It’s quite frankly part of the general message of “SARS-Cov-19 has gone” coming from the government.
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I would understand the whole “maybe we can do without masks” thing if they required vaccinations.
Over here the messaging is still mostly cautious but with numbers worse than last year around this time, it has been decided that we need to look at new numbers (hospitalizations instead of general cases) because circumstances have changed. They have but I am not sure I agree and have a hard time not staring at the old numbers…
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Of course, changing the headline measure also makes it harder to compare with last year.
Hospitalisations are of course very much down compared with last year when there were no vaccines available. Yay.
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The argument is that last year’s lockdowns were in part to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed and because of vaccinations so many infections are milder now we cannot take the infection numbers anymore. I agree to a point with that stance. The point where I disagree is that we’re seeing a pretty steep rise in infections down in Southern Germany right now… and I am afraid they will decide too late that we have to take some more measures.
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For the last 3 evenings, I’ve been spending time time cleaning and restoring my X-Wing Miniatures collection that lives on exposed shelves in our library/game/puzzle room. There was a great deal of space dust buildup, as well as a minor mynock infestation.
Here’s the before for the Ghost
And the after, which almost looks the same, because these ships come pre-grunged from the factory.
It’s a heavy workload week in local schools at the moment, with mid-terms, PT conferences and benchmark testing all happening simultaneously, so I decided I needed a simple project that would command my full attention.
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Yeah. My job and much of my life is very thinky; sometimes it’s great to have a thing that’s just straightforward repetitive work.
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I get migraines sometimes. I’m currently sitting in my office and definitely getting one. I’ve got the eye twitch, the pounding pain, the nausea, everything but the visual auras (so far). I’ve taken my emergency meds and that’s done nothing to help. I have a class starting in 40 minutes and I have to struggle through it then drive the hour plus home. Not sure I’m going to make it, but I can’t cancel this class. I’ve already canceled classes twice (once to take my husband to the emergency room for what turned into emergency surgery and once because my normal hour plus morning commute turned into two and a half hours plus and I just didn’t make it to campus in time for class) and I have to cancel a class next week for a major family function that I cleared with my department chair before the semester started. Here’s hoping I make it through somehow.
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Migraines are bad. Also individually so different… do you have any coping mechanism available to you between now and class? For me, sometimes fresh air helps, sometimesa dark room. Sometimes a careful neck massage. None of it makes it go away though, it just helps getting through it.
Hope you get better soon, the meds kick in and class won’t be too horrible.
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I get severe ocular migraines, and got a beast of one just yesterday, right in the middle of the teaching day. They make me effectively blind, and throw my equilibrium massively out of whack. I’ve coached my students on how to behave if I need to power through the day (it’s an interstate drive home, so a midday call-in is out of the picture) and they are usually sympathetic and quietly productive.
For me, I can’t keep my actual meds at school, so a large, liquid dose of caffeine and ibuprofen can often get me in shape enough to drive by the end of the day. I also take any chance I can get to just lie bonelessly on the floor with a warm compress over my face for 15-20 minutes.
As already stated, it seems like no remediation technique works for any two folks’ symptoms, so in the absence of a cure, you have my sympathy. They always end, but that is hard to bear in mind in the middle of them.
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I don’t have to move to Texas. That’s very exciting.
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So I’ve been conducting site testing this week. Unfortunately the wind blew the motion trackers calibration cross onto my phone which was on the work bench. Amazingly it still “works” despite being bent and the glass shattered.
Now only the bottom third of my screen works prepare for a few weeks of even worse typing as I wait to see if my work will foot the bill.
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Migraine is mostly better today. Still some pain off and on but not as bad as yesterday and nausea is gone. Yesterday I struggled through the last class and the drive home then just crashed.
For me, the pain is worse when moving. Being completely still helps as does being in the dark and being cold so for the drive home I had the AC on max blowing straight into my face then once I got home it was bed in a dark room with a cold damp washcloth on my forehead over the one eye the pain radiates out from. I only very rarely have any kind of visual disturbance or aura with my migraines and haven’t had any this time that I’ve noticed.
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So I had an idea about why something might not be functioning in the expected manner at work.
At 6.10 am. I start work at 10 am. sigh
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Yes … but why does anyone believe them?
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The numbers are right there… but I think the government has the advantages of voice of authority and relatively good news that people want to hear. And it takes a fair mental evolution, if you grew up in a more or less working society or thought you did, to realise that “normal” levels of political deception have grown unchecked into wholehearted fabulation for profit.
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And I was right.
At least my brain is justified there
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I used to get them regularly as a child, but have been growing out of them to the point where I get them about five to ten times a year now. I learned a weird trick from my doctor back in my twenties that helps me cope when I do get them and don’t have any of my medicine with me: I shut my eyes and imagine a sunlit windowsill. I imagine placing my hands in the sunlight and feeling the warmth on my hands. As long as that is all I focus on, the pain recedes to an almost imperceptible level.
Of course, this only works for maybe 3-5 seconds at a time for me (ymmv) but it allows just enough respite to be able to cope. Actually placing my hands in sunlight does nothing for me, so I’m guessing that the process of thinking about it somehow dulls my pain receptors temporarily.
In any event, it’s something to try at least.
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After putting all those hours in dusting spaceships, I decided that they needed further glowing up, so I spent a relaxing afternoon soldering up some lighting for the shelves.
My students will have to wait another couple days for essay scores, but I will be a much more tolerant and tolerable teacher now that I’ve had some time to remind myself what focus looks like.
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That’s a beautiful collection! I no longer play x-wing (or armada, which I also have too much of) but I really can’t abide getting rid of the ships. They are just too excellent.
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Thanks!
Anymore, I mostly play the Fly Casual X Wing Simulator that Sandrem’s been updating, but I still occasionally can talk my kids into the real space version. I’ve always been a super casual player, and the only local gatherings for it are hyper-competitive. The collecting aspect is enough for me, in the end.
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