November 6th
It's 69.3 degrees out, someone is mowing their lawn....

This is an unreal world we're living in

Good Morning #coso
Here are a few trees outside my office window. Now, if only I could see the colors from my desk :D
It's Fall, and my 4 tons of wood pellets are shoved into my basement. I will clean the pellet stove this weekend; then I'll be playing the "How long can I last before I start heating the house for the season" game.

@BrentSullivan
good lord that's insane

Additionally what the tech should've done was just have him click on and of the displayed photos in the "picture" mode of the background tab, as that forced whatever mythical magical cache AD photo + windows background image to properly update and come back to its correct color

And let me tell you something it's not easy playing how to fix this over an audio call on a cell phone, especially when your trying to have a quick bite to eat during a break.

During the course of this fix the poor man accidentally saw the "color" on the side bar of windows 10 settings personalization settings and turned on dark mode, and then proceeded to say "things got really dark" To which I just had to pause and b like uhhhhh ??? Before it clicked that he probably clicked on dark mode.

Y'all I love my dad dearly, he's been one of my biggest supporters.

Idk anyone who's doing #it in his company, but can we all just agree to NOT update the stupid lil default background photo in active directory, remote into ppls machine force an AD sync & then just say a "reboot" will fix the image and then stop responding?

He tends to turn to me, his son who he helped put through school for IT to help him restore his background to a brighter color then solid black when the reboot didn't work

I haven't used the AC for active cooling in 2 weeks now; I did turn it on Sunday to maintain a comfortable 69f degree temp when we had guests over for the afternoon/evening.
it's supposed to be 87F today, but overnight, it dropped to 55F. I'm so tired of these 30-degree temp changes. I do not recall them at all growing up, and I'm just 2 minutes down the road from where I grew up. #climatechange is real and it's not a pleasant time, I'm not looking forward to having to kick my AC on today.

One would think that I would have the IP address of the node in my #docker swarm that I've picked to be "manager," and the preferred IP address for all services running on the swarm would be memorized and burned into my memory
but no, here I am 2 years later, still mixing up the 2 and 201...
"why isn't this test #mongodb using a bind mount on an SSD working?" Portainer reports it's up, &the ports are open correctly; meanwhile, on Mongodb compass, I'm talking to an IP address that isn't used.

I'm wearing a flannel and I'm still shivering in my house, I love this kind of weather, when I can shut off my AC's overnight

You know maybe I shouldn't do a load of laundry at midnight 😅😅😅 I forgot to put in soap

@Liliki
If this was any other group of people and or small businesses, being forced to play what's my payment going to be this month roulette, there would be rioting on the streets banks would be under seize. I have private students loans with variable interest and since those entered repayment in 2019, my monthly bill has increased only by 20$ and that's over the course of the entire time in repayment, I currently pay 199$ a month on those.

Hilariously those loans r due to be paid off first.🤦‍♂️

@Liliki I changed jobs, but my taxes didn't change much between those two years. I made within the same $ range for repayment calculations within roughly +1500$ so there was no reason to suddenly drop me down to 28$
3-4 months before the covid forbearance expired, my servicer JACKED the payments up to 252$ which I mean thanks for forcing me to pay off a ~1k interest free suckers, but that absolutely 1000% did not align with what the DOE loan payment calculator said my max payment would be.

@Liliki and honestly I just want to pay back my student loans, this program is probably too 20 most corrupted, crooked thing in the world.

My payment amounts have been illegally changed over the years by my servicer, I've had absolutely no luck reaching anyone in my elected congress officials about it.

I never stopped paying in the pandemic, the calendar year before repayments finally restarted, they dropped my monthly payment to 28$ down from the 176$ it had been since I entered repayment.

@Liliki righhhht, like I can understand not wanting to rock the boat to much to give Kamala & Tim a hard time in an critical election, but like this would've been basically a toothless announcement, that would've caused pure chaos in the lunatic branch of the Republican party.

My stupid loan servicer has already on their own or Department of Education ordered (I really don't know but at least they told me this time!), stuffed my loans back into forbearance.

When trump announced he was holding a press conference at 2pm yesterday, I was hoping Biden was going to call a press conference at 2pm from the Whitehouse just to mess with trump, would've been a perfect opportunity to announce by executive order that all student loans were going into forbearance until the court cases were resolved.
Would've been an easy way to mess with trump & cause fox to have a panic attack at needing to cover trump, or have their latest n greatest anchor bitch about Biden