What first world problem did you have today?

[sdifox]

Cooked four lbs of rib roast. Was only able to eat two. As in the whole family...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I tried to clean my garage today, but I just have too much stuff, I cleaned the worse of the saw dust, but I really need to build a shed so I can move most of that stuff out and clear the whole area to clean it properly and organize everything. I think that will be my project next year, I need to save up. Was going to do it this year but got central A/C instead. Still paying that off.

 

[Svnla]

Went to the local store to get a new cheap phone to replace the one I just broke earlier but several stores were out of stock so I did have to order online.

Now I have to wait at least two days to get a new phone. Hopefully, no important call (as Publisher Clearing House and such) is coming for the next two days.

 

[Imp]

I was looking at getting another throw blanket, this time a $100 Hudson's Bay "iconic" one. Put on my $100 5% cashmere sweater instead.

 

[IronWing]

I got an email from one of our company attorneys today saying that one of our projects is being litigated and that the engineer who worked on it is retiring. The attorney wants me to testify on the stand to explain the company's actions and technical approach. He picked me because I worked on a vaguely similar project over a decade ago. I'm not an engineer and I would get slaughtered on the stand if I had to explain portions of the work.

<== NOT HAPPY

Edit: Don't get me wrong, the work is solid, it's just outside my expertise.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm at work and getting lot of circuit troubles in an area, and kinda wondering why I don't have any transport alarms there. I managed to delegate the problem so somebody is looking at it.

I hope it's not a switching building that burnt to the ground this time. I already had one building burn down on my watch that's enough for now. lol. To be fair it was a remote fly in site only, they knew there was alarms there and were going to check in morning. So I did my part!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Apparently, "non-service-effecting update" means "knocks four servers offline* so hard you can't even sign into LoM**."

*One rebooted, the rest froze
**The Dell DRAC modules are super flaky. Probably unrelated and needed a reset anyway.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This reminds me I still need to fix my DNS situation at home.

My DNS is now virtualized
My VM server connects to the luns by host name (that and NFS in general relies on DNS)

It never occurred to me that was a problem until my storage server went down. I could not resolve any hostnames because the VM for DNS was down and I could not get that VM back up because I could not connect to the LUN. Oops. I was able to bring back the old (physical) DNS server temporarily to connect to the LUN. I will need to either setup a backup physical server or just move it altogether to a physical box. I can probably just put it on my home automation server.

 

[lxskllr]

I got an email from one of our company attorneys today saying that one of our projects is being litigated and that the engineer who worked on it is retiring. The attorney wants me to testify on the stand to explain the company's actions and technical approach. He picked me because I worked on a vaguely similar project over a decade ago. I'm not an engineer and I would get slaughtered on the stand if I had to explain portions of the work.

<== NOT HAPPY

Edit: Don't get me wrong, the work is solid, it's just outside my expertise.

You're in luck. With the elections happening, you have a lot of fresh Trump material to work with. He speaks for a couple hours at a time, with no idea what he's talking about. You should do what he does.

 

[clamum]

Technically not today, but it was last night, and it's an issue I've been having for too long.

I've agreed to do a mobile app for a friend with a business and website and so I've determined creating a Web API to expose the data is the best route to go (since the mobile app will need to display data that's on his existing website, the website can use it, and another website will use it).

I've done part of that but I'm having a fuck of a time trying to figure out how to secure the Web API (A standard .NET Web API). Apparently IdentityServer3 is the coolest thing and best option and so I went that route, but I guess I'm too stupid to use it because I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure it out. It's just all new and I'm working on this by myself and so it's overwhelming and I'm not smart enough. I think I've determined the "client credentials" flow will work (for securing the API for the website; "hybrid" for mobile I guess) and not be way more than is necessary and I made a bit of head-way last night so I might be fairly close to getting the security half working.

Bah. Doesn't help my motivation is already in the shitter for basically everything, so a project that's big and constantly stumping me isn't something I'm jumping to work on. FML

 

[IronWing]

Sitting in the airport next to some dude talking on his cell to someone that I hope is his ex because he is the whiny-est, passive aggressive pussy I've had the displeasure of hearing in a very long time and I'd hate to think that anyone would be such a loser as to stay with him. Whine, whine, bitch, bitch, you're not listening to anything I say...

 

[pete6032]

Because I have new work hours I have to leave work later now, which means that by the time I'm ready to go home all the bike share bikes are gone from the bike rack that I usually use. I was looking forward to my bike ride home yesterday but instead I had to take public transportation.

 

[Svnla]

Tried to buy a cheap cell phone from Amazon because I do have some AZ giftcards but the price was more than double than directly from the cell phone company. Come on Jeff Bezos.

 

[Imp]

Sitting in the airport next to some dude talking on his cell to someone that I hope is his ex because he is the whiny-est, passive aggressive pussy I've had the displeasure of hearing in a very long time and I'd hate to think that anyone would be such a loser as to stay with him. Whine, whine, bitch, bitch, you're not listening to anything I say...

You'd be surprised. I know a mid-thirties year old child who got married recently -- still sleeps at mom's house, dinner at mom's almost daily, laundry at mom's, drive's mom's car, despite buying a home with wife that's located within walking distance of mom's and having a full-time job.

And some contractor or the municipality fucked up a re-sidewalking job on a street I use. I've been avoiding it all summer due to the mess. Then a news story came out saying the contractor got let go. They were supposed to be done already, they're not even 50% now.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My cleaning lady showed up a day early, totally threw me off since I was still in bed.

 

[Imp]

I tried watching CNN and found myself listening to shills then found my urge to break shit rising until I changed the channel.

 

[Red Squirrel]

CNN is fun to watch in winter time. They cover winter storms as if it was some huge end of world scenario or something.

 

[lxskllr]

There was a garter snake squished in the road in front of the house. Probably one of mine that was living in the wood pile. I knew I shouldn't have gotten a barnsnake :^(

 

[Ns1]

...a barn....snake?

 

[lxskllr]

...a barn....snake?

That's like a housesnake, except they come and go as they please outside, but generally stick around one property :^D

 

[ElFenix]

Thursday night football.

 

[Imp]

Thursday night football.

I agree, it delays the late shows to weird times and messes up my cable on-screen guide.

 

[Svnla]

Tried to buy a cheap cell phone from Amazon because I do have some AZ giftcards but the price was more than double than directly from the cell phone company. Come on Jeff Bezos.

The new cell phone is here but would not recognize the SIM card. I tried and tried to plug in and out but nothing was working. May have to bring it to the store and let them do it for a fee.

 

[ElFenix]

I agree, it delays the late shows to weird times and messes up my cable on-screen guide.

I can never remember to do fantasy football bullshit beforehand

 

[Charmonium]

I got an email from one of our company attorneys today saying that one of our projects is being litigated and that the engineer who worked on it is retiring. The attorney wants me to testify on the stand to explain the company's actions and technical approach. He picked me because I worked on a vaguely similar project over a decade ago. I'm not an engineer and I would get slaughtered on the stand if I had to explain portions of the work.

<== NOT HAPPY

Edit: Don't get me wrong, the work is solid, it's just outside my expertise.

This sounds like the company is too cheap to spend the money they would have to on an expert witness to review the material to get up to speed on the project. Then he could testify to the technical shit and you could testify to company-related shit.

But maybe they don't care if they lose the suit. Sometimes the cost of defending a law suit doesn't really outweigh the probability weighted cost of the outcome. If they think that they either have a good chance of winning or that a lost wouldn't cost that much, maybe they figure the expense of an expert isn't worth it.