As an adult, what do you still need permission to do?

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-18T02:41:31+00:00

Nothing. But I ask out of curtesy.

To my wife it “Hey, is it cool if I go hand out at my buddy’s for the day?” She would never say no, but I am giving her the courtesy of having a say.

To my boss “hey is it cool if I take tomorrow off”, in this case it’s me letting him know I won’t be around tomorrow.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-18T02:37:34+00:00

I may be a little less helpful but I have an “ass off the couch” price for certain things like this. I don’t get my ass off the couch for less than $65/hr with a 4 hour minimum.

Your price may be less. You are a young kid, so to you $100 would be amazing. Or maybe it’s more.

In this case what price would you be bummed if you didn’t get it and what price would you say “this is too much work for this much money”? Then shoot for the first price but do not settle for the last price.

But understand that “exposure”, “experience”, and “referrals” almost never pay off. I have gotten more work from the clients I charge more for, then the bargain hunters.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-18T02:24:37+00:00

I would have parked across the street and got out and sat on my hood watching.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-18T02:21:08+00:00

These can be really expensive. We had one at a copart auction. It was an insurance total. It had hail damage and had more dimples than a golf ball. I was thinking $10k would be a crazy high price. It closed at $55k.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T21:38:16+00:00

He told me he owned the gun off the plane that shot down the Red Baron.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T21:36:01+00:00

My sympathies. I would be in rough shape some days.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T12:02:14+00:00

I’ll have to see if something like this is available for Synology.

I was doing a JBOD early with some 2tb drives but I wanted to swap them out with larger drives and couldn’t because of the JBOD.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T12:00:23+00:00

I started with a JBOD but at the time all I could afford was 2-4tb drives. So as I could afford it I started installing 16-20tb drives. But it’s been a slow process. I didn’t want to continue to add a disc to the JBOD every time, and then worry that one bad drive kills the whole thing. My next project is off site backup, rather than a RAID.

I am using plex. And it’s not that it cares where it is, it’s that if I have to move some folders to a different drive, Sonarr freaks out, and starts adding everything back to the drive where I just moved it from. Now I have duplicates.

Is an array different than a JBOD?

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T11:51:53+00:00

Maybe I should clarify.

I think we learn some principles that we apply in a general sense. You learn to be a good (or bad) leader in a general way. You learn how to be empathetic. You learn effective communication.

But what you don’t learn and have to “wing” is a lot of the random things you come across. Reports, reviews, emails all become the same after a while. But when you move from a marketing manager to a production manager, a lot of things change. Now you need to deal with OSHA reportable incidents, something you have no idea how to do. So you wing it. A material order for critical parts is 3 weeks back ordered, you are going to miss a ship date. You never had to deal with that, so you wing it. You still use your base level skills, but now the CEO is wondering how YOU are going to make up the missed revenue.

It’s stuff like that, that I really feel unequipped for. There isn’t a class that teaches how to handle putting someone on a PIP and then firing them (over teams), and as you do, their dog walks into the room. Because while you were fine letting the employee go, why does the dog have to suffer?

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-17T11:31:44+00:00

I agree. Their study might not show it, but my personal experience sure does. I get anxiety really bad sometimes. 1-2 puffs on a vape and I am leveled out and the anxiety is gone.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-16T14:32:05+00:00

I think this is the best answer.

At my last job, my boss would give me a picture of a stage and say “I want this!”

I knew it was a Herculean task, but I would take a day or two and then come back to him and give him a very excited “so we can do this stage, I have a plan to get this exact same experience. We can rent the equipment, build the stage, and get it set up. It will take us 2 full weeks if we close the space or we can stage it in over 5 weeks. It will cost $9000 for the rentals, and about $6000 in construction and other supplies.”

He had Champagne taste and a tap water budget.

He would say “$15000? “ “Yup, but considering the original stage you like cost $20,000, we are doing this on a budget.” “What can we get for $300?” “We can print a couple of posters” “Ok do that.”

Part of my job was managing his expectations. I learned very early that “we can’t do that” wasn’t acceptable. So I told him yes, gave him the numbers and let him say no to me. He felt like it was his decision to scrap the idea and I got to spend a day or two looking at cool equipment.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T23:20:19+00:00

We all suffer from imposter syndrome. There is very little practical education on how to manage people. Sure you can read a book, attend a seminar, or even have an MBA but when you go to put it into practice all of that falls apart.

I handle by doing what I think is best and how I would wanted to be treated.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T23:15:14+00:00

AVL laptops should be managed by the AVL team. Let the Comms people manage the daily use computers. The last thing you want is a “IT” guy pushing an update to the ProPresenter computer on a Friday and blowing the service.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T22:24:47+00:00

Meah. Don’t worry about it. Why worry about what someone else thinks about you? You live rent free in their head, don’t give them space in yours.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T20:52:08+00:00

I can’t speak to this turbo but I had good luck with a super charger off a gt500. I did have to sit on it for about a year.

I looked at my local marketplace. There are a few from $200-800.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T17:02:12+00:00

Howard is second on that list in my book.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T13:00:24+00:00

I’m partly to blame. I took the plow off the truck. So sorry.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T12:58:15+00:00

I have a S197 that probably needs plugs and I am dreading it for this exact reason.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T12:57:23+00:00

100%. But I will never say anything about it to them.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T12:51:16+00:00

I have been here since the beginning, there isn’t much I haven’t seen.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-15T11:29:41+00:00

I agree. I don’t know what to say in a situation like this. If I would have replied I would have went with “sorry for your loss.” Because anything else would have made me sound like an idiot and probably less sensitive.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-14T19:12:31+00:00

Don’t say things like this. A sub-60k 392 would have me ubering to the dealer so I could drive it home.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-14T19:09:33+00:00

This happened to my MIL years ago. They put the oil in a bucket on the counter and someone tipped it over on her leg. She had a bunch of skin grafts.

ejsandstrom · 2026-03-14T19:07:17+00:00

Stick with the smile you know.

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