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10:05 AM Saturday, March 21, 2020
So last post, about a month and a half ago, was about new phones and watch, and what TV I was watching. Now just more TV. Repurposed my old hackintosh and put Ubuntu on it. It's been much more stable. Thinking of getting an eSATA disk enclosure, using ZFS, and moving the Plex server there (instead of my current mess on the Mac mini with TV and Movies spread out over 4 different volumes. Started finally watching Mr. Robot, about midway through the 4th season there. Before that ripped through Dark (great) Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (great), the John Wick movies, the Fantastic Beasts movies. Also put Unbound (dns server) on the PiHoles as well as PiVPN (WireGuard), which means we should be good when we get to leave the house again. Oh yeah, Covid-19. I was supposed to go to Ottawa for a work trip March 8-10, but decided not to go because this virus was becoming a thing, didn't want to go through an airport or anything. Then started working from home the rest of that week (I was in on March 9 because there was a blood drive and I could finally donate again). Then the NBA cancels the season, CPS closes schools for a couple weeks, we started self isolating pretty much on Friday, March 13. Grocery stores went bare for a bit then I think got restocked, but I haven't been lately. It's only been 1 week for the kids at home, Lucy's doing well, organized, doing homework. Jackson on the other hand has been a challenge. He does rip through his morning work and his worksheets pretty quickly, and they started up like 30 min of elearning (via Zoom) with Ms. V on Thursday go forward, but even that's a struggle. He's definitely going to be a second job. I think I've left the house twice in 8 days or so. So, a pretty normal week for me. Been having family dinners at the kitchen table, and game night afterwards. Self quarantine means everyone's home for dinner at the same time. Tracy got some more board games, although been playing more mahjong than anything lately. So getting things done that have been on the plate for a while.
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