Sometimes I have to check that I’m not in the “Things you wish you could say” forum.
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LOL, nice. We are in fact, done. Except for the remote users who got pushed to 2019.
The report modifications I’ve been working on for the past few months got approved with no questions at today’s CAB meeting. Now we just need final approval and I can move it into Production and get HR off my back - at least about this!
This should come in the 'What game are you playing?" thread, but I feel very happy about finally reaching my Elite:Dangerous goal.
All done on the Mac client, which is going bye-bye in about a month when the Q4 update lands.
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Latest version of Proxmox is sooooo much better than what they had a few years ago. (Virtualization with QEMU)
It offers HA, quick migration etc. Should be interesting to test it.
One of my good friends was too wasted to drive home after her shift last night, so asked if I would take care of her. I got to test out her $130k Mercedes roadster and then drive it back to my place because getting a cab from there was deemed to be too expensive. I delivered it back to her this morning and then caught the bus to work.
Wow. That is one hell of a car. It took me a few minutes just to figure out all of the controls!
#trust #respect #whosagoodboy
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And final approval granted. This will save HR a metric fuckload of work, which will make my life easier as well.
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I’ve played Elite, but I just cannot play it for any serious length of time without getting frustrated with it. So many things in it just take SO DAMNED LONG to do. Even just getting enough money to buy new ship parts takes forever, let alone getting a new ship (not to mention you sort of need to apply the EVE Online principle of “Don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose”.)
I picked it back up again for a couple days after I found VoiceAttack and a John De Lancie voicepack to have Q snarking back at me from my ship’s computer, but even that couldn’t hold me to it very long…
Our new car’s fuel economy is rated at 4.1 litres / 100km (lower is better there), making it one of the most frugal around. Not the absolute best, but pretty well up there. That rating is done in a closed track so that they can get realistic comparisons between vehicles without external influences like wind etc - so getting that rating in real world conditions is really difficult.
I just got 4.0 litres / 100km. It was a 42km trip (about 25 miles) with plenty of hills so it was a decent run.
Just for comparison, that’s 58.8 mpg US or 70.6 mpg imperial
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Got the gutters and rainwater tank sorted out before the start of the rainy season.
We need a couple of extra tanks tbh, so hopefully we will be able to purchase a couple of extra tanks to store rainwater in.
First snow of the year! I love snow. People think I’m mental, but I just love it.
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If it snows on Christmas, watch out. That usually means The Doctor’s in town (or somewhere on Earth).
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Drying dakdaughter’s hair. Or what it led to, anyway.
Last week I bought a new car and traded in the Outback (9 years, 189K miles). But I couldn’t find the lien release letter the bank issued when I paid it off 4 years ago. So technically I couldn’t sign the title over to the dealer on the trade-in yet. I had to write a check for the value of the car that they’re holding onto for about 2 weeks in case I can’t produce a clean title or the lien release letter. If I can find the paperwork, they’ll destroy the check.
Called the bank to get a new one when I made the discovery that the letter was missing and they said 3 business days to process, then it goes in USPS. That call was the 17th. As of today (the 28th), still no letter.
Tonight, dakdaughter asks me to dry her hair. It’s easiest for everyone if we sit on the floor to do this. So I sit down, plug in the dryer, and spot a clear plastic box under my bed with a bunch of old papers in it. I had forgotten all about this box! Popped it open and about 4 items deep…there’s the letter I’d been looking for!
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Red Sox win the World Series!!!
I grew up thinking I’d never see the Sox win a World Series.
They’ve won 4 in the last 14 years!
Oh yeah… It’s a seriously boring grind to get pretty much anywhere in that game.
My next challenge is to play it under Windows and learn about Engineers, planetary landings and all the cool toys you Windows players have had for so long.
You got a new knob?
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Probably a new wizards staff as well.
Last year I was pointed to http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/input/input.htm for excellent magazines with typing on teaching BASIC programming.
Sadly, it chucked up an 404 when I visited it (want to download it).
Faffed around on Google a bit, and what the hey… Internet Archive’s got it all :
https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine
Want to teach Lil Ook programming in earnest. He’s old enough to do so.
First off a basic idea on how to code a program and debug it, before we’ll move on to something more difficult.
Hopefully he’ll get serious with it as he can make a bit of money with it.
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I do think you’re mental, but not for that reason. 
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