Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@janakj @ai6yr Hah. I look at stuff like that as a challenge. Old school self-discipline and all that.

@janakj @ai6yr Yeah, some people considered it irresponsible but no one at the restaurant did. Staff was fully informed. I was masked up in a big 3M N95. I spend most of my time at stoves and broiler under the fume extractor so my exhalations were being drawn up and blown out the roof. Lol. To our knowledge, nothing bad happened.

@janakj @ai6yr It is. But it's really hard to fix in my case. We have people coming who've made reservations as much as a year in advance.

@janakj @ai6yr I should add that I was 5 days into it when I had to work. So I was still throwing violently positive tests and felt half dead but was able to work.

@janakj @ai6yr I see you understand. Most people don't understand the restaurant biz, and that's understandable. Lol.

@janakj @ai6yr It sure didn't feel mild. The first 18 hours were the worst with a raging fever and feeling the worst I'd ever felt in my life. I would much rather have not worked but it wasn't an option. Chef in a busy restaurant on Valentine's Day weekend.

@janakj @ai6yr I guess I'm on the average. I took no medications. Didn't stop working either.

@ai6yr Wow. From first symptoms to a clear test took me 8 days, which I thought was a little slow. But I'm almost 70 so I'm not as sprightly as I once was.

@Timmy To be fair, steel mill security started it by shooting at strikers with machine guns.

@VRubinObs I was a teen amateur astronomer grinding mirrors and building telescopes in the 1960s and it was my planned career. Then in the second year of college I realized I'd never make any money as an astronomer and switched to engineering. Lol. But I keep an eye on the field, so to speak.

@patnspankme I've never reached 50/50 on any platform. It always seems I follow about twice the number that follow me. I'm just not that interesting.

@lauren @karlauerbach @matt Hmm, I guess I'm not entirely correct. If I open the post I see the graphic at a good size. Only in the timeline is it really tiny. Good to know.

@lauren @karlauerbach @matt What I see displayed is a frame with the title of the blog post and a tiny image. I'm just used to the image displayed larger on other platforms.