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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. Bu
[See the full post at: What to do with the time that is given us]
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Kathy Stevens Woody, fond memories.
I read the Lord of the Rings while working in a remote area of Quebec.
A magic time to read the trilogy. I only saw other people when I went into town on Saturday for supplies and a beer.
While reading the books I was surrounded by peace. The peace that only comes with isolation in the forest/tundra environment. A time when the loudest things in the neighborhood were the birds. A time when caribou only look up as I walked by – no fear of man.
A rich time to let the imagination fly.
Kind of like the isolation we are experiencing today.
Thanks for the memories.
Working from home (#WFH) continues as normal, deadlines still fast approaching – but I’m getting a lot of queries from clients who think as everything is shutdown now, I’m at a loose end and can help them with things that really should have been dealt with last year (and can wait until next month)!
Oh, happy days! 
Right, back to work for me…
Going on a Bear Hunt – teddy bears are popping (or should that be “propping”?) up in windows all around the world, giving people walking in their neighbourhoods something to look out for, exercising while isolating.
It’s based on a 1989 children’s book, and is delighting children, of all ages, everywhere.
Among other things, it might help to keep in mind this sonnet, from William Wordsworth, the last five verses in particular, making of this little poem, in practice, the best we are able to make of it:
Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,
As being past away.—Vain sympathies!
For, backward, Duddon! as I cast my eyes,
I see what was, and is, and will abide;
Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;
The Form remains, the Function never dies;
While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise,
We Men, who in our morn of youth defied
The elements, must vanish;—be it so!
Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward the silent tomb we go,
Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.”
As spoken by Aragorn, at the Black Gate.
For animal lovers with time to spare, the Readers Digest online magazine has a good idea:
“Stuck at Home? Here Are 11 Adorable Animal Cams to Get You Through
by Bryce Gruber
Being stuck in your house for days on end is never fun …
Live animal webcams have taken off and (happily) taken over our lives—here, we rounded up the best animal cams on the web for your guilty viewing pleasure.”
Do the work you are meant to be doing; be reliable.
I would be delighted with a few tutorials from the more learned computer savvy amongst the Ask Woody membership on cleaning up and generally getting the computer into a better state of operation. Simple to moderate techniques and some not so common e.g. how to get rid of the detritus left on the system after an upgrade. “Computer house keeping” that is educational and useful. OK some may say they already know this stuff, but a fresh rethink is a good thing. It would help pass the time stuck at home.
From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1963, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.249
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”–Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Morgenröte (The Dawn), 1881.
If you want a good, topical read there is The Plague by Albert Camus (he won the Nobel Prize in Literature) which is freely available to download in pdf format at:
https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-plague.pdf
It’s quite a short novel but interesting to compare the response of the people and authorities to the plague to what we are hearing every day.
Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie
Many years ago when the first cement sidewalks were being laid in our neighborhood, we children took the paw of our dog Mickey and impressed it into a kind of immortality, even as he modestly floundered and objected. Some years ago after the passage of many decades, I stood and looked down at that actual walk, now crumbling at the edges from the feet of many passers.
No one knows where Mickey the Friendly lies. No one knows how many times the dust that clothed that beautiful and loving spirit has moved with the thistledown across the yards where Mickey used to play. This is his only legacy to the future, that dabbled paw mark, whose secret is remembered briefly in the heart of an aging professor.
— Loren Eiseley, “The Night Country” (1971)
Near and dear to my heart and worth sharing. Best of everything in a time warp, revisited through the eyes of a legend in the world of photography, Fred Lyon takes us there. https://laughingsquid.com/fred-lyon-san-francisco-photos/
MacOS iPadOS and sometimes SOS
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