What is funny is other then layovers back in 2006 at the Newark airport, I have never been to NJ.

When I was working with my tools I carried them in a Klein double pocket nylon rig with padded suspenders and belt. It was super comfortable.
The nylon belt didn't have any downward pressure on it and never stretched . It was washable in the kitchen sink

Best course of action but pretty much impossible is to avoid ChiCom goods.

I used GIMP for changing a few photos into sepia tones. It took several nights before I figured out what to do.

I've never used Irfanview but some of our staff do, it certainly has a distinctive desktop icon.

Hehe,
It's a funny thing, I remember back in the 70's, a year like 2020, sounded
SO futuristic, with flying cars (just like the Jetsons) and we'd all have jobs where
we'd all be just sitting at a computer controlling things remotely all day.

Given the number of motor vehicle accidents we have here at the moment,
scares the hell out of me that some people can't even keep a car on the road,
let alone add up and down into the equation.

Samsung, & LG, (Lousy Goods), both have a rep for bad ice makers, & hard to get parts for their appliances, I avoid both of them. Still anytime I see a Samsung product, always refer to them as a exploding product, hence my original remark.

Thanks John,
I was going to wait for Bill to start a thread like this.

It has been a really rough year, pretty much for everyone, I'd fail to know anyone who has made any sort of REAL advancement this year.

I went into business by myself late last year, that was probably the worst thing I could have done, given the ensuing business climate 3 months later.

I had two LARGE jobs from people from the US building houses in North Otago and I finished them both before time and under-budget.

Aside from that, Covid-19 killed my work, all the restrictions, travel, PPE, especially with smaller jobs.
And when you get to site and the builders and plumbers aren't using the same PPE as you, it makes you wonder, why you even bother.

This new variant of Covid-19 was a bit of a shock, it turned up from a guy from South Africa in the UK.
Personally, if I was running the show, we would SHUT all of our borders to everyone.
Admittedly, we live on a couple of islands here, this helps us to a certain degree, but if this gets ingrained here,
it will be bloody hard to eradicate, as there is no means of escape.
And you have people freaking out that they can't go home for Xmas with their families, my opinion on this is this,
do you want to go home to your family later on or do you want to end up in a coffin.
Your choice and you could infect the rest of your family.