Just got three other co-workers to do the personality test. Found out my girlfriend is INTP-T, and I'm ENTP-T...explains why we are so much in each others' heads lol

@dafyre said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Simple lunch here... We had pizza.

It's a pizza kind of day apparently!

Had lunch with my old boss today. We work in the same building again! ROFL
@scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen , lunch with Digifox today!

@StrongBad said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

On top of all that, we're having a major network issue at work so I'm working with that. Production is having serious issues because everything was totally down for 10 minutes early this morning and now the whole network is just crawling...

At least you were able to get into work!

Yeah, I caught a ride here. Still gotta figure out rides for work. Day job isn't that big a deal. I can figure that out. But FedEx, at 4AM, is going to be a bitch...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Been having to convince people at work this morning I didn't need to go to the hospital and that I'm okay. But everyone at work has been very kind so far.

That's good.

Yeah, everyone has been very kind about it. Very supportive.

@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

You know, I will say this:

It was my mistake. I was careless, and I own that. This is going to make a lot of things very difficult for me in the interim. However, I'm not feeling like I can't move, or that I'm overwhelmed. I've grown so much this year. I have the confidence now to know that I will do what I must to make things work. If that means riding a bike each morning to FedEx, well, I'll get some extra exercise and maybe lose more weight. I can get rides to my day job. My new apartment is five minutes from my girlfriend, and I can catch a ride with her (we work the same shift). I know I will make things work, and I'm not giving up. It's one more thing on my plate that was already full, but you know what? When I look back on the past couple years in a decade or two, I will be able to say that I fought the fight and won. I did what I had to so I could survive and get to where I want to go. I'm down, but I'm not out, and I'm not giving up. And it makes me proud of myself to be able to say that, and know it's true.

I swear I feel like we're on the training fields with the football guys in Remember the Titans. Life is shouting at us "Will you ever quit?!"

To which our only response can be "No! We want some mo!"

or perhaps a different paraphrase from a book (Author is Morgan J. Rice): When we have problems in life, we get stuck, like getting stuck in the mud. When we are in the mud it feels as if we can never out. But these come to us as great life lessons: it is up to us to pull ourselves out of the mud. Not just once, but time and time again. This is your moment to pull yourself out. To show life that you are bigger than your problems."

(I changed a couple of words to make it fit, lol).

TL;DR: Keep on trucking man. Trucks ain't made to go fast. They're just made to get there.

Thank you for the kind words...

@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

If you're on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ajstringham/posts/1399985926684701

Page has been removed?

Are we friends on Facebook? It's locked to friends only.

Guess not, ha ha ha. I'll have to go and find you... Or you can find me.

fb/dafyre

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@scottalanmiller said in Which of the 16 Are You?:

Even these with very few questions tend to be relatively accurate. But you can see how "loose" it is when people like AJ see variations in results just a year or two apart. A good test would normally show almost zero change over decades. People do change, but extremely little normally and only over great periods of time.

Yeah but in all fairness, I've changed a lot in the past two years, far more than is common, in some very fundamental ways...

Trying not to die at work...

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The whole home lab thread got me itching, so I set up my raspberry Pi last night that I got for Christmas. Good! SSH from work into this morning, rebooted it:
shutdown -h now
OOPS
so now I guess I have to work rest of today

I stayed with a friend once and I ran so much traffic through the network, the shitty Verizon FiOS router would have it's WiFi crap out pretty much every day...because that's what they do...

My friend didn't want me to have access to the router, but eventually I just got the info of the router's label, logged in, enabled telnet, and setup a cron job to reboot the router every morning at 4am. Fixed all the WiFi issues. My friend said after a couple days of that running "see, it's working fine now" and was all proud of himself. To this day, he still has no idea that it was me rebooting the router every morning at 4am that fixed the issue. Lol

Running on three hours sleep, started work at 4AM, been awake since 3:30AM, and working til 8PM, to get to rinse and repeat it all one more time this week tomorrow...

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Running on three hours sleep, started work at 4AM, been awake since 3:30AM, and working til 8PM, to get to rinse and repeat it all one more time this week tomorrow...

You get time to do important things like sleep on the weekends, huh?

Sometimes. My nights to sleep are Friday night, Sat night and Sunday night. Monday thru Thursday night I get usually 2-3 hours. Then I try to make up for it the other three nights...after I finish partying

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Running on three hours sleep, started work at 4AM, been awake since 3:30AM, and working til 8PM, to get to rinse and repeat it all one more time this week tomorrow...

You get time to do important things like sleep on the weekends, huh?

Sometimes. My nights to sleep are Friday night, Sat night and Sunday night. Monday thru Thursday night I get usually 2-3 hours. Then I try to make up for it the other three nights...after I finish partying

You gotta fight <pause> for the time < pause> to paaarrrrrrtaaaayyy!

Youtube Video

About to head to lunch with the gf. Her birthday is this weekend, so gotta figure out what we're gonna do.

I had kielbasa and a hot dog for breakfast XD

IT in any sense of the word, and being used loosely? A technician at a local retailer. First REAL IT job? Was half of a two-man team at a bond-trading desk. Got to learn about ESXi, Windows Server, AD, GPO, FINRA compliance, and a bunch of other stuff. I just had lunch with my old boss a couple weeks ago. We work in the same building yet again, but different companies and different towers, but same location.

This was yesterday. On a separate note, the @Minion-Queen is a benevolent ruler...

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Can I get all at the same time? Because that sounds like a great time! I think there might be one or two things missing, but it's a pretty comprehensive list...

@Brains said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Making plans to attend calling hours for a friend this week. He died Saturday. He was possibly as young as 25, but was probably 26. He had a heart attack and died. My girl and I both knew him pretty well and were both friends with him but for totally independent reasons...it's been a rough weekend...

Oh wow, that really sucks Sorry for your loss.

http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?n=adam-c-irish&pid=181147096&fhid=22220
https://www.gofundme.com/2ksvx9g

Done

Thank you. That means a lot.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm at work at 8:30 instead of home in bed. I need caffeine...

Boohoo

I used to start my days at 3AM. I'm just low on sleep and high on stress. I switched shifts with the normal morning guy...It's morning and I haven't had my caffeine yet. RAWR!