Jack's Diary
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jackbenimble
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Thanks, Mols. Hope you had a good one too!
I've finally just got my todo app deployed to the web. Elastic Beanstalk was absolutely kicking my ass, but I wrestled that beast to the ground. So the dynamic part is located on AWS, and the Angular front end is hosted on my own site.
We got together with a couple of college buddies and all our wives last night. It was really fun. But - out the door when my no sugar / no junk food resolution, and I continued it today when I finished off the cake.
So, tomorrow I will pick things up again. I'm so stocked I got my todo app deployed to the cloud. I'm going to access it from work and everything. It will be cool.
But I'm pretty sure I'll be above 170 tomorrow. Gross.
Speaking of gross, I saw the doctor on my toe, and she gave me some antibiotics. I think it's feeling better, but this week is going to be tough. Well, at least the boss is on vacation. Actually he won't be around for the next couple of weeks. Well, as long as he signs my paycheck.
Things I want to do for the todo app:
1. have separate pages for work and person todos.
2. Make it secure (https)
3. Add a signin pages.
4. Make the users persistable.
I've finally just got my todo app deployed to the web. Elastic Beanstalk was absolutely kicking my ass, but I wrestled that beast to the ground. So the dynamic part is located on AWS, and the Angular front end is hosted on my own site.
We got together with a couple of college buddies and all our wives last night. It was really fun. But - out the door when my no sugar / no junk food resolution, and I continued it today when I finished off the cake.
So, tomorrow I will pick things up again. I'm so stocked I got my todo app deployed to the cloud. I'm going to access it from work and everything. It will be cool.
But I'm pretty sure I'll be above 170 tomorrow. Gross.
Speaking of gross, I saw the doctor on my toe, and she gave me some antibiotics. I think it's feeling better, but this week is going to be tough. Well, at least the boss is on vacation. Actually he won't be around for the next couple of weeks. Well, as long as he signs my paycheck.
Things I want to do for the todo app:
1. have separate pages for work and person todos.
2. Make it secure (https)
3. Add a signin pages.
4. Make the users persistable.
jackbenimble
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I was pleased to be 167/168 this morning after my weekend of dietary debauchery. Speaking of that, we're going to get together again to check out B and his group at a restaurant/bar in his town toward the end of March. That should be fun.
My wife is doing pretty well lately. She's got all her jobs lined up, it's not too heavy for her right now. She's made some friends from her native country over the past few years, that helps. She likes our house, she was telling me. She's never pushed for remodeling the interior, which saves a ton of money. J was saying she wants to retire, but they can't really because they still have the mortgage to pay off. They did a bunch of remodeling, their home is absolutely beautiful. Still, my wife is like me - she likes to be out of debt and have the nest egg going on.
My toe is gradually getting better, I think. Nasty stuff. I spent much of the evening cleaning up the ToDo app. It's amazing how much crap you have to deal with once you put it on the web. Caching is a big problem. And putting in in a sub-folder was a hassle. Just keep on googling and banging on it. I'm happier where it is now. I got rid of the footer, which was all over the place. And it's not defaulting to the error page anymore, although that may be more due to the hack I put in there, come to think of it.
H. at work wants me to update the mysql to the latest version. I checked it out and I can do it, but there really needs to be some kind of protocol or change procedure in place. Are we really going to send them an upgrade for every single minor release of the database? All of a sudden, when we never did before?
Anyway, very shortly it will no longer be my problem.
My wife is doing pretty well lately. She's got all her jobs lined up, it's not too heavy for her right now. She's made some friends from her native country over the past few years, that helps. She likes our house, she was telling me. She's never pushed for remodeling the interior, which saves a ton of money. J was saying she wants to retire, but they can't really because they still have the mortgage to pay off. They did a bunch of remodeling, their home is absolutely beautiful. Still, my wife is like me - she likes to be out of debt and have the nest egg going on.
My toe is gradually getting better, I think. Nasty stuff. I spent much of the evening cleaning up the ToDo app. It's amazing how much crap you have to deal with once you put it on the web. Caching is a big problem. And putting in in a sub-folder was a hassle. Just keep on googling and banging on it. I'm happier where it is now. I got rid of the footer, which was all over the place. And it's not defaulting to the error page anymore, although that may be more due to the hack I put in there, come to think of it.
H. at work wants me to update the mysql to the latest version. I checked it out and I can do it, but there really needs to be some kind of protocol or change procedure in place. Are we really going to send them an upgrade for every single minor release of the database? All of a sudden, when we never did before?
Anyway, very shortly it will no longer be my problem.
jackbenimble
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Six more days of work left. I'm around 167 right now. I turned down some very tempting cake at L's 30th anniversary and some other random junk that was in the kitchen this morning, so the no-sweets train is rolling again. My toe is gradually getting better, too. Which reminds me, I still need to take the anti-biotic pill.
I'm liking my new "todo" app. I use it all day at work, which surprises me. Of course, I'm more likely to use it since I wrote it. Right now, I'm adding a change from "delete" to "toggle", which will turn set the "complete" flag to on or off depending on what it was before. Actually, that part is working. But now I need to add logic and a GUI component to display either all or just non-done.
Ah, my daughter's calling.
I'm liking my new "todo" app. I use it all day at work, which surprises me. Of course, I'm more likely to use it since I wrote it. Right now, I'm adding a change from "delete" to "toggle", which will turn set the "complete" flag to on or off depending on what it was before. Actually, that part is working. But now I need to add logic and a GUI component to display either all or just non-done.
Ah, my daughter's calling.
jackbenimble
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I have a choice of 4 things to work on today
1. Japanese
2. Work through the Udemy lesson on TDD
3. Work on my Todo Habits program
4. Practice guitar
I also need to move my front plate to the back and get the car re-inspected. Also buy an hdmi connector for my PC.
Finally, I *need* to get to the gym. I will only do lifting, as my toe is still healing, but I will be there.
1. Japanese
2. Work through the Udemy lesson on TDD
3. Work on my Todo Habits program
4. Practice guitar
I also need to move my front plate to the back and get the car re-inspected. Also buy an hdmi connector for my PC.
Finally, I *need* to get to the gym. I will only do lifting, as my toe is still healing, but I will be there.
jackbenimble
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Ch. called me yesterday to watch the game, we checked out a couple of local bars. It was cool to get out a little bit. C has an amazing memory, and has interesting opinions on things. He's fun to hang out with. We're almost exactly the same age, born 12 days apart.
I punted on everything but the kanji yesterday and pounded through about 500 or so. I'm up to roughly 1200, with about 850 left to go.
I always thought I knew the difference between "effect" and "affect", but the online grammar corrector I used was trying to say "effect" when I was sure it was "affect". I'm still going with my interpretation, but it shocked me.
I bought a new tuner for my guitar yesterday. I lost the old one, but anyway, the new one turns green when you get it right, which is really cool and easy.
C called a couple of times last night, I'm sure he wants to jam today. I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm trying to get through the last 850 kanji, but there's no way I finish either way.
I was going to buy a nice slice of carrot cake yesterday, but what about my anti-sweets pledge? I compromised by buying some "sugar-free" gum. It was gross, but it wasn't carrot-cake,
I finally got my car inspection done after going around with a rejection sticker for a couple of weeks. It was a bigger project than I thought because it turned out I had to move the sticker showing the registration year from one plate to the other. That was dicey because it was falling apart when I peeled it, but I kept enough of it together that it's still readable. But I had to buy some clear tape to put to keep it in place, too.
I really have to buy an HDMI connector for my laptop. The main use for that is to be able to watch games streamed from it while using my MacBook for other things.
I failed to get to the gym yesterday because the cut on my toe opened up during the plate-exchange. No excuses today.
On my todo program, I did add a toggle button to switch between showing all and current. I'm not in love where the button ended up, but it's done and I need to check in the angular piece and deploy it. Also, the "habits' page needs work, because the title is mixing with the entries. I might have to cut down the number of columns.
My weight is stable, it was 166 the other day.
I punted on everything but the kanji yesterday and pounded through about 500 or so. I'm up to roughly 1200, with about 850 left to go.
I always thought I knew the difference between "effect" and "affect", but the online grammar corrector I used was trying to say "effect" when I was sure it was "affect". I'm still going with my interpretation, but it shocked me.
I bought a new tuner for my guitar yesterday. I lost the old one, but anyway, the new one turns green when you get it right, which is really cool and easy.
C called a couple of times last night, I'm sure he wants to jam today. I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm trying to get through the last 850 kanji, but there's no way I finish either way.
I was going to buy a nice slice of carrot cake yesterday, but what about my anti-sweets pledge? I compromised by buying some "sugar-free" gum. It was gross, but it wasn't carrot-cake,
I finally got my car inspection done after going around with a rejection sticker for a couple of weeks. It was a bigger project than I thought because it turned out I had to move the sticker showing the registration year from one plate to the other. That was dicey because it was falling apart when I peeled it, but I kept enough of it together that it's still readable. But I had to buy some clear tape to put to keep it in place, too.
I really have to buy an HDMI connector for my laptop. The main use for that is to be able to watch games streamed from it while using my MacBook for other things.
I failed to get to the gym yesterday because the cut on my toe opened up during the plate-exchange. No excuses today.
On my todo program, I did add a toggle button to switch between showing all and current. I'm not in love where the button ended up, but it's done and I need to check in the angular piece and deploy it. Also, the "habits' page needs work, because the title is mixing with the entries. I might have to cut down the number of columns.
My weight is stable, it was 166 the other day.
jackbenimble
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164.5 on the scale this morning - nice!
I went through over 600 kanji yesterday - I narrowed down a good way to do it. Only about 400 left to go. There were 300 to review this morning, omg.
Work is piling up a little - crap, I forget to check if the system came in today. Oh, well, there's always tomorrow.
I keep adding to my todo list. This stupid email on lack of authorization took me a couple of hours, just because I had to show I left no stone unturned, kind of silly, tbh.
Then an install didn't execute that I had refactored and put into production. I will check that first thing tomorrow.
One thing at a time.
Back to the kanji.
I went through over 600 kanji yesterday - I narrowed down a good way to do it. Only about 400 left to go. There were 300 to review this morning, omg.
Work is piling up a little - crap, I forget to check if the system came in today. Oh, well, there's always tomorrow.
I keep adding to my todo list. This stupid email on lack of authorization took me a couple of hours, just because I had to show I left no stone unturned, kind of silly, tbh.
Then an install didn't execute that I had refactored and put into production. I will check that first thing tomorrow.
One thing at a time.
Back to the kanji.
jackbenimble
New member
So, I spent about 12 hours today trying to figure out a bug which cropped up when (Big Huge Company) decided they wanted to switch Java versions because they couldn't get their proprietary installer working with a perfectly good version of Java. Why not just let us install it? It's very simple - just copying files and setting a few environment variables.
So, I didn't get it fixed, but I figured out where the problem was. The version of Java they want to use isn't playing nice with the version of Java it was compiled in, and for some reason, it's missing a line break at a key point in a couple of configuration files.
I'm back up around 166-167 because #1) I haven't been exercising at all and #2) I found my wife's stash of bread crumbs, and had half the container over the last couple of days
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Yesterday I spent the whole day reviewing about 2000 kanji. Omg. I wrote a kanji mnemonic program about 20 years ago, and there's this popular web site for learning kanji, which I've just gotten into. I found that a number of the top-voted stories there were cribbed from my program - unattributed! I feel bad, but then again, the dude is running the site for free, well, except maybe advertising. Doubt he's getting rich.
So, this week is my last week, at work. Well, maybe. Seems like there's a lot of work to do, and I'm the guy who's slated to do it. No way it gets done in a week.
ugh, 5-8 inches of snow tomorrow. I'll be out shoveling/snowblowing - wow, I just realized, I need to get gas for the snow blower. See you later!
So, I didn't get it fixed, but I figured out where the problem was. The version of Java they want to use isn't playing nice with the version of Java it was compiled in, and for some reason, it's missing a line break at a key point in a couple of configuration files.
I'm back up around 166-167 because #1) I haven't been exercising at all and #2) I found my wife's stash of bread crumbs, and had half the container over the last couple of days
.Yesterday I spent the whole day reviewing about 2000 kanji. Omg. I wrote a kanji mnemonic program about 20 years ago, and there's this popular web site for learning kanji, which I've just gotten into. I found that a number of the top-voted stories there were cribbed from my program - unattributed! I feel bad, but then again, the dude is running the site for free, well, except maybe advertising. Doubt he's getting rich.
So, this week is my last week, at work. Well, maybe. Seems like there's a lot of work to do, and I'm the guy who's slated to do it. No way it gets done in a week.
ugh, 5-8 inches of snow tomorrow. I'll be out shoveling/snowblowing - wow, I just realized, I need to get gas for the snow blower. See you later!
Hiya Jack, sorry I've been MIA. Great job on the weight....except the bread crumbs. lol. What a funny thing to go snacking on. Homemade? Vaguely wondering if they were flavored. Wifey had them hidden for a reason. lol
Good luck at work - and dealing w the snow. We aren't expecting much except a dusting that I know of, but the temp is -7F and windchills -20F. So done with this winter!
Good luck at work - and dealing w the snow. We aren't expecting much except a dusting that I know of, but the temp is -7F and windchills -20F. So done with this winter!
jackbenimble
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So, wow, it was a lot of work clearing out all that snow. Mom's house, too. It took hours, the snow was pretty heavy, even with the snow blowers.
I finally got a fix for that bug, just tonight. It wasn't easy, and it's a bit of a hack, but it's working. I need to do more testing.
We got the (big company's) new Java installer today (for the bad IBM Java), and it's even worse than the first. It doesn't install anything on Windows 7, just like before, but now it doesn't install anything on Windows 10, either. Blahhr.
I was down to 162 after all the shoveling, but much junk food pledge has gone by the wayside. They installed a snack machine at work, and I broke down and bought a bag of chips. Worse, though, when I went out to get the chicken tonight, I bought 4 bags of pretzels (4 for $5) and ate two them. So....there's still 2 more.
I've been extended at work for a couple more months. It's probably the last extension, I would think. Right now the works pretty heavy, but if said big company can ever straighten out their problems, there won't be too much to do after that.
I've been neglecting guitar recently, but I've been putting a lot of energy into Japanese. Wow, there's a web site that's pretty widely used for learning kanji, and there are so many stories on there the borrow from mine. I was into it early, like 1996, and sold a program with all the stories for memorizing them. But the author of the book (he did the first 500 stories and dreamed up a lot of components) kind of quashed it, essentially threatening legal action. So, there goes my nice little sideline business. But it would be nice to be credited, you know...anyway, the sites really great. A lot of people have come up with really good stories. I've started in on vocabulary now, and even though it's basic, now that I'm looking at it from the angle of kanji, it makes it more interesting and more memorable.
I finally got a fix for that bug, just tonight. It wasn't easy, and it's a bit of a hack, but it's working. I need to do more testing.
We got the (big company's) new Java installer today (for the bad IBM Java), and it's even worse than the first. It doesn't install anything on Windows 7, just like before, but now it doesn't install anything on Windows 10, either. Blahhr.
I was down to 162 after all the shoveling, but much junk food pledge has gone by the wayside. They installed a snack machine at work, and I broke down and bought a bag of chips. Worse, though, when I went out to get the chicken tonight, I bought 4 bags of pretzels (4 for $5) and ate two them. So....there's still 2 more.
I've been extended at work for a couple more months. It's probably the last extension, I would think. Right now the works pretty heavy, but if said big company can ever straighten out their problems, there won't be too much to do after that.
I've been neglecting guitar recently, but I've been putting a lot of energy into Japanese. Wow, there's a web site that's pretty widely used for learning kanji, and there are so many stories on there the borrow from mine. I was into it early, like 1996, and sold a program with all the stories for memorizing them. But the author of the book (he did the first 500 stories and dreamed up a lot of components) kind of quashed it, essentially threatening legal action. So, there goes my nice little sideline business. But it would be nice to be credited, you know...anyway, the sites really great. A lot of people have come up with really good stories. I've started in on vocabulary now, and even though it's basic, now that I'm looking at it from the angle of kanji, it makes it more interesting and more memorable.
jackbenimble
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So, more work this weekend. I've been tasked with getting some of our legacy software to run on a RehHat 7 Enterprise installation, and have been at it for 4 days now without really getting out of the starting gate.
What I think the real problem is is that the connectivity to the RedHat repos has been getting interfered with by our internal communications security. I tried using Centos repos instead, but there is a problem in that the versions for the rpms for the 32-bit libraries, which our program needs, are slightly behind RedHat's 64-bit library versions, which causes the install to error out.
So I packed up all the gear from the RedHat PC and brought it home, where it won't be subject to the security system. I'm praying that that solves the problem. If it doesn't, well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
The problem is I spend 12 hours last Sunday figuring out what the problem with IBM's Java for (Big Company), when their effing installer and not the Java was the problem in the first place. Not only that, I found out this week that their new installer doesn't even install Java! which was why the reason they switched installers in the first place. And there has been no progress on Window 7, either.
Anyway, my weekends and evenings recently have been getting chewed up by these issues, which have prevented me from locking up some other stuff that I was on the verge of finishing. So I'm kind of in a bad mood about that right now.
Anyway, I gotta go to get my haircut, then go shopping, then go to the gym, despite the still delicate condition of my toe. Then I guess I'm gonna work.
What I think the real problem is is that the connectivity to the RedHat repos has been getting interfered with by our internal communications security. I tried using Centos repos instead, but there is a problem in that the versions for the rpms for the 32-bit libraries, which our program needs, are slightly behind RedHat's 64-bit library versions, which causes the install to error out.
So I packed up all the gear from the RedHat PC and brought it home, where it won't be subject to the security system. I'm praying that that solves the problem. If it doesn't, well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
The problem is I spend 12 hours last Sunday figuring out what the problem with IBM's Java for (Big Company), when their effing installer and not the Java was the problem in the first place. Not only that, I found out this week that their new installer doesn't even install Java! which was why the reason they switched installers in the first place. And there has been no progress on Window 7, either.
Anyway, my weekends and evenings recently have been getting chewed up by these issues, which have prevented me from locking up some other stuff that I was on the verge of finishing. So I'm kind of in a bad mood about that right now.
Anyway, I gotta go to get my haircut, then go shopping, then go to the gym, despite the still delicate condition of my toe. Then I guess I'm gonna work.
jackbenimble
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Went out to catch the Celts with C again last night. He's actually a fun guy to hang out with. He has opinions, he gets animated about things, he talks loud - a very interesting dude. I never got that about him for some reason, until recently.
So, it turns out that the repos weren't pointing at valid sites. Apparently, the system we got is programmed to be part of an internal system. So, the next step would be getting a valid copy of RedHat, figuring out all the rpms by doing a an rpm install on that, copy them to a USB stick, and then install them on the system that doesn't have access. Man, what a hassle, but at least I got it figured out, I think.
I'm starting to regain a little energy. When I have these computer issues where there's no solution in sight, it drains my energy, and I can't really enjoy life until it's solved. Maybe I need to compartmentalize a little bit more.
Ughh, I'm back up to 168. I did a brutally bad thing last night - after coming home, I was a tiny bit hungry. I couldn't eat the bread crumbs - my wife found out about it and scolded me - so I went out and bought a bag of pretzels - 700 calories of sodium. Just before going to bed. Yeah, it was ugly. This despite my new years resolution to not eat junk food. Well, that's been broken many times already. It's time to acknowledge that there's no way I can pull that off consistently - although, to my credit, I've been doing pretty well with the no-sweets one. Not perfect, but pretty good.
See, I have this issue with self-discipline, which is that I don't have any. This is why I haven't learned Japanese, gotten good at guitar, and remain involved in useless reading of sports articles and forums for long periods of time.
I need to change, to get a better slant.
So, it turns out that the repos weren't pointing at valid sites. Apparently, the system we got is programmed to be part of an internal system. So, the next step would be getting a valid copy of RedHat, figuring out all the rpms by doing a an rpm install on that, copy them to a USB stick, and then install them on the system that doesn't have access. Man, what a hassle, but at least I got it figured out, I think.
I'm starting to regain a little energy. When I have these computer issues where there's no solution in sight, it drains my energy, and I can't really enjoy life until it's solved. Maybe I need to compartmentalize a little bit more.
Ughh, I'm back up to 168. I did a brutally bad thing last night - after coming home, I was a tiny bit hungry. I couldn't eat the bread crumbs - my wife found out about it and scolded me - so I went out and bought a bag of pretzels - 700 calories of sodium. Just before going to bed. Yeah, it was ugly. This despite my new years resolution to not eat junk food. Well, that's been broken many times already. It's time to acknowledge that there's no way I can pull that off consistently - although, to my credit, I've been doing pretty well with the no-sweets one. Not perfect, but pretty good.
See, I have this issue with self-discipline, which is that I don't have any. This is why I haven't learned Japanese, gotten good at guitar, and remain involved in useless reading of sports articles and forums for long periods of time.
I need to change, to get a better slant.
Hiya Jack. Well...the pretzels, bread crumbs are pretty similar, so it makes sense that when one got cut off your brain decided that you needed to have the other. I don't know if you are better at cold turkey quitting or a phase out, but I would guess that your brain is trying to feed the addiction with carbs instead of sweets right now. Also, the more stressed we are, or tired, the more those eating impulses act up. It sounds like the work challenges have been taxing you mentally and taking up a lot of extra time. It's harder to have "discipline" when the fundamentals are going a bit wonky. Can you give yourself a 20 minute space for meditation/breathing/stretching today to clear the mind?
jackbenimble
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Thanks for the insights, Mols. Yeah, work plus this little toe thing have been kind of weighing me down a little. I'm going to see a podiatrist tomorrow, hopefully, they can figure out the final solution. Hopefully, they won't have to amputate the toe (just kidding, it's not that bad). I really need to prioritize the meditation, I was just thinking that I should take some time out to do just that. But - right now I'm backup up my phone, becasue I *need* to get bluetooth working, plus wireless. I can't do earphones with a wire, period, and exercise and work are so much easier when the music is flowing.
jackbenimble
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Ok, will two steps forward, one step back, I guess. It depends how you look at it, so let's go with that take.
The definite step forward - my toe is *fixed*. I went to the podiatrist, and he pulled out that lump of skin that was so raw and irritating these last few weeks. I was walking easily instead of gingerly today for the first time in a while and it feels *great*.
The medium step is that I brought a new iPhone, I mean, like brand new, latest version, face-recognition, LTE, super-fast, everything working - I can't remember the last time I could actually really browse the internet on my iPhone. Bluetooth, music. And Siri - my English accented, sexy Siri is back. I actually missed her. I told her, too. Siri, I missed you. And she's like, I don't understand, but here's what a google search reveals. That's what I get for falling in love with a robot. I'm telling you, it's hard-wired. Sexy voice, at your service. Actually, I think what she said was "It's not in the cards" so I guess she's heard that before.
So, the reason I got the new one is because if I went with the same phone, for only $50 more I get the 7 plus, but that only has 32 Gigs, but if I go with 8 plus, it has 128 Gigs, but for just $50 more I can get the latest 10x I think. And, so with $200 trade-in for the (broken) phone, it was less than $600 with tax. So, there goes the rest of my bonus you were asking about, Mols.
Finally, the step back. I feel a little bit defeated because I haven't figured out how to install the 32-bit libraries yet, and the company we're doing for won't give me the credentials to contact RedHat to get the URLs. They invited me over to their company to work on it from there, where I would have full access. But, the problem is your always a little under the gun at another company, and plus I'm not that familiar with what I'm supposed to do in the first place - it's a new OS that's been completely overhauled, and plus I only did it a couple of times on the old OS.
But, I have an idea - the tech rep for our company was able to install the new OS on a box he has kicking around, so I'm got to ask him for the Rhel 7 repos and try the update with them. I figured a way to get internet access through the proxy today (or better access), so that will be my final shot, before going to the other company - which I might have to end up doing anyway.
The definite step forward - my toe is *fixed*. I went to the podiatrist, and he pulled out that lump of skin that was so raw and irritating these last few weeks. I was walking easily instead of gingerly today for the first time in a while and it feels *great*.
The medium step is that I brought a new iPhone, I mean, like brand new, latest version, face-recognition, LTE, super-fast, everything working - I can't remember the last time I could actually really browse the internet on my iPhone. Bluetooth, music. And Siri - my English accented, sexy Siri is back. I actually missed her. I told her, too. Siri, I missed you. And she's like, I don't understand, but here's what a google search reveals. That's what I get for falling in love with a robot. I'm telling you, it's hard-wired. Sexy voice, at your service. Actually, I think what she said was "It's not in the cards" so I guess she's heard that before.
So, the reason I got the new one is because if I went with the same phone, for only $50 more I get the 7 plus, but that only has 32 Gigs, but if I go with 8 plus, it has 128 Gigs, but for just $50 more I can get the latest 10x I think. And, so with $200 trade-in for the (broken) phone, it was less than $600 with tax. So, there goes the rest of my bonus you were asking about, Mols.
Finally, the step back. I feel a little bit defeated because I haven't figured out how to install the 32-bit libraries yet, and the company we're doing for won't give me the credentials to contact RedHat to get the URLs. They invited me over to their company to work on it from there, where I would have full access. But, the problem is your always a little under the gun at another company, and plus I'm not that familiar with what I'm supposed to do in the first place - it's a new OS that's been completely overhauled, and plus I only did it a couple of times on the old OS.
But, I have an idea - the tech rep for our company was able to install the new OS on a box he has kicking around, so I'm got to ask him for the Rhel 7 repos and try the update with them. I figured a way to get internet access through the proxy today (or better access), so that will be my final shot, before going to the other company - which I might have to end up doing anyway.
Hey Jack, great news about your toe! Man, getting back to normal can be sooo good.
On missing Siri - have you ever seen the movie "Her"? It's about a man who falls in love with his OS....very though provoking on what constitutes a relationship, emotions. It is very good, I highly recommend it. Completely applies to our day and age.
On missing Siri - have you ever seen the movie "Her"? It's about a man who falls in love with his OS....very though provoking on what constitutes a relationship, emotions. It is very good, I highly recommend it. Completely applies to our day and age.
jackbenimble
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I have seen "Her", Mols. It really was a good movie.
On a sadder note, I have just received hundreds of dollars worths of bills for my toe, and more to come. It turns out my medical plan doesn't cover doctor's visits or drugs until I hit $2,550 a year deductible per person, $5500 / year per family limit - and even then it's a co-pays. Yikes. How did I not know this? All we did was go from silver to bronze. Are the bills for the prescriptions coming now? My wife's blood-pressure stuff, my ALS pills? Whaaaattt is going on?
On a sadder note, I have just received hundreds of dollars worths of bills for my toe, and more to come. It turns out my medical plan doesn't cover doctor's visits or drugs until I hit $2,550 a year deductible per person, $5500 / year per family limit - and even then it's a co-pays. Yikes. How did I not know this? All we did was go from silver to bronze. Are the bills for the prescriptions coming now? My wife's blood-pressure stuff, my ALS pills? Whaaaattt is going on?
jackbenimble
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I will just have to stick this contract out until they lay me off. I'm still earning money, saving. When they finally do lay me off, I'll work on upgrading my skills, then get a new job, get the health plan. Right now, I'm studying Japanese.
There's always more computer skills to add - testing, Java Certification, completing the Angular app, reviewing the interview questions, Java 8, more Spring Boot...give me a minute, I'll have more.
There's always more computer skills to add - testing, Java Certification, completing the Angular app, reviewing the interview questions, Java 8, more Spring Boot...give me a minute, I'll have more.
jackbenimble
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Hi M2N,
I've actually never experienced it like that - all these bills rolling in for stuff I thought was paid for. I saw an Australian comedian saying, hey, we believe in work hard and get ahead too - that type of thinking isn't limited to Americans, you realize that, right? But then he said, but, if you don't make it, you're kind of f*cked. To an extent, that's true. I mean, I'm a socialist in the sense that I think we ought to have government-sponsored health care, as they have in say, pretty much every other civilized country in the world. It pisses me off, it really does.
Ok, I gotta just relax. It won't help to get bent out of shape. I had a good day at work today. Really good. I got all around all our firewalls and proxies and actually got RedHat Enterprise working on one of our systems. So, I think there's an issue with the proprietary program that we're supposed to provide to the customer. I don't think it's been upgraded for RedHat 7, so I will be able to kick it to the developers back in Europe and let them worry about it. Plus, I won't have to go crawling to the other company on Tuesday to get access to their RedHat repositories. I got 'em.
I'm just gonna take it easy tonight. I don't understand why I can't just ignore the Celtics and work on the stuff I need to work on. Japanese. Software. Guitar. How about good works for my fellow humans? The world is overflowing with people in need of a little glimmer of human kindness. I would be if I could do that.
I've actually never experienced it like that - all these bills rolling in for stuff I thought was paid for. I saw an Australian comedian saying, hey, we believe in work hard and get ahead too - that type of thinking isn't limited to Americans, you realize that, right? But then he said, but, if you don't make it, you're kind of f*cked. To an extent, that's true. I mean, I'm a socialist in the sense that I think we ought to have government-sponsored health care, as they have in say, pretty much every other civilized country in the world. It pisses me off, it really does.
Ok, I gotta just relax. It won't help to get bent out of shape. I had a good day at work today. Really good. I got all around all our firewalls and proxies and actually got RedHat Enterprise working on one of our systems. So, I think there's an issue with the proprietary program that we're supposed to provide to the customer. I don't think it's been upgraded for RedHat 7, so I will be able to kick it to the developers back in Europe and let them worry about it. Plus, I won't have to go crawling to the other company on Tuesday to get access to their RedHat repositories. I got 'em.
I'm just gonna take it easy tonight. I don't understand why I can't just ignore the Celtics and work on the stuff I need to work on. Japanese. Software. Guitar. How about good works for my fellow humans? The world is overflowing with people in need of a little glimmer of human kindness. I would be if I could do that.