Random Acts of Shifeness - Have Yourself A Murray Week

Murray mention

For being the official unofficial blog of Bill Murray, I am not doing a good job of promoting the man. Here's a quote from him that I ran across and it made me laugh again: 

If I'm ever on life support, unplug me.
Then plug me back in and see if that works. - Bill Murray 

No Friday blog

You thought I was kidding about the crazy class schedules for Kyle and Hayden?
Well here is how it shakes out this week: no school yesterday, virtual today, in-person tomorrow, and then no school on Thursday and Friday. 
The Shifleys are going to take advantage of the no-school days and try to create some memories so I will return to the blogosphere next Tuesday.  

Be strong. I will be back before you know it.

Halloween plans

Since Halloween is definitely going to be different this year, Mrs. Shife talked me into hosting a murder mystery party with our quarantine crew.
I am going to be Professor Peacock.

Any costume suggestions from my wonderful blogging friends? 

Here is what I wore the last time we hosted a murder mystery party.

Latest logging videos

My favorite logging off video this week. 
I have a co-worker who is leaving and he's a big Star Wars so I thought he would like this one.

Something to think about

Here is a quote from the Future Crunch newsletter that helped me get my mind right: 

Remember, this has all happened before, and it was a lot worse the last time around.
We all got so used to happy endings that we forgot things can and do fall apart.
If you dig up the history of pandemics, you'll see it all there.
The distrust, the frenzied conspiracy theories, the mind-boggling ineptitude of leaders, the protests, the doctors' pleas falling on deaf ears, the exhausted nurses, the shamelessness of the powerful who know only how to divide. 

It's all happened before.
Our great grandparents, and their great grandparents before them, they had to deal with invisible killers and fearmongering and frustration too.
Just like now, their pandemics were brutally unfair, falling hardest on the most vulnerable parts of society. They showed that when people are scared, they're capable of both extraordinary kindness and the most mindless stupidity, and often in quick succession.
 Human nature doesn't change.
What does change is the science.
They didn't have that the last time around.
A gentle reminder that the reality TV show sucks, and that you're a human being, not a helpless pawn at the mercy of the algorithms.
Turn them off if you want to.
Real life is heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary, and breathtakingly beautiful.
Give it a go.

Thanks for stopping by.
See you next week.

I will persevere. I will keep moving forward. I will be the stream. 

"To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live."- Pat Tillman, 11/6/76 - 4/22/04 #GoneButNotForgetten