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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 24, 2020 5:42:25 GMT -8
Starting yesterday, I'll be working from home, and I'm generally booked solid with meetings.
We did a test run on the 13th and have been home since. Other than some IT stuggles to keep enough phone lines open for conference calls (resolved after a couple of days) it's been pretty smooth.
The only down side is one of the site contractor leads insisting that teams have a daily tagup. I'd agree, but her definition of "team" doesn't match the breakout of personnel on the project. She insists it's "critical that we talk daily." Ummm, no. I don't even know some of the folks on the call, much less need to interact with them to get work done.
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 24, 2020 6:51:29 GMT -8
Starting yesterday, I'll be working from home, and I'm generally booked solid with meetings.
We did a test run on the 13th and have been home since. Other than some IT stuggles to keep enough phone lines open for conference calls (resolved after a couple of days) it's been pretty smooth.
The only down side is one of the site contractor leads insisting that teams have a daily tagup. I'd agree, but her definition of "team" doesn't match the breakout of personnel on the project. She insists it's "critical that we talk daily." Ummm, no. I don't even know some of the folks on the call, much less need to interact with them to get work done. Unfortunately, my work from home only lasted one day (unless you count the weekend), and I'm back on site. Everyone at HQ is in quarantine, so I have half of every day with newly-scheduled tagups. They're trying to push that down to all levels. So far it hasn't hit my people yet, but I can't protect them much longer. Executives on quarantine turn their whole organizations into machines for generating and distributing status information.
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Post by whistlepunk on Mar 24, 2020 7:30:20 GMT -8
I am trying to limit my screen time, so I am reading real books instead of kindle.
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Post by whistlepunk on Mar 24, 2020 7:45:21 GMT -8
I just read the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is relaxing its rules, and now allowing home booze delivery. You can order cocktails and have them delivered. Another reason to stay home!
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Post by autumnmist on Mar 24, 2020 10:59:37 GMT -8
Executives on quarantine turn their whole organizations into machines for generating and distributing status information. That was something I liked about working with attorneys. No status meetings, just assign the projects and away we go with it, interacting as necessary but no round the table reports. I did have one boss who wanted that, and I think it was more to emphasize his status and control than it was helpful.
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Post by autumnmist on Mar 24, 2020 11:08:30 GMT -8
dayhiker, I'm glad you raised this issue of masks for health personnel. If I may, I'd like to offer some insights from my niece, on the front lines of testing. (I couldn't get the video you posted to activate; it was stuck in a loop.) The masks made of cotton are acceptable; in my opinion as someone who's sewn for years, they're better with some natural fabric than full synthetic, which has a tight weave and less flexibility, which is important b/c it creates a solid barrier, doesn't stretch, and doesn't allow the body to breathe through as easily. Clothes from 100% fabric used to bind at the seams b/c of this failure to breathe and expand. Masks that are donated are washed at the hospital before wearing, so the seamstress doesn't need to prewash before sending. But I always preshrink cotton, which has a 3 - 6% shrink rate (at least the real 100% cotton did). Nurses wear these cotton masks behind the N95s, so they're not necessarily the front line protections. I'm not that adept at following online patterns, so I'm going to reverse engineer one of the masks I have and make my own pattern. And given my horde of fabrics, I'm searching for fabrics with appeal to children, to hopefully distract them as they're being tested and probably afraid. Thanks for sharing this method of helping.
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Post by gabby on Mar 24, 2020 11:15:15 GMT -8
I am trying to limit my screen time, so I am reading real books instead of kindle. I pulled some shelves apart yesterday, and rediscovered a huge cache of Colson Whitehead and Antonio Lobo Antunes. I just finished Antunes' An Explanation of the Birds last week (paperback), which I consider to be a modernist tour de force: multiple voices in a single paragraph and spectacular over-the-top scenes with "magical realist"-themed conversations taking place in the mind of the protagonist. Took me three days of carry-the-book-everywhere intensity, but it was great. I have paperback versions of Antunes because he isn't really available in ebook form (he never really "caught on" outside of Portugal, apparently, except with literary critics), so you have to read the "print version". Milan Kundera is another author who is essentially unavailable in electronic form. I actually DIY'd his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a few years ago from a PDF. Luckily, as focused as I was at the time on my Kindle, the free calibre PC application will convert an 'epub' format to 'mobi'. Then you can simply email the 'mobi' format to your Kindle, and Amazon will keep it there for you, as a "user document". But there is a real joy in reading a print copy, even if you have to keep referring to an online source for reference. Reference "on the fly" is something I've come to take for granted, and is a real need with a book like Antunes' An Explanation of the Birds because you can't really understand a "road trip" in Portugal, with multiple references to cities, rivers and other place names, or the translated nouns and the like, which are sometimes simply "anglicized" into a form an English reader can pronounce but not fully understand the significance of use of a specific word - without the ability to look it up. ETA: There's a Spanish language edition of the book (the original is in Portuguese, of course), which I bought some time ago "for reference", but these days it's just easier to "Google it".
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Post by reuben on Mar 24, 2020 12:14:42 GMT -8
I pulled some shelves apart yesterday, and rediscovered a huge cache of Colson Whitehead and Antonio Lobo Antunes. Oh. I thought you found some beer or wine. After I found out that I was wrong, I didn't make it to the end of the first paragraph.
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Post by echo on Mar 24, 2020 13:22:11 GMT -8
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Post by dayhiker on Mar 24, 2020 15:12:53 GMT -8
dayhiker , I'm glad you raised this issue of masks for health personnel. If I may, I'd like to offer some insights from my niece, on the front lines of testing. (I couldn't get the video you posted to activate; it was stuck in a loop.) The masks made of cotton are acceptable; in my opinion as someone who's sewn for years, they're better with some natural fabric than full synthetic, which has a tight weave and less flexibility, which is important b/c it creates a solid barrier, doesn't stretch, and doesn't allow the body to breathe through as easily. Clothes from 100% fabric used to bind at the seams b/c of this failure to breathe and expand. Masks that are donated are washed at the hospital before wearing, so the seamstress doesn't need to prewash before sending. But I always preshrink cotton, which has a 3 - 6% shrink rate (at least the real 100% cotton did). Nurses wear these cotton masks behind the N95s, so they're not necessarily the front line protections. I'm not that adept at following online patterns, so I'm going to reverse engineer one of the masks I have and make my own pattern. And given my horde of fabrics, I'm searching for fabrics with appeal to children, to hopefully distract them as they're being tested and probably afraid. Thanks for sharing this method of helping. Here is a more direct link: www.drstreicher.com/dr-streicher-blog/2020/3/a-surgeon-sewing-a-surgical-maskEdit For folks already have masks they can donate: match766136.typeform.com/to/DlQ1xY
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Post by autumnmist on Mar 24, 2020 16:24:40 GMT -8
dayhiker, that's the best information I've seen on making masks. The pattern is more thorough and closer to the fuller protection needed, and it also provides excellent information on materials. I was surprised to see T-shirts included, because typically anything stretchable requires a different type of needle. I'll experiment and see what works the best. Thanks so much!
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Post by dayhiker on Mar 26, 2020 14:51:15 GMT -8
autumnmist , I was thinking those strips that close coffee bags, or those used in bulk food might work as a nose bridge?
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Mar 26, 2020 16:38:52 GMT -8
Watch every episode of forty years of This Old House!
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Post by rangewalker on Mar 26, 2020 20:02:31 GMT -8
Work at home as my rural office is closed as my landlady's youngest daughter and partner do not want to go back to NYC for the duration. They have been in Wyoming not quite two full weeks so I am ok with that ban. Ninety percent of stuff I need in online or I can burrow in remotely. I miss my maps :( My internet (ADSL) at home in my small city is getting hammered during the day. No more than one device at a time and the streaming buffers a lot. My interactions with the Federal Land Management agencies I have to deal are suffering for interim and temp assignments. I need to send them chocolate. Right now the two wheels are my escape. Since spring is on alternating current right now here in Wyoming I had to keep the mile goals reasonable. Turn around point 12.2 miles from home.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Mar 27, 2020 5:11:06 GMT -8
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