@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee and waiting for my 9:00am meeting with my new company!

How'd it go?

first meeting was good, lots of HR stuff
next one is with the owners/ founders

Cool stuff.

On "break" currently - but I'm going to go ahead and start working on the training stuff next meeting is 3:30 for shadowing, so far this seems pretty awesome.

Coffee and reading to start the day, shadowing through out the day - finally got access to zendesk

@Pete-S said in What does your desk look like?:

@Dashrender said in What does your desk look like?:

Might also consider a ring light.

Actually the white wall that is just behind the laptop is much better than a ring light. Just bounce a light source of it and you'll get a very nice light. Search for "bounce lighting" if you want examples.

I have this setup - I have a LED lap that I pointed a the wall and turned the camera on - much better lighting for video calls and wat not.

Thanks for the idea!

Son's first flag football game of the fall season is Saturday - cleaning and working in my workspace to make it a little bit better / more functional - playing with the new headset as well as looking for a new keyboard.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Realizing that being at the right company makes all the different for what you do and how much you do. This company in a week has been 1000x better. I'm truly hoping it says this way - but I've been much happier and not dreading going to work for the last4 days has made such improvements to my psyche.

This. So much this. If you are in a job you hate, then it is time to start planning your exit.

Glad you found you a place that looks like it is going to work out great! Is your new job a WFH job?

It is , yeah. great company awesome people and lots of learning happening ; excited to get started with customers- i've been closing ticket and it's only my first week .
the perks are awesome too (coffee subscription paid for by the company is by far my favorite)

Nice! That'd make an incredible perk.

that coupled with them buying lunch once a week ($25 Door dash gift card) I'm pretty well taken care of.

Last day of Training -

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

First evening shift - 2 hours left, I can't even begin to explain how much better this company is

Was anyone even a little surprised?

I'm surprised - Not used to working for sch a great company

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fighting with insurance companies as to why they have changed my rate

New employment insurance or previous employment insurance…. And you aren’t on COBRA are you?

Neither - Car and home insurance

Well first thought is age,.. at least there used to be a bracket thing... Did something get added / removed / changed? A friend had her home insurance get completely side swiped by the fact that she (at the time) need FLOOD insurance.

At an elevation that would be difficult to flood... like,... a major interstate would have had to have been flooded before her house flooded.

They removed my home insurance because they never sent me a couple documents that were needed .
which raised my car insurance rate because they were "bundled" together. It took 3 hours to get to the bottom of it, and had them send over the form electronically , signed and returned.

Now we wait to see what they come back with

the italian festival is happening this weekend, Going on Sunday to that - Dinner with my girlfriends mom after that and Monday (labor day) looks like a cook out at the lake boating/fishing/drinking enjoying the sun.

had a nice three-day weekend - My Son's flag football team won the championship for 3 divisions in his age group on Saturday. Back to the grind this afternoon!

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?

I got a new job around 6 months ago. I'm now a network engineer, and like the job/coworkers/manager.

that's awsome!

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs Think we all got new jobs around the same time, just noticed its my 6 month anniversary too

I've only been here about 2 months - I stayed at that previous company 5 years too long

@scottalanmiller said in PlayStation Game Drive; wont read on PlayStation or computer:

@WrCombs sounds like it might have died. Do you have a Linux box to plug it into? If so, plug in and do a lsblk and lsusb and see what shows up.

I do not, at the moment but I have an old PC in my work area I can throw linux on and try that. I just heard it beep a whole bunch so I think your right.
I'll have to work on that another time, but Thank you!

Finally making coffee and going through tickets! Happy Friday

Working tickets and looking at the new insurance being offered. 12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol

working tickets. fixing printers (i hate printers)
coffee pot is full!

Just getting started for the day. coffee is made. now to hop in and help with these tickets.

Getting started on this beautiful Cold and white Wednesday. Apparently we have a chance of up to 8inches of snow from today - Friday many different sources many different thoughts on what the total will be.
My thoughts are; we will get anywhere from 0"-99" inches between now and the end of the year.

need more coffee. lol

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to audition a new drummer!

May your drummer drum well!