◣ Yet another Wednesday◢
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Nice rain shower last night.
Sweet corn has been really good this year. Madelyn ate 3 ears, not sure where she put it.
Have I mentioned I love my new job.
I need to start baseboards in the basement, which is gonna be a wee bit challenging and require scribing, likely around the entire perimeter. That's gonna be...fun.
Couch landed so wifey is gonna be on me about getting a ceiling in so we can receive that.
Leaking?
I am dealing with a sore ankle/heel and ran on it for the first time in four days this morning. I did 5 miles on the treadmill. It still hurts but it was tolerable. Hopefully it won't hurt any worse later today and tomorrow. It's been a frustrating series of injuries for me this year.
Yeah - this instance seems to relate to some odd wind direction with heavy rain, but they're getting old and fucked up. The fact that they're under raised seam copper roofing ain't going to help.
Just throwing it out there, but the cost/time commitment is pretty imbalanced on this one. There are other projects that have a better TVM ratio that aren't worth farming out. Just gonna throw that out there...
Ran the Jeep through holy cross and red cliff yesterday, some pretty gnarly trails. Was surprised by all the different folks renting machines. Saw Russians, Orthodox Jews and Indians running around in side by sides lost in the middle of nowhere.
hey hey hey, here's what I say
I think we've landed on sugarbush for a little bro's weekend in vermont. hopefully the trails are challenging but fun and not just challenging to piss you off.
raining today- might try the time trial for the last time this season or might bail on it. They've been doing road construction and i've been doing no training, so it would really only be a testament to good tires and positioning and not actual power to get me through.
slept like shit. my narcissist boomer parents gave another excuse about not visiting and it set me off. They've seen their grandkids once this year (when we visited them) and it looks like we won't see them again until christmas. they will miss both birthdays, soccer, and everything else. I feel quite comfortable calling them deadbeats but that might be rude as I'm sure there are worse out there.
I think we've landed on sugarbush for a little bro's weekend in vermont. hopefully the trails are challenging but fun and not just challenging to piss you off.
raining today- might try the time trial for the last time this season or might bail on it. They've been doing road construction and i've been doing no training, so it would really only be a testament to good tires and positioning and not actual power to get me through.
slept like shit. my narcissist boomer parents gave another excuse about not visiting and it set me off. They've seen their grandkids once this year (when we visited them) and it looks like we won't see them again until christmas. they will miss both birthdays, soccer, and everything else. I feel quite comfortable calling them deadbeats but that might be rude as I'm sure there are worse out there.
Here. Dentist this afternoon. I was supposed to go onsite today, but that fell through, so I will be chasing down voicemails, emails, and to-do's. My FTS with work is getting pretty high, so I'm looking forward to the next step of the interview process.
I got the bill from the shop for the weekend. It wasn't as bad as I expected. They did a bunch of work on the kart Thursday/Friday and again on Saturday, which should have had a couple hundred dollars of labor, but was not billed. Instead just the team tent support cost. Not even a question as to whether it was worth it or not with the coaching, mechanical support, and saved time/effort of dealing with our own pit spot. It was totally worth it and we'll be doing it for the rest of the year and likely next season. After the saved labor cost and pit fee, it was only $275 for two days.
I talked with our neighbor, whose daughter is doing low-level competitive cheer, and they have now paid more than we have for cheer than karting. Even with the initial kart and gear costs, cheer is running substantially higher and has higher running costs. Competitive weekends are 2x more and monthly practice costs are over 2x. Amazing how much things cost... You'd never think cheer would be that much, but it's a machine of a business.
I got the bill from the shop for the weekend. It wasn't as bad as I expected. They did a bunch of work on the kart Thursday/Friday and again on Saturday, which should have had a couple hundred dollars of labor, but was not billed. Instead just the team tent support cost. Not even a question as to whether it was worth it or not with the coaching, mechanical support, and saved time/effort of dealing with our own pit spot. It was totally worth it and we'll be doing it for the rest of the year and likely next season. After the saved labor cost and pit fee, it was only $275 for two days.
I talked with our neighbor, whose daughter is doing low-level competitive cheer, and they have now paid more than we have for cheer than karting. Even with the initial kart and gear costs, cheer is running substantially higher and has higher running costs. Competitive weekends are 2x more and monthly practice costs are over 2x. Amazing how much things cost... You'd never think cheer would be that much, but it's a machine of a business.
working at the office today. it's grey and overcast. the workstation I booked isn't working - the sit-stand station doesn't stay in the sit position. squatting in another cube, hoping not to be kicked out. stupid hoteling. have I mentioned how much I dislike it?
that reminds me i want some more corn before the season is over
Nice rain shower last night.
Sweet corn has been really good this year. Madelyn ate 3 ears, not sure where she put it.
Have I mentioned I love my new job.
beginning of exhibition installation. i enjoy this part of my job.
dreary and rainy today and tomorrow-looks like the worst of the hurricane rain will stay south/east of us. should be nice this weekend.
dreary and rainy today and tomorrow-looks like the worst of the hurricane rain will stay south/east of us. should be nice this weekend.
Morning Monkeys.
No idea what this week holds. A few projects at work, none I feel like working on. Still need to do some training, but at least I FINALLY got my automation working.
It seemed so simple on paper:
Start server software
Start client software
When client starts, it connects to server and they exchange info
Validate info exchange
Kill server and client
I'm piping the console output to a log and validating the log. My Python has come a long way, but I still have a lot to learn about it and our software, damn.
No idea what this week holds. A few projects at work, none I feel like working on. Still need to do some training, but at least I FINALLY got my automation working.
It seemed so simple on paper:
Start server software
Start client software
When client starts, it connects to server and they exchange info
Validate info exchange
Kill server and client
I'm piping the console output to a log and validating the log. My Python has come a long way, but I still have a lot to learn about it and our software, damn.
Cheer is ridiculously expensive. My niece did competitive cheer for 10 years, my Sister/brother In-laws would drop an average of $10K-$15K a year for the team, tumbling coach and travel/hotel etc. Sad thing is, there is no scholarships for it so you can't even break even in college. She is now a cheerleader at Vanderbilt, but its all out of mom & dads pocket. Yeah, I'll pass
Also tonight American Graffiti is in theaters, but I am unable to attend. That is a movie about my surroundings a few decades before me. Ron Howard plays a kid from my high school, its a shit hole.
Linville will be sunny with a high of 70 on Friday. I assume you are gonna fuck it ?
I've got time but not money, so this is one me. Besides, I'm good with trim work and don't mind a challenge.
Realistically, the only reason I can afford to do what I do is because I'm doing the work myself. My out of pocket cost of $8K to do the basement would easily be $30K+ if someone else was finishing it.
Got bike back from mechanic here in town; fork and shock serviced, derailleur tuned up (I couldn't figure out what was up with the laggy shifting), rear wheel re-tensioned, new brake pads, general bolt twiddling. Gonna try and get out for a wee ride at lunch today to shake it out, stoked that she's ready to rip Squamish this weekend.
will you be back by the 5th? considering a Tuesday 1-day Crest Fest.
Might return to the gym today. Feeling kinda normal in terms of function, though still in some pain. The benefits of being alive, I guess.
We return to Denver late Monday the 4th, staying with the Canadan that night and then heading back to Exitville Tuesday the 5th... so likely out for any Crest Fest Shenanigans you are planning. But not guaranteed out, so keep me in the loop.
Also… I probably should have been paying a bit more attention to my noisy-ass brakes. Woof.
At least they are fairly evenly worn out front to back and left to right… FWIW.
At least they are fairly evenly worn out front to back and left to right… FWIW.
You use your brakes?
Brakes on the Sprinter are supposed to be done 9/28, going to be interesting to see what they look like.
Oh for sure. I do seem a lot faster on the internet, though.You use your brakes?
(And there is a *small* chance that I actually got 1200 miles out of that set of pads... though it seems unlikely. I just don't remember having changed them since I got the bike until now)
