| valorie | hmmm, wxl expired from the team | 02:58 |
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| valorie | anyone seen Walter around lately? | 02:58 |
| valorie | I miss him | 02:58 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> me too :/ | 03:00 |
| valorie | @tsimonq2 you haven't heard from him? | 03:52 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I have his phone number but it's been a while | 03:52 |
| valorie | if not, maybe give him a call? | 03:52 |
| valorie | I mean it's coming up on Thanksgiving | 03:52 |
| valorie | time to reconnect | 03:53 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Indeed | 03:54 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Speaking of reconnecting... valorie!!!!!!! | 03:56 |
| valorie | {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} | 03:57 |
| valorie | how are you these days? | 03:57 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> just when I think it can't get crazier, it does... | 03:57 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> That's been about the last year :P | 03:57 |
| * valorie is pretty much doing genealogy or working with my societies 90% of the time | 03:57 | |
| valorie | ah | 03:57 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Otherwise I'm doing well, yourself? :) | 03:58 |
| valorie | family issues, college, or ? | 03:58 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> * | 03:58 |
| valorie | got it | 03:58 |
| valorie | I'm happy and healthy and working lots | 03:58 |
| valorie | backing out of most of my foss work | 03:59 |
| valorie | but keeping the friendships | 03:59 |
| valorie | :-) | 03:59 |
| valorie | sort of moving from twitter to masto | 03:59 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I've had to do a bit of restructuring myself, to say the least heh | 03:59 |
| valorie | I'm sorry about what's happening to twitter | 04:00 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> It would be good to see you around more often, but I also get Life is a thing | 04:00 |
| valorie | for sure | 04:00 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Tbh, I've just been eating popcorn and watching heh | 04:00 |
| valorie | well, I liked it | 04:00 |
| valorie | also, mmmmmm popcorn | 04:00 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Yeah, Elon is quite a character | 04:01 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> in many respects... | 04:01 |
| valorie | he's a wrecking ball | 04:01 |
| valorie | he's forgotten that what makes great companies are PEOPLE | 04:02 |
| valorie | he's treating them like toilet paper | 04:02 |
| valorie | *used* tp | 04:02 |
| valorie | possibly a bit late for him to learn that now | 04:03 |
| valorie | oh, well | 04:03 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I agree with that... also, Twitter has definitely become more free on the site itself since then | 04:03 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> less people to moderate, more bs | 04:03 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> let's see how this turns out :P | 04:03 |
| valorie | not sure we'll have to wait very long | 04:04 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> right ... heh | 04:04 |
| valorie | so how are you spending your time these days besides eating popcorn? | 04:05 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Just recovering from COVID... but, *usually* I work on OpenEMR for $dayjob during the day and Ubuntu after hours, with the occasional partying or passing hobby in between :P | 04:06 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> Honestly, I've started to read a lot more lately. Going through some of the "classics" | 04:07 |
| valorie | you are done with college, or that's where you are reading the classics? | 04:07 |
| valorie | I've been reading more history | 04:07 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> c) decided I was done taking out student loans and decided to punt it back a few years... actually turning out to be a decision full of opportunities | 04:08 |
| valorie | cool | 04:08 |
| valorie | I mean, I went in my 40s | 04:09 |
| valorie | which turned out to be great | 04:09 |
| valorie | the more you educate yourself, the better | 04:09 |
| valorie | until you decide that it would help to have someone help in that quarter | 04:10 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> that's fair :) | 04:10 |
| valorie | that's why I went to college and then uni | 04:14 |
| valorie | and why I started study groups in my society | 04:14 |
| valorie | one of which is kicking my ass | 04:15 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> oh yeah? :D | 04:15 |
| valorie | latest tech I learned was airtable, which is a relational database | 04:15 |
| valorie | geeeeez | 04:15 |
| valorie | but it works well | 04:16 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> oh wow :D | 04:16 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> what did you like about it? | 04:16 |
| valorie | I had a template so I didn't have to fiddle with the relational fields | 04:17 |
| valorie | lol | 04:17 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> hahahaha fair enough | 04:17 |
| valorie | but I think I could do that now if I had to | 04:17 |
| valorie | now that I've set up and am using one | 04:17 |
| valorie | that's the thing - you can learn to do anything if you really wanna | 04:19 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> That's something I learned over the last few years that I wish more people knew, that is for sure | 04:20 |
| valorie | the problem with school is that too often you *could* learn some things but because you don't *want* to, you don't | 04:21 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I'm a fairly good case study on how you can ignore high school and still score high on standardized testing if you're stubborn enough ;P (would NOT recommend) | 04:21 |
| valorie | lol | 04:22 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> high school sucked... we really need more money in our public schools | 04:22 |
| valorie | yep | 04:22 |
| valorie | and treat teachers much better | 04:22 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> bingo, that I can get behind | 04:22 |
| valorie | imo the problem is that most of the money goes to admin | 04:22 |
| valorie | and most of those people could disappear | 04:23 |
| valorie | just give it to the teachers and let them hire the admin | 04:23 |
| valorie | same with hospitals | 04:24 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> too much bureaucracy overall imo | 04:24 |
| valorie | take out the admin | 04:24 |
| valorie | let the docs and nurses hire the admin | 04:24 |
| valorie | this is why I think medical insurance is a horrible way to get care to people | 04:25 |
| valorie | because all that does is admin and suck up the money | 04:25 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> the entire medical system in the US is kinda screwed :/ | 04:26 |
| valorie | public health would be much better -- as long as it doesn't grow too much admin | 04:26 |
| valorie | yup | 04:26 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> taxpayer money lining pockets it shouldn't be... incentivizing high drug prices... the list goes on | 04:26 |
| valorie | we used to have a vigorous public health tho | 04:26 |
| valorie | until politicians sidelined it for insurance | 04:27 |
| valorie | which is great for cars and houses | 04:27 |
| valorie | not good for medical | 04:27 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> reform is something I think we can agree on :) | 04:31 |
| valorie | yup | 04:32 |
| valorie | sorry to hear you had covid | 04:33 |
| valorie | I hope your recovery is progressing | 04:33 |
| valorie | not sure you heard that my brother-in-law died a bit over a year ago of covid | 04:33 |
| valorie | a high school friend of mine | 04:34 |
| valorie | :( | 04:34 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I can only take my dad's "there's no such thing as being sick" motto so far on this one :/ wasn't nearly as bad as Mono but a little worse than a normal flu | 04:34 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I'm sorry to hear that :( | 04:34 |
| valorie | my sister almost succumbed but recovered | 04:34 |
| valorie | now she's a widow -- younger than me! | 04:34 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> you haven't had it, right? | 04:34 |
| valorie | they both refused to be vaxxed | 04:34 |
| valorie | she still isn't | 04:34 |
| valorie | I have not | 04:35 |
| valorie | I was the only one in a mask tonight in the restaurant | 04:35 |
| valorie | Do Not Want | 04:35 |
| valorie | Colin got long covid, even after being vaxxed..... | 04:36 |
| valorie | covid suuuuuuuuucks | 04:36 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I'm only double-vaxxed, nothing more... after my brother found out he has a genetic heart condition I got scared for a day or two :/ | 04:36 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> 2/10 would not recommend | 04:37 |
| valorie | I've had both my boosters | 04:37 |
| valorie | and flu shot | 04:37 |
| valorie | and trying to be careful | 04:37 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> flu shot 100%, my doc flat out told me I didn't need boosters heh | 04:37 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> yes, please be careful :) | 04:37 |
| valorie | well, if you had it, sure | 04:37 |
| valorie | but get the next one | 04:37 |
| valorie | natural immunity doesn't last as long as the shots | 04:38 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> this was directly before I went to Prague when I asked my doc if I should get a booster before going into the heart of Europe | 04:38 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> he looked at me and said "nah, you're fine" | 04:38 |
| valorie | I would have anyone tbh | 04:38 |
| valorie | anyway, I mean | 04:39 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> good to talk to you but I need to write an announcement for Lubuntu :) | 04:42 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> stay in touch, will ya? | 04:42 |
| valorie | I'm always here! | 04:43 |
| valorie | {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} | 04:43 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> ditto the hugs :) I hope LFNW is in person next year!!! | 04:43 |
| valorie | could be.... and maybe I would attend | 04:43 |
| valorie | my calendar is mighty fully these days..... | 04:44 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> yeah you're telling me :) | 04:44 |
| valorie | I mean, we could live in Buffalo NY | 04:50 |
| valorie | life is good, in comparison | 04:51 |
| valorie | :-) | 04:51 |
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