Should have put that in the Sad Thoughts thread
I did land a great gig in 2020, for sure. It also helps that we live in Kansas, I’m guessing our mortgage is about half of what many here pay.
English premiere soccer starts Saturday and Vuelta starts next Saturday. More ways to escape reality and avoid watching the depressing news. Woohoo!
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I received a jury summons for tomorrow, and thankfully just heard I am not needed. I wouldn’t mind serving on a jury for a short trial sometime, but it would have been a minor PITA this week.
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Moving on to the General Election in November. Came in 2nd of 5 with the top 4 moving on. 2 will be elected at the GE. Guess this means I really need to campaign now.
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Last night, I thought that I had essentially finished the balsamic vinegar. Clearly an emergency, although I had zero desire to go to the store today. Just found an unopened bottle while making breakfast – crisis averted.
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No balsamic is indeed a crisis. @NerdAlert will back me up on this.
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I chose not to re-run for the office I hold. 12 yrs is plenty. glad for the experiences i had and more glad for enough in the community to file to run for the office so I am not necessary.
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Local politicians are generally pretty cool folks, doing the hard work for their neighbours. And rarely getting any love for it.
When our last mayor retired, he did so in a complete shit-storm of controversy. Buddy I don’t think was bright enough to even figure out what’d gone wrong, he just knew he was trying his best and got railed for it. I always knew he wasn’t overly politically apt or even (seriously) very bright. But the one thing he was? 100% dedicated to doing what he thought was best for the community.
I sent him a card with a bit of a letter when he retired, basically saying that I appreciated all his work through the years and that I appreciated that he always did what he thought was best.
tl;dr good on you for doing that thankless job for 12 years.
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Happy thoughts. Some years ago I went totally ‘private’ cloud based. all our computers and laptops are basically dead headed terminals - they have the OS only. Every pile in our home directory is synced to a private cloud server.
So when my hard drive died last friday, by the end of the weekend I had a laptop running seamlessly. And since I didn’t love the horsepower of the laptop (it’s a 10 year old lenovo), today I dropped a new hard drive in my old PC, synced it up to the file server. I’m just installing a few software packages and waiting for it to sync, and I’ll be right back to where I was.
Pretty nice that I can swap computers out seamlessly in less than a day, and not lose a single file.
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Also worth noting that it appears I am a cheap sob when it comes to computers. My laptop is a lenovo t540P I paid a few hundred for used, used it for my undergrad and masters, and I’m still using it.
My desktop, I had to downgrade from the current version of linux because it didn’t support my graphics card anymore. Geez, it’s still working, what’s going on.
FWIW, most of us don’t need the latest computer anyway, unless we’re doing heavy excel or sql stuff. Which I don’t do.
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I still have my IBM Thinkpad T30 laptop from 2003.
That thing is a tank. Its still ticking (I kept it for purely nostalgic reasons and it still worked so why not).
They really don’t make them as well as they used to.
You don’t even need one for those. All the heavy lifting is done in the cloud or a remote server.
SQL yes. Excel how?
If I win this will probably be my last election regardless of how popular I might think I am or how good a job I think I am doing. Mostly because I believe in term limits. If I win and serve out my time that would make 10 years on the council. I believe that is plenty (12 would be my absolute limit in one position and 8 on council 8 as mayor absolutely the limit.)
But congrats on your service. It is a fairly thankless job. You get few attaboy’s when things go right but plenty of ‘throw the bums out’ when things don’t go well.
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If you have a Remote Desktop connection your pc can act as a window/interface to the remote server/cloud that is running excel. All the calculations that are made offscreen are happening on the server, not your pc.
That seems like a lot of work and a guarantee of things going horribly wrong. I wasn’t aware people were commonly running excel on a server.
I’m not sure how it could go horribly wrong, unless you have a horrible internet connection. I’ve been using Remote Desktop for 5 years.
Ok but unlike SQL I didn’t get the impression most people do this