Just got an e-mail that my transfer to a new delivery station was approved starting this Sunday.
Have until Friday to pull the trigger on it.
Positives? Hours are kind of middling: starting at 1400 instead of 1600. My manager is this guy who I used to know from a different site, and he knows me and my work ethic. IIRC he made E8 in the USAF…Senior Master Segeant (could have been Chief Master Sergeant…anyway, really up there, rare promotion) and he knows how to manage people, unlike this two dillweeds at my present place.
And there’s a chance there will be more than two other people who actually know what they’re doing on the team, so I won’t have to carry the rest of these lumps out of a misplaced desire to get things done correctly.
Disadvantage? Well, it’s a new commute into actually the very butt end of the city…same miles as current commute, but as always, some options to circumvent drag racers and errant gunshots.
And, I see would-be street racers on the freeway most week as it is, so it’s a wash.
So, all in all, I consider that a ‘go’: ditch these lames at my current place, which is in itself worth a smile, and have a chance to learn a slightly different process at a different place, with potentially more opportunities.
Unless I get stabbed by a hobo in the parking lot…kind of a rough area…but I’ll take my chances!
The best part is I’m not going to tell anybody. Just go for the transfer. The little kid new managers wouldn’t have any idea of how to find out, unless one of their betters told them.
And Yay I can wear my TCoM “Vince” T-shirt again!
Going to wait next few days to decide to see if the present boss of my boss says, “Sorry to have you go…is there anything we can do to get you to stay?”
“SLEEP!”
<No, wait>
“Sorry, no…you guys just scrooged the pooch that laid the golden parcels. Good luck with that.”
One of my favorite music artists, Porter Robinson, released a new album last Friday, and I’m finally getting a chance to listen to it. The album is quite literally called “SMILE! :D”, so I am definitely smiling about that. Sitting outside in the heat to listen to it as loud as I can in headphones and work on homework to combat the chill I feel inside from the incident I mentioned in the gripes thread.
Oh, we’re going to have a lot of fun with this on my last few days at this (same job, I’m just transferring to a different site way out in…I dunno…like “hehe…nice tent buddy…I had one just like it…same with your girl…” or whatever people say. I plan to stay in my car all the time.
Never get out of the boat. Portlanders, you know. Delta Park. Portland Speedway. Columbia River Slough. Trust me, I been around a bit. But that’s no picnic up there.
Looks like fair weather for my road trip next week. I’ve spent a bunch of money on the jeep this past couple of months, time to put it to the test. This time next week I’ll be on my way to the ferry terminal. My holiday starts in about nine hours.
That’s right! A ballpoint pen with which I’ve just now come into possession.
Eh, I don’t find the stock ink cartridge that bad.
But considering yesterday I lost one of my Koh-i-noor short-barrelled 2mm lead holders out of my breast pocket, I don’t have much confidence in keeping this little wisp of a pen. I have two other spares (and two others of the same model that are hiding from me), but of this pen I only have one.
Perhaps I shall make a lanyard for it. And not of the breakaway kind, for if the pen goes, therefore I deserve to perish.
Bought a used 2019 Volkswagen Beetle today, and was able to pay off the whole thing with a check. Nice to have enough in the bank to avoid financing the thing.
When I went in to get my port flushed last week, I mentioned to the nurse that i had new neuropathy since my chemo ended. First off, she assured me that was pretty common.
But the oncologist wrote me a script for gabapentin and now after about a week of taking it, I can feel it starting to work. I’m starting to get some of my manual dexterity back, and the neuropathy seems to slowly be receding. Hooray for modern medicine!
Well, it’s nothing superheavy like a new car or no pain off the port bow, but I peeled off this screen protector from this Samsung whatever it is phone…sort of thought I had like a gajillion new ones the same size around…
I was getting tired of looking at the cracks on the screen protector and such, so I thought I should fix it. You know, that complicated “fix” involving peeling off a piece of glass or whatever and putting a fresh one back on. Very difficult.
Meh, even though this one is designed, apparently, for a smaller sized screen…meh…it’s fine. Hate phones anyway…but most of all those that don’t function. Meh…screen cover’s fine, and if I find some that fit lying about in my office…meh…that’s fine too.
Also: single random fact. If you don’t tune a hollow-bodied arch top guitar just right, it sounds really jive if you try to just play some chords on it. No kidding, it sounds more like a ukelele than jazz guitar.
One doesn’t want that, well…but it is good for about ten seconds of stifled laughter.
Go ahead, play the chords to “Darktown Strutter’s Ball” or whatever on some random guitar, using as many of those upper frets as possible, and tell me you won’t laugh your fool head off.
The original one (now relocated to my driveway), the speaker never worked so I moved it to view my driveway and the view is great!.
Even catches my truck parked in front of my tiny house
I haven’t done the Criterion Channel in over a year, but saw they are showing the films of Youssef Chahine (I mentioned somewhere a while back that I hadn’t seen a lot of Egyptian cinema, but that I liked Chahine). There were 10 I haven’t seen that were included. So, I happily subscribed to that.
Criterion is also on Letterboxd, and so I was able to filter their lists and quickly see what I haven’t seen. Also did this for my personal watchlists (filtering ‘services’ - ‘Criterion’). Sometimes I can get cranky over tech, especially when it’s confusing and doesn’t work easily… but when it works, it’s a dream. In 15 minutes time I was able to go through my 'boxd lists and added 54 movies to ‘My List’ at Criterion.
That’s a lot of movies that I’m very excited to watch.
I haven’t done the Criterion Channel in over a year, but saw they are showing the films of Youssef Chahine (I mentioned somewhere a while back that I hadn’t seen a lot of Egyptian cinema, but that I liked Chahine). There were 10 I haven’t seen that were included. So, I happily subscribed to that.