Random Thoughts

Busy week. Lot of work. I feel like I’m in the IT equivalent of having to peel a dump truck full of potatoes. Very tedious.

We really are entering an age of stupidity and competence. Found this at GunFreeZone:

How in the name of Zeus’ wrinkled ball-sack, do you raise a child who does not know what a toll is or how to pay one?

J.Kb at GunFree Zone

She’s clearly spawned an imbecile. And wrinkled ball-sack cracked me up.

Speaking of imbeciles, Found at BustedKnuckles:

This is a full grown adult assed male and this motherfucker can’t grasp the concept of direction.

I had a conversation with Irish about this kind of shit a short while back and the next day it dawned on me that because I am reasonably intelligent, I automatically expect most people I see are too.

Phil at BustedKnuckes

That’s my problem. I can’t figure out some of these people. I keep thinking “Man, I’m not that smart. How do they not get this?” I think it’s a mixture. I’m pretty intelligent, and like Phil, I have problems grokking that others can be so stupid.

Girlfriend is out of control now that it’s cooler. She spends most of her time outside, usually raising hell at everyone she can see. Annoying as it is, it warms my heart that Winston is starting to join the fun. Although, every now and then I hear the growl and snap as she ‘counsels’ Winston. Women. What can you do? (That’s usually the look on his face)

Speaking of stupid, I get these a lot:

The answer is clearly none. Not one motorcycle in those pics. Those are scooters. Skipping for none doesn’t work.

I use emojis now. What is the world coming to?

Speaking of more stupid, I went to a doctor appointment this week where the office insisted I download and fill out paper forms. They don’t do it through the portal. This is Baylor. They have an amazing portal. All my info is there. This is why I go there. Almost no fuss. So I downloaded the packet and filled it out. When I get there the woman at the desk hands me a clipboard with the same forms. So I handed them back and handed her the ones I filled out. She seem surprised that I had them already. A few minutes later they called me in. Not nearly enough time to enter the forms, of which the info was already there.

The doctor was using the same portal all the others used.

I spoke of rehydration on an earlier post. I’ve been using coconut water on the advice of the boy. I like it and it works well. I tried Gatorade but it ruined my stomach. I was chatting with a friend that is a coach and trainer the other day, and he told me that they mix that 50/50 with water. It speeds hydration. I did that and it seems to work and not bother my guttyworks.

So Schumer killed the Senate dress code so the midwit slob Fedderman could wear his hoodie and shorts. Call me old fashioned, I think business full dress should be a thing in more companies. I was a consultant and had to wear a suit every day. When I was a sales engineer, I’d suit up if I were meeting a customer for the first time. I had a meeting at SouthWest bell, and I checked with the sales guy, who said he’s wearing a suit. We coordinated so that we wouldn’t wear the same color. So I showed up to the office in one of the expensive suits I wore as a consultant. My peer in the next cube lost it. He’d go to these meetings in a muscle shirt like a douchebag dudebro. Forty one years old, owned neither a suit nor a tie. Wow. He was having serious peer anxiety about the whole thing. I told him our nut with this customer was $1.2B. When I meet them I’m wearing a fucking suit.

As far as Fedderman goes, deny him access until he can be an adult and dress like one.

Along those lines, I started dressing when I go to meet another human. Normally I’d just rock up in my shorts and t-shirt. Now I put on a pair of light cargo pants and a collared shirt. Up my game. Never know who will be checking you out. It shows some level of respect.

Poached from Kenny:

I dearly hope so!

From GunFree Zone again:

For years now I kept reading that when it comes to Social Media, if you are getting it for free, you are the product. Now that Elon Musk is thinking about charging a fee for access to X/Twitter, the same people are screaming about “ZOMG! dEatH Of fREe sPEech!”

Miguel @ GunFree Zone

You gets what youse pays fer. I’ve found that if it’s something useful, I pay for it. Especially with software and cloud services. I’m a member at SocialGalactic. I can say with some authority that even a modest fee weeds out the nobs and dipshits. That and heavy moderation. That’s one of the things I like about Vox Popoli back when it had comments. They had a better class of commenters, and dumbasses were weeded out. It makes it more enjoyable to read. You want to comment now, you pay for SocialGalactic.

Got back one day and found this:

Looks like we have a pup still in his chewing phase. I stuffed it back in and sewed the rip up with aluminum craft wire. I don’t mess around.

Speaking of the shitshow:

Have a good weekend. Mine will be busy. I had hoped to go kayaking, but I got a truckload of stuff to get to the storage unit to get this place ready to list. I rented a truck (need a ramp for my office tool chest. A scratch and dent husky roller. I’m not lifting this crap.