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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    Serpent said:

    Prince died. surprisecrying

    Fantastic guitarist, mazing singer.  Only 57, a year older than I am.

    No word on how..

     

    ...rest in peace o' purple one.

    Didn't realise he was only 5 years younger than me.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    Serpent said:

    Sipping mint tea to try to relax, seems to help a bit.  Working on my resume' as well, I need to come up with a single-page or two-page teaser. frown

    My goal is to turn in my 2 weeks notice within a week of getting my foot prostesis.  I'm going to update my online resume' over the weekend and turn on my "available for new work" flag that lets recruiters find me.  I'd prefer a full-time job, but that takes a lot longer to find so I'm of two minds about it.

    I finally came up with an understandable way to describe his job, last night online, FINALLY people get it!

    Assume your boss came to you and handed you a book that was over 90 thousand lines long - a big, thick, dry book - and told you that you had to write a summary of the plot, all major and minor points, and provide diagrams and charts on the flow of the important bits.  The books subject is dull as dishwater and you can't read more than about 10 pages before your head hurts and you grind your jaws and tense your muscles until the stress gives you headaches and screws with your sleep.

    And the deadline is not that far off, there's nobody to help you, and only a ew notes hidden throughout the book that sometimes - not always - decribe something that MIGHT be going on.

    Welcome to my job.

     

    ...another reason I left programming.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,451

    It is not yet six am but I am awake now.

  • PookPook Posts: 121

    Finally managed to get the house in order.... 2 hours before the house inspection....

    All I need to do now is evict the cat and pray that she stays outside long enough for the house inspection to be completed.....

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Pook said:

    Finally managed to get the house in order.... 2 hours before the house inspection....

    All I need to do now is evict the cat and pray that she stays outside long enough for the house inspection to be completed.....

    Lay an "easter egg" trail with  treats?

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:
    Serpent said:

    Sipping mint tea to try to relax, seems to help a bit.  Working on my resume' as well, I need to come up with a single-page or two-page teaser. frown

    My goal is to turn in my 2 weeks notice within a week of getting my foot prostesis.  I'm going to update my online resume' over the weekend and turn on my "available for new work" flag that lets recruiters find me.  I'd prefer a full-time job, but that takes a lot longer to find so I'm of two minds about it.

    I finally came up with an understandable way to describe his job, last night online, FINALLY people get it!

    Assume your boss came to you and handed you a book that was over 90 thousand lines long - a big, thick, dry book - and told you that you had to write a summary of the plot, all major and minor points, and provide diagrams and charts on the flow of the important bits.  The books subject is dull as dishwater and you can't read more than about 10 pages before your head hurts and you grind your jaws and tense your muscles until the stress gives you headaches and screws with your sleep.

    And the deadline is not that far off, there's nobody to help you, and only a ew notes hidden throughout the book that sometimes - not always - decribe something that MIGHT be going on.

    Welcome to my job.

     

    ...another reason I left programming.

    I've got to find a new career, even at 57 I should be ble to re-train for something that at least involves a kind of idiocy I haven't had to deal with before.. after 35+ years, I swear I've done and seen every stupid thing you can do involving programming.

    If I can make $500 a week, I can get along decently enough to be happy.  Sems like a reasonable goal. smiley

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Just FI, when I get bored and frustrated I tend to do radical things to fix that situation.

    So, to make sure my reputation as running off to ruin my life doing wildly crazy things, I've decided to buy Houdini Indue and get a copy of Nuke non-commercial and learn to be a visual effects artist to augment my writing and music income. indecision

    Been waning to work in VFX for years.. known a few travelling VFX/video editor types in my life and it will pay the bills if I can get a steady stream of jobs.

    This will mean an investment in hardware and software, along with time, and I'll be learning and cranking out portfolio projects while I continue to contract out as a programmer, write, and compose music. surprise

    I want to be out of programming, forever, in 5 years.  That is my plan. devil

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    TGIF!!!!

    need to pick up a cooking thermometer to make sure water is 80F to activate yeast, but not too hot to kill yeast.
    if the bus isn't too late today, can get off at Target for a quick dash in/dash out. as fast as i can dash walking with a cane.  sucks gettin old.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Sent out for Chinese, potstickers and BBQ ribs with a side of wonton soup.  Should be filling.

    Houdini downloaded, Nuke non-commercial downloaded, grabbed SONAR X3 (I own a license) so I can stably score films as Tracktion chokes and dies on video.  Checking Newegg for a machine that'll do basic video editing, need a high-speed hard drive or a massive SSD... tons of RAM would help as well.

    Stress headache again, third day in a row.  This job blows.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    digital squelch sounds like daleks 

    an hour to go.  want tea but afraid tea now will make me need to pee when i'm stuck on the bus

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited April 2016

    oops, was in my draft after i posted

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited April 2016

    omg brought a frozen india dinner dish, wasnt in mood to cook, cookie sheet cooking all i had energy for,
    buttery sauce, tikka mahkani, chicken bits and bismati rice.

    sauce is soooo spicey me nose is runny  ahhhh lol

     

    store had king arthur bread flour annd cake flour and bread machine yeast.  oh yeah.  place is gonna be smelling gooood this weekend

    oh mann deelish but ise literally sweating.  need a shower

    is it the tumeric thaz so hot?

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited April 2016
    Serpent said:

    Just FI, when I get bored and frustrated I tend to do radical things to fix that situation.

    So, to make sure my reputation as running off to ruin my life doing wildly crazy things, I've decided to buy Houdini Indue and get a copy of Nuke non-commercial and learn to be a visual effects artist to augment my writing and music income. indecision

    Been waning to work in VFX for years.. known a few travelling VFX/video editor types in my life and it will pay the bills if I can get a steady stream of jobs.

    This will mean an investment in hardware and software, along with time, and I'll be learning and cranking out portfolio projects while I continue to contract out as a programmer, write, and compose music. surprise

    I want to be out of programming, forever, in 5 years.  That is my plan. devil

    ...I hear Houdini is a PITA to learn.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    MistyMist said:

    oops, was in my draft after i posted

    ...I usually mess up posting if' I've had too many draughts.

     

    Crikey, starting up a Wright Duplex Cyclone seems to take less effort than getting the spell checker here to work.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited April 2016

    ...ugh, rain and chilly weather are back and I can feel it.  Stayed in bed late today because all my joints were stiff and achy. 

    Supposed to be 39º and stormy Sunday morning   Really want to cancel out on the session I am supposed to attend and just stay in.  In the area of town I need to go to, the sidewalks flood and become useless when it rains, so I have to walk in the street with cars often speeding by me for about 8 blocks (and in this area of town people tend to drive really stupid).

    This is why I could never live in the burbs here.

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    Good morning everyone, and a slayful St George's Day to all.

    I have an urge to slay a DAZ_Dragon or two before breakfast - you never know, there may be a golden hoard beneath its smoking carcass . . . Now fetch me my trusty steed and armour, forsooth, (cunning olde English "Shakespeare" reference since today is also the 400th anniversary of his death) I feel a battle coming on!

    Oh, and scrambled eggs on toast, with two rashers of bacon.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited April 2016

    ...Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,710
    TangoAlpha said:

    Good morning everyone, and a slayful St George's Day to all.

    I have an urge to slay a DAZ_Dragon or two before breakfast - you never know, there may be a golden hoard beneath its smoking carcass . . . Now fetch me my trusty steed and armour, forsooth, (cunning olde English "Shakespeare" reference since today is also the 400th anniversary of his death) I feel a battle coming on!

    Oh, and scrambled eggs on toast, with two rashers of bacon.

    ROAR!

    *sizzle sizzle sizzle*

    *CHOMP*

    *burp*

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352

    Verily and forsooth, Happy Shakespeare's Birthday!

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited April 2016

    Having to use a thermometer to test the water for yeast!  What is that sound I hear?  Oh it is my mother and her mother and her mother and so on turning over in their graves, kids now days.

    Now for a useful tip.  Don't use tap water as that often has too much chlorine in it and that is far worst for the yeast than getting the temperature a bit off.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,451

    It is almost work time again.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,250
    edited April 2016
    TangoAlpha said:

    ... (cunning olde English "Shakespeare" reference since today is also the 400th anniversary of his death) ...

    Hmmm..., I remember well the 400th anniversary of his birth! surprise

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    jestmart said:

    Having to use a thermometer to test the water for yeast!  What is that sound I hear?  Oh it is my mother and her mother and her mother and so on turning over in their graves, kids now days.

    Now for a useful tip.  Don't use tap water as that often has too much chlorine in it and that is far worst for the yeast than getting the temperature a bit off.

     

    i used 1% hormone free milk this morning heated in sauce pan.  hoping wasnt too hot  >.<  will see soon, lookin in the lil breadmachine window

    2 more hours to go to nommms

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    cant render on an empty stomach  doh

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,451

    This is Edward.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,250
    Kulay Wolf said:

    This is Edward.

    OMG!  He's exploding! surprise

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,451

    Somehow my computer's password got changed to my MS password.   I do not know how that happened

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    I'm OK and back but a bit weak, had a nasty bug we had to clean and disinfect every surface in our house to get rid of it hopefully :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Serpent said:

    Just FI, when I get bored and frustrated I tend to do radical things to fix that situation.

    So, to make sure my reputation as running off to ruin my life doing wildly crazy things, I've decided to buy Houdini Indue and get a copy of Nuke non-commercial and learn to be a visual effects artist to augment my writing and music income. indecision

    Been waning to work in VFX for years.. known a few travelling VFX/video editor types in my life and it will pay the bills if I can get a steady stream of jobs.

    This will mean an investment in hardware and software, along with time, and I'll be learning and cranking out portfolio projects while I continue to contract out as a programmer, write, and compose music. surprise

    I want to be out of programming, forever, in 5 years.  That is my plan. devil

    I always wanted to be a tram driver, you always know where you're going and when you get there you just drive right back :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:
    jestmart said:

    Having to use a thermometer to test the water for yeast!  What is that sound I hear?  Oh it is my mother and her mother and her mother and so on turning over in their graves, kids now days.

    Now for a useful tip.  Don't use tap water as that often has too much chlorine in it and that is far worst for the yeast than getting the temperature a bit off.

     

    i used 1% hormone free milk this morning heated in sauce pan.  hoping wasnt too hot  >.<  will see soon, lookin in the lil breadmachine window

    2 more hours to go to nommms

    Bread machines make house smell goooood :)

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