She still asks on occasion, but she takes me more seriously when I say it's nothing all that important.
Oh if I'm thinking through something that we both need to have a say in I absolutely share my thoughts as she does with me. j
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I had just bought a Camry Hybrid andy wife and I were driving in it doing errands... I have a tell when something is on my mind and my wife invariably asks what it is. Usually it really isn't anything significant and that time was no different...
Except....
I launched into a very detailed explanation as to how the Toyota Hybrid Synergy system really works and it lasted till we got home... Did I mention we had three stops and we're on our way to the first?
She has not asked what is on my mind since.
LOL. That would be funny.
But no, my wife and I went through every piece, opened all the lids. No fortune.
Spite.
Honestly, it was all junk.
Sufficiently advanced technology...
I work for a turbine engine manufacturer. I don't do the cool stuff as I'm just an old IT guy, but I get to talk to those that do once in a while.
Think about this the next time you go blasting through the air at 500mph (804kmh) and 34,000ft (10300m) in the air in a metal tube...
The blades of the first stage turbine operate at the temperature they were cast at. In other words they operate at their melting point. If you're not familiar with turbine engines, well... It's there in the name. The turbine essentially is the prime moving part in the engine that actually produces the power to run the rest of it. If it goes, so does the engine and quite possibly in an extremely exciting way.
How does this work? Magic... Or good engineering. I've been told how it works, but I honestly do not understand it well enough to write about it.
For me that is the very definition of fascinating.
A few years ago my wife and I decided to finish the basement. The first step was to clean it out, which involved going through all the junk that I had inherited from various family members. My mom always asserted that all of it was very valuable and CONSTANTLY checked that I still had it all and was taking good care of it.
I went through each item one by one and looked them up. Dishes, nick knacks, all of it. It took me hours. The highest value item was maybe $10. Several large and heavy boxes that I had been obligated to haul around to all of the places I lived for the last 30 years, as my mother constantly asked me about them. It was all worth maybe $100, if I made the effort to attempt to sell it. Which would have taken a lot of time as we're talking dozens of fragile things. It just was not worth it.
I shoved it all into the trunk of my car and took it to the dump. My Mom died in 2011, so she wasn't around to check up on all that crap.
God damn I was so pissed. 30 fucking years of hauling that worthless junk around probably cost far more than it was worth. My mother was so insistent that I even had it sitting around taking up space in my basement 12 years after her death. Just another one of her little power plays.
Grocery list and I take a pen along and mark everything off when it goes into the cart.
Yeah, I'm old.
I'd love to have a database with all my recipes with ingredients and add them at a click of the button. The problem is I have a fairly well stocked kitchen and I still need to go through the list anyway to make sure I'm not buying anything I already have. So having a computerized system really doesn't save me any time.
I interviewed Robby Van Winkle for my university's newspaper back in 1990.
He actually was a pretty interesting person to talk to. Shocking I know.
Amplifiers: Mainly because I rescue distressed amps and bring them back to life.
I have cooked on gas, induction, infrared and the old style resistive elements. Currently I have a Wolf duel fuel range which is one of the best you can buy in the U.S. and I love it.
I'll just come out and say it...
Gas has seen its day. I say that as a current gas cook top user.
A good quality induction cook top is fantastic. It gets a lot hotter faster than gas while also simmering better. Responsiveness is off the charts too, depending on how heavy your cookware is, which is gas's major advantage over older electric cook tops. The only issue I personally have with induction is that cheaper units make a weird buzzing noise with some cookware and settings. I did get to cook on a Viking induction cook top a few times and did not notice that issue.
In the first episode of the 2003 Battlestar Galactica mini-series, Serenity from Firefly can be seen flying above the doctor's office where Laura Roslin learns she has cancer.
BSG 2004: Actress Tricia Helfer had to have her hair constantly dyed to keep it blonde. She is naturally a darker haired blonde. She asked for a wig, but the producers refused due to cost. About a week later poor Tricia's hair fell out due to being constantly dyed. The show was obligated to spend $10,000 to have wigs rushed to the set for her. She wore a wig throughout the rest of the series.
The USS Reliant in "Wrath of Khan" is upside down. Originally the model was designed to have the warp nacelles above the saucer section. However, due to a misunderstanding the plans were approved upside down. Honestly, I think it works better because the two ships looked very different, but were obviously from the same fleet.
We all know about Viggo breaking his toe in "The Two Towers". But did you know that in "Fellowship of the Ring" he really did deflect a thrown dagger with his sword in the final fight scene?
Farscape 1999 was produced by the Jim Henson company, the same production company that made the muppets. Many models from the Henson's company's earlier productions were used in the show. Also, Lani John Tupu who played Bilar Craise also was the voice for the Pilot of Moya.
In "Fellowship of the Ring" when Gandolf confronts the Balrog, actor Ian McKellen was acting to a golf ball. On the flip side, when Sam and Frodo see Cirith Ungol after escaping Shelob's lair, the tower was actually there on set with them. They did not have to pretend seeing it.
Look her straight in the eye and say:
"You are embarrassing yourself."
I've heard of this one, but a little differently...
Don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things.
My girlfriend in college, who was really my first real love. I move to a bigger city for a job, we get engaged and make plans for her to move to the city then... She just ghosts me.
She calls me at work out of the blue two years later. Turned out she met some guy with a nicer car than me... However, apparently having a nice car does not equate to being treated well... Which I did treat her well.
When she called me, I was in the middle of job burn out, almost no social life and just really not in the mood for bullshit. So no, we never got back together and I'm glad.
My first full time job job out in the wild was as a retail manager. I was expected to work 54 hours and during the Christmas season I basically was at the store if it was open, period. My record at that job was 80 hours in one week.
That was between the ages of 21 to 24. By the time I was 23 I was already completely burned out. Unable to enjoy life, making next to no money to boot. Seemed like every year there was some excuse why my bonus sucked, even though I ran the most profitable store, by percentage and dollars, in the entire region. It culminated in my regional manager forcing my district manager to demote me to another store because I didn't run the sales gain numbers he thought I should... Even though my store was both profitable and I ran sales gains every month. They handed my clean, well sorted store to a god damn thief who they ended up pressing charges against within the next year. But hey, he ran big sales gain numbers. The regional manager was an absolute prick and he later got fired for stealing carpet...
The company is out of business now and good riddance.
40 hours is more than enough time to devote to making a paycheck. Honestly, 32 hours is enough too, especially since these employers expect you to commute. Concepts like "Rush Hour" only exist because of the insanity of making a buck.
I left retail to enter the IT industry, which can have some crazy hours too. I did my stint being on call and doing changes at 3am on Sunday mornings, working outages that lasted for days. Those days are behind me too. Today I work from home and my boss only cares if my work is done and that I'm available to answer emails.
I just migrated my Proxmox server to newish hardware, so its uptime now is only about two weeks.
In general the only time I restart it is when a new kernel comes down. So that could be uptime from a month to several months. I never restart it just because, it's only when an update requires it.
Proxmox sits on an HP workstation with a Xeon processor and ECC memory, so it's pretty reliable. Although it does not have redundant power supplies or the like.
All of my laptops and towers and Unifi router/ WAPs get restarted for updates and that's it.
The longest uptime I personally have ever seen in my career as an IT professional was in a customer's data center when my company took over their IT services. This was many many years ago. They had a Novell Netware server that had an uptime of over 10 years... In a PRODUCTION environment. The company's representative stated that they were afraid of rebooting it because they didn't think it would come back up. That became one of my company's projects to replace it, which we did. I wasn't a part of that specific activity, but a friend of mine was as he was Novell certified. Once everything was migrated, he attempted to reboot the machine just to see if it would...
The damn thing restarted like a champ. It came back up normally with no issues. Novell Netware could probably run on a rock as long as it had enough silica content.
There's no such thing as sex good enough to deal with a partner that is incompatible with yourself.
You don't spend all day, or even the bulk of your time having sex with them. The bulk of the time you're having a relationship and that relationship takes work and at least some compatibility between your personalities and goals. Especially when bills, sickness, and kids come into the picture.
That is if we're talking about a long term commitment.
Short term?
Yeah, sex can make up for a lot. I dated a girl in 2000 who was... By far the best at sex and she was down for damn near everything. My 30th birthday present from her is still something I daydream about today 25 years later. Unfortunately, she had a lot of issues and our relationship ended after 6 months. We hooked up about a year later for about a month and she was trying to make us work, but my feelings for her just did not develop so we broke up again. We're actually still friends now 25 years later. She got over her issues and has been married to a man that has treated her very well for the past 15 years.
Mrs CanopyFlyer (56F) and I (55m) have been together 21 years and married for 20. We have two kids. She and I come from very different backgrounds. She's an east coast born highly educated (MD/PhD) lady that was the top of her class at Yale. I'm a mid-west born barely educated redneck that she's somehow tamed and taught to eat veggies and salad. Also her parents absolutely loathe me, even to this day. What made our relationship is our ability to sit and talk to each other. We have very similar views on politics, religion, and many other things. We're also both tend toward being rational and open minded. We are an absolute unit when we have to come together to solve an issue and my god have we had our fair share of those.
I absolutely have her back and I know for a fact that she has mine, empirically many times over. That's the basis for a long term relationship.
That's awesome.
Just got the notification of the one I ordered for my youngest just shipped. It's his big Christmas present this year.
We've had his Saturn V on the coffee table for the past couple of years. My wife and I plan on moving it and putting the Enterprise in its place.
Honestly, I just wanted that junk out of my house and my life. These were several very large and heavy boxes that I had been obliged to haul around for nearly 30 years, all because my mother was playing one of her power games over me. My mother was so far up Cluster B that they probably should add a letter.
I did not want to shackle anyone else with it, because who would have bought it? Other assholes to keep around till they foist it off on their kids or some other unsuspecting schmuck. It was all mass produced garbage. The "China" dishes that were supposed to be "fine" were listed on Ebay and a couple of other sites for $1 each. My mother insisted they were extremely expensive and sought after. I never used them because I was afraid of breaking them. The crash they made when I flung the box into the dumpster was cathartic and healing.
So while it might have been a bit of a waste, it wasn't as much of a waste as you might think and nobody needs it.