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@mescutia indeed! on my wife’s side, we have various grandparents and extended fam who worked for Ford. i haven’t bought anything but Fords since 2001. its getting difficult because i want to buy a small to medium sized car soon, and they don’t make cars besides the Mustang anymore.

taken shortly after i got done replacing the APIM in the Escape. we just bought it and in the process of updating Ford Sync from 3.0 to 3.4, someone* bricked the APIM.

* it was me

new fleet photo.

this is how my day went.

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@danyork you could ease into it by instead selecting only days with an “n” in them.

saturday. can’t mow the lawn today. it’s snowing. ❄️

@annika doesn't NASA post huge stitched-together images?

update: this was fun for a while, but the long-term plan is to have another corporate-issued laptop on a shelf again, so the additional 27" was donated to a better cause (a driving sim rig in the basement)

a while back i was doing a woodworking project and i needed a nailset (used to hammer finish nails to slightly under the surface of the wood without denting the wood with the hammer). i couldn't find one forever. and i have two of them!

when i finally found them both, i also realized - i only have two boxes of finish nails.

so i put a nailset into each box.

today is a preemptive ibuprofen kind of day

@annika @mathowie Industrial music is ripe for a comeback!

@mescutia have you considered just github pages? for static sites it's pretty easy and you can map a domain to it also https://docs.github.com/en/pages

@jerzone congrats!

@jdarnold 12:12 indeed.

this little “summer preview” allowed us to uncover and test the air conditioning to make sure it’s ready when “summer preview 2” or “real summer” arrives.

now we’re back to having the windows open and tomorrow morning it might be chilly enough to use the pellet stove.

@akahn

it’s been really wild how much of my “identity” i wrapped up with my employer. but now im realizing what the limitations of that were also. i’m free now.

ooh even better. we’re just hanging out together.

zoom in!

News: my time as an IBMer has ended, after nearly 10 years in Software and Consulting.

I'm looking for new remote opportunities to do UX Architecture, Front-end Dev, Design Systems, or generally bolster teams and contribute to good apps and sites that help people. I have 30 years of experience making things for the web.

I've been building an automated workflow to help me with my search, you can read about it here: https://mikesusz.dev/blog/job-search/

feel free to reach out or forward, thanks!

the lilacs by our deck are starting to bloom and you wish your nose was here.

@atpfm re: overtime, this is how Grady Booch described english as coding language. a new layer of abstraction. (one of the podcasts he’s talked about this on) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-third-golden-age-of-software

Spicy robot.

@Meyerweb star-crossed netmasks

now that i don't need the laptop shelf, would adding another 27” be egregious? 🤔

the grown-up version of ‘the floor is lava' is 'the kitchen floor is mopped and still wet’

@marcamos for me it's watching their battery percentage in the menu bar dwindle. just plug it in! what the heck?

tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

i spent way too long and had way too much fun updating my colored design on my website to more closely resemble the album that inspired it. https://mikesusz.dev/

(it redraws a different pattern on every page load or on window resize)

you can see my inelegant but functional <canvas> code here: https://github.com/mikesusz/mikesusz.dev/blob/main/src/components/BlueMondayStrip.astro

less- imagine: dragons
more- imagine: nachos

lol it just keeps digging.

@snugug my kids have tried every brand we have access to, there are some they don't mind but yeah, we went through a lot that feel and taste like you're eating playdough with sand mixed into it

it's monday! this should be a very interesting week.

my oldest turned 17 today and my younger son is practicing driving so i totally don’t feel super old at all thanks.

i’ve got a lot to get done outside tomorrow! oh…

this is perhaps the most beautiful piece of music i’ve ever heard. https://youtu.be/owNOQeplt0Q

tonight i couldn’t remember the name for “crinkle cut fries” so i just called them “corrugated fries”

so to make this less cryptic, unless something dramatic happens, my run as an IBMer is going to end soon. i was never a really great fit in Consulting; i like to care deeply about my work, to make things better and to be a force multiplier that bolsters those around me. in IBM Software i was able to accomplish this. in IBM Consulting, i am “too expensive” in an organization that emphasizes “fast” and “cheap” more than “good.”

today i received an email that my computer from work is eligible to be upgraded. this is hilarious, as i’ve never received one of these emails before. i started at IBM in 2017. i got a new computer in 2021 when i was laid off and rehired (obviously). i requested an “emergency” replacement last year to upgrade my 2019 intel-based macbook pro. they sent me a used 2020 m1 macbook pro.

given the everything that’s currently happening, this is extra ironic.

just watched The Sixth Sense with my boys. they had not been spoiled. it was amazing to watch them figure it out, like i did 27 years ago.

AI is really great but when you want to find an image on the internet you have to perform seven levels of spongy human brain jujitsu to find a version of a picture that doesn't look like a block-print made with a potato

home from seeing Bring Me The Horizon in Worcester, MA.

yes, i am too old for that. but what an amazing show. i have so much respect.

and my kids absolutely loved it.

the moon is all cinematic tonight.

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@Akki @jerzone aha, thanks for the notes. this is on my list, i just need to identify a time when the fam is out of the house/i can have the water shut off for a while.

@jerzone @Akki ohh i wonder if i can do this to fix our slow shower instead of purchasing a new mixing cartridge for (checks notes) seventy eight dollars.

@cabel i love that they know who Columbo is.