Cancer Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 I had the same feeling. Got a lucky opportunity and grabbed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 I haven't got a damned thing done this morning. I've been coming to full stops, tearing up, spending minutes having to get back level thought, wiping my eyes. Not because of loss... rather, because of hope. Saturday's presidential election outcome was something I didn't dare let myself hope for. And the cloudy small-scale changes in Congress ... I'm OK with that too. The nation has had a lot of tumult in the last ten months, there are pressures from multiple sides, and the way out of the morass is going to be one we must compromise upon and hammer out together. That is the political process as it should be. I know, only a white man can see it that way, and it will be agonizingly slow and take far longer than it should, but it will happen, and I will do what I can, where I can, to help. The first hope comes from the defeat of the hollow man, the corrosive egotist, the soulless windbag who believed in nothing but himself and demonstrated he would throw literally everyone and everything under the bus to feed his ego in the short term. His end probably won't be the gorn he so richly deserves, but in less than two months his immensely fat shadow will no longer loom over the political machinery of the country. Day shall come again. Then this morning, the first COVID-19 vaccine trial results. It looks about as good as possible at this phase, consistent with 90% efficacious. It's not unreservedly positive news: this vaccine candidate is the most challenging to deliver ... a two-dose regimen, and -80 C storage to keep it viable ... and producing 1.3 billion doses in 2021 is a logistical task that staggers the imagination. But it can be done. The fundamental problem has been overcome; the more so, because it provides a demonstration that a coronavirus vaccine can be developed, which was not known before and there were reasons to fear that might not be true. In time, I expect better, easier, simpler vaccines will come, when there is time to take fewer short cuts, refine techniques, and research the details ... when there is no longer the pressure of nearly 6400 deaths in the last week and no other relief in sight. The vaccine is not yet available, but it will come, for us in the US and for the rest of the world. The grip of terror from the virus is broken. It has been a long year. Old Man and Pariah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 Cancer is right, there is Hope. Hope that brings with it a new day where the Evil Empire can be broken and a new Earth society can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2020 Report Share Posted November 18, 2020 I have two cats sleeping in arm's reach of me at the moment. Most importantly from their point of view, they are also in arm's reach of the electric radiator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 18, 2020 Report Share Posted November 18, 2020 Who would have guessed tyranny has such a high approval rating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2020 Report Share Posted November 18, 2020 Not I. "So this is how freedom dies ... To the accompaniment of thunderous applause." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 22, 2020 Report Share Posted November 22, 2020 Of course, this could still end up with the Walther PPK in the bunker, too. And I am vicious enough to root privately for that. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 The Townsend's warbler was at the suet feeder this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Tell the Townsends to put a leash on their warbler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Those don't bother me. Now, if I could do something about the starlings, that's something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 ... Startlings ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Nuisance birds and accompanying recipes - American Airgunner Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Not the best environment for that, here in a relatively dense residential neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 Finally got my grades done. Will post them after the department meeting that starts in 25 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Cancer said: Finally got my grades done. Will post them after the department meeting that starts in 25 minutes. Why not post them during the meeting? It's not as though you'd be doing anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 Because (as I just learned) access to the grade database is still yngvied up, and I can't access it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 Got the last section entered. Hopefully that will drive the stake through the heart of the Fall 2020 vampire. Hmm. It's 3:35 now. My daughter needs to picked up from work at 8:00. How many whiskeys can I have in the intervening time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Let’s find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 Only had one last night. Today being my daughter's birthday, and the party being at my house (so I didn't have to drive at all), I skipped the whiskey this evening but had a quantity of cheap sake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 Happy birthday to that progeny of yours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 Congratulations on not committing infanticide for another year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 Ditto LM & OM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 Thank you, folks. She turned 24 yesterday. Because it will merge my posts if I try making them separately, another thought entirely: Among my job's pleasures is the creation of evil problems, and openly acknowledging the evil within me expressed thereby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 With many a merry moah-ah-ah, I bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 The pay ain't great, so you take your job satisfaction as it comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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