Ugh, snow. We finally got rid of ours a week ago, but temps will be in the 40s for a while, which means the lake might get some ice on it overnight sometimes.

I’m thinking of taking time in the early fall to visit my little brother and his partner in Manhattan and then to see my oldest brother’s family in Texas and my older brother in Florida.

That is the beauty of my balcony. I can't think of a better way to get outside with distancing than just walking out there. It's not great for exercise, mind you, but the fresh air is right there and I will never run into anyone on my balcony.

I had reserved a timed ticket to an art museum, but then the hammock came a day early, so I went to it instead.

I used to live in a basement and work in a windowless pharmacy, so all this sunshine is a revelation.

I used to get 50 hours a year at most, and that required me to work more than I wanted and to be very stingy with how I delegated my days off. Now I can earn more than 21 days a year (23, I think?), and after five years, 28 days. So now I can think about having an actual vacation, especially since we found another…

I mean, I had to schedule this day off back in January, but it gave me something to look forward to. As for the heights, I have an issue with that, too, and I actually felt more nervous standing near the rail than I do sprawling in a hammock next to it. I can’t see the ground from the hammock, and if I sit up on my…

Since I have more PTO in this new job than I have ever had before, and I no longer have to scrape and save my days for holidays, illnesses, and family emergencies, I took yesterday off just to have a day off. The hammock and stand I had ordered for my balcony came in, so I spent part of the night before assembling it…

The command and control leadership style that was the paragon of leadership among the Silent Generation that Boomers adapted always attracts people seeking absolute power in whatever sector of life they have carved out for themselves. These generations often clash with Millenials and Gen Z because the younger…

You don't have to. Those measures prevent sickness from a number of strong bacterial and viral pathogens. They are good habits for life.

It’s important to understand that the vaccines’ function is not to prevent disease, but to prevent *serious* disease and death, or morbidity and mortality. Just like the flu vaccine, getting it will not necessarily prevent you from getting COVID, especially with all the new, more contagious variants around and surely…

In some places, people are spiking the ball at the 50-yard line.

The first one takes two weeks for all the antibodies to develop. The second takes less time, but still best to give yourself two weeks after, as the CDC said, to consider yourself fully vaccinated, and able to follow the new guidelines as a fully vaccinated person.

I mean, I knew all of those things, but to watch and listen to him, it’s impossible to believe he is anything but a bloviating Republican. I have to remind myself repeatedly that he is, technically, not.

I have also long been confused about how he's not a Republican.

Thank fuck I now have a job that requires me to wear scrubs, keep my nails short, and generally avoid cosmetics. 

As much as mental health and mental healthcare is stigmatized everywhere, it is particularly so in BIPOC communities. The opportunities for Black British subjects and those in the commonwealths, with all of their legacies of colonial terror and trauma, to see someone who looks like them both seeking and getting needed…

See also: Miller, Stephen and Steve Bannon

It’s already too low in most places, and also keeping people who work for minimum wage dependent on benefits while their large corporate employers either pay no taxes or, in some cases, get massive refunds, all while earning record profits.

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