Today's delivery chez RantWoman happened because part of last week's did not happen. Nephew has a girlfriend. Girlfriend was experiencing COVID symptoms so out of an abundance of caution, Little Sister's household skipped last weekend's planned in-person celebration. Girlfriend has since tested negative and RantWoman did not ask for an update today.
Today RantWoman thanks Little Sister and Irrepressible nephew for delivering the part of the celebration that was supposed to connect last week and a planned family moment in the parking garage. Irrepressible Nephew is generous about chaffeur service. The sun was glorious, though a little too glorious if the car stayed parked too long. And the timing was perfect, just in time for RantWoman to eat some commercial flan before and afternoon of Zoom meetings with the faith community's all virtual annual gathering.
Birthday gifts included small containers of flan, mask, hand sanitizer, plastic spoons to eat the flan, and general good cheer. Who says the RantFamily is not practical! RantWoman was touched.
RantWoman apologizes if the next narrative seems like non-sequiturs. RantWoman simply would like less bad news to process when the fam gets together. In this case, the event processed by phone and not in person: one of nephew's former schoolmates and member of his same church youth group was one of the youth shot last week in the Central Area. RantWoman thinks Irrepressible Nephew was nowhere physically near the situation, but that gunfire reality is pretty jarring: a neighbor in Little Sister's building has lost at least two young family members to gunfire over the last while. These are not people known to Little Sister's household. Little Sister says at one point her neighbor had been expressing relief that one of the youth was in jail; apparently he got out in time to get shot. Ow! Ow! Ow! That is all RantWoman knows how to say besides sending prayers.
Dial-a-Tirade Digression #1: RantWoman thinks she has but is not going to go look for an old blog post about gun deaths in WA. Some people RantWoman knows looked at 5 years worth of gun death data in WA. In all counties two things were true. 1. In most age groups suicides outnumbered homicides by 4-1 or 5-1. The only age group exception was young men, mostly young men of color shooting at each other. So in terms of defunding dysfunction, RantWoman would definitely divert some resources from armed police to work upstream to fight gun culture and help people learn social skills to solve problems without gunfire.
Next item scrolling back in time: RantMom, media star and spokesbabe for possible asymptomatic #Covid transmission:
WaPo on silent spread
KOMO item
Important Dial-a-Tirade Digression #2: If the current occupant of the White House wants schools to open, how about he put some federal money where his presidential mouth is: be honest about what it would cost to do it right and then DO IT!
We now return to important matters: the decadence of being one of FEW passengers on both legs of the bus journey to RantMom's last week, a gift of mail order dresses in the bag taken home from the fourth of July visit--a PINK one, with deep pockets, and orange striped compression socks which RantWoman adores even though even RantWoman can tell they really do not go with the pink dress!
Little Sister joined last week's parking garage meetup by phone with questions about earliest memories and how much hair RantWoman had at birth, a lot apparently, and quite in contrast to Little Sister who had hardly any, as RantWoman can attest from peeking over RantMom's shoulder in the car when Little Sister came home from her birth. We bounced on to RantMom's account of RantWoman's first well-baby visit at 6 months: find a pediatric ophthalmologist! Happy RantWoman birthday, Mom. Ya did okay. Really
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