Ah yeah, I've heard about that, and some people losing hearing or being in a 'permanent' brain fog. Fortunately not the case here, was 3 days of "really bad flu" (with temps getting scary high) and 7 more days of "mild flu" (with temps staying below 101). One of my bandmates (we all got it at the same time, so probably the same source) lost his taste but was back to normal in the 10 days or less.
That's good to hear. I know very few people who've actually caught it so my experience with how bad the after affects comes mostly from what's reported in the news.
lucky... it's like pulling teeth to get my boss to pay invoices or anything, much less a "luxury" item like a computer that I can have more than 5 apps open at once with out it going sooooo slow. I think it's the biggest issue of small companies, he probably sees any extra spending as coming out of his pocket.
I'm pretty sure he did it as a tax right off. Some of us were complaining about the old laptops. Although when we did get the new ones it took some members of the team weeks before the moved everything over. Re-installing our development environment is not something members of our team enjoy

I think my boss has been wanting something more contemporary (I think he believes the reason I resigned in 2005 was for the window office on the 11th floor) for some time (we were in a building that was obviously a residence at some point).
Our current location is on a mezzanine level above a car dealership. Basically our hall way is open on one side and looks directly down on the showroom floor. This is normally fine until they start wanting to move cars in and out of the showroom. They always seem to want to do that when we are working, instead of like coming in early to do it. Or what's even worse if they are trying to impress someone with the car (usually a Porche) they will start it up and rev the engine. We usually have to close our doors because the fumes are so bad. So none of the team would be disappointed if we were to move I'm sure.
We're open to all here in TX now. Before that I had friends getting it and I was like "how the hell did you get the shot already?" and it turns out they were going to neighboring "red" counties where people where the vaccine was available, but people weren't getting them... I figured I really don't come into contact with anyone so I wasn't going to bother doing any extra work and just get it when I come up on the wait list. I get my 2nd dose next week
Yeah, we have some friends in Arizona and they were saying that some places are begging people to come in and get the vaccine so that they don't have to waste any. That drives me insane that so many people don't want to take a vaccine! :grr: Hell I'd roll my sleeve up regardless what they offer (accept maybe the Russian one, I don't particularly trust them).
Hopefully you can get it soon! (and that it's the safe right thing to do... I'm still a little worried we'll find out an "oops, we just discovered that anyone who got it will now die at 55" or something, but if it means I get to live now, IDGAF)
So do I! I'm so ready, but here in Germany the focus is first on those most vulnerable to dying from it. My in-laws either have their first or they have the appointment for their first shot. My wife figures I'll probably get called some time in May. Mostly because I have asthma
My living space is so small that I'm in the same area for 16'ish hrs a day
That would drive me insane!! Nope I would have to find ways to go somewhere else. Even if it means renting a storage shed and putting a chair in it so I can sit for a few hours

I've been playing a tiny bit of video games in the little downtime I can manage. But it's mostly work, work, or band stuff.
At least with band stuff you get a chance to be creative. What video games are you playing? I've kind of moved on from Minecraft for the moment, and have been focusing on Cities: Skylines. It's what SimCity should have become. It's really good if you like those sort of things.
Yep, my work doesn't really involve input/output from anyone else unless there's a bug in production. I probably talk (as in not email) to coworkers/boss a few times a month

(and emails a couple times a week).
I envy you there! These are both old projects (and I feel the one will be ongoing for a bit), definitely not planning to take another for the foreseeable future.
My last freelance was helping my old company with an issue. When they requested I come to their office during the pandemic (not long after we moved to home office), and I said that I can't do that but would be willing to join in remotely, I didn't hear anything else from them after that. Eventually they contacted me to return the loaner laptop. I was happy to give it back, and wished them luck.
This is where my ignorant American is showing

I always thought it was a German thing. Now that I think about it, the event I've been to a few times as a kid was "Czec fest." We did have German fest in VA and I **think** there was polka bands but now I can't remember (and I was just at those every year from 2011-2014

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You are probably thinking of a Blaskapelle. They are very common in the Bavarian region, and the music could be confused with Polka. I tend to call it Um-pa-pa music

. Usually at a Volksfest like Oktoberfest in Munich you will find the tents have a Blaskapelle playing. It's tradition

Yeah, there's an area that was heavily settled by Germans (or Czecs?) . Today's Tejano music pulls in some influence from that as well.
Germans actually. I watched a show about it, and apparently they ended up with their own dialect of German, which I believe is referred to as Texas German. Funny enough when my wife was visiting the US back when she was a student, she got to meet the Amish and what we tend to call "Pennsylvania Dutch" is in actually a very old form of German. For the most part she and her classmates could communicate with the Amish in their own language. My wife said that in a lot of cases they used really old words for things that were no longer used in modern German. This actually makes sense since I believe the Amish originated from Switzerland, but we won't get into the Swiss dialect of German. I'm not sure anyone other than the Swiss can understand that
