you have been busy. I've been looking a source code for the gateway software I use. Trying to suss if it can be modded to do some tweaks to time zone information being parsed from FTN packets to Usenet. It's all in C so it's somewhat greek or should that be geek to me :)
There may be a job vacancy opening up soon that I am thinking I'll
try for, if it does, I'll likely be quieter on the BBS scene for a
few weeks while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on
LinkedIn today as a fist step.
What else, watched some Marvel films, re-watched Tron Legacy with
my daughter (we both love the film) and also re-watched Shawshank Redemption which I still think is a great film.
Well after a few days home I am slowly catching up on stuff. Went into work on Friday for a few hours, the first time I had been back in our office since
the lockdown had been eased and life in NZ has pretty much returned to normal.
This coming week I think I will likely work a couple of days at home and the other in the office.
Avon wrote to All <=-
What else, watched some Marvel films, re-watched Tron Legacy with my daughter (we both love the film) and also re-watched Shawshank
Redemption which I still think is a great film.
Well after a few days home I am slowly catching up on stuff. Went into work on Friday for a few hours, the first time I had been back in our office since the lockdown had been eased and life in NZ has pretty much returned to normal.
There may be a job vacancy opening up soon that I am thinking I'll try for, if it does, I'll likely be quieter on the BBS scene for a few weeks while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on LinkedIn today as a
fist step.
What else, watched some Marvel films, re-watched Tron Legacy with my daughter (we both love the film) and also re-watched Shawshank
Redemption which I still think is a great film.
I think I made a Linked in account once, I didn't really understand what it was all about though so left it.
home here and is talking of needing to go back to her mums place in a
few weeks time to sort more stuff out. I feel for her, it's not an easy time.
There may be a job vacancy opening up soon that I am thinking I'll try for, if it does, I'll likely be quieter on the BBS scene for a few weeks while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on LinkedIn today as a
On 06-21-20 20:56, Avon wrote to All <=-
Well after a few days home I am slowly catching up on stuff. Went into work on Friday for a few hours, the first time I had been back in our office since the lockdown had been eased and life in NZ has pretty much returned to normal.
Is the new job at the same place you are now?
I think I made a Linked in account once, I didn't really understand what it was all about though so left it.
Cool. My wife likes the shawshank redemption too. I don't mind it, but I don't watch it every time it comes on TV haha.
I've been working on stuff, Magicka now has enough knobs and buttons to run an FTN network, I was just testing file hatching the other day. I've made up a little info pack for happynet so hopefully I can lure some people to join in and add it to their list of networks to see just how well it holds together.
At present it's tiny, rushfan, deon and me, and it's holding together
with 7 nodes (rushfan, deon and me have 2 nodes each). I am expecting
bugs to surface if it grows larger, but we'll see :)
My mum is still in Queensland, she's going home July 5th. South
Australia just reopened their border to Queensland so she wont have to isolate when she gets home which she's happy about.
Hope you're well. Have been thinking of you guys a bit.
I just had my surgery on Monday so after 4 - 6 weeks I should be heading back to work. That's about 10 months off work. I thought I would be off work for a month or two. I might need some retraining. :)
talked about the 3 possible endings:
1. End with Red looking out the bus window talking about hope.
2. The theatrical ending where they zoom out from the beach.
3. An ending where they talk and have a drink at Andy's inn on the
beach.
There may be a job vacancy opening up soon that I am thinking I'll tr for, if it does, I'll likely be quieter on the BBS scene for a few we while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on LinkedIn today as a fist step.
Good luck! I'm still getting settled into my new position. So far, it has been going well. I'm working on writing unofficial reviews on my employees, and having them fill out self-evaluations. Within the next
week or so, I want to be able to sit down with each of them and find out where they would like to go within the company, and set expectations for them.
My belated condolences -- this certainly can't be easy. :(
while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on LinkedIn today as a
Good luck, and keeping my fingers crossed here then! :)
Werlcome back. :)
On 21 Jun 2020 at 07:37p, apam pondered and said...
Is the new job at the same place you are now?
Yes, in the same general team, it's yet to come up though but
hopefully next month I can apply for it.
Cool. My wife likes the shawshank redemption too. I don't mind
it, but I don't watch it every time it comes on TV haha.
Only seen it twice now, first time in the 90s and then just the
other day. That's probably enough but the plot is solid.
cool. when I feel I can come up for air, I'll be looking to get
involved too.
It sounds like covid is still kicking in Australia, we're up to 9
cases in NZ again but all coming in from o/seas and in border
quarantine.
Honestly feeling mentally tired and still juggling family stuff and
a slow but measured return to the workplace office environment also
which is also taxing mentally after 2-3 months of working from home
and being told to stay home and save lives...
I just had my surgery on Monday so after 4 - 6 weeks I should be heading
back to work. That's about 10 months off work. I thought I would be off
work for a month or two. I might need some retraining. :)
good to hear surgery has occurred and went well, not sure I follow 4-6 weeks back to work,
and 10 months? So you were off for 8 or so months waiting for the surgery?
On 06-22-20 18:45, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 22 Jun 2020 at 03:37p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
Werlcome back. :)
Nice to be back :)
I've been working on stuff, Magicka now has enough knobs and buttons to run an FTN network, I was just testing file hatching the other day. I've made up a little info pack for happynet so hopefully I can lure some
After all this time, I'm wondering what normal is...
Shawshank Redemption is a good movie. I still find it amazing that it was based on a short story. Of course the short story was better, but the movie is good. ;)
Makes me kinda want to do a life-update bulletin section or something.
Problem is, even if I started a blog like that today nobody I know
would read it (because it's not Facebook) and it would just get
filled up with spambots & hacking attempts.
Problem is, even if I started a blog like that today nobody I know would read it (because it's not Facebook) and it would just get filled up with spambots & hacking attempts.
I used to have a personal blog way back in the day. I wrote about almost anything & everything on there, including rantings about work before "tales from tech support" was a thing.
I use hugo for my blog.. it's a static site generator. I just write my post in markdown, save it in the posts directory, run hugo and upload
the output.
I have no idea if anyone reads my blog, I guess someone must because
there are occasionally reactions to posts.
But, eh, I'm probably a weird techie because I happily had lots of RSS feeds for friends' livejournal pages.
It sounds like it could be interesting, though it sounds like it could also be extremely self-important, navel-gazing, etc.
Though I guess I was kind of imagining, "And here's the monthly update
for me". But, eh, I guess it becomes a bit like writing a Christmas letter. Personally, I like those (though don't live in one place long enough to _get_ them, but I digress), though I have opinions on how
people should write them.
Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
On 21 Jun 2020 at 07:47a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
talked about the 3 possible endings:
1. End with Red looking out the bus window talking about hope.
2. The theatrical ending where they zoom out from the beach.
3. An ending where they talk and have a drink at Andy's inn on the
beach.
I wasn't aware those were options? Were there alternatives mooted by
the director/writer?
Warpslide wrote to Adept <=-
I used to have a personal blog way back in the day. I wrote about
almost anything & everything on there, including rantings about work before "tales from tech support" was a thing.
That was when the internet seemed a whole lot smaller than it is today (and before grandparents knew what the internet was). I even converted .mp3 files to .asf so you could listen to music on my blog, there
wasn't much risk of getting sued back then. Or at least I didn't think there was...
I believe I was using Movable Type for my blog, this was before
WordPress took over the world.
I still use RSS for news today. One of my Pi's has a ttrss install on
doesn't get a job they've applied for today. I should see if I can find it on the way-back-machine to see how cringe-worthy it is.
What's the link to your blog?
My problem is I doubt I would have very much interesting to write
about anymore. Last time I had a blog I was in my early 20's &
thought I was way more deep & interesting than I actually was. ;)
Today, there's only so much I can post about my cats & work... lol
This comment made it occur to me that I have a better idea on what's
going on in people's lives in FSXnet-land than I do with pretty much all of my friends on Facebook, where I am treated to a variety of memes and political judgments.
It's nice to know what you and Avon are up to, though. I guess it's both a, "this is a neat thing" and a, "This is literally what Facebook is supposed to be for, but isn't."
Probably a different normal in New Zealand (with no known current community spread of COVID19) than it is elsewhere.
I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies after reading Pride and
I use hugo for my blog.. it's a static site generator. I just write my post in markdown, save it in the posts directory, run hugo and upload
the output.
I have no idea if anyone reads my blog, I guess someone must because
there are occasionally reactions to posts.
But, eh, I'm probably a weird techie because I happily had lots of RS feeds for friends' livejournal pages.
I still use RSS for news today. One of my Pi's has a ttrss install on
it.
Shawshank Redemption is a good movie. I still find it amazing that it was based on a short story. Of course the short story was better, but the movie is good. ;)
Well after a few days home I am slowly catching up on stuff. Went into work on Friday for a few hours, the first time I had been back in our office since the lockdown had been eased and life in NZ has pretty much returned to normal.
This coming week I think I will likely work a couple of days at home and the other in the office.
Just my daughter and I at home right now, my wife is still away staying
at her mums house trying to sort out family estate matters with her brothers. I think it will be another week or so before she gets back
home here and is talking of needing to go back to her mums place in a
few weeks time to sort more stuff out. I feel for her, it's not an easy time.
My daughter was away for 3 days on a school field trip and for the time
it was just me and the house pets... very strange feeling and awfully quiet. Still I got stuff done around the house and started back at work last Thursday.
I think work will be busy for a few weeks while I catch up on some projects that I have had to park due to absence.
There may be a job vacancy opening up soon that I am thinking I'll try for, if it does, I'll likely be quieter on the BBS scene for a few weeks while I try and pursue that. Did a bit of work on LinkedIn today as a
fist step.
What else, watched some Marvel films, re-watched Tron Legacy with my daughter (we both love the film) and also re-watched Shawshank
Redemption which I still think is a great film.
Best, Paul
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I wake up each day now and ask Alexa what's the latest news. I admit it kinda tickles my fancy to do that. I have it set up to play back audio from our national broadcaster - Radio New Zealand or RNZ news along with BBC News which I enjoy.
In my community life is pretty much back to normal with no major issues related to the virus now. There has been an economic impact on the
country but one I think was worth it.
I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies after reading Pride andNow that sounds like an interesting mix :)
Now I have three Alexa's, one downstairs, one as a alarm clock in the bedroom and one in my office. I should maybe give news a try on those.
I like the Christmas letter analogy, maybe instead of a blog I should
just spam my mom, aunt & grandparents every-so-often. My Dad _still_ doesn't have a computer, the internet or a cell phone, so I have to call his landline to keep in touch.
Funny story with my Dad: Up until recently he still wrote cheques & mailed them to pay all of his bills. When he ran out of cheques, he called the bank to order more & wanted to charge him for the cheques, which used to be free with his account. How he goes into the bank to
pay all of his bills in person at the Teller (he still refuses to use
the ATM). He's also disabled tap on his debit card.
Probably better than the economic impact on the country where case
numbers keep going up.
I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies after reading Pride anNow that sounds like an interesting mix :)
Indeed it is. :)
Admittedly, not entirely how I expected it to go, but I do wonder how different the book is from the movie.
And if they'll ever make a movie of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
And if they'll ever make a movie of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
Is that a real thing? :)
Probably better than the economic impact on the country where case numbers keep going up.I agree and I think that was the view of the NZ government at the time
I'm getting fairly bitter about the virus response in the US. Not even because of safety or economy -- just that I got a job in Germany, and it's looking increasingly like I won't be able to go because the virus response has been so abysmal.
I don't know why the resurgence of caronavirus now. It was devastating
but it looked like it was starting to get under control and now here we
go again. :(
That's a real bummer. I hope you can manage to somehow get to Germany
and your new job.
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This reminds me of how my brother once talked about how, "If it's not in the internet, it doesn't exist.". This is probably a step further.
I'm getting fairly bitter about the virus response in the US. Not even because of safety or economy -- just that I got a job in Germany, and
it's looking increasingly like I won't be able to go because the virus response has been so abysmal.
On 06-25-20 18:22, Warpslide wrote to Al <=-
I had been working from home since March but stared going into the
office again on Monday. Yesterday I get a call from the other half
that one of his co-workers tested positive for covid.
I still use RSS for news today. One of my Pi's has a ttrss install on it.
I don't know why the resurgence of caronavirus now. It was devastating but it looked like it was starting to get under control and now here we go again. :(
You can play Tetris on your pi? :)
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