We’ve been plodding away with slowly making the house homely and unearthing things from the many boxes (the trouble is, you can’t simply unpack because that turns orderly boxes into a big pile of stuff - you need storage to unpack into) and fitting blinds etc. Fairly satisfying, but tiring.
Currently working on turning a scenario I wrote several years ago into a full, publishable thing. The last 5% is of course taking 75% of the work - like trying to find art I can use, decide how much, work out how to arrange the information to make a 120pp scenario usable, and so on. It’s satisfying but also painfully slow!
I’ve always known this as the “80/20 rule”: 80% of the work is done with the first 20% of the effort; the remaining 20% of the work takes 80% of the effort.
This is why open source projects are full of bugs and never finished[1], and why there are often 11 things that do almost, but not quite, the same thing. People do the easy stuff, but finishing it is too much work, better to go do something else.
[1] Also, the internal tools at ork are full of sharp corners, rotating knives, and the occasional hand grenade for much the same reason.
Being unable to get satisfactory intel from the basic sources, I’ve got my own dashboard. It’s what I do for money, so I did it for myself. (this is case counts for the two counties I sit between)
From left to right, we’ve got:
Original cases
(Lull for lockdown)
First winter OMG this is terrible surge
Delta surge - we’re all vaccinated now I think we’re ok
OMICRON SURGE - no we’re not ok
Present day - we’re tired of this shit
Kinda looks like we’re in a run rate now. Everyone I know who hadn’t had it is now catching it. And while re-infection is common for Omicron, they say there is a near-zero rate of severe cases after the initial case. (though I don’t know the reliability of that statement yet).
We’re going through a daycare thing now where each time someone gets a positive coronavirus test, the whole class has to stay home for a week. Can’t use negative tests to get back to daycare faster, can’t even get tested without spending about $50 each time. City policy is not to use testing resources on 3 year olds.
So it looks like H and I will have to continue fighting our respective workplaces to use up our paid leave, then maybe onto unpaid leave, because neither workplace has adequate staff cover or any system in place to cope with the situation. I think there’s government support if you personally are considered a “close contact”, but nothing if your dependants are…
There is a roughly 30 year conversation going on between my father and I vs my mother, trying to explain to her the theory of conservation of momentum.
My dad went so far to drive the car down the road and drop a tennis ball to see if it bounced in place or bounced forward. My mother swears to this day that he threw it forward.
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