Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

25 degrees, skeggy sea front, black leather jacket and Kevlar lined jeans, the term swamp testicles doesn't do justice

 

It reached around 29 degrees down here - just as I was clearing all the ivy and brambles off the back fence. I have some Kevlar sleeves, left over from a previous job, that do a great job of protecting your forearms from the scratchies and the pokies, but they make you hella sweaty.

 

Apparently it is 25C here right now... I wish it was that temperature indoors..... it was up over 30 in the bedroom last night before going to sleep and I always run super hot when I am asleep, so that means all the uncomfortable and the reoccurrence of the new-for-this-year eczema on the back of my hands - yay, more blisters and itchy... But anyways, this is not ruining, but meh instead so...

Recently changed managers at work and he has changed our working in and out of the office days around. Myself and a colleague were working alternate weeks in and out of the office, worked fine for the past couple of years, take my PC home on a Friday, hook it up at home for the next week, then bring it back in on the Monday, rinse and repeat. Apparently this was not working... So now I am in the office every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and my colleague, every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. fine, not going to moan about that, I have lasted 17 years at this place with next to no drama by keeping my head down, flying under any radar and just getting on with my work.

The problem has always been the ~15kg Lenovo P720 that I need to cart back and forth and as such laptops were asked about, and then forgotten, and a new P720 turned up, so much for the laptops. But since we changed manager we have had the laptop requirements raised again and everything has been requested and approved... or at least it was requested by me, approved by my manager, but because of the spec needed for the laptop (CAD use and power earthing / lightning protection simulations) it needed the approval of the next up the line. That seems to have been missed and the case closed as it was not approved in the 14 day time allowance.......

So in goes another request, approved by my manager again, and now we wait for his manager's approval too..... some nudging might be needed methinks...

 

Needing a beefy about of compute in a work machine? Yeah, I totally get that.

Lugging a 15kg workstation back & fore to the office…? Nah mate, f’ that for a larf!

Does it use much GPU power, or is this a pure CPU thing? The CAD stuff is definitely going to be helped by GPU compute, but I’m not familiar with the kinds of calculations involved with power/lightning simulations…

 

The current spec on these P720s is a Xeon Silver 4210, 32GB RAM, and a Quadro P2000 so nothing too high end, but given what the other options are, this is about as good as we can currently get without a special order request. The laptop that has been ordered is a Lenovo L14 Gen 4 which apparently is the highest spec that we can have. The R&D guys are using these for 3D parts design so i should be fine as most of my CAD work is 2D and it should chunter through the earthing system simulations that I need to run. There is always the option for some memory upgrade if needed, I think the R&D guys have done that.

 

You already sold it with Skeggy Sea Front, then you go on to sweeten thr deal.

 

I'm not one to kink shame but that's niche.

 

I'm anything but mainstream.

 

The Spectre of Coronavirus...

 

The new Bond film? I didn't know it was out yet - is it that bad?

 

New Bond film? I thought it was a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera…

 

Humbug

 

After the recent shenanigans with my motorbike…

… I got a call earlier to say it’s all sorted and ready to collect.

On the one hand: woohoo my motorbike is done and back on my driveway!

On the other hand: The labour cost…

That new exhaust sounds good though. In fact it’s downright filthy…

Not quite on the same level as the kind of noise that @mrlongbeard’s Harley could make if it was fitted with straight pipes… *cough* unlessItakeouttheremovablebaffles *cough*…

 

Just had a recruiter email me that he has a potential candidate for a job.

It's my own CV.

 

Ewww. And saved for future use.

Ha! My £800 car is currently up to £10k in repair costs! I'm......sad.

 

Amazing

Last year I had a recruiter contact me via LinkedIn about a potential new role. It sounded quite familiar, so I asked them to tell me which company it was with. Of course, it was my firm, and even better, I was on the interview panel for this vacancy

Honestly, recruiters (generally) are the absolute pits. That said, a good one can be very helpful (assuming such a thing actually exists).

 

Hold up, do ya reckon there's a market if I bottle it up

 

Mate - Japan.

 

I really hope that's a car you really like...!