This does help immensely. I’ve been listening to Nathan Fillion reading The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne recently. It’s a very engagingly written SF novel that pokes fun at the conventions of the genre while dealing imaginatively and thoughtfully with what it could be like to make first contact with highly intelligent but completely alien life. Fillion’s reading style matches the writing very well. I’ve been listening to old favourites by Iain Banks and Umberto Eco too, and just now I discovered an audiobook of a novel based on the Romero Living Dead series, which has been an eye-opener for its very sensitive depiction of human emotions. Written by George himself and completed by Daniel Kraus last year, it’s called The Living Dead.
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agreed, wtf is this situation blooming to. Pryaers and hope for you and your mother and family , super sad news , and I am in purple tier hell for quarantine here in California Sf/SJ area , bay area
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UK is back in full lockdown, nearly as tight as March.
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Yupppppp… its turning into a real sh1tshow over here…
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I’m on the road. Drove some 400km to visit my sister and spend New Years Eve with her, then to my brother (another 200km).
Tomorrow I will see my son and his family and stay the nite with my daughter and her family (15km) before returning home (500km).
All my kins are sensible persons, and so am I, so seeing each other is no big deal and I think we need this a lot.
Mrs Soundbrigade lives in Chicago and we meet twice a year, so I am “used to” spending much of my time in splendid isolation. And yet the outbreak of this pandemic has made me feel more alienated.
Much of the isolation is helped a lot by being active on some forums and I notice how openly we discuss even real tough personal issues. But this helps, I guess, most of us survive or at least keep us from climbing on the walls.
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I was in the office today as we had an engineer to tend to a failed server…
It was nice to just sit there in a corner and just have some “hubub” in the background going on. But it feels as abandoned as it was 9 months ago.
May sound strange but it’s nice to be there with your systems, check they are ok, walk down the hot isle and listen to the sound and check there are no odd noises or status messages the helpdesk have not spotted.
We have grown used to the remote working , but we all miss the chat and banter of working togeher,
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I’m glad we’re back in lockdown again. I know why our government has tried to keep things more open, but the virus doesn’t care. The experts are there for a reason. The basic economic policy framework of broad and substantial furlough support to businesses is very sensible. The schools issue is a genuine dilemma so I’m less concerned about education policy, just a little worried that we don’t yet know much about the child-to-parent transmission pathway. That we already have various vaccines, at least one of them (Astro-Zeneca, $3-$4 per dose, normal fridge temperatures) inexpensive and easy to store and deploy, is very encouraging if not frankly miraculous, and will make a big difference in the coming year.
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There is nothing so comforting as walking through smoothly running infrastructure.
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I am guessing you all saw this?
and of course I had to go and find the Bad Gear review to go with it.
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i work for an MSP, as you can imagine things have been pretty hectic for us. luckily we managed to get stuff in place during the first lockdown for users to remotly access stuff…
although i do miss the office “Banter” between the guys
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Member of the Scottish Parliament?
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Managed Service Provider… (Outsourced IT Support basically) 
I sometimes forget that not everyone understands the IT Acronyms
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Things are lookin good here in GA this morning.
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Looking mighty fine Georgia.
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Not hyperbole, reality.
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funny how when any body else protests they are called terrorists , but when these idiots do it they are supposedly patriots , LOL . and on the brighter side the dems control the senate now !
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