Started writing early today because I woke up early.
Naturally this would be the day that my WaterPik quits working.
But at least something I can put on my Christmas list.
If you could have any career, what would it be? (Assume anything you choose, you are the best in the field).
I know I shouldn’t, but I’m really going to say, “I don’t know.”
I want to be in a situation where I can work as I feel up to it. My last gig came sorta close to that. I think we were expected to keep “core hours” sometimes, but a lot of the operation was more towards the West Coast; I could relax some.
That said, holidays there were one of the bigger down-sides. I would really like to ensure that I can eat Thanksgiving dinner, or watch a football game without disruption. I couldn’t necessarily do that there.
I would feel less bad about taking time off, though, knowing that there was someone around who could stamp out whatever fires might spring up.
I don’t know. I’m at a fork in the road, perhaps, professionally.
How long can I do what I’ve been doing?
I do know that I can’t do it in an office or datacenter anymore.
And that’s okay.
But there’s an option I have with my current situation that’ll pay me enough to live off of for a long time. Maybe I shouldn’t think as much about doing that as I do, but, well….
News.
I stumbled across a story about what’s going on on Armenia on Parler. The stuff going on over with Armenia and Azerbaijan. Wow. In a story I saw on another site, there was something about people setting their houses on fire to keep the invaders from taking their stuff. I think this has many of the same details.
Protecting property is something government is supposed to do.
In this case, absent government protection, people are torching it to prevent invaders from getting it.
People value their own shit. This should not be a surprise to anyone.
And, no, you can’t have a pony. Not yours.
And people might be willing to destroy their own stuff just to prevent you from having it.
Is that so difficult to understand?