Remote but not so remote

We had an issue, someone's authorization to finish up was extended beyond when we took the keys out of the laser things.

AKA shit is SHUT DOWN.

except well, for the exceptions.

and the exceptions were not shared with us.

Good day for a bike ride. Nice short 7 mile one. INTO THE FUCKING WIND.

and it was glorious. Except for the hundreds of people crowded onto the bike path. Ugh.

Took the bike with gears. Totally forgot I could shift until I got to the little rise/hill. Shifted. Then promptly forgot to shift back down for a half mile or so. Oh, right, click, click.

Kind of want a bell on this bike now. On every bike. maybe the bells will work better now that everyone is escaping to the outside, not just escaping (aka being outside away from the screens and headphones w/o them for a change - make sense? fuck it - you figure out what I mean - you might be used to that by now).

So I'm here. Fired up the system. Cleaned the objectives - fuck they were DIRTY. damn. Functional but needing some attention.

Fits and starts. I am essential personnel but mostly telecommuting. Access as needed but remote as much as possible. To be honest that little bit is a HUGE comfort. Even if I do manage to stay mostly at home. So I will pop in, do what is needed, and maybe do one extra very small project that can't be done when everyone is using everything. Patience and pacing, this is gonna take a while.

I have a feeling the grad students and post docs with external funding that will run out soon will start pushing back. But hopefully there will be a policy and an intelligent patient approach to bringing things back on line in the midst of a pandemic. We will see what happens.

Got stuff cleaned up, user showed up, fired up the desktop, and opened tabs.

Gonna have to figure out how to do this remotely more easily. Opening 32 tabs on my phone much less reading them there is nuts. No fancy workspace at home like Kent (doesn't that look sweet?) and with the work laptop (dell ultrabook) i haven't sync'd the other account with all the bookmarks yet.

But there were a handful of awesome nuggets out there in the web log internet realm.

Granted all of which I've linked to before and you're probably already looking and have seen before me but gonna document them anyway:
social distance DC style

Of course stevil has his weekly post up
and this line:

Certainly not to make light of the situation, but I’ve been quarantining myself for over a decade. Three weeks is a walk in the park.

yup us misfits and weirdos different as we may be - always on the fringe - have the skills to get through this, finally a benefit to being socially awkward and shy. F'YEAH!

Chipstick is back at it too. Dirt Church MOTHERFUCKERS also looks like services will be happening tomorrow, but I'm not telling you if you don't already know and we do generally always ride on the less popular trails (more rocks and hills) so hopefully it won't be too crowded there at our spot.

" I for one can't wait to be able to do a bad idea ride with my good friends. It will be like that first Ronde de Rosey. And we will end at a dive bar and have the best burger in our lives....be safe my friends."

Um what do I have to do to get a ticket on that ride?

Oh and Seth? Yeah he's got some good stuff up now too. Almost all of his posts are well worth reading through. Here one and two.

I was gonna do that food post next. Save that for more remote and food oriented mindset.

If I don't stick around to lock the system up, well I have to come back to do it later. I like that idea.

Just me and the white noise from the air handlers.

Keep your shit together. This is gonna take a while to get through. Here's to hoping it ain't that bad, but if you prepare for it to be, well, the relief will be as good of a drug as you can find.

Amor Fati Motherfuckers
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