Limbering up my arm

[bill_schubert]

Dose number two tomorrow morning at 9AM at the high school stadium.  No idea what to expect.  My sister, susandennis had no reaction to number two but my wife was down two days.  It doesn't matter too much to me since I've got nothing planned other than working at home and I can dump that if I need to.  I'm ready.  Our county this month so far:

Williamson County reported 146 new coronavirus cases between April 1-4, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 37,372, according to Williamson County and Cities Health District data.

The county also added five new deaths during that time, bringing the total to 455, it said.

This in a county of 590,551.  Five new deaths.  Not repeat deaths, not walking dead, but new deaths.   

That seems like a lot to me.  I've been double masked.  With the second shot I'll go down to one mask anywhere there are a bunch of potential new death people.

Meanwhile...

I'm down to six more working days here.  The cases are all more difficult now.  We're not getting so many 'where is my refund' calls or even 'where is my stimulus' calls.  Now it is more complicated stuff that, if I think it is truly a tax issue, I pass on to someone who, you know, knows about taxes.  

They ping with with information about my various rates of accomplishment, or lack thereof.  It is so hard for me to decide if I care.  On the one had I care because I always do, I tacitly promised to do it right.  On the other hand, whether or not I remember or feel like asking them to fill out the post action survey is really kind of meaningless if I'm not going to do this any more.  Ever.  But I might want to next year or, heaven forbid, I might have to.  So I run the border of competence just keeping my oar in mixing performance like metaphors.  

Comments

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Are people really not calling about that? Because I'm sure wondering at my refund delays.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Not sure what the numbers are exactly but I went from 90% "where is my refund" to probably less than 10%. I think people are using the resources or listening to the news or actually getting their refunds. Don't know. I'm still waiting for my 2019 amended return and my 2020 K1.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

I am thankful that my whole immediate family has now been vaccinated. Some of my friends have been, some are not considered eligible yet. Meanwhile, Zen's mom is vaccinated but no one else in his family is and his sister has made it clear that she has no intention of getting vaccinated. Zen told them that we won't be coming to any family functions until everyone is vaccinated and his sister said 'so you're not coming to christmas?!'

I make it a point to try to fill out post action surveys primarily because I know how much some companies harangue their employees to try to get them completed. I've also had more than one person in a position to have them filled out say that if you don't give them a perfect score, they'll get in trouble, which is so frustrating to me. Why have a scale of 1 - 10 if 10 is the only acceptable answer and everything else might as well be a 0?

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

My wife and I are both done now. The rest of the family isn't yet but we don't have plans (now OR Christmas) to see them. I do plan to see my sister in Seattle once the travel industry has settled a bit.

And, yeah. I lost interest in the whole survey thing pretty quickly. Scale of one to ten if you get anything other than 8, 9, or 10 it is considered negative. I don't like being in a position for that kind of evaluating anyway and that kind of scale is ridiculous. So I pretty much ignore it. Schrodinger's score. I have both 10 and 0 if I never look.