How are you today?

Old technology would have worked too: having the hospital validate parking tickets for patients and staff.

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Hopefully doesn’t get much worse or spread round the family.

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Ouch you just reminded me how long this has been going on.

Gute Besserung! Hopefully your symptoms will remain harmless and it will pass quickly.

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Offline due to complete madness here for the last few weeks. Here’s the recap.

  • Baby is here and all is good on that front. Colin Ray. I call him Tantive, and am waiting to see how long it takes his mother to figure it out.

  • A grad course in research kicked my butt, despite being the aspect of this degree in which I am the most well-versed and practiced. Got it done, though, and now there’s just 3 courses left until Grad Degree #2 is in the bag.

  • Lovely Wife, one week after baby, made the bold move to quite her admin special education position to take a job at the small parochial school she attended as a kid. Big pay cut, but bigger happiness raise.

  • The new school year started with my school board dropping our Standards-Based grading system to revert back to traditional A-B-C-D-F scoring. Massive headache.

  • School year also started with my building being only 85% staffed, so class sizes are huge (I have 260 students, up from 210 last year) and schedules are a mess. Upshot is I get to work with graduating seniors this year, which is always a blast.

  • School year ALSO started with the best attitudes among students and teachers that I’ve seen in years. Everyone is ready to rock despite the challenges.

It was a good summer, and it’s looking like it’s going to be a good semester. Onward!

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Two things, quickly:

  1. I don’t get it, I’m sorry. Pleez splain?
  2. Do you say “Tan-tiv” or “Tan-tiv-ee”? Technically, it’s Tan-tiv-ee, but almost everyone I know says “Tan-tiv”.
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Due to general work stress and trying to do too much socialising in one week, leading to general fatigue, my executive functioning issues are off the chart at the moment. To the point where my husband had to put my cutlery in my hands and tell me where to sit at dinner today (we were at home) because I just couldn’t connect up the parts of my brain that let me start doing the things. Compare and contrast with my “functioning adult with a responsible job” disguise, and this is very frustrating.

I did not win our game of 1862 today either! :rofl:

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My 4yo and 3yo both have fevers. I am currently sat in their shared bedroom at 6:30, in the dark, with them already tucked in for the night.

Up until about 4 hours ago, we thought 3 was in the clear, but she developed a fever about 45 minutes after her COVID test reported negative :person_shrugging:

This is night two of fever for 4; yesterday included some vomit – a usual occurrence when this one gets a fever.

My partner and the baby are still showing no signs, thankfully.

I was feeling much better yesterday; I have some energy back, but get fatigued easily. My brain has been restless, however, so while I’ve been vegging on couches, I went ahead and finished setting up automatic document scanning and installed an open source document management system. I had bought a used flatbed scanner on eBay to use with this setup, but it didn’t actually scan. So for now I’m using in old HP MFP; which is nice because it has both a flatbed and a document feeder, but isn’t super great because it doesn’t have a scan button that works with ‘scanbd’ (and only goes up to 600dpi, which is fine for documents, but not enough for some creative projects I’m working on)

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I’ll let you ponder the connection. However, if you are savvy enough to know the correct three-syllable pronunciation of the ship name, I suspect you have the chops to figure out the riddle. Also, it’s supposed to be a secret connection, so I can’t be the one to spoil it.

Is it because The Tantive IV was a CR90 corvette, and your child’s initials are CR?

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Got it in one.

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Yup, never would’ve gotten that. Clever, though!

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And here I was wondering if it was because the original real life designer of the Tantive IV model was named Colin.

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Exhausted.

I have to work more because we’re understaffed. My partner is switching jobs internally and currently handing over his old job while already working the new one.

The works on my parental home are picking up pace and there is stuff to “manage” every day. Something is always coming up that we need to address.

Last week we tested for covid every day because after our festival visit (which was awesome but also exhausting in a different way) some friends tested positive. We did not but it was nevertheless scary because if we had tested positive… we might not have been able to travel this week:

This week we’re only here until Wednesday–then we’ll take the train to Budapest for BiL’s wedding. We’ll only be back mid September because originally this was going to be a vacation to destress a bit. Now it’s a family thing except for the last 5 days which we’ll mostly spend in trains coming back home.

I can’t wait for the day we get back and I won’t have to leave again… (until early October if I want to go to SPIEL… -.-)

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My great-uncle died a few weeks ago. I never really knew him but my father has been saddled with dealing with everything now he’s gone.

The saddest thing about all of this, it became immediately obvious that he was being drained of his money by those he trusted most. Even while he was in a hospice and in the days after his death.

Yesterday one of them paid for their shopping and petrol with his card. Disgusting.

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Factor in that the captain of the ship was Raymus Antilles, and you got another good connection!

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I do not get out-geeked about Star Wars very often. I tip my cap.

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I interviewed a candidate in India this morning (10 pm his time, though). He had a wall clock which gave the time in IST, which is UTC +5:30. Thé off by 30 minutes was very disturbing to me (I was using the clock to control the pace of interviewing, instead of watching my watch.), but just when I was adapting to it, I realized it was five minutes slow.

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Actually, now that I think about it? It may have been 55 minutes fast.

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Our family is expanding.Everybody, meet Baloney, our new 2-months-old Shih Tzuh! :heart_eyes:


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