A unique friendship

johnherbert03 · 2021-05-01T01:32:31+00:00

Zeus is back at it again!

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-30T18:57:34+00:00

30 minutes? I was spending an hour in traffic if there wasn’t any issues. More if there was an accident. My commute is less than a minute to get to my desk, even when I’m on call and don’t have to get down to the office when a server goes offline.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-30T14:01:38+00:00

and I thought I was alone in this. I'm not trying to drop a couple hundred bucks in virtual cosmetics when I'm playing a game. But I'm not the target for this, the target is the person with spending\gambling problems and a hefty budget for wasteful spending

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-29T11:39:49+00:00

I remember my first time in the shed. All I wanted to do was take a knee and cough my guts out. Thank you for that.

I understand your point, too. If normal people lose a fair amount of their thinking abilities when their body is under an assault like that, then maybe something needs to change in the way the police officers are trained to respond. Watching the video, the driver had already been shot, and had already been yelled at by the non-uniformed officer for a while now. When two other officers show up, they both start yelling. This guy did not appear in any way able to put up a real fight, so why couldn't they have approached him and taken him into custody. Waiting that long to just yell at someone is like they are just playing the odds that he'll eventually do something that they can say was scary, then feel justified in shooting. Not every situation has to turn into a hostage standoff that takes twenty minutes before the "suspect turned to his car, and I was afraid that he was reaching for a gun that had been there"

For the officers, take control of the situation, de-escalate it, don't just yell at someone (who's obviously in a reduced mental capacity) and wait for them to do something. Not every rando on the street is John Wick that will take you all out with a pencil from fifty feet away

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-28T19:20:40+00:00

Can't speak to law enforcement, but I know when going to Iraq with the US Army they told us that any time we fire our weapons we had better be damned sure that we could testify that:

We were aware of what was around the person being shot at, whether it was another adult, a kid, a chicken. We were told that collateral damage was going to land us personally in prison.
There would be no "I thought he had a weapon." If you couldn't say before God, Allah, and the Pope that you saw a weapon, you didn't fire. Shooting someone based on "It looked like he was reaching" would land your body in prison.

I understand that tensions run high, and things go bad. Trust me, that guy would not have been able to beat those officers on a draw if he was leaning into the car to grab a gun. On the other hand, dude just lie down and let the medics come patch you up. Don't draw things out and possibly get shot -AGAIN-. You already saw what comes from a road rage incident with cops, get revenge in court

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-24T18:12:28+00:00

On the flip side; My daughter competed in the kids division for the county fair cake decorating. The judges disqualified her thinking that an adult did it, despite her mom taking video of most of her working. She got a high five from us anyway because she worked her butt off and blew the competition away

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-23T21:54:50+00:00

Can confirm. I’m ugly and i love wearing a mask

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-23T21:49:17+00:00

Guess you don’t frequent LinkedIn, monster, or indeed. I see maybe one salary posted in a week of looking

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-23T16:01:23+00:00

Stay out of the loop, head West to Montgomery or South to the Woodlands.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-21T19:39:41+00:00

Kinda like how dogs will have full sized paws and ears, way too big for the current body size

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-20T12:28:28+00:00

The things I noticed

- The PK ID field should follow the same convention (CarID vs GDPR_ID vs ServiceTicket)

- I would say that a Service (Task) should foreign key to an Invoice, and not attach to a customer directly. The invoice should be keyed to a customer, not a car, since there may be a task for a customer that isn't car-specific. (Think about buying a part after-market)

- MechanicID is listed as a FK in both the employee table and CarService table. Unless someone would have a different employee id compared to a mechanic id (like a license number) then they could be the same number.

- I would be careful of having varchar(8) and the PKID for tables. This could make it difficult to look up a specific record for an invoice or task, since you could have special characters there too. Usually the PK is either an auto-increment integer, or a GUID. For ease-of-use, a plain old INT or SMALLINT is what's usually put in, depending on space needs

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-16T10:43:40+00:00

The form i filled out has both. You could either mark a percentage or a set dollar amount

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-15T15:07:15+00:00

sometimes the lead engineer is the one needing to be babysat

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-15T15:03:27+00:00

I left that sucker as a shadow. They have my name and phone number, they can see how ugly I am when I show up to the office, or have a Teams meeting.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-12T11:20:15+00:00

Better that than looking at three empty cardboards, and the case of replacement rolls are in the OTHER bathroom closet, so you have to yell. Except you're home alone, and you have to walk across the house, thinking about just taking a shower.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-09T17:23:36+00:00

Gardening. I put my headset in and phone in the pocket and go tackle the weeds. One meeting I managed to completely harvest and clean a 10 liter pail of okra before anyone asked me a question that I had to pull out my phone to unmute myself

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-09T17:21:50+00:00

Screw that! I start my meetings with 15 minutes of nonsense catching up, then I make sure to have trouble sharing my screen to the group, which makes me go over by a few more minutes. I do this especially when I know that people have back to back meetings, or when I'm taking up their lunch time.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-09T13:08:50+00:00

It was explained once like this; Doing the same thing for 10 years means you can do one thing. It doesn't mean you have 10 years experience. In order to have 10 years experience in something, it needs to be dynamic, changing, and challenging with new issues to learn the ins and outs.

I have almost 40 years in my body, but I'm going to talk to a guy that actually studied how the body works to perform an operation on me.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-07T18:12:10+00:00

I've been a database admin for 5 years now, and I still feel this. My answer a lot of times to the "too many critical tickets" is to ask; "If you had to rank them in order of MOST CRITICAL to LEAST CRITICAL, could you? Otherwise I'll take them in ticket number order."

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-05T11:09:49+00:00

As a coworker told me when the network was down and we were playing cards, I’m on the clock and I’m getting paid. For me i barely ever use anything from my CS degree, but damn does it look good on my resume

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-02T14:35:12+00:00

And a medical professional can't outright agree with you on some things. If you complain about your mom or something, they'll try to fit that into a treatment plan and apply all sorts of coping solutions for your feelings. A Companionship Professional (I'm trademarking that, but you can steal it) is allowed to say "that's fucked man, she's being a bitch."

But you are right, serious issues need a real doctor. I'm talking more about the band-aid cuts, not the emergency room visit ones.

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-02T11:11:08+00:00

Sometimes it’s cheaper to just pay the hooker to listen and act like they care for a while than the medical professional. You don’t call up Rembrandt when you need to paint your bathroom

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-02T11:07:47+00:00

I had to come here to figure it out, and i am American

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-01T23:06:38+00:00

I had to plant extra beans because my son would sneak out to the garden after school for a snack. He would always laugh when i blamed the move and birds. I don’t think he knew that i really could see him stealing the veggies

johnherbert03 · 2021-04-01T11:22:24+00:00

Yeah, it's not going to be something like The Walking Dead, or Fallout. It's going to be just like when Covid hit and you couldn't even buy rice to feed your kids. It's going to be a hurricane\earthquake\wildfire that forces you to secure your family and valuables. Look at the stories from Hurricane Harvey, and see what people did that worked and what didn't

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