Pretty much… I’ve had to consciously stop looking at the news so much because it was a constant source of anger and anxiety.
Tag: covid-19
Dr Strangework or how I grew to love remoting
Roko wanted all of us in the group to send him pictures of our home office setup. It’s going to be shown in the sprint review tomorrow. This is my contribution. At least I shaved yesterday :)
Global recoveries passed 100,000 but the pandemic ‘is accelerating’
The World Heath Organization said it had taken 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000 cases, and only four for the third 100,000 cases.
As of March 24th, there were over 417,000 recorded cases.
Guide to self-isolation
Life goes on
Covid plague rages.
Tulips in the Parc still grow.
Peace can yet be found.
We are a dysfunctional family
Some people see the current covid-19 lockdowns as a way to build memories and spend quality time as a family. We see this, filled with dread, as a situation that can lead to murder or alcoholism.
As much as I love my son, he is being a giant shithead. Everything needs to be a confrontation. Everything needs to be yelled instead of spoken. We are, apparently, the most unfair idiots that walk the earth and exist only to pay for shit, frustrate him at every turn and make him angry. He, in our opinion, exists only to make stupid random noises, do whatever the hell he wants when he wants to, do nothing of what we actually ask of him and can’t grasp the simplest of concepts like don’t chew with your mouth open, close the light when you leave the room and leave the fucking cats alone.
So yeah.
We’ll either need lawyers or doctors, or both (definitively therapy) by the time this has cleared up.
Bring your work to cat, indeed
One of the big issues of working from home is discipline and motivation.
This does not help.
Neither does this, when you come back from the bathroom.
But at least the telecommuting memes are amusing:
Pandemic confinement, week 3
Ok, so it’s not an actual confinement, we’re still allowed to go out as long as reasonable precautions are taken – it would just seem that different people have different interpretations of what is reasonable in these… interesting times.
I’ve also managed to fix the slight oopsie I did to the media streamer PC. On the plus side, my storage space has tripled. I’ll need to order a 2nd 6TB HDD so that I can make a redundant copy, but at least we have one working version now.
Finally, it seems that all the parents are in agreement – it sucks to have kids out of school stuck at home.
Pandemic confinement, week 2
Right. Well. Things are going well.
An analyst from Imperial College finally managed to convince both the Blonde Chimp in the UK and the Oompah-Loompa in the US that waiting for herd immunity is a bad option and “it’s not just like the flu”.
Now if only they could get a clear message about containment measures, and staying the fuck out of large groups, preferably at home.
Speaking of Drumpf, his whole self-identity as a president has been that the stock market has never been stronger. That means that all his rich friends are happy with him and money is going into the right pockets. Well, about that….
Working from home is the new normal
Given that I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future, we rearranged some furniture to put the desk in the bedroom – out of the common living space – to allow me to teleconference in (relative) peace.
It also means that my kanban board is at work, so I’ve rebuilt it with what I had at hand. Yes, I could use a cloud solution but I’ve found that post-its on a board work best for me…