In reply to 93EXCivic :
Then it's regional. UPS is almost flawless around here. If weather doesn't slow them down it's on time. 99% of the time the box isn't even damaged. Fedex is worse than USPS to the point I won't order from companies that use them exclusively.
As soon as the rest of my suppliers get on board with electronic payments USPS will get tossed in the dumpster with FedEx.
We were cold as balls here through most of November and December. Lots of -20c to in the 30's. It's up to single digits now, which seems a bit like spring. My minor rant isn't really about the cold, but about a consequence from it.
The entire shop has a light sheen of power steering and automatic trans fluid from all the blown hoses we've dealt with. Slick...
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
It's rained here the last 3 days or so, sometimes really hard and it's getting in the way of work I had planned. I was trying real hard to be mad about it yesterday, but it's January, it's 5 degrees and it's raining. If it was -5 and snowing it would be a worthy rant
I've had the A/C on the last 3 days. Ship some of that cold air down here, please.
After not a lot of change for the last few days and being pretty concerned about the size of one of my tonsils (why couldn't my parents have had mine removed when I was a kid????), went in to the clinic at the grocery store this morning to make sure I didn't have something really concerning and need heavier-duty meds. No bronchitis or pneumonia, and somehow tested negative for not only Covid and strep but also the flu, which shocked me because I figured that was pretty much certain. Don't know if it's a generic flu test, or for whatever strain they identified as being likely to be a problem & thus vaccinated for. Send me home with 10 days' worth of horse-pill-sized generic antibiotics (that was fun to swallow with my tonsils so swollen...).
It still amazes me that medical science hasn't come up with a better way to scan and figure out what bacterial/viral is causing problems.
volvoclearinghouse said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
berkeleying USPS sucks balls. And add Amazon to that steaming hot pile of horse E36 M3. I ordered a package of Christmas presents a month ago. USPS sends me a delivery notice that it was left on my porch December 10th (Sunday) at 8:06PM. I got the email Monday morning, so I go out to my porch....no package. I check my security camera. It shows the USPS truck flying by my house shortly after 8PM Sunday, and going down my neighbor's driveway. Never stopped at my house. So I check with my neighbor- no, she didn't get my package, she got a bunch of stuff for her. (I've known her for 10 years, nice older lady) I check all the neighbors. Nothing.
Then I get into a back and forth with USPS and Amazon, which is ongoing. I filed a police report for stolen packages. Amazon and USPS claim the package shows "delivered" so neither is willing to make compensation, at least not till I show them a copy of the police report- which I was told could take weeks to become available. Finally, my credit card cancelled the transaction at my request.
I ended up reordering the items (from other sellers) so I'd have them in time for Christmas.
Last time I was trying to track down a package that said delivered the manager of my local post office checked the GPS coords where it was marked delivered.
I was my own worst enemy and transposed two numbers in a firewall rule, and had to spend an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't working as my brain kept filling in the correct sequence of numbers while reading the wrong sequence of numbers.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Wait till you do that to your social on a tax return.
I may need to start looking at an entirely new field of employment. Mine has evolved in a way that my brain just seems to have a hard time processing, and it is killing my productivity to the point I'm worried how much longer I can keep my job. Either that or I need to spend every extra waking hour I have trying to learn java and selenium way better than the fits and starts I get when I have small amounts of spare time while working, and hope that I can finally "get" it.
If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
I know the feeling and sympathize. I was set for about 8 years to retirement until this past year. Between market losses and inflation, even if everything reverts to the mean for the next 8 years, I'll still be short, and have to work longer. No pension, just 401k, IRA, and general savings. Another reason for me to find another career path. If I'm going to be working longer, I should probably find something that isn't driving me insane.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
Dude. Eight years sounds like a long time. And if you ask yourself what was going on in January 2015 it may seem like a long time...
...but with those memories in your head, thinlk about how short that time feels today. Wasn't that long ago, right?
The next 8 years will seem even faster.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
In one of his movies Woody Allen tells a story of two little old ladies having lunch together.
One lady says "I don't know why we come here...my food is burnt, greasy, and too salty" and the other lady says "I know and the portions are so small".
I see this as a great metaphor for our careers...we're constantly faced with all manner challanges, concerns, and stressors and then - it's all over so quickly.
At least there's a goal line. My retirement Is death.
Evap codes for cel in the prius. The day i take it for inspection....
My last few days:
I have a SQL test script that takes me about a minute or two to open and run.
Our policy is we need to automate testing as much as possible.
Write an automated test, creating two extra files in order to run a single SQL file.
Error - FileSystemNotFound. it's there, there are fioles in it, don't know why it can't read it. Do tons of crap to try to get it to work, nothing helps.
Move my code to someone else's tests
Error - FIleNotFound
Other person tries the same thing - works on their machine
I muck with it for hours, and rename a file back to something I had named it before that I was told was unnecessary.
Code works, I push it and submit it for review.
Get dinged over a minor syntax issue.
Fix the syntax issue
Test on my local system - it works
Go to push it so it can be re-reviewed.
Push fails and won't let me merge with whatever the difference is (there is none, I'm the only berkeleying person writing this)
Get told to rebase the code.
Rebase takes four hours with me having to babysit it to keep it going.
There are now 19 build errors that have nothing to do with my code, but berkeley you, I can't run my app until they are corrected, even though there probably isn't a real problem.
I have now spent more time trying to automate this test than it will likely take to run it any time it will need to run before the software is obsoleted.
I hate my life.
In reply to eastsideTim :
Before my retirement, I could run safety of flight testing and write up the necessary limitations by myself in a comfortable 10 working days.
Now that I'm retired and not working that project in contract, that testing has been automated, and it takes a full time team of 3-4 to maintain the tests and a test team of at least 6 ten weeks to run the tests.
I have opinions about automated testing.
I hit my thumb with a hammer today and have a nice little blood blister to show for it.
...I was tapping the lid back down on a can of paint.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
As I get closer to retirement I want it to slow down the days. Time is flying by so fast.
I also enjoy working and making money - most days it's still a lot of fun.
Datsun310Guy said:Wally (Forum Supporter) said:If I can get through eight more years of this E36 M3 I can retire. It's not looking like I'm going to right now.
As I get closer to retirement I want it to slow down the days. Time is flying by so fast.
I also enjoy working and making money - most days it's still a lot of fun.
Same here.
The only thing I've really disliked about work was the fact that I had to work...as I get closer to retirement, that obligation drifts into a nebulous fog of statistical probabilities...if I work two more years I'll have a 90% chance of accomplishing all of my goals...if I work four more years, I'll have a 95% of accomplishing all of my goals, etc..
Everything looks very different when you get close to the end...job loss is no longer "oh E36 M3 I need to find another job"...it gets replaced with should I lay lower in retirement, should I accept a lower level of certainty of not accomplishing my legacy goals, should I consult or should I update my resume and get another regular job.
It all gets a lot less stressful which removes what, for most, sucks most about the 8-5 grind.
When I retire I want to work part-time at Weathertech on the phones.
All day long I can ask people; what kind of car do you have? Oh yeah? Those are great cars.
And ran way ahead on cashflow. I was planning to get the truck in primer in Feb when Tunawife takes the kids to a friends house, but now that's likely not happening.
30 minutes into the day and Old-Man-River (who is managing the engineering dept, yet somehow still doesn't know our product line) has made me consider taking today as a mental health day.
Mr_Asa said:30 minutes into the day and Old-Man-River (who is managing the engineering dept, yet somehow still doesn't know our product line) has made me consider taking today as a mental health day.
berkeleyer took my parking spot this morning as well.
Mercedes dealership is telling me the transmission being removed is why the electronics went out and that it'll never start without a valve body installed. Not the fact that I shorted out the electrical system with the starter.
I know the guy just plugged in his computer and is following the steps it tells him but come on man.
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