[Today’s run: 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n
I am hoping to get in a short run this morning, the first in more than a week.<\/p>\n
At the end of last week I was looking forward to running with the guys on Saturday and going to the MS State football game on Saturday.\u00a0 But things took a strange turn.\u00a0 Friday afternoon\/evening I came down with some kind of a GI bug.\u00a0 I didn’t do much of anything on Saturday, layed in bed all day more or less.\u00a0 Sunday was a bit better but still didn’t go anywhere.\u00a0 Monday it was back to work but about 1\/2 speed.\u00a0 Finally by Wednesday I was doing OK.\u00a0 So today I hope to get in my first run for a over a week.<\/p>\n
On the project front, I had the electric service guy come by and look things over.\u00a0 He said I need an inspection sticker from the county inspector.\u00a0 Yesterday morning I went to town early and paid $20 for a “permit” and told them I am ready for my inspection.\u00a0 The lady said it may happen “as soon as tomorrow”, which would be today.<\/p>\n
I’ve had one more Uber driving trip.\u00a0 The Uber app gives me about 15 seconds to respond to a ride request.\u00a0 I’ve missed a couple because I fumble around trying to get past my screen saver and get to the app.\u00a0 By the time I get there the thing is done ringing.\u00a0 This 15 seconds thing would work fine in a big city with lots of trips happening.\u00a0 It is kind of stupid when I only get half a dozen per week.<\/p>\n
I was kind of stuck in my weight-loss until this GI thing.\u00a0 That bumped me past a plateau and I’m down another couple of pounds from a week ago.\u00a0 From my starting point I’m down about 20 lbs.<\/p>\n
The fall\/winter ham radio fox hunt has started again.\u00a0 It is Tuesday and Thursday evenings.<\/p>\n
I have various computers.\u00a0 The one which was my “home” windows PC, with the turbotax and email and pictures and stuff on it, the disk drive died before I got it replaced.\u00a0 I have a Windows 10 backup of it.\u00a0 But I don’t think it is a complete replacement backup, just a file backup.\u00a0 So anyway…\u00a0 I have some work to do on the home computer.\u00a0 I’m using a different computer for the moment while I brace myself to dive into that project.\u00a0 (I’m now using the laptop I use for radio station programming.\u00a0 In this room at the moment there are 4 running computers, all Linux of some sort.\u00a0 In my work\/work area there are three.\u00a0 And I can read email, etc with my smart phone also.)<\/p>\n
Our weather has finally turned to winter wet.\u00a0 The trees are dumping their leaves.<\/p>\n
We had “fall back” switch from daylight savings time. That causes me some extra effort on the radio station programming front.\u00a0 But I just stuffed the 2 AM hour with lots of extra content and it worked out OK.\u00a0 I have various scheduled things that happen by the clock, both at work and home here with the radio station.\u00a0 It is a good idea to avoid the 2-3 AM time slot.\u00a0 Let’s imagine I schedule processes A B C\u00a0 to start at 2:20 AM, 2:30 AM and 2:40 AM.\u00a0 In the “spring ahead” event the clock goes from 1 AM to 3 AM and skips that hour altogether.\u00a0 Usually a scheduling system will use logic like “if the time has passed, run the job” and it will fire off all three jobs at that moment.\u00a0 Or in the fall we repeat the 2-3 segment but the jobs don’t run twice (you hope!).\u00a0 So it is best just to not count on that hour being stable.\u00a0 Daylight savings time is the stupidest thing ever invented.<\/p>\n
(I don’t think anyone from my office reads this…)<\/p>\n
I have been thinking about looking for a different job.\u00a0 It’s my feeling that my current job is only going to last for maybe another 2-3 years, 5 at the most.\u00a0 And there may be some organizational changes.\u00a0 I hope to have more of a handle on that after my boss talks to the big boss about a few things, assuming he’s going to tell me what they decided.\u00a0 If I took early retirement from my current job I could get a different job here in MS and end up with roughly the same income and insurance coverage.\u00a0 It would be the end of my working from home most likely; back to commuting and cubicals and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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