new year, decided to procure a replacement computer for work (to replace my 2019 intel macbook pro) and they sent me a 2021 m1 mbp. not bad, glad to be on apple silicon, and haven’t heard a cooling fan yet.
no time to set it up though as several “challenged” projects are vying for my help. sigh.
my family arrived home expecting that i had recorded a hip-hop cover of a blink-182 song. i had to explain - no - while they were out, i was planning to _wrap_ All The Small Things.
@jerzone i haven’t been logging mine locally, just sending it to wunderground. makes me think i should have kept the data, though i can query their history api i guess.
this morning i took my bucket of salt & sand to spread on a part of our cul-de-sac that’s always in the shade and currently glare ice. and i realized, my transformation is complete.
if you’re the kind of person who compares your own physical conditioning to the other people at the gym, and maybe feel bad about yourself - good news.
@jerzone i had changed my chair over to rollerblade style wheels and i had to switch back to the normal ones, i was worried about rolling onto limbs or snoots or ears.
last day of 4 days off. i haven’t had 4 days off in a row since last christmas. looking forward to all my vaca time in december, and vowing (once again) to use it more throughout the year in 2025.
my thanksgiving trip with the boys fell through and we’re home and joined in my wife’s plan to get cook-at-home thanksgiving dinner from the local bbq smokehouse and my goodness we’re eating smoked turkey all weekend and taking naps (okay i’m the only one napping because they’re not smart enough)
in the past two days we’ve gotten 1.5 inches of rain, and that’s most of what has fallen in november. and nearly half of what fell in october. it’s been astonishingly dry here. glad the pattern is changing.
the biggest lesson i’ve learned from the latest project i was parachuted into (when it was already on fire), is to call b.s. on project scope and timelines. _Especially_ when the people who wrote the proposal completely ignored the estimates provided by devs.
my septic tank pumping company sends me an email suggesting i need to get the septic tank pumped out before upcoming holiday parties and i wonder how much food they think i’m serving to my guests
one of my toughest adjustments to “checking in” on bluesky is the tooling. with (other networks and 3rd party apps that spoil me) i can open the app on mac/iphone/ipad and it scrolls to my last-viewed item in timeline. with the bluesky app i have to scroll and remember what i’ve already seen or not
so i’ve talked about it some on Masto, since i was last active on twitter, i’ve moved into Consulting at IBM. while i am able to build a lot more stuff now and use new technology (versus my previous role in Software, managing and extending an established product) i do miss deeply caring about things
while going back to that other site to opt out of training their AI, i spin through my following list and searched for friends who may have come over here. hi! 👋