Still alive!
I am still alive - and not infected with covid19. I had a test recently and it was negative - very glad about that. It took five days to get the test results so I laid low while I waited. I was not symptomatic but they have a testing site in my town and I wanted to make sure I was not an asymptomatic spreader of the virus. You never know, right? Could have been.
I cannot tell you how awful it is in the states right now. We are resting our hopes on the election in November. Trump tweeted that he wanted to try and delay that but he has no authority to do so. Only Congress can do that and that won't happen - Republicans and Democrats agree on this. No delay. But it just shows you that Trump is a total idiot to tweet something like that and he does not really understand what he can and cannot do. He truly does not know. He thinks he can just tweet it and it will happen. That is kind of magical thinking.
We laid to rest one of our great Civil Rights leaders today - John Lewis. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr and was a Congressman for many years. A really good man. Obama spoke at his funeral today which was televised. Very emotional day for all sorts of reasons - because we still have so far to go on these issues that this man dedicated his life to. He left us words to go on and I hope we continue his work - voting rights, equal rights. We need to do this. Anyway. It was very emotional watching Obama speak today.
So I am back at work now. I took last week off for vacation. I had planned to go to Southern Oregon for part of that but we decided not to go due to the pandemic and just stayed here and did local things. Traveling did not seem like a good idea - staying at a hotel - did not seem safe and it all seemed risky so better safe than sorry. It was good to unplug and relax and the weather here was great. It would have been unbelievably hot in Oregon so it all worked out.
I am going to be working from home through January 2021 and it might even be longer than that depending on how things go. Things are not going so well here and the numbers are going in the wrong direction. They don't want to shut things down but ultimately - what are we going to do - let the numbers keep going up like this? Lunacy. Shut it down.
Anyways - that is where I am at - home - here and doing ok. Hope all is well with you. I feel like I am witness to the total failure of my country to respond to this crisis.
Stay safe and healthy where you are. Love comments! Poof, like magic this is cross-posted from - Dreamwidth! Please comment where you prefer.
I cannot tell you how awful it is in the states right now. We are resting our hopes on the election in November. Trump tweeted that he wanted to try and delay that but he has no authority to do so. Only Congress can do that and that won't happen - Republicans and Democrats agree on this. No delay. But it just shows you that Trump is a total idiot to tweet something like that and he does not really understand what he can and cannot do. He truly does not know. He thinks he can just tweet it and it will happen. That is kind of magical thinking.
We laid to rest one of our great Civil Rights leaders today - John Lewis. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr and was a Congressman for many years. A really good man. Obama spoke at his funeral today which was televised. Very emotional day for all sorts of reasons - because we still have so far to go on these issues that this man dedicated his life to. He left us words to go on and I hope we continue his work - voting rights, equal rights. We need to do this. Anyway. It was very emotional watching Obama speak today.
So I am back at work now. I took last week off for vacation. I had planned to go to Southern Oregon for part of that but we decided not to go due to the pandemic and just stayed here and did local things. Traveling did not seem like a good idea - staying at a hotel - did not seem safe and it all seemed risky so better safe than sorry. It was good to unplug and relax and the weather here was great. It would have been unbelievably hot in Oregon so it all worked out.
I am going to be working from home through January 2021 and it might even be longer than that depending on how things go. Things are not going so well here and the numbers are going in the wrong direction. They don't want to shut things down but ultimately - what are we going to do - let the numbers keep going up like this? Lunacy. Shut it down.
Anyways - that is where I am at - home - here and doing ok. Hope all is well with you. I feel like I am witness to the total failure of my country to respond to this crisis.
Stay safe and healthy where you are. Love comments! Poof, like magic this is cross-posted from - Dreamwidth! Please comment where you prefer.