Just when you think...

[susandennis]

The Red Alert for hazardous air quality ended at 11 am today. The new one was posted at noon. It goes through noon on Thursday. Holy Fuckaduck.

And the Mariners are playing a baseball game in it! Their poor lungs. I don't know how they are even doing it. Or why. Jesus. It doesn't look like the outfield can even see the ball.

I canceled the housecleaner on Wednesday. The more I thought about it, the more it made no sense for her to come and clean a house that will be junked up by construction the next day. Plus I don't want to go out. (Yes, I could stay here but I don't wanna.) She's sure gotten a lot of paid vacation this year! Which is fine. She's cleaned for me for a decade and before this year while there were not too many misses, I never paid her for them.

The treadmill did not work where I had it positioned. I found a new place/position that may work as well. We'll know tomorrow. The watching of TV didn't thrill either. But, that could be because I'm at a good part in my audio book so I turned off the TV and listened to it but nice to have options.

Back to crochet.

Comments

[gneu.livejournal.com]

It's still a busy life, nonetheless.

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

I'm confused, because all the parks and everything are closed, but they still have construction workers outside working. Why are they making the poor construction workers work in this?!

[susandennis]

same reason they are making baseball players play, i guess.

there are some state highway projects that are shut down due to smoke. I just saw that on twitter.

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

Here in Indiana, there's enough smoke in the upper atmosphere to create a hazy effect. For it to be that bad here, it has to be many times worse where you are than it was back in 2015 when we were in Spokane for the World Science Fiction Convention.

I still recall how one day the fires were so close that the smoke odor was getting inside the convention center and they had to turn off the smoke alarms to prevent continual false alarms. I went outside and the sky looked like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie. Ash was falling out of the sky, onto our business van, onto my t-shirt, everywhere.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

The weather forecast in this morning's Boston Globe said we would get some haze today from the Western US wildfires. I was astounded. (It does look little hazy out there.)

[susandennis]

We share because we care.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

For seven or eight years, when I lived in Illinois, I had cleaners come every other Monday. They were a couple from Poland. The wife had been a teacher and the husband an engineer for an auto maker. They were such dear people, and did a fabulous job, that when I told them we were moving I felt they were some of the few friends I'd miss.

I know of a cleaner in a town nearby. She cleans some of the medical offices in town. I'm trying very hard to not succumb to the temptation. I work from home, Mr. L is out of work, and we have no carpet in the new house. Being out in the country there is more dust and more bugs, but it's still not worth hiring someone to clean.

I am keeping my west coast friends in my thoughts. On top of everything else!

[susandennis]

My case is kind of the opposite. I'd really be fine if she quit but I don't really have the heart to fire her. She used to be a lot better cleaner than she is now and spent more time doing it. Now it's kind of a lick and a promise and she's out of here. But, I also only pay her $100 which is only $25 more than I paid her 10 years ago. And I can afford it. And it gets me out of the house every couple of weeks (usually). So I do nothing. Also, since COVID, she's taken to texting which makes communicating with her (which used to be a major PIA) way easier.