Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

Train making me uncomfortable this morning.

I wonder if it's college that trains some people to continue their work at home instead of being done when they leave the office. (Yes, my kid is complaining about college homework right now.)

In my tech job, I think the think that ticks me off the most is removing a bunch of hand-maintained config because it is both unnecessary and prone to cause errors, only to have something fail and discover someone has put all that config back and it triggered the "errors" part.

Don't sell yourself short on your resume, but how many subjects can you be an expert in at once?

I want to start a union to fight for more comfortable office temperatures.

So I had an account on a Minecraft hosting service. They got bought by someone. I cancelled the service and left. Apparently they got bought, and years later, I'm getting a data breach warning from a company I've never heard of, and I can't even remember the name of the previous company. Really starting to think carrying account data over during a company merger should be opt-in.

My Android phone is now installing the _fifth_ update in 3 days. Like, someone at Tracfone realized that the update process has been stuck for a year and pushed them all out at once?

Oh, wow... got _four_ Android updates, and suddenly I'm on Android 9. Did not expect a full OS version upgrade.

When my phone said there would be three interruptions during the update, I thought it meant pop-ups... not that it had three separate patches to install with reboots in between.

Why do so many people capitalize 'FOB' when talking about a security token key fob? To the point that google suggests "What does FOB in key fob stand for?" is a common question. It's not an acronym. (And no, it doesn't mean Frequency Operated Button... that's a bacronymn people have invented to explain what those caps must mean.)

"Student driver" magnets on the car have been useful, but sometimes they backfire... like when one lady came up behind us at a stop sign, immediately went around on the right and made a left turn in front of us. Would have served her right if my kid hit her. (I'm sure she wasn't worried about how long we were going to take, but that she just wanted to get ahead of us. Some people are so rude.)

I begin to think that having a micro-fridge on my desk at work, where I can get a Coke without even having to get out of my seat, might be a bad thing.

I discovered the reason they make me write it all down again is they literally wire my sheet into the file as the primary record.

Note to self: There's a reason you used to make optometrist appointments late in the day.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to have to take the rest of the day off because everything is too bright and full of halos.

Also, office opened at 10, my appt was at 10:15... first appt of the day. Doctor wasn't ready until 10:52. Seems like any other business would fail with this kind of customer service.

Medical records keeping is in such a sorry state in some places. Office has all my info, but I have to fill out a paper form with duplicate info to show it hasn't changed. They can't even give me a copy to verify. I'm afraid they don't even keep it on a computer.

gampur site: please disable your adblock
me: (looks at privacy badger blocking 29 tracking cookies) Heck no.

Website owners... it's gone far beyond just blocking ads. I'm blocking the dozens of companies you allow to track my usage across multiple websites. "We use cookies" is way different from "We allow several advertising companies to track your activity across the web."

Took my kid out to practice driving for the first time. No tears, no yelling, no swearing they'll never drive again. I take this as a sign that I am a better dad than previous generations.