British Columbia is returning to 
"normal" -- the mask mandate is over. 

I'm still wearing a mask in stores 
though. It's recommended if you 
haven't had both your shots, and my 
second shot is a week away. Even so, 
store employees keep telling me, "you 
don't have to wear that in here." I 
keep telling them that I haven't had 
my second shot and it's recommended 
that you wear a mask until then. I'm 
sure there are *many* people wandering 
around without masks who haven't had 
any shots. It makes sense. People who 
haven't had any shots are typically 
(but of course not exclusively) the 
same people who don't want to wear a 
mask.  The whole COVID protocol 
business is riddled with 
inconsistencies.

My COVID confession:

I totally enjoyed the slowdown. 

Our "lockdowns" were limited in scope, 
and I don't require much social 
interaction. To be honest, the people 
who complained that they missed all 
the public events and get-togethers 
kind of puzzle me. I find many (but 
not all) social gatherings painful.

For me, working from home was a lot of 
fun and going out walking without a 
soul around was wonderful. I'm not 
looking forward to the resumption of 
life-as-it-was, but I guess that's 
what's on the horizon.

:)

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I stumbled acrosss a new-to-me 
terminal gopher client that I quite 
like: it's called Phetch[1]. Great 
colours and nice navigation. Hint: the 
forward arrow sends you forward 
through your navigation history; the 
enter key follows a link. It took me a 
couple of seconds to realize that.

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The Raspberry Pi of Death is down! 
This causes me some anguish because I 
follow the gopher holes listed in 
Jynx's Moku-Pona/Phlog Roll a lot. 
Hopefully it will return to service 
soon!

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Shout out to nm03! I've been enjoying 
your phlog[2]. 

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St John Karp's review of Allan 
Sherman's The Rape of the A.P.E. is 
very well written, insightful, and 
worth a read[3].



[1] https://github.com/xvxx/phetch. Funny that I didn't see this on 
Solderpunk's list of gopher clients. It is there.

[2] gopher://gopher.club/1/users/nm03/

[3] gopher://gopher.stjo.hn/1/the-rape-of-the-ape-by-allan-sherman