How has this song of Corpse’s not managed to make its way up on my blog on Monday? I have to fix that.
Music Monday: March 6th, 2023
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March 2023 archive
I have a new camera for content creation, y’all!
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My old camera, which I had been gifted by a friend, had gotten… really old by this point, so I began browsing around for a camera that could replace it and would be able to do so for a little while. I’d like to introduce…
Nothing to see here, we’re tired of the pandemic.
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So the federal increase in SNAP benefits has ended this month. Most states have ceased their proclamations of… emergency, or whatever each state calls them. We are effectively pretending that we are no longer in a pandemic when we clearly continue to meet the criteria for continuing to be in a pandemic, and it’s all because the pandemic has inconvenienced enough people in positions of power that now all of those who are high-risk get to face the increased dangers of it hoping that they don’t get COVID-19 themselves (or again, or again and again). I think we’re somewhere in the 30,000s of infections confirmed at doctor’s offices every fourteen days in this state, but… no. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks. We’ve decided that the pandemic is Over because we are tired of having to change how we live to make sure higher-risk people don’t unnecessarily get infected — or worse — with it. And according to the metrics that the state of Texas does keep, we’re beginning to trend upward in cases again, so this is hardly endemic at this point. But still.
If we ever actually thoroughly get over this thing and enter true endemic status, it won’t be because of humanity, but it will be in spite of humanity. I’m a pessimist here though. I’ve had COVID-19 once (and hope never to have it again), and I’ve seen how people in my home state treat COVID (“like the flu, no big deal”).
Humorously, we actually have… no bad weather.
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At one point, it was speculated that we would have the same bad weather today that we had yesterday… but for some reason (one that I am not complaining about), that hasn’t actually come to pass. I am willing to take our wins wherever we can get them if it doesn’t mean that we have to go through city sirens again — yeah, that actually happened — or the risk of a tornado touching down… somewhere in the area. One day though, I’d like to move out of “tornado alley” if at all possible, and that’s actually for numerous reasons.
I should really have expected this by March.
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We’ve been having storms go through here because of the storms that have been crossing the country.
So that’s been fun… and by that I mean not, since we had lightning coming down all around us at one point.
Apparently we’re supposed to get the same exact treatment tomorrow, which doesn’t surprise me as much as it mildly confuses me regarding the near twenty-four hour break in such severely inclement weather. Then again, we have as many Republicans as we do who neither believe in climate change nor are willing to vote for anything even remotely “green”, so should I be surprised about this? California is getting snow. New York isn’t seeing snow. Luckily our power remained on tonight, which I did not completely expect, but it remains to be seen if it will tomorrow as well. I kept my phone on the charger at 100% in case we lost power so that we had, and maintained, some kind of point of contact, and I kept Bub’s AAC device on the charger whenever he wasn’t using it, as long as he would let me, as soon as the first warning crossed my phone. It is what it is.