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Leaving Sacramento (completely clothed) for the final leg of the three-day drive. I just saw my two favorite cousins (technically second cousins) for the first time in two years, and they told stories I've never heard before.
For example, the story of how their grandfather hopped a freight train in New York at age thirteen (something he did with some frequency) and ended up in Chicago, but while he was evading capture by the railyard security, ended up on a car that was destined for a steamship bound for South Africa. So upon arrival he lied about his age and joined the British Army as a dispatch carrier in the Boer War.
At this point in the story, one of my cousins opens a drawer in a cabinet and brings out the medal his grandfather received on his discharge.
Then he toured Europe for a while before returning to his parents in New York. They had no idea where he had been.
Wow... just... wow!!!
And sorry you didn't make it to the Bay Area on your leg up, but Sacramento's a better connector to I-5 anyway...
Wow... just... wow!!!
And sorry you didn't make it to the Bay Area on your leg up, but Sacramento's a better connector to I-5 anyway...
We hope to catch you on the way back!
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Why I got a raise.
All the other foremen when they heard what my current job was balked and declared it would suck and couldn't be done in a timely manner.
I got it done in less than a week, even with having to redo a large portion I'd already done.
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I can't say how GREAT it feels to have visitors in my house every day again! Especially because it's a bunch of teenagers who hang around with Impus Major and keep him from going out to other places until the wee hours of the morning.
Last night I played some Jackbox games with them for an hour or so, got tired of socializing, and retired to my room. Which was 100% perfect for all parties involved. They were out 'til 11 or so, but nothing even I consider "unreasonable".
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I've been texting Eve updates for the past hour.
"Lakehead" means "I'm passing the spot we used to put our boat in the water to go camping and fishing."
"Tiger eyes" means "I'm passing our old high school." (There's a mural on the outer wall overlooking the freeway.)
Eve texts me back to say, "Let me know when you reach Hilt (last Cali exit at the state line) and I'll turn the oven on."
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I'M IN OREGON!
27 miles to Mom's.
I've been here for a little over a week and I can't believe it's almost time to go home.
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I've been here for a little over a week and I can't believe it's almost time to go home.
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It's great to have older indoor cats.
It used to be, "OMG! One of the cats got out! Quick! Everyone take a different direction! Fan out and find her before she gets too far or too lost!"
Now it's, "Oh, I found the Calico sitting on the sun-warmed concrete in the back yard. I wonder when she got out?"
They don't wander particularly far any more. It's pretty much, "I'm out! I'm out! Oh... sun! OK. I'll just lie down here for a while. I must have made it at least 10 feet!"
Yeah, old cats <3
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College Student (to coworker, seeking advice after working with me for the last two weeks): How do you keep up with Yesterday?
Coworker: I don't.
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In a similar vein to Cap's workplace excellence:
I've finally gotten the promotion I wanted within Global Logistics Organization, and so I am soon to be leaving the team I've worked with for the past calendar year. And just last night, I outhustled seven other people, most of whom are 20 years my junior, or more. And I did that for four hours, before the team manager decided I needed to be the one covering the heavy lift equipment position. Which I've been assigned to for most of the past month, already. And when I started working that position?? --> It took four other people to fill in where I had been working.
No less than three times last night, I paused and simply asked myself: What are they gonna do without me??!
But then I smiled, and reminded myself: Not. My. Problem.
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Anyhow.
Thank goodness it's Friday!!!
EDITED: 'cause math.
I'm doing the maths today at work, but I also get to build an interactive display so it all balances out.
Damn, there I go doing it again.
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Yup. It's the data security training course. This one isn't as bad as some I've seen.
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Tower died last weekend in the middle of PaizoCon. Tower was ancient LosTech from 2011, and was showing it's age so it wasn't a surprise as to it happening.
Timing was inconvenient, though.
Spent rest of weekend working off a shared 2013 laptop (and am currently typing from same).
New computer due either Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully we can salvage the drive from the old one.
A month ago, coworker and immediate boss in one of the five areas of my multiple-duty job announced they were giving notice.
Said person had not provided anything save the most rudimentary of training to me, and within two weeks I had managed to clean up six months of backlogged issues.
So now I'm holding the position, because I was the 'backup' and recently departed coworker was the 'primary'. This added responsibility has no additional pay and even cruddier hours and unreasonable expectations.
Counterparts on other side of retail location have told me in no uncertain terms that in August one of them is retiring, and the other one has made it clear that if there's not a replacement for the retiree, they're quitting.
...told them straight up that if they quit I'd be right behind them -- I'm already doing the work of six job roles (that SHOULD each have their own person as the sole focus of their job) and there's no way it'd even be possible to do the counterpart's job in addition to my own.
Added into this cesspit of spreadsheet manager ramifications is the inability of management to schedule me effectively to accomplish even the barest of tasks, or to provide any reasonable support.
Considering options, and any asshat who thinks that 'only lazy folks take unemployment' can go *Unprintable untypable thoughts for self-termination in a painful fashion from employment*
Oh, and all that work above? By contract it's two dollars less than minimum wage and it's legal.
Added cherry to this shit-sundae of corporate malfeasance?
We made .94% profit over last year.
When everything else was closed due to the pandemic.
"We're going to need you to cut payroll, because you're not making as much money as we need you to."
Yup. It's the data security training course. This one isn't as bad as some I've seen.I read that as "data security training corpse", which would be awesome.
Dead men tell no tales...
Just sayin'
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GetPocket: How to make the best French toast casserole!
NobodysHome: Don't.
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Toddler talks Pokemon style now.
As in she has entire conversations that are her emphatically repeating the same word in different tones and me trying to guess what it means. Meanwhile she is very excited and expressive with her hands about whatever she is saying when repeating "dadadadadada" to me for seven minutes.
It's adorable and wonderful and if three years ago me were on the outside looking at older me, younger me would find me insane for thinking it so precious.
Oxytocin is a hell of a chemical.
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Yeah, peer evaluations always go so well because unless you're a monster, you don't say anything wrong.
My first evaluation came in, and I'm not surprised:
Strengths: A good list of my actual strengths demonstrating that the person knows me and put some thought into providing me with good feedback.
Suggestions for Development or Improvement: "I can't think of a thing."
Sure, it's nice and all, and I appreciate a good compliment. But if the goal is for me to grow as an employee, forcefully making my fellow employees compliment me isn't going to do much...
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Yeah, peer evaluations always go so well because unless you're a monster, you don't say anything wrong.
My first evaluation came in, and I'm not surprised:
Strengths: A good list of my actual strengths demonstrating that the person knows me.
Suggestions for Development or Improvement: "I can't think of a thing."
Sure, it's nice and all, and I appreciate a good compliment. But if the goal is for me to grow as an employee, forcefully making my fellow employees compliment me isn't going to do much...
A nice coworker would put -
Suggestions: Probably deserves a raise.
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I'm smug and arrogant and dismissive of people who can't keep up with me.
Three weaknesses without batting an eyelash.
EDIT: Of course, these are people outside the department, and I have a high enough Diplomacy roll that I play nice with them. Maybe I manage to hide that aspect of myself better than I thought.
Hoo, boy. My reviews used to always come back, "Comes across as arrogant."
Yep.
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I'm smug and arrogant and dismissive of people who can't keep up with me.
Three weaknesses without batting an eyelash.
Those are basically the same weakness.
Suggestions: stop padding your word count.
(Stated in humor not as a true insult)
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I'm smug and arrogant and dismissive of people who can't keep up with me.
Three weaknesses without batting an eyelash.
Those are basically the same weakness.
Suggestions: stop padding your word count.
(Stated in humor not as a true insult)
Meh. There's the issue: To do a good review of someone else, you have to both be considerate of their feelings and willing to bruise those feelings a bit in order to get them to improve what they were doing.
"So-and-so is a slavish moron who blindly believes whatever the PM tells him," is not useful feedback.
"So-and-so places a bit too much trust in the accuracy of what the PM tells him, and would benefit from double-checking this information in the application to make sure it's correct," is actionable feedback that I provided to someone years ago.
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I'm tops on the "wouldn't want to get in a fight with" list at work, but that's as far as peer reviews go for work.
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Impus Minor is finally done with execrable online learning! He's got two finals next week, and hopefully he'll pass all his courses and we can put this nightmare year behind us.
And the fact that an extremely sharp kid has a significant chance of failing 3 of his 5 classes due to the method in which they were taught and graded speaks volumes as to why I was in favor of letting everyone skip a year of school entirely back when COVID first started.
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Impus Minor is finally done with execrable online learning! He's got two finals next week, and hopefully he'll pass all his courses and we can put this nightmare year behind us.
And the fact that an extremely sharp kid has a significant chance of failing 3 of his 5 classes due to the method in which they were taught and graded speaks volumes as to why I was in favor of letting everyone skip a year of school entirely back when COVID first started.
The General has been saying the exact same thing, nearly word for word!
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I just finished watching the cartoon film 'Heavy Metal', which was quite the experience.
I just finished watching the cartoon film 'Heavy Metal', which was quite the experience.
I saw it in theaters when it first came out.
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I expect it was even jigglier and more intestinal and skeletonated on the big screen.
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Since the weather turned hot and I hate hot weather and the conversation of 'why dont you have air con' will come up, I looked at average temperatures.
Some of these are averages because not all years there were acurate measurements (2 world wars for example).
But on average, from 1901 to 1999, summer temperatures averages 20 to 25 degrees celcius.
(68 to 77 farenheit)
Last year and the year before that we broke temperatures from 38 to 40 degrees celcius. That is a top of 104 farenheit.
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I expect it was even jigglier and more intestinal and skeletonated on the big screen.
Oh, "adult" animation was just hitting the big time, first with Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, then Heavy Metal just a few years later.
None of us had heard of anime outside of Speed Racer or Star Blazers, so feature-length animated features with adult content were...
...as you say, "Jiggly."
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Since the weather turned hot and I hate hot weather and the conversation of 'why dont you have air con' will come up, I looked at average temperatures.
Some of these are averages because not all years there were acurate measurements (2 world wars for example).
But on average, from 1901 to 1999, summer temperatures averages 20 to 25 degrees celcius.
(68 to 77 farenheit)Last year and the year before that we broke temperatures from 38 to 40 degrees celcius. That is a top of 104 farenheit.
I live in the Bay Area. I would never ask someone, "Why do you live in an uninsulated house with no air conditioning?"
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I'm smug and arrogant and dismissive of people who can't keep up with me.
Three weaknesses without batting an eyelash.
EDIT: Of course, these are people outside the department, and I have a high enough Diplomacy roll that I play nice with them. Maybe I manage to hide that aspect of myself better than I thought.
Hoo, boy. My reviews used to always come back, "Comes across as arrogant."
Yep.
Right? When you have a friend like NH, you find yourself thinking things like, "He continues to tolerate my occasional presence; I must have some value as a human being."
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I expect it was even jigglier and more intestinal and skeletonated on the big screen.Oh, "adult" animation was just hitting the big time, first with Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, then Heavy Metal just a few years later.
None of us had heard of anime outside of Speed Racer or Star Blazers, so feature-length animated features with adult content were...
...as you say, "Jiggly."
The first one I ever saw was "Ninja Scroll". It was an education.
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Since the weather turned hot and I hate hot weather and the conversation of 'why dont you have air con' will come up, I looked at average temperatures.
Some of these are averages because not all years there were acurate measurements (2 world wars for example).
But on average, from 1901 to 1999, summer temperatures averages 20 to 25 degrees celcius.
(68 to 77 farenheit)Last year and the year before that we broke temperatures from 38 to 40 degrees celcius. That is a top of 104 farenheit.
I'm working on winter as we speak.
I just finished watching the cartoon film 'Heavy Metal', which was quite the experience.
haven't seen that in years.
The first one I ever saw was "Ninja Scroll". It was an education.I expect it was even jigglier and more intestinal and skeletonated on the big screen.Oh, "adult" animation was just hitting the big time, first with Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, then Heavy Metal just a few years later.
None of us had heard of anime outside of Speed Racer or Star Blazers, so feature-length animated features with adult content were...
...as you say, "Jiggly."
Ah, the memories.
Would that I could have shown you Ranma 1/2.
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Also I am back on the correct coast.
I rate Cali as I have always rated it, 7/10, would visit again.
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Also I am back on the correct coast.
I rate Cali as I have always rated it, 7/10, would visit again.
Woooow... if you give SoCal a 7/10, I'd love to get you hiking/biking in the Sierras...
(I'm realistic -- the Bay Area isn't nearly as nice of a place to visit as SoCal, but the Sierras are worlds better...)
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I found the adorable little giant bat mount in Biomutant, I also tamed a snufflupagus horse.
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At my old company they just announced that the company has been sold to another corporation.
They sent out a letter at 6pm Eastern.. on a Friday...that they need everyone's SSN by 9am Monday.
So...why aren't they pulling the I9 info directly from HR/Payroll? Seems to me like they're setting people up to become unemployed for non-compliance.
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At my old company they just announced that the company has been sold to another corporation.
They sent out a letter at 6pm Eastern.. on a Friday...that they need everyone's SSN by 9am Monday.
So...why aren't they pulling the I9 info directly from HR/Payroll? Seems to me like they're setting people up to become unemployed for non-compliance.
Jesus.
You left at the right time.
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I had a leftover slice of my mom's rhubarb pie for breakfast and it was so good I damn near cried.
At my old company they just announced that the company has been sold to another corporation.
They sent out a letter at 6pm Eastern.. on a Friday...that they need everyone's SSN by 9am Monday.
So...why aren't they pulling the I9 info directly from HR/Payroll? Seems to me like they're setting people up to become unemployed for non-compliance.
Jesus.
You left at the right time.
Boy howdy. So glad you've already got your next job, and that you were prepared for the transition.
I had a leftover slice of my mom's rhubarb pie for breakfast and it was so good I damn near cried.
is it strawberry rhubarb?
is it strawberry rhubarb?I had a leftover slice of my mom's rhubarb pie for breakfast and it was so good I damn near cried.
NO. Strawberry rhubarb is an abomination. This was just plain rhubarb, perfectly tart.