Does Halloween count?

I’ve done Johnny Depps character from fear and loathing in las Vegas for something

Nerdy from Jurassic Park.

Jack from The Titanic when I went to a haunted maze at the Queen Mary one year.

I cosplay as someone with their shit together most days.

Lol as if cutting my lawn is fun. Or that I’d even want to join your party.

It’s hypocritical to think that your loud noise when Im trying to sleep is okay but my loud noise when you are trying to sleep isn’t.

But this is life living with other people that don’t sleep the same hours as you. Sometimes shit is going to inconvenience you, and I’ll do what I can to minimize it. But I’ve got shit I need to get done too and I’m just not going to not do it because it might suck for someone for an hour of their week.

Cool. No loud parties after 9pm then? Or is inconveniencing my sleep okay because you do it at night?

I’ve got one day a week I can do yard work, and only until 9am until it hits over 90° out. Sorry, buddy. But you might have to deal with some noise. Wish we could all live in perfect harmony. But until then you have to deal with some shit you don’t like and I have to deal with some shit I don’t like and we’ll do our best to not inconvenience each other too bad.

Mindful and considerate, yes. But that doesn’t mean I put my entire day on hold for people that don’t get up until 10 or 11.

8am is pretty reasonable start to the day for me.

But I also believe that people bitching and saying no loud noises before 10am are being just as selfish as the people who get up and do yardwork at 6am. If someone has a problem or some extraordinary reasons for wanting it to stay quiet later, they can talk to each other and try to find a compromise.

And out of 7 days, if you are only being inconvenienced for a couple hours maybe that’s something you should be more tolerant of.

Based.

It’s fucking annoying and adds literally nothing to the conversation.

It’s got a hell of a datacenter.

https://www.switch.com/las-vegas/

From LA to Vegas. Took the servers down end of business one night, drove it all night, installed it and got it back online before start of business the next day.

In the middle of something 200tb for my Plex server going from a 12 bay system to a 36 LFF system. But I’ve also literally driven servers across the desert because it was faster than trying to move data from one datacenter to another.

I’m pretty sure that’s my first memory of gaming. Having to boot up the system by floppy disks to play the game.

It was tough. But had so much character for a game about shuffle puck.

Maybe Shufflepuck Cafe on Amiga.

Or Power Pete on an old Mac.

Hell, it could have been some of those edutainment games like Gizmos and Gadgets. Or Kid Pix.

I used to love Widget Workshop

Vera. Technically given by a coworker.

She’s a WRX with lots of parts from Cobb.

Vera was Janes favorite after all.

I just moved back to the Chicago land area after being away for 20 years. These places sound like my exact vibe and the sort of places I’ve been searching for.

Do you have any other recommendations?

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that so many places don’t adjust the volume properly to the amount of people in the place. If I go to a sports bar near me for happy hour, they have the music the same volume as when a big game is on and the place is packed.

I need to check it out. Turns out they have one in the suburbs just under 4 miles from me.

Oh, and in elementary school when they were at the height of their popularity I had one of my holographic Charizards stolen. Dunno who took it, someone had a come up.

I stole some beers at a party once. A friend and I weren’t feeling the vibe, took a few bottles and went somewhere else. I feel bad about it, he was a good dude and didn’t deserve that.

I got trashed at my 23rd birthday party a friend threw at her house. It was mostly people she knew, but as I was passed out someone stole my wallet.

My brother stole quite a bit from me during the height of his addiction. He’s been clean for several years now though. I’m glad I’ve got him back.

Fucking tech solutions to a manager problem. The manager should care about the metrics of wait time and client satisfaction.

If waits are low and satisfaction is high. Then who gives fuck all about what techs do in between calls.

Metrics like calls per tech or average length of calls could be used to better understand tech efficiency. Or even rings before pickup. A good pbx can help ensure calls are relatively equally spread between techs. This helps keep one tech from over working for another slacking off. You can have utilization goals so that you aren’t under or over staffed (I’m of the opinion that a techs utilization should be roughly 75-80% and they should have downtime in their shifts to prevent burnout.)

It’s stupid, inhumane, and impossible to expect an employee to track, bill, and work 100% of their shift.

Going to a rave, taking ecstacy, and seeing above and beyond performing a Group Therapy set.

I was depressed and had suicidal ideation. That night made me feel more connected to the people around me than anything else I’ve experienced. It was maybe a decade ago and I still think it started my journey of healing.

I’m busy and have a backlog.

Arbitrary surcharges and fees. Like “5% to offset the rising minimum wage” bullshit restaurants are doing.