I don’t mind Wednesdays ATM because they’re often meeting free. So I can both indulge my need to be distracted and make solid progress on my tickets. That makes the day pass quickly.

Monday’s are usually shit. My Sunday tends to be busy, then I sleep poorly because my sleeping brain starts anticipating the alarm 3 hours before it goes off, every other week I have 3 meetings before lunch, and usually a todo list left over from Friday that has grown even larger over the weekend.

Pull sword from stone, become (nearly) unquestioned ruler.

He hates Puerto Rico. And no republican supports making DC a state because it’d vote very firmly blue and they’d lose the senate for probably at least 6 years, until the next super R favorable cycle comes up again.

• He seems to really want to be the president that makes the 51st state. He mentions it a lot.
• Greenland is going to have a lot of power and probably be able to make a lot of money when arctic melt opens up the northwest passage to shipping in 10ish years, especially from the oil tankers leaving the arctic drill sites they want to “drill baby, drill.”
• Trump has always hated that we honored our agreements with Panama and gave up control of the canal. His advisors also know that climate change is going to force Panama to allow fewer and fewer ships, but MAGA has no qualms about using every last drop of their drinking water so long as shipping is unaffected.
• There seems to be a growing drum beat to invade another country. Time to place bets on who our Poland will be.

If salad could sit on the counter while the cheetos were hidden away in a crisper drawer… honestly I don’t think anything would change. But now I want chilled cheetos.

I came out the otherside by becoming a solutions architect. Now when people ask for my help I say things like “I know how to do that at enterprise scale. Here’s the $10k/month cloud solution.”

People don’t ask as much anymore.

When servers go down everyone is on call. Both of us.

The most awkward I ever ever felt as a cashier was when someone’s cart had (among a few other things) condoms, a plunger, and vaseline.

There’s a reason?

I have a minimum amount of availability I have to maintain because servers and network hardware crashes don’t care about holidays.

Today I was coming off a lovely 2 week vacation (my first break for more than a week in several years) but on Friday I got a Monday morning meeting invite set for 30 minutes before I usually start for the day. It was just a little taste of work crap to make sure the office was on my mind all weekend.

Explaining historical Something Awful is a fools errand.

I’m 0% fucked but that Something Awful post where Cliff Yablonski referred to me as “Human Testicle” will resurface.

I’m fine with that.

I’ve had 3 blobs over the years, all caused by an otherwise benign issue turned into that because filament got caught in a silicon sock.

Before the pandemic I was on the road sometimes and it surprised me how many towns / tiny cities would have 1 grocery store and then a couple fast food chains as the only (obvious) to-go food options.

Many seem to have one particular mini-mart or gas station that has surprisingly good food, but you tend to need some local knowledge to find that.

I’m with the aliens on this one. Celebrating an approximate orbit seems silly but fine, but then we throw so much into it. So many people put real mental trauma on the line because they think one day of the cycle is better for making personal changes than any other. And the amount of money that is spent is just gross. Think of how many people could be fed just for what is spent on confetti - in literally turning useful paper into garbage and dropping it on people (NYC alone dropped 100,000lbs of it last year).