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Dec. 15th, 2025 03:10 pmCoViD levels (as of 11 December): Up, but still pretty low: 200 Bobcat-Robots.
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Nov. 14th, 2025 03:23 pmCoViD levels (as of 6 November): ...Yep, it really is under 100 Bobcat-Robots.
(Sorry I haven't been updating these. In my defense, (a) my routine got thrown out of whack, but more importantly (b) CoViD levels stayed REALLY LOW all summer. Now they're STILL really low, but it's cold season, so we're back in the game of "Is it CoViD, or just a cold, such as we would have laughed off before 2020?")
(Sorry I haven't been updating these. In my defense, (a) my routine got thrown out of whack, but more importantly (b) CoViD levels stayed REALLY LOW all summer. Now they're STILL really low, but it's cold season, so we're back in the game of "Is it CoViD, or just a cold, such as we would have laughed off before 2020?")
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Nov. 6th, 2025 12:01 pmCompletely unrelated to previous post:
I am researching bounces from my employer's email lists, and am therefore sorely tempted to ping one or two people's LinkedIn profiles and ask "Are you dead?"
ETA: On the same search: Look... This obituary is presumably just giving the names of children's spouses, but the way they phrased it KINDA makes it look like half this person's kids are trans., and being deadnamed for the benefit of people who haven't seen them in a while.
"XX is survived by their sons, Thomas, Sean (Maureen), Patrick, Brendan (Dana); and daughters, Siobhan (Stephen); Maureen, Mary (Matthew), Deirdre (Jason)...
I am researching bounces from my employer's email lists, and am therefore sorely tempted to ping one or two people's LinkedIn profiles and ask "Are you dead?"
ETA: On the same search: Look... This obituary is presumably just giving the names of children's spouses, but the way they phrased it KINDA makes it look like half this person's kids are trans., and being deadnamed for the benefit of people who haven't seen them in a while.
"XX is survived by their sons, Thomas, Sean (Maureen), Patrick, Brendan (Dana); and daughters, Siobhan (Stephen); Maureen, Mary (Matthew), Deirdre (Jason)...
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Nov. 4th, 2025 01:43 pmHoping my coworker can deal with the fact that I just asked him a question about his research via a Spiders Georg reference.
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Sep. 29th, 2025 02:32 pmI probably shouldn't try to ask my boss if we're meeting this afternoon by texting him "M'saion?", should I?
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Aug. 5th, 2025 08:53 amI'm on my THIRD cup of coffee,
Still can't face the day...
ETA: Are there parody versions of "Awake, Alive, Alert, Enthusiastic"? Because there should be.
ETA2: And if I think today is bad, let's try tomorrow, when I have to get out to catch a bus at 6:55AM.
Still can't face the day...
ETA: Are there parody versions of "Awake, Alive, Alert, Enthusiastic"? Because there should be.
ETA2: And if I think today is bad, let's try tomorrow, when I have to get out to catch a bus at 6:55AM.
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Jul. 24th, 2025 03:12 pmThe good news--AND the bad news--is that this week has turned into All Job Interviews, Every Day.
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Jul. 1st, 2025 03:53 pmToday is--somehow--my tenth anniversary* as a changeringer.
* Well, with a couple of caveats. This excludes, obviously, trying to learn change ringing back when I was 14. And I'm using July 1 as a convenient approximation, in much the same way as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sorcyress uses their birthday. I know had already been to a practice or two at Advent before I went to Old North the first time, which I think was on July 4; so the first time with a rope in my hands may have been July 1, or it may have been a Wednesday or two before then. The earliest reference I can find to ringing is a blog post from July 16 [Locked]--but I'd clearly been ringing for some time at that point.
...I should probably check theLog Guest book at CotA, huh.
* Well, with a couple of caveats. This excludes, obviously, trying to learn change ringing back when I was 14. And I'm using July 1 as a convenient approximation, in much the same way as
sorcyress uses their birthday. I know had already been to a practice or two at Advent before I went to Old North the first time, which I think was on July 4; so the first time with a rope in my hands may have been July 1, or it may have been a Wednesday or two before then. The earliest reference I can find to ringing is a blog post from July 16 [Locked]--but I'd clearly been ringing for some time at that point....I should probably check the
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Jun. 11th, 2025 12:34 pmWaitasecond wtf.
Boris &^(*&%ing Johnson is descended from E.A. Lowe, a.k.a. mentor of my paleography mentor?????
Boris &^(*&%ing Johnson is descended from E.A. Lowe, a.k.a. mentor of my paleography mentor?????
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May. 12th, 2025 10:59 amIn a reminder of just how bloody long the job process can take, a job I applied for 4.5 weeks ago JUST got back to me to schedule an interview.
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May. 6th, 2025 12:47 pmOf course now that they've launched a new version of the Massachusetts unemployment site, the new version is MORE of a pain in the ass.
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Apr. 29th, 2025 04:01 pmI felt strongly that for the John Roberts Memorial Panel at NEFFA, we should sing Candlemas Eve, because it's a song about springtime and about things changing, as the old gets replaced by the new.
AAANND that's how I wound up singing it--solo-in front of two people who'd f'in toured with John and Tony, and at least one person who knew them in grad. school.
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AAANND that's how I wound up singing it--solo-in front of two people who'd f'in toured with John and Tony, and at least one person who knew them in grad. school.
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