Working Remotely Without Starlink: Here's how I'm making it up to you
The best laid plans...
Dear Subscribers:
Last weekend, paid subscribers may have noticed an extra week was added to your paid subscription. Here’s why:
As some long-time subscribers know, a few times a year, I make the 29-hour drive out to Wyoming to stay and visit with a son who’s a cowboy on a 160,000 acre ranch.
Normally, when I visit, I stay at his house near the ranch headquarters (which has electricity, heat and most amenities). When I do this, as there’s wifi there, the news digest usually goes out on time.
However, going out to the ranch this time of year, getting the news out on time is a bit more difficult.
You see, every summer, the cowboy, his dogs, horses, and the 650-head herd spend a couple of months atop a mountain where the grass is more plentiful. However, as plentiful as the grass is, the amenities are nonexistent.
The nights are spent in an old cabin (circa 1920s and pictured above) without heat, insulation, running water, or any other amenities—not even a toilet and certainly not wifi. [There is an old wooden outhouse, though, so that’s a bonus.]
The lighting comes from a generator, which also takes care of coffee in the morning, and the single burner cooktop.
The best-laid plans, and all that…
It was nearly three hours into the 29-hour trek that I realized that I had left my mobile Starlink back in the office…Too late to turn back.
While I should be able use my phone as a hotspot from a certain spot on the mountain next week, its use will depend on a number of factors outside my control.
Though I anticipated possible delays with the use of Starlink and a generator—which is why I added the week to your subscriptions before leaving Starlink behind—using my phone as a hotspot in a remote area next week may make getting the News Digest out to you even more problematic.
To be sure, ‘Rosie the Researcher’ will be adding articles to the LaborUnionNews.com website all week, as well as sending out our normal NLRB Petitions and Charges, Election Data and more. However, the News Digest, which I usually send out will likely have a few disruptions.
Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for understanding and have a great weekend!
Peter [aka “The Editor”]
P.S. The trek back to the East Coast will be next weekend, so this inconvenience is limited to next week.
It sounds like a great trip and I hope you had an awesome time. Dave Dingee