Out day

[susandennis]

It's house cleaner day and today it needs it. I admit to being slack this week. 'oh, Amira will get that on Wednesday.'

I'm headed to the Mercedes place to get my key fobs looked and maybe see if they can fix the drawer in my dashboard. I'm guessing that will take all the time but, if not, I might pop into Goodwill or the Japanese grocery. I'm gonna play it by ear.

Last night I got a notice that someone in the Philippines was looking to access my Google account. Was that me? Nope. So I changed my password. It had been a year and once I had it changed, I remembered why. The more Google shit you have, the more tedious changing your password becomes. You have to log onto everything with your old password and then log off and log again with your new one but they don't tell you that so when your credentials are rejected, you don't know why.

I have one 'computer' - a $50 chromebit - that requires a bluetooth keyboard and I could not get the keyboard to connect and when I finally did, the credentials kept failing. Finally, I figured out it was the freakin' keyboard. Could Google give me a hint? Fuck no. GRRRRRRR

If Google gave me a teensy bit of an assist, I'd keep my password more current but I killed 2.5 hours last night, just changing my password. That ain't happening again any time soon. Maybe the folks in the Philippines is interested in doing it.

When I last made big changes in this living room, I was still working and needed computers. I had my personal one, my job one and another one that I used as a kind of server. I wanted three monitors so I had them mounted on the wall. Now I really need only one of those monitors - two at the most. So I've been conjuring on a change to that area of the room. I don't want to screw with some thing big but I think maybe I'll take down one of the monitors and replace it with a nice looking magnet board. Maybe.

The governor did nothing yesterday about COVID. There was a panel of experts who all said the same things they have been saying for weeks. The number of cases is rising, the number of hospitalizations is rising, the number of death is rising, don't have a large gathering at Thanksgiving and don't go to Christmas parties and wear a mask. Exactly zero new or different. I'm not sure what makes them think this is going to change a thing. I think it's going to change nothing but I'm not an expert.

I do believe our governor - the one we just re elected - will go to the other Washington to serve as something in Biden's government. And we'll get our newly elected not-even-very-interesting-but-not-toxic lieutenant governor as a leader. Yawn. I'm guessing that will just put yesterday's message on loop and mark the end of Doing Anything About The Problem on a state level around here.

Oh well.

Time to get dressed and get ready to split.

Comments

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Interesting, you think we're going to lose inslee and be stuck with whomever won?

[susandennis]

yup

Meet Governor Denny... Heck!

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Well that will be interesting.

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting (and sometimes disturbing) to see and hear about how local and state governments are handling Covid response right now. Some places just seem like they've totally given up, and some seem like they want to do stuff to help control spread but don't know how to go about it anymore. It's all so crazy. Where I live it is sort of a haphazard mix. The county if supposed to have a mask mandate that would cover the whole metro Phoenix area, but then each city within has sort of come up with their own guidelines. Even so, it seems like really no one is enforcing it if people choose to ignore whatever the guideline is. Then there are the poor school districts which are really each left to their own devices and are trying to interpret results and make decisions...but I feel so sorry for them.... who among them would ever expect to have to know how to interpret numbers in a pandemic and guide accordingly? Such a mess.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

OH PLEASE TAKE OURS!!!!!

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[opakele.livejournal.com]

I saw that same press conference today.

I think the message was, we are going to shut down hard again if people don't start being more careful about wearing masks and avoiding large gatherings.

That means shutting down the Washington state economy again...when people are weary, at their financial limits and noting that lots of businesses are open and thriving (in defiance of the COVID guidance provided).

Then Grinch steals Christmas. It's a really tough call.

I've wondered if Inslee will go to DC...

[susandennis]

i guess i expected that once he was safely re elected, he'd batten down the hatches again. it just seems like the 'getting worse' warning is now being heard so much that it's meaningless and people aren't paying any attention.

i hope he doesn't go but i'm afraid he will.