Hi, friends!
How is your weekend going? Good things happening? Ready for the week?
I slept in today, which is not common for me but was very enjoyable. Got some errands done and took a nice walk to the shops nearby for some window shopping and picking up a few odds and ends.
All in all, a nice, boring day!
Monday begins tonight… fucking night shift.
Booo fucking night shift. I hope you get a shift differential for it. A good one.
Not really. It’s not enough to make a difference. I would rather they do permanent shift but I may have mentioned that management is feckless so nope.
I went to see dad at the home and mom at the hospital. Not much improvement for mom eating wise, but she was more active than I’ve seen her in several months… she even might have recognized me (or called me opah aka older brother in Korean hard to tell as she can’t vocalize language much anymore.) I feel kind of bad because I’m on night shift and I’m basically incommunicado with the medical staff or any updates.
Too late to get an accommodation (I’m thinking about it, but I don’t know how long mom’s going to be in the hospital.)
Well, I’m taking tomorrow and Tuesday off because I’m leaving for the conference in Portland on Wednesday morning, so I’m trying to convince myself that it’s OK that I’m still in the middle of chores and errands. I experienced that old familiar Target phenomenon once again when I went there after lunch, as I went in for some travel-sized shaving cream and walked out with that along with a new fucking pair of jeans. Now I’m working on post-editing one of those machine translation things, and I won’t get it in by the deadline because I’ve been lazying about all weekend. But it’s still the middle of the night in Europe, and the other ones I’ve finished this weekend are still untouched, so it probably won’t matter too much.
On Tuesday morning, I have to travel outstate for another court interpreting gig that had to be rescheduled due to a miscommunication. I already updated my license plates on the day I would’ve gone down there last week, during the time that I’d blocked out for it. And since I’m taking the whole day off this time, once I get back to town, I’m planning to stand in line and perform a civic duty that’s . . . well, quite a bit more important.
Word from my coworkers is that Buder Library has been bad for lines and Kingshighway Library hasn’t been as bad.
That’s the one I’m gunning for!
In news surprising no one, Cheeto Mussolini went full dictator Nazi at his MSG rally today. Also his openers spouted off some racist shit that seems beyond the pale even for this crowd. Like if I were a NY state republican elected official, I’d be trying to reassure people that noooo I’m not that bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/27/harris-trump-election-latest-updates-live
“The United States is now an occupied country,” he said. “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history, and get the criminals out.”
From the start, Tony Hinchcliffe, the host of the Kill Tony podcast, stoked racial animus about Latinos and African Americans.
Latinos “love making babies”, Hichcliffe said to raucous laughter. “There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
“There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe also said.
Then the radio host Sid Rosenberg leaned into attacking Democrats, using ad hominem slurs to describe Hillary Clinton — a villain to Trump supporters who lapped it up.
“Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of ‘em. Every one of ‘em,” Rosenberg said.
And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who lost his prime time perch in the wake of the network getting sued for defamation over promulgating false 2020 election fraud claims, went after Kamala Harris.
“As the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ, former California prosecutor to ever be elected president,” Carlson falsely said in a mocking tone of Harris’s racial background, “no, she’s not impressive.”
I’m curious if there’s a reporter or editor anywhere who knows even basic US history of the 1930s and remembers the Nazi rallies in MSG. I’m skeptical how many even remember what happened in 1939.
I mean, Hulk Hogan got on stage to blame Kamala Harris for the border crisis and inflation and the crowd cheered. So like nobody involved has any brain cells.
Not surprised that James Dolan is letting MSG be the Trumpstag.
Asshole failson supporting another asshole failson.
I introduced our foster dog to one of our permanent dogs. He sniffed her backside and she gave him the side eye, but after I told him to knock it off he stopped and then I took them both for a walk together for the first time, and all went well.
He has no interest in challenging her position, so she’s relaxed. Tomorrow is dog two.
Sounds good. I am thinking when I go back to school of getting a shelter dog (or two) as I’ll have a more stable schedule than I have currently working.
There are so many sweet dogs out there, just take your time to find the right match. People want to short circuit the process but there’s nothing wrong with looking around and making sure there’s a good match.
slept in?
wassat?
you can has sleep in more than 2 hour tops windows?
is 2 am now and this is the 3rd time ive woken up…..hopefully i stay asleep till my alarm at 5 from here
Would you like a lullaby? I used to sing this to my daughter when she was a baby and couldn’t settle herself down for the night.