Ugh. I am tired and my back is sore but I have excavated the bedroom.

Things that had not been moved since Jacqueline died are now off the floor and sorted.

It still needs to be vacuumed and dusted and some of the stuff needs to go to the attic or Garden Apartment.

But I can see the floor and the air filter is working again.

I did the onerous task of changing a lightbulb I can’t reach (it’s at the top of the stairs and I can’t put a ladder there and it’s very high!) Borrowed my neighbor’s extendible light bulb holder thing and managed to get the old one out and the new one in…but bungled it and now the outer liner bit that makes a nice edge around the hole in the ceiling fell halfway out and I can’t get it back up. Doh!!

DOGE wants to destroy the covid tests that were being sent out to the public, but were stopped for now. Grab them while they are there!

Zooming in to celebrate Beverly today! Happiest of happy birthday wishes. May the day be filled with treats and may the year to come bring an abundance of joy.

Happy birthday, Bev!

The team we worked with at OPM were all fired, the Office of Communication. We’re not sure what it means for our contract yet so we’re just keeping on keeping on.

Oof, lisah

Happy day, Bev!

Yikes Lisah. My bff works for the NIH and said several of her coworkers were fired over the weekend. Which is just shitty—like, why over a long weekend? Or on Valentine’s Day? Have the decency to wait until people are back at work on Tuesday or some shit. But there is no decency to be found. I feel like for a couple days I was calming down from my “fuck we are all fucked and the economy is fucked and fascism is here and how do I fleeeeeeee” internal narrative and now it’s back.

Every day just feels a little harder, doesn't it? I'm still trying to figure out how to get involved in community efforts. I'm still doggedly writing postcards for the April 1 election. I'm trying to find a bank that will cash my treasury bonds, but I fear it's already too late. Mailing them in will likely be a waste of a stamp. In the meantime, I need to find a dress to wear for my nephew's wedding and one part of my brain is saying why not spend a fortune now before US currency is worthless? It really is too much, but I mean... [link]

Oh, that is very pretty! A lot of money, yes, but I hear you on the currency thing, that is kind of a sensible argument...

I'm so worried all the time about everyone - people I know, people I don't know, there are just so many threats out there. I'm trying not to let it flatten me but I don't have a lot of JustDoTheThing energy at the best of times so it's hard.

Low key mad at Neal Stephenson just in a general way and maybe specifically about Anathem but not wanting to inquire too deeply. And weirded out that Infinite Jest had war with Canada as one of its things