SteevyT

A BEAN!

I replaced most of the lights in the basement, rewired stuff so it wasn't switched on the neutral leg anymore too (seriously, who does that?). Pretty sure I had to deal with some sort of FNG today, I was getting all sorts of weird questions. (Note: These are all standards, if someone at the level this dude is supposed to be at is asking these kinds of questions...um....yeah.)

"Hey, what the hell kind of security screw is this?"
"Um.....it's a Phillips #2, although if you push hard enough a Phillips #1 might also work."
Somehow, that wasn't the mist bizarre question out of someone who really should not have been asking questions like that today.

I did get my full wellness reward at work, so my wife and I used part of it to get new heart rate chest straps so that's kind of exciting.

It's 0°F outside, feels like -18°F, but the dew point is -14°F so my Garmin watch is describing it as "pleasant."

I feel like there's some joke I'm missing.

Fuck shit dammit sex

Man, I needed a reminder on what SodaStream even was, I assumed they went bankrupt years ago. Thanks for the context.

Not buying a SodaStream: Antisemetic

I think I need context for this.

Jesus fuck.

I remember being taught this kind of shit, but like 3/4 of the class just didn't give a shit.

It's like my classmates who sometimes say they wish they were taught how to do taxes. We were, it was literally part of high school economics, it was a required class, we literally filled out the exact federal and state tax forms they now say they don't know how to handle. It was a required exercise in a required class to fucking graduate.

I'm going to guess that either there are no standards to meet for those, or the standards also just happen to line up with the current cheapest material and construction options.

Or they are only covered by standards that are complete jokes. Like the fire standard I saw at my old job that a pack of printer paper would easily pass because it was just a time before burning a hole through, and the paper pack took longer just because of how thick it is (the time was like 5 minutes or something if I recall correctly).

Ugh, I'm getting a bunch right now that are like "we can help with SEO" and "let us fix your codebase" and "we can help with payroll."

I'm a design engineer for plastic injection molded parts, exactly none of those are anywhere near what I handle, I wouldn't even know who to direct them to if I had any interest in directing them anywhere, stop fucking emailing me.

I was going to say 2112, but that's honestly scifi.

Well, not that shocked.