Jeff wrote:

>both for submissions and for releasing finished issues. So, open up those
>PCs, Macs, ChromeBooks, Android and iOS tablets, and so on, and start
>writing! Then, when you suddenly find that you've written an article, fire

 

You’ll be pleased to hear that I’ve been doing just that post-TravCon which just scraped in under the wire as I’m pretty sure that had we been going today not last Thursday, it would have been called off.  Or if not, many of us would have had a hard time justifying it as “necessary”.

 

You’ll perhaps be less pleased to hear how many words I’ve written already (and not quite finished the text, much less added photos).  Still, that’s what editors are for.

 

Kelly wrote:

>True!  The worst that can happen is that you contract some other sort of
>Virus.

 

Yes, unsurprisingly, that was an (unplanned) theme for this year’s con.  It gets mentioned a bit in my AAR too. 

 

Having said that, I’m just starting an indefinite period of working from home this morning and already with that and all the other stuff going on around me, I’m getting a very visceral demonstration of why I’m not overly interested in adventuring in the TNE milieu.

 

Bruce wrote:

>All pretty much off (but really on) topic...Just spent my first day working from home, all >classes moved online etc. 

 

Yes, now working from home and my classes next week will be online.  Not yet sure if they will be synchronous, asynchronous or both.

 

 

>Made me remember the quote: “when the going gets weird, the weird go pro”… and In the >immortal words of Sgt Esterhaus ”Lets be careful out there!”

 

>(TV show Hill Street Blues quote for our overseas members but I’m pretty sure Jeff is quite >conversant with the concept :-)

 

Thanks for the note as there was a fair chance that we might not have known the quote.  But that one I did get.  Hill Street Blues was very popular here in the UK back in the day.

 

All the best everyone.  I’m hoping the enforced hometime will give me lots of time to write.  If not for Jeff, then maybe for The Traveller Adventure.  Wait, hang on, how is that any different to my normal life?  When do I ever go out…?!

 

Safe (solo or virtual) travelling.

 

tc

 

 

 

 


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On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 03:45, Bill Rutherford <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:
There are MUCH worse ways to spend a few weeks! ;-)

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