Big Brother is Watching Me
Sep. 30th, 2015 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
restomanI got my annual flu shot today at Wegman's. It was easy, fast, and relatively painless. My insurance even paid for it in full! YAY!
I took the air conditioner out of my bedroom window a few days ago. The furnace has been running on cool nights for a few weeks. I have even bought 3 large pumpkins for Halloween.
A few weeks ago, the city put up cameras, mounted on utility poles, at key intersections in my neighborhood. The cameras are monitored for illegal activities ~like drug dealing and prostitution. Prostitution hasn't been an issue in my neighborhood for decades, but drug dealing still is. Of course, I hope that the cameras will dry up some of the drug dealing, but I can't help feeling uneasy about this further intrusion by Big Brother monitoring our lives. I live in the middle of a block, but there are cameras at both ends of my block. Earlier this year there were rumors that there would be a camera in the middle of my block, directly across the street from my house. Fortunately that didn't come to pass ~so I can still safely step out onto my front porch in my boxers and not worry about the police watching me. ;-)
I took the air conditioner out of my bedroom window a few days ago. The furnace has been running on cool nights for a few weeks. I have even bought 3 large pumpkins for Halloween.
A few weeks ago, the city put up cameras, mounted on utility poles, at key intersections in my neighborhood. The cameras are monitored for illegal activities ~like drug dealing and prostitution. Prostitution hasn't been an issue in my neighborhood for decades, but drug dealing still is. Of course, I hope that the cameras will dry up some of the drug dealing, but I can't help feeling uneasy about this further intrusion by Big Brother monitoring our lives. I live in the middle of a block, but there are cameras at both ends of my block. Earlier this year there were rumors that there would be a camera in the middle of my block, directly across the street from my house. Fortunately that didn't come to pass ~so I can still safely step out onto my front porch in my boxers and not worry about the police watching me. ;-)
