still only one line

 and also no wonder people false negative on these Abbott tests, they are crazy complicated and fussy compared to the iHealth tests i'm used to using.

click over on www. zineee. com just because, okay cut paste and remove the spaces - keep the link track backs clean, and thinking about engagement, if i don't put one of these things

I don't get the same level of 'engagement' on the posts because you can read the whole damn thing from the base page...

anyway

big day i suppose, by many measures, when one's oldest kid graduates from college, eh? Really drives home the feeling old for me seeing this kid not be a kid anymore. 

Kind of a huge day really. But also still another beginning, not an end. There is one more big celebration at Fenway, yeah graduation ceremony at Fenway. And yes, it will be the first time at the historic location for me. I tried stick and ball nonsense growing up. No one at my school believed that we went right from T-ball to fastpitch. The city kids in Tacoma all played hollywood ball (underhand pitched but normal baseball) and I was getting hit with full on fast balls and standing doing nothing in the empty outfield. Right field never saw a ball. Saw the Mariners get Royally stomped by KC, eating malted ice cream with a wooden spoon in the cheapest seats about as far away from the action as you could get in the empty Kingdom. 

Today was at Mathews arena. Went to a women's hockey game there a few years back, kind of fitting that it was there. 

The invited speaker kept saying "I'll get to that later" and I started thinking about that, in terms of speech crafting. Why say that. Why not put your words together well enough that people will flow from one topic to the other and at the end be able to see how they are all crafted together and you'll get it. The student speaker did that pretty well. The old venture capitalist film maker (he's one of the ic a rus dudes, and also started it off talking to the students of MIT, he wasn't speaking at MIT btw).

back to the top, literally, everyone is finally testing positive... see, that's better than "i'll get to that later" instead of that say "remember when I said this?" it isn't hard to do people, or maybe it is hard and I've just been practicing and really working at trying to communicate clearly because the systems i'm in charge of require that level of attention and care? IDK.

And yeah, fucking everyone is dropping. Hell half the old NECX bloggosphere is out or has compromised households. Shop colleagues are out, students are out but the fact that I managed to make it from the first day to the last day of the semester, in class, F2F (face to face) is somewhat of a miracle. The opening couldn't have happened at a better time. It was the perfect lull between waves of infection.

And here we are. Kid is positive, but nearly symptom free. A couple more days and hopefully I can manage to stay negative through her bought with it. So far so good, but there's still time to join those who have fallen. Had kind of hoped she would test negative today, but nope, still showing up on the rapid, the good rapid not the abbot one. 

Should move on to making dinner, weird - almost like a day off. Also, taking the train to boston >>>>>driving to boston. holy crap so luxurious... 

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