How is 2024 treating you?

Too early to tell. Still recovering from 2023 holiday season. So much drama. I’m hoping I win a lottery that can pay for a two month vacation away from everyone over the holidays for 2024.

I’m not so worried about how it’s treating me as how it’s treating the world.

Seems like a cleansing year on a few front already.

I’m having a good year.

Too early in the year for much to have gone wrong. Ask in a month or two.

So far so good. Had a birthday and received lots of very nice Happy Birthday’s on facebook and in my text messages.

My sister just told me she might come to visit this winter,, so that was nice to hear.

Had my usual fun at zumba classes.

Lots of adult children and grandkids here the last few days and fun to meet them and talk to them.

Went to get new gate cards (one of ours stopped working) and the woman who helped me recognized me from the Chanukah performance I do with my dance troupe here, and she told me how much she enjoyed the dancing.

Alright. Only hospitalized once so far!

This year?
Same as the first.
A little bit louder, and a little bit worse.

@JLeslie Happy Birthday!

As for 2024, I got to ring in the New Year with my sister, her husband and their two little girls, who are 3 and nearly 6. It’s been about a year since I’ve seen them and it was an especially great way to start the year. I’m optimistic for 2024.

Great !

Pretty durned good – I’ve actually been unpacking some boxes, throwing and giving stuff away.

I wish you the happiest and healthiest 2024 and all our subscribers too.

However don’t you think you are a little premature asking us how 2024 is treating us when we are only 4 days into it (Lol).

Day 5. All is well.

Great! According to my Garmin Forerunner, these past 5 mornings I have woken up with my Body Battery at 100, 100, 99, 84 and 100%. Those are fantastic numbers and I feel great!
I hope it stays this way!

Had 2 double walled coffee glasses delivered yesterday. knocked the first one on the floor today. completely destroyed.

It’s going great on all fronts so far. I spent this afternoon with my grandson and we were both sorry when I had to leave. I won’t be back until march, which made it a little bittersweet. I hope he remembers me when I return, he is only two. His sister is six months old.

@flutherother I had/have a similar situation regarding worry about whether I’ll be remembered. Facetime and Skype are wonderful reminders to your grandson and his sister (when she gets a little older). You see the person’s face and you can show them around your house, etc. I’m sure it’s what has helped my great-nephew and niece. They recently moved to Australia from Houston for a couple of years for their dad’s job, so it’s even more important now. The boy is 5 and the girl just turned 3.

@smudges I’ll be away for only ten weeks or so but that is a long time to a two-year-old. Skype is a great idea for keeping in contact.

If you are a good person, you will always be remembered through the actions of the people you were close to. Even small acts of kindness can ripple through generations.

I’ve been privileged to work as a LEO before, although it sucked. A lot of people thanked me, when I helped them. Some want to pay me.
All I ever asked was, “in the future, if you notice someone needs help, help them.”

I was riding home one hot summer morning, years ago, on my motorcycle.
I was not a LEO then.

I saw two cops pushing a car, while a person was steering.
I parked my bike, and helped them push.
One cop said “you know this guy?”(the car’s owner.) “No, but the gas station is pretty far.”
While we were pushing, the same cop said “man, you have restored my faith in humanity!”

I didn’t think of it as a big deal. Just saw people that needed help.

I don’t have a statue. I may be lucky to have a marked grave.

But. I have tried to make it a better world than I was born into. That means a lot. The trying.
A million years from now, if humanity still exists, it will have just the tiniest, fant faded glimmer of trying to make things better I contributed to. Pictures and pyramids, will be dust in the wind…

In regards to being remembered.

Okay, 2024 is crap. I caught covid.

@Pandora Oh yuck. Sorry to hear that. Are you very sick?

So far no but I’ve only been sick for 2 days. I’m more concern for my dog who has a heart problem and has been around me. Does anyone know of a dog catching covid. I know they can catch it but I don’t know of any who have.

I have no fever. Just a constant drip and slight headache and my eyes feel hot and I feel achy. But not horrible achy like down to my bones. Just like old lady achy. But I can breath and I mostly cough at night. It was like this the last time but I was over it in 2 days. I wonder if its hanging on because I recently had 2 vaccines. Covid and the flu about 10 days ago.

@Pandora Oh, you just had the shot and then you catch it. That’s bad luck. I guess maybe the shot is helping you fight it. It’s been more than week. I keep thinking I’ll get the current vaccine, but still haven’t done it yet. I do where a mask inside at the theme parks, except for when eating at a restaurant.

@JLeslie Yeah, I read that it takes a minimum of 2 weeks for the vaccine to work. I was only 7 days in when I came in contact with a relative who was coughing everywhere. No one else got sick but they had the same cough I have now. They hung around for a day and then flew out. So good luck passengers. This is why I don’t want to fly. Too many idiots don’t care about others around them. No mask, nothing. No warning either.

@Pandora Did he wear a mask when he was around you?

@Pandora My parents finally decided to take the risk to fly to see me. I told them to buy first class so no one sits next to them. I know if someone is anywhere near them coughing a lot or blowing their nose my dad will probably freak out so even first class might not be enough to keep him calm. Almost always one of them is sick when they come to see me and they distance for a few days. This is way before covid. I figure this time I have a better chance they cone healthy, because they will have a mask on and distance from people in the airport as much as possible.

I’ve flown about ten or twelve times (I think 4 round trips maybe 5) since covid started and I always wear a mask and I don’t take it off, but the flights are two hours or less.

Well, I have a cold. Haven’t had a cold in 25 years.

@ragingloli I recently had a student knock a hand thrown pot off a counter. I replaced it with another thinking that I valued it less and would not mind if it broke. Then I decided to clean the tray it was on and immediately knocked the pot off the counter and broke it. Doh!

^^ too funny!

@JLeslie Nope. Not even an attempt to cover his mouth when coughing. No problem coughing in your face. Apparently he took 2 covid test and came out negative twice but some people never build enough antigen to pop positive. Especially if they are vaccinated. That’s why they would recommend taking the lab result test that they do in doctor office. Last time I got covid it was by a relative that had a very sick son at home. Her home test popped negative even though he was really sick. But she took him to emergency and they did the test that goes to the lab and he popped positve for covid. She got symptoms for covid 1 day later and I and my SIL caught it 4 days later. We both sat next to her most of the evening without mask because she said it wasn’t covid.

@kruger_d Maybe this is the universe’s way of communicating to you that you should learn Kintsugi in 2024.

@Pandora If they are negative on the antigen test they are less likely to pass covid along to someone else, but coughing sprays the virus around more than just breathing. Maybe he would have come up positive on the thirds test maybe not. A lot of people seem to not come up positive until day three, not sure what day he tried. The PCR test detects covid in smaller amounts because it multiplies it.

If he’s coughing like that I’m not sure why it has to be covid for him to care about getting people sick. Or, actually, don’t you want to avoid getting whatever kind of sick it is? It’s trickier when people have no symptoms because they are in the incubation stage, but he was actively sick, and I assume within the first 4 days of it when people tend to be very contagious.

Your 7 days after vaccine maybe helped you a little. No way to know.

@kruger_d
Just knocked the second one down. Fucking bullshit.