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it is almost a quarter after nine. is it bed time now?
...and a lot of people who go to those expensive schools end up being payed squat. That was the the conclusion came to in a New Yorker article a year or two ago concerning why there was a shortage of people training to be chefs. You put tens of thousands into schooling to work long days and get paid 10$ - 12$ an hour. That doesn't even go far here in Portland let alone New York City.
Yeah "did my time" in food service. While I do have that insane level of passion, I never want to do it for a living again.
105 in the shade outside our back door right now :)
...as uncomfortable as that may sound, better than the chilly rain I hear falling outside. Then again I feel the chill a lot more than others due to my achy joints and bones as well as poor circulation.
I took quite an interest in Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam's humanity test in the book "Dune", it had promise. Her punishment for failing her test to see if one was truly human eliminated a lot of busywork.
I can't blame you.You bust ass all day, make people happy, and are immediately forgotten if thought about at all. Chefs are unsung heroes.
Don't go out the back door!!!!! :-O
It's not just you. Cold rain comes close to putting me into bed until it's gone. :-(
I recall that from the book. Seems like a good idea. I would have grabbed th needle and stuck her, myselfl. :-|
Another busy evening. Found the USB cable for my Yeti mic and set it up to sell. Found the Kindle charging cable and have it charging. Found the AA batteries that will sell with the controller keyboard. All in all a successful day! Time for kielbasa in spicy mustard/
Thawing two chicken thighs. One will barinate in Thai red curry, the other in Thai green curry. Time to use my can of coconut milk!! :-)
...agh 21:35 here, need to warm up dinner (fortunately a container of my special pasta sauce and some pasta)
Been reviewing pre owned Xeon workstations while helping someone who is looking for a bigger system for playing with Daz to replace an aging notebook. Found one I like so much wish I had the 814$ myself to buy it. Single 8 core Sandy Bridge Xeon (supports 2 CPUs), 32 GB memory (easily expandable as ECC memory costs less than Desktop memory) Crikey for about 1,400$ (375$ for another Xeon and about 225$ for 32 GB of memory), I could have 32 CPU threads and 64 GB of memory for rendering. Gave up on GPU rendering as prices for cards have become obscenely expensive. I've been seeing even 1070s going for as much as 1,400$ now. Crikey for another 100$ one could get a refurbished Quadro P5000 that has double the VRAM (16 GB).
Not real humid this afternoon so 100+ doesn’t feel so bad in a shadey spot, iz moving around that’s hard :)
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All the helicopters are here this afternoon, must either be dragon or tennis fans, there is a dragon festival going on as well as the tennis :.0
...OK that conjures up some interesting visions.
Where's Rezca?
Graphics cards are beyond stupid expensive! I'm lucky this laptop has a built in Quattro with 8GB VRAM, although I cant use DS. Ill leave it to Anne as my laegacy. :P
Only 16GB in this laprop although it will take 32GB. This monster can run an entire orchestra of virtual instruments without breaking a sweat.
Reminds me or Phoenix AZ - 100 plus but no humidity. Fine until you moved, indeed!!
There was a shooting not far away, I yhink that did it. Or they were loking for an escaping gog!
Some excitement in the neighborhood?
Dana
You need to get rid of that shade and buy a new one!
Dana
...watch out though, cryptominers have been buying up as much shade as possible to keep their mining rigs cool so prices are beginning to spike.
Mostly it's quiet here. But sometimes, the riff raff riffs.. then someone gets shot. Austin has gone to Hell in the past 6 years since I first got here. it's sad. Also a lot of historic places turn down for condos and hotels. It's now almost as expensive to live here as Silicon Valley was when I lived in Sunnyvale!
Al least groceries are still less expensive, but the weather sucks in comparison... :-|
I recommend a Peltir-based shade generator. Doubles as a drink cooler. :-P
G'night all. Later today comes all too soon...
Lunar festival, early Asian new year, Year of Dog I think. Still 95 a while after sunset phew :)
We need a GoFundMe to get you a years supply of ice tea!!! :-O
What are cryptominers?
Didn't make it to bed?
Ugh. I've come to the conclusion that the only way I can get back to normal hours is to stay awake all day until a normal bedtime, then get up after at a normal hour in the morning. This is called 'changing phase the hard way', but it's worked for me before. Ugh.
A nice 52f at 8:05am, sunny and clear, should hit 70f today with highs from 75f to 65f with colder air over the weekend.
Going to splurge on chili dog makings for the Super Bowl, should be nice. No beer unless I sell something, though. :-( Not a big loss, really.
I cab't believe all the crud I've accumulated! Can't wait to get rid of it all. Look out Craigslist! :-O
Time for some nice, hot Earl Grey...
When I think back on all the stuff I owned at one time I am reminded of the wisdom someone once gave me. "If you were able to obtain everything you wanted, where would you keep it?" I started out my career owning a nice three bedroom home with yard to mow, trees to trim, garage full of tools & machines, boxes of holiday decorations, etc. Since then I've moved several times and always into a smaller place. I tried at first to not let go of my things but it didn't take long before I realized they weren't important and had to go. So each time I moved to smaller and smaller places, more and more of my stuff was sacrificed. I've had simultaneous multiple cars & trucks, multiple motorcycles, bicycle, multiple pianos, organs, guitar, flute, boxes of music, boxes of VHS tapes, multiple video players (VHS & Beta), big HiFi gear, manual typewriter, huge canopied mirrored waterbed, years of collected magazines, SCUBA equipment, collections of cameras, really nice darkroom equipment, way too many sets of useless china & glassware, a nice collection of big bronzes, a collection of large & small oriental rugs, a collection of 19th century artwork, rooms full of beautiful antique furniture, a whole closet full of fashionable clothes, another closet full of leather, weightlifting benches & freeweights, a shops worth of computer parts, boxes and boxes and boxes of who knows what.
Now at retirement I rent a small apartment and all I have left is a 15 year old car that I inherted from my step-mother, my collections of rock figurines and a few small bronzes, some of my small oriental rugs, my desktop computer my laptop, and a spare desktop, two chairs (a ragged recliner & a desk chair), a bed, a TV, one leather motorcycle jacket big enough for an elephant (me), two champagne flutes, one set of stoneware dishes for four, stainless flatware, a few nice pots & pans, a few cheap shirts, a few pairs of sweatpants and jeans, some 20 year old towels, and half as many boxes and boxes of who knows what. But what I miss the most is that manual typewriter.
And despite having essentially zero savings and the smallest relative income of my adult life, I'm completely debt free for the first time since I got out of high school 52 years ago. When you know that the light at the end of the tunnel is a train, your priorities change.
My schedule is so destrpyed I have to take drasric measures now - staying up until a normal bedtime!
Got lots done today, though. Found about $250 worth of small items to sell, not including the guitar or MIDI controller! Should feed me for several weeks and help with rent.