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I can look back at it in retrospective as a sort of *brag* by Earthgov Yes, we're using REAL wood to make REAL paper to make real pulp... on a space station! Sure it's impractical as all heck, but can YOU do that?
"Our subcontractor suppliers had an earth-shaking orgasm when they saw the Mimbari-sponsored budget."
And as far as the 'portable' devices being 2in thick? Ragnarok-proofed military issue 'just in case'.
And it had to be stuffed with a lot of redundancies and trash to conceal the ubiquitous listening devices that spy on everyone around AND their dogs.
How do you stop Canadian bacon from curling in the frying pan? Take away the tiny brooms.
Oh Olympic themed. Nice.
Landscaping and art usually don't intermix in the Midwest.Why would he not think you were being serious?New guy: So what do you do here?
Me: Patios, walls, and art projects
New Guy: Wait, seriously?!
Me: Yup!
But landscaping...is art?
It's funny -- I always recognize the "end of summer" by when it starts being dark when I get up again. This week kind of snuck up on me. Get up, let out the cats, have some coffee... repeat all summer... get up, notice that it's too dark to let out the cats or to see to make my coffee without turning on the lights... realize that summer is coming to a close.
Of course, it's the Bay Area. It'll remain in the 60s until late September, at which point we'll get a week or two in the 90s. But for now, Winter is Coming.
I'm sure Freehold will be pleased.
But landscaping...is art?Landscaping and art usually don't intermix in the Midwest.Why would he not think you were being serious?New guy: So what do you do here?
Me: Patios, walls, and art projects
New Guy: Wait, seriously?!
Me: Yup!
Yes, when I do it.
It's funny -- I always recognize the "end of summer" by when it starts being dark when I get up again. This week kind of snuck up on me. Get up, let out the cats, have some coffee... repeat all summer... get up, notice that it's too dark to let out the cats or to see to make my coffee without turning on the lights... realize that summer is coming to a close.
Of course, it's the Bay Area. It'll remain in the 60s until late September, at which point we'll get a week or two in the 90s. But for now, Winter is Coming.
I'm sure Freehold will be pleased.
I am.
I also note winter is using protection.
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Yes, when I do it.But landscaping...is art?Landscaping and art usually don't intermix in the Midwest.Why would he not think you were being serious?New guy: So what do you do here?
Me: Patios, walls, and art projects
New Guy: Wait, seriously?!
Me: Yup!
Well, you are a long haired hippie.
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What Sucks About Being Over 50:
For the last few weeks I've been training myself up for our backpacking trip, and in the last 10 days I've hiked with over 50 pounds on 7 of them, building up my strength and stamina.
The kids have been doing the same.
It's only 5 days before the trip. The kids could lie around on the couch watching TV for the rest of the time and their bodies wouldn't lose enough muscle or stamina for it to make a significant difference. I, on the other hand, need to hike at least 3 of those 5 days to avoid losing any muscle mass or endurance because old = fast degeneration if you don't keep moving.
I think it's why everyone thought of my mother as such a bada$$: She never wanted to be unable to hike, so you'd see her hiking 10 miles 3 days a week, and going to the gym and weighlifting 3 days a week, and you'd think, "Wow! That's a dedicated little old lady!"
When the reality of it is, "Well, carp. If I take a day off it'll take me 3 days to recover from the muscle loss. Being old sucks!"
And so I hike...
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I finished the sundial yesterday.
Today and tomorrow are the first two days off I've taken since Tiny T-Rex was born over ten years ago. I can't think of why I'd take two days off though, seems a bit excessive for me.
Oh well, I'm sure it wasn't important and did not involve the number 20 in any sort of way.
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Oh man, has it been a year already?! Crap, where'd I put the popcorn?! This is going to be hilarious!!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
"You just looked at me like I had asked you what was the square root of Dennis Rodman."
I would like to make someone look at me like that one day.
I just want someone to look at me like Beyonce looked at the camera in Blow.
Going into my call with Needy Co-Worker and I have to ponder how mean to be.
This is one of those guys who believes that meetings are their own end. When he's working on a course, he tries to set up weekly hourlong meetings with PMs "just to keep in touch", then insists on filling the entire hour, even if he has nothing to say. Multiple PMs now refuse to work with him. Our manager asked him to develop some new videos. He sent us SEVEN separate revisions for review.
Both my manager and I have gently approached him and said, "Other people's time is valuable. You should consider that before setting up a meeting or asking for a review," yet he says, "Oh, I really want to make sure I'm doing everything right," and goes ahead and sets up a meeting anyway.
On Tuesday we had a 90-minute call for about 10 minutes of content. He's set up another 90-minute call today. He'll try to fill the entire 90 minutes.
For no purpose.
I suspect he's a closet extrovert and just wants human contact. But meetings for the sake of having meetings drive me crazy.
I'll try to be patient, but I'll likely say a few snarky things anyway...
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Typical Albany High School: I'm looking at the 2021-22 academic calendar right now:
Friday, August 13: Staff Development - Non Student Day.
Monday, August 16: Teacher Work Day - Non Student Day.
Tuesday, August 17: First Day of School.
I relied on that calendar and planned a backpacking trip for myself and the kids for August 9-13. We've now bought all the gear, done all the training, and are looking forward to a fun trip.
This morning AHS sent me an email: "Our Opening Day will be held on Thursday, August 12 in the AHS gym."
Er, nope. No it won't. You can't give me your academic calendar in May, give me all summer to make plans, then a week before the date change things up. Impus Minor will be out of town, and you can have your Opening Day on your own.
Seriously p****d about how poorly this school district communicates anything.
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OK. I'm impressed. Sometimes the old school solutions are the best.
Global Megacorporation changed virus protection software, and the new installer put a folder on my desktop labeled, "This folder protects against Ransomware. Just leave it here."
I was insatiable curious, so I went into the folder. A whole bunch of common file types (.doc, .xlsx, .docx, .xls, .sql, .rtf, .txt, and more), all with intentional errors in them so that any standard compression algorithm will barf on trying to parse them.
It's so old school it's amazing: Old copy protection involved distributing disks with unreadable sectors and relying on the "cannot read sector" error to verify the validity of the disk. Modern ransomware protection is relying on the malware programmers not to have robust error handling in their code.
Which I'm guessing is a good bet.
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I'm proud of myself, I only volunteered to come in to work today once. And to his credit the boss told me no.
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way to suppress those work-a-holic tendencies cap'n. well sort of anyways.
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I don't know if anyone else on this board loves ragtime like I do, but THIS is Val's piano teacher, and he cooks.
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Also, before I forget, Happy Anniversary, Cap!
Some hot rag.
Ha! Happy Anniversary, Cap! With 20 minutes to spare!
Happy belated Anniversary, Cap!
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Three years ago today, we finished loading up the truck in California and started on the road to our new home.
And as I'm sitting here over my coffee, my house is mostly in boxes (if it hasn't already been taken to the new house) and I've got a reservation to pick up yet another U-haul to move our furniture to Miz Daisy's tomorrow.
Last night a friend came with his minivan and helped WW take a load of boxes and bookcases while I cooked dinner there for the first time. That felt pretty good. It's starting to feel like it might actually be home.
I mean, living with Grandma is going to be weird.
Being the only wage earner in a family of five (Grandma gets Social Security, and WW is still on unemployment) is also weird. And scary. Things are going to be very tight if a job doesn't happen soon.
And yet somehow I am not massively stressed out and ugly-crying on the floor, texting Vany and Freehold and Cap for support.
For the moment.
I start back to work on Monday, the last day of our lease is Wednesday, and the plan for those three days is to come over here after I'm done at school to scrub the kitchen and bathrooms, dust the blinds, shampoo the carpets, etc.
I may be here verrrrry late Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The one silver lining is that, unless something goes terribly wrong, we NEVER HAVE TO MOVE AGAIN. EVER.
"We have decided to seek other applicants."
Damn. Wonder what went wrong.
Crap. I'm sorry, gran.
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Three years ago today, we finished loading up the truck in California and started on the road to our new home.
And as I'm sitting here over my coffee, my house is mostly in boxes (if it hasn't already been taken to the new house) and I've got a reservation to pick up yet another U-haul to move our furniture to Miz Daisy's tomorrow.
Last night a friend came with his minivan and helped WW take a load of boxes and bookcases while I cooked dinner there for the first time. That felt pretty good. It's starting to feel like it might actually be home.
I mean, living with Grandma is going to be weird.
Being the only wage earner in a family of five (Grandma gets Social Security, and WW is still on unemployment) is also weird. And scary. Things are going to be very tight if a job doesn't happen soon.
And yet somehow I am not massively stressed out and ugly-crying on the floor, texting Vany and Freehold and Cap for support.
For the moment.
I start back to work on Monday, the last day of our lease is Wednesday, and the plan for those three days is to come over here after I'm done at school to scrub the kitchen and bathrooms, dust the blinds, shampoo the carpets, etc.
I may be here verrrrry late Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The one silver lining is that, unless something goes terribly wrong, we NEVER HAVE TO MOVE AGAIN. EVER.
Here's to the new place. I hope things improve for you guys financially soon.
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Holy f+!$ing s%&~!
Lionel Messi is a free agent!!
I bet he signs with the Cowboys.
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Here's to the new place. I hope things improve for you guys financially soon.Three years ago today, we finished loading up the truck in California and started on the road to our new home.
And as I'm sitting here over my coffee, my house is mostly in boxes (if it hasn't already been taken to the new house) and I've got a reservation to pick up yet another U-haul to move our furniture to Miz Daisy's tomorrow.
Last night a friend came with his minivan and helped WW take a load of boxes and bookcases while I cooked dinner there for the first time. That felt pretty good. It's starting to feel like it might actually be home.
I mean, living with Grandma is going to be weird.
Being the only wage earner in a family of five (Grandma gets Social Security, and WW is still on unemployment) is also weird. And scary. Things are going to be very tight if a job doesn't happen soon.
And yet somehow I am not massively stressed out and ugly-crying on the floor, texting Vany and Freehold and Cap for support.
For the moment.
I start back to work on Monday, the last day of our lease is Wednesday, and the plan for those three days is to come over here after I'm done at school to scrub the kitchen and bathrooms, dust the blinds, shampoo the carpets, etc.
I may be here verrrrry late Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The one silver lining is that, unless something goes terribly wrong, we NEVER HAVE TO MOVE AGAIN. EVER.
Yes, I really hope this all goes well for you, LM.
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The End of an Era:
GothBard stopped at Rivoli this afternoon to try to make reservations. It turns out the new owner was planning on closing the place for a month at the end of August to take care of some family business, and the entire staff was promptly poached by other places, so they're shutting down "indefinitely".
The wonderful Roscoe is searching for someone else who'll buy the place and keep up the Rivoli name and style, but if you were an up-and-coming chef would you rather buy an existing name, or let the place go under and then start a new place in the same location?
As GothBard said, "Rivoli isn't dead, but it's in a coma."
Even worse, the manager admitted that they'd planned on having a farewell dinner tonight for four of their favorite tables, and we'd made the list, but a gas leak erupted in the sidewalk and they can't open today.
Must've been some curse.
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In lighter news, have I mentioned how much hope the younger generation gives me?
To always try to look good is such a loss of joy and freedom.
Sing it, sister!
"We have decided to seek other applicants."
Damn. Wonder what went wrong.
It's their loss! You can do better!!
Still, it's a shame they don't provide more clarity for future interviews.
In lighter news, have I mentioned how much hope the younger generation gives me?
To always try to look good is such a loss of joy and freedom.Sing it, sister!
Some of us don't have to try.
The End of an Era:
GothBard stopped at Rivoli this afternoon to try to make reservations. It turns out the new owner was planning on closing the place for a month at the end of August to take care of some family business, and the entire staff was promptly poached by other places, so they're shutting down "indefinitely".
The wonderful Roscoe is searching for someone else who'll buy the place and keep up the Rivoli name and style, but if you were an up-and-coming chef would you rather buy an existing name, or let the place go under and then start a new place in the same location?
As GothBard said, "Rivoli isn't dead, but it's in a coma."
Even worse, the manager admitted that they'd planned on having a farewell dinner tonight for four of their favorite tables, and we'd made the list, but a gas leak erupted in the sidewalk and they can't open today.
Must've been some curse.
That's a damn shame!