Hi all.
It is good to see that the regulars are still here. Friendly faces all.
I have been basically "home bound" because of the pandemic. Yes, according to what one sees on the net and news from the powers that be from either side .... is that this or that is going on and either the world is coming to an end or everything is hunkydory.
However, the hard reality is that there really are students that are exposed to the virus by people at a party, or family etc. We have not actually had a transmission in the student body but we have had many students being quarantined.
All faculty have been vaccinated, and that incudes adjuncts and, basically, if we want a job then we had better get vaccinated or your class load is reduced everybody has also had the second shot.
So I have been zooming a lot but the college has gone completely to MS products and last summer we went to MS Teams. I DO NOT like it but ok....
Any way, no scuba diving and basically no travelling spend a lot of time at a local pool swimming and walking and working on my novel , the "hello Ubuntu goodby windows" that I started 8 years ago, it has turned into a full blown novel that is a "dystopian future" twit what has a massive twist to it. Ive already published a lot of technical stuff and etc in biology but this is going to be my first foray into a novel.
Im running Kubuntu on my work computer and Neon on my large screen t.v.
I have purchased a lot of DVDs and have downloaded a lot of audio books and have regular viewing schedule.
My boy is still and astronomer and working remotely exclusively at home, he had a colleague actually die of the virus , other boy is still comptuer programming and my daughter is still living in the hills with her big bear of a husband and she is a supervisor at a manufacturing plant.
But, since i have never been anything more than a hardware kind of guy I just haven't been around much...
Physically, i'm still fit as a horse but have had cataract surgery and have perfect vision but, since I am now...... 77!! I also have a small separtion of the retina and am doing the prevervision and the drops.
Other than that it is good to see the bunch is still here!!!
woody
It is good to see that the regulars are still here. Friendly faces all.
I have been basically "home bound" because of the pandemic. Yes, according to what one sees on the net and news from the powers that be from either side .... is that this or that is going on and either the world is coming to an end or everything is hunkydory.
However, the hard reality is that there really are students that are exposed to the virus by people at a party, or family etc. We have not actually had a transmission in the student body but we have had many students being quarantined.
All faculty have been vaccinated, and that incudes adjuncts and, basically, if we want a job then we had better get vaccinated or your class load is reduced everybody has also had the second shot.
So I have been zooming a lot but the college has gone completely to MS products and last summer we went to MS Teams. I DO NOT like it but ok....
Any way, no scuba diving and basically no travelling spend a lot of time at a local pool swimming and walking and working on my novel , the "hello Ubuntu goodby windows" that I started 8 years ago, it has turned into a full blown novel that is a "dystopian future" twit what has a massive twist to it. Ive already published a lot of technical stuff and etc in biology but this is going to be my first foray into a novel.
Im running Kubuntu on my work computer and Neon on my large screen t.v.
I have purchased a lot of DVDs and have downloaded a lot of audio books and have regular viewing schedule.
My boy is still and astronomer and working remotely exclusively at home, he had a colleague actually die of the virus , other boy is still comptuer programming and my daughter is still living in the hills with her big bear of a husband and she is a supervisor at a manufacturing plant.
But, since i have never been anything more than a hardware kind of guy I just haven't been around much...
Physically, i'm still fit as a horse but have had cataract surgery and have perfect vision but, since I am now...... 77!! I also have a small separtion of the retina and am doing the prevervision and the drops.
Other than that it is good to see the bunch is still here!!!
woody
Allophone is fiber optic and they laid their own plastic tubing to hold the fiber. Lincoln had nothing to do with it. But, Allo did give all gov agencies in Lincoln free 1GB connectivity two years ago. Nice way to replay a kindness.
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