It's 65F and I'm wearing a t-shirt ( Read more... )

The bathroom sink was dripping slowly the other day so I figured I'd come home today and tighten down the gland nut and fix it. I figured out how to remove the cold handle, and tried tightening the only big hex nut available, which did nothing. So then I figured I'd have to take it apart and see if the seal and land were damaged and needed to be ( Read more... )

The main language I use for my test system at work is a test management package that provides a way to call lower-level language functions. It is oddly selective in what it allows you to do. Things like
if (variable OR 64) always return '1', because it analyzes clauses as booleans, even though you think you're bitmasking, for instance. (And if ( Read more... )

Today ( Read more... )

I made bread last night, so the previous week's loaf-end got turned into french toast this morning. Afterwards, unless I'm extraordinarily careful, I always have leftover egg-and-cream-and-cinnamon batter left, so I scramble it and feed it to Monty ( Read more... )

One of my favorite coworkers announced he is quitting yesterday. He said he'd work until it wasn't fun anymore. Soon after he got assigned to work for my manager, he stopped smiling as much, and apparently this week he got to some Social Security magic age, so he's done. I truly liked working with him, even if we were quite different socially ( Read more... )

I've been working at the same place for 15 years.
Do I even bother with mentioning previous employment when I'm updating my resume? Especially since the jobs I was doing then largely don't even exist anymore?

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I got a bad year-end review at work. I'm unhappy about that, in part because I think my manager looks at every mistake as catastrophic, while not even acknowledging ideas and implementations that fix other mistakes. (When I swap three pins on a connector we're not using, because there are 300 pins and I have no time to double-check my work, he ( Read more... )

I'm taking an electrical engineering course through the engineering department of CU Boulder and it is kicking my butt. He says second order differential equations so casually ( Read more... )

Driving to work yesterday sucked. We got a large amount of snow here, taller than my snowblower, and it was still snowing heavily when I headed to work. Up at work there was virtually no snow at all, so the in-between was very heavy slush. At some point, enough slush and ice lodged beneath my car and froze that it displaced a long flexible heat ( Read more... )