Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)
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I am so tired of people requesting I do something that is an "emergency" and then after I am ready to go I have to wait on them to decide if it is really what they want to do.
Sometimes laptop, sometimes mobile, and the internet connection is not slow for anything else. In fact, son's friend who works for Google was surprised at how fast our internet was. The site in general has seemed almost worse than before CW "fixed" it. I have given up on mobile until someone says the Walmart redirect is fixed.
Heat in the house is working very intermittently. I had been hoping to not have to worry about it for awhile but the last couple of days and the next week is not helping us. Places I have called are full two to three days out too. Bahhumbug
Had my review yesterday. Probably one of the most positive I've had with this boss. Maybe because I went into it saying "look, I'm not a programmer. It's not part of my job description, and it's not part of my skill set." Net result is that we will be compromising and working on this [piece of crap] program together this summer. It's my hope that once she starts actively trying to USE it (instead of just looking at the pretty blinking lights), she will realize how unwieldy it is, and how slow, and how completely unforgiving of errors it is. One can dream...
I was just curious...I never seem to have trouble, but I'm always on a desktop, and rarely, on my laptop (I have a hard time typing on the non-ergo laptop keyboard, and I spend so much time correcting typos that I get frustrated!).
Sounds like time for a weekend vacation somewhere warm or where the heat works.
There seems to be a shortage of people who do heating/cooling, plumbing, and especially in our area, electricians. And I think there is pretty good money in it. Kind of worried that when all the older and middle aged tradesmen I know retire, there will not be enough people to replace them. We changed insurance and needed an electrical inspection. We got a guy to come do that quick and asked him about some upgrading. He said for anything more than an inspection, he was booked for the next two years.
A bird made a nest in the chute of our chipper sometime between Tuesday afternoon and this morning. I don't think it'll be happy when it returns.
It's like that in my town too. I'm not saying this is bad, but there's a lot more kids going to college instead of straight into the workforce.
We can get Amish to do quite a bit, but electrical really isn't their thing. I don't think vocational training in high school is as good as it was when I was a kid. And more kids are into video games and electronic devices than actually doing any kind of manual work. A friend of my son's who couldn't put down the video games and flunked out of ISU is now actually a pretty good heating/cooling/HVAC guy though.
Schools should be encouraging kids to get into the trades. There will always be a need for carpenters, plumbers, electricians, HVAC etc. I know welders that make a real good living.
Sweatshirts & space heaters for those tweener days.
Yeah we will survive. MrsWx is the one that doesn't like the cold and she will be gone all day tomorrow. Just a little annoying to have to turn it off and on until it works for a bit.
I turned my heat on Wednesday after work.
It was 58 in the house and it wasn't going to be getting any warmer.
It was 58 in the house and it wasn't going to be getting any warmer.
I usually go to Fridays of the Drake relays with my brother. I totally wimped out today. It is raining and 39 degrees here right now. Plus no umbrellas. He's nine years older than me and keeps using that to give me grief.
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