Nate is going rapid fire on us!
Lookout! Denverpilot is coming in hot!
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Just catching up. 
SkyDog58
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Trying to up his lackluster thread count.
Only 26k more posts, that's uh, about 6-8 months?He knows I'm catching up.
Don’t you have students to teach Nate
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Don’t you have students to teach Nate
Nah, too busy building a computer and waiting for Windows to finish installing "service packs". (my guess)
Tim
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Don’t you have students to teach Nate
Nope. Haven't flown in almost a month. I'm only moments from ripping someone's head off, most days, right now, due to various day-job related stupidity that has been in the way of doing ANY flying.
Well that and an occasional "Hey, I've got three hours today available, I could go flying! WTF? IMC in DENVER?!" moments... not that I wouldn't have appreciated going up in that, but I need an IPC and getting up like that with my CFII at a moment's notice wouldn't be easy...
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Close... but AWS crap not desktop crap today.
Have had quite bit of those situations around here for the past few weeks it seems like. I can relate.
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lol, well I am helping a local developer get his environment setup and two remote developers with virtual terminals at AWS.
I really need to get a new company started and get out of my current job.
Tim
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After a week of “Oh, this new project customers are demanding is going to be really cool and good for my resume’”... and “we want you to work on this immediately”...
And then a week of cooling my heels waiting on the powers that be to make a decision about it... while clearing other projects and starting work on the new one...
And then two different people leaking words that indicate that I won’t be leading it up at the end of week three while waiting for news, (a day before the holiday weekend)... along with specific wording that sounds like they’re looking for an outside candidate to do it...
And finding out they held a major meeting on the whole thing without me, which may or may not have been an oversight or just two people who should know better, being total jerks...
Can’t tell yet on that last one, but various leading questions have pointed slightly more to jerk than oversight.
And even a political move that makes sense from a project manager to tell all of us to back off the new project so he can push for more help, since even if it was my new thing to run, we’d still need to hire staff...
I’m mostly daydreaming about quitting.
Waste of three weeks I could have been out finishing the CFII.
My GAF meter went from well above average about this place, to pegged on zero for the last two workdays.
Financially it wouldn’t be a total disaster, either. Which isn’t helping me stay motivated.
We scheduled a major phone system upgrade for June 7/8, so can’t do the CFII next week either.
Biggest problem is I was raised to be a responsible bastard and not walk out on anyplace in disgust.
Plus they’re paying me very well to cancel all the stuff I was working on and let me sit here posting this... and doing much less useful crap on the AWS farm...
Just a normal Tuesday. Move along, nothing to see here.
He knows I'm catching up.
Sort of like the horses chasing Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes in 1973.
Cheers
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I know, sounds good though. Not really though, Nate has no equal.
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@denverpilot -- Damn Nate, how many words per minute do you type?
It's incredible that your cranking out those epistles so quickly.
It's incredible that your cranking out those epistles so quickly.
I think he should change his screen name to Egyptian Cotton
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Voice recognition Rav.
Voice recognition is the only possible explanation, short of his own personal harem of silken haired, scantily clad typists.
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It’s up over 80, but haven’t checked in years.
See why we need to cancel all extracurricular courses in schools? Some jerk in a room full of IBM Selectric typewriters taught me how to do this.
If the world only knew that they could have sent a Terminator back in time to destroy the entire Typing class...
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So... you rocking buckling spring, Cherry MX or membrane dome switches?
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I’m all about the buckling spring when I can get it, but the Kensington at work has something that feels similar to Cherry MX. I rock the Kensington Pro Fit Wired Comfort Keyboard at work. $29 and it’s close enough to perfect that I’ll take it.
The original chicklets on the Tandy Color Computer Model I taught me to absolutely hammer on keyboards and keys, so the noisier the better.
Buckling spring have gotten so spendy that they go against my grain to buy them anymore. Last one I had wasn’t USB and I couldn’t bring myself to pay a significant percentage of the total machine price to add one.
I can also abide the Apple chicklet full size wired one, but not my favorite. Still need the Kensington rodent with it though, in large size. Big paws. The extra buttons don’t really work on Mac, but I don’t care. Middle scroll wheel is still a must have, though. Trackpads can suck it.
