ischade @ischade@mastodon.technology

me at 3am: I understand now! this is amazing.
me at 9am: I'm glad I know better than to trust 3am me.

I probably need to get more sleep.

I'm tempted to build something like this, a 'hamster ball but for fish', for my new fish.
https://github.com/aperley/just-keep-swimming

welp, quarantine ended, so I put the new fish into the main tank.
day 1, the supposedly shy corydora chased her around so much I had to move her back.
day 2, she slammed into a tank wall while trying to swim against the filter current, (trying to beg for more food) and stunned herself. so she's back in the quarantine tank again. 🙄
new filter tomorrow, perhaps.
🙄 🙄 🙄
unrelated, !!!

it took several months, but he & other batshit people dug them out of that pit.
the pay _was_ good. he retired before age 55.

am I jealous? not really. that much stress would've killed me.

I hope he'll write a book about it someday. it should be a lesson in "things you really want to avoid doing as much as possible."

he knew I wasn't batshit crazy, so he didn't offer me a job at that time. he did call other talented but batshit people, and said, "ok, nothing I can say will prepare you for what a mess this is. you will work 18 hour days for weeks on end. you will hate it. you will hate me, and everyone else. you might go insane. but the pay is good. any interest?"
which was about the extent of the interview process, b/c they were hemorrhaging too badly for anything else.

a friend of mine didn't return my call for about 9 months one year. I didn't worry about it, b/c life is sometimes like this in the IT world. the company had a reputation for insanity as it was.
it turned out all but 2 managers in his department took medical leaves of absence, so he ended up as the acting manager of about 6000 people, sometimes more, in addition to his regular work. his regular work was senior engineering, not management.

I got a much needed deep tissue massage today.
current mood: blep!

@mishari you might find this article interesting, if you haven't seen it before.
https://qz.com/1549521/whats-so-wrong-with-helicopter-parenting/

this line of books was probably intended to be parody: "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work" by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht.
...but yeah, I've seen some crazy things since these were first printed.
know when to cut your losses. there are always other options.

if you ever find yourself in this situation, get out. This is probably low on the bad things that happened, b/c someone wouldn't find the budget needed.

how did we survive before <noun> forums?
hmm, bbs?
anyway, helped get a car up & running again this morning, due to a forum. yay!

victory dance gif:

I should probably put together a belated new years package for the Japanese people I do business with. things were such a mess over the holidays, I didn't ever meet up with them to exchange tiny gifts, bow, and thank them for everything.
this really should've been done 2 months ago, but here we are.

a friend of mine used this gif while describing a little bit of their life yesterday.
*snerk*

meh, catching up on all the paperwork that accumulated while I was dealing with family health issues.

meanwhile, a friend has started an LLC, and I'm wondering if it has to do with helping build secure home networks for tech-impaired parents. ooo!