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vaznettiToday's working-from-home failure: my laptop cable or charger failed just as the battery went into a death spiral, rendering my computer a cold and lifeless shell and me a complete mess. A borrowed cable & charger (thank goodness for the new neighborhood whatsapp group!) seems to have shocked the system into life and now the old cable and charger seems to be working fine. But that was a stressful time. Actually it was a bad tech day all around for me: somehow I also failed to find the live stream for PE with Joe until he was about 10 minutes into the program.
Anyway, the people who expect me & all my colleagues to teach from home may have a somewhat rosy-eyed view of our hardware situation, not to mention that of our students. Most of them drag their laptops with them everywhere so I know that most of those laptops are someone's hand-me-down. If we can all teach on our phones this might work, I guess.
I am running down the flour in anticipation of passover next week, which means that I am currently making a sourdough loaf out of a mix of spelt and wholemeal flours. I think it will be more like a rock than a bread, but we'll see. I have exactly enough yeast and white flour for this Friday's challah, and am trying my best not to listen to the nervous voice telling me I will never be able to buy any more flour.
Anyway, the people who expect me & all my colleagues to teach from home may have a somewhat rosy-eyed view of our hardware situation, not to mention that of our students. Most of them drag their laptops with them everywhere so I know that most of those laptops are someone's hand-me-down. If we can all teach on our phones this might work, I guess.
I am running down the flour in anticipation of passover next week, which means that I am currently making a sourdough loaf out of a mix of spelt and wholemeal flours. I think it will be more like a rock than a bread, but we'll see. I have exactly enough yeast and white flour for this Friday's challah, and am trying my best not to listen to the nervous voice telling me I will never be able to buy any more flour.
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Date: 2020-04-01 07:17 pm (UTC)How did your sourdough bread turn out? I'd heard from another friend that flour and eggs are scarce over there, which seems very much less than ideal at the best of times. We don't seem to have any major shortages of groceries now, though there was a request made from the big supermarket chains today that people start their Easter shopping as soon as possible and spread it over several days, to avoid empty shelves and too many in the shops at once. So we plan going out to start our shopping tomorrow and will quite likely run into half the town out doing the same!
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Date: 2020-04-01 08:29 pm (UTC)I haven't tried the bread yet but it appears to be very solid. I don't think there are shortages of anything much except for flour and sometimes pasta (but someone on my street went to Aldi today and said they had plenty of flour), and even those I think are just distribution bottlenecks because suddenly everyone wanted things delivered, and people were buying different things (and more things), and restaurants weren't taking their usual deliveries. So I'm not really worried, but I don't want to walk for miles in search of the one store that has flour!
Stay well -- I hope things become less stressful for you.