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• Post #3897618

  Good God is my shell scripting rusty!! I used to be really good at this. Took me almost an hour to figure out how to properly extract a substring from the result of a command I needed to run so I could pass that value into a variable for use in the next two commands. Googling for how to do the extract was just the start, I had to also figure out how to use the extract commands in the script. Everything that I did was familiar to me, I had just forgotten how to do it.

• Post #2819616

  Forgot to post here. Car died on Monday on the highway coming home from a con 4 hours away. Got it towed to repair place and got a rental car to come home. On Wednesday, I learned the engine control module burned out, which was no longer available anymore for my 17 year old car. Yesterday I drove back down so I could get the car towed home. Now to empty it out and work on replacing it. I probably will get a beater since I still don't have a job.

• Post #2819615

  I just put down a deposit on a used car. I will find out tomorrow if I can get financing or need to pay for it in full from savings. Major stress point taken care of.

• Post #2819614

  Depression time again. I just interviewed for a job that pays the same as what I made back in 1992 when I first graduated college. About a quarter of what I was making at my layoff in Feb 2024 and less than half of what I made in the low paying contract job. Have I really fallen that low? The good recruiters for what I do are finding no jobs for SQA in this area unless you have a medical degree so you can test medical devices. I need to pivot into something, but I wanted better than this.

• Post #2819613

  @davidrevoy Time to re-gift to your favorite enemy.

• Post #2819612

  @MicroSFF This entire fight could have been avoided if the Princess came out when the knight arrived and said "I am not a prisoner here".

• Post #2819611

  @arisia I was there for that blizzard. I had already booked to stay over Sunday night so did not have to worry about having a room. Police had to tell the hotel that the roads and airport was closed so no one could leave the hotel, and let people check back in for the night, there would be no pilots and stewardesses arriving for their reservations that night. We did gorilla programming that Sunday and Monday morning until the roads and airport re-opened.

• Post #2819610

  @internetarchive @annierau The website SpeedRacer.com ran a free email server for years that you accessed via their website. Eventually the site got sold and the new owners shut down the email server (they gave a lot of notice so people could move off of it before it was gone). I still miss having that as a back-up email address.

• Post #2819609

  @vanellopemint Now hang on! Lady Gygax was given a recipe, not actual baked goods. I make my great aunt's date-walnut bread recipe, she passed on over 30 years ago, so I am technically using a recipe from the dead. Doubly so since I got the recipe from my mother who also passed on a decade ago.

• Post #2819608

  March is going to be a depressing month for me. First weekend of the month is a con that I have not gone to since 2019 (the 2020 one was back to back with a local con that I chose to do instead, the pandemic hit a week later). End of the month is the final PenguiCon which starts on my birthday. Looks like my monthly bowling meet-up has crashed and burned and won't be held again. And still no job and no hits. Maybe I can early retire, but I doubt that I have enough money for that.