Give your child the name “Not-My-People,” for you are not my people, and I am not “I am” for you.

Following this leads to that on the Internet, hyperlinks from nowhere to nowhere, I'm reading this first chapter of Hosea in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible as tears unexpectedly flow from my eyes,

Why do I identify with this 3,000-year-old ( Read more... )

Downloaded the new version of TurboTax and started on my 2020 tax return.  I don't have the form from Fidelity for my play money account yet, so I can't finish.  But the IRS isn't accepting returns yet anyway.  I'll have some net gains from my trading activity of a few hundred dollars.

I had to spend time tracking down all my charitable ( Read more... )

It's a one-dose vaccine, it can be stored in a standard refrigerator, it's $10 per dose, and ... it's not as effective as the Pfizer or Moderna two-dose new-technology vaccines.  But when we don't have enough doses to go around, it's better than nothing.  If my HMO offered me the J&J vaccine, I'd take it.

But it changes my answer to the Vaccine ( Read more... )

Plenty of people will face this, either explicitly or implicitly, as not everybody in a Quarantine bubble will get vaccinated at the same time.  In my own case, T, B, and I all have different employers and/or health insurers.  I'm the oldest and have asthma, T has his own health issues.  B is younger.  T and I live in Maryland, B in DC -- and DC is ( Read more... )

OK, I'm a gonna do a #3 cut all around, no tapering, not longer on the top.  Perhaps I'll hate it, but it will grow back and I can always try something different after it grows back.  If I like cutting my own hair super short then I'll be saving a chunk of cash for the rest of my life.

At least I will learn something about how I look and how I ( Read more... )

T is apparently having the first symptoms of a respiratory illness, immediately after returning from a "socially distanced" yoga weekend in the mountains with about 7 other people and some of their dogs -- he didn't realize he could've taken Dax along.  No fever yet, but he's feeling fatigue and nasal congestion.  He's being irritable and I'm ( Read more... )

T left very early this morning, earlier than I expected.  I still needed to work a half day, so that's what I did.  Stopped working at 2pm, started warming up for toys 2:45pm.  Nothing on the Bug Calendar until Sunday afternoon!  Yay!

For some reason T left his new laptop behind, which has an account for me from when my laptop was "sleeping", so I'm ( Read more... )

Not as down about my work situation as I felt on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.  I talked with the other manager in my workgroup about it and he felt my Boss had overreacted to things by turning an opportunity for constructive feedback into a lowering of my grades.  And I do realize there's no practical effect of these lower grades, except ( Read more... )

It's windy today.  Yesterday we received a lot of rain at the house, and if we hadn't upgraded our basement, it would've flooded again.  The new drainage system worked, but we could tell what would've happened if it hadn't.

I went to the grocery store on the way home from the condo, for the first time in many weeks.  T had asked me to pick up a ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving Day -- it'll just be me and T this year.  He tried to invite another household, and then a different another household, but folks weren't interested.  Which is totally fine with me, under the circumstances, because cases are spiking locally as well as nationally, and deaths are back over 2000/day.  I'd rather T and I don't become ( Read more... )