Timelies all!

No real plans for the weekend. I need a break, but that isn't happening any time soon. In fact, next week Gary has his first business trip since the pandemic started. I am not looking forward to wrangling Mr. S solo for 4 days. Especially since I have been frustrated with him a lot.

Good luck, Pix & ND! I went looking for cheap Covid tests online the other day, but there really aren't a lot that you can just take at home. I think that's going to be a thing: people really need it to be easy to test.

In other news, I'm spending the weekend at my sister's new cabin in teh mountains, and then I'm going to San Diego for the week to meet with a bunch of coworkers. Officially it's for training: unofficially (and more importantly) it's for seeing all the other environmental staff in the agency. It looks like a pretty nice hotel, with lots of outdoor space, but I'm a bit worried about the possibility for exposure.

One of the guys coming only three weeks ago announced he wasn't getting the "experimental" vaccine. But since then Biden has required all feds to get vaccinated. So I'm not sure what the deal is with that guy. I hope he doesn't come: he's also expressed support for the Jan 6 riot. D:

Today we send happy birthday wishes to ErikaJ! Not seen often enough around these parts, but hoping she feels our wishes for a wonderful year coming her way.

Ugh, Consuela. I hope dude decides he has better things to do. I wouldn't want to spend any time with him indoors or out. I encounter the crazies in my life in social situations, but fortunately, they seem to keep away from topics they know are unwelcome. I tend to initiate conversation with safe topics like their kids or the event itself. I have no obligation or interest in educating the idiots. They have access to the facts as much as anyone.

Great nephew's first soccer game of the season is this morning. He is 11 so no vaccines for their age group. 8 girls and 4 boys on this year's team. Last year it was about half kids interested in playing well and a half doing cartwheels on the field, or just not paying a lot of attention. A fun time had by all nonetheless.

Good luck, Pix and ND! I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

Good luck Pix and Nd! And Suela good luck avoiding the crazies. Yeesh.

It rained a bunch last night and apparently it pooled in the stretched out canopy of my tent over my patio, to the point where the weight of the water broke the metal frame. Dang!! It didn’t even occur to me to try to do anything. Oops. It lasted 10 months, not too bad. And I may have found someone to house sit for me—my neighbor lives in one of our three townhouses and rents the other one out—she used to Airbnb but switched to travel nurses, during the pandemic. So she knew a nurse looking for a place!

It rained a bunch last night and apparently it pooled in the stretched out canopy of my tent over my patio, to the point where the weight of the water broke the metal frame.

Dang, meara! You're on a real hot streak lately.

I have reviewed the List of Things I Ought To Do, and the List Of Things I Want To Do for today.

There is no overlap.

Alternate or concatenate? That is the question....

Yeah, the tent thing is a bummer, but my first tent only lasted a few months. This one lasted 10 months! Maybe if I buy a third one it’ll be a year? We shall see. Not sure if I’ll buy a new one right away? I feel like I haven’t been using it, but then again, it’s been warm and dry for months, so I didn’t much need it??

I love the word concatenate! No one ever knows what I mean, though.

Drew and Pix, I am hoping you have a good resolution. This seems just really difficult and stressful.

Meara, I think your stuff sounds stressful too. Luckily? I have no money or property…

Guys, I can’t quite say this on Facebook, but my Favorite student actor of all time won the Lotte Lenya competition! It is so unprofessional to have favorites of students, but he was the best. I had the biggest ever “mom crush” on him, which I had before there was the term woobie, but I think it might be similar in feeling. His time at School also coincided with the time of my absolute favorite costume student, so this is just taking me back to when I just loved theatre. They are actually some of the only students I have had still working in the field, as we are not really a theatre school and don’t have a major. But it was such a lovely and delightful time and for four years we basically were his personal wardrobe crew because he was just so good we needed to take care of him and not let him be taken care of by whatever random student wardrobe worker was there. Which is probably how I ended up teaching favorite costume student to be really good at wardrobe.

ETA his set is at about 39:00. [link]

Wow, that is cool!