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March 11, 2020: Homey

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Rumors at work say there may be a little work from home in the near future, if only to test out the viability of having to do so for longer stretches of time. Not sure if I’m looking forward to that or not.

52 thoughts on “March 11, 2020: Homey”

  1. I'm not sure about that whole "work from home" thing. I've always thought the strength of my marriage is that Mrs. A and I don't spend too much time together.

    1. With a large enough house, it can work.

      One thing I've found about telecommuting: between noon and 1PM, I don't answer my phone. If you can't draw a firm line between work and home, you find yourself living in your "office" 24x7

    1. You know, given that it tends to be a longevity award, it's entirely possible that Dick Bremer could get into the broadcasters wing of the Hall of Fame. This is (I think) his thirty-sixth or thirty-seventh year of broadcasting Twins games, and I don't hear any talk of him retiring.

        1. I remember him blocking me on an old twitter handle for saying "hell" or some other lesser swear

              1. I found his reply, but my tweet isn't there anymore 🙁

                1. It was grown ass man. I replied to that tweet above that it wasn't profanity, but a vulgarity and he blocked me too, without a notice either.

  3. Dropped the laptop the other day, so we're sporting a brand new SSD. And can I ad that the yearly fee for a Carbonite account is worth it.

    1. I had an external drive fail on me last year. Naturally, it was the drive that housed the local copy of all my photos and my music library. I was definitely glad I’d been paying for a cloud backup.

    2. Along these lines, is there an easy way to scan a large number of photos to digital so that I can archive some irreplaceable photos in case of fire or other event? I've got a shoebox full, but I'd like something that automated the process as much as possible.

      1. I believe there are some scanners that support this. Similar to a fax machine. However, I'd probably opt for finding a company that will do this and handle the tedium.

        1. Mrs. Hayes just had hundreds of Kodachrome slides digitized. She used Memories Renewed, the digitization service recommended by the Wirecutter, which is based in Minneapolis.

          Most of the slides were taken by her folks back when they lived in Colorado, with a few shortly after her birth. The quality of the scans is really, really impressive — no artifacts, high-resolution, and any focus issues almost certainly photographer error from the days of manual SLRs. Since her folks divorced decades ago and many of her family’s belongings were destroyed in a flood when she was growing up, these are pretty special. She added the files to a shared album, so her mom, brother, cousins, and I all have access. Pretty slick — and definitely recommended. I need to do the same for my own family photos.

      1. I got it with the hint. Would not have gotten it without. Well, with enough guesses I'd probably have figured it out eventually, but probably not on the first try.

  6. I hinted at it in the other thread, but our family is going to be +1 come mid-August.

    So there'll be me, The Permanent Roommate (TPR) , The Little One (TLO), and (I guess?) The Even Littler One (TELO)

  7. Much as I like listening to Jim Kaat in the booth, his embracing of non-analytics is getting old. Like him.

    Glad the home team is burning through their assbats pre-opener.

    1. We parents were thinking about going to a game in that series. They had already canceled those plans, but yeah, this is the first of many.

  9. University of Minnesota classes are going all-online for the near future. The Golden State Warriors will play home games in an empty arena.

    Wild times.

      1. Not Portland, given that the Timbers modified Multnomah/Civic Stadium/PGE Park in a way incompatible with baseball. I wonder if they’ll use the Mariners’ spring training venue in Peoria (cap. 12,339), or another West Coast MLB ballpark. I’m guessing BC Place in Vancouver is a no-go.

    1. Smart thing to do. Also creates useful precedent for MLB and NHL.

  12. NBB work: Work from home if you want; if you feel sick DONT COME IN.
    NBBW work: Everyone work from home for now (unless you are a retail worker). If you come in, caf food will be pre-packaged- eat at your desk.

    1. One of our commissioners works for a healthcare system. Her office is next door to the hospital. Only "essential"personnel are allowed into the hospital building. Where the cafeteria is....

  13. I work only from home. Our business is crazy busy. We facilitate calls between experts and businesses. I'm in the transcription part of it. We've gotten crazy busy the last few weeks. Only a small percentage do transcription and they've been growing that part the last year or so, but we got a big bump the last few weeks, and I'm guessing it's because people can stay at home and just talk on their phones, and some of the experts do this on the side, so they might be taking time off from their usual business to do consulting full time for now. I think the reaction has been way over the top for all but the most vulnerable, but as long as we don't completely destroy the economy, maybe we'll at least see a big drop in flu cases while we're at it.

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