I work in IT. Every “problem” I “solve” creates concerns about deeper issues I cannot address in my role. After a long carreer of this, the more I feel like my “answers” are glib, or shallow, and are only work-arounds at best. Everywhere I look, I see the proverbial bailing wire and twine.
Wiping some iPhones at work. I suppose I should not be too surprised the restore images are 5 gigs or more
Record Club is taking sign-ups from their wait list
My excuse is that I was really hungry, but I can honestly say that the experience of eating a taco in my car was worse than I feared.
MSP Home Tour coverage on CBS, yesterday.
We have a green kitchen.
I overheard this snippet at my house, this morning: “…Producers bid on the segments…”
There was a camera in my house today in support of the MSP Home Tour. We’re house #4. If we make it on air, I’ll share a link to the final piece.
How does your team onboard new members? Who shows them what applications are used and how? Who shows them where the data is and verifies they have access? Who helps them to meet team members of other teams? Who makes sure the new managers have all of the information they need?
Asking for a friend
And sometimes I pick the wrong distro. Back to familiar turf, for now
Trying a Linux distribution I’ve not tried before, and an email client I haven’t used for decades. I’m not interested in suggestions in the Start Menu nor AI features. I get plenty of Microsoft via my employer. I’m interested in AI but I’m not convinced I need it
TIL that one’s custom email address isn’t exactly how one retrieves iCloud email. That single detail could have saved significant pain before today, but I got in. So I have that.
This love of the written word extends to my media consumption. I rarely choose video. The amount of time that passes in introductions or reviews before the actual presentation of new information is excrutiating. Can I just see a transcript?
To be honest, I feel that written communication allows me to show my best self in a way that eludes me in the moment.
I do prefer the written word. There is something about seeing my thoughts that lends itself to me better understanding my own reactions and circumstances.
Emotions prevent me from reaching out. Guilt about how long I have not communicated also keeps me from connecting. If there’s any form of conflict, it’s going to take me time build the energy to address it. If time passes, guilt is part of the emotional cocktail. And so on.
I have a lot of anxiety around initiating communication. I hate making phone calls for this reason, especially knowing how intrusive a call can be. I do have a phone number but most people I know probably don’t know what it is. Has been the same for more than 20 years.
Started a Hello page, but I want to use too many words and over explain. I’m working on a draft, but I will have to distill it for a while. I love one-on-one coversations. In groups, I recede as I process and correlate and think of things to say that the coversation has already left behind
Bone conduction headphones and multipoint pairing make a wonderful tool to use at work
If you put the work into rating tracks in your music library, the result can be of a playlist based on your highest-rated tracks. Set up shuffle or random play, use a 12-second crossfade, and welcome to your perpetual soundtrack.
That feeling when you have been using Mac OS for a long time and you discover something about the UI that you didn’t know.
As a resident of geography that might be referred to by some as “fly-over-country,” I’m often grateful but sometimes resentful.
If we don’t repeat the stories, no one else can know them
Chicken Curry with Onion from Ming’s Garden works every time
Hanging out with my Mom and my kid at the fire. I don’t think I remember the last time I “roasted” hotdogs that way
4 hours and 47 minutes into an annual IT exercise. In my role, I’m basically a fly on the wall, unless or until urgent communication or coordination is needed.
Generally, I’m a coffee-first kind of person. This morning, it took a while before I was ready to make the effort. I did come to my senses, though. And the coffee is actually delicious, thank you.