Finished reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚
Successfully battled the NH Vaccine website into submission and now have a vaccine appointment for Thursday
Battling the NH Vaccine website. Today is the first time those of us 50+ can sign up.
Added my Now stream at micro.blog to https://nownownow.com. I like Working Out Loud and this seems like a good way to do it.
Got Internet back, the old DSL instead of the new fiber. Decided to stick with a business account even though I’ll have to go with 250Mb symmetrical instead of 1G. It’s worth it to be able to complain more vociferously when the Internet is down. Should have fiber in weeks.
I hate it when companies fail. I was supposed to get fiber today. Didn’t work and that’s OK. But the same company turned off my DSL connection, as if the two departments were unaware of each other. No resolution in sight. I’ve done all the unconnected work I can do.
Worked through the next 8 webinars, moving from the planning map to mostly complete Keynote slides.
Finished grading the latest assignment. This assignment built on the last one, and the next one will build on this one. I wrote all of my comments in a separate document before pasting the comments into Canvas. Now I can easily compare what I recommended to what they did.
Another wonderful day skiing with my cousin in New Hampshire.
Working on Webinar 8, the mid-point of the semester. Trying out a new way to get students to write small User Stories for their Agile projects, using some ideas from Bill Wake.
Proud Auntie! I just found out that my nephew sang in the chorus on this 2021 Grammy award-winning album: Dame Ethel Smyth The Prison
I just finished reconciling bank accounts and credit cards. I’m getting ready for Toastmasters this evening, where I will be the Table Topics Master, working with the theme “New Beginnings.”
Working on tonight’s webinar, #7 in the semester. The topics are team building, user roles and user stories. Spring break next week!
Our nutty kitty 🐈 loves to jump into piles of crumpled paper. It’s better if there are different styles of crinkly: tissue paper, butcher paper, cellophane, etc.
The last of our weekly contra dances was held one year ago today. Will we remember how to dance and play tunes and call the steps when we can dance again?
Hanging out until my “folklore” board meeting begins. It’s been a weird year because we had to cancel everything we do: dances, concerts, singings. But maybe tonight, we’ll begin plans to restart something before 2021 is over.
Currently reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
I’m grateful for a really nice morning of skiing. ⛷️🏔️🌤️ I’m looking forward to sleeping.
I’m 4 Brood X cycles old + 10. I was 10 years old, living in DC, for my first Brood X cicada cycle. I loved those bugs! Collected discarded wings, studied the enormous bodies. Fond memories. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
What brains could teach scientists about the lasting effects of Covid-19
His goal: learning all he can about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, affects brain tissue, potentially leading to long-term symptoms of the virus.
“The involvement of the brain is quite extensive,”
I’m grateful that I managed to get in a run this evening when it was 30 degrees F instead of waiting for tomorrow morning when it will be 0 F. I’m looking forward to what might be our last really cold night of the winter.
I’ve been a happy user of Hook for a couple of months, but I’ve mostly been using it to generate Markdown links. Today I went to the newly created Hook Productivity YouTube Channel and watched about three 2-minute videos. Whoa! Hook can do a lot more than I thought. Mind blown.
Finished reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚I had high hopes for this book but ended up skimming through it. Every 50 pages or so I gave it another chance, but was again turned off by sophomoric complaining. Yeah, the past was terrible for women and the present isn’t so great but that doesn’t mean we need a book that says the same thing over and over and over, page after page. Could easily have been a 25-page monograph and then would have been a much more interesting and useful piece of writing.
Finished reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚Another novel that I stopped reading because I hated all the characters. I picked this up because I loved Ministry For The Future so much, but no go.