And so, this is nuclear winter?
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texxgadgetI cant figure out why Dreamwidth prepopulates my subject line.
Id rather chose new post and have a blank subject line.
I wonder to to fix?
Reading baack through recent posts, I note the large quantities of typos on my part.
Its a tad embarassing.
The last few days, the sky has been beige.
Im used to that late Oct-early nov, but this is a bit early for that.
Then there was the evening this morning. (Not a typo)
I woke up at 6 and noted that it was still dark.
I figured it was the shortening of the days.
I went back to sleep and got up again at 0830.
It was still dark. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Dad was using a desklamp to read the paper.
I went out front.
It was like late twilight, only insteaad of a purple sky, it was dark brown.
The news says the sky is orange, but to me its definitely brown.
The streetlights were still on.
Im thinking of writing a parody of "Blue Skies" as "Beige Skies".
If I do, Ill post lyrics here.
Finally around 1030-1100 it lightened up to a dark beige, returning to twilight around 1600.
Its going to be like that for a few days.
Yesterday, Denver plunged from 90 to 30 overnight.
The Canadian weather that brought cold & snow to CO, is blowing all west coast smoke from north to south,
so we are getting smoke from fires in WA & OR besides those north of the bay area.
Monday night, they kept breaking into programming on KQED with evacuation announcements fior various zones along Russian River.
This is going to be a LONG faall...
Amidst all this chaos, the cold brought by the lack of sunlight is easing the firefighting.
The other bright kight, is that local agencies are starting to talk about logistics of vaccination.
Im still expecting at least one vaccine approval around new years.
Im expecting chaos in DC to delay the roll out.
After the front line people get vaccinated, Im expecting sometime summer 2021 to start on normal people
and that to taake possibly halfway into 2022.
Well, government agencies are actuaally starting to thnk about it and they are coming to grips with
the possibility that it could take 2 years to vaccinate the US.
As depressing as this is, it shows that there are a few functioning brain cells amongst the government and
Im glad they have gotten off their butts to think about this logistics problem.
Even more impressive is that they are thinking about how to vaccinate the third world.
They have finally figured out that refrigeration and landing strip sizes are going to be a problem.
Albuquerque is working on plans for drive up vaccination to the tune of 2000 people per hr.
I still believe Southern Renn Faire is toast for 2021 and now Im wondering if its also dead for 2022.
Hopes for Northern & Dickens for 2021 are now fading in my mind.
They are doing news stories about people going back to clean out their offices, realizing they wont be back in anytime soon.
This is coinciding with an uptick in hiring activity in some secters.
It appears that companies are now resigned to not going back into the office until late 2021 at the earliest.
This means they cant delay hiring until then.
Some good things might come out of this, now that companies are finally getting their collective acts together.
Of course with everyone working remote, pay grades are being slashed.
Nobody has explained why they work is worth less if performed from home.
I actually hate working from home, but Im stuck with it.
Id rather chose new post and have a blank subject line.
I wonder to to fix?
Reading baack through recent posts, I note the large quantities of typos on my part.
Its a tad embarassing.
The last few days, the sky has been beige.
Im used to that late Oct-early nov, but this is a bit early for that.
Then there was the evening this morning. (Not a typo)
I woke up at 6 and noted that it was still dark.
I figured it was the shortening of the days.
I went back to sleep and got up again at 0830.
It was still dark. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Dad was using a desklamp to read the paper.
I went out front.
It was like late twilight, only insteaad of a purple sky, it was dark brown.
The news says the sky is orange, but to me its definitely brown.
The streetlights were still on.
Im thinking of writing a parody of "Blue Skies" as "Beige Skies".
If I do, Ill post lyrics here.
Finally around 1030-1100 it lightened up to a dark beige, returning to twilight around 1600.
Its going to be like that for a few days.
Yesterday, Denver plunged from 90 to 30 overnight.
The Canadian weather that brought cold & snow to CO, is blowing all west coast smoke from north to south,
so we are getting smoke from fires in WA & OR besides those north of the bay area.
Monday night, they kept breaking into programming on KQED with evacuation announcements fior various zones along Russian River.
This is going to be a LONG faall...
Amidst all this chaos, the cold brought by the lack of sunlight is easing the firefighting.
The other bright kight, is that local agencies are starting to talk about logistics of vaccination.
Im still expecting at least one vaccine approval around new years.
Im expecting chaos in DC to delay the roll out.
After the front line people get vaccinated, Im expecting sometime summer 2021 to start on normal people
and that to taake possibly halfway into 2022.
Well, government agencies are actuaally starting to thnk about it and they are coming to grips with
the possibility that it could take 2 years to vaccinate the US.
As depressing as this is, it shows that there are a few functioning brain cells amongst the government and
Im glad they have gotten off their butts to think about this logistics problem.
Even more impressive is that they are thinking about how to vaccinate the third world.
They have finally figured out that refrigeration and landing strip sizes are going to be a problem.
Albuquerque is working on plans for drive up vaccination to the tune of 2000 people per hr.
I still believe Southern Renn Faire is toast for 2021 and now Im wondering if its also dead for 2022.
Hopes for Northern & Dickens for 2021 are now fading in my mind.
They are doing news stories about people going back to clean out their offices, realizing they wont be back in anytime soon.
This is coinciding with an uptick in hiring activity in some secters.
It appears that companies are now resigned to not going back into the office until late 2021 at the earliest.
This means they cant delay hiring until then.
Some good things might come out of this, now that companies are finally getting their collective acts together.
Of course with everyone working remote, pay grades are being slashed.
Nobody has explained why they work is worth less if performed from home.
I actually hate working from home, but Im stuck with it.
