Old Pharts Club

[Draconigena]

got up to close to 50 today and mostly sunny.

The high here yesterday was 50 °F. I got the antique Bobcat out and moved about a trillion tons of snow in the hopes that whatever remained on the ground would melt and we'd have safe walk zones to the barns. The low temp for the night turned out to be 37 °F, which is not freezing, and even though the wind chill factor was below 32, that only affects the "feeling" skin has of temperature potentials (i.e., makes body heat dissipate more quickly), so... well, what's all this BS being said for? Going out for chores this morning was treacherous because the entire property was a giant sheet of ice, so Mr. Weather Dude clearly forgot an important factor: The ground temperature clearly was sub-freezing, and while the sunshine was melting the tiny remaining snow after all that plowing, it was not heating the ground beneath, which refroze all that shit making our entire property be one giant sheet of black ice. Pardon me while I recite something childish: "Shit, Damn, Hell, Screw, Frog Snot, Orgasm, Rectum, Hell kilt him" and on top of that: "Fuck fuck shit fuck, gobble nibble chew, shitty ass rat fuck, piss cunt screw." OK, I only fell on my ass once, but don't tell my wife, 'cause for some reason, she worries that I might hurt myself. And, the forecast for the rest of this week? Oh 20 °F tomorrow, 5 °F the next day, -1 °F the day after... add new snow to the equation and the next week is shitty. BUT, that stupid ass groundhog did NOT see its shadow today, which means an early Spring (only six weeks from now, which is what it would be if there was no such thing as groundhogs). Sigh...

 

[The Cromwell]

Worn out from this nasty weather, I am ready for spring

Yep I expect that most in the northern parts of the USA are.

 

[The Cromwell]

Except in the electronics section where Wally World customers who cannot afford that 8-foot plama TV are pretending they can but need to preview it by watching the stupid bawl.

I find it amazing how many huge TV sets are sold on the excuse of watching the Stupor Bowl.

 

[The Cromwell]

Ahh the groundhog thing.
Stoopit hoomans do not realize that it is a local thing and your neighborhood groundhog dictates springs arrival for your area not the entire nation.

 

[The Cromwell]

Got ready to take the Wife unit to Sunday School/church and rockin to Motley Crue while waiting on the wife unit to get ready.
all my rowdy friends seem to have 'settled down'.
But not me for some reason?
Perhaps I was not as rowdy as them?
Perhaps I do not fear death?
I dunno....

 

[Draconigena]

Forecast for today was 20 °F with a "slight chance of wintry mix" (rain and snow together) this evening. They have changed that about 10 times already today (every time we look, it is different), probably because it started snowing early this morning and the current temperature is only 5 °F with about 25 mph wind (chill factor is -17 °F). Yup.... welcome to winter.

 

[The Cromwell]

66 degrees and sunny here now.
of course I just got in from all the Church stuff...

Rich must not have any Groundhogs up his way?

 

[Draconigena]

66 degrees and sunny here now.
of course I just got in from all the Church stuff...

Rich must not have any Groundhogs up his way?

66 sounds like Heaven. Maybe going to church actually is a blessing.

Hmmmm.... come to think of it, I don't recall having seen a groundhog in the 15 years we've lived here. I wonder if we have any... mostly we have Prairie Dawgs.

 

[The Cromwell]

66 sounds like Heaven. Maybe going to church actually is a blessing.

Hmmmm.... come to think of it, I don't recall having seen a groundhog in the 15 years we've lived here. I wonder if we have any... mostly we have Prairie Dawgs.

In KY if you don't like the weather just wait a few days and it will change.
A benefit? of kinda being in between northern US and southern US I suppose.

 

[Draconigena]

In KY if you don't like the weather just wait a few days and it will change.

I wonder how many states use something similar... back in Orygun (growing up in NW Willamette Valley), I heard that line a lot, but it went like, "if you don't like the weather, just wait a few hours and it will change." The rain started, the rain stopped, the rain started... yup, that seemed to be the change we waited for. In Winter, it rained, then it snowed, then it rained... In Spring it rained... Summer... rain.... Autumn... rain. I remember a couple cloudless sunny days... Oh, wait, Summer of 1966, I think it went 100 days with no rain. I thought we had been teleported to Sahara, but then it rained for months and months. Yup, that was Orygun. Oh well....

Here, the "change" seems to be to get colder and snowier in winter and hotter and stickier in summer.

 

[The Cromwell]

Yep when I lived and worked in Beaverton if there was a sunny day not many showed up

virtually never rained hard just mostly drizzle most of the time.

 

[The Cromwell]

I assume someone won the Stupor Bowl?

 

[ajvapes]

I assume someone won the Stupor Bowl?

It was actually a decent game, New England now a six time winner...

 

[Draconigena]

when I lived and worked in Beaverton if there was a sunny day not many showed up

Ah, yes, beautiful downtown Beaver Gulch, the heart of northern Soggy Valley. I spent many years there on the Tektronix campus, and when the sun came out, we all ran outside to fling frisbees around the Commons.

I assume someone won the Stupor Bowl?

Never watch that stuff. BBC's Animal Planet was showing the Puppy Bowl XV at the same time and the halftime show was the cutest Kittens...

 

[The Cromwell]

Do not care about watching sports games.
Liked to play them but not watch.

Used to go to Stupor Bowl partys when younger but just ate and got drunk never watched game.
I have never watched over a few minutes of any Stupor Bowl game or any football game for that matter.

Spent the evening fussin with C++.
Playing with an Arduino.

Been 20 years but did not forget everything

Arduino seems to use a cut down version of C++.
With some Arduino specific syntax.

 

[Draconigena]

Do not care about watching sports games.
Liked to play them but not watch.

See, we have something in common. Only time I even attended sports in high school is because 40 cheerleaders (The Squad) dragged me there, so you know I wasn't paying any attention whatsoever to whatever might have been happening on the field. Then there was the dance after the game and for some silly reason, they all thought I owed them a dance. I'm pretty sure all they really wanted was my Algebra homework.

 

[The Cromwell]

I have attended 2 baseball games. One with coworkers as a team building thing and the other under orders to take some clients. My VP also hated going to games so he made me do it...
Drink enough expensive beer and it is survivable.

And I suspect that we have several things in common if we avoid politics

 

[Draconigena]

One year, as a reward for notable special achievements above and beyond the call of duty (or some bullshit that sounded kinda like that), my division's engineering upper management gave me a season's pass to all the hockey games at the Coliseum in Portland. This included two seats in the company's private box. Supposedly, had I paid for this myself, it would have been about $1000. I said "Thank you very much, but please give it to the next guy on your list because I would not waste the gas to drive into town for even one of those games." I think I insulted them, but I have absolute zero interest in that shit.

 

[The Cromwell]

Both of the baseball games I had to attend were pretty much no choice items.
And the one with the clients was in a clubhouse box seat with good food and lots of booze and beer with a limo ride to haul my drunk ass home
Was a success the clients were happy.
For my troubles they threatened me with a promotion which I declined.
I only play the business games to a very limited extent and do not care for them.
I like to make things and fix things.
Small tech groups and such is my environment.

 

[The Cromwell]

I also have turned down clubhouse seats at the KY Derby.

 

[Draconigena]

For my troubles they threatened me with a promotion which I declined.

Don't ya just hate that? So many times I had to say, "Why don't ya leave me alone to do what I do best?" I was always a highly interactive analyst inventor, meaning, show me a problem, I will find a viable solution and explain it so that both the janitor and the CEO can understand. It worked for hardware, software, system programming, CAD design/drafting, technical writing, etc.

 

[The Cromwell]

Don't ya just hate that? So many times I had to say, "Why don't ya leave me alone to do what I do best?" I was always a highly interactive analyst inventor, meaning, show me a problem, I will find a viable solution and explain it so that both the janitor and the CEO can understand. It worked for hardware, software, system programming, CAD design/drafting, technical writing, etc.

ahh those upper management types think everyone wants to be promoted.

More pay is ok though

 

[Draconigena]

I didn't mind them making me a manager within Engineering (and stepping up from there) because, even while taking care of the details of managing people, I could still greatly influence the products and the direction of product development. I really didn't want to be in charge of Government Programs Management or Marketing Management because that would take me away from the areas I was best at. From within Engineering, I could influence those other groups, but if I was moved to one of those groups, it would greatly lessen my influence over engineers. So, I felt I had no choice but to turn down those job offers. More pay? You know, after 20 years with one company, there are few large pay increases. That changed greatly when another company offered me the same job with a 20% pay increase. Yes, I did move on down the road for that. And when "they" also put me in charge of getting the company ISO9001 certified, I was able to greatly influence ALL areas of that company (like the machine shop and assembly areas, which I couldn't do while still at Tektronix).

 

[The Cromwell]

I do not like to manage Humans.
A most disagreeable job for me.

 

[Draconigena]

I do not like to manage Humans.
A most disagreeable job for me.

Complete agreement. It is a nasty job, but someone has to do it because -- let's be logical here -- 99% of human beings will not manage themselves. Especially today... they go round and round until someone else on Assbook tells them what to do, then they comply without question and show the world that they are all fools.

 

[Draconigena]

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[JuicyLucy]

I do not like to manage Humans.
A most disagreeable job for me.

I don't either but always end up doing so

Am thinking about getting a job for a few months, haven't been employed by anyone but myself in decades....

 

[The Cromwell]

Complete agreement. It is a nasty job, but someone has to do it because -- let's be logical here -- 99% of human beings will not manage themselves. Especially today... they go round and round until someone else on Assbook tells them what to do, then they comply without question and show the world that they are all fools.

But who manages the managers?

 

[Draconigena]

Those who are best at kissing asses. A few of us in the middle got by on merit, but most kept their jobs through brown-nosing, which goes all the way up to CEO.

 

[The Cromwell]

Yep and who manages the CEO?
Shareholders? Maybe after things go to hell.
And the CEO goes out the door with his golden parachute.

 

[Draconigena]

Yup. Well, now that we have beat the business world to hell, let's beat on the weather some more (something ALL of us can bitch about).

The HIGH temperature here today was -3 ºF (which lasted only a couple minutes - mostly it was -5 ºF all day). Right at the moment, it is -7 ºF with a 20 mph wind (chill factor is about -30 ºF so the cows have their barn door shut because the wind is blowing right into their sleepy area). Didn't someone just try to tell me Spring will be here soon? Well, it damn well ain't soon enough. My ancient bod tells me it is absolute zero outside and I don't even want to get my nose out from under the blankets no more,

 

[The Cromwell]

Will Putin control North Pole???

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/north-pole-magnetic-moving-russia-scli-intl/index.html

LOL
Santa to come under under Putin's control?

I would assume that the south Pole is also moving?

And what does this all mean for Flat Earthers?

 

[JuicyLucy]

Those who are best at kissing asses. A few of us in the middle got by on merit, but most kept their jobs through brown-nosing, which goes all the way up to CEO.

I don't look good in brown lipstick

 

[The Cromwell]

the USA has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Naked glitter farting troll at Disney...

 

[JuicyLucy]

the USA has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Naked glitter farting troll at Disney...

The troll is also NAKED!!!

It's almost as bad as the gay tele tubby - we know he was because he carried a purse

 

[The Cromwell]

does look a bit purple

 

[DonBaldy]

Evening folks.

 

[JuicyLucy]

Don's here!

Time to party

 

[The Cromwell]

Hello Y'all

 

[DonBaldy]

Don's here!

Time to party

Don't know about that. Kinds of pissy. Let one of our more um opinionated members rub me the wrong way. Trying not to tall him to fuck off.

How's everyone else?

 

[The Cromwell]

Doing ok. I suspect I have that opinionated member on ignore.

Umm I also have opinions but try not to impose them on others... Well not too much anyway

 

[JuicyLucy]

Don't know about that. Kinds of pissy. Let one of our more um opinionated members rub me the wrong way. Trying not to tall him to fuck off.

How's everyone else?

Hmm, haven't been in a good throw down in forever, lol

 

[The Cromwell]

An Ass whoopin party?

 

[JuicyLucy]

Don't know about that. Kinds of pissy. Let one of our more um opinionated members rub me the wrong way. Trying not to tall him to fuck off.

How's everyone else?

It's okay to tell him so, totally not against the rules

 

[JuicyLucy]

Don't know about that. Kinds of pissy. Let one of our more um opinionated members rub me the wrong way. Trying not to tall him to fuck off.

How's everyone else?

VU was a lot more fun when I could ignore that no dick baby-man

 

[The Cromwell]

VU was a lot more fun when I could ignore that no dick baby-man

Yeah I wondered how you would like that aspect..
So yep it is safe to say that I have him on ignore.

 

[DonBaldy]

I guess it wasn't too difficult to tell to whom I was referring.

 

[DonBaldy]

Doing ok. I suspect I have that opinionated member on ignore.

Umm I also have opinions but try not to impose them on others... Well not too much anyway

Well many value your opinion because you can express it without being a complete dick about it.

 

[DonBaldy]

It's okay to tell him so, totally not against the rules

Not my style...usually. I try to take the high road.

VU was a lot more fun when I could ignore that no dick baby-man

I guess being a mod on a forum that has very few rules has it's downsides.

 

[The Cromwell]

Well many value your opinion because you can express it without being a complete dick about it.

Well thank you kind sir.
I try to treat others like I would like to be treated.

But every now and again I just have to call a dickhead a dickhead
It it becomes a regular thing I just put them on ignore, makes life more pleasant. Kind of like avoiding assholes in real life.