188 summertime


We took advantage of the last days of summer (in SF, also known as the only days of summer) to do a lot of entertaining this weekend. We had people over in the backyard Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The weather was lovely for it, and it was delightful to see everyone. 

And I'm also exhausted. It's not easy getting out of a bubble.

Didn't grab many screencraps yesterday.

Just this little tidbit about Cov2 spreading on flights, but it's all pre-mask data, so kinda irrelevant.

Still, without a mask, it's very possible to catch Covid on a plane.

Likely, even.

But since we've all spent six months learning how to wear masks...

Well, except...

Maybe that was all in March, too?

That's out of a total of 50,000 TSA agents. That's 1 in 25. That's a lot. 

But we're just getting started.

It's interesting hearing how people are coping. One of our guests this weekend is a professional musician, with no gigs he is currently eyeing the end of self-employed pandemic unemployment benefits, and looking to ramp up teaching guitar online. His girlfriend is a yoga teacher, and the studio she taught through just closed, including online. She's doing her own classes online, and looking at other opportunities. 

The next day, we had two high school teachers over. They are a few weeks into the new year of zoom classes, and are both wondering how long this can go on. Zoom, as wonderful as it is, is no place to be for six hours a day, adult, child, or otherwise. That level of focus just ain't going to happen. 

One is a math coach, whose job is to support other teachers doing their work. It sounds like he's mainly being the soft-touch nor-cal version of a virtual truant officer, making calls to remind kids to login.

The other is also juggling home schooling, and sees from both the parent's and teacher's perspective how zoom (teams, meet, facetime, etc) is working, and failing. In general, it sounds like the biggest failure is one that I would complain about in a corporate setting as well: you're so busy keeping a schedule, you don't have any time to think.

Thanks for giving me your time today, now I'll let you think.

Plus bagels.

And a sail that needed some more tape before being put away.

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