Mainly because all of her moms friends, doctors, and places are all in CA. We're currently looking into moving her out here, but it's the last option we want to take because we don't want her to have to give up all her people. There's also the weather issue to consider as cold is harder on the body as you age. This option is easier on me because *I* don't have to give up anything (job, friends, places, etc.) but it's the hardest on her.
That's a plan we've actually discussed. The problem is that we'd have to rent a place to put all of our stuff as her house is small (my wife doesn't work so we'd have to sell the house before we moved) and her mom is sort of in the middle of nowhere as far as IT jobs go (Antelope Valley area) so it would be a lot of commuting if I managed to snag a job somewhere. Still, that might be our best bet if push came to shove.
Also, to be honest, I'm approaching that age where changing jobs becomes a bit riskier. My current job is cushy and fairly safe (plus there's a pension I'm invested in), so I'm a bit scared to throw that all away for something that could crumble after a few months. Then again, we do stupid things all the time for love.
I've been trying to move to CA from the Midwest for years now (my wife's family is in CA and she needs to take care of an aging parent), but it's tough since no company is willing to pay for a move unless you have a very specific skill they're looking for that they can't find locally (I'm very good at my job, but I'm nothing special as far as skills go). Trying to interview long distance is also difficult, even with things like Skype (assuming they even will do it). Our current options appear to be either A. Blow our life savings on a move across country and hope I can get a job before we go broke, or B. Find a company that is willing to hire long distance and hope they don't decide to lay me off before our finances recover from the move. As much as my wife wants to be back in CA, she won't risk our future on it.
I've always been curious about how people are able to jump from one side of the country to the other and support themselves with no problems. Maybe it's because the people who do it are usually young with no real possessions to weigh them down? At my age (40), the risks start outweighing the benefits in many cases.
>>The toilets there are a mess, they have no concept of how to use them,
This! A thousand times this! , why can't you? And I'm not talking about just not flushing, I think they purposely shit on the seat or even on the back(!?!) of the toilet because they've never seen one before. I have no idea how you can be paid $100,000+ a year and still have no idea how to use a toilet! A three year old can do it Then again what do you expect from a country where over 60% of the people don't have access to indoor plumbing. I feel sorry for our cleaning staff, they must see things that would make your hair curl.
I've been using Facebook Purity for months now. It has a feature that allows you to hide the entire Trending Topics box. I had to install it for sanity's sake during the election to filter certain words (I had hard core friends on both sides of the political spectrum), but I kept it active to hide the dumb crap Facebook keeps foisting on me like Trending Topics, Suggested Posts, 5000 different game requests, etc. It has made using Facebook a lot less painful, I highly suggest it.
When you have to have your employees make 'Nuh uh! We're doing great! Here's why you're totally wrong!' type comments like this it's all over. The site may continue on as a shambling zombie version of itself for a few more years, but you'll never recapture the glory of the past.
Funny you should say that, I'm the exact same way. Two scoops to 6 cups. I took a 'coffee appreciation' class that I got as a gift and discovered that I've been making my coffee really REALLY weak. I've tried to brew it to the recommended strength, but I find that I don't like it that strong. That's probably why I can drink so much coffee a day (two to three pots) and I'm perfectly fine. If I drank that much of the 'normal' strength I'd probably be jittery and irritable (well more irritable than I normally am).
I'm hardly a coffee expert, but even at weak strength I find Starbucks to be really bitter. Even their Blonde roast is bitter to me.
One nice thing about Door games back then was that everyone got the same amount of turns each day, and when those were spent you were done. This made the games a bit more fair as 'Pay to Win' hadn't been invented yet. There was no 'Buy extra turns for only $x' or 'Upgrade to an elite account for more turns per day'. About the only way to get an unfair advantage was schmooze the Sysop into giving you more, but that rarely worked.:)
I remember staying up way too late in college because the BBS I was dialed into was two timezones away and I wanted to be on at midnight their time so I could get my new set of turns on my various games. LORD, Falcon's Eye, Trade Wars, Usurper... So many good memories and fun times. I've been tempted to try some of these modern BBS's but I haven't found a good one that's a mix of active, but also casual. Then again people who are still playing these games after all these years are mostly bound to be pretty hardcore about it. My problem is that now that I have a wife and a job, I can't commit the same amount of time.
Meh. I tried the Hackintosh route and it was fun for a few months but I ended up going back to Linux. MacOS has gone from nice and usable to 'WTF is wrong with this thing?' over the past few years. Now it seems that they want to merge MacOS and iOS or make at least MacOS act like it's being used from an iPhone. I used to have a boner for Apple products, but since Steve died they've really lost their way and I'm over it. These MacBooks aren't making me want to come back.
Still, if you really want to use MacOS then a Hackintosh is really the only way to go if you want a modern system that isn't already outdated. Making one really isn't as hard as everyone seems to imply it is.
Yep. Our building did this earlier this year. They pretended to ask our opinion on the matter (they had an 'express your thoughts' board up for a few weeks until it suddenly disappeared one day after 99.9% of the comments were negative with a few suspicious sounding positive comments mixed in) but we later found out that the plan was already in motion long before that board went up. So far they've done the upper floor and the response has been resoundingly negative. People complain that there's no privacy and they can't get any work done because their 'desks' are so small now. Basically they went from a standard cubical (with a wrap around desk) to a 3 foot piece of desk (with tiny little dividers on each side). The 'desks' are barely large enough for a computer and a phone.
We found out that they went ahead with the project because some vice president had it on their objectives this year because it saved money due to the fact that they were able to cram more people into the building rather than open a new one. Of course they didn't think about parking or bathroom space when they did that calculation so both are a disaster. Thankfully I'm in a secure lab that they've decided to ignore because they can't cram more people in due to security concerns. We've had tons of people try to get their managers to move them in though, even though they have absolutely no reason to be in here other than they don't like the new 'desks'.
If you're going to bribe someone to keep a major, possibly company destroying, event secret then you should probably offer him more than $900. Cheap out on the bribes and it will come back to bite you in the end.
You don't act like an asshole to drive away the overly sensitive, you ignore them. Eventually they get fed up that no one is listening to them whine and move on. This is the tactic we use on the boards I moderate and it works really well. Being an asshole drives away regular people too.
I've worried about that myself, but AFAIK Apple doesn't force automatic updates so if that day comes I won't have to download it. The Hackintosh scene is pretty good about vetting new updates and making sure they play nicely. Workarounds will always be found.
Given that hate speech these days is defined as "Things I don't agree with", this is simply going to end with those in charge deciding what people can and cannot talk about. I suppose it's a plus if your guys are the ones in charge, not so much if you're on the other side. I would say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I don't think there are even good intentions here. This is just a power grab by those in charge to shut up people they don't like. They're only using terrorism as a cover.
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I just snuck in under the wire for being eligible for the pension. I believe they ended it the next year for new hires.
Mainly because all of her moms friends, doctors, and places are all in CA. We're currently looking into moving her out here, but it's the last option we want to take because we don't want her to have to give up all her people. There's also the weather issue to consider as cold is harder on the body as you age. This option is easier on me because *I* don't have to give up anything (job, friends, places, etc.) but it's the hardest on her.
That's a plan we've actually discussed. The problem is that we'd have to rent a place to put all of our stuff as her house is small (my wife doesn't work so we'd have to sell the house before we moved) and her mom is sort of in the middle of nowhere as far as IT jobs go (Antelope Valley area) so it would be a lot of commuting if I managed to snag a job somewhere. Still, that might be our best bet if push came to shove.
Also, to be honest, I'm approaching that age where changing jobs becomes a bit riskier. My current job is cushy and fairly safe (plus there's a pension I'm invested in), so I'm a bit scared to throw that all away for something that could crumble after a few months. Then again, we do stupid things all the time for love.
I've been trying to move to CA from the Midwest for years now (my wife's family is in CA and she needs to take care of an aging parent), but it's tough since no company is willing to pay for a move unless you have a very specific skill they're looking for that they can't find locally (I'm very good at my job, but I'm nothing special as far as skills go). Trying to interview long distance is also difficult, even with things like Skype (assuming they even will do it). Our current options appear to be either A. Blow our life savings on a move across country and hope I can get a job before we go broke, or B. Find a company that is willing to hire long distance and hope they don't decide to lay me off before our finances recover from the move. As much as my wife wants to be back in CA, she won't risk our future on it.
I've always been curious about how people are able to jump from one side of the country to the other and support themselves with no problems. Maybe it's because the people who do it are usually young with no real possessions to weigh them down? At my age (40), the risks start outweighing the benefits in many cases.
>>A three year old can do it, why can't you?
:)
I have no idea what happened there, but my rant got cut in half.
>>The toilets there are a mess, they have no concept of how to use them,
This! A thousand times this! , why can't you? And I'm not talking about just not flushing, I think they purposely shit on the seat or even on the back(!?!) of the toilet because they've never seen one before. I have no idea how you can be paid $100,000+ a year and still have no idea how to use a toilet! A three year old can do it Then again what do you expect from a country where over 60% of the people don't have access to indoor plumbing. I feel sorry for our cleaning staff, they must see things that would make your hair curl.
I've been using Facebook Purity for months now. It has a feature that allows you to hide the entire Trending Topics box. I had to install it for sanity's sake during the election to filter certain words (I had hard core friends on both sides of the political spectrum), but I kept it active to hide the dumb crap Facebook keeps foisting on me like Trending Topics, Suggested Posts, 5000 different game requests, etc. It has made using Facebook a lot less painful, I highly suggest it.
I just wish iPhone syncing worked with iTunes under Wine, then I could pretty much ditch Windows completely.
>>I also own the place, not an employee.
Congrats? Not sure why that makes a difference other than you should really know better then. I stand by my comment.
When you have to have your employees make 'Nuh uh! We're doing great! Here's why you're totally wrong!' type comments like this it's all over. The site may continue on as a shambling zombie version of itself for a few more years, but you'll never recapture the glory of the past.
When did this site become a third rate reddit?
Woosh!
Funny you should say that, I'm the exact same way. Two scoops to 6 cups. I took a 'coffee appreciation' class that I got as a gift and discovered that I've been making my coffee really REALLY weak. I've tried to brew it to the recommended strength, but I find that I don't like it that strong. That's probably why I can drink so much coffee a day (two to three pots) and I'm perfectly fine. If I drank that much of the 'normal' strength I'd probably be jittery and irritable (well more irritable than I normally am).
I'm hardly a coffee expert, but even at weak strength I find Starbucks to be really bitter. Even their Blonde roast is bitter to me.
One nice thing about Door games back then was that everyone got the same amount of turns each day, and when those were spent you were done. This made the games a bit more fair as 'Pay to Win' hadn't been invented yet. There was no 'Buy extra turns for only $x' or 'Upgrade to an elite account for more turns per day'. About the only way to get an unfair advantage was schmooze the Sysop into giving you more, but that rarely worked. :)
I remember staying up way too late in college because the BBS I was dialed into was two timezones away and I wanted to be on at midnight their time so I could get my new set of turns on my various games. LORD, Falcon's Eye, Trade Wars, Usurper... So many good memories and fun times. I've been tempted to try some of these modern BBS's but I haven't found a good one that's a mix of active, but also casual. Then again people who are still playing these games after all these years are mostly bound to be pretty hardcore about it. My problem is that now that I have a wife and a job, I can't commit the same amount of time.
Talk about timing, I'm installing Linux as we speak (Ubuntu). I'm surfing slashdot on my phone while I wait.
Meh. I tried the Hackintosh route and it was fun for a few months but I ended up going back to Linux. MacOS has gone from nice and usable to 'WTF is wrong with this thing?' over the past few years. Now it seems that they want to merge MacOS and iOS or make at least MacOS act like it's being used from an iPhone. I used to have a boner for Apple products, but since Steve died they've really lost their way and I'm over it. These MacBooks aren't making me want to come back.
Still, if you really want to use MacOS then a Hackintosh is really the only way to go if you want a modern system that isn't already outdated. Making one really isn't as hard as everyone seems to imply it is.
Yep. Our building did this earlier this year. They pretended to ask our opinion on the matter (they had an 'express your thoughts' board up for a few weeks until it suddenly disappeared one day after 99.9% of the comments were negative with a few suspicious sounding positive comments mixed in) but we later found out that the plan was already in motion long before that board went up. So far they've done the upper floor and the response has been resoundingly negative. People complain that there's no privacy and they can't get any work done because their 'desks' are so small now. Basically they went from a standard cubical (with a wrap around desk) to a 3 foot piece of desk (with tiny little dividers on each side). The 'desks' are barely large enough for a computer and a phone.
We found out that they went ahead with the project because some vice president had it on their objectives this year because it saved money due to the fact that they were able to cram more people into the building rather than open a new one. Of course they didn't think about parking or bathroom space when they did that calculation so both are a disaster. Thankfully I'm in a secure lab that they've decided to ignore because they can't cram more people in due to security concerns. We've had tons of people try to get their managers to move them in though, even though they have absolutely no reason to be in here other than they don't like the new 'desks'.
If you're going to bribe someone to keep a major, possibly company destroying, event secret then you should probably offer him more than $900. Cheap out on the bribes and it will come back to bite you in the end.
You don't act like an asshole to drive away the overly sensitive, you ignore them. Eventually they get fed up that no one is listening to them whine and move on. This is the tactic we use on the boards I moderate and it works really well. Being an asshole drives away regular people too.
I've worried about that myself, but AFAIK Apple doesn't force automatic updates so if that day comes I won't have to download it. The Hackintosh scene is pretty good about vetting new updates and making sure they play nicely. Workarounds will always be found.
This is exactly why I'm going the Hackintosh route. Better hardware at a much better price.
True. Seems like there are way too many these days.
Because he appears to have specifically targeted the nightclub because it was a gay nightclub. That's why it's relevant.
The incredible frog boy is on the loose again? Why isn't this front page news! What's Trump and Clinton's plan for catching him? We need answers!
Given that hate speech these days is defined as "Things I don't agree with", this is simply going to end with those in charge deciding what people can and cannot talk about. I suppose it's a plus if your guys are the ones in charge, not so much if you're on the other side. I would say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I don't think there are even good intentions here. This is just a power grab by those in charge to shut up people they don't like. They're only using terrorism as a cover.