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Aug. 14th, 2018 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomdreamsSo, what's going on.
threemeninaboat is using the Spitfire as her daily driver for the rest of the week, while her usual car is in the shop. I've been working on getting it as reliable as possible. I drove it over to my brother's house last night to see how it does at highway speeds. As I was backing out of the driveway, the Russian guy from down the street came running out, yelling, "I love your car! I love your car! Take me for a ride!" He still thinks it's a Fiat 124 Spyder. I haven't convinced him that it's like the Vespa ripoff of a Spyder.
My coworker and I, after some long phone discussions, have decided to close Mad Scientist Hut. When the fab company who built the chips I based my projects on ran out of fab space and stopped making chips, and our order stock vanished, orders dried up across the range. It was our halo product.
I will enjoy having a bit more time: that was a sink. But it also paid for a _lot_ of really neat equipment. The downside being: I didn't have time to use some of the equipment that it paid for.
I'm overwhelmed at work, because while we hired someone new, while he's coming up to speed I am training him as well as handling all the things I was doing before, when I was covering for the guy whose death necessitated us hiring a new person. I'm not great at multitasking. However, when I have a largely unsolvable problem, like using language one to call a function in language two, that is returning junk probably because I don't have access to the code in either language one or language two, just the APIs, it's really nice to have a couple of other projects that are deterministic to go spend time on while I try to think of yet another way to fight my way to code victory.
The hip crowd in my office go hiking every Friday morning, getting up at some unbelievable time in the morning and jostling up to the top of a local mountaintop, and then coming into work at our normal start time all full of camaraderie and stuff. They've talked me into coming out with them, not Friday, but Saturday, to go climb a couple of mountains a short distance from Leadville, and because I have a particular fondness for those specific mountains, I didn't take as much talking as they'd expected. So we're all sitting around making plans for how we're going to get up there (120 km of highways, followed by 7 km of serious offroad) and everyone's all talking about food and water and one of my coworkers asks me "what are you bringing?" and I'm all "a really thick hat and some heavy gloves." Conversation stops and coworker says "... how cold do you think it is up there?" I'm all "well, at 5AM, what is it down here, like 65F?" He nods. "So that's 20F up on top." Cue everyone pulling out their smartphones and looking at weather stations and revising their packing plans. I don't like to be the crabby old get off my lawn dude, but I have been stuck, on that mountain, in August, in snow so heavy not only could I not see the path I couldn't see the mountain so I just sat down until I could see the mountain again, and I have vivid memories of how cold I was. Soooo we'll see how that goes. Probably it will be beautiful and sunny and no problem at all.
The other night I disassembled all the dishwasher I can get to, and disassembled all the parts of the stuff I disassembled, and went through everything with a toothbrush and fine screwdrivers, cleaning out every snippet of material I could find. It was a gob about the size of a grapefruit when all collected together. Ever since, the dishwasher actually appears to be washing dishes, for the first time in like a year or so. That's been nice. There is a certain question as to time savings when I have to fussy-wash the machine that washes things.
I saw a recursive tattoo the other day, a tattoo of a woman who had a tattoo.
threemeninaboat is using the Spitfire as her daily driver for the rest of the week, while her usual car is in the shop. I've been working on getting it as reliable as possible. I drove it over to my brother's house last night to see how it does at highway speeds. As I was backing out of the driveway, the Russian guy from down the street came running out, yelling, "I love your car! I love your car! Take me for a ride!" He still thinks it's a Fiat 124 Spyder. I haven't convinced him that it's like the Vespa ripoff of a Spyder.My coworker and I, after some long phone discussions, have decided to close Mad Scientist Hut. When the fab company who built the chips I based my projects on ran out of fab space and stopped making chips, and our order stock vanished, orders dried up across the range. It was our halo product.
I will enjoy having a bit more time: that was a sink. But it also paid for a _lot_ of really neat equipment. The downside being: I didn't have time to use some of the equipment that it paid for.
I'm overwhelmed at work, because while we hired someone new, while he's coming up to speed I am training him as well as handling all the things I was doing before, when I was covering for the guy whose death necessitated us hiring a new person. I'm not great at multitasking. However, when I have a largely unsolvable problem, like using language one to call a function in language two, that is returning junk probably because I don't have access to the code in either language one or language two, just the APIs, it's really nice to have a couple of other projects that are deterministic to go spend time on while I try to think of yet another way to fight my way to code victory.
The hip crowd in my office go hiking every Friday morning, getting up at some unbelievable time in the morning and jostling up to the top of a local mountaintop, and then coming into work at our normal start time all full of camaraderie and stuff. They've talked me into coming out with them, not Friday, but Saturday, to go climb a couple of mountains a short distance from Leadville, and because I have a particular fondness for those specific mountains, I didn't take as much talking as they'd expected. So we're all sitting around making plans for how we're going to get up there (120 km of highways, followed by 7 km of serious offroad) and everyone's all talking about food and water and one of my coworkers asks me "what are you bringing?" and I'm all "a really thick hat and some heavy gloves." Conversation stops and coworker says "... how cold do you think it is up there?" I'm all "well, at 5AM, what is it down here, like 65F?" He nods. "So that's 20F up on top." Cue everyone pulling out their smartphones and looking at weather stations and revising their packing plans. I don't like to be the crabby old get off my lawn dude, but I have been stuck, on that mountain, in August, in snow so heavy not only could I not see the path I couldn't see the mountain so I just sat down until I could see the mountain again, and I have vivid memories of how cold I was. Soooo we'll see how that goes. Probably it will be beautiful and sunny and no problem at all.
The other night I disassembled all the dishwasher I can get to, and disassembled all the parts of the stuff I disassembled, and went through everything with a toothbrush and fine screwdrivers, cleaning out every snippet of material I could find. It was a gob about the size of a grapefruit when all collected together. Ever since, the dishwasher actually appears to be washing dishes, for the first time in like a year or so. That's been nice. There is a certain question as to time savings when I have to fussy-wash the machine that washes things.
I saw a recursive tattoo the other day, a tattoo of a woman who had a tattoo.
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Date: 2018-08-15 04:18 am (UTC)That hike sounds fun, despite the possibly cold temperatures. Maybe because it has been 100 degrees here.
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Date: 2018-08-15 01:46 pm (UTC)And yay, the puissance of the dishwasher cleaning! Long may its efficacy endure!
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Date: 2018-08-15 04:21 pm (UTC):^)
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Date: 2018-08-15 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-15 10:53 pm (UTC)*She made me promise to *not* summit a 14er until she is along so she can congratulate me at the trailhead when I'm down.
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Date: 2018-08-17 11:45 pm (UTC)Good luck tomorrow!
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Date: 2018-08-21 03:04 pm (UTC)Wish I was handy :)