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So, tonight'll be an "interesting" experience: Berkeley mandated that only vaccinated diners may dine indoors, and it's our first time trying to eat out (Ancient Gossipy Grandma is in town and we're taking her to Himalayan food). After 18 months of pandemic, it'll be the first time anyone has asked for anything more than a mask and a temperature swipe.
I'll be interested in seeing how it goes.
And since I know you're wondering, LM, she's 90 so she's down to walking only 3 miles a day, 7 days a week.
EDIT: They said we had to wear masks; they didn't say anything about anything else!
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So, tonight'll be an "interesting" experience: Berkeley mandated that only vaccinated diners may dine indoors, and it's our first time trying to eat out (Ancient Gossipy Grandma is in town and we're taking her to Himalayan food). After 18 months of pandemic, it'll be the first time anyone has asked for anything more than a mask and a temperature swipe.
I'll be interested in seeing how it goes.
And since I know you're wondering, LM, she's 90 so she's down to walking only 3 miles a day, 7 days a week.
EDIT: They said we had to wear masks; they didn't say anything about anything else!
Oh, man, I would KILL for momos! Are you going to Everest, or someplace else?
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Allegedly, according to property manager from the Evil Corporate Landlords, our full deposit refund check was cut on the 1st and "is in the mail".
So no matter what, we will be okay through the end of 2021.
Meanwhile, the wife of one of WW's TSYR buddies is trying to get him a project manager job at her company. If it pans out, it will be work-from-home (with occasional travel) for more money than he has ever made before. We could actually afford health insurance.
Which is why I'm not getting my hopes up. But a girl can dream.
Happy General Day!
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Oh, man, I would KILL for momos! Are you going to Everest, or someplace else?So, tonight'll be an "interesting" experience: Berkeley mandated that only vaccinated diners may dine indoors, and it's our first time trying to eat out (Ancient Gossipy Grandma is in town and we're taking her to Himalayan food). After 18 months of pandemic, it'll be the first time anyone has asked for anything more than a mask and a temperature swipe.
I'll be interested in seeing how it goes.
And since I know you're wondering, LM, she's 90 so she's down to walking only 3 miles a day, 7 days a week.
EDIT: They said we had to wear masks; they didn't say anything about anything else!
Is Everest the Himalayan Tandoori Curry House? It's the best "Indian" food in the area, and yes, their momos are to die for.
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Allegedly, according to property manager from the Evil Corporate Landlords, our full deposit refund check was cut on the 1st and "is in the mail".
So no matter what, we will be okay through the end of 2021.
okay thank god
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And now I hit the wall that is massive corporate bureaucracy:
(1) Corporate IT and legal have put in place extremely strict policies about what you can and cannot do with your corporate and personal software: You can't add software (even corporate software) to corporate servers without legal and IT review, and you can't use personal accounts to test corporate software. On the one hand, it makes sense from a legal and security point of view: Putting stuff on the corporate servers can compromise their security, and using your personal accounts for corporate work opens them up to legal issues.
(2) Getting permission to do anything is a cumbersome, months-long process. This is the deal-breaker that always ends compliance.
(3) PMs, demo guys, and everyone else who needs to actually do anything reacts by ignoring corporate policy.
So I'm sitting here with VERY explicit instructions from high-level corporate IT guys that, "Thou shalt not use your personal email account for corporate work," and VERY explicit instructions from the demo team that, "Thou shalt use your personal email account."
I'm handcuffed, so I have to let the whole thing drop.
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And this morning's other fiasco: I posted a recording last week while my colleague was on vacation. My manager tore into it and made me re-do the whole thing, so I posted a new version and my manager loved it.
My colleague is apparently a, "I catch up to emails one item at a time" guy and went and reviewed the OLD version of the recording.
I apologized, since I'd wasted half an hour of his life, but at the same time I want to ask him, "Don't you FIRST look at all the emails to see whether anything has changed, THEN start acting on them?"
I guess I've just been bitten once too often with classic, "Do this"-"No, don't do this" email threads to start working before I'm fully caught up.
All I can say right now is that I'm going to be very sad when the current president of my company retires.
And this morning's other fiasco: I posted a recording last week while my colleague was on vacation. My manager tore into it and made me re-do the whole thing, so I posted a new version and my manager loved it.
My colleague is apparently a, "I catch up to emails one item at a time" guy and went and reviewed the OLD version of the recording.
I apologized, since I'd wasted half an hour of his life, but at the same time I want to ask him, "Don't you FIRST look at all the emails to see whether anything has changed, THEN start acting on them?"
I guess I've just been bitten once too often with classic, "Do this"-"No, don't do this" email threads to start working before I'm fully caught up.
I prefer to go over each e-mail individually or I'll get lost and miss some of the older e-mail myself.
All I can say right now is that I'm going to be very sad when the current president of my company retires.
Does that count as politics?
I went and saw Free Guy. It was fun and entertaining, if silly in many aspects.
Can't really expect anything more from a Hollywood movies about computer games.
On the way back it occurred to me that this year might end being the year when I watched the most movies in the cinema. I already saw three movies and there are at least three more I'd like to see (Shang Chi, Eternals, Dune).
Wait. Isn't new Spiderman coming this year too?
It is, though I might end seeing it in January...
I also started considering watching the new Bond movie later this year after seeing the trailer. We'll see.
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We've now got July in September, which makes sense, since August was more or less October. It has been around 28 Celsius for the last few days, and Bradford smells like a rubbish dump in a heatwave, because that's what it is.
Also, the thieving vending machine STOLE my pound coin and then REFUSED to disburse blandly flavoured potato-based snacks to me, possibly because I neglected the proper chants to the Machine God, ritual anointings, special dance, etc., before putting my money in.
Teaching integral calculus gives kids such bad life habits.
"Sure! Go ahead and try that! And if it's easy, keep going! And if it's hard, give up and try something else."
Great for integrals, bad for life.
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Teaching integral calculus gives kids such bad life habits.
"Sure! Go ahead and try that! And if it's easy, keep going! And if it's hard, give up and try something else."
Great for integrals, bad for life.
I have to half disagree with that. True, there is a lot of situations where you should keep going when the things get hard. Yet, there are as many if not more situations where you should try something else instead. Depending on what aspect of life we are speaking of either trying another approach to the same problem might be right, and in some, stepping away from the problem/avoiding the problem instead of pointlessly pushing through oneself deeper and deeper.
It's a well known human behavioral flaw to continue to try to handle a an issue because of the time, costs, and emotions already invested into the problem, even if the correct rational course of action would be to drop the problem and cut the costs.
All too often, the goal isn't actually worth it but the deeper you dig yourself in, the hard is to step away and look on the problem rationally.
Knowing when to quit and cut the loses is as vital life skill as resolve and dedication.
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Teaching integral calculus gives kids such bad life habits.
"Sure! Go ahead and try that! And if it's easy, keep going! And if it's hard, give up and try something else."
Great for integrals, bad for life.
You would derive that.
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I'm tired and sleepy and wanna go home to play video games so I can be tired and sleepy tomorrow and wanna go home to play video games
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I'm tired and sleepy and wanna go home to play video games so I can be tired and sleepy tomorrow and wanna go home to play video games
Story of my life...
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Oh, man, I would KILL for momos! Are you going to Everest, or someplace else?So, tonight'll be an "interesting" experience: Berkeley mandated that only vaccinated diners may dine indoors, and it's our first time trying to eat out (Ancient Gossipy Grandma is in town and we're taking her to Himalayan food). After 18 months of pandemic, it'll be the first time anyone has asked for anything more than a mask and a temperature swipe.
I'll be interested in seeing how it goes.
And since I know you're wondering, LM, she's 90 so she's down to walking only 3 miles a day, 7 days a week.
EDIT: They said we had to wear masks; they didn't say anything about anything else!
Is Everest the Himalayan Tandoori Curry House? It's the best "Indian" food in the area, and yes, their momos are to die for.
There is a fantastic Himalayan restaurant in my town - like, so good it has no business being in my town. Enjoy!
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And this morning's other fiasco: I posted a recording last week while my colleague was on vacation. My manager tore into it and made me re-do the whole thing, so I posted a new version and my manager loved it.
My colleague is apparently a, "I catch up to emails one item at a time" guy and went and reviewed the OLD version of the recording.
I apologized, since I'd wasted half an hour of his life, but at the same time I want to ask him, "Don't you FIRST look at all the emails to see whether anything has changed, THEN start acting on them?"
I guess I've just been bitten once too often with classic, "Do this"-"No, don't do this" email threads to start working before I'm fully caught up.
I used to do what he did, but I have similarly discovered how problematic it is. Now when I return from time off, I start with the NEWEST emails and work backward. That means I am always seeing the latest updates, and catching the email that come in in the final hours of my PTO saying, "As soon as you're back, I need you to..."
Always start with the new.
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I went and saw Free Guy. It was fun and entertaining, if silly in many aspects.
Can't really expect anything more from a Hollywood movies about computer games.
On the way back it occurred to me that this year might end being the year when I watched the most movies in the cinema. I already saw three movies and there are at least three more I'd like to see (Shang Chi, Eternals, Dune).
Wait. Isn't new Spiderman coming this year too?
It is, though I might end seeing it in January...
I also started considering watching the new Bond movie later this year after seeing the trailer. We'll see.
I really want to see Free Guy. It looks like a good time. And of course I want to see Shang Chi, too.
I really want to see Free Guy. It looks like a good time. And of course I want to see Shang Chi, too.I went and saw Free Guy. It was fun and entertaining, if silly in many aspects.
Can't really expect anything more from a Hollywood movies about computer games.
On the way back it occurred to me that this year might end being the year when I watched the most movies in the cinema. I already saw three movies and there are at least three more I'd like to see (Shang Chi, Eternals, Dune).
Wait. Isn't new Spiderman coming this year too?
It is, though I might end seeing it in January...
I also started considering watching the new Bond movie later this year after seeing the trailer. We'll see.
I considered going to a screening of Shang Chi immediately afterwards, but two hours in mask were enough for one day. I might go see it tomorrow or the next week.
I found a happy little Dark Souls reference in the Wrath of the Righteous video game.
You can see a Sarenite Crusader do the Praise the Sun gesture if you go help the Hellknights.
Does this mean that the Hoteliers' Psychic Intranet is a myth?
Awww :(
I found out last night that the reason we haven't seen or heard from my father-in-law and his wife is a good long while is that they both got a bad case of breakthrough Covid after taking a five-day trip to St. Louis.
They're finally recovering.
I love them to pieces, but that was so arrogant and stupid and careless.
I went and saw Free Guy. It was fun and entertaining, if silly in many aspects.
Can't really expect anything more from a Hollywood movies about computer games.
On the way back it occurred to me that this year might end being the year when I watched the most movies in the cinema. I already saw three movies and there are at least three more I'd like to see (Shang Chi, Eternals, Dune).
Wait. Isn't new Spiderman coming this year too?
It is, though I might end seeing it in January...
I also started considering watching the new Bond movie later this year after seeing the trailer. We'll see.
Oh, and the new Matrix is coming this year too? Oh boy...
All I can say right now is that I'm going to be very sad when the current president of my company retires.Does that count as politics?
No, this was strictly work related.
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I found out last night that the reason we haven't seen or heard from my father-in-law and his wife is a good long while is that they both got a bad case of breakthrough Covid after taking a five-day trip to St. Louis.
They're finally recovering.
I love them to pieces, but that was so arrogant and stupid and careless.
It really depends on their reasons.
Shiro has attended a family reunion in a southern state every year for his entire adult life.
(1) With lung cancer, he's in a top-tier risk group.
(2) COVID is exploding in said state right now.
(3) Some of his family members are anti-vaxxers and insist on coming to the gathering.
He weighed the risks carefully, and decided to go anyway. He wore full N95 masks the entire time, practiced social distancing, is vaccinated, and was extremely careful. Then the airlines hosed him and he spent nearly 24 hours in airports and on airplanes on his way home. (Delay after delay after delay, so his 7:00 am flight departed at 1:00 am the next day.)
He's self-isolating for a week and then getting tested, and if he gets a breakthrough infection he'll know why.
I wouldn't call the decision "arrogant" or "careless"; he looked at his options, decided that tradition was more important than risk, and went anyway.
Not the choice I would have made, but it was his decision, and his self-isolation ensures it won't impact me.
In other news, Impus Major is taking his first midterm. The most frustrating part is that he's going to score somewhere between 20% and 100%, and I really have no idea where he's going to land.
If I give him an integral and say, "Step one is to do xxx", he'll do it perfectly and get 100%. If I don't give him that first step, he'll get it right maybe 40-60% of the time, depending on the type of problem. And maybe 1/3 of the time he'll realize he's going in the wrong way and reset.
So depending on whether or not he gets those first steps, and how the instructor chooses to grade (all-or-nothing or partial credit), he could land anywhere on the scale.
Here Ruby shows how would it look like if I was trying to make cookies...
Quite accurate. I love munching on those small pieces of baking chocolate.
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I might need to buy myself a bag or two of those...
Yeah, right now I am starting to binge on RWBY Chibi.
I found out last night that the reason we haven't seen or heard from my father-in-law and his wife is a good long while is that they both got a bad case of breakthrough Covid after taking a five-day trip to St. Louis.
They're finally recovering.
I love them to pieces, but that was so arrogant and stupid and careless.It really depends on their reasons.
Shiro has attended a family reunion in a southern state every year for his entire adult life.
(1) With lung cancer, he's in a top-tier risk group.
(2) COVID is exploding in said state right now.
(3) Some of his family members are anti-vaxxers and insist on coming to the gathering.He weighed the risks carefully, and decided to go anyway. He wore full N95 masks the entire time, practiced social distancing, is vaccinated, and was extremely careful. Then the airlines hosed him and he spent nearly 24 hours in airports and on airplanes on his way home. (Delay after delay after delay, so his 7:00 am flight departed at 1:00 am the next day.)
He's self-isolating for a week and then getting tested, and if he gets a breakthrough infection he'll know why.
I wouldn't call the decision "arrogant" or "careless"; he looked at his options, decided that tradition was more important than risk, and went anyway.
Not the choice I would have made, but it was his decision, and his self-isolation ensures it won't impact me.
* They were bored and stir-crazy.
* Her painting teacher announced a five-day workshop.* They figured it was okay because they were vaccinated.
* They were constantly around unmasked people and no one checked vaccination status.
* After they were diagnosed, they continued to go out in public to the grocery store, run errands, etc.
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* They were bored and stir-crazy.
* Her painting teacher announced a five-day workshop.
* They figured it was okay because they were vaccinated.
* They were constantly around unmasked people and no one checked vaccination status.
* After they were diagnosed, they continued to go out in public to the grocery store, run errands, etc.
OK, er, "arrogant and stupid and careless" doesn't begin to start with how I'd describe someone who knew they'd tested positive and went out anyway.
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(1) How dry is it in California?
This morning I saw that the back deck was soaking wet. I immediately started checking for a burst pipe. The notion that it might have rained before November didn't even occur to me until I went outside and smelled it.
(2) Proof of vaccination.
My mother chose to do takeout from the Himalayan place because it was safer, so we still haven't had our vaccination statuses checked. (The kids went to a movie in Berkeley last night, so I should ask them once they wake up.)
I finally got an email from the school district asking me to voluntarily provide vaccination status for Impus Minor. So 5 months after getting our vaccination cards, we finally had someone ask to see them. (When we got them they acted like the cards were a huge deal. They've sat in my file cabinet ever since then.)
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Follow-up: I checked with Impus Minor and, while the theater had a sign up that read, "Proof of vaccination is required for entry", they of course weren't doing any enforcement.
Which is another reason we're on month 18 of what should have been a 6-week shutdown.
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Most places in NC that 'require' proof of vaccination do so on an honor system. The 'enforcement' at lollapalooza was laughable - people waving pieces of paper at the checkpoint from 5+ feet away.
Likewise, even though my part of NC has returned to an interior space mask mandate, all that has happened is that the stores put up the signs that masks are required and no one enforces. There may likewise still be signs or announcements about social distancing, frequently referring to spots marked on the floor for queues, but the markings on the floors have been removed in almost every case.
So there is that.
In other news, am enjoying some online/discord Blades in the Dark. it is enough TotM that it works well in discord with a dice rolling overlay in d20. Also have finally resumed painting minis. Yay lockdown? Mostly Bones V stuff, but some odd older pieces. 25 mm at almost 50 versus 25 mm at 22 makes a huge difference. Am starting to understand the move to 28 mm. And the Reaper Cthulhu mini - that boy chonky.
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Rain Prediction:
The eeriest part of living in California is how accurate our drought predictors are. The weatherpeople are near-complete failures. The Farmer's Almanac is little better.
But our tiny little Argentine ants are terrifyingly good at it.
If you have a major Argentine ant incursion in September or October, you should prepare for an extremely wet winter. If the ants are few and far between, expect a drought.
We have yet to see a single ant incursion.
I worry about this winter.
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WW had the fist interview for the job this morning. He said it went great, at any rate they are moving him on to the second round. There are four other candidates in the running in this first round.
They are supposed to make their decision in the first half of October.
WW had the fist interview for the job this morning. He said it went great, at any rate they are moving him on to the second round. There are four other candidates in the running in this first round.
They are supposed to make their decision in the first half of October.
I wish I was in the the area. I would encourage the other people to drop out.
Back from Shang-Chi!
It was fun. Two open palms up.
Callouts to the rest of MCU were funny (well, except the ad for post-blip depression counseling), though without them the movie could as well be unrelated to Marvel.
And he kept shinning for the rest of the movie in his often=-short but hilarious scene. And of course he brings with him Morris.
Oh, and the new Matrix is coming this year too? Oh boy...I went and saw Free Guy. It was fun and entertaining, if silly in many aspects.
Can't really expect anything more from a Hollywood movies about computer games.
On the way back it occurred to me that this year might end being the year when I watched the most movies in the cinema. I already saw three movies and there are at least three more I'd like to see (
Shang Chi, Eternals, Dune).Wait. Isn't new Spiderman coming this year too?
It is, though I might end seeing it in January...
I also started considering watching the new Bond movie later this year after seeing the trailer. We'll see.
And I completely forgot about Venom 2!
I haven't seen one, but neither have I seen the Spider-Man before Far From Home.