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