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twenty-seven years and one million words

St. Catharines, 2022.08.11

I started working remotely, today. Very, very remotely. My job's in Tokyo and I'm in the small city of St. Catharines, Ontario. I put in a ten hour day between the 400++ emails, the IMs, and a couple of meetings in the late evening. This is going to be a hard way to go.

The irritating thing about this is the requirement for a negative PCR test when we clearly brought the virus with us from Japan. The day we left, Japan officially had 240,000 new cases and Canada had 5,000. Let's not pretend that we dirty foreigners are the problem here. (Is it we or "us".)

rand()m quote

Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

—Col. Eric G. Kail