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….So we are still stuck with the COVID-19 virus, Yay :-( !!
And to add insult to injury the kids have started the school summer break, Are you effing kidding me ? the school year was barely a 4 month of school and now they need 2 more month of not doing anything, that is just brilliant way to help this generation advancing their study.

Things are not changing much in my space, again a job change, this one of my design, I really liked the position and the impact I was having on the company, but there were 2 factors that “drove” me out:

1. The company decided to move to a full work at the office ( 5 days a week), which for me was a big NO.
2. The person I worked under was a micromanager, and was poor in listening – I tried to ask him for some training and push my ideas in our 1-on-1 meetings and for 4 month got no where. On month 9 of my work there I had a talk with HR and raised that issue, and all of a sudden he is willing to let me speak in meetings.

So after the 1st item came up I reached the conclusion that it is time to go,they hired another person and I went to work for a consulting company. They seem to like my services but they are doing thing in a very badly managed way.
Training is going slow – the heat is not conductive to training and the time in the morning is divided between kids and the new K9 – Shugi

He is a wonderful dog and very friendly.

The last thing that threw me to a spin was that my old company ( pre-Covid) started hiring for my old position, obviously I want back but now need to see how this will pan out.

Oh, and I started my PADI IDC course training ….

The boredom  of staying at home with the kids has drove many of us to become creative with how to engage the kids and keep them occupied.

For some time we tried a “home made gym” and that worked well, until they broke the main component, then we tried cycling trainer with down hill videos but the novelty of if wore off when they started “competing” who won (of course the videos were random so the kids got frustrated soon).

Now we found a project that might be a three pronged attack, we are going to translate the English version of Harry Potter to Morse code, this has the benefit of a long project, improve her English reading, teach her  Morse code and allow us to spend time together,  we started with the 1st book and done the 1st sentence, I will post our progress here.

Harry potter and the philosopher Stone

Chapter one

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