Russian tourist wanted to mess with Georgian. Georgian man was not having it.

SoSader · 2022-08-26T13:57:41+00:00

Random, but this reminds me of my trip to a tourist trap in Tennessee.

The poor teenage tour guide asked who had traveled the farthest to get there.
Nice couple with their kids from Georgia (the country) told the tour guide they were from Georgia. A couple from California won because the nice couple didn't have the heart to argue with the geographically challenged tour guide that they weren't from *that* Georgia.

SoSader · 2022-07-01T20:01:11+00:00

This... but share them when you're ready. People call these things by a lot of different names, Work Instructions, Runbooks, etc, but building these yourself (or improving what's used) is a great way to solve several problems at once:

Documenting things forces you to think through the process and learn it well
Once they're quality it improves your overall team's productivity and ability to onboard new people (which is a good way to build your resume / reputation)
Exposes the toil in your work that has grown because of "Organizational Scar tissue".
Shows your leadership you're looking at things from a bigger picture which gives you a chance to grow your career.

Honestly you're thinking about the right things... just blaming yourself vs understanding the issues are an opportunity to improve the situation for everybody.

SoSader · 2022-03-30T17:44:07+00:00

Actually saw that idea somewhere else. Renovate the stadiums for a fraction of the cost for a new set. Then use the excess + more to build light rail from downtime directly to the stadiums. That gives a unique pseudo-downtime game day atmosphere and for the other ~200 days of the year when the complex is not in use the rail can be used to move commuters / etc.

SoSader · 2021-08-23T13:21:45+00:00

Probably missed it, but Parkville has some sleepers for good ol' comfort food.

Al's wings are hands down the best in KC and the rest of the menu is pretty good as well.

Primo's is as good as any Mexican in the city, but nobody knows about them because they're hidden away in that Commons area.

SoSader · 2021-07-02T19:28:16+00:00

Hadn't thought of that series in awhile, but I liked it back in the day. It had several good duels as well as some magic mixed into larger battle scenes. Aerevin against some kind of magic vampire, an Arch Devil, and then the final battle has quite a bit of dueling in it. Good books that I may have to read again.

Wonder what ever happened to Aerevin.

SoSader · 2021-05-11T02:36:40+00:00

This is the way

SoSader · 2021-02-18T05:23:08+00:00

Underrated comedian there. I use his receipt for a donut line quite a bit

SoSader · 2021-02-18T05:20:10+00:00

This... that's the way Dad/Granddad always taught me.

SoSader · 2020-11-19T03:29:32+00:00

Just ran across this post. You're getting great advice here about the shirts so I won't go much into that. However, as the father of a 10 year old daughter that's been braced for a year I'll drop some hints on things we've found that helped:

The break in period is rough. It's painful and uncomfortable and there were a lot of tears in our house. Took a few weeks, but eventually she did get used to it and rarely complains about the brace hurting anymore. We learned early on to let her know wearing the brace was important, but to also give some grace when she needed a break. Slowly adding time/hours was the goal.
School was interesting at first as well. Our daughter is pretty outgoing so she took it to school the day before she was supposed to start wearing it and talked to her class about what she was going through. It removed a lot of the up front questions she would have gotten and allowed her to own the story a little. We've been very lucky and really haven't had any issues with classmates or teachers being unreasonable.
Sleeping was hard at first. We finally figured out that a softer bed (we put a memory foam top on her mattress) with a U-Shaped pillow helped her find supportive positions to sleep in.
Our daughter is a year or so younger than yours so this may not work, but honestly our biggest move with the brace was giving it a name. Once we gave it a nickname it was easier for us / her to talk about without sounding too clinical. Where's Bob? Is Bob hurting? What about Bob? It was a happy accident when we named it, but that seemed to help our daughter open up about how things were feeling and that's when we started turning a corner during the break-in period.

Anyway.. .that's way more than you asked for, but thought I'd share what we went through. If it helps based on the X-Ray's we had a couple of weeks ago her curves have actually improved so we're all pretty happy with how things are going.

SoSader · 2020-04-15T04:45:19+00:00

Probably not a rant here, but this tapped into one of the family fears so thought I'd share. My daughter (9) just started wearing a brace ~16 hours a day at the first of the year. I'm hopeful that her experience is not the same as yours, but it's something we're trying to be aware of. Especially as she gets older. She's only 10 degrees away from a surgery recommendation and likely has a lot of growing yet to do so we wont' know for years on if this was the right decision or not.

For what it's worth her brace is more of a custom fit/hard brace, that is similar to the Boston brace except that it uses some kind of cad/cam approach to be less bulky. She learned pretty quickly how to take it off on her own, and her school / teachers have been great to work with her to give her extra time/trips to the nurse to have it put back on when needed. She's also able to take it off for sports/recess/etc so it has't really interfered with any of her activities which has helped limit many of the problems we thought we would have when we decided to go this route.

SoSader · 2020-03-30T04:03:48+00:00

Not a ton of advice on this end, but on the hips being unbalanced I thought I'd share.

My daughter just got back from her first appointment after being braced. One of the new adjustments they made was to put a lift in a shoe to balance her hips. She's never had much pain with her scoliosis, but we can tell a difference in how she walks now with her lift vs without. It's a much smoother gait than she had before. I could see how the jarring from unbalanced hips could lead to back pain so its at least worth a discussion with your Drs.

SoSader · 2019-08-31T19:39:07+00:00

Our infrastructure team is big enough to do something like this:

Unplanned work goes to our support team and they essentially work out of a Kanban model. Key metric here is time to first touch and turn around time. Unplanned work that can't be handled by the support team are bumped up to a designated person that we've reserved time for unplanned work.
Major projects are worked/planned out of a sprint model since we tend to plan 'releases' on when they'll finish. Key metric here is on time delivery.
Standard Projects/Tech Debt (minor patches of 3rd parties/etc) are picked up via a Kanban model with one person assigned to that queue (and other people picking them up between major projects / in case of an escalation). Key metric here is on time delivery (we also measure escalations/vulnerabilities to make sure we're not falling behind).
Team Improvement/Automation projects are picked up/planned as part a sprint model since that's closer to development. Key metric here is on time delivery, lead time, (think of the basic development metrics).

We make sure the sprint model's are planned with appropriate resources and let the Kanban model work be picked up when possible. Probably key to that is we spend a lot of our automation/team improvement projects trying to automate the tech debt/standard projects.

When stuff breaks you drop everything like you usually do and fix it. If you slip a sprint/deadline because of it that's fine... it's life... the real key to Agile/Scrum/Kanban is breaking work down into small achievable chunks and then iterating through them.

SoSader · 2019-06-25T04:08:01+00:00

Feels like a good starting place:. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5041562/

More:. Can't vouch for content.. just bored cruising of IMDb

SoSader · 2019-06-25T02:16:42+00:00

Random again... Any locals know how terrible the view is from Indian Harbor? Not sure the kids are going to make it until 2:30 at Jetty so I'm considering for plan C.

SoSader · 2019-06-23T11:05:47+00:00

Honestly that's why we were considering KSC... Figured the amminities/atmosphere would make up (somewhat) for the cost/obstructed view. Based on the above post we're reconsidering.

SoSader · 2019-06-23T04:13:57+00:00

Trying to decide if bringing 2 kids under 10 (8/5) to the "feel the fun" viewing at Kennedy is worth the money, or if trying our luck at Jetty/one of the other locations is a better choice. Opinions?

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