Good Monday morning! aka, Matilda's Jewelry Class Day.

One of the few things we can hang on her week so it doesn't become an indistinguishable blob of calendaria.

Also, she's got babysitting Peanut on Thursday. And Japantown Friday.

Dropped puppy off at the vet at 745am and they called at 10am to say he’s done with surgery! So fast! Going to go pick him up later this afternoon, they keep him for observation for a while I guess.

I got my new laptop for work and new large monitors for both work and home. EXCITE! Home desk is now too small so I need to figure out something else.

Large monitors for working from home can make sure a difference. I've got dual 27" 4K monitors right now and they just help me keep so much at hand. I lust after the huge curved 49" super high resolution monitors.

I've been working off my 13" macbook, so these 25" monitors are AMAZING. And with the new work laptop I can use it as a second monitor even though they are not the same size. It will be the first time I've had 2 monitors since starting this job and since I am in spreadsheets most of the day entering data from forms, two screens IS SO HELPFUL!

Alas, the two monitors in my home office (not counting the personal laptop) are connected to two separate computers, so I'm tied to the old desktop tower and its tangle of a bazillion cables for the foreseeable future. If I could run Adobe CC 2018 on the new model I would have put the dinosaur out to pasture.

Technically I have four monitors here, there are two more above my primary pair on my laptop, one of them is tied to a Windows machine that I use for some banking stuff, and the other one is currently connected to a Raspberry Pi, and I also use it for other prototyping as needed. I keep the laptop closed and tucked off to the side as I've got plenty of real estate between the dual big monitors.

Timelies all!

Mr. S's school is now going to 3 days in person and 2 days virtual. (They are testing the kids for COVID19 every other week)

Our school postponed it again until March. I wish they wouldn't try to find a one-size-fits-all solution for the whole school district, which is one of the biggest school districts in the US (almost 200,000 students). As I understand it, there are 2 issues: while some teachers and staff are willing to come in, they are being pressured to not make the others look bad (I don't know why we can't accept both approaches) and the district won't consider "magnet" schools - you have to be able to attend the school near you. Even though we have good bussing and a magnet high school.

Meanwhile, all the smaller districts around us have already vaccinated all faculty and staff (first dose) and will open a week after the second dose.

I feel like there are so many options, and our district could try all of them and see what works, but they have committed to all or nothing.

And in related news, my son's grades went up a full level and the time to do homework dropped by 2 hours/day when we set him up on my dual large monitors rather than the 11" laptop from the school. As another point of interest about how this is exacerbating class divides.

And in related news, my son's grades went up a full level and the time to do homework dropped by 2 hours/day when we set him up on my dual large monitors rather than the 11" laptop from the school.

That's encouraging!

Matilda hasn't been in a classroom since March and I despair that SFUSD is going to punt until September. I fucking hate them.

Hey Bakers! I want to bake a cake for somebody who is on a gluten restricted diet at the moment. What's my best option for doing a Victorian spongecake?