{"id":3148,"date":"2020-08-15T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2020-08-15T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T12:15:12","slug":"fifteen-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/15\/fifteen-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night&#8217;s discussions were somewhat infuriating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though his prescriptive pretention annoys the living shit out of me sometimes, I do listen to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeomearashow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike O&#8217;Meara<\/a> normally a couple of days a week.  One of concepts that comes up on his show more than a little is the concept of &#8220;douchebag thirties.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For dudes, especially single dudes, it can get to be completely maddening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if I avoided a lot of that with my health issues combined with the employment issues I&#8217;ve had helped me avoid a lot of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to have any cocksure attitude when basically nothing on your body is working properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;d like to think that I wouldn&#8217;t have been quite that um&#8230;.there&#8217;s a word, but I&#8217;m not sure what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So.  After spreading around the idea that the Non-Aggression Principle, and Libertarianism are the roots of all arguments, you try to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argument_from_authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argue from authority<\/a>, and use a source that pretty much nobody&#8217;s ever heard of?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s easier when politics is your faith.  You&#8217;ve embraced certain precepts, and those who dare question are heretics, well&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I talked recently about people missing my hints on what I wanted for my birthday least year.  So, I&#8217;ll leave it here, and see if anyone who&#8217;d be repeatedly asking me about what i want is paying the least bit of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want IT stuff.  I need a new PC.  This ancient AMD desktop is incredibly annoying.  Plus it&#8217;s running Windows 8 because the Windows 10 install wasn&#8217;t allowed when I try.  I gave up trying, and don&#8217;t want to mess with it too much because I&#8217;ve used a license for Microsoft Office on it, and don&#8217;t think I can reactivate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also think I want a non-Amazon tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was also thinking about a NAS device so I can back things up, and stop paying Amazon for storage.  Or anything.  I&#8217;m purposefully trying not to give them my money.  I have my own reasons for that.  I could go on and on about that decision, but it&#8217;s not something that most people would care about.  It&#8217;s <strong>my<\/strong> choice.  Why I made my choice is my own business.  Please don&#8217;t try to prevent me from making a decision different than what yours might have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom is difficult to undrstand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/toronto-strip-club-employee-may-have-exposed-hundreds-to-covid-19-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Toronto strip club employee may have exposed 500 people to COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the customers get paid to get exposed in a way&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flashback &#8212; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8\/15\/2011 &#8211; 8\/15\/2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always amusing to listen to your higher-ups try to explain something to you that they, themselves, don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This is something continues to be an issue.  With the date on this, it wasn&#8217;t perhaps the most egregious misinformation I ever heard from management, but this obviously annoyed me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe that was less egregious considering it was someone trying to explain it to <em>me<\/em>, not someone else.  You know, like a customer?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i had someone I worked for describe something I&#8217;d cobbled together as being &#8220;written in Java.&#8221;  No, you Moran, the interface was written in PHP, and the hardware interface was written in C.  Trying to do RS232 communications in Java was barely possible then.  I don&#8217;t code anymore, but it&#8217;s probably still really questionable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the same guy whose wife was getting corporate direction by consulting with a medium in Sedona.  No.  I didn&#8217;t make that up.  Nor could have I.  That place was that nuts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards the end of my time there I was driving about 150 miles a day getting to and from the office.  I was driving so much because the company had just walked away from the lease on the local office where I was working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d taken to, in my last couple of months there, to <em>cashing my paychecks <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at their bank<\/span><\/strong><\/em>, then driving back to Tidewater with a bunch of cash to deposit into my credit union account because I was worried about their check bouncing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m stopping now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s discussions were somewhat infuriating. Though his prescriptive pretention annoys the living shit out of me sometimes, I do listen to Mike O&#8217;Meara normally a couple of days a week. 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