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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I took a different street today early in my trek, one I’ve been down before, but not lately. I had forgotten about this bed with extremely early croci until the color awakened my eyeballs, pfffft! Wow!

Later, it occurred to me for the first time that picking the saffron crocus is truly backbreaking work, as these flowers are darned close to the ground!

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Had a lot of fun with this pair and a laser pointer (including body slams against the wall while stretching upward as much as possible), until they decided it was feeding time and became no longer interested.

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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’d like to say that today honestly felt like the weight engendered by the awful things of last year was subsiding. Just a tad. A wee tad.

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Surprised to find this pitcher plant in a front garden…although the BotGarden has them and I think distributes them (or did) in various situations. A change from pansies and camellias typical of Dec/Jan.

Keep the darned B.1.1.7 contagious variant of Covid-19 away from meeeeee. And youuuuuuu.

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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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I am lousy at thumb-typing on my phone. I probably should practice.

I’m lousy at shooting selfies. They don’t seem to improve.

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