Found out what my bonus payout is going to be on Wednesday.
I’m not unhappy.
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We made it through the first day with only a few minor bumps. I call that a win.
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Got handed a task, to get clustering enabled on two vmware esxi installs.
First part I got sorted out - enabling a datastore on a NAS with iSCSI… tomorrow it will be to cluster the two.
My wife and I have gone from people who are struggling to find money for gas, to people who are quite comfortable at our current lifestyle. I was talking to her about a kickstarter for some insanely expensive gaming aids, and I was like who spends that kind of money on that sort of silly thing… and then I realized that it was below the amount of money I allocate to myself per month as a blow budget.
I spend on random crap and sodas in a month as this item costs, at the base level.
This sounds like I’m bragging, maybe because I am some. But we’ve pulled out of the pit and are able to make intelligent decisions and afford the stupid ones.
Thankfully, as time goes on we’re getting better at allocating our money and there appears to be more of it every year. I learned the skills before there was enough money to worry about. I looked at a budget from 6 years ago, and we were feeding 5 people on $400 a month.
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We can already pay the mortgage and utities this month! And it’s only day two!!
And I sorted out a bunch of pesky little things. But we can hit building overhead this month. Which is step one. 
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Nice, congrats! Off to a great start!
My job is actively working to find ways to keep me employed.
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It’s not often that I can break out my Harley in February living in Wisconsin. But with it hitting 60 degrees today and the same forecast for tomorrow, that’s exactly what I did because I don’t go back to work until Thursday. It was nice to get back in the saddle again. 
Unfortunately, it looks like I may have to break out the snowblower again by this weekend.
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Dude, you’ve gone from dealing with cancer to having a monthly allowance for nose candy? That’s impressive!
Thankfully, as time goes on we’re getting better at allocating our money and there appears to be more of it every year.
Thanks to timing, my employer being acquired in 2015 (stock cashed out) and my most recent annual bonus, I think the only outstanding long-term debts we’ll have as of March are the mortgage, dakwife’s car (which we’re halfway through paying, and it’s a 0% loan), and dakwife’s school loans (don’t get me started). The 0% APR transfer I took to help cover our last big vacation is paid off as of the first week of March, and I’ll get the HELOC paid off thanks to the bonus (not that it was a big monthly drain, but it’ll be gone, which is one less thing I have to pay each month).
The real challenge now is going to be keeping expenses down while we save up for the next vacation and prepare for the uncertainty that I’m feeling around the office.
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A gram of blow each day - keeps the doctor away
You budget for blow? I usually see it as an extravagance.
If you don’t budget for extravagances, then you blow the budget.
Man, I had a budget for blow while I had cancer.
Seriously though, a good budget has to include a slush fund. Money that you can literally throw out the window if you want to. You don’t have to answer to your partner, your budget accountability buddy, or your conscience. You might have to defend the amount, but not what you bought with it. I’ve had a blow budget for ages, every two weeks I get cash out that goes in my wallet and I get to use it as I see fit.
I never have a “you bought what” conversation. It’s either within my personal budget, or I have to bring it up in the budget meeting. I write the budget, she approves it.
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We call it mad money - as in you can go mad and spend it on whatever you like. And I agree, you need something like that as it makes sticking to the rest of the budget a lot easier.
I’ve just bought a $1K flash gun and who cares? It’s mad money 
I finally finished watching Voyager, all the episodes in order. Ahhh. 
FrankenLaptop is alive, courtesy of a new-second-hand battery from a friend.
The “brand new genuine original” from a reputable eBay seller was FoA (F**ked on Arrival), and it’s too late to send it back. 
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I started this a couple years back but got distracted. It’s got some issues, but there were some neat ideas in the series.
I feel like it would have done great if it had the format of a modern series, perhaps BBC-style, where instead of 20+ episodes a season it gets 10 and has to end a story arc each season. Loss the chaff, filler episodes, and force the writers to be a bit more cohesive and aware of things like ship status.
Then again, I feel like a problem with Voyager and DS9 is when they got an episode that was presumably based of an idea that had been pitched for TNG and not used, so it’s re-written even if it doesn’t fit the concept as well.
Yeah, there are more than a few that make you go, WTF? But overall, it is a fun ride.
Thank you for putting my quote into Shatner-speak. 
Sorry, that should be:
Thank you…for putting…myquote…into… Shatner-speak. 
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I’m going to a local Powershell user group this evening, and I sent in a script I built that searches multiple server log files for a string.
The script pops up input windows to prompt for the string, month, and day, with today defaulting in both. It then does a nested loop to change servers and search for the string before moving to the next server.
The organizer asked me to present!
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3 of us decided to try out the ÜberEats thing by ordering a big pile of breakfast. It worked very well. The food arrived hot, delicious, and quick: 35 minutes from ordering. $5 delivery fee brought the total to just over $60. Not cheap, but I did over-order a tiny bit.
From the left:
The Big Feller omelette (bacon crumble, chopped sausage, diced ham, onion, and cheese curds), with white toast.
The Log Splitter panwich (split breakfast sausage, fried egg and cheddar between two buttermilk pancakes), with home fries.
Battered Bacon (6 buttermilk battered and deep fried bacon strips, served with 1 oz of Ontario maple syrup).
The Big Joe Montferrand panwich (two bacon strips, two fried eggs, and two slices of cheddar between three buttermilk pancakes, served with house-made tomato jam and Ontario maple syrup) with home fries.
Home Fry Poutine (home fries with beef gravy and cheddar cheese curds) as an add-on for the omelette.
Call my doctor.
I had the Big Joe and 2 slices of the Battered Bacon. I haven’t had lunch and I still feel full. I gave one slice of bacon to each of the other guys and have 2 to take home. Jesus. I thought they were going to be fried on the griddle, not deep fried. Each one tastes like it has about a quarter of a fryer of oil in it. Plus bacon. Plus pancake batter. Oh, and add a little syrup on that just for fun. Ow, my heart. Is my arm supposed to feel like this?
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