This morning I saw a tweet from someone who claimed that it was a fact that Mars does not have an atmosphere. A few minutes ago, while eating my PB&J lunch, I saw this:
Yes, Virginia, there is air on Mars. You will die if you breath it, and there isn’t a whole lot of it, but it’s there and there is enough to fly a drone.
Suck it, science deniers.
I totally just fell for a phishing scheme. Soneofabitch.
A friend I haven’t spoken to in a while sent me a youtube link on Facebook Messenger. I clicked it. It asked me to sign into Facebook. I’ve had a rough day and I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on and I signed in.
Idiot.
My password has been changed, and that was a pain too as I tried to use my password manager plugin to generate a super password and it failed… twice.
It’s all set now but……..
Dumbass.
I won an Amazon raffle! WOOOHOOOO!!!
The Bruins won tonight. So did the Red Sox. Harry and I spent a little quality time watching The Flash and sharing AppleWatch watch face design preferences (more complications, please!). Jen took some big steps toward a post-vaccine world including one that hopefully will lead to good things tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, it will be two weeks after my second vaccine shot… meaning I’ll be fully vaccinated.
I wonder what that’s going to feel like?
I’m at my parents’ house in Tewksbury. About a 17 minute drive from my house. I logged into work about 30 minutes early and now I’m on my lunch break, roughly halfway through the business day.
Any thoughts?
I have a mask that includes a neck strap. I love it. It’s always there. I never have to stop and think about where I put it the last time I took it off. It was around my neck but not on my face when I logged in to my group’s daily meeting. My staff thought it was a bib. It kinda looks like a bib.
I’ve decided that a three monitor setup might be too much for me. I’m not sold on that yet, but I think that might be the case. At home I have a single monitor but it is gigantic. Hijacking my brother’s workspace, his three monitors definitely have more screen real estate than my single monitor, but not nearly as much as you’d think. I initially put my schedule on the left monitor, my email on the right monitor, and then worked on the middle. In theory that is perfect, but in practice I was missing emails because the screen requires me to actually move my head to see it. I moved the email back to the middle and adjusted the windows I was working on so that I could do it in front. Basically reproducing my single monitor from home. I like this.
My mother came over and talked to me as I was waiting for a meeting to start. I was on Zoom with about 10 other people. They asked me if I was trying to talk to them while I was on mute. Nope, just talking to Mom. I don’t know if she gets the telecommuting concept. She seems to, but maybe she just forgot when I told her I was on a meeting. Later, when I wasn’t on a meeting, she walked over and passed me a note. Okay, maybe she does get it. Cool. Thanks, Mom!
There is one thing that I need that I don’t have today and that is a haircut. Soon, my long, flowing red locks. Soon.
Harry needed to record a piano piece for school. He was going to put his headphones up against his iPhone’s mic.
Oh no, my good sir. No.
I hooked him up to a two channel USB interface and got him up and running in GarageBand on his Mac.
He’s recording tracks like a pro* now.
*Okay, maybe not a pro. More like an avid amateur, like his step father.
Groovy.
I saw a pretty clever phishing scam today. It went a little something like this…
I got a text saying that the USPS had to reschedule a delivery that was supposed to happen tomorrow. I’m not waiting for anything right now so I clicked the link in the text to get more info. Hint: that was a mistake.
The page the link took me to was not a post office page as my quick glance had implied. Instead it was an Amazon page. At least it looked like an Amazon page. It was asking me to login. As it turns out, I have a lot of experience trying to view my order history while not being logged in, and it wasn’t the page I’m used to seeing.
Pretty sure if I had logged in they would have had my user name and password. In the immortal words of the game keeper from Jurassic Park, clever girl.
Next time I need to be more careful before clicking the link in the text. As it is they’ve likely marked me as a sucker and will target me again.
In the immortal words of Madeye Moody, constant vigilance!
My brother has been working from my parents house off and on for the last few months. Starting tomorrow I’m going to be doing the same. He has a workspace setup in the dining room that has not one, not two, but three monitors. I told him I was going to hijack it. He said it was okay. I’m test driving it now.
Three monitors might be the most awesomest thing ever.
He mentioned he wants to add a fourth monitor. I think that would require a bigger dining room table, but it sounds good to me! More monitors!
Now I just have to be careful and not break anything. Fingers crossed.
Jen, Harry, and I are having a The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode five watch party.
I freakin’ love living in the future!
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