This world uncertain is*
I am coming around to a consideration that I am officially An Old and in a risk group, though only by reason of age and not for any concomitant reason of health, and therefore that international travel is probably not going to be the most sensible of ideas in the foreseeable future.
I note that An Institution with which I have some association has already put out a notice to its staff and people involved in its projects to eschew international events.
I further note that although Wiscon has so far said that it is going ahead (though may reconsider) I have not yet heard anything about the Academic Conference I was intending attending shortly afterwards, and I suspect that this is more about the ongoing situation than the organisers not having managed to get together the usual organisational details email in over a month since sending out acceptance of papers. Which suggests it may not be happening or is being postponed or turning into a virtual conference.
I have been holding off on making travel arrangements anyway until all this was a bit more settled.
It's rather irksome because the timing was such that it would have enabled me to fit in a side-trip to polish off some research, but, well, them's the breaks.
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And in the realm of, other minor frets of life do not vanish (I refer my dr rdrz to the genre of novels about the Phoney War and the early part of the War once it had started not being Phoney), I am wondering whether I need to get a new phone, chiz, moan, whinge.
With the battery which lasts well under 24 hours on full charge (having lasted over 2 days when the thing was new), and the thing whereby every so often when it's charging it somehow doesn't realise it's supposed to be fast charging... Could Do Better.
*Thomas Nashe, In Time of Pestilence, 1593. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3051376.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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