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I guess we have a winner: Nazgul the wolf dog is officially the most popular athlete of these Winter Olympics. His legend will be talked about for a while and while he only half competed in one event, his heroics will transcend everything else that happened in Milan. Take a bow! Forever fan!

A solar salesman came by a few days ago and I was like ok send a quote if you please. This morning he sends me a quote that would meet 60% of my energy needs. The cost: approximately 68000$. I laughed out so hard looking at that quote – like Jesus have these companies lost any sense of reality? Why the fuck would I shell out almost 70k to meet 60% of my energy needs when I can just keep paying my energy company every month instead of chasing some mythical break even point that may never come with this kind of upfront cost? Ridiculous.

First target, now Washington post – nope you will not somehow expand your “business” by becoming right wing friendly and lose your actual liberal base who have the money to spend. You chase illiterate maga idiots you will get what you deserve. When are companies going to learn that bending the knee to right wing is not good business? (Admittedly wapo is a rounding error for Bezos but they didn’t need to sell even back then)

I stumbled upon a couple of posts on my blog from 2000s that have not aged well at all, and it’s also an indication of how much I have grown with my views as well. If my kid read these posts she’d be disappointed that I had those views once. Now I wonder if it’s appropriate to go back and change or delete those posts or let them be? After all it was me at some point.

My god the amount of AI slop on LinkedIn is unbelievable. Dramatic prose and long ass insights posts – like Jesus Christ if you are looking for a job just say so! No need to engage in so much ai slop to showcase how you are a thought leader – guess what everyone can make out easily it’s AI slop so all it’s doing is making you look dumber.

My ex manager and team treated me to a send off dinner last night. We couldn’t do it while I was still there due to conflicts but it was heartwarming to see entire team turn up for dinner. Lots of chatter over drinks and food. I don’t give myself enough credit on this part of my personality!

Google suite at work is so fucking powerful now with the AI integrations it’s crazy. The last time I used Google suite at work was in 2021-22 at startup. The Gemini additions just make Google suite stand out so well. Having used copilot and share point at work, this is on a different level altogether.

I love it when old folks post on our hoa Facebook page asking why there are no teenagers in the community coming by to shovel neighbors and then they back it up with “I need to pay more and find someone”. Yep, old people that is the problem. You pay what you would pay the other person, I can guarantee you teenagers will show up – but you treat them like cheap / free labor fuck off.

4th week at new job and honestly the biggest thing I am missing is still human interaction. The fully remote WFH is kind of jarring me because of the isolation I am feeling. While I was no fan of driving into dc on a daily basis, I am also not a fan of absolutely no in person interaction either I feel. A happy middle would have been perfect. Who knew I would feel this way about WFH?

Schools closed again tomorrow. We are in week two now of complete school closures. While I can see why they closed with the amount of snow concrete all around, at this points for a 4 billion dollar budget school questions have to be asked how can they not be prepared for some contingencies! This is the same district that went online teaching mode during COVID in haste so why is there no option to go online learning now? Nothing about the piles of snow everywhere makes me believe they are in any shape to open Tuesday or Wednesday either. Are we just gonna close shop and wait till spring so everything thaws and schools can open? Utter rubbish!