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Difficult work day, heck difficult work week, topped off with a lengthy seemingly endless debate over fossil fuels with a guy who I don't know and have never seen before. But I assume he's an engineer with some consulting firm. Looks ancient. So, a Baby Boomer with some consulting firm (ancient and still working = Baby Boom Generation). Now what I know about fossil fuels I could put in a thimble.
But I sort of held my own. I'm not sure he knew much more than I did.
We got on the topic because we were talking about Kansas, and how it had corn, ranches, oil, frakking, wind energy, and coal -- so why wasn't it a rich state. (Because it is run by idiots? It is. I used to live there and interned in the Kansas State Legislature, they are dumber than shit and conservative and libertarian Republican..so redundant. But I didn't say any of that. My workplace is conservative, and I had a headache.)
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I got saved by someone who asked me if I coded at a video game developer. I told them no, I was creating a royalty database for them and it was the worst company I ever worked for in my life. And if I were coding video games, I wouldn't be doing this for a living. My brain doesn't work that way. My life would have been much easier if it did.
The weather is making everyone cranky and irritable. And today especially because it's in flux. We're going from the 90s to the 70s again. It's humid with a heat index of 103, and feels like a sauna. Better today than yesterday.
And I had a couple of work wins this week -- two battles I'd been fighting off and on all week long, I won. The third project, the biggie, had two change orders that I'd either awarded or authorized that popped back at me from the vendor, proving my project managers are idiots and not doing their job, and neither is the vendor.
But I sort of held my own. I'm not sure he knew much more than I did.
We got on the topic because we were talking about Kansas, and how it had corn, ranches, oil, frakking, wind energy, and coal -- so why wasn't it a rich state. (Because it is run by idiots? It is. I used to live there and interned in the Kansas State Legislature, they are dumber than shit and conservative and libertarian Republican..so redundant. But I didn't say any of that. My workplace is conservative, and I had a headache.)
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I got saved by someone who asked me if I coded at a video game developer. I told them no, I was creating a royalty database for them and it was the worst company I ever worked for in my life. And if I were coding video games, I wouldn't be doing this for a living. My brain doesn't work that way. My life would have been much easier if it did.
The weather is making everyone cranky and irritable. And today especially because it's in flux. We're going from the 90s to the 70s again. It's humid with a heat index of 103, and feels like a sauna. Better today than yesterday.
And I had a couple of work wins this week -- two battles I'd been fighting off and on all week long, I won. The third project, the biggie, had two change orders that I'd either awarded or authorized that popped back at me from the vendor, proving my project managers are idiots and not doing their job, and neither is the vendor.