What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That ultimately sucks. @scottalanmiller , is there anyway to do that a head of time to save you time in the future?
OMG, the details of the timing on COVID tests for some countries are insane. So here are the basics....
The COVID test has to be taken NO MORE than 72 hours before you LAND and get to the customs agent in the country you are entering (not all countries, but many and definitely this one.) You have to allow for potential delays in the flight, especially with the US having lots of weather delays this week. An average flight this week has to be at least 20 minutes late or more and a few hours isn't crazy. So for safety add at least three hours to protect against normal delay possibilities.
So if our flight is supposed to land at 5:30PM we have to assume 8:30PM is realistic (and given that customs can easily take 45 minutes, you have to add that in there, too.)
So 72 hours before that is 8:30PM last night (for us.) You can't control test timing that closely. At best you typically have about eight hours of control. For us, the test is SCHEDULED to come back to us at 6:30PM... no way for us to fine grain the control closer than that. But this only gives us the flexibility of traveling for about 20 hours of delay, not enough time to make another flight (flights are ever OTHER day in this case.)
Now the second requirement is that you have to upload your test to both the country AND the airline no LESS THAN 36 HOURS before the flight takes off. Not lands, takes off. So this is a much smaller window of time than it sounds like. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 3PM on Sunday (already delayed once by two hours making this all so much harder.)
That means that while we are getting our test back at 6:30PM, it HAS to be uploaded by 3AM tonight. Essentially no test center will give you tests at night, only during the day. So more or less, we got the only plausible time slot. In theory we could have done the test yesterday, but if we did that ANY delay in our flight would mean we got invalidated during the flight!! We could have done earlier today, but the tests all come back about the same time in the evening. The system is insane.
This process makes me want to just drive . . . god the hours to drive,.. and the fueling,.. and ugh... just put a fork in me. Or - just by a boat and well ,.. you are still going to have to deal with fuel and (erp) things... sigh.
Only problem with that is, no road goes all the way from North America to South America. I think it's the mountains of Panama that has no roads. It's been driven, but there are way more cars abandoned along the trail than ever made it.
THat's correct, but Nicaragua is on this side of South America. So you can totally drive. Panama's Darien Gap is the jungle, not the mountains. The mountains are well paved.
I had to go back to Google Maps and look as my geography is ... well never mind.
You can drive all the way to Panama City - so driving to local Miller Beach wouldn't be to much of an issue.... Except for:
- Covid19 Travel restrictions as you cross several countries
- it's over 3,000km
- it's roughly a 45 hour drive, not including required stops and delays as you cross boundaries
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That ultimately sucks. @scottalanmiller , is there anyway to do that a head of time to save you time in the future?
OMG, the details of the timing on COVID tests for some countries are insane. So here are the basics....
The COVID test has to be taken NO MORE than 72 hours before you LAND and get to the customs agent in the country you are entering (not all countries, but many and definitely this one.) You have to allow for potential delays in the flight, especially with the US having lots of weather delays this week. An average flight this week has to be at least 20 minutes late or more and a few hours isn't crazy. So for safety add at least three hours to protect against normal delay possibilities.
So if our flight is supposed to land at 5:30PM we have to assume 8:30PM is realistic (and given that customs can easily take 45 minutes, you have to add that in there, too.)
So 72 hours before that is 8:30PM last night (for us.) You can't control test timing that closely. At best you typically have about eight hours of control. For us, the test is SCHEDULED to come back to us at 6:30PM... no way for us to fine grain the control closer than that. But this only gives us the flexibility of traveling for about 20 hours of delay, not enough time to make another flight (flights are ever OTHER day in this case.)
Now the second requirement is that you have to upload your test to both the country AND the airline no LESS THAN 36 HOURS before the flight takes off. Not lands, takes off. So this is a much smaller window of time than it sounds like. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 3PM on Sunday (already delayed once by two hours making this all so much harder.)
That means that while we are getting our test back at 6:30PM, it HAS to be uploaded by 3AM tonight. Essentially no test center will give you tests at night, only during the day. So more or less, we got the only plausible time slot. In theory we could have done the test yesterday, but if we did that ANY delay in our flight would mean we got invalidated during the flight!! We could have done earlier today, but the tests all come back about the same time in the evening. The system is insane.
This process makes me want to just drive . . . god the hours to drive,.. and the fueling,.. and ugh... just put a fork in me. Or - just by a boat and well ,.. you are still going to have to deal with fuel and (erp) things... sigh.
Only problem with that is, no road goes all the way from North America to South America. I think it's the mountains of Panama that has no roads. It's been driven, but there are way more cars abandoned along the trail than ever made it.
THat's correct, but Nicaragua is on this side of South America. So you can totally drive. Panama's Darien Gap is the jungle, not the mountains. The mountains are well paved.
I had to go back to Google Maps and look as my geography is ... well never mind.
You can drive all the way to Panama City - so driving to local Miller Beach wouldn't be to much of an issue.... Except for:
- Covid19 Travel restrictions as you cross several countries
- it's over 3,000km
- it's roughly a 45 hour drive, not including required stops and delays as you cross boundaries
Other than the annoying COVID stuff at the borders, it's not bad at all. We meet people all of the time that have done it. We almost did it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Due to a super annoying chain of events, we are trapped in Miami for several days. Missed our flight yesterday because of the mountain of paperwork necessary to get on the plane and no one could get the other countries to send confirmation of paperwork fast enough. So we are trapped and the next flight is on Sunday!!
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Due to a super annoying chain of events, we are trapped in Miami for several days. Missed our flight yesterday because of the mountain of paperwork necessary to get on the plane and no one could get the other countries to send confirmation of paperwork fast enough. So we are trapped and the next flight is on Sunday!!
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
For real? What for?
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listening to otis rush as I work on a saturdee mooornin.
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Working on some Python chops.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on some Python chops.
FastAPI is a really nice framework. Using it for a bunch of services at work.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on some Python chops.
FastAPI is a really nice framework. Using it for a bunch of services at work.
From what I’m seeing from job posting most Linux system administration / “devops” gig seem to want a person with some skill in using Python, so post-RHCE this seems to be a good use of time.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on some Python chops.
FastAPI is a really nice framework. Using it for a bunch of services at work.
From what I’m seeing from job posting most Linux system administration / “devops” gig seem to want a person with some skill in using Python, so post-RHCE this seems to be a good use of time.
Yeah it's definitely a really valuable skill.
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Upgrading my personal Nextcloud instance.
It was still on Fedora 32 somehow.
Once it is up to Fedora 35, then on to the application upgrades as it is currently on Nextcloud 20.0.9.
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Audio editing.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
What you doing in my back yard?
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading my personal Nextcloud instance.
It was still on Fedora 32 somehow.
Once it is up to Fedora 35, then on to the application upgrades as it is currently on Nextcloud 20.0.9.
Whoops. Fedora 35 updated to PHP 8 and Nextcloud 20.0.X cannot use PHP 8.
I had to downgrade back to Fedora 34, then I upgraded Nextcloud to 22.2.0 (current stable). Now upgrading Fedora back to 35.
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Just finished uploading a video. Now for some Python practice.
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Saving myself some money but doing my own plumbing work... Replaced the O-rings and valve spring on a leaking Delta sink faucet... About $8.00 in parts saving:
- taking time off from work to meet a plumber
- the cost of said plumber
- likely paying a hour of service for something that only took ten minutes..
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@gjacobse i do alot of that sort of work. Living in the bush, no one wants to come and fix things, so I have a go myself. Fixed a few washing machines, dishwashers. Done some mains cabling, dug trenches and run cable through the ground.
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@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
What you doing in my back yard?
Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
What you doing in my back yard?
Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.
Ooof. Bet that was a fun trip!
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll be in west palm tomorrow
What you doing in my back yard?
Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.
Ooof. Bet that was a fun trip!
It was definitely a rough drive back due to the duration. But otherwise uneventful.
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Trying to work out where the "10 day delivery" option has gone from Aliexpress
