Re: Oxford, and things

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.cs..edu/~b
 > Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:49:03 -0800
 >

We're going through the process of setting up a living trust.  It's a long
slog, and, with hope, it'll be worth it.

 > In other news, sonic.com

Sonic.NET (we've had Sonic since returning to Ca in 2003).

 > is bringing gigabit fiber to my neighborhood in
 > March, for basically the price I'm now paying for DSL, so I'm finally going
 > to get in the fast lane.

Damn you!  I'm stuck at 3Mbps with them right now.  (The CO is way
downtown, and those damn packets take a while to span a mile.)

 > They have really good policies on privacy and net
 > neutrality, too.  I get a VOIP phone line along with it,

That's funny.  With us, they offer POTS.

 > but I live in a
 > place where every winter we have power lines coming down in heavy storms, so
 > I'm going to keep my AT&T copper wires until they are pried from my cold
 > dead walls.
 > 
 > What I don't like is homeownership.  Last big rainstorm, a couple of weeks
 > ago I guess, the rain came through the roof and leaked into a corner of my
 > home office (right on my printer, which nevertheless seems to work).  So I
 > have to find a good contractor to fix it, which is a pain in the neck.

Water came through our living room ceiling.  I climbed up on the roof and
applied a bunch of goop.  I'm hoping for the best.

 > But, back to BJC, we decided this year that we had to write a whole new unit
 > because there were a slew of CS Principles framework items that we only sorta
 > covered even though we said we did.  June came up with the idea that it should
 > be a Hardware unit (or, it turned out, more generally a How-It-Works unit with
 > the whole abstraction hierarchy from "apps" to transistors).

I still hate hardware.