Half Way Through 2021!
Just a few weeks after the previous post about the T&E course as Pax River, the COVID-19 shutdown impacted operations. Previously, I was accustomed to frequent travel - not necessarily every week, but probably averaging three trips a month. This had gone on for many years. Working in this field requires interaction with users, and other meetings best conducted in person. But we all rapidly shifted to on-line meetings, more phone calls, and various innovative ways to keep the work going from home. The working from home part was relatively straightforward, as I had been mostly working from home (when not on travel) for several years. But starting in mid-March 2020, it was all working from home! Across my different projects: one used WebEx, one Zoom, and one Teams. So I got to experience the best and worst of all three systems. I did not travel by air from the second week of March, 2020, until the very end of October, 2020. Counting that trip, I've only traveled by air