Musings

The specter of 2020 reigned today.

First in Senate news, Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of his race; (deep breath) later, Jon Ossoff was declared the winner of that race. Yay! Two new Dem senators! And the Dems will control two branches of our national government after Joe Biden is sworn in.

Then, while I was distracted, whew, lawlessness struck the Capitol Building while a joint session of congress was underway, presided by the VP…provoked by the Prez, perhaps in part because he was excluded from all these events?

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I dragged on my walk today…hungry, I guess, because it was nice and sunny out. Trying to change my wicked ways in the new year…perhaps I mis-calculated.

Yes, we’re GA voters. Yes, we absentee voted, and our ballots were accepted between Xmas and year-end (yay!). Yes, there’s a big turnout. Yes, our voting place is frequently shown on national news footage—extra exciting.

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Easy to anthropomorphize a fire truck—the blunt front suggests…contained energy, the large size is a metaphor for “gentle giant,” and the red/white, with bright yellow accents suggests a bit of a dandy…and the black-walls…hmm…Doc Martens?

Oh this is fun!

Your turn.

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I’m with the majority, I’m certain, that I’m happy happy happy to say goodbye to 2020. I sure hope 2021 is much, much better, and the trend-lines suggest it surely will be.

That blue object is a stray piece of trash, but so…um…artistic?…the blue-ness anyway…with the mini-fern and moss. And natural detritus. It’s an outlier!

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I was (unhappily) waiting for this: the super-infectious Covid-19 is confirmed to be in the USA. Given how infectious the standard, ordinary version is, well, fan-and-do-do now, especially since the US population/residents, as a whole, are not good at distancing/masking.

For the rest of us, we will keep distancing while waiting for the laggards to…well, too hard to embrace that stunning and awful reality.

I have yet to come across the cost per taxpayer/resident/whatever for this pandemic…so far and projected. Too sobering, I’m sure (and probably a few too many assumptions to be made…still).

Happily, the database informs that our ballots have been received and accepted. Yay!

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Just skimmed a NYTimes article by Pam Belluck titled “Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms;” I’m no human biologist, but I find Covid-19 replete with nasty surprises…but: psychoses? And in people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Wow, that’s unexpected (to me).

However. For context, Belluck notes: “Sporadic cases of post-infectious psychosis and mania have occurred with other viruses, including the 1918 flu and the coronaviruses SARS and MERS.” So, should I have known this?

People: wear a mask and stay away from other people. Six feet of social distancing is only sufficient if it’s for say, five-to-seven minutes or less—and less is best.

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Sorry, watching Richard Burton do his actor-magic for the camera for “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (released 1966), and I’m stealing/borrrowing the line…. And it has nothing to do with a yellow rose in a garden, truth told.

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Sometimes when I’m out walking, I find a theme, something that repeats. Today it was Smart Cars. Usually, I see zero Smart Cars. Today I saw three. All different colors, so I know three: maroon, black, white. Three.

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It’s really no surprise that these are called the Blue Ridge Mountains, eh? [Or the Appalachians? Am I wrong? So much for poetics….]

Memory photo from yesterday. Sigh. Such a wonderful day.

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“Mank.” Worth the time. Terrific lines delivered extremely well. Well crafted. Big cast. Today’s news remodeled into historical fiction.

Strange plant in small, overlooked gas station bed.

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