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Stardate: 20191114.1531 | |
Location: SBUX | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: SBUX muzak | |
Visual: Baristas, Xmas Decor | |
Energy: 40% +10 coffee | |
Mental: 55% | |
Emotional: Tired | |
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I am finally done with my 2 week on call shift for work! I had | |
scheduled for today and tomorrow off since I knew I would be super | |
exhausted and unable to continue doing any useful work. +5 for | |
planning and +5 for self-care. I still had to work for about 15 | |
minutes to turn off an alert script. -5 for reinforcing healthy | |
boundaries. Oh well. | |
So I took a hike through the mountains earlier and listened to the | |
ham radio channel on the network radio (zello). Listened to a | |
cranky guy complaining about how it is not like it was. Then again, | |
when is it ever? We don't live in a vacuum. | |
I guess that I do that a bit myself on occassion, especially in | |
regards to the state of things with personal computing or the | |
Internet. I wonder if that is an old guy thing. Like once you | |
start complaining about stuff now compared to, "how things used to | |
be," maybe that is a sign of old man syndrome. I don't think of | |
myself as old, but that's just me. My thinking and attitude | |
in some respects is a lot more mature than it used to be, | |
but there can also be times where I can be downright | |
immature. Not that it is of any real importance or anything. | |
Maybe since I have a history with personal computing and the | |
Internet, I have a point of reference to make a statement | |
like, "it is not like it used to be." | |
One of the things I did on my hike was watch part of a | |
mountain be excavated by the big machines. They had a whole | |
excavation outfit up there with an excavator, a big dirt/rock | |
separation contraption, a fleet of dump trucks. and a bunch | |
of other equipment. As you can tell. I don't really know the | |
technical names of these big machines. Good thing I brought | |
my spotting scope so I had a good time watching the | |
happenings sitting in the grass on my day off. It would have | |
been nicer if I could hear their radios. | |
Watching all of these big machines moving around and all the | |
work being done with the earth still facinates me. This took | |
me back to when I was a child and I used to ride my bike over | |
to watch construction. I would watch houses being built | |
since the neighborhood we lived in was fairly new and there | |
were still a lot of empty lots and houses being built. | |
Sometimes I would even talk to the construction workers. One | |
time my mom, my sister, and I drove by one of these sites and | |
the workers said hi to me and remembered my name. My mom and | |
my sister were impressed. I miss those days when things | |
seem to be so simple. | |
I also spent some time playing some Minecraft on the SDF | |
server and I was able to meet fellow gopher logger, tfurrows | |
on the server. It was pretty cool. I haven't seen him on | |
the server since I usually connect in the evenings, but since | |
I was not working today, I connected. He mentioned some | |
places I should visit and I took note to explore those places | |
once I have set up my residence. I joined the server a few | |
weeks ago and I'm still getting situated. The little I have | |
explored makes me want to explore more! There is much | |
creativity going on and it is really nice to see all of the | |
beautiful structures. Last time I played was quite some time | |
ago and I keep coming across features that I need to learn | |
about. | |
Hopefully, the server doesn't get reset often and I can build | |
without people messing up my stuff. Maybe I will also meet some of | |
you on the server as well. | |
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