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Not good.A gran spotted in the wild! Now Timmy, don't spook it...we want to observe this for a while...
How you been?
The longer answer, without going too far into it, is that last November and December I had 2 hospital stays totaling about 3.5 weeks to treat a bleeding duodenal ulcer and a nasty leg infection. I spent the next 7 months trying to heal the hole in my leg the infection caused, including various treatments to try and help with my messed up veins.
Meanwhile, on January 1st, my Dad went to the ER for a kidney stone, and Mom convinced him to tell the doctors about the other problems he'd been dealing with (ie, ignoring) for the last 6 months or so. They did some tests and found out he had a cancerous 4cm diameter tumor in his colon. Cue months of intense chemo, which didn't help. So he chose to stop treatment, begin hospice at home, and passed away in August.
Add in all the normal (and not so normal) crap with work, and life in general, and it's been a s$+&ty year.
I hope everyone else's year has been better.
Yikes. I'm close enough that you have more than my sympathies if you need it. I'm completely serious in that.
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Gran. I am so sorry.
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Right there with ya gran.
Condolences. I hope his passing was as painless as possible.
"Can you create an email account for the following employee?"
Yeah, there's nothing below that question in the email.
We've tried contacting the client yesterday and today to get...I don't know...a name...what permissions they should have... basic information that they know we need for new hires. They know this because we go through this dance with them nearly every time they inform us of a new hire. Usually a week after they've already been on the job.
And yet, we'll still get a bad review from this person because it wasn't done in a timely fashion.
I despise systems that rely on dumb people to do things correctly.
You should have given access to Nobodys...
When I woke up in the morning when I woke up, there was a thin white layer on the ground.
It wasn't there anymore when I went to get some groceries in the evening.
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So over five four days and a few hours I accumulated 57 hours of playtime of Elden Ring...
No, I can stop any time, why do you ask?
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
I've started getting weekly headhunting calls asking me to apply to be a Senior or Principal Software Developer at various companies around the Bay Area...
...except...
...I have -0- experience as a professional software developer. I'm convinced that the AI scans my LinkedIn profile and sees:
- 20+ years of industry experience
- The word "Senior" in my current title
- The word "Developer" in my current title
And it fills in the rest.
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.
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It's nice to be wanted
Thats why I make sure they get my good side in the mugshots.
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Anti-consumerism really is depressing.
Adhering to my wishes, Shiro found nothing to give me for Christmas. And notice how it's marketed: A "gag gift" intended for "people who have everything" or "naughty children". Not, "Those of us who are exhausted by endless consumerism and consumption and want the cycle to stop."
I'll continue to push for people to gift me with meals or other perishable consumables, but I'm not holding my breath that that'll ever happen.
EDIT: For my father, who had similar tastes, I'd fish a cardboard box out of the recycling bin, not even wrap it, use a Sharpee to label it, and it delighted him.
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
I've started getting weekly headhunting calls asking me to apply to be a Senior or Principal Software Developer at various companies around the Bay Area...
...except...
...I have -0- experience as a professional software developer. I'm convinced that the AI scans my LinkedIn profile and sees:
- 20+ years of industry experience
- The word "Senior" in my current title
- The word "Developer" in my current titleAnd it fills in the rest.
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.
We'll see what develops.
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
It was confirmed a while ago yes. Sadly, through the usual channels - instantly dismissing people with "ethnic" names, certain kinds of job experience, and from certain locations.
~It's racism all the way doooooown...!~
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.We'll see what develops.
GAH!
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What the letter F with three stars is 'Worship Piano', and why might I possibly need to know how to do it?