Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

My biggest complaint about living in Peru is that it is a cash based society.

The ATM only gives 50 and 100 sol bills. But almost nobody you deal with on a daily basis has change for those large bills. This means you constantly have to buy some small thing at the larger grocery store (which hopefully has change) just to operate elsewhere.

I much prefer the credit card based system in the US for ease of use.

Why am I searching for how to import a donkey to the United States? Oh, no reason.

These seem legit.

@jorge
People would still be welcome to peer review. They can leave a comment or use Hypothesis.

@jorge
I think a blog could handle most things. A preprint server for when I need to collect things in one place and timestamp them (like an article).

I think I'm about done with publishing in journals all together.

Over the next four nights, my family and I will sleep in three different states and two different countries.

Sometimes you have to pick your battles.

It feels really weird not to be prepping for fall semester classes. Being away for the entire next year means that I have a whole year before doing course prep again.

A large steam engine train called the "Big Boy" passed through our area yesterday. So that was the excitement around here for the week.

@vickysteeves thanks! That part has been going surprisingly well. In pretty good shape the very next day.

Son had a surgery to fix his kidney. Bill just arrived at $63k. Insurance don't fail us now!

My two dogs got in a scuffle which resulted in the older one messing up one of his teeth. Today he went in to have it extracted and they ended up removing 11 teeth. 🙁

Will this earthquake certainly isn't going to reassure my family as we prepare for my sabbatical in Perú. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/magnitude-8-earthquake-hits-amazon-jungle-peru-190526101100170.html

Universities really love putting up as many roadblocks as possible in the way of getting reimbursed for travel expenses. 😞

Can we all just agree that all flights should have fixed rates between destinations. I'm sick of prices jumping up and down by hundreds of dollars over the course of a day.

@cathal @bgcarlisle it does integrate with Zotero, ownCloud, and GitLab.

Now that our Spring semester is over, my sabbatical is even closer. Nervous excitement!

@vickysteeves I've already seen too many spoilers. I've just hoping that by the time I finally get around to watching, I'll have forgotten...