There’s an ongoing struggle happening between the people who want teachers and students to be back in classrooms and those who want there to be much more progress in our fight against COVID-19 before schools safely re-open. This week, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against its own school district in a desperate…
Month: February 2021
02/03/2021: Vaccines!
This afternoon, my mother got the first of her two COVID-19 vaccines. She was happy to show off the Band-Aid on her arm during our Facetime. This evening after dinner, my wife got a proactive ping from her doctor to let her know that school administrators were up and ask if she’d be available to…
02/02/2021: all that extra space (and quiet) in 2020
In late 2019, the owners of the home next store moved out their renters. The renters were a nice multi-generational family whose friendship we enjoyed and we were disappointed to see them go. The owners claimed they were going to be moving back in after doing some work. The work didn’t start before the pandemic…
02/01/2021: the pergola gutters
Out my desk window is a pergola, the roof of which I recently replaced with new polycarbonate panels. Previously, there’d been holes all over the roof that leaked rain. Now, it’s dry as a bone and that’s pleasing. To complete job, I installed gutters so that the rain run-off doesn’t spill off the roof and…