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Still Here

Well … didn’t the last 15 months suck?

I say 15 months, since 15 months ago today … the first Sunday of February, 2020, was the last really free and good time we had. Birthday dinner at a steakhouse for the VXyoungman (wish the vXteenager had been in attendance, but she had to work, and she’s not a steak person anyway).

I was already worried about COVID-19 at that point; weeks before most people. I had already started covering it in my advanced macro class with this here post, and I had 6 posts up there by February 2nd. I was primed, since we’d covered SARS-COV-1 in that class 18 years ago.

A week later, with the vXyoungman away at school, living too far from campus to rely on public transportation, we advised him to maybe by some extra staples on each trip to the grocery. Four weeks after that I was picking him up to come home on less than 24 hours notice. He’s moving back this month.

Anyway, I have continued posting a lot at SUU MacroBlog, and on Quora over the last 15 months.

Still Here

I have not gone missing. Due to COVID-19, I have been posting like crazy at SUU MacroBlog (over 100 posts there since late January).

SUU MacroBlog is where I cover current events for my advanced macroeconomics class.

I was on top of the pandemic coverage for them from late January; it was obvious to me that it might turn out to be a major macroeconomic event.

That’s an understatement.

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On a related note, f**k the EU.

For year, I have written most of my blog posts in Open Live Writer, and before that Windows Live Writer.

But now, due to EU regulations, Blogger no longer accepts posts containing (potentially copyrighted) images from third party software.

SUU MacroBlog is hosted by Blogger, and has been since 2009.

For my workflows, this means that I now have to write posts in 2 different softwares. That’s not much of a problem, but it makes cross-posting from one blog to the other very difficult.

So, in the past, any of the work over there that I wanted to post here to look current was just a click away. Not anymore.

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So, if you’re interested, head over to SUU MacroBlog. There’s quite a bit there about interpreting the statistics associated with COVID-19.

A 5th Test

Still weird. This is with the registry edit as the default action. Trying a different button.

Test Post

More weirdness related to blogging (but this might be my registry edits, and not Typepad’s fault).

Crossing My Fingers a Bit (Farewell to Light Blogging)

My blogging has been way down for several months.

Mostly this was a workflow issue: I use Open Live Writer, and on the primary computer I write on, OLW got buggy with Typepad.

Blogging on other PC’s, or shuttling posts from one to another was just not floating my boat.

Anyway, I am cautiously optimistic that I have solved that bugginess.

Second Vacation

Light blogging: been in Florida with the vXgirl visiting my mother.

Light Blogging

Been out of town for 8 days, and didn’t set up any automatic posts before I left.

Only Now Catching Up

Posting has been light for the last 4 months. It should start getting back to normal now.

It’s been a crazy semester.

• I was already signed up to help run a conference in October.
• I had a chapter for a book that, unlike a journal article, needed to be finished on deadline.
• Then university administration thought they’d get more students by peeling off an online section from a face-to-face MBA class of mine. I ended up with the same number of students, split into 2 groups that had to be run differently. Of course, this experiment counted as an overload for me, rather than getting me out of some other class.
• And, on the second day of class my colleague Joe Baker collapsed with a heart problem (he’s fine). So I took his ManEc class for half the semester.

The best I ever do here is a 3 classes and 2 preps (a 3/2) with no graduate classes. The first half of this semester I was doing a 5/4 with two graduate classes.

Something had to go, and it was blogging!

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Typepad Trouble

If you’re looking for today’s insight from Gordon’s An Empire of Wealth, it’s been delayed: I write those posts outside of Typepad, and import them, and currently the import function is not working.

Light Blogging

Going to Moab for a few days …