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The unrivaled ecstasy of figuring out your way around some stupid software glitch.
A Day at the Park, a wonderfully made short comic about Questions and Answers. Very philosophical.
Full comic here: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
What's your opinion ? What does it tell you? @Scepticalscribe obviously I request your opinion
Full comic here: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
What's your opinion ? What does it tell you? @Scepticalscribe obviously I request your opinion
I like pretzels with mustard.
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Well I used to like the moment when the results of a successful workaround were rolling off a laser printer at 3 am so I could maybe get some sleep before dragging myself back in there.
But I know how great it is to hammer some idiotic software package into doing what actually has to get done in the face of "you can't use this to get that" but when the "that" is all there is to work with. Thinking about some third gen language called Focus, oy vey. You could do almost anything with it as long as you had a maul and a chisel and room on drive for enough flat files.
What's on my mind is... ugliness of getting used to the "spring ahead" cycle of daylight saving time starting Sunday. Man if we could just do it this one last time and leave it there.
I thought we had them, but turns out we didn't. I thought I'd picked them up earlier in the year. Mustard works. Buffalo ranch is nice, too. Though I prefer a homemade buttermilk ranch with a nice hot sauce that isn't Frank's. Even with their hot wings edition and melted butter, it's too hot without the fruity flavor of any peppers present or that vinegary tang and kick. Also, saltier than other and better sauces.
Honeywheat braid pretzels go nice with honey mustard and doubling down on that light sweetness while delivering a sem-hot and earthy kick. Or you can opt for freshly made thick poppy seed dressing. Malt vinegar splashed over dry pretzels or even plain chips (crisps) works nicely.
My ultimate weakness has always been salt and vinegar chips. If I could stomach it, I could easily eat several pounds of it in a day. It's that addictive.
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Woke up after only a few hours of sleep, and the cat jumped out from under the covers. Stuart "The Buart" Danger won't be back until he gets his requisite several hours of patrolling the kitchen.
It seems appropriate to be kept from sleep while trying to figure out a workaround; like dreams, it's difficult to adequately express the poignancy, joy, and odd sense of familiarity of a successfully pulled off work around. I considered writing a small description of what unexpectedly dysfunction thing I got to function before realizing how utterly dry such a description sound to anybody not personally affected.
Did you know that "focus" is also the name of an app/game, an Ariana Grande song, and a Samsung-manufactured Windows phone? Because I didn't prior to trying to look up the language you mentioned. Well above my head but it does sound like it could be tedious. Then I tried to figure out what separates a fourth generation language from a third generation one, and Wikipedia gave back something akin to the borderline tautology of an irritated teenager ("Well, mom, a fourth generation language is one that succeeds a third generation language. Pfft!")—really helpful.
Had a bit of a lie in after a terrible nights sleep. I dozed earlier, but was then wide awake until 4 am.
Just as well I don’t have much on today.
Just as well I don’t have much on today.
Hi guys, freaking out right now (in a good way!)
Remember the interview I was going to have last week? had to get it rescheduled because the manager was sick. Rescheduled it for this past Thursday, did it and felt really good about it but didn't get my hopes up until I heard something official.
FF a few hours later, I get a call and it's the recruiter asking if I wanted to accept the offer for the position. I did and my transfer date is April 1st. Couldn't believe it happened! Happened so fast but I couldn't be more excited!!
Remember the interview I was going to have last week? had to get it rescheduled because the manager was sick. Rescheduled it for this past Thursday, did it and felt really good about it but didn't get my hopes up until I heard something official.
FF a few hours later, I get a call and it's the recruiter asking if I wanted to accept the offer for the position. I did and my transfer date is April 1st. Couldn't believe it happened! Happened so fast but I couldn't be more excited!!
I had some time with thoughts along those lines sorting out some holiday cards from over the years that belong either in a scrapbook -- family photos type of card-- or in the shredder (greetings from vendors appreciative of my patronage). Some of the people in some of the photos are so young and yet happen to have inherited the eye color or other facial characteristics that remind me of their great-great-uncles or aunts, etc., i.e. folks who may never have met those youngsters but would surely see themselves in a quick glance at such photo cards.
Certainly not to dismiss or even segue away from such concerns but I happened to read your post about 30 seconds after mistyping my 1password phrase twice on a mobile device. The "profound life change" under consideration in this household at the moment is switching up that password for one that uses only keys not dangerously near keys like "delete" or Caps Lock.
Or just caving in and letting TouchID deal with it which means stashing it on my keychain.Or you know, just scheduling a good cuppa coffee before firing up a mobile device that was conveniently at hand but had been shut down and so was doing all manner of "papers please?" inquiries when I turned it on and tried to buy a couple of replacement veggie peelers.
Gee. I'm surprised Siri doesn't by now suggest "Why not have a cup of coffee and then try again?" when I botch password entries not engraved in the right "font size" of my motor memory for the virtual keyboard at hand.
Currently, Ethiopian coffee and French apple tart.
The comfortable feeling that comes from the enjoyment of good shopping.
My favourite cousin asked me to join his table quiz team last night at short notice; a very pleasant night, and it was terrific to have been taken out of yourself (oneself, myself).
We have never placed lower than second, any time I have joined them (they are an excellent team).
The comfortable feeling that comes from the enjoyment of good shopping.
My favourite cousin asked me to join his table quiz team last night at short notice; a very pleasant night, and it was terrific to have been taken out of yourself (oneself, myself).
We have never placed lower than second, any time I have joined them (they are an excellent team).
I'm not one for cabin fever but I do like a winter that's a little more open than the one we've had around here... looking forward to a get-together next week in town with some friends. We saw a sunshine icon on the weather widget for next Wednesday and started phoning around.
I'm not one for cabin fever but I do like a winter that's a little more open than the one we've had around here... looking forward to a get-together next week in town with some friends. We saw a sunshine icon on the weather widget for next Wednesday and started phoning around.
Since my mum passed, I have spent a lot of time by myself.
I ma not one of those people who finds solitude a strain, - and often have a marked preference for solitary time, - and, have really relished the silence, which I have found soothing and healing, but even I realise that spending days on end solely by myself is not entirely healthy.
As is the mad way of life, the cousin (who is my favourite cousin, we were close as kids) who phoned me has a challenging private life - one of his daughters is profoundly autistic; I have found that those who themselves have troubled lives were the most supportive when my mum was alive, - that cousin invited me several times to join his team, a very welcome break and most enjoyable night out - and now that she has passed, continue to be so.
Agree it’s good for you to spend time with friends and family. Too much time alone isn’t good for anyone.
But solitude can be a godsend at times.
Related to the posts above… solitude and loneliness…
I can relate as I work by myself.
I can relate as I work by myself.
Congratulations! Yay!
I hope I get similar news next week: I was so nervous in my interview with 3 separate folks last Friday, I hope they’ll look past that.
Not looking forward to losing an hour of sleep going forward, probably why I slept this afternoon.
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I love that.
Congratulations! Yay!
I hope I get similar news next week: I was so nervous in my interview with 3 separate folks last Friday, I hope they’ll look past that.
Not looking forward to losing an hour of sleep going forward, probably why I slept this afternoon.
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I love that.
Thanks, the best of luck to you! I was nervous in mine but they made it a great interview. Lots of laughter and fun. Loved it. Can’t wait to join their team.
Just give in now, it's so much more practical.
That's another thing I can only control at point of purchase. If I bring them home, I will eat them until my mouth feels like it has been pickled.
Dill chips are another one. Sometimes I mix them. The pickled effect is greater. I seem to recall our transatlantic friends on here being enamored with Doritos. Something I truly don't understand because I always found most of their flavors god awful. In terms of standard flavors, I loathe sour cream and onion.
I don't care for that as a prepared flavor of potato chip either. If I want that effect with potato chips then I at least go for plain Greek yogurt or else (in for a penny, in for "a pound"),,,, some real sour cream. I also skip the bits of onion, although once in awhile I'll throw in some toasted minced onion that I sometimes buy from Penzey's, as a lazy way of doctoring on leftover lentil soup a little when I'm in a hurry. Those little green bits in commercial sour cream and onion potato chips make the chips look like aphids got caught sampling the taters...