I had the paxlovid rebound, too, last month, and then rushed back to work even though I know better, deeply! But that "feel better" lodges in the brain and pushes you around (also: no paid sick leave, which I mercifully do have, after like 10 years w/o while freelancing)

oh that's nice!

yr welcome! (I so badly wanted to post this when I was still dealing w an active infection but I did not want to deal w the fallout while needing intense rest...)

Also this is not an ad but if you want an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox, you can try it Tresorit:

I just checked all my Apple devices to see if FileVault was on, here is how to do that on a computer:

If you have a newer iPhone or Android
phone, full encryption could be enabled by default, in which case, a strong alphanumeric password to secure it from being unlocked would be a good move.

I was hoping someone would see this and say that! I saw some of the diff secure comms cultures in Chicago, like the rapid response group that puts a QR code to join on a poster, or, the one that vets everyone slowly—I can only imagine in MN.

England has pretty good records of who lived where, when, their jobs, etc. The mystery remaining for me is said great-grandfather’s stop-over in Manchester where his wife-to-be, also just having left Italy, was a literal organ grinder (per census) in a rooming house with a bunch of other Italians.

(Barnstable was bigger then. Also: BAAAHN-stuh-buh.)

Dedham, so understated

and now we see “mass deportations” also promised some people the civil war (deportation squads vs. anyone standing in their way) they were already fighting in their own minds