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2013-05-30

Notes

Sore throat this morning. Wondering if I should have come in or stayed home. Only vertical due to mouthwash. The walk in this morning was kind of rough. Not because of any external force, because I am under the weather. The weather by the way is nice. It is humid, but then it is all Summer in Houston. That is normal. It is about time we had some hot. I’m not saying I like the hot. I’m just saying it is about time it showed up this year.

Malcolm X died at 39. It freaks me out to hear about famous people who died younger than I am  right now. This will only get worse as time goes on.

One of the problems with everyone having a degree is the lack of differentiation between job applicants. More and more employers are coming up with their own tests for applicants. They care less and less about how you got the skills.

This morning when I got to the bus stop, I noticed my battery was dead in my phone. Apparently, it didn’t get plugged in properly last night. I didn’t look at the plug side of the cord and  I bet it got knocked aside. Anyway. I have a spare battery in my bag usually. I popped it in and went along my business of hitting www.dilbert.com and such. The guy at the bus stop seemed impressed.

No Chinese food today for lunch. People wanted something healthy. Chubby bastards. I did come close to walking over there myself. Too much to do. Changing departments soon and trying to clean house so to speak.

China has a strategic pork reserve.

I tried shooting a video on the subject of belief structures. I failed miserably. I believe that science is just another religion. Just because you can do a bunch of card tricks and we get cool gadgets out of it does not diminish the fact that it is just something for people to believe in. It’s masia is the scientific method. The trouble is, I do not have my head wrapped around the topic. I need to do a full write up on it before standing in front of a camera.


2013-05-29

Lunch conversation

Weddings
one of the guys got married in Brazil last weekend. He spoke at length about all the things that went wrong and how much money he spent. I have a feeling the better half of the couple would have emphasized other things like dresses or food.
One of the ladies spoke of her wedding that was very Indian. It takes two days and has many superstitions associated with it. She made no mention of money.
I mentioned my wedding and the kilts. People got a kick out of that.

Bulldozers
One of the ladies didn’t understand right off what we meant by bulldozer. We had to explain it to her. This was more due to a language barrier. This is a reminder how I now work for a truly international company.
We spoke about the guy who stole a tank and knocked down telephone poles. I mentioned my friend who owns a bulldozer he got used. He uses it to maintain his land.
I walked out of the lunch room on the story of the guy who made a bulldozer into a tank and how the cops had to climb the side of it and shoot him between bits of metal to stop him.

Notes

They mowed the strip of land surrounding Westheimer where I walk. That is, they mowed most of it. There  is some construction is going on with the drainage sewers. Nothing is mowed very close to the edge. There are spaces where concrete or paint or something has been sprayed all over the place.

They say “zed” in the UK when referring to the letter “z” J-Z is J-Zed. I’m not kidding. I hear the same happens in Canada and Australia. The U. S. the outlier.

Our old phone system has a loudspeaker mechanism. Anywhere on the floor or even in our part of the building you can hear th “page all” announcements. Anyone can make the announcements. i will shed few tears when we pull the rug from under this mechanism. Our new phones have nothing like this. They are Java, so we have toyed with the idea of hacking them, but no. One of the guys has a novelty Star Wars noise maker he want’s to use on the last announcement before the plug is pulled.

Getting old. Can’t wear my contacts for days on end any more.  Thisis just one of those things that happens. Not sure what it matters.


2013-05-28

Notes

The walk in this morning was pretty cool. Well, it was hot but the walk was nice. The grass was dry. I had to throw a rock at a stray dog’s feet to keep it from following me across a bunch of dangerous streets. Something different at least. I also saw two hawks flying one behind the other backlit by the dark blue and pink sky. It made me glad I put in my contacts this morning.

Some people believe in God. Some people believe in science. I say the two are belief structures. Just because God does not stand in front of you and wave a bunch of tentacles demanding to be believed in does not mean there is no god. Just because science has helped the human race develop some pretty cool toys does not mean it holds the answers to the universe and enlightenment. Relax and roll with the punches.

No dictator can control all the subjects all the time.

I like it. The big retail chains are finally figuring out that the internet is the window by which people decide whether or not to patronize their establishment. They are only about a decade behind the curve. Some industries really need a generation to die off for change to come about.

Listening to Europeans talk about resources is like listening to middle school kids fight over a Pokemon card.


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2013-05-27

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2013-05-24

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I may have to stop drinking coffee at work. That is, I may have to stop drinking the coffee from the generic coffee maker in the lunchroom. I’ve noticed the suds that come up when I make the coffee. I’ve also noticed my stomach aches. I have drunk half a cup of coffee today. Tomorrow, I will not drink that coffee. I’ll make some with my French press that I got for Christmas a couple years ago. I will post here my findings.

The cats are both sick. Nat took the old decrepit cat to the vet for what appeared to be heart issues. He caught a cough and brought it back to the young healthy cat. The younger cat is miserable. You can tell this is his first real illness. He got a trip to the vet. Interesting racket they have there. If I knew someone had multiple animals, I would share water bowls between not super sick animals and otherwise healthy animals just to get the second animal in for visit, and a separate cost.

The whole ten to fourteen hour day thing is easing off. Thank goodness. Last couple days, I’ve been able to get out at a reasonable time and head home. I still just want to eat and pass out,but I’m there.


2013-05-19



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2013-05-18

How many scandals will it take?

There are 3 scandals blowing up all at the same time right now.

Benghazi

On September 11th the American Consulate in Benghazi Libya was attacked.  Several people died. Was this a consulate, or a front for the CIA (or both)? Were soldiers who could have been on the scene before the people died really told to “stand down”, if so by whom?

The first thing out of the mouths of our government was a blame game over a YouTube video. The second thing out of their mouths was a denial this was a terrorist attack. I seem to remember something President Obama said about Al Qaeda being vanquished for the most part. This incident was a house of cards moment for the narrative for the man running for a second term as president.

This should have been Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” moment. The MSM would have none of it.

The IRS schilling for Democrats

The IRS has been caught intimidating conservative organizations that want to be nonprofit. The IRS has apologized. The blame game is in full tilt. -It was low level employees-, -It was not just conservative organizations.- The deeper you dig the worse it gets.

The woman in charge of th4 part of the IRS that handled these requests is now in charge of the whole Obama health care thing at the IRS. She got promoted before the scandal hit. Every American is going to have to hand over their medical womb to tomb dosia to this lady and her minions over the next several years. Will she use this information to further the agenda of one way of thinking over another ... again?

Please never ask again why gun owners fear a gun registry. This is like Republicans asking fro an abortion registry.

This is Watergate all over again. This is worse than Watergate because Watergate was a couple of guys allegedly breaking into an office looking for dirt on politicians. This IRS scandal is an entity of government being used to squash the freedom to gather and freedom of speech for an entire genera of the citizenry.

Yet, the MSM will have none of it.

The DOJ getting 100+ AP reporter phone records

This has put the AP firmly in the camp of “What the Fuck Mr. President!?” The DOJ wants to know how the AP got information on a CIA thing that happened. That is not as important as the blanket -Give us the records of everyone and we will sort it out ourselves.- feeling that the reporters have been getting from the DOJ  lately.

I’m not the only one who feels the MSM has been the water carrier for the Democratic party for a long time.  Finally, said reporters are getting the idea that the idea of limiting the rights of individuals is a bad idea. For a long time it was just gun owners, people who think unions are bad for workers and anyone talking about religion except Muslims who should have their rights stomped upon. Investigating reporters who are trying to trip up the CIA activities is a bridge too far.

Reporters are starting to ask questions that the Obama Administration would rather not answer. Some have called this the MSM’s Tea Party moment.

Conclusion

At some point all three of these are going to tarnish our glowing commander in chief’s reputation as a great leader. he seems to be at the center of the storm. if one reads the news on a daily basis, one might have thought the man in charge at the moment could do no wrong. Well, until the AP thing happened. Now even the mainstream media is getting in on the act of demanding their rights. how dare they?

Maybe anti establishment people are not the best people to put in charge of the establishment. But, the Progressives are the ones in charge now. They use the IRS, FBI, CIA  to further their cause. Forget they are supposed to further the cause of the U. S. Citizenry.

There are whispers that a story is coming down the pike about voter fraud in the U. S.. This is another topic that i firmly believe will become front page news in the near future.  Something will have to give. The U. S. citizenry will simply not put up with getting slapped around like this for long. That is, people will eventually be drug kicking and screaming to their senses.

Work today

I’m having issues getting google drive working on the company network. I hope it is just first day connection stuff and not a policy. I only use google docs at work for taking notes about personal thoughts throughout my work day. It kind of works and kind of doesn’t. I’m going to have to keep an eye on whether the documents are really saving or if they are just caching locally.

Today was a big day at work. We “cut over” our network to the new company. I’d say things went well. The only blip was a broken main line between areas. That set us back a bit.  Other setbacks were minor.  Many people worked from home. That helped. Several people are in today cleaning up the labs and testing things off the network.

Fiber cables are fragile.

Today I heard someone from the cabling company helping us get our network describe all the cable lengths in metric. That was interesting because normally in conversation people revert back to imperial units for comparison. Not these folks. I like it.

Distance Estimation (best guess)
4 inches is about 100 mm (101.6)
1 foot is about 300 mm (304.8)

When you change IP addresses on servers, the virus checker flips out and takes 30 minutes to calm down and let people back on the machine. This is not as disruptive as it sounds because most systems are not going to have their IP change that often, hopefully.

Wreck one Westheimer this morning

I wasn’t in one. I just had to avoid the aftermath of a wreck.

I’m on the bus. The bus rolls up just past Dairy Ashford on Westheimer. The bus I was on stopped and the driver rightly suggested going back to the stop before Dairy Ashford because they will probably turn and use Richmond.

I did. I waited. I got on the bus. I turned. the left turn on to Richmond took 15 minutes. By the time we got back to Westheimer, the wreck had cleared for the most part and traffic was mostly flowing.  If I had stayed on the original bus, I would have made it to work earlier.

You just don’t know how these things are going to play out.

Fortunetly, today turned out to be a good day to be late. That is a different post.


2013-05-16

Lunch conversation

  • Work
    • Soda machines
      • Now include Mt Dew among other new drinks.
      • The debate was between Coke zero and diet Pepsi I think.
    • Something about $230,000,000. I missed the details.
    • Projects
    • New network
      • How the labs will work
      • This one was mostly me assuring people nothing would be lost, you will just have to get to it differently.
      • Who gets a high speed connection.
    • Old phones and the last page that will happen
    • New repository software
      • Not looking forward to the learning curve.
      • Difficult to do everyday things.
    • Our past leaders
  • Mobile phones and plans
    • Access points
    • Mobile vs landline
    • Contract vs month to month
  • Weekend plans not including work.
    • Someone will probably end up taking a couple pictures at the beach.
    • Adam will probably take one of his 3 sec videos.
    • Weather should be perfect.

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  • Video games
  • Government (I tried to bring it up)
  • Women

Mostly work today. A few other things, but not much outside of what is going on with the massive changes we are all under. It is funny, but I feel like anarchy is the norm at work these days. Things keep breaking and getting fixed in a different way than before.

I wish iI could elaborate on some of them, but the information is proprietary.

Adam, you missed a pretty good lunch conversation.


2013-05-15

Notes


I woke up this morning around 3:40. I couldn’t go back to sleep. I tossed and turned. Then I went to sleep and two seconds later, my alarm went off. This doesn’t happen often, thank God. I have been on the back foot all day from it. I am starving because I didn’t want to spend money on lunch. I know it is bad because I’m looking forward to eating a sausage sandwich when I get home.

The thing I mentioned yesterday, where I intend to be alive more and refrain from letting myself be too tired to do things has kind of worked. It has helped a little bit. I fear it had something to do with the lack of sleep. I mowed yesterday after work. I shot a crappy video about it. Those count as things.

We are finally getting IP phones at work. I’ve only been waiting for about 12 years. My old company talked about getting them. Then, the smaller company laughed at the idea. Now, we get them. It will work so nice compared to the old copper system. I guess it is still over copper. It is just a much more digital copper.


2013-05-14

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Had to throw away a pair of jeans this morning. I blew a belt loop yesterday. I thought I could just ask someone who knows how to sew to put it back together, but I noticed that the material round all the belt loops looks frayed and all the seams appear to be under strain. The whole pair of pants is falling apart. The brand was no longer readable.

It has been a while since I purchased jeans. That pair might be the first of a couple that have to go. Knowing how cheap I am, I’ll probably wait for a sale and buy 10 pair. Watch for me at Sam’s.

For Christmas, I typically ask for cloths so I won’t have to go buy them myself. Those are the real gift. Last year I asked for slax or business casual kinds of trousers for work. I didn’t have any left that were serviceable. The last pair I bought were from a second hand store. They were in far better condition than what was in my closet.

My father has given me many good shirts lately. He seems to buy some and then never ware them much. I had no idea he was a clothes horse.  out of the huge pile he has given me, I have seperated about 5 that don’t fit. I’ll donate them one of these days. This has saved me a fortune in shirts.

Notes


This morning was a bit foggy. I noticed on the way in, but the view out the sixth floor window eastward toward the rising sun gave me that sense of an old village getting ready for the day. I know it has nothing to do with reality, but it was cool for a second.

Still not feeling the need to shoot videos. I feel kind of ashamed of myself. I have people on the hook for watching them and yet, don’t make them very often.

Yesterday I stopped wearing my wrist watch because it has reset itself a couple times. I have looked at my naked wrist 316 times in the past 24 or so hours. I know it has been 24 hours because as I write this the watch is back at midnight.

I’ve been sluggish for a long time. I need to be if not up, at least alive. I don’t have to be happy, I do need to be alive. This trend of mine to be down as in tired, needs to stop. I need to find the energy. I need to learn front the children I envy for their energy, that it is not a matter of energy inside me, it is a matter of will and drive. Every time I found a second wind.

POS software is Point of Sale. Think cash registers and credit card processing.  I suppose you could have a POS software package that is a POS.


One of the VPs walked by in tha hall today and looked at Mark and me. he commented that both of us smiling at an internal joke made him more worried than just about anything else. We said we were weeping on the inside. I find it interesting that a VP of my current company knows who I am.


2013-05-13

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That watch I got with the nice large numbers (I keep saying letters) has reset itself a couple times. It goes back to all zeros and needs to be completely reset to the time and date. This upsets me. It seems to be related to getting banged around. That means the battery is not connecting properly.

We have a couple of those huge UPS systems. It is nuts. it is one of the old systems. It is getting old and we have to call in on it more and more. At some point it will be more trouble than it is worth.

Had an interesting morning at work today. We had an issue with a gigantic UPS. this lead to a 3 hour lunch for many folks. I hung around for most of it and shooed people away from the trouble area. One of those days. We have so much to get done and something like this goes down.


2013-05-11




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