What made me happy today?

[JT Woody]

I recieved my first "staff appreciation" acknowledgment submittd by one of my staffers to the HR bulletin board about my leadership. It was a long message about whats its been like working under me since I started this position and i feel like crying
Im really REALLY hard on myself... especially now in this position. And it feels nice that i hid the stress and panic (and irritation and frustration) well enough to have a positive impact on my staff

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Good on ya, JT!

 

[Homer Potvin]

I recieved my first "staff appreciation" acknowledgment submittd by one of my staffers to the HR bulletin board about my leadership. It was a long message about whats its been like working under me since I started this position and i feel like crying
Im really REALLY hard on myself... especially now in this position. And it feels nice that i hid the stress and panic (and irritation and frustration) well enough to have a positive impact on my staff

Congrats! Take the workplace victories where you can get them. They can be few and far between sometimes.

 

[Donnie]

My Badminton group meets MWF 800 to 10:00. Includes a English couple who needs to go back to England for 8 mos. 20 of us met for lunch to give them a send off. It
was really nice.
I had fluatas.

 

[Amontillado]

... but nothing ever came out of it (at least, nothing that I know of).

Authorities can be unpredictable. I found a list of IP addresses in my parking lot. They were mail servers at military bases. Nobody even took a report.

Another time I traced an attack on my infrastructure to a Linux box at a small East Coast college. It turned out to be an unmonitored classroom server, class was out on semester break, and hackers were using it to launch attacks. I called the campus security office who yelled at me for telling outrageous lies and hung up. When classes resumed, I got a nice apology for how I was treated and a quick accounting of the trouble their renegade machine had caused.

Another time, a customer discovered traffic on UDP port 53 from two of my servers, "suspiciously" named ns1 and ns2. The customer called the FBI, the FBI called me, and then I got to hear them try to explain why they didn't recognize UDP 53 as routine DNS traffic, supporting a customer's Internet use, from servers named ns1 and ns2.

 

[Luxuria]

I found my elden ring groove. Two katanas and consumables! Character 3. Mage was an idea, tried it. Got under yet overpowered. Melee with big sword build was boring. Decided to lean into the crafting System and use katanas.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I recieved my first "staff appreciation" acknowledgment submittd by one of my staffers to the HR bulletin board about my leadership. It was a long message about whats its been like working under me since I started this position and i feel like crying
Im really REALLY hard on myself... especially now in this position. And it feels nice that i hid the stress and panic (and irritation and frustration) well enough to have a positive impact on my staff

Congratulations, JT! It's nice to be appreciated. *hug* I know how you feel, I'm very hard on myself and take my work seriously too.

But to be honest, anyone who treats work as an excuse to goof off probably won't have a job for much longer...!

 

[Iain Aschendale]

I finished grading my final essays. For the most part, they went well.

The students absorbed and implemented what I taught them, woo-hoo!

 

[JT Woody]

The students absorbed and implemented what I taught them, woo-hoo!

Everything is going according to plan

 

[Luxuria]

Swapped to a Geology class. No longer scared to open my textbook. Hahah. THank the gods!

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Everything is going according to plan

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

Swapped to a Geology class. No longer scared to open my textbook. Hahah. THank the gods!

Yeah! Geology class rocks!! (Sorry)

 

[Rath Darkblade]

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

Sorry, but this just occurred to me:

- I think so, Brain, but where will we find enough grape juice to drown New York and Los Angeles simultaneously?
- I think so, Brain, but Necromancers 'R Us is closed now, so how are we going to resurrect Abraham Lincoln?
- I think so, Brain, but how will we develop a nuke smart enough to only target telemarketers?
- I think so, Brain, but me and Kim Kardashian? What will the papers say? NARF!

(Don't mind me, just having fun. Feel free to join in!

 

[Naomasa298]

2 weeks. No tobacco. Urge to kill still present.

 

[Homer Potvin]

2 weeks. No tobacco. Urge to kill still present.

2 weeks for me on Monday... restless and squirrely but don't want to kill anything yet. Night is still young.

Bowels have settled down at least. Nicotine withdrawal wracks hell on your GI tract, apparently.

 

[Naomasa298]

2 weeks for me on Monday... restless and squirrely but don't want to kill anything yet. Night is still young.

Bowels have settled down at least. Nicotine withdrawal wracks hell on your GI tract, apparently.

The thing that really made me want to smoke was writing. I wanted something to help steady my mind to concentrate, but the thought of actually smoking made me feel sick, so I'm resorting to coffee instead.

 

[Homer Potvin]

The thing that really made me want to smoke was writing. I wanted something to help steady my mind to concentrate, but the thought of actually smoking made me feel sick, so I'm resorting to coffee instead.

Kind of the same for me. I have the hyper executive functioning end of the ADHD spectrum, which essentially demands a five minute break every 90 minutes or so to stave off mental flameout. So instead of smoking I'm... still figuring that part out.

 

[Heartlet Happer]

I quit smoking 14 months ago. Had to train myself to remember that addiction to tobacco is forever. Being just in a pause between cigarettes. Be it 90 minutes, or 90 months. There will be next cigarette, just not today yet.

So my current mental device against relapse is laziness. I think of "tea ceremony", when there is lot of preparation steps, going to shop, asking that unpleasant dude at the cashier for particular brand of cigarettes, stocking the lighter, making time and selecting the upwind/downwind place to have a smoke. For more steps, I tend to think of bagged tobacco with wraps rather than normal cigarettes. No instant anything.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Jeez. Sounds awful. Hugs all around to all y'all.

 

[Set2Stun]

It's weird how the brain never forgets that it likes nicotine and tries to trick you into getting more, even years later

 

[Casket]

Today and last week passed by without incidents in my life.