Steve and Judy's Travels!

After all these years of working on a little laptop screen

…and having to toggle back and forth between multiple files while I work on them, and since we’re spending so much time at home now, I decided to upgrade to a wide-screen monitor for the home office.

The only things I need on the desk now are a wireless keyboard and mouse.  It’s a clean setup.

I can have three full-size open files on my desktop at once.  If I want to scrunch a couple, I can have four open with no overlap!

Of course, it didn’t seem quite right the first day; it’s so different from what I’m used to, but it didn’t take long to love it.  It’s a much better workspace.

Our longtime client,

…the Aspen Center for Physics.

It was great to hang out there for a week every year like I did back when I was doing direct client work.  Early summer weather high in the Rockies.  A peaceful grassy campus with a little stream, shade, and picnic tables.  Another of the benefits, besides just being in Aspen, if we were there at the right time, was the free community physics talks during the summer.  Here is a notice I got with this summer’s schedule, which this year is entirely online.

Happy Birthday, Henry!

We were watching coverage for the Coronavirus and they were listing U.S. hotspots.  Atlanta, Phoenix, Portland, McAllen.  What?  McAllen,Texas?  We’re sitting down here in The Valley feeling so removed from the craziness; being careful, but the plague doesn’t seem to be swirling all around us, and we’re a national hotspot!?

The national news is calling us a spiking hotspot.  Our cases here are going up, but it only looks alarming because the incidence is so low.  It’s all about the denominator.  When you have very few cases, it’s easy to get a large percentage or per capita increase.  If you only have one case, you only need to have one more and your caseload has doubled!  In the city of McAllen, Texas, as of today, there are 114 cumulative cases since the start of the contagion two and a half months ago.  Maybe not a raging hotspot.

I sent out that description about how to fold fitted sheets.  I got lots of responses and suggestions; the most practical of which might be brother David’s.  I admire his answer so much that today I employed his three-step process.

1.       Strip bed.

2.       Wash sheets.

3.       Put sheets back on bed.

Brilliant!