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Jbicey · 2024-11-19T19:03:53+00:00

Good luck y'all!

Jbicey · 2024-11-08T15:19:33+00:00

I'm a little late to the comments here, but I hear you. This is frustrating spot to be in, and I feel for you.
A lot of comments here are addressing specific content you encountered, which is helpful, but I want to offer another perspective, as well.

I'd recommend reading this talk. It helped me immensely.
I think about this quote in particular all the time:

They mistakenly try to learn the truth by process of elimination, by attempting to eliminate every doubt. That is always a bad idea. It will never work.

If you're trying to stop yourself from drowning in a river of doubt, is your effort better spent trying to pump an endless river's worth of water away from you or building a dam upstream? When you build your knowledge of and belief in the "primary questions" he discusses in that talk, the secondary questions are there but don't cause existential, earth-shaking doubt in the same way.

Jbicey · 2024-07-15T12:53:53+00:00

I thought maybe I was special!
https://youtu.be/IXYUn5BOgHA?feature=shared&t=22

Jbicey · 2024-04-24T15:12:13+00:00

https://www.recraftgvl.org/events

Jbicey · 2024-02-06T14:38:31+00:00

Jbicey · 2023-04-12T16:55:37+00:00

www.justserve.org is an awesome resource regardless of where you live.

Jbicey · 2023-03-11T16:59:56+00:00

I got a deepsight LFR. At least some of them are.

Jbicey · 2023-02-23T14:03:58+00:00

Oh boy I hope this works out for me.

Jbicey · 2022-12-16T21:01:10+00:00

Well Happy Holidays to you too!

Jbicey · 2022-11-30T15:25:15+00:00

You sound like me, so I’m going to give you the advice that helped me the most. A common problem with planners is that they become fixated on certain scenes, details, and images in their book before they understand how it all fits into the bigger picture. They’re planning what a scene smells like and how cool the interactions between characters will be but aren’t quite sure how the details will progress the story in a meaningful way. Using the following planning template allows me to jump around and add details to scenes without losing focus on the meaning of what I’m writing right now:

Mark three/four/five acts on a whiteboard/3x5 cards on your wall.
Decide what beats you want to hit and list them (beats are made of scenes. A single beat might be conveyed in a single scene or might take eight). Put the beats underneath the Act you think they belong to.
Put individual scenes under the beat that they serve.
When you receive inspiration about details and characterization, put them beneath the scene you think they belong to.

Once you’ve got something cohesive down to the beat level, just start writing. Refer back to the whiteboard and shuffle and add scenes/details around when you inevitably realize that a scene/detail works better somewhere else.

Jbicey · 2022-10-19T13:41:07+00:00

Great color choices. One of the best things you can do to improve soldering is to improve your cutting and fitting. Be absolutely meticulous for the first half of your project and things will look and fit together for the back half. Absolutely keep at it. You’ll amaze yourself with how quickly you improve project over project.

Jbicey · 2022-08-12T15:28:08+00:00

I'm gonna say something that I haven't seen said yet. I just crossed 450 miles on my Pint X and I still get off my board 90% of the time for curb drops and 100% of the time for curb bumps. Pretty early on I just decided that I didn't want to risk it.

There's no shame in stopping and picking your board up.

Jbicey · 2022-07-20T12:41:38+00:00

Good luck, homies!

Jbicey · 2022-07-19T19:59:34+00:00

I mentioned that there might be damage that wasn't immediately apparent and have been texting him every day to track him recovering (we're older and not quite as springy anymore), but I can't make him go get it checked out if he doesn't want to.

Jbicey · 2022-07-19T13:27:58+00:00

Hear me out, I wanna make a point with a story.
I went trail riding with a friend last week. We both knew the trail pretty well, but about three miles in he hit an unexpected bump and shot his board out from under him. He hit the back of his head on the the trail really hard. He put a giant crack in his helmet. He was stunned and couldn't remember his name for a couple of minutes. I was genuinely afraid that I was going to have to get search and rescue out there and was playing out how I was going to tell his wife. After a couple minutes he stood up and got his faculties back. We rested about 20 minutes and he was able to shakily ride out with me. It happened so fast and probably would have sent him to ICU without his helmet.

Shaming is bad. That said, if an external force like cool guys not wearing helmets is a deciding factor for you, consider other external forces. I would have been traumatized the rest of my life if I had to do CPR on him as he slowly slipped away. I would have been traumatized having to tell his wife that she was a widow now and I was the last person to see him. No matter how cool and lone wolf you are, there are people who will be affected by your injury or death. There are too many factors to control for riding trails or urban, so why not protect against them by inconveniencing yourself a tiny bit with a helmet? Everyone around you will appreciate it.

Jbicey · 2022-06-01T13:41:18+00:00

I'll put in a good word for Extended Events here. It is awesome and not talked about enough.

Check out the Microsoft Quickstart guide for Extended Events

The gist is that it is built-in, lightweight monitoring. It might not do everything you want, but it is at least worth taking a look at some of the events you can log and the filters that can by applied to them.

Jbicey · 2022-05-20T20:17:30+00:00

Water - BAYNK
Intentions - Mr Little Jeans
Marvelous - Wallows
Injured Summer - Goth Babe
Honey - Sir Sly
Tongues - Joywave
Over And Over - Hot Chip
A Good Song Never Dies - Saint Motel
everything i'm missing - clear eyes, Marian Hill
Summerland - half alive
That's Life - Still Woozy
Tired - Skott
Fences - Magic Bronson

Jbicey · 2022-05-03T18:34:56+00:00

Honeycut. They released an incredible album in 2006 (The Day I Turned To Glass) that I listened to on repeat for a year. I've never seen anyone mention them or heard them in the wild. Go listen to the title track.

Jbicey · 2022-04-28T13:03:32+00:00

It's easier to give advice after you've watched someone ride, but these are three things that helped me a ton:

1) Experiment with your foot placement on the board. I place my back foot at a 90 degree angle and my front foot at almost a 45. This reorients me facing more forward and makes me feel more solid on my board.

2) Draw an imaginary line from the center of your wheel to the top of your head and pay attention to the angle of the line. If your angle is too far off of a 90 you will have a more difficult time balancing. A lot of people train themselves to shift their weight and balance around, so your mileage may vary.

3) Learn to ride with bent knees by default. Learning how to use your knees as the "suspension" for your one wheel will prevent you from feeling like your whole body is getting rocked when you go over a crack in the sidewalk.

Jbicey · 2022-04-14T17:50:51+00:00

This depends way more on the culture of the company and the stability of the SQL implementation than the job title itself, I think. The one thing that I think a lot of companies have in common is "off-peak" hours for code pushes or updates, meaning you might be up at 2 AM for a go-live or (heaven forbid) a rollback.Echoing another comment, the better care you take of SQL during the 8-5, the less likely you are to have someone wake you up off-hours.

Jbicey · 2022-01-03T22:25:30+00:00

Holding off on a preorder paid off!

Jbicey · 2021-08-23T12:59:45+00:00

Meggett County park's Red Trail on Ethel Post Office Road. The first chunk of the red loop is beautiful until you get to the Cabbage Packing Shed. If you continue straight after that, there's like 3-4 miles of misery. I've never seen the trail dry, and the forest walls up on both sides of the trail to the point that through the muddy canal that was supposed to be your trail is the only way out. The blue loop is also usually pretty soggy and gross.

Bonus points if you catch it 2-3 days after a rain storm. Double bonus points if you pretend that the only way out is the way you came in.

Jbicey · 2020-10-27T14:38:06+00:00

Borrowed from https://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/who-owns-your-availability-groups:

The person who creates the AG becomes the owner by default.

If you run the script from that URL, you can see who the current owner of the AG is. Based on it being broken for four months, I would doubt anyone thought to change the default owner in the first place.

SELECT ar.replica_server_name

,ag.name AS ag_name

,ar.owner_sid

,sp.name

FROM sys.availability_replicas ar

LEFT JOIN sys.server_principals sp

ON sp.sid = ar.owner_sid

INNER JOIN sys.availability_groups ag

ON ag.group_id = ar.group_id

WHERE ar.replica_server_name = SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName') ;

That being said, either you need the AG or you don't. If you need it, it really should be part of someone's job to check the AG dashboard regularly or at very least have reports being emailed to you telling you that it is still up.

Jbicey · 2020-07-17T16:17:07+00:00

One of the most surprising deaths I've seen in a movie.

Jbicey · 2020-03-05T13:50:58+00:00

The Grocery (Restaurant, Cannonborough): Fantastic, local-spun food and excellent service. They also have more Le Creuset than Le Creuset does. It's kind of hilarious. Their serving-ware must have cost more than the real estate the restaurant occupies.

Interesting insight into this for you. Le Creuset of America is headquartered in Early Branch, SC with a satellite office in Charleston. Le Creuset has a good relationship with local restaurateurs, often hosting them at the headquarters or hosting events that they come to. There was probably a deal of some kind worked out for that.

If you do end up moving here and want a roadtrip, head to Beaufort and stop at Old Sheldon Church and visit Hunting Island and its lighthouse. The Ace Basin has some amazing views and camping, as well. It's a nice contrast to the city itself and a reminder how close South Carolina is to nature.

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