vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:03 pm
Good to see you here again!
Thanks, man. Not saying I am back on a daily basis, but I do occasionally lurk. I see things have "sort" of quieted down. In any event, I have spent more time reading (sci-fi usually, rereading Ringworld right now for like the fourth time) and consuming almost no news, and feel out of it, in a good way. With the weather good, I am outside as much as I can be either riding my bike or tending the landscape.
And we are starting the college visit process this summer for my younger daughter.
I did pull the trigger on working 4 days a week, been doing it for 3 weeks now. Taking a bit of effort not to look at email on my day off (Wed), but I'm getting better. All our products are currently mature and in production and we should generally be sitting back dealing with small fires, but with semiconductor lead times gone to crazy 52 weeks+ in a lot of cases, my days are filled with trying to find alternate suppliers or ways to get parts of circuits to work with different ICs, otherwise we can't build. It has not been fun!
Finally, I know this is the gold room, but I don't really want to go to the other sections -- just an IL update -- I do not have to carry a mask anywhere anymore. All stores I usually go to, and the library are mask optional. A lot of people out there are still wearing them (their right) but it literally was like flipping a switch. From masks and limited to capacity, to wide open back to normal overnight. I even have had sales people in the office three times this week, hasn't happened in over a year.