April Fools again

Nice weather in the MidWest this week.
70s today and maybe low 80s tomorrow.
Still holding my breath in case there's the usual Easter
Surprise Snow Storm. We might miss it this year...
Have to clean out my office next week.
My employer is closing buildings and making
almost everyone work from home.
They don't pay for Internet either... :( Cheapskates!

It works out for me, but I need a real desk at home.
It would be nice to keep my old clunker of a J5000 ,
but I know my wife will freak if I try to bring that home.
It was/is a very good workstation. Never gave me any trouble,
except when they did 'generator tests' at work and power cycled
the building every 3 months.
I used to have a little trouble because they shut off the A/C
at work at night and on weekends, so I had it moved to a
'computer room' that had 7x24 AC and Power.
Now they are closing the building.. {sigh}

Talking about saving money, they are making me and about 10 other people spend a week
at a DR site to do stuff that could be accomplished easily from home. What a waste!
But some bean counter gets to check a column in a spreadsheet some where.

Bored

Nothing much happening.
Happy Valentine's Day to anyone who's reading.

on vacation

Well, I'm 'off' this week. Boring.
My son had some friends over last Friday and they decided
to have a flour fight at 3am in the living room.

When they tried to clean it up, they used water!
Flour+Water=Paste... arghhhhhh

The Gunpowder Plot

"Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot."

of course, most Catholics will not forget this date.
This started (yet another) reign of terror on mostly
English Catholics by James the 'Sixth and First'.

My parents wouldn't let me attend 'Guy Fawkes night'
celebration because they commemorate the burning at
the stake of poor Guy Fawkes.

Last of the Summer Wine

No, not the iconic British comedy.
Well September. Nothing much has changed except kids now going to
school. Both are in High School now. My son is a Freshman. My
daughter is a Senior.
That mean I have to get up at 6am now to wake them up for school.
They used to get themselves up and get the bus. Now I have to drive
them.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

More work at work, and more work coming in. It's all being pushed back
and the EOY will be a real nightmare.

Happy Day!

I downloaded some of the free MIT Physics and Maths lectures.
Boy, I used to understand this? I think I might be able to
stumble through is again, but it brings back a lot of memories
from when I was a 17 year old University undergraduate.

July update

Not much happening except a ton of work.
Some idiot on our account agreed to install 30+ servers in a ridiculously
short period, without following any processes, including design...

One the personal front, more angst.
My Eldest call from Georgia. Some dude broke into their trailer
at 3am and walked into her bedroom. \
When her husband started to get up he shot him...
Fortunately, he's going to be O.K., but my grandson is
'Chillin' with us until they get a new house. They're moving
next to the Cop Shop and damn the expense. Everyone is rattled...
I don't blame them. I had a dude come at me with a knife in my appartment
years ago - it's scary. ...

Anyway the 30+ servers are mostly up and running ahead of 'schedule'...
Our reward is more of the same and 'Oh, please make sure to take your
vacation time soon'.... double ugh!

May flowers

May's almost done. the kids will be out of school next week.
Nothing much to add.
The 15% salary cut in April is still biting.
I got the 10% 'temporary cut' back in May, but still
95% and bills growing, unpaid, whatever.

No signs of intelligence from the new owners of my company.
They recently sent out an announcement about mandatory
closing of offices in December. They just bought a huge
Service company - Hello, anyone at home?

As we used to say, only scum and cream rise to the top.
and there isn;t much cream any more..