Second quarter of the year. Still unemployed. The entire country is on lockdown. Where did I go wrong? Smart people are now recommending that you wear face coverings in public - not so much to keep you from getting sick, but to keep you from spreading it to others if you are sick. OK, that's not hard. Here are …
Smugpoints™
So we continue to plow onward, as our circle gets ever tighter. Suggestions for New Yorkers, particularly traveling elsewhere, get more and more prescriptive - self-quarantine for two weeks, for example. Rhode Island apparently is stopping NY plates at the border - first to turn them around, but now I think just to warn them. …
My Brilliant Career
As anyone who reads this probably knows, I spent my college days in a practice room, determined to be a professional French horn player. Mind you, I didn't have a very clear idea of what this looked like, I just knew I wanted to play horn and get paid for it. Problem is, once it …
Foiled!
Vance has posted a list of proposed core essays to consider and use as writing prompts for the #MOC19 project. I'll pick some up if I am uninspired. But today is not that day. So as you know, C and I are in New York City, the current epicenter of the virus in the US. …
Mass Observation: COVID-19
Wanting to give the students in his now-postponed writing classes some impetus to keep writing, and through research, discovering the World-War-II-era Mass Observation project, my college roommate Vance has started up a new writing project for the Time of Coronavirus: Mass Observation: COVID-19 Basically, if you're a blogger and you're writing anything about your personal …
Oh, goodie, another week of this
Probably scattershot, I'm not drafting this. Over 10,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York City now, 100 deaths. I had to consult Alexa to do the math, but that's very approximately a tenth of a percent of the population diagnosed, with one percent of that killed. We are now the hotspot for the disease …
Hunkered Down
It's interesting reading Facebook and blog posts from just a week ago and thinking, 'how quaint'. Things have changed so quickly. For instance, worried about freaking out recruiters by asking about telecommuting. I had a couple of calls with a recruiting company last Thursday where they said, 'normally this job would be onsite but it …
Shake Up
I needed to get out of the way of the cleaning lady yesterday, so decided to tie off a loose end. I went up to Inwood, which is where I lived my first year in town (well, 10 months). It is so far off the beaten track that I had literally not been back since …
Sha-Mokin’
Yeah, this was a pretty weird week. The sudden coalescing of the Democratic party process around Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the race... well, I'm glad things are getting settled, at least. Warren isn't going anywhere, she'll be doing good work in whatever position she ends up holding. I like Biden just …
Do the Next Right Thing
Since LiveJournal was taken over by Russians, and almost no one is still there, I've been meaning to move the blog for a while. Can you believe, I've been blogging 17 years? Argh. Anyway, the plan is to actually migrate that old content here, but there's no rush - LJ isn't actually going down any …
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