@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler that sucks, hope it's nothing too serious.

I will be honest I think it is just more of the same that I have had in my lower back. Which means if I can give it time it can get better. My lower back doesn't nearly bother me like it used to. However, my body took abuse when I was a prison guard. Being 6'5" tall you tend to get called into the harry situations more. Been thrown down steps, onto the ground, etc. One of the reasons I got out of the gig. Just didn't think it was all that healthy plus the pay was crap. I really liked it though. I felt like when I did my job I could potentially have a huge impact on someone but at $27,000 a year gross, sorry I just can't afford that.

That's just sad. Paying that little, how much were the other guards bringing in from bribes? Cause frankly, that's jack **** even where I live!

Sorry for this rant but damn this was good to get off my chest. The kicker was I was making $27,000 a year and paying 773 a month in child support, that is 9,276.00 which means I really pulled in 17,724.00 gross but taxed like it is 27,000. So that is why I went to school for IT. I had to get a better paying job. I don't mind paying child support for my kids, they are my kids and I love them, I just wish I knew that it was being used correctly for them. Even today I can't get my ex-wife to confirm if she has health insurance on the kids so I go ahead and carry them at my work just in case something would happen to the kids. I can't be left in a lurch like that if she doesn't have health insurance on them, even though by court order she has to provide health insurance for them, I always fought to be the one to provide health insurance for them because she could never keep a job, I have always held a job with insurance since I was working full time(which has been 22 years, and I am only 41). She didn't want that because it then is deducted from the amount of child support I have to pay her. She had a job at the time when we renegotiated our arrangement and she has another child by a different man, so the court ruled in her favor because when she covered her youngest she can also cover my two children but the problem is she can't keep a damn job. Then if she goes on Medicaid, they then come after me because I have a job that can provide insurance for my kids. I then have to put my kids on my insurance and pay back Medicaid. Because of insurance, child support, damn high taxes that I have to pay the idiot state of Illinois (to which I will move from as soon as my wife's youngest child graduates from High School her divorce agreement won't allow her to move out of state) I still pull in less than 40% of my gross income into my banking account. Then my kids still come to me and ask me to buy them their school clothes and supplies because their mom won't buy them decent clothes. She will literally go to yard sales in town to find them clothes. How would you like to go to school in clothes bought from yard sales that other people in your school wore? They are in a small rural town so it would be obvious where their clothes came from. High School is hard enough without being teased about where your clothes came from. It is not like my kids wanted expensive clothing either. My daughter just asks me to take her to Walmart for "new" clothes for school. So when I say I worked my ass off to climb out of a financial hell hole I really do mean it. There were times in my life that I didn't honestly have food for myself to eat (I always made sure my kids had food when they were with me) and went to bed hungry because I literally had $0.00 in my bank account and the food I had was for the kids for the weekend. Yet no food banks would help me because I had a full-time job and I was "single", almost every agency I tried to get help from just suggested I don't pay my child support. Child support often times can get set so high that it literally forces the person to do nothing but work and it almost forces them out of the child/ children's lives. There is a divorce industry in our courts that literally thrives off of misery, it needs to be reformed.

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

OKAY, just keep feeding yourself this lie. I have four teenagers in my house. 3 boys and a girl. 18,17,14,13. OH DEAR LORD LET ME GO BACK IN TIME TO WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER! TEENAGERS ARE KILLING ME!!!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler that sucks, hope it's nothing too serious.

I will be honest I think it is just more of the same that I have had in my lower back. Which means if I can give it time it can get better. My lower back doesn't nearly bother me like it used to. However, my body took abuse when I was a prison guard. Being 6'5" tall you tend to get called into the harry situations more. Been thrown down steps, onto the ground, etc. One of the reasons I got out of the gig. Just didn't think it was all that healthy plus the pay was crap. I really liked it though. I felt like when I did my job I could potentially have a huge impact on someone but at $27,000 a year gross, sorry I just can't afford that.

Sitting at my desk in pain. Going to Doctor tomorrow. I think I have a herniated disc in my upper back. I ruptured a disc in my lower back years ago when I was a prison guard and it sure does feel similar. Really not motivated to do anything other than sitting still and stare at my screen. I could have called in sick but I just don't see the point. I can be in pain at home or I can be in pain at work, just don't want them to say the word "surgery". Which is what they always want to say with my lower back.

It is 5 O'clock somewhere!

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

In other news a NY Lawmaker wants to make it a crime to call the police on a person of color who isn't actually doing anything illegal and charge the caller with a hate crime.

Isn't harassment already a crime?

I believe that a lot of laws are passed to try to outlaw people being ASSHOLES. It won't work.

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

On season 2 of Voyager.

I think Voyager is underrated. I really enjoyed it. My ordering of Star Trek Shows is as follows:
1.) TOS (It started the whole thing and deserves to be #1)
2.) STTNG
3.) Voyager
4.) Enterprise (Such a shame it was canceled when it was, it was really getting good and had huge potential)
5.) DS9

Too soon to classify Discovery.

Nostalgia aside, TOS is pretty bad. I'm not surprised it got cancelled.

Yes but when you look at the TOS storylines relating directly to the hot-button issues of the 60s, plus the fact that they had the first interracial kiss during the whole civil rights movement, it was damn ballsy. So yes it gets #1 for many reasons. Was it over the top and cheesy, sure, but you have to look past that. A lot of TV shows from that era are cheesy, Gilligan's Isle, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, etc. So the cheesiness wasn't unique to TOS. Take that into consideration and then coupled with my first points it is easily #1.

DS9 - I just didn't like the whole space station idea. Exploring the stars to me seems inseparable from Star Trek. So being stationary never set right with me. Also one of the reasons I like Voyager so much.

Enterprise, I like the whole people struggling to overcome and we weren't these badasses with super technology like the other shows get portrayed as.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

On season 2 of Voyager.

I think Voyager is underrated. I really enjoyed it. My ordering of Star Trek Shows is as follows:
1.) TOS (It started the whole thing and deserves to be #1)
2.) STTNG
3.) Voyager
4.) Enterprise (Such a shame it was canceled when it was, it was really getting good and had huge potential)
5.) DS9

Too soon to classify Discovery.

Just finished We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1)
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/1680680587/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534860075&sr=8-1&keywords=bobiverse+book+1

It is an audible original but you can get the paperback on Amazon. Great sci-fi book. Can't wait to listen to book 2

From Amazon:
"Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. "

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Well. . . that's Florida for you. Man arrested for tranquilizing and raping alligators.

Seems like the best punishment would be to just leave him to it.

But secretly switch out his tranquilizers with a placebo first.

Upgrade my Pixel 2XL to Android Pie this morning, haven't noticed any big differences. Will have to sit down and navigate the new features at some point.

Applying to pick up some part-time jobs. My wife is quitting her full-time job, getting a part-time job and going back to school to be a CPA. So I am now broke. Our plan is to make it through her schooling, then when she is done and gets a job we continue to live on what our income is now and use all of the extra money from her better-paying job to pay off all our debt. Everything, house cars, student loans etc. I see stress on the horizon though...

@scottalanmiller They lost money on me too, not a whole lot but they did loose money on me.

Redoing my image with the latest updates. Was preparing it on another computer last week when I went to sysprep it I realized it was BIOS and not UEFI. DOH!

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@penguinwrangler he could just go without eating, too. I've gone 28 days when I was younger, in an experiment to see how long it would take to go from "having the munchies" to "actual hunger pains."

He wasn't eating very much.

@momurda The thing about it is this, who is going to be first to sign up for Moviepass? The people that like to see a lot of movies, which causes them to burn through their money. I saw a news release that had that they needed to reach 5 Million subscribers to be profitable. I guess the math works out that way. I won't resubscribe though.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Reminds me of a prison story! When I was a prison guard one of the offenders was believed to have swallowed drugs from his visitor in the visitation room. So he was put on what is known as a dry cell. Which basically means he is in a cell with no running water or toilet. If he needs a drink a guard will hand him a bottled water and if he has to use the toilet he has to do it in a special toilet designed to capture anything that comes out. The guard is pretty much sitting in the cell with him staring at him to make sure it doesn't come out and go back down the throat, and yes that has happened. To get to my point the man went 27 days without going #2 and finally the DOC had to obtain a court order to put him under and have a doctor extract everything out because the doctors were beginning to have concerns for his health. Yes, the doctor found several bags of cocaine.

I have seen this and I feel this is true, but then again I did just check mine and there were no new updates found.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Holding my daughter while she gets ready for bed.

Cherish those times. My daughter is full on moody teenager mode and it is those times I remember to keep me from going insane.

@momurda just out of curiosity sake do you think that blockchain will have a place in the financial industry, just not as cryptocurrency as it is now, or is it just all garbage?