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Phone technology and products are constantly evolving. When it comes to NonStop it too continues to evolve and remains in synch with ever-evolving enterprise needs … Blame it on the isolation. Blame it on social distancing. Whatever the reason I have been listening to satellite radio a lot of late as I have been driving all over town doing the family chores. By way of a brief update, Margo is now well on her way to recovery following her accidental braking of her leg a few days before Christmas. All the same, I have been doing double duty keeping the house in order. Then again, irrespective of who lands a task we are both only too willing to just get things done. On this one occasion while out and about, as I listened to the Margaretville station, on came the song One Particular Harbor and being the sailor I once was, it always tugs at my heartstrings. However, I almost forgot this verse: I used to rule my world from a pay phone And ships out on the sea But now times are rough ...

Driving through a scorched landscape with little left to remind us of its former beauty, it begged the question: Are we torching (our plans) to retain on-prem IT and do we have a path back? In the last post to this NonStop community blog I wrote of how we had few plans to drive the Sierras any time soon. A reference in passing to the times we have driven to Burlingame, California, for the annual NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) event. The reference was followed by remarks about taking away any opportunity to drive somewhere as being a real downer for Margo and me. Well, that all changed over the course of just a week although we really didn’t cross the Sierra divide to head into the Bay but rather, we drove a southern route that took us into the greater Los Angeles area. Call it being optimistic about our chances of escaping the global pandemic but the opportunity presented itself as almost a last minute development. We had been on the phone with a number of clients of late after wh...