Got a flat on the trailer on our last camping trip of the year. Had to replace it at full cost with less than 2000 miles on it.
Went to put the replacement on this afternoon. Spotted a bump on the sidewall as I loaded it into the truck (I planned on doing the swap once I parked the trailer at storage). Decided to not put it on the rig but instead ask the tire shop to look at it.
Guy at the tire shop took one look at it, said “never seen that before on a never-used tire,” then “I’ll have a replacement here tomorrow.”
Very common these days. Basically the truly “in person” meeting doesn’t happen anymore for anything above a small number of people (5? 6?) so every meeting has one or more video streams. It’s really messed with our remote office bandwidth.
Had been writing a chapter of a story and had one scene to go. Don’t know how I managed it, but I lost about 5000 words. Since I’ll (hopefully) be going back to work soon, I don’t know when I’ll have a chance to rewrite it.
A very long time ago, fast food restaurants used thick plastic cups for their drinks. These days, the only one I know of that still does is Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, which they call their Big Yellow Cup.
I bought one from McDonald’s in 1988 when Who Framed Roger Rabbit? came out in theaters. I’ve had it ever since. Today, I walked by the shelf it was sitting on and noticed a huge crack in the bottom of it. Somehow, being in a spot where it’s not subjected to direct sunlight, it just cracked on its own.
I think that was a spare because I would have bought all 3 designs, but it still sucks to lose something related to my user name’s namesake for apparently no discernible reason.
I’ve decided to give up my web presence.
It isn’t much and hasn’t really been developed in the 10+ years I’ve had it. It was a place I could stick the odd file for people to get at and share even more odd sound bytes and demotivational pics. The mail servers are getting wonky and I just can’t be arsed to figure out what’s wrong. I’m too old for this shit. I’ve got other stuff to do.
Ubuntu, you can make the Software Updater show up every hour on the hour but it will do no good. I will not upgrade the OS because you guys think making Linux look like Windows 11 is a good idea.
The only way the OS on this computer is going to change is when you get to the point where you stop supporting this version and start sending “Upgrade or else” messages. At that point, I will find some other version of Linux to run.
All employees of the government of Canuckistan have been mandated to return to work and our particular union has said we have to do 2-3 days/week in the office.
Is it 2 or is it 3? Nobody knows. Can you do more than 3? Well, you wouldn’t want to because nobody has a permanent office. You are expected to take everything you need with you and pack it all up to take home again at the end of the day, then repeat. Each office has a network connection hub with 2 monitors, a mouse, and a keyboard. No, thank you. I’ll be bringing in my own keyboard and mouse so I don’t have to worry about which mouth-breather last horked their sickness on it.
My work group has to work on multiple secure networks, which necessitates multiple lappies. Easy enough to manage with a KVM, but carrying both of those, and power bricks, and the KVM makes things at least 2x harder.
Friday, we got the email saying that the plan would be put into effect today. Cowards.
So, I’m at the office today with only one of the lappies. My boss said that when in the office, only bring the main lappy. Cool. Done. Now, he’s breathing down my neck because he wants me to do some specialty work that I usually do for him when he asks … that can only be done on the machine/network I don’t have access to. I told him that Monday and Tuesday would be my days on prem. No, I will not do it Tuesday morning before going to the office. Management has mandated that I be in the office a minimum number of days. I’ve told you what those days are. We already agreed that I don’t work overtime. Oh, wait. It’ll have to be Thursday because Wednesday is also my day off.
Management will not be flexible with me, so I will not be flexible with them.
That said, I don’t mind going to the office. It’s a 15 minute walk from my new place. However, lugging 10 pounds of delicate/sensitive equipment with me is a problem. I bought a rolling backpack with big wheels that should help out a lot, but that’s $200 I didn’t really need to spend right now.
Then there’s the headaches of setting up in my office again and re-jigging everything to work there. I know I’m not a cat, but I really prefer to have a familiar environment all the time.
Today, there was nothing for me to do except change all my passwords in 27 different places. There was stuff to do in the OTHER environment, but my mangler had to handle it. He’s been quietly pushing the agenda of “if you have any questions, feel free to ask” that all levels have been pushing about this move. No complaints. No backtalk. It has immediately bitten them on the ass. I’ve been watching YouTube videos all day because there is zero for me to do. If I was at home, I could at least get some other things done around the house.
What pisses me off the most is that going into the office serves no purpose. I’m not geographically near my work group, so I’m not even interacting with my team personally. I still have to contact them via email or Teams chat. All this has done is force me out of the house 40% of my work week and inconvenience me so I can be less effective.
Welcome to my world - I’ve been doing this since last April. I have an hour and a half commute each way, and I’m less productive at the office than at home because it’s noisy in my area (everyone comes in and then still does meetings on Teams from their desks. Three people around me, all on the same meeting…)
I had to pull the stats from our booking tool in September and literally less than 5% of the employee population was actually adhering to policy. Of course they’ve been very careful to say they aren’t tracking this individually, so there are absolutely no repercussions if you don’t come in two days a week - I know for a fact there are people who haven’t been in the office since they mandated this. And it’s all in the name of - supposedly - “creating a collaborative culture”. Which is great, except I don’t work with the other BAs, I work with HR. And they book their desks on a different floor. And often different days.
My wife’s office tried a 3 day in the office policy. After downsizing offices and going to hotel kiosks for most employees. She has an office, but there is no one in her building she needs to see. And a large portion of her employees she hired as remote workers in the first place.
Corporate gave up on an official policy a while back and has just gone to “in the office as needed, preferably 2 days a week”
that is so hilarious!