Nope. Not COVID, but...

    

#pandemic #COVID19 #COVID 

What's left of RantMom
in her new home

Possibly of interest:

RantWoman and the RSOF: Jessie Cornwell Memorial Invitation, updated

RantMom "departed for other realms exactly two months ago. Therefore, we interrupt the daily war coverage for...

--meditations on obituary writing process wrangling a whole life story into plausible obituary versions for different platforms

--effort both to collaborate with Little Sister and to tread among family religious and other emotional landmines.

--inchoate ranting about one popular obituary platform whose accessibility for RantWoman SUCKS.

Uhhh, how about just do the COVID piece?

Ding! Ding!

Adapted from the current draft of the obituary:

(RantMom) became good friends with the first Ida Culver Ravenna Resident to die of COVID. She tested positive herself cleared the virus and did not develop symptoms. The pandemic lockdown was very hard for everyone. The staff's meticulous observance of rules and safety practices as well as use of vaccines as soon as they became available ensured that COVID did not hit that community nearly as hard as other retirement facilities. 

(RantMom) and several other residents of Ida culver Ravenna moved to The Lakeshore, along with numerous other residents of Ida Culver Ravenna. At the Lakeshore, residents enjoyed an expansive view of Lake Washington and resident bald eagles nesting in a tree near the dining room. Art shows, special speakers,  music and dance performances and other activities kept life as lively as Jessie  wanted. 

The last year of RantMom's life at the Lakeshore was rough: Her younger brother died of prostate cancer. She had a lingering bout of actual COVID, not just testing positive and clearing the virus without symptoms as she had done previously. 

Other chronic issues were becoming more and more draining. Even so, she continued to volunteer weekly at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. To RantMom, this was a means to pay forward the excellent medical care she had received during her multiple battles with cancer.

RantMom's last few weeks were a blur of hospital, skilled nursing, and ultimately placement at the Agape Senior Care at Montlake -- with its extremely loving directors and staff -- where she passed away peacefully thirty years and six months to the day after (RantDad).

Reprise on the topic of RantMom and #COVID

Adventures of RantWoman: Dinner and Plague

Adventures of RantWoman: Tested Negative!

(Part of RantWoman's own experience with "the 'rona."

There are probably other posts that reference both COVID and RantMom but this has to be enough for now

Adventures of RantWoman: Virus plus car ride plus pastor plus pandemic and worship plus pentecost

Adventures of RantWoman: Today in Corona Virus News

Adventures of RantWoman: Data Dump plus Neil Degrasse Tyson suggesting people listen to Science

precautions at a different retirement community

Adventures of RantWoman: Pollen or Plague? With a side of #DigitalInclusion

Ai Ai Ai: Elon tripping over his own hubris.

In case RantWoman has not been sufficiently clear, RantWoman is a GIANT AI skeptic. RantWoman blesses the video below for addressing Elon Musk and Grok in particular. The video is a literary delight, a rant fully worthy of RantWoman's endorsement.

RantWoman has also remained on X, or as RantWoman is prone to say when not reverting to Twitter, Elon's sandbox. Recently someone has been dumping AI related curricula from several major universities. Also, a whole slew of articles has appeared about fatal flaws in various AI models. 

Theoretically, if RantWoman wanted to sound fully informed and use the jargon of the moment, she could read up. RantWoman is, though, going to take the chance that meaning can be generated with or without the most current jargon.

Basically, Elon's promise to rewrite the whole corpus of human knowledge sounds to RantWoman like hubris. RantWoman already once blurted out, in one of her X accounts, that Elon needs to STOP PEEING ON  HIS BRAND.  Perhaps if Elon would take the following commentary to heart and let the community of users do our thing, knowledge would get transformed without him needing to fall on his face tripping over his hubris.

With that as intro, please enjoy the following commentary.

Elon Musk just lost everyone

"Elon is the biggest welfare queen in history."

"...addict...with a bunch of baby mamas...."

And as a digression, DOGE staffer about "rooting out DEI"

Elon Musk's Orders BACKFIRE As Damning DOGE Staffer Video Goes Public

War is not healthy for children and other living things: reprise of the Gulf War

 

Hitting hospitals is a war crime.

Double taps are double war crime.

Anthropic sues on First Amendment grounds over Pentagon effort to call them a "supply chain risk"

" A Constitutional showdown?"

Binge watching Salmi

 RantWoman's binge watch of the week, in this time of global discombobulation and offerings struggling to emerge from the keyboard in memory of RantMom is a tuxedo cat named Salmi.

Behold. Check out her entire channel.

The opinions are definitely Salmi's but RantWoman is wondering whether perhaps she has persuaded her human to take dictation.

And should Salmi be able to bear sharing the spotlight with the tuxedo cat of RantWoman's childhood, please enjoy 

RantWoman and the RSOF: Mr. Tuxedo: reprint from the WA Council of the Blind Summer 2022 newsline

Adventures of RantWoman: Severe Weather Recommendations

PS RantWoman has never been to Finland in winter, but Salmi should be glad she has a radiator to sit on. And yes, winter air in CO mountain towns is probably at least as dry as in Finland. It's physics.

For anyone who hasn't noticed: linguistic circumlocutions US style

One of RantWoman's go-to voices about #Russia, Russian culture the #SpecialMilitaryOperation and related topics

Roman is a Russian expat currently living in Portugal. If you like his content, please like, subscribe, pick a financial support option.

And a side of Desi Lydic

Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's Iran Not-War | The Daily Show

Order This month's Pagliacci seasonals!

The short version of this screed:

Feast on the March seasonals from Pagliacci--or if spicy is not for you, there are other options. 

The longer version: there are genetic reasons that people have wildly divergent views of both broccoli and cilantro. RantWoman knows of no such genetic explanation for the magnificent way mention of pineapple on pizza, say during an icebreaker, will turn a room instantly into vehement factions. RantWoman is definitely in the pro-pineapple camp with one asterisk: RantWoman would definitely add another vegetable to hawaiian pizza but RantWoman has not found a way to do that on the Pagliacci options.

RantWoman also tends to order from the website because RantWoman would have to turn Talkback off on her Android phone to order any size but large.

With that, to quote from the Pagliacci blog.

(Use the scroll bars for best viewing. The text sounds great for screen readers.)

Calypso

One of the most reliable pleasures in eating is the way sweet and savory and spicy come together to taste like so much more than the sum of their parts. Trigger warning: the new pie contains fresh pineapple. No, we’re not looking to revive that old debate, but rather to stimulate your taste buds.

Pineapple caramelizes in the oven, and picks up a deeper, almost tangy sweetness. Paired with soppressata — salty, garlicky, a little funky — it becomes a bright counterpunch. Add the heat of sliced jalapeños, mozzarella for that creamy savoriness, and a drizzle of hot honey, and you’ve got a pizza with an irresistible balance of sweet-salty-spicy. 

If you’re firmly in the no-fruit camp, we respect your boundaries. But if you’ve ever loved a sweet-savory-spicy combo give yourself permission to try the Calypso.

Our Sicilian Cauliflower, the second seasonal pie, riffs on a classic Sicilian flavor combo, leaning into Sicily’s Arab-influenced sweet-and-savory tradition. We pile tender roasted cauliflower, golden raisins, mozzarella, fontina and Parmesan on our chewy crust with a Calabrian chile olive oil base, then finish it with parsley after the bake. One taste will explain why this recipe has stood the test of time.

Last May, we added a few Molly Moon’s flavors to our dessert menu. The response was overwhelming: customers asked for more. So we kept going. Now we’re going all the way and making Molly Moon’s our house ice cream. You’ll find the new flavors on our dessert page.

“I can’t think of a more fun, classic Seattle combo of comfort food than ordering a Pagliacci pizza and salad with a pint of Molly Moon’s for dessert,” says Molly Moon Neitzel, founder and CEO of her eponymous company. “I told my daughters we’re doing it tonight and they squealed with delight!”

Our rotating seasonal flavor is Molly Moon's Cookies & Cream. They bake the cookies themselves, then fold them into the ice cream for chunks and speckles in every spoonful. Order a pint while you still can.