SNOT [NOT 4/12/21]

4/12/21 KeitelBlacksmith 39

SNOT: Saturday night open thread. Total open thread. Tell us some things.

It is a mad rush to get everything squared away with (doctor wise) before my insurance changes the first of the year. I never realized I have so much shit wrong. Oh to be 25 again. I would eat ice cream by the bucket.

So what is on your mind?

Apparently I have too much time on my hands.

Rant, rave, educate, inform, ask, and answer.

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39 Comments

  2. ive got sevrul (it means more than two) co workers down with the sickness
    the snooty fucking word i cant use heres…waited till fucking friday to notify us

    i know theyve known since tuesday at least…..coz my teamlead disapeared on tuesday

    they waited till friday to avoid sickies…

    pretty sure if i murder anything in an office it counts as self defence now

    • oh forgot to say….they posted that after everyone in the office came back negative from a test in the fucking office

      yeah nothing to worrie about..the useless fucking shitheels he talks to occasionallly are fine

       

  3. My wife and I got boosters yesterday and both of us had the mildest reax to any shots so far. I was expecting to stay in bed all day watching videos, but nothing doing. Just mild arm pain.

    I made boatloads of tamales (Mexican and Central American) for survival food beforehand, but will be stockpiling more in the freezer for Christmas now.

     

    • I’m fully boostered up yesterday and have a small lump at the injection site (normal).

      On Monday if the lump is still there I’m going to have a chat with the resident antivaxxer at work, and make like I’m squirting invisible vaccine at him from lump. “C’MON YOU KNOW YOU WANT SOME 5G”

      • Okay, hear me out.

        What if….

        You got a red sharpie market and drew fake illuminati symbols (like a triangle with an eye in it, etc) near the injection site and then tell your antivaxx coworker that those just showed up on your skin 48 hours after the shot

    • Got my Booster Friday, and had my first ever reaction/side effect to a vaccination.

      Not really bad, especially considering what others have gone through, but kinda interesting.

       

      Mostly, I was just really damned tired, and a bit cold.  And just feeling a little odd for a bit.  Got the booster Thursday afternoon, and was super tired Friday morning.  Most of Friday day, I was a bit cold, and wearing more layers than I typically do for the temp in my room.  pretty much cleared up by Friday evening, so that was interesting.  And although I could have worked through it if necessary, I was able to take the day off, so I was glad of that.

  5. I got my booster last night and feel like I’ve been hit by a bus being driven by Sandra Bullock. It’s not as bad as after shot #2, but still, not great Bob. My fever peaked today at 101.5. I didn’t eat much until about 4pm and everything hurts, especially my head.

    • I’m sorry and I know that sucks based on one of my reactions. I’d love to see more research on side effects. As I said above, this one was mild for me. #2 was hard, #1 wasn’t bad.

      Nothing serious changed for me that I know of, it was the same manufacturer for all three, but maybe there are factors that make a difference. I ate Mexican food after this shot, and if there’s an excuse for that let me know. I did take Ibuprofen this time around, but I doubt that makes such a big difference. Time of day? Timing with regard to other shots? Possible asymptomatic exposure?

      Fortunately the worst shot reaction was not nearly so bad as to make me want to risk getting the real thing. I felt a little droopy after my flu shot a few weeks ago, but that was nothing compared to the full-blown flu cases I’ve had, and I’ve known people who got fairly moderate cases of Covid and no thanks, I don’t want to risk that.

      • Yeah I was talking to some people about what a reaction i had to shot 2 and they were floored. Most people had a sore arm and felt a little crappy for maybe half a day. I had 2 Pfizers and a Moderna booster, bc you can mix and match now. Now, 24 hrs later i feel better than i did this morning, but nowhere near good. I tried googling why some ppl have almost no rxn and basically the answer is “immune systems do be like that.” Men (or ppl with high testosterone), the elderly, and those with already wonky immune systems react less. Still better than covid, yes.

          • Moderna #2 was a little rough for me, like exhausted and some chills plus headache.

            Moderna booster was fine. No side effects except a little arm soreness. I had even planned to feel like crap and had pre-emptively made a big vat of soup to eat for a few days.

            Still ate the soup, but certainly wasn’t a thing of needed it really.

        • Hell, even if the vaccination were “as bad as” actually catching COVID, I’d still consider that preferable, as you can schedule and prepare and plan around a vaccination…

      • This is anecdotal, of course, but the attendants in the observation area where I went for my booster told the room over and over to make circular motions so our arms and shoulders weren’t still in the immediate aftermath, and to drink 2-3L of water within 3-4 hours of receiving the jab. Apparently, that helps mitigate some of the early reaction.

        I did all that and had virtually no reaction; however, my case alone doesn’t mean anything.

        • I did go for a decent walk after the shot with the usual amount of arm swinging, and drank a bunch of seltzer. Did that matter? I don’t know, but I’ll probably do the same thing when Covid shots become an annual thing like Flu shots.

    • Hope you are feeling better soon.

      I just posted that I got my booster on Thursday, and had my first ever vaccine reaction/side effect on Friday, but it was pretty mild and cleared up by the end of the day.

      Small sample size, but most of my coworkers got their worst reaction from the booster, but it was only a day for most of them.

  6. Well, speaking (as apparently was being done earlier today) of “coming up short,” I opened my delivery notification e-mail from the post office this morning to find that I’d be getting a suspiciously thin envelope from the American Translators Association regarding the results of the certification exam that I took at the ATA Annual Conference in Minneapolis five weeks ago. (What? No, I certainly wasn’t counting!) Sure enough, my work seems not to have been up to ATA standards or whatever horseshit – which certainly wasn’t outside the realm of possibility, considering that the passing rate is something like just a shade less than 20%.

    Anyway, I reread the letter and then recalled that it didn’t contain my actual scores but rather the average for everyone who translated the passages in question. That was important to remember because nearly three years ago, well before all of this, I’d attended a workshop near the ATA headquarters in lovely Alexandria, VA, given by a couple of Spanish-to-English graders who explained what the exam was like and the kinds of errors that made them subtract points – including on the practice test that was part of the registration, which I’d come within five points of passing. Then, with all that newfound knowledge under my belt, I’d tried again with another practice test later that year and just barely passed.

    Anyway, the rationalization that I’m settling with at the moment is that maybe I’d just done some backsliding in the interim. I’d intended to take another practice test after I registered for the exam over the summer but ended up being so beaten down by overwork – possibly as a result of some documented fuckery by some derelict employees who’ve since been fired – and other commitments that the feasibility timeframe had already passed once I thought of it. Besides that, I’d been riding high for the past few months as far as disposable income was concerned, and I was just in the mood to take a gamble.

    I’ll have another opportunity in about four months, following the regional conference on the Kansas side of Kansas City. (I may go to that just to knock out some CEUs, but I have to see what the program is first.) I’m kicking around the idea of doing another practice exam after the new year starts and then trying for it again there, but I’m not sure. . . .

    • Translation seems like such a tough job. I have an in law who is Central American, and he says the differences between just his Spanish and the way Mexicans speak is significant, and another more distant in law who is Oaxacan who says the same thing for her Spanish vs. what you get in Mexico City. Never mind how that works out for South America or Spain itself.

      • Well, not to be that guy, but if you’re talking about the way people speak, then chances are that you’re talking about interpreting, not translation – unless, of course, you’re reading a text out loud but in a different language than the one it’s written in, in which case you’re talking about sight translation.

        I do both, as you may know, so I usually let this slide, though I will say that interpreting can be even more of a tough job: I mean, as inscrutable as a piece of writing may be, it’s generally fine to leave it alone awhile – sometimes even for years or centuries – until you find the words for it in another language, deadlines excluded. But Gawd help you if you’re the one standing between two or more people who don’t speak the same language (literally, if not quite figuratively), and you get stuck on an unknown word or cultural reference – or, hell, even the person’s accent. (Cuban and Puerto Rican accents are sometimes the bane of my existence personally, and I’ve occasionally even been the bane of those with the latter.) And if the person just keeps blathering on and on without pausing to give you a chance to do your job? Well, strap in and do your best simultaneously, unless or until you can’t take it anymore and give up – like the guy interpreting for Gaddafi famously did at the UN that one time.

  7. Butcher Dog is really starting to get into the mushing scooter routine.  Now she really gets running and seems to very much enjoy doing what we never allow her to do otherwise when taking her out for a walk, which is pulling and running.  Today, she accelerated so quickly from a dead stop that Mrs. Butcher almost fell off backwards.  This is going to be awesome.

    • This is why I look at some of my fellow engineers with annoyance and irritation.

      The guy has two engineering degrees from MIT and is from all appearances a brilliant engineer.

      Outside of his area of expertise, he’s seems incredibly ignorant and one quite shitty human being (libertarian) who is a CoVID and climate change denier.  Pretty much the Ben Carson of engineering who can’t/won’t get the depths of his ignorance outside of his area of expertise (or as I call it, Sheldon Cooper Syndrome.)

      From a psychological point of view, it’s funny/telling to me that he’s the one who needs to carry the biggest gun while his daughters and wife are forced to carry the smaller submachine guns or carbines while his sons carry (but not as big as dad’s) full sized assault rifles.

      • huh…i hadnt even thought about it like that….yeah..that is pretty telling

        main thing i took from it was that his biggest gun is the only one im reasonably certain isnt loaded…as its belt fed

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