Our new liaison, a crusty old warrant officer with a zillion years of experience, says it looks like I’ve got things down and he can’t think of anything I ought to be doing that I’m not.
Since I’m just making this all up as I go, this was really nice to hear.
There is a career goal for you. Try to hit WO. Then you can confuse people all over the military.
Should I salute, call you Mr.? Bow, run away? Cower in the corner or just beg to polish your shoes?
That’s an awesome stamp of approval.
I learned how jelly beans are made today. I went to the Jelly Belly factory today and took their tour. I came home with about 20 lbs of belly flops.
Yoiks! Just by reading that I could feel my arteries and heart start to protest…
Sounds fun and calorie intense. 8)
When I toured a marshmallow factory, the last step was to run the bags of marshmallows through a metal detector. I asked, “Has that thing ever gone off?”
The answer was, “No.”
I then asked, “Then how do you know if it works?”
Never did get an answer to that one.
Two things in the past two days:
Received a phone call from someone very high up in my company to thank me for a money-saving idea I turned in. It was just a “do it the normal way and it costs this much, do it this other way and we save $X” idea that no one noticed before.
Today, tried out the new A&W Root Beer Pop-Tarts. Pretty good, but the filling is almost a liquid candy. Retains heat from the toaster very well. Makes you wait for what you’ll appreciate.
I think I figured out how to use a feature on our equipment at work that’s been around for ages that nobody’s bothered to look into. Or if they have, I can’t find documentation on it anywhere beyond the snippets in the manual that basically says “it’s got capability X but we won’t tell you how to set it up”.
Dead simple to set up and use. Offers a tremendous boost in efficiency for certain situations. Can be remotely configured and training the people will use it should be easy. I’d say “will be easy” except it involves telling them to press one extra button. Of course, once they see it in action, that may quickly change.
Actually looking forward to demonstrating it next week.
Edit: Moved by Nabiki to the “What Made You Happy Today” thread per request.
I am at home, and I have beer.
I have a month to sort out my next gig and may be moving on from my new .NET programming experience and into the wonderful world of hardware. Whether on the Windows support team, VMWare virtualization team, or multiple server support I’m not sure yet.
Still, I think a change is necessary and would certainly make me happier than I am now.
Finally beat Knights of the Old Republic II.
New gig - trying to get windows and vmware clustered (two different blade servers and NAS units)
The NAS are produced by Thecus, we are using the N16850 unit.
The initial issue with Windows Server 2016 was that cluster creation and so on goes well - until you reboot one of the nodes, it breaks a lot of things. Created a ticket with Thecus, still waiting.
In desperation I slapped FreeNAS on said Thecus NAS (onboard USB port on motherboard) - and now we have zero issues. It works great, clustering works great, if one node falls over, other node picks it up and everything continue to run. FreeNAS picks up everything, no need to cook up drivers or the such.
Still struggling with VMWare, especially vSphere configuration. We’ll be havening a meeting with the supplier to discuss this issue.
So far I have learnt a lot of vmware-related things.
Won a crate full of 1l milk sachets.
Wife went out to buy a milk sachet, noticed the sell-by date on said sachet is 29 Feb… and all of the sachets have the same date.
Contacted the supplier to let them know, next thing we know is that we have won a crate full of sachets.
We don’t have a freezer, still trying to work out the logistics of this one 
Is that a 1liter bag of milk?
Make yogurt out of it.And cream, and butter, and um…
KotoR was a pretty well-done series. Even with the missing bits, KotoR2 is pretty solid.
I’d like to replay them, but the opening ‘extended tutorial’ sequence of each scares me off. I don’t want to spend hours on the elevated city-planet or wandering that mining platform again at the moment.
I wondered, too; Googled it… looks like it could be a bag, or a glass or plastic bottle, or even one of those odd cardboard boxes (like chicken broth sometimes comes in now.) Sooo, I’m still wondering.
Can you freeze milk? Well, I know you could, but is it usable after?
Apparently, yes, according to How do I store milk and dairy foods? "However, be aware that the flavor and texture of the milk may be affected. "
My mom used to freeze milk. It was not very good afterwards…
That’s why you make it into yogurt first. Or cheese.
Good to know… “it won’t kill you, but you won’t enjoy it”
Sounds like a lot of work. But then again, I don’t know about such things
You can make yogurt in a crock pot, you have to touch it like three times, takes about 8 hours I think.
Cheese is more complicated, but much more fun too. Mozzarella only so far for me.
In a crock pot? I think I’d like to try that. Home made Mozzarella sounds good. Where did you get the “how to” on that?