Minor update
Jan. 19th, 2019 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73Sorry I've been so terrible about posting (again). I keep meaning to be good, and then I'm not.
We had a great Christmas break. We mostly hung about home; I sewed a lot; we both played a lot of our respective video games (Skyrim VR for P, Assassin's Creed 4 for me). Christmas day we spent with P's family, which was quiet and pleasant. Shortly before the end of break we went to Houston to visit some cousins for a small family function. It was a nice change for me - previous family functions have all been of the sort where there's literally 200+ people invited, of whom I know about six (and all of whom are busy organizing the event and saying hello to all the guests), but this one was the six people or so that I actually knew, and who I got to know better. Lovely visit. Then I went back to work for 4 days and came down with a cold. I'm still dealing with the chest congestion/stupid fatigue dregs of that, and P's now got it. :(
I know two people who are directly affected by the dratted government shutdown, which is on day 28 (the longest in history, over border wall funding). One of the two works for NASA and it is a felony for her to go into her office. The other doesn't work for the government in any capacity, but her office is inside of a government research lab and she hasn't been able to get into her office for a month now. She would really like to be able to do her job! Fortunately she's got a second job that she can put more hours into while the shutdown continues, but it's a soul-sucking position. Meanwhile there are lots and lots of people being forced to work without pay, which is starting to affect the economy, etc... What a country.
The work going on in my group is getting exciting and cool, and I'm looking forward to getting back and being a part of it again. And the sewing project I'm working on right now is coming along well; I think I'll have energy a little later today to actually do some work on it, which would be nice.
Happy weekend, everyone!
We had a great Christmas break. We mostly hung about home; I sewed a lot; we both played a lot of our respective video games (Skyrim VR for P, Assassin's Creed 4 for me). Christmas day we spent with P's family, which was quiet and pleasant. Shortly before the end of break we went to Houston to visit some cousins for a small family function. It was a nice change for me - previous family functions have all been of the sort where there's literally 200+ people invited, of whom I know about six (and all of whom are busy organizing the event and saying hello to all the guests), but this one was the six people or so that I actually knew, and who I got to know better. Lovely visit. Then I went back to work for 4 days and came down with a cold. I'm still dealing with the chest congestion/stupid fatigue dregs of that, and P's now got it. :(
I know two people who are directly affected by the dratted government shutdown, which is on day 28 (the longest in history, over border wall funding). One of the two works for NASA and it is a felony for her to go into her office. The other doesn't work for the government in any capacity, but her office is inside of a government research lab and she hasn't been able to get into her office for a month now. She would really like to be able to do her job! Fortunately she's got a second job that she can put more hours into while the shutdown continues, but it's a soul-sucking position. Meanwhile there are lots and lots of people being forced to work without pay, which is starting to affect the economy, etc... What a country.
The work going on in my group is getting exciting and cool, and I'm looking forward to getting back and being a part of it again. And the sewing project I'm working on right now is coming along well; I think I'll have energy a little later today to actually do some work on it, which would be nice.
Happy weekend, everyone!
