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However, ultimately, it is no substitute of the experience of campus college life.
I hope that matters improve soon.
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Online teaching (and learning) has its place and can be very useful in certain conditions and contexts, settings or situations.
However, ultimately, it is no substitute of the experience of campus college life.
I hope that matters improve soon.
It'll give you time to grow out your Irish farmboy haircut assuming that's you. Looks like the throng of Irish country lads who come over each summer to experience California and look like lobsters with a tuft of hair at the top. Aside from being loud and obnoxious and cleaning out every bar of its beer.
😆 Yes that’s me although I’m almost entirely of French and German descent. But I do like to drink.
Yes, I can tell from your posts.😆 Yes that’s me although I’m almost entirely of French and German descent. But I do like to drink.
Didn't take your meds today, Z?
No Scotch, no. Did have a radler, Adler.
For all of those schmucks who changed their lives around last fall for some silly altering of your time measuring devices, I'd like to welcome you all back to the future today. You have spent months in the past whereas I have stayed in the present this whole time. It's nice to have you back in sync with me.
I dislike moving the clocks forward (Lose an hour sleep).
Just when I grumbled at the amount of set up you have to do in iOS lately, along comes Windows 10 to make iOS look like a cake walk. <Now a cross platform gal, as work demands Windows Office. Given how clustered both macOS and W10 are lately, I do not want both OS on a single machine.> Plus, if I must telecommute, a comparable system is available to me now.
I wish Apple would take pride in their hardware and software quality control again: Some of the PC hardware available is fantastic.
Going to try to sleep for another hour before attempting some house cleaning, and twiddling with additional set up for the PC.
Happy Int'l Women's Day (Every day is Women's Day, imo).
Hope everyone is well.
Just when I grumbled at the amount of set up you have to do in iOS lately, along comes Windows 10 to make iOS look like a cake walk. <Now a cross platform gal, as work demands Windows Office. Given how clustered both macOS and W10 are lately, I do not want both OS on a single machine.> Plus, if I must telecommute, a comparable system is available to me now.
I wish Apple would take pride in their hardware and software quality control again: Some of the PC hardware available is fantastic.
Going to try to sleep for another hour before attempting some house cleaning, and twiddling with additional set up for the PC.
Happy Int'l Women's Day (Every day is Women's Day, imo).
Hope everyone is well.
There is some prudence, but also some over reaction. I got up this morning at 6am to run to the Kroger’s grocery because I was told confidently we put it out every morning and then it sells out, referring to sanitizing hand gel. Well the warehouse was exhausted. That’s ok, I’m washing my hands with soap and water.
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Do you live in Arizona? Four months of nostalgia is a nice change of pace.For all of those schmucks who changed their lives around last fall for some silly altering of your time measuring devices, I'd like to welcome you all back to the future today. You have spent months in the past whereas I have stayed in the present this whole time. It's nice to have you back in sync with me.
I got up an hour early to run to Krogers, which was actually 2 hours early due to the time change and they were out of hand sanitizers. I’m preparing for our trip to France on 1 Apr if that is not cancelled, by shifting my wake up time earlier to be more in sync with Europe. It seems to have helped in the past. And if you are wondering, no, I am not getting up at 2am.
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What kind of setup are referring to?
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Tweaking and turning off privacy and all kinds of notifications.
Time to try to clean here within reason.
Glad to hear Blue Jays again.
They just want to be rubbed.
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Anything in particular trigger that?Tweaking and turning off privacy and all kinds of notifications.
Time to try to clean here within reason.
Glad to hear Blue Jays again.
Glad to hear Blue Jays again.
Blue Jays? 😠 Those things have a vocabulary and aren’t afraid to use it!
When I
Well, in his case, they're administered daily by the staff, but I'm mostly surprised they give him this much internet access ...
Hey I gave up half my vocabulary for Lent... with swear jar contents going to the local food pantry... although so far looks like they will make out like ****ing bandits. 🙃
Last time I said that out loud was when I got a freebie tiger-striped number out from under the in-laws' barn (where the mama prudently stashed her offspring until they were big enough to intimidate frenemies by hissing).
So yep, she stayed low-cost behind routine vet care until one day she took on a motorcycle on the county road. She lost that round but survived, received expert care and a couple pins in her leg to the tune of approximately the cost of one of today's Apple notebooks.
The cat did regain full mobility, and she never approached the road-edge again. The vet was so proud of his handiwork that he used to stop by once in awhile on summer days off to admire the proof of his expertise... she'd be leaping around in the upper reaches of a black willow tree in the backyard, trying to dodge attacks from barn swallows that had taken offense at her sitting in my barn waiting for baby birds to fall off the rafters.
On the occasional wintry morning when she'd come in through the cat-door after a patrol around "her" turf, I'd reach out to pet her... but about that time the temperature change would have reached one of those pins and zing her leg and she'd sink her teeth into my wrist figuring I must have been at fault. She'd had her rabies shots but it occurred to me to go update my tetanus booster...
So adding up all that extra expense and throwing in cost of coffee and danish for whenever the vet stopped by to admire the recovered agility of his patient -- and sometimes he'd bring along an intern!-- all my so called freebie cats, whether from barns or shelters, became indoor-only kitties.
Jes' sayin'... there's low cost and then there's high maintenance. 🙀
Two of our free cats were barn kittens who were sick when we got them, spraying the laundry room, where we kept them, with snot until they got better. As an adult cat, I paid the vet $500 to remove a string that was looped around under one of our cat’s tongues, dissapearing down its throat that you could not pull out (cat sedated), so surgery was required. What I would not do is spend a $1000+ to prolong the life of an elderly cat.
Many thanks for saving me $1.30 on my ambien pill a couple nights ago. Only my friend LizKatowitz could fully appreciate that savings!
I made a tactical WSJ mistake. My special pricing expired last month so now I’m paying full price (I think, $19/mo). I can’t imagine not having access especially with it being an e-word year.
On my Ambien-strength rant to that guy: I thought that ramble might put even me to sleep by time I posted it.
Ah the duels with the WSJ biz office. The last time I cancelled, the guy said if you cancel we can't give you another long-running deal for at least six months. Or something like that. I was like yeah and the day I pay $whatever is not soon, do you think i work where you guys write from?
But of course I want the sub back for the general elections and I do miss the reporting in general. I'm going to wait until right before the conventions. I think I cancelled far back enough to get another deal by then. Anyway coronavirus rise, response efforts and reaction are tanking the econ, so if Covid-19 doesn't reach out and tap me then maybe the WSJ will be offering bargains by summertime. The question is will I want that or another re-up on by then possibly scarce pantry supplies? Life is never dull.
So was that you I saw asleep on the sofa in the staff lounge?
How come you don't have one of those blued-steel "Staff member" badges under your avatar?
Or did @arn say that you had to make your own using a hacksaw and a Zippo?
Blue steel.... ain't heard that since a wisecrack in an episode of Season 2 of The Wire. The union leaders were lounging on a sofa in the office on the docks talking about.... well, not exactly badges.
But carry on with all the family friendly love in here...
They just want to be rubbed.
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Anything in particular trigger that?
Adopt a cat! 😻
Cleaning trigger? Well, yes. 1) It seems like Mom is finally coming home from post surgery rehab this Friday, 2) Not sure if two teeny tiny bugs I've seen in the kitchen are from produce (Probably) and want to nix them, 3) I like having a clean kitchen and bathroom (I wish I could get to our rooms, but only having one hand to lift, carry, push and pull has been interesting and a challenge.) Mom has a bed that requires both hands to change the sheets. It's driving me bonkers I cannot change her bedding.
Also, being able to clean is another sign of me healing. I have up to another 6 weeks of this arm being restricted.
I love their vocabulary. 😍 I've heard 4 or 5 different BJ calls in the last month. I've seen other birds too, not sure what they are. I hope the Blue Jays are fornicating as much as the neighbors' awful pigeons who go at it on our roof. Go get funky on their roof, stupid pigeons! 🤬
Random tech thoughts:
Our washing machine makes the most interesting churning noises during the cycle. A definite rhythm going on there.
I am getting used to this Lenovo Yoga (trying not to type Yoda 😋, though Lenovo Yoda sounds much better; especially since they made Star Wars branded Yogas a few years ago). It's a huge leap over the Acer I bought a few years ago. Glad I went with another starter machine though, as my comedic yelps of "Wait...WHAT?" over Windows 10 have been rippling through the house a lot in the last day. 😁
Woke up with a serious headache today. And, thus far, it is still not going away.
Now, what is on my mind, is how can I simply do my job at work, and not over extend myself, or take on more than I need to. Currently, I am performing the role of an IT Operations Manager, but, with the title of a Supervisor, and relative pay.
One would think that considering I have been performing said role for almost a year, the company would compensate me accordingly. Nope, they simply add more to my day to day.
Mentally, I need to get a grasp on this situation, breath deep and simply do one thing at a time, and lead my team accordingly.
Let's see what this week brings.
Now, what is on my mind, is how can I simply do my job at work, and not over extend myself, or take on more than I need to. Currently, I am performing the role of an IT Operations Manager, but, with the title of a Supervisor, and relative pay.
One would think that considering I have been performing said role for almost a year, the company would compensate me accordingly. Nope, they simply add more to my day to day.
Mentally, I need to get a grasp on this situation, breath deep and simply do one thing at a time, and lead my team accordingly.
Let's see what this week brings.
Your mums coming home? That’s great news. Hope she is feeling much more mobile.
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Where I work, if you are doing a good job with what you’re responsible for, they give you more. Then eventually you just have no more capacity.
Supposedly it's a still pretty tight labor market at least in the USA, but you'll never get a CEO or even middle managers to acknowledge that by giving out raises to retain employees at the moment. Right now their first thoughts all run to "The coronavirus is going to kill my business and this company regardless of how many people it also kills".
I wish you good fortune. I'd work on updating a resumé but not ship it out yet.... and soldier on until the coronavirus reactions stop roiling the waters. Job markets will be disrupted for awhile now with practically everything in our economy in flux. No one knows whether their biz model is still good for the next quarter or six months, nor how to find that out yet either.
Per some reports, US hospitals are now figuring on having to handle around 96 million coronavirus cases and nearly 500k deaths. That's from a leaked planning document and subject of course to updates over time, so no telling how over the top it is for openers. But we did get a late leg up on response in the USA, which would naturally lead medical caregivers to try not to get ambushed by the expected fallout of a contagious illness capable of masquerading symptom-wise like a common flu.
Anyway those large numbers are indicative of the uncertainty about our economic prospects, while the virus and reactions to it in terms of disruptions to local and glocal commerce run their course.