. . . . Friday 13th began appropriately. Woke into cold wind and rain. Then switched on the Big Computer to learn what the latest announcements regarding Covid-19 were for NYC, while waiting for the tea to steep. But instead ...
What happened, evidently, is MS started installing this massive update last night and I shut it off in the middle.
But when I shut down last night there was no notification that updates were either pending or happening. Not at all. I always see that message if there are pending updates because it is there on the shut-down menu. If updates are pending, there is a menu of options to upload now and restart? upload and shut-down? Or, updates installing, do not shut off your computer.
None of that there last night. So all was borked this morning when I booted up. Could not even log on.
And just then el Vaquero calls out to me to look at these computers and tell him if I like any of them, because he's ordering me a new one as we'd planned to do since last winter.
I booted up the small computer, which is still running just fine though I don't use it for for much, but to watch shows on Brit Box and read downloaded e-books in bed.
So there is the news and it's even darker than usual (except for Biden-Harris, etc. thank all the powers -- and what too those damned powers so goddamned long hmmmm?_ though entirely expected. Yesterday the Governor announced more travel quarantines and, starting tonight, the restaurants had to close their 25% indoor dining at 9 PM and their outdoor 'dining' then too, though they could continue to provide take-out service and delivery. Also gyms and other public venues such like are to close. No public gatherings -- meaning churches, etc. more than 10, or at home either. But how does one police homes? Which now is where the real transmission is going on? Especially when the rethug NY assembly idiot on Staten Island thumbs his nose at the governor and publicly announces his family is having a huge Thanksgiving dinner together and there a many of us and we WILL NOT WEAR MASKS. That's RED Staten Island for ya, full of cops and other anti-social sorts.
Today, the stupid mayor announces it's likely the city's public school system will close and go entirely Distance Learning, even as soon as Monday, so parents make plans. But he's NOT closing the stupid restaurants, which, far more than the schools, are places people, especially now, are getting infected. We're already considerably over the mark he'd declared for shutting them the restaurants but he hasn't, and has reopened hotspot zip codes throughout the city. What kind of management is that, I ask.
The rain stopped. Amigo K was in the nabe, so donned my mask and coat, cashmere scarf, cap, gloves and coat, and hung out with him for a while. It was so great to talk, mask-to-mask, instead over the phone for once. Good stuff happening with him and C, and I'm so glad!
In the meantime, el V got Big Computer up and running, uninstalling what had gotten installed ... and and and. (According to the googles, there are hordes of miserable MS users who have been highjacked by this update that never updated.) But ordering the new computer is still in process; I just have to decide which HP seems best for my needs.
But with shoggoth refusing to concede and desperate for his narcissist-sociopathic supply and the states running out of not only ICU beds, but all beds, medical supplies, medical personnel -- and by golly, even teachers ... this is looking ever more dire.
How in heck are we going to avoid catching it, no matter how careful we are, when this isn't even a wave like last winter and spring, but a national tsunami?
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