Most days I start my morning watching video clips in my NYT newsletter 'Best of Late Night', which has links to each of the late-night hosts opening monologues. I am never up at that time of night, and it is a nice reminder that humor can still be found in our lives. Anyway, Colbert used the expression anti-vaxholes, which I am totally adopting. I even added it to my dictionary so it doesn't get redlined!
Today is my brother's birthday so I am traveling cross-state to see the sibs. I really haven't driven hardly at all in the last month or so, but I'm looking forward to getting out and about. Bro is bat shit crazy, but he generally knows that my sister and I won't let him discuss almost all topics. We are pretty much down to complaining about traffic. Can't talk about the weather, because climate change denier, can't talk politics obviously, can't talk baseball or football anymore because of BLM. We can talk about old friends from growing up and our health. It is interesting. Obviously, he is also an anti-vaxhole, but he also goes nowhere because of his MS so not too worried about him being exposed. We do get together outside as he has a nice outside table and chairs where everyone is comfy. I'll be staying with my sane sister.
OMG I got chronological Instagram back!
Tomorrow is a baby shower for M's nephew & girlfriend. No one is vaccinated, his dad just got over Covid. I don't want to go and stay , I don't want M to go and stay. Especially because Sunday we are going to my Mom's. No one will be wearing masks either. M's mom is going to go and that is a risk. He and I have compromised to- going briefly to drop off a present while masked and then leaving. His mom is mad because we won't be going for the whole time she keeps saying "it's his first kid, your sister's first grandchild"
I get that. But there was no funeral service for my cousin, or my dad's cousin Tommy, My dad barely got to even see anyone. No one outside the immediate family was invited to my grandma's funeral. Oh and Tommy's widow and sister both got Covid right after he died.
Plus I'm going to the dentist on Monday where I won't be able to wear a mask around the dental staff so I'm going to try and be as safe as possible.
If they were vaccinated and distancing and had at any point taken Covid seriously then I would have different feelings about this.
I'm sorry M's mom is being unreasonable about your choice, askye. Your whole living situation seems pretty fraught and difficult and not because you are making it that way, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.
Askye, I’m sorry. That’s a difficult situation.
I'm sorry, askye, but you are making the only right and safe decision.
I like the chronological field—will it quit shoving sixteen people I DONT follow in between those I do? Like, I understand ads, but this is “you like Person so you might also like this post from Random!” And that is somehow more obnoxious than ads? And would be fine if it didn’t feel like they were showing me more of those than they are actual people I follow??
So many things are terrible, including my sister testing positive for Covid earlier this week, but I just got an email from my landlord that they are planning to install smart locks. I know enough about IoT to have IMMEDIATE CONCERNS. Major security concerns and privacy concerns, and what happens if the power/wifi goes out? They claim there is a battery backup, but I'm seeing reports that they die frequently. Almost no details have been provided, and the reviews of the app I'm guessing I'll have to use are pretty damning, including tracking your information and selling it to third parties.
If they don't let me opt out of this, then moving may be the next step.
