tinfoil, whiskey, and computers

Me with 4 eyes.

I am old.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
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Borrowed from anotherkaren

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1. Do we know each other outside of LiveJournal?
2. What's your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if I asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

When a customer already isn't paying you any additional money AND you are offering them free services they haven't paid for, can it be considered a threat when they say they are going to leave for the competition?

I make perhaps the best bloody marys around. Complete with all the garnishes.

I didn't get picked in the TC 10 Miler lottery. That sucks. My friend did and she's pissed because no one else got in. I told her I would train with her. She already has a weight trainer but I think we might join a run club or get a run trainer.

The goal this month was to lose 10% of my body weight.  It was more of a lofty goal that I would try hard to get but probably not reach in one month.  My friend and I have a weight loss bet this month.  I've been working out really hard and watching what I eat.  Everyone I see that I haven't seen for even 2 weeks says I am looking slim now.  The month is only about 2/3s of the way through and I've already made it over 60% of the way to 10%.  If I want to fudge it a bit and drop weight like a wrestler I could easily hit my goal on the final weigh-in.

I will certainly hit the goal next month if not this month.  I'd like to hit another 8-10% past that by end of July.  20% in 3 months used to seem so difficult but it's proven pretty easy now that I've put my mind to it.  Then, once I hit the low, I will probably start to pack on more muscle again.

I just got a promotion and raise today.  I am having a BBQ at my house on Friday to celebrate.  You are all invited, I'm providing all the food and booze.

I think my feet may need a few days to recover from the blisters, but I just did 5 miles.  I actually really like the new course I ran today too.  It's mainly a maintained trail the whole way, crosses over a lake, and a lot of people use it so you get to see a lot of faces.  I can also continue on the trail further than I did when I add more distance.

Moleskin.

I'm up to 4.5 mile runs now.  This Saturday I am bumping it up to 5 mile runs.  Then I start bumping up the pace and possibly/probably biking then running in preperation for some triathlons.  I am supposed to do the Twin City 10 miler in Oct.  I should definitely be ready by then considering I've double my distance in a little over a week.  It will take a bit to hit the next plateau, maybe a few weeks, but then I should be up to probably 8 mile runs or something like that.

The biking is going ok but man it's a pain in the butt, literally.  I have the gay biker shorts with the padded ass and everything.  I've only been doing the biking for 4 days, so I'm not expecting dramatic results just yet.  It hits the quads in a different spot than running so I have to build up that endurance there.

Anyway, good times.  It's a good way to get rid of the frustrations of the day.

Find your own pose!

At least, it's the first customer complaint that I'm aware of.

Yesterday I refused to help a customer configure their Cisco switch.  I looked at their Cisco log files, told them what was wrong and what to change, but I wouldn't walk them through how to do it.  I don't work for Cisco, we don't support Cisco, customer's have support contracts directly with Cisco.  I told him to call Cisco to find out how to make the changes I specified (even telling him those changes is above and beyond our required support agreement).

The customer called their sales team who then complained to my boss. It gave me a good chuckle since my boss is on my side.

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 85% Spider-Man 75% Superman 55% Green Lantern 55% Hulk 50% The Flash 50% Robin 40% Supergirl 40% Catwoman 35% Wonder Woman 30% Batman 20%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

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From: rev_p

You Are 29 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

If you have a 2U ICON system, use the 2U ICON system serial cable.

Wow, that's pretty intense stuff right there.  Just reading that out of context (or, really, even in context) is hysterical.  Do we really need to tell people if you have product A then use the product A cable as opposed to some other random cable?  Apparently we do.  Of course, user manuals are exercises in futility as no one reads them anyway.

I'm 31, go me!

I didn't get the job.  Instead they decided to change the role of the position (again) and hired 2 people instead of 1 to do different roles than they originally defined.  The original role they defined was sketchy as well.

The hiring manager said he had a lot of respect for me but I didn't explain well enough what it is I bring to the table.  I reminded him I sit 10 feet from him and have a HUGE whiteboard where I list nothing but broken processes and my solutions to them.  Not sure why he would forget that in an interview or why it was worth rehashing.

I also told him I was a bit disappointed in the way they went with the role.  Not with the people they chose since I know they will do fine, but with the process.  There was never a clearly defined job description.  I never knew exactly what they were looking for, just the general idea.  So that's how I approached the interview, in generalities rather than specifics.  I told him he just confirmed to me it was unclear since they decided to hire 2 people instead of the original 1 position and changed the roles of both positions.  One will be a web developer (not at all in the original description) and the other will be taking phone support calls from our field engineers (also not in the original description).

It was supposed to be a process implementation and documentation role.  Apparently their processes are so broken they can't even define a job role.  That might just be part of the problem.

I hate the politics of business.  It's all so silly.