On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:42 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Things are rough these days. How's everyone handling it?
Doing fine. Working from home - no travel to customers right now, of course. All of my upcoming projects still have fluid start dates. I did just have a bang-up annual review at least. For projects, I'm working on different things every couple of nights - this week has been fiddling with VFD Pole Displays and committing code to LCDproc to support them. I'm also sorting through bins of components and trying to combine things so I don't have the same kinds of parts in four different cabinets. I probably have more resistors than a Peace March. Plenty of home repair and hobby projects to fill the time. Cooking a lot more, our stores have shortages like everywhere but they are doing an OK job keeping a lot of items stocked. Gas here dropped to between about $1.56 to $1.75 most places, not that I'm using a lot. The times I've been out to the store, there are a few cars, but there's no rush hour anymore. I had a lot of events planned for March-May, not just VCF East. I've cancelled several PTO days because they were all to give me long weekends for travel. Now, they are back into my bank to keep in reserve for potential sick leave. At some point here, mid April, it's looking like, work will pick up again. That will keep me busy for a few weeks at a time (I'm all project-based, not tied to one customer for months).. In between, I can take classes online and work on new technologies and work on certs. I'm definitely looking forward to slightly warmer weather so I can do some outdoor tasks at my Farm. That's probably going to be my big adventure for the summer. -ethan