Thursday is a 4:30am alarm day
Yipes! I'm not sure there's enough coffee to make up for that
If we are taking over an English village, I'm in! Frances wants to move to London anyway, so I just have to convince the other two family members to join us.
My office is so overcrowded, I went to get a soda and came back to three people not in my department having a closed-door meeting in my office....
Uhh... okay that's funny but probably kind of annoying.
There are shenanigans going on at work on a few different levels that I am privy to. Looks like next year is going to be interesting.
Buffista English village sounds delightful! Where do I sign up?
Consuela, glad to hear your dad's doing better!
I'm sitting on an unnecessary webconference and we've spent five minutes talking about how the interface isn't working. Pointless.
Show of hands, has anyone EVER been on a webconference that worked perfectly?
Consuela, I'm glad that your dad is doing better!
I am all for the Buffista English village!
Haven't had to do this is a while, I've got a guy who said "You're going to have to walk me through this, I'm 50 years old and I don't know this computer stuff." I actually resisted for a moment, then said "That's OK, I'm 55." Then I think he started mansplaining to me about how what I was telling him was wrong. I just connected in.
Show of hands, has anyone EVER been on a webconference that worked perfectly?
Maybe 2? For context, I've run over 50. So, not great odds.
Our weekly or bi-weekly conferences are usually good, in terms of screen-sharing and audio. If they don't work, it's usually that the entire meeting link doesn't work.
I webconference almost every day at work and it usually works well. Almost everybody turns off video unless they need to show something though.
I'm contemplating writing a book (or maybe video series) for learning to code in Java (probably for v. 9) with the angle of trying to be more real-world (without losing accessibility) than what I've seen available. My wife kinda gave me the idea and is all behind it. It sort of struck me that I'm principal software engineer at a Fortune 50 company and have been doing Java development for well over a decade. I have like professional cred. Kinda weird to think about.
Course I got to get this study software I'm working on done before anything else. I'm thinking I may also finally release Cog knowing that I can't put out a sequel soon. Maybe it'll flop anyhow and it won't be an issue.
There's so much I'd like to do and so little time for any of it. But I suppose that's a pretty common problem.
