everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

( a month of questions )

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I don't blog much about current events any more. I find the state of the world so distressing I just don't want to talk about it. I write letters, I sign petitions, I call government officials and I try to avoid despair.

I did post this petition link around in a few places for the Canadians, a call on the federal government to call on Israel for a ceasefire and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

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Toronto went from mid-20's temperatures on Friday to like, 2. People further away from the lake have been getting dustings of snow. My house is freezing. I don't want to run the furnace until it's cleaned because it's caked with cement dust, and that shit's nasty. So I'm holding off until the cement mixing isn't happening in the basement any more. I sleep under a pile of blankets and wear a hoody everywhere.

The builder is behind schedule of course. To the surprise of nobody.

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I am very happy that Old Man got his booster the day I was with him, because the residence went into outbreak status four days later. He's fine. I don't know how many people constitutes an outbreak, but they instituted masking for visitors and cancelled the activities. And they spread people out for meals. This seems to have worked since no new people have come down with it, so of course I'm telling everybody on the staff who will listen to keep the mask rules for visitors.

They won't of course. We are not a species that learns from our mistakes.