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dorchadas
Woke up this morning, went out and logged on to work, and got an expired security certificate. I bypassed it, failed to log in, called IT, and was told that they knew about it, there was nothing I could do, and I would just have to wait. So that's what I've been doing. At long last, after over a year, I'm finally at RSS zero. 
I was planning to vacuum my home and started mopping, thinking that if I can't get any work done at work, I might as well get work done at home, but right before I had decided to do that, I finally got in. Well, I can't complain at an extra two hours' worth of free time.
There's a story in Talmud attributed to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the purported author of the Zohar, that goes like this:
I didn't watch Shabbat services this Friday, instead using the time to play Quiplash with friends. I really like going to morning minyan online--I actually just bought a tallit, since if I'm going to be saying morning prayers more often, I should dress for it--and the Wednesday meditation sessions are great too, but I think it's the one-way nature of it. On the Zoom meetings for minyan and meditation, we can all hear each other (if we want) and interact, but Shabbat services were live-streamed one way. Without the people around me, without the sense of an actual community, it felt more isolating, not less. I'll stick with morning minyan, but I might do Shabbat alone until I can do it in a physical group again.
Yesterday afternoon,![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
wanderluster_kp and I sat down, loaded up FaceTime, and tried out Nintendo Switch Online's ability to play NES games online. To my surprise, considering Nintendo's usual facility with online services, it worked out great! We played through and beat River City Ransom--something we never managed to do as kids even though we played it together for hours--and played through some of Super Dodge Ball, Dr. Mario, Puyo Puyo Tsū, and Kirby's Dream Course, at which point we called it because we had been playing for three hours. But we'll do it again! If anyone has any suggestions of good remote-playing, two-player Switch games, I'd love to hear them.
And now that work is possible, back to work.
I was planning to vacuum my home and started mopping, thinking that if I can't get any work done at work, I might as well get work done at home, but right before I had decided to do that, I finally got in. Well, I can't complain at an extra two hours' worth of free time.There's a story in Talmud attributed to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the purported author of the Zohar, that goes like this:
A group of people were travelling in a boat. One of them took a drill and began to drill a hole beneath himself.I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
His companions said to him: "Why are you doing this?" Replied the man: "What concern is it of yours? Am I not drilling under my own place?"
They replied: "But the waters will rise and drown us all!"
I didn't watch Shabbat services this Friday, instead using the time to play Quiplash with friends. I really like going to morning minyan online--I actually just bought a tallit, since if I'm going to be saying morning prayers more often, I should dress for it--and the Wednesday meditation sessions are great too, but I think it's the one-way nature of it. On the Zoom meetings for minyan and meditation, we can all hear each other (if we want) and interact, but Shabbat services were live-streamed one way. Without the people around me, without the sense of an actual community, it felt more isolating, not less. I'll stick with morning minyan, but I might do Shabbat alone until I can do it in a physical group again.
Yesterday afternoon,
wanderluster_kp and I sat down, loaded up FaceTime, and tried out Nintendo Switch Online's ability to play NES games online. To my surprise, considering Nintendo's usual facility with online services, it worked out great! We played through and beat River City Ransom--something we never managed to do as kids even though we played it together for hours--and played through some of Super Dodge Ball, Dr. Mario, Puyo Puyo Tsū, and Kirby's Dream Course, at which point we called it because we had been playing for three hours. But we'll do it again! If anyone has any suggestions of good remote-playing, two-player Switch games, I'd love to hear them. And now that work is possible, back to work.
