TGIF! [DOT 26/11/21]

26/11/21 MegMegMcGee 20

Hi Gang! Happy Friday. Hope you are all recovered from your holiday festivities.

Do you get today off? My company is closed today, which is nice. The stonk market is only open half a day today.

If you’re off are you shopping?

What time do stores open on Black Friday? Here’s when Walmart, Target, Best Buy, GameStop hours begin
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-time-do-stores-open-on-black-friday-heres-when-walmart-target-best-buy-gamestop-hours-begin/

Holiday shopping ‘hell’: workers brace for unruly customers and labor strikes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/24/holiday-shopping-hell-workers-brace-for-unruly-customers-and-labor-strikes

Stonks!

The crypto trading hamster that outperformed the S&P 500 has died
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-trading-hamster-mr-goxx-outperformed-sp500-has-died-2021-11

Sprots!

Aaron Rodgers shows off bare foot to prove he doesn’t have ‘covid toe,’ says it’s a fracture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/11/24/aaron-rodgers-covid-toe/

Food You Can’t Eat

Have a great day!

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20 Comments

  1. Happy Morning After, everybody. I hope if you had a Thanksgiving it went well and it was without tears and rancor.

    Michael Beschloss, one of my favorite historians, posted this piece of Thanksgiving memorabilia:

    Those prices are in cents, not dollars, but to put this in perspective my research (I DID MY OWN RESEARCH) tells me that the average manufacturing wage in 1900 was 20 cents per hour. That’s always a useful way to measure relative prices: how many hours would a person have to work to buy X. Better than using an inflation calculator.

    Why am I up so early pestering you with trivia? Well, our Thanksgiving went really well and was on the table about 1 1/2 hours earlier than I was expecting, so the dog got an early final walk and we were fast asleep by 9 PM. I managed this by fudging and playing oven Tetris, so the oven work wasn’t done in shifts but cumulatively, and all four burners were employed judiciously. I was pretty proud of myself.

    • The diversity of proteins is astounding. In a fine US restaurant today you might get chicken and duck and possibly a third kind of bird, like squab. Here I’m counting at least 15, not even counting the separate types of duck. Plus all of the fish, turtles, and shellfish.

      A lot has to do with the utter collapse of game populations in places like Long Island Sound and the Chesapeake. But it’s also a sign of how much the US diet was standardized, homogenized, and lowered to a standard denominator by the industrialization of agriculture and food proceasing in the few decades after that menu.

  3. I really need to take time off and get away from work.  Work has been a chore this week.

    I am hoping it ends on a whimper, but not really.  Both the team leads are off today so I’m wearing the team lead hat. One person has decided to become a big pain in the ass the past two weeks. Not looking forward to their whiny/pointless shit today.

    Got my furnace checked out yesterday. Finally found out why my furnace has been leaking water… algae in the AC drain pipe. Gross. No one mentioned I need to put some vinegar in the tank to keep it clean. The more you know…

    Also getting an estimate on a new AC now.  Gotta save some cash as the off season discounts are decent, but it kind of messes up the budget as I didn’t expect to be paying for it now. However, I’m not so inflexible with money and can afford a down payment if the numbers are what I think they are.

     

    • My AC drain line collects mildew, so I pour bleach through it about once a month (vinegar doesn’t get the job done) and follow that up by blowing air through it with my shop vac.

  6. Black Friday update:  Wife & daughter just got home from mall…apparently,  they did NOT open at previous year insane times and it was closed at 5am.  Lots of others there too wondering what the hell was going on.  Glad they didn’t drag the other daughter or we would all be in for a very long day!

     

  7. I’m at the clinic we brought Dad to a week ago yesterday… except this appointment is for me, and I’m just sitting in the parking lot, waiting to get tested for Covid…

    Tbh, I expect that I have it–i have a mild cough, sliiightly sore throat, and a tiny bit of a backache… I felt worse after my second Pfizer shot (and that “worse,” plus my stress level & shitty diet that week tipped me over into that bout of pancreatitis–which was WAY worse than the side effects!🙃).

     

    Swab is done, and I can go back to Dad’s & wait for the results (luckily, out here the clinic is small enough that I should hear back in an hour or so!)

     

    Then, if it’s positive, i start trying to find the monoclonal antibodies–i qualify, because of my diabetes & airway stuff, and according to my older cousin who was just through a nasty bout** of Covid a couple weeks ago, I’ve been told “Go GET it!!!”

     

    **I am dealing with SO much disappointment, with so many of my family members up here….

    I’m not on Facebook, so not in regular touch with everyone… but apparently many of the folks in my generation of the family didn’t get vaccinated😖😣😱😡🤬🤬🤬

    It’s just SO disappointing, because not only do many of them have public-facing jobs (i am FAR from the only Paraprofessional in my family!), but we have a cousin whose toddler is waiting for an organ transplant!!!

    I’m frustrated, sick, tired, exhausted, and heartsick & disappointed.😕

     

    That sort of jerkish-ness isn’t how we were RAISED.

    We were ALL raised to “Do the RIGHT THING, no matter WHAT, and no matter WHAT the folks around you do & say!”…to NOT give in to stupid fears, or do things that might harm others…

    And yeah, I do get that most of it is probably the mentality that, “We’re *waaaaay out here,* it’s SAFER here!”

    But a gorram pandemic doesn’t motherfucking CARE that you’re rural… it’s a goddamn airborne BUG, snd it goes EVERYWHERE…

    And with all the medical and county-services, AND education field folks in the family, they DO know better!☹💔😱😱😱

     

     

    • Test update: the results only took 45 minutes, not EVEN an hour!🤣

      Today’s was negative, but I should be getting a call back for the “Day 5” test to be done tomorrow.

        • Thanks!

          I’ve felt quite a bit better today, than I did yesterday–the achiness in my back is gone, and I just have the tiniest bit of a runny nose & mild scratchy-spot in your throat…

          less bad than I felt during hours 12-36 after my second shot!

           

          (although that got all mixed in with the pancreatitis hot/cold feelings and the abdominal pain & “blurgle-ing”, sooo i couldn’t really tell what was shot-related & what was pancreatitis!😉)

          I’m having a lazy evening here at Dad’s–i plan to call at 10-ish to get an update, then I’m just gonna play some silly games on my phone & read until bed😁

  8. My step sister passed away around 7:30 this morning. I went to see her last night but she was asleep (medicated) the whole time. I’m glad she’s no longer hurting.

  9. …just adding my condolences to those already offered…sorry this how things have been for you all this last while…but glad it sounds like at least she didn’t have to suffer at the last…I hope that makes it easier on you guys

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