’m able to look outside and dream of summer. Perhaps not “tourist summer”, but something that doesn’t require keeping snowshoes on hand (or is it foot)?
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13th
February
2021
This afternoon, the noise level is “up”. Construction, with the vibration/percussion tools, can easily make my little sound meter climb into the +85dB range. No earbleed, but no napping either. Progress comes with a number of different payment requirements. One good thing about our renos is that they shouldn’t have to be redone, at least within my lifetime. The kids: their choice.
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11th
February
2021
Once again, a cognitive neuroscientist has proven… the obvious?
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10th
February
2021
It’s that season again. Yes, R&RHOF awards. The target demographic (for the postulants and the audience) fits squarely on my shoulders.
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posted in health, music |
9th
February
2021
My effort to stay currrent about the latest trial in DC has not gone well. All that I could absorb is that drinking bottled water is an underappreciated lifeskill. Guess I’ll have to wait for the reruns on late YouTube.
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posted in health, humour, politics |
29th
January
2021
Trying to calculate your risks in the pandemic? If the numbers didn’t change so quickly, you might manage an educated guess, but right now… not so much. Turns out that the mutating virus doesn’t play fair with vaccines. Nor does the discovery that we’re not getting the necessary number of doses from those tiny flasks; as much as we have the “wrong” sort of syringe, the number of doses drops from six to five. And our masks? Perhaps we should double the thickness, and wear them outdoors and in.
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26th
January
2021
The market for vaccine appears to be evolving. Over the last couple of days, various news stories hint at delivery delays, due to (in the best documented case) the retooling of a production facility. Of course, the rest of us know little about how the industry functions, so politicians are now having to field questions from the press over the validity of contracts. Can we stop with the silly stuff, and wait our turns? This goes as a rebuke to the couple who flew into northern Canada, lied about their professional status, and scored a couple of doses for themselves in an isolated village. Regular stuff, right? I will wait for the call that I’m next in line for a needle to the arm. I won’t (can’t) cheat with my deep pockets.
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25th
January
2021
If ever you want to mark a criminal, have them commit their crime in a home where drywall mudding is in progress. Worse than life in a flour mill. I was downstairs, briefly, and came back to the surface covered in a fine layer of dust. Ambient. No actual sanding while I was there. Just contact with, well, just about everything. Methinks that the cleanup will require patience and a strong vacuum. To be followed. Oh, and sending the dog beforehand just exacerbates the problem.
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11th
January
2021
Two chapters, abstracted from a short novel about life. In the first section, a young man calls his brother, to point out how curfew was common during wartime. How people got used to it, even if they didn’t understand the utility. What made 8:00 p.m. different from 7:45 p.m in the eyes of the authorities?
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