Current photo of Manhattan

Apparently NYC has the 2nd worst air quality in the world right now. (I have to assume Quebec is winning/losing that race, since it is literally on fire??)

My sympathies. We've had at least a few weeks of that every damn summer since 2017. I would say you get used to it, but you really don't.

(Still decent air and blue skies here, though we're so much closer to some of the worst of the Canadian fires. The wind that's saving us is apparently screwing you.)

(ETA: Ah, you're getting the Quebec smoke, not the Northeast BC smoke. Gotta disambiguate the smoke. In my defense, Denver was getting the BC smoke recently.)

If the budget will stretch to such and you or someone you know has a membership, Costco has the BlueAir 121 purifier on sale until the 11th; I have one and it got us through last year's round of "We're number one! In sucky air quality!" If it doesn't, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to the rescue!

If the budget will stretch to such and you or someone you know has a membership, Costco has the BlueAir 121 purifier on sale until the 11th; I have one and it got us through last year's round of "We're number one! In sucky air quality!"

The September Sneak Attack! I thought we were finally going to make it a summer without the hellsmoke. Nope. Nope.

Also, I guess we should get one of those.

Yes you should, and if the filters are on sale, grab one of those as well.

The thought of all those wildfires is so horrifying. We have the forests somewhere burn almost every year, but I'm not close to all that. Um, so far, anyway. Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me...as a member of the disability issue team, I'll be meeting virtually with Grijalva's chief of staff about the SSI Restoration Act...wish me luck, especially since the Big Boss, Alan, will be there with my supervisor and me. It would be a good time to come off well.

Now they’re grounding flights due to low visibility.

(((meara))) much love to you, I hope the medicine helps your mom.

We have haze here from the wild fires, it looks more like fog and no where near that dramatic.

I emailed my lawyer rejecting the settlement offer, I refrained from ranting and for calling the $100 "resigning bonus" a bribe or insulting. or an insulting attempt at a bribe. So small victory there.

Therapy was good today, I had decided what I wanted to do about the settlement but I still talked about it with my therapist and he was like "that would have been my advice" and it was really cool because this is a big decision and while I wanted to get advice about it I made the actual decision without feeling insecure or that I needed someone else's approval/permission/validation that it was the best decision. Which is huge progress for me.

Although I've had a brain kinda foggy day-- had therapy, didnt' sleep well last night so was sleeping in, woke up and saw the time and freaked out because I swear it said 10:00 and my appointment was at 11:00 and it takes about 45 mins to get there. Got almost to the NC state line and realized the GPS said I'd be arriving at 10:02 and then looked at the clock. So I killed time before the appointment. Then on my way back I was thinking about how -oh i've made this huge progress, missed my exit and then didn't realize it until I was almost back in SC and at that point it was another 45 mins to get home.

Grounding flights for low visibility?? Jeez.

I just moved my flight to my parents’ from Saturday to Friday. Just in case. It’s not looking good.

Go erikaj! Will be sending luck your way tomorrow

And well done, askye!