What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF was this??
Cockroach...?
No, killed some of those tonight, though. We are guessing some kind of strange wasp, but really don't know. Certainly not a roach, though. I know the local wood roaches very well.
Yeah, looking at it again it does look much more waspy.
From my quick googling, it looks like a member of the Paper Wasp family.Not sure which one but could be one of these:
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Bed time here.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF was this??
Cockroach...?
No, killed some of those tonight, though. We are guessing some kind of strange wasp, but really don't know. Certainly not a roach, though. I know the local wood roaches very well.
Yeah, looking at it again it does look much more waspy.
From my quick googling, it looks like a member of the Paper Wasp family.Not sure which one but could be one of these:
http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/bmc_05/key_polistes.htmlI couldn't find one that seem to match
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Just kicked off another Windows 2012 R2 install. I've installed so many servers this week!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just kicked off another Windows 2012 R2 install. I've installed so many servers this week!
Maybe you should "install" yourself in your bed. Must be nearly 3am over at your place?
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@thwr He's @scottalanmiller . He's a robot. Just force him reboot, he'll be fine.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just kicked off another Windows 2012 R2 install. I've installed so many servers this week!
Maybe you should "install" yourself in your bed. Must be nearly 3am over at your place?
It got to be rather late, yeah.
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Just got into the office, had to stop by the datacenter this morning because when we switched ISPs and got a new public IP block, we broke all the branch office VPN tunnels
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got into the office, had to stop by the datacenter this morning because when we switched ISPs and got a new public IP block, we broke all the branch office VPN tunnels
How @RojoLoco learned to better appreciate the use of FQDN?
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got into the office, had to stop by the datacenter this morning because when we switched ISPs and got a new public IP block, we broke all the branch office VPN tunnels
How @RojoLoco learned to better appreciate the use of FQDN?
I do appreciate that, but our firewalls take IPs for the VPN tunnels. No biggie, we only lost remote configuration capabilities for one evening.
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OMG, sooooo many "can't reach DNS server" and "can't contact DC" errors on those datacenter servers now....
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Just got to work. I'm dressed up for the wake I have to go to later, which a lot of people are surprised by how nicely I clean up. Lol
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
Amenities?
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@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
Amenities?
Proper dress shoes, my tie clips (I used to have a small but nice collection), long and dark socks, etc.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
Amenities?
Proper dress shoes, my tie clips (I used to have a small but nice collection), long and dark socks, etc.
I wore suits 3x/week, at least, for most of my life.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
Amenities?
Proper dress shoes, my tie clips (I used to have a small but nice collection), long and dark socks, etc.
Maybe accoutrements then
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got to work. I'm dressed up for the wake I have to go to later, which a lot of people are surprised by how nicely I clean up. Lol
I just wish I still had a proper suit with all the amenities.
I got a proper black suit when I had to go to my grandmother's funeral. With a black shirt and tie, I look like a hitman (not a bad thing). I'll be pimping around in said suit once the weather cools down a bit.
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So my fiance most likely wants kids. If I had some kind of guarantee (which no one ever does) that my child would have a full life I would probably be on board, but I have crippling anxiety about being responsible for a human life in the world we live in. I've had small conversations about this here and there with some ML peeps. I'm not a very vulnerable person in general, mostly because of bullying in my life, but a child is the one thing that I would never be able to push out. That is the height of vulnerability IMO. Kids with cancer scares the hell out of me and I'm not even a parent yet.I just don't know how I can reconcile the risks associated with having a kid because you can do everything right and still lose your child--something I don't think I'd ever recover from honestly. Thoughts from ML dads (and everyone else)?
Interested to hear @coliver 's opinion especially since he just became a Dad.
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@wirestyle22 there is no simple answer there, there is no way for there to be. Every day as a dad is very scary. But think about it in the opposite way... would you want to not fall in love for fear of them leaving you? Clearly you made the choice of taking that risk because loving and losing is better than not loving at all. Same with kids, but even moreso. Every kid you don't have is one you never have.
At the end of the day, it's a personal decision of course. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with not having kids. That's a perfectly valid choice. But think of it this way, the more than you fear something going wrong with your kids, the more that that means you would appreciate having had them.
I know friends with kids with severe health problems, and don't know any that regret the decision to have them.
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And, of course, as a dad, there is nothing as great as being a parent. My kids are my best friends, we have so much fun together and spend all of our time together. I've never found anything remotely as rewarding as being a dad.
