redundancy

is a good thing for productivity and continuous operation and esp when system fails.

AKA someone gets sick. Without redundancy that person will just keep working... or everything will fall apart.

There is zero redundancy here.

Been contemplating this today a bit.

In between realizing/reminded I did NOT bring enough food with me to work and a lingering swelling of the glands and just generally being overwhelmed.

(wrote that last week - oops well here we are)



And today, monday night, I started writing a tweet and said fuck it - not posting it there. I'll post it here

A couple things: 1st, I am agreeing with the guess that the wave of "flu" (three or so weeks ago) as pointed out by others, was probably the Covid-19 and not influenza. Can't quarantine what's already in the wild and everywhere.  I think it makes sense, lots of people who don't normally get sick, who've had the flu shot have been hit harder than they should have if they got the flu shot. 

AND since no one was testing for it, and given how freaking rapidly something can move in the modern world of both pleasure and business travel, I have zero confidence it was contained when it was and is only being "discovered" as people start testing.

2nd: FORGET HAND SANITIZERS. JUST USE FUCKING SOAP AND WATER. Need a quick squirt of that shit? fuck it your hands are probably dirty anyway might as well wash them. And yeah - you're probably near enough a bathroom/sink to actually wash your hands. It will work better, your hands will be cleaner. 

And finally on the list of shit in my head from quietly stalking twitter for a few minutes writing and deleting tweets, (or 3rd) Dems, just vote, convince your other dems/indy friends to vote, don't say you thing you should vote for this guy in the primary or this gal or what, just get people out there to vote. All that negative bullshit being spread is only fueling the russian backed gop disinformation machine. Fuck em up and just tell people to vote. Better yet be a voting buddy with someone you find who wasn't planning on voting. Let em vote for vermin supreme or whomever, but be the motivation to get them to the polls to vote in the primary AND the general election.

Do we need to worry about gathering in large places? Probably, but it is too late. Maybe the botox in chief will keep holding those rallies. You know what is good at spreading a respiratory virus like COVID-19? Chanting and screaming and clapping and yelling. Nothing like loud vocalization to both spread and contract anything that is hitching a ride, aka a nice coronavirus, or you know, just the flu.

Will this die out as the weather warms up? Or not? That's the big question. Seasonal 'flu' that isn't seasonal? That'd be freaking annoying.

Or hey, since we're all going to get it anyway, might as well go somewhere you want to be, never been to Venice? Freaking cheap now i bet. All of Italy is probably pretty cheap. And if you can't come back might as well make sure it is a place you want to stay.

Today was one for the books. Wake up to an email with a potential fiscal disaster screwup - follow it up with missed diagnosis and setting the system back quite a bit and disrupting a bunch of users, and just hits after hits.

Class wound up pretty well - i tweaked the lecture a bit and added some stuff and moved it from a half whiteboard to full white board (hugely better that way). The black and white image assignment has been really solid. And kind of sneaky how well it is sliding into the lesson plan. 

started a crazy serial block face run only to have it get all wonky. stage alarm, then something else then...  forgetting to park before approaching, got lucky, then longer than normal to approach then setting up the ROIs then the contrast not right but then correct it and not store the correction and on and one and then finally fuck it - start over - re-do a handful, maybe have it working and finally left 2 hours late. 

Strange challenging rough and exhausting day after a doozie of a weekend.

Saturday I tried to get some rest, sleep a little, drink less coffee, kind of worked. Mostly just felt horrible all day. Did head over to fill up the van in prep for MTB on sunday and stopped in at Best Buy to look at phones. Looked at em all, touched em, played with the icons and the GUI, decided I do really prefer the Pixel, it doesn't have some fancy shit or boosted this or that but the camera works and it isn't stupid expensive, even for the 4 but I think the 3a or 3a XL is more the target. All good reviews, can't say that about the 4. Can get battery for mine for $40 or so, do it myself but that whole screen being fucked up thing...  could get it apart and then need to spend $150 on a new screen kit and still be stuck with a slow old phone. the SEM nut being pressed against the fingerprint scanner to keep the screen working correctly probably isn't a good thing, and may have even worse implications if it gets taken apart. Maybe take apart if I get a new one. But the van started a bunch of times w/o issue. And I didn't get a phone, and then we headed to watch an indoor soccer game. Went well. headed home, ate, went to bed, slept like shit.

Sunday, got up, freezing fucking cold. drink coffee, eat food, load up the van, (well all but the bike, next trip) and it won't start. Get the new car going, position it, hook it up, took 5 min sitting there before there were enough electrons to get it turned over. Put bike in van, headed to Arcadia (the park in RI not the one in Maine) one of the more technical sets of trails, had fun there. Kicked my ass trying to keep up with all the little fast guys on their super light bikes. Really got to be reminded how heavy and slow the bike is on the pavement. Oof. WOW. I was dead, dragging, but survived, stuck it out and rode the tech pretty well for never having seen it. Would often fuck up the simple stuff right after the hard stuff. It was tough 23-24 miles. 

Then, well of course had to get a jumpstart to leave, and instead of doing the shopping on the way home, just went home. watched L do the crash b thing on the live youtube, showered and took the old battery out of the van, and drove to wally world to get a new one (yeah the only place to get a car battery). BUT HOLY FUCKING HELL WHAT A NIGHTMARE the store was at 4pm on a Sunday. YIKES. And this was Seekonk, one of the more upscale ones. Got my battery, manufacture date 1/20 (fuck yeah - the old battery was 4/14 and we got it 7 or 8/14) This is a better sealed battery with more CCA and all the numbers way better for about $60 less. Bought new terminals and an oil change (super cheap prices on M1 oil). Then headed to the next disaster zone WF up on Main. Wow that lot was insane for 5pm on a friday. Inside wasn't much better. Dried beans all gone, Canned beans almost all cleared out, frozen veggies, all gone. Plenty of bread milk and meat and veggies tho. That's all I was going for. the usual stuff eh? Needed it all. 

Home, threw some food together, but man was I sore, tired, aching. Really a solid ride that physically crushed me tired, and totally not ready to start a crazy week. But so good to have been in the woods, really challenged, pushed to the limit in both handling, and pedaling. 

oh and then second email at work (after the hey the scope is broken email) was "You should take some time off, you are at or nearing your maximum number of days, if you don't take time you will lose out on two days of vacation time."

Yeah thanks, i'll look into that...  Maybe spring break if I don't fly to WA again, well maybe i'll just take all 5 days off and say f'it and that still will only just get me until May before getting another email like that, not so bad right? 

Redundancy eh? Why can't i take time off, I mean I could but teaching this class, there is literally no one to cover without more work on my part than it would be to do it myself. The rest of the job, yeah nope. As the annoying optimists like to say "job security!" I mean I really do like what I do, it is kind of mentally exhausting, and this other thing, bikes, isn't exactly a restful hobby. Holyshit shut up already GeWilli.

And I have to remind myself, as stressful and frustrating and maddening the last few days have been, there were some amazing things packed in and nothing really all that bad once you step back a few days/weeks/months/years. Probably not even all that memorable in the scheme of things. But enough specifics that it would be remembered with prompting. Esp the battery and the like.

Maybe a bit dialed too far on the overshare side of things, but fuck it - blogs are dead, no one reads them anymore. Except Chip. *waves* 

Stay healthy. Be well. Do good. And hug people. An embrace is not transmission, hell it is probably less likely to spread disease than shaking hands.

heddwch

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Oh - and making dinner tonight, burritos, instead of putting in the oregano...  I put in basil (same shape container) and didn't realize it till it has soaked in. Fucked it up.

Tastes good but 'different'  - kid doesn't like it though, made these so she would have leftovers to make lunch and after school nachos with...  guess what i'm eating for lunch once i finish the peanut sauce noodles I made that no one else is eating...  

frustrating, stupid, but not the end of the world level problem/mistakes that I don't normally make....