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This week needs to fucking chill. (By which I mean I would like the week starting tomorrow to please be easier and kinder.)

Today was a mild nightmare at work - our online system utterly broke down, and wouldn't allow any of our customers to log in. This did get fixed by the early afternoon, but not before generating a lot of panicked customer calls and emails and such, all of which we had to follow up on.

It was also just a generally stressful day, as Saturdays always are.

But that all feels really petty, because at least four people I know have had deaths of people close to them in the last few days.

Wednesday, one of our drivers lost his grandfather.

Thursday, one of Alex's long-time acquaintances, a well-known model hobby artist, passed away. This wasn't... utterly unexpected, but also kind of was. Liz had been battling cancer for years, but had been responding well to treatment. Back on the 2nd, she said she was going to the ER because she was having a hard time breathing. She was really bummed last weekend because she had to cancel travel plans to go to a concert with a friend, because her doctors didn't think she should travel. Then they discovered the "fluid" in her lungs was actually a new cancer. She was checked into hospice, but was supposed to go home... and then they wouldn't let her go home... and then she died. In ten days she went from "having a hard time breathing, going to the ER out of abundance of caution" to gone. Alex wasn't wildly close to her, but they'd lived fairly near each other, and used to run in the same circles. They'd known each other for decades.

Friday, the ex-manager of the location I temporarily worked at when we reopened after lockdown lost her mom extremely unexpectedly.

Also Friday, our newest employee lost an extremely close friend of hers.

I'm a step removed from the grief and loss, but I hurt for the people I know.

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What a wretched workday. :( I hope this coming week is better!

And that is so much death all at once, even at a remove. ;_;

It was a rough day coming near the end of a rough week.

Definitely a lot of death and loss in a short period of time. It is at a remove, but it still hurts to know how badly people I do know and care about are hurting.

it still hurts to know how badly people I do know and care about are hurting.

Yeah. ;_;

That's a lot of loss. I hope the coming week is tons better.

(I forgot to mention in my other comment that today I saw a larger snapping turtle! I know it was a snapper because it snapped at me while I was taking its picture. Thankfully it wasn't a close-up. *g*)

It is a lot. I'm hoping that things get easier for everyone.

But hooray for snapping turtles! :D I'm glad you didn't get snapped, just snapped at, haha.

That's rough. Someone going that fast is scary. That's a lot of stress and grief around you, and people you know hurting. Sorry for your week.

It was a rough week. And 10 days is so damn fast. Thank you - I hope things get easier for everyone.

I hope you and the people you know are feeling better and that the week has been somewhat better; it seems almost unlucky to be that close to so much loss, even if it's not personally yours. Sending you warmth and well wishes.

Thank you. So far this week has been an improvement. It definitely felt like an unlucky week for a lot of people.