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I am back from my most recent roadtrip. I loaded up the Tesla and started letting the hands-off Full Self Drive (FSD) supervised take me to points North. First stopping in a campground in Tennesee and up to Pittsburgh for the CIDM Convex Conference (which was the best conference in years). There was a celebration of the 20 years of DITA XML. I was an earlier adopter. My presentation went well and I semi-stealth launched wisdomino. I demo'd some extra cool software we developed and will be selling in weeks to come. It's truely game changing. Of course, there will be much more than that to come. After that it was on to Franklin, PA. to meet with some colleagues in the mining division and onto the farm stopping in Olean NY for the night. I am pretty sure it was the first time I had driven across the entire Allegany National Forest. I ended up driving through the very dark forest expanse during a night time thunderstorm. Although I normally trust the Tesla FSD on the Interstat...
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Another Memorial day. It is right and good to think about the folks that have died for their country. No matter what. I bet a whole bunch of them were scared to shit just before they were killed. Georgia was the first state "opened" after the huge Corona Virus outbreak. They "opened," but businesses try hard to have lots of space between customers as well as employees. I haven't seen any unusual increases in Covid-19 in our county. Maybe its coming, I don't know. I had a waffle house breakfast this morning with "smothered and covered". It was good. The first restaurant I have been to in months. Its tough to eat with a mask on BTW. But I had it on except for when I was shoveling food in my face. I suspect most people who watch the news don't realize the CDC is located in Atlanta. Actually, it is quite close by to the house. There are over 10k people working there including some of my neighbors. Some of the best contagious disease exper...