u/smaguss

Garfield minus Garfield really just feels like a comic about executive dysfunction.

I have until the end of the week left to renew my medical license I spent hundreds of dollars getting all the prerequisite things done for and if it lapses for too long I have to re-cert which will cost me hundreds more in fees and hours of non-employer supported courses--and I will technically be out of compliance and unable to do my job so I'd probably be let go.

Why does this happen? I got through 8 years of school, graduated cum laude with various distinctions. Now I'm debating alt+F4ing some days because I just can't be bothered to exist daily.

Just for clarification; I'm not suicidal. "I just don't want to be alive" is the vibe. I love my wife and friends too much to hurt them like that.

Honestly for a car that has spent its entire life in the hot and wet it held up longer than any of my other cars. I am the windows down unless it is actively wet out type; and living where it is regularly 90+ out so I most certainly accelerated the failure.

Fielding quotes for repair now.... Gotten anywhere from 250$ and three hours in my driveway to 1k and a week in the shop... Anyone else have a similar experience recently?

Throw CYP2D6 in the mix as well and you too can get all the side effects of stimulants with little to none of the benefits!

Nothing like opening your phone to find char convos and doodles that probably got me on a list

I'm in the process of building my rack and running new cables through the house and planning out my network map. I came across them while I was grabbing my spools.

All of this is "leftovers" from installations that never went back and we got accounted for. By the time the contracted out network people had left the manager had them sitting by the trash because they were taking up too much space...I didn't work with the network or LV folks but my job required a working at least local network so I was always around at the same time.

For context, I'm not in the trade at all. I work on people parts and cells. I work in hospital labs and private labs in various levels of "clean room" and BSL levels. The building the stem cell research laboratory and transplant laboratories I was working in always seemed to be under construction and these things were everywhere. I've worked fully suited up back during COVID and that was miserable... I can't imagine this, a mask and doing manual labor is very pleasant.

Not sure if this is enough to keep it relevant to the sub but I really just like hearing stories from the people who keep shit running that nobody thinks about.

I'm in the process of upgrading my fiber and with that comes a new run. When I moved into this house one of the first things I did was pop open the box and a single, cat6 line out of the media converter to my office where the connection to the gateway was when I moved in. I had a friend who does security/fire alarm systems help me do the run and looks great, at least to me.

The run goes straight up the wall, through the attic and back down a strut to what was a un RJ11 jack. The day before I had gone up and cut all the zip ties and securing straps.

When the installer arrived I asked if he could use this instead of running an entire new line, around the perimeter... Then up an external wall and then drilling another hole. He said he was not allowed to do runs inside the attic anymore per ATT and this was the only way he could do it. I had hoped we could just do an old fashioned snake up.

A little disappointed and that's fine. It ends up where it needs to be regardless and I'm not about to karen out and argue with someone and make their job harder. I'm sure they get enough of that.

It's not the end of the world and again, I'm the lay person in this situation and defer to their experience.

Here's a shot of my rack 😘