after the storm
We had a new guy start today, but he was gone before I came in. (There's not much new people can do the first few days. They don't have accounts, and if their background checks haven't been finished it may be a while before they get accounts.) Concensus is he'll be OK.
I've said this before, but I'm still amazed that there are people who don't understand how traffic lights work. When I was leaving work tonight, there was a minivan at the first traffic signal, stopped past the "stop" line painted on the pavement, and therefore stopped beyond the sensor in the pavement. Don't know how long (s)he had been waiting there, but that light wasn't going to turn green until that driver backed up or someone else came along. How do people not know this? And what else do they not know, that I find simplistic and obvious? (Do I think about these things because I'm an engineer? Am I an engineer because I think about these things?) What do those people know that I don't know? Is it useful? Important?
I noticed some very dark side streets in my neighborhood when I came home. Some streets have lost their street lights. Maybe the houses don't have power either. The detour at my corner was gone, so I guess more debris has been cleared away.
Thu Jul 7 12:26:12 EDT 2011
The (land-line) phone is working again, fixed sometime between 08:00-09:00. I guess if we had Verizon (FIOS) instead of Comcast, our Internet (and TV) would be working again too.
Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:25
Work is eating too much of your life if you take a day off and still are over 80 hours on Thursday.
Fri Jul 8 23:55:
Thursday anniemal suggested going to a solar-cooking demo in Manassas Saturday. I'm amenable, if she's sober. Today, she's not sober. If she's sober Saturday I'll be surprised.
We still don't have Internet, nor cable TV. I'm surprised and disappointed that the MythTV does not recognize the absence of a signal. I suppose it is reasonable to try to record through the whole time slot, in case the signal comes back and it can get part of the show. But if you end up with a zero-byte file, it should recognize that, and not consider the program "recorded", which (generally) keeps it from trying to record later rebroadcasts.
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I've said this before, but I'm still amazed that there are people who don't understand how traffic lights work. When I was leaving work tonight, there was a minivan at the first traffic signal, stopped past the "stop" line painted on the pavement, and therefore stopped beyond the sensor in the pavement. Don't know how long (s)he had been waiting there, but that light wasn't going to turn green until that driver backed up or someone else came along. How do people not know this? And what else do they not know, that I find simplistic and obvious? (Do I think about these things because I'm an engineer? Am I an engineer because I think about these things?) What do those people know that I don't know? Is it useful? Important?
I noticed some very dark side streets in my neighborhood when I came home. Some streets have lost their street lights. Maybe the houses don't have power either. The detour at my corner was gone, so I guess more debris has been cleared away.
Thu Jul 7 12:26:12 EDT 2011
The (land-line) phone is working again, fixed sometime between 08:00-09:00. I guess if we had Verizon (FIOS) instead of Comcast, our Internet (and TV) would be working again too.
Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:25
Work is eating too much of your life if you take a day off and still are over 80 hours on Thursday.
Fri Jul 8 23:55:
Thursday anniemal suggested going to a solar-cooking demo in Manassas Saturday. I'm amenable, if she's sober. Today, she's not sober. If she's sober Saturday I'll be surprised.
We still don't have Internet, nor cable TV. I'm surprised and disappointed that the MythTV does not recognize the absence of a signal. I suppose it is reasonable to try to record through the whole time slot, in case the signal comes back and it can get part of the show. But if you end up with a zero-byte file, it should recognize that, and not consider the program "recorded", which (generally) keeps it from trying to record later rebroadcasts.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/437409.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]