More Mask Musings

I may add to this post, but one thing struck me this morning.

One of the things that I've been known to rail about is when we are asked to find/provide/execute on personal or individual solutions to systemic and systematic problems.

Donate to food banks so your neighbours can eat! Sure, but my neighbours could eat without having to go to a food bank if they were paid a living wage and/or unemployment benefits weren't so low etc. This is often pushed by right wingers who think that private/church charity should replace governmental policies.

And here comes mask wearing. Which is, at its core, a personal solution to a systemic problem.

And the same right wingers who prefer to 'go it alone' are protesting. Yes, I see the reason, the desire to certainly never do what government suggests is best, be it wearing a mask, vaccinating, or voting for a living wage.

They're big on "personal responsibility" but clearly in one case where "personal responsibility" would make a difference, by being personally responsible for not for spewing virus into the atmosphere, they opt for, well, opting out of being responsible.

It seems the burden must always being on someone else.

WAH!!!

I may have killed my laptop. I was petting Auri, and she sloshed tea onto the mouse pad area. I thought I'd got it all, but the computer started flickering about an hour later.

Dunno.

Drying it out now, and fingers crossed it will restart in a few days.

I'm using Linnea's laptop right now. She adopted dh's Surface when he started using his dad's older one, so it's not a problem for her to be without a computer for a few days. I, however, need one!

I was actually writing things for my thesis yesterday and today, but I can't get Word to work on this machine, it claims there is an issue with my subscription and since dh has to manage that (I don't have that access and can't get it) I have to wait until he gets out of his meeting, which has been pretty much non-stop for the past three hours.

I'll get there.

And I have to figure out how to disable the stupid touch screen.

ETA And Perry broke my beautiful purple mechanical pencil. It's officially a crappy day. :P

Between the computer and the pencil....

... I'm not feeling very cheerful this evening. Well, that's also because of the Covid-19 numbers which are making me sick. Trump truly fucked over this country.

And then.

We got scapes in our farm box this week, and Perry and I plotted that for his dinner Thursday, he'd make us risotto with either roasted or grilled scapes. Yum.

And Linnea, who has "made" us eat mac and cheese straight of a box for at least three weeks in a row... I checked menus, four weeks in a row, threw a fit.

Complaining that Perry "always" made risotto (he made it once before). That all risotto was was rice and cheese. And she didn't see why we always had to eat the same thing. And... And... And... For about five minutes straight.

After the first two or so minutes, it was clear that she'd realized why we were all laughing and "hollering" at her "look who's talking about repeating the same meal over and over", and she was hamming it up, but man it was funny.