I'm old enough to remember when books by Gibson & Stephenson, and tabletop games like Shadowrun, Paranoia, & CyberPunk let us escape to an alternate reality for a bit.

Not something that describes the fall we seem to be accelerating towards, ever more rapidly.

With all the other shit going on today....

Here's your Friday Zen moment. May you find a love that looks at you, like Bruce looks at Chuck.

#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/6swgiM9vSEE

Coming up on the end of event day and I always start to feel like this, rolling into the final debrief...

Ministry - Search and Destroy

#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/psHDeiXRVwQ

Side note: Dunno if it's just this batch of candidates, but I seriously expected better from a pool that's exclusively veteran's and servicemembers. Must be my old senior NCO side comin' out.

Public service announcement: If you wait until less than 24-hours to withdraw from a full-loop interview that I got you scheduled for, don't bother including a line like "I hope to work with you and XYZ in the future." 'Cause yeah, we damn sure make a note about that in our applicant tracking system.

And if you withdraw less than 2 hours before kickoff, we've got a special list for you, that get's shared across our network.

Yaaaassssss!

https://twitter.com/HackingLZ/status/1456559344602996738

Wowzers. Did NOT expect 13 GOP members to break ranks and vote for the infrastructure bill. Passed with a vote of 228-206 (several progressives stood firm and voted against it.)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/infrastructure-house-vote-11-05-21/h_88ae0e2f2eae6ec9ddfbdbb4d9fcfc2f

Sweet! Got the li'l one scheduled for their first shot tomorrow! I've been holding off on the booster, so I can go in and get it at the same time (and hopefully it helps them see me get it, too). Been 192 days since my second shot, so the timing worked out rather well.

Folks... help me... help you. If I get you set up for an interview and something happens (power outage, cable company shut of Internet, whatever), reach out and say something. When the interviewer reaches out, 20 minutes after the start time... you've made my job pretty easy, and go straight into the "not a cultural fit" pile.

Hooray! After a couple of weeks in quarantine, kiddo's are all back at school today. Only 1 tested positive, so the vaccine is doing what it's 'sposed to (thank God). Fun coupla weeks getting our brains tickled every 5 days or so - & prayers up for the girl that passed it to our kid, as they & their family apparently aren't vaccinated (and are all still sick :( ). But big kudos to her for reaching out and texting our kid to let 'em know what was going on, days before the school did.

WTAF!?! What is wrong with this freakin' country!?!

https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1446562115679145984

Phew - sorry for the extended absence, been a rough coupla weeks that culminated with one of the kiddo's testing positive with a breakthrough infection. So far it's just the one (whole house minus the toddler is vaxxed), but dealing with the brain-tickler follow-ups is wearing on everyone a bit.

Anyhow, happy Windows 11-eve, lol!!

I'm... mildly concerned. My wife just created a planter full of venus flytraps. Like 6 of them. Callin' it now.... If I come home to something like this, the solution will involve fire.

FFS....

https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/1438623675775782912