How was your 2017?

[ultimatebob]

2017 sucked for me. My cat died, my grandfather died, and my wife was sick and needed to be in a rehab facility for a month.

I got a less stressful and higher paying job, though, so that's a plus.

 

[ultimatebob]

Depends on quite a few things but I often see a few stay on to manage the new cloud infrastructure. I've also seen places who completely priced 'going to the cloud' wrong. Everyone thinks its automatically cheaper but it can often replace CapEx costs with higher Operational costs once you actually get your environment setup right (I've also seen a few places that are ok with this because they are stupidly obsessed on CapEx and don't care that the overall cost is likely more over 3-5 years).

Depends on what they mean by "going to the cloud". If you're just moving your servers from a local server room to AWS, you're still going to need someone to manage those servers remotely.

Now, if you're replacing your entire payroll department with something like Paylocity... that's a different story. You'll probably going to lose some people in that case.

 

[Exterous]

Depends on what they mean by "going to the cloud".

Of course - hence my "Depends on quite a few things"

 

[highland145]

Of course - hence my "Depends on quite a few things"

My left hand still works.

After the 25th.... anyone I can call?

 

[highland145]

nvm......sarcoidosis.

That homo curious george can suck it.

 

[Kaido]

2017...8 months of the wife suffering with no diagnosis. High eye pressure/pain/laser surgery, 4 episodes of skin rashes that we attributed to shingles, 2 separate week stays for Bells Palsy, both sides of her face. "What?"......sarcoidosis.

We now have a name. Now we, me, family, Drs, family, friends, ...are looking for any information that we can get.

RSW

That was like me with SIBO. Constant pain & fatigue growing up. Going into my second year now on a magic pill that lets me function normally most of the time, without feeling like I swallowed a bag of knives. My GP had never even heard of it before. Getting the right diagnosis was huge for me. tbh, it was one of the main reasons I got into IT in the first place...never had any energy, just constantly drained - sitting at a computer was doable.

 

[Darwin333]

My left hand still works.

After the 25th.... anyone I can call?

After the 20th or so don't most of the guys get the "throwing a hotdog down a hallway" sensation?

 

[highland145]

After the 20th or so don't most of the guys get the "throwing a hotdog down a hallway" sensation?

Maybe with your johnson.

Left arm's going to be immobile after surgery.

 

[Exterous]

After the 20th or so don't most of the guys get the "throwing a hotdog down a hallway" sensation?

You rotate orifices. Duh

 

[boomerang]

2017 was busy. Sold condo in Florida. Sold home in Michigan. Had new home built in Florida. Rented condo in Florida waiting for new home to be done. It made no financial sense to move our belongings and then store them so we sold, gave away and/or threw out nearly everything we had accumulated over our lifetimes, bringing down only what we could fit in both cars. Bought all new furniture. Somewhere in the middle of that Irma pretty much went over the top of our new house 10 days after we closed on it.

Busy

 

[highland145]

2017 was busy. Sold condo in Florida. Sold home in Michigan. Had new home built in Florida. Rented condo in Florida waiting for new home to be done. It made no financial sense to move our belongings and then store them so we sold, gave away and/or threw out nearly everything we had accumulated over our lifetimes, bringing down only what we could fit in both cars. Bought all new furniture. Somewhere in the middle of that Irma pretty much went over the top of our new house 10 days after we closed on it.

Busy

Don't forget Irma, 3 days after you closed.

 

[Kaido]

2017 was busy. Sold condo in Florida. Sold home in Michigan. Had new home built in Florida. Rented condo in Florida waiting for new home to be done. It made no financial sense to move our belongings and then store them so we sold, gave away and/or threw out nearly everything we had accumulated over our lifetimes, bringing down only what we could fit in both cars. Bought all new furniture. Somewhere in the middle of that Irma pretty much went over the top of our new house 10 days after we closed on it.

Busy

I was in Flint for awhile (before the water issues became known)...remembering that lake effect mades me shudder. Never again!

 

[Exterous]

I was in Flint for awhile (before the water issues became known)...remembering that lake effect mades me shudder. Never again!

Lake effect in Flint? Pft - Muskegon and GR get lake effect. Flint and Detroit get light dustings

 

[Kaido]

Lake effect in Flint? Pft - Muskegon and GR get lake effect. Flint and Detroit get light dustings

I'm from Florida. Anything below 68F is freezing dude

 

[Darwin333]

Maybe with your johnson.

Left arm's going to be immobile after surgery.

Ouch, that sucks. I can switch hands and gain a stroke.