Thursday

It is Thursday so I wanted to play with my new cheap filter, a rainbow filter. I keep driving past this old house every time I head to the church. Who knows how old it is? It is a nice color paint. I took pictures and a man asked me if I knew about its history. Nope, and neither did he. 

I was in the neighborhood picking up a free but small white board because Sunday I FINALLY have a schedule for my teacher shot. I’ve decided to dump the idea of fake students - too many people, too difficult to coordinate. Doesn’t sound like we’ll get a real classroom. We will see what wild and colorful things we can do. On Facebook we have groups called, “buy nothing” where people ask for what they need and donate what they have and no longer need. I only need the whiteboard for this one photoshoot. 

There is a Ukrainian woman named Maria Berlinska who was nicknamed Masha. She was a Kyiv university student studying for a master’s in Jewish history. Now she is <drum roll> the Drone Mother. She dropped out in 2014 when Russia first invaded. She enlisted. she began trying to persuade Ukrainian leaders of the importance of drones. They get it now. IN 2015 she left the army to found Victory Drones, an organization that buys drones and trains soldiers to pilot them. Since the new invasion, Victory Drones has trained 50,000 soldiers.
Ukraine’s grid operators went to the US and told Cisco executives they were facing a serious problem. Russian and Ukrainian militaries us GPS jamming constantly to interfere with guided missiles, but this was also disrupting visibility for Ukraine’s power grid operators, who relied on GPS-based clocks to relay information about power flow from one location to another. Cisco is the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment. Engineers got to work molding a very common piece of equipment, called an industrial ethernet switch, to fit the specific needs of the Ukrainian grid. Cisco estimateds the cost of building and shipping the switches to be $1 million, but the company said it donated the equipment.