@ajstringham said:

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing said:

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing , went to Applebee's tonight in your honor and had the burger I told you about. Delish! No mudslide though. I was a cheap date for myself tonight. I also went because of friend of mine waits tables there, and so I made sure to leave her a nice tip as well.

So, I looked it up and the only one is in northwest Houston, but I'm going to make the trip soon! Good man on the tipping, food service is never easy IMO.

Agreed. I found out they make like $2.15/hour from Applebees. The rest is tips. Also, they have to miss minimum wage for two weeks before Applebees recognizes it. Wow...

Make sure you take the survey too. General practice is, if you don't get like 5 surveys a week or something, you're stuck with the crap shifts like Carside to Go, etc. My friend told me she "never has that problem, because [she has] big boobs". Guys don't get that luxury...

That's actually quite the pro-tip! I think I'm going to do the happy hour this weekend, keeping my fingers crossed.

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing said:

@ajstringham I know! Man i've been busy, did a two week roadtrip to Washington then did the bulk of a move into a new house Monday. My laptop is missing in action and my home workstation is in pieces lol.

Ah, ok. Wow. You've been busy!

All good though, productive-busy. You?

P.S. I have that burger on my mind, things take me awhile but I never forget.

That poor girl, that was rough to watch lol.

@ajstringham said:

@DenisKelley said:

@ajstringham said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham https://maas.ubuntu.com/

Echoing @DenisKelley 's comment: learn something new.

Happy Birthday.

Not commenting on the fact it's my birthday, so far, today has sucked eggs.

It is your right, as an american, to take the day off after your birthday to go get silly you know.

happy birthday.

@Mike-Ralston Awesome job with the new setup, give us a call if you need a deal on some older stuff to tinker with.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing the DLC is very important. Get the Ultimate Edition on Steam on you will be good to go. The game play is more like Oblivion but it is not open world and the combat is not real time.

The combat can be real time. It can be stop and go or real-time. The harder the game gets, the more stop and go it becomes. So yes and no to your point.

Ahh, see that sounds interesting. Applebee's is far/inconvenient for me and is on a longer timeline, this is something I can manage to check out!

You'd be better using the 4G off of your phone haha, might be worth it.

@JaredBusch said:

@MattKing said:

@JaredBusch Does your flashlight part still work?

Yes, though I rarely have used it because I use the one from Symantec more often.

Fair enough, I just managed to break mine within an hour.

17-22 Navy
22-24+ ServerMonkey
25 in Jan. whoop-whoop cheap car insurance, and a quarter-life crisis!

@ajstringham said:

@Huw3481 said:

This is probably a bad time to point out that I went out drinking with SAM for about 12 hours, left his at 6am and still made work (albeit an hour late) but I did let them know in advance.

I hadn't slept soundly in months. My body finally burned out and shut down. It felt wonderful.

Sometimes your body just goes into f*ck-it-sleep mode. I've had that happen a few times in the past man, hopefully you're back in step!

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing said:

@ajstringham said:

@Huw3481 said:

This is probably a bad time to point out that I went out drinking with SAM for about 12 hours, left his at 6am and still made work (albeit an hour late) but I did let them know in advance.

I hadn't slept soundly in months. My body finally burned out and shut down. It felt wonderful.

Sometimes your body just goes into f*ck-it-sleep mode. I've had that happen a few times in the past man, hopefully you're back in step!

I've actually been waking up more normally. For the longest time, I wake up as alert as I was at noon the day before. It's the weirdest feeling. The problem is that it was never passing. I wasn't sleeping as my body was never shutting down. Finally, it did just basically say f*ck it, I'm going to sleep. Not much I can do about that.

I've had that happen before. For me it was caffeine after 5-6pm and not drinking or playing on electronics after 10pm made me get back in sync. The electronics thing was hard, but i started waking up earlier naturally (5-6am) and just moved work to the morning.

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing said:

@ajstringham said:

@MattKing said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing said:

Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.

Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!

Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!

Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.

You should have come on your own! Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!

Haha I was thinking about it, but I only do IT on the side (home/test stuff) so everyone would be like "Whyyyy is Matt (purchasing) following us to the IT conference"?

So come as an IT Pro and not as a GG. You'll make your money back (not now but six months ago) on the ticket price in swag, easily!

Haha I cannot unfortunately, what happens when someone needs a bunch of equipment we don't have in stock?! Or a customer replacement of a 10-year old IBM harddrive with specific firmware that hasen't been seen since the Apple II era?

These are the reasons I have to be on post here at the Monkey.

@scottalanmiller It was an unfortunate phase.