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Blue dot in a red state. Data head / motor head / speed freak. Love herding dogs and yarn arts. Currently figuring out retirement and iOS development
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Jesus I donāt miss that as a female in dev. I got very lucky a few times with bosses who didnāt tolerate that shit and I believe thatās the type of boss I became.
Or salt. Too often things are under salted.
Balsamic vinegar if itās just missing something. Or butter / cream if itās kind of weak.
Iām sorry youāve reached this milestone. An unfortunate part of better or worse but I know Iāll be in some type of the same position eventually. Love is love no matter what. But also remember that asking for help is also a part of love and you donāt have to take the entire burden on yourself
Whelp - got a follow from me. Totally agree.
This exactly explains my thoughts on him
Same only it was my grandpa - everyday for lunch :-)
Thank you for these shots - there are many many things I miss about MN - luckily my fam still lives there and I visit multiple times a year - but I really miss how photographic it is. Not the winter though š³
I often add a can of rinsed beans and perhaps some chicken or hamburger if I have around.
Damn it - back to the store. Youāre a genius - I love people who come up with new ways of using things.
Can you even call yourself a dev if you havenāt fād up a major prod system at least once in your career? Lord knows I did.
And part of the cavity issue is that kids are drinking more and sometimes exclusively bottled water - if your home water isnāt safe or doesnāt taste good they arenāt going to get the fluoride from the water. I know a 4 year old with a mouth 9 cavities since her mom exclusively drinks bottled water.
Current browned butter favorite is browned butter maple blondies.
The margaritas in the ice cream maker is the line that threw me - Iāve done the rest after a Costco haul but never thought about repurposing the ice cream maker. Alton Brown would be proud of the alternative usage
Oh man - once you pull a tortilla out of the pan and slather it with butter you will find yourself making tortillas far more often than you thought.
I love my library - great books for kindle - books to hold in your hands plus games / movies and other fun things you can borrow. Plus they host blood drives and crochet / knitting peeps.
So I watch reels on FB - i love this history one. If you havenāt seen one of her reels or a podcast I highly recommend. www.facebook.com/whodidwhatno...?
Me a few days ago. Likely pick it up again tomorrow - not quite sure WTF is going on - likely the fault of the keyboard user in my case ā¦
Hmm. I have an old Mac sitting in my closet whispering to me to do something with it. This sounds like a good idea.
I fell victim to that a couple times - no one prepared Americans for 11% beer 15 years ago.
I have donated cases of the smaller bottles of vegetable oil. Lots of things need that and itās not often donated. I didnāt even think about the period products so Iāll add those also for my next trip.
Hmmm. That sounds lovely for personal coding - my last job my team had pretty strict rules that it had to at least state what had changed - however you could add additional color.
Given I would watch Helen Mirren butter toast and drink tea for 90 minutes I liked it. Itās not a tidy ending but a decent movie all the same. I did recently see Brosnan in the last rifleman - I did like that one also
You are far more tame on your commit comments than I or any Eng Iāve ever worked with - by the tenth there would be profanity and by 15 questioning why the universe is trying to make me lose my mind.
Yes it is - although I fully admit Iām not so sure we would have been as ready for a life together then as we are now. But now is absolutely lovely.
Congrats. Met my sweet man August of 83. Engaged November of same year and told I was too young etc and broke up. Engaged again November 2017 - wed December 2018. Happiest Iāve ever been.
Yup yup yup
From everything Iāve heard and seen in KC about Travis he is a credit to any one who wants to be a good man / person. I havenāt followed her as much in the last several years but all indications are that they are both good people regardless of their celebrity status so I expect they will do well.
This
Annnnnd this is the OTHER reason I follow you.
I love the show Wednesday but these two are the ultimate Gomez and Morticia
As a person born and raised in the north - I think Iām doing this southern thing right - brisket on the smoker - bourbon and some onions cooking down on the smoker.
When I moved to Kansas City I made a point to live on the KS side. Mind you - still a red state but we arenāt Missouri. Oddly enough living in Leavenworth where it seems like every other person is paid by the govt itās still more liberal than MO - people here are not ok with an ICE detention spot.
Blues brothers - we got both kinds here - music AND fun
I freaking felt this one
Iām old enough to remember listening to him on underground radio and lucky enough to be from MN and was able to see him from the early days in the little joint attached to First Ave to seeing him in stadiums. Never disappointed.
What would you recommend as a starter?
One damned thing after another. I read voraciously so always looking for new authors to read.
If youāre in the north the grits are acceptable. However - if you are in a state with a Waffle House then nothing there is acceptable. Once I moved to the south I understood what southern food should taste like - Heaven. No sweet tea? Wrong restaurant
Iām read testing as it were - using the unlimited. However - if I like it I generally go back and pay the small sum because I feel slightly scummy paying only Bezos and not the person who actually created something.
Heroās
As a sr director in software it was not unusual for me to jump in on QA, code reviews, arch reviews etc. I was still doing production code weekly. I despised working for someone who had no idea how to do my job so I never wanted to be āthat leaderā
I hope that the hiring people realize you know and can do the hard shit - and learning excel and word is easy. When I was hiring if they knew the hard stuff but didnāt know all the ins and outs of a MSOffice product that was not an issue.
From my experience AI really isnāt good at math. It can do things like simpler queries but kind of cacks when asked to do very complex queries to get the numbers to run calculations is a hard no. And do not get me started on what the visualizations look like when you ask AI to do them.
Yup
That is the type of tree I wanted as a kid - just to sit and read a book in the branches.
Visualizations is where I ended up - along with data cleaning. Far more challenging than youād think but more tangible results along the way.
And now I wait. Generally would get the first of a series from the library to determine if I want to purchase but neither of my libraries have it so have ordered a hard copy - pretty sure Iāll love it. Have you read the Honor Harrington books by David Webber? Love those too.
Southern tomato pie is my current fixation - pie crust spread with a thin layer of spicy mustard - sliced tomatoes and then pimento cheese to fill the crust. Delightful.
Me too.
Lovely - I feel this painting.
Ooh - I havenāt read those by her - I have read all the Vorkosigan ones.
Not only does she write flaming posts sheās got a hell of a personal style going. Love it.
Iād prefer you didnāt
Same. Having socialized and worked with multiple trans people - I donāt get the animosity- they are just fāing people. It seems so many people hate them without ever knowingly having spoken to one.
Jesus Iām tired of this. Saying gay marriage is as stupid as saying black doctor or female engineer. Itās marriage / doctor / engineer.
How in gods name can the government be staffed by such ignorant people? Stop with the bullshit to deflect and release the Epstein files with ONLY the victims info obscured
I like where you are going with thisā¦ā¦
Tytyty back ordered but worth the wait
That is amazing.
Oh - where can I find this
I donāt even remember what word I said this weekend while with a bunch of family but it was like everyone stopped, glared at me and basically said ācan you not?ā I canāt help it I love words.
So happy for you that you found something that helps.
Still funny today - not many shows you can say that about.
My free library has the ability to choose to get it later - and you can choose about when it shows back up which is quite lovely.
Epic response on both.
Itās not quite out in the US yet but requested it from both my local bookshop as well as my library.
Made me snort coffee. Worth it
Beard not a mullet is how I trained my husband to do it correctly.
That was my first thought - although I was thinking Mountain Dew
Nailed it.
First album bought with my own money.
So I finally caved and bought an Apple Watch - Iāve been insisting that I wouldnāt do this for years. However - my 53 year old younger brother passed away from a massive heart attack with no warning 2 months ago. No autopsy so now Iām worried about my heart - Iām 8 years older.
Bree (blue Merle) and Nikki (red Merle) say welcome Freya
I donāt think Iām getting off this planet but a smarter timeline would be acceptable.
Canine ass miasma is now a phrase Iām going to be looking to use. Since I have two Aussies it shouldnāt take long.
I love it. Congratulations and well done.
Super nice - itās that type of stuff that shows how good the coding actually is. Spoken as a former developer / dev leader.
Man - that would help immensely when packing for a vacation
Oh - now I need this š¤£
This is the ENTIRE reason I am on the internet.
Iāve seen the quiet ears for reactive dogs but not sure how or if they will work for thunder and big booms. I am going to try them to calm my dog when the neighbors dogs go out. One side she loves - other side she wants to murder. Course sheās 25lb and the smallest of those three is at least 50 so
And to be clear - we try very hard to be there when is thundering or when all your southern neighbors feel like blowing shit up.
Yeah - we found Thunder shirts help lots of dogs but not all - depending on their level weāve had success with hemp chews or Benadryl also
Years of earning tips taught me that those who can afford it the least are often the best tippers. Now that I actually can afford it I tip exceedingly well for decent service and go up from there.
These people keep threatening us with a great time but never follow through.
I swear this is the weirdest political timeline ever. In the last 12 months Iāve found myself agreeing with people I dispose and utterly enraged at some that I generally agree with. I mean seriously?
Oh - please go. Iāve been to several over the years and Iāve always met the most amazing welcoming people.
So tired of yelling WTF when I get online.
Iām a huge fan from a deep red flyover state.
Exactly.
Iām so sorry- losing a fit baby is so hard.
If I had to choose just one King book this would be the one - read it every couple years for the last 45 and still has the ability to pull me in completely
Realized my headache was from clenching my teeth for the last 24 hours - havenāt done that since I retired last August.
Excellent - well done.
Knife Lake MN #Scape #landscape
I can travel with like three people - prefer by myself but luckily my husband is one of the ones who doesnāt make me want to push him out of the car while doing 80
IMHO even when it appeared to be all white men - it wasnāt. They just got (read took) the credit.
This. All day long. No one gets shot done like black women