It's been a while so here's a few updates in the meantime
It's coming up to a year since I moved house and only now have the pile of construction rubbish been moved from outside my old flat. Dumping of rubbish by the neighbours in the adjoining block of flats into the garage is still happening.
Conservatives lost control of the area to Labour but I'm seeing absolutely no change
We went through a period of very cold weather (-6degC) and this was costing us £10-£15 per day in gas usage.
Moving onto other updates. As posted previously, I went into hospital to remove a lump from my mouth. I'll soon get a follow up call from the doctor to check how I'm doing. Stitches took about 10 days to dissolve. I just have a small white patch there now where the lump was removed and the doctor cauterised the wound.
Twitter has descended into a real s**thole since Elon took over. First killing all third-party clients and then indicating it may start charging for API usage.
The third-party client purge I can tolerate -- it was originally started during the Jack era, but charging for API usage, or even limiting tweets per day is not something many people will accept.
I started working on stripping out twitter functionality from my TFL updates bot and that's near enough done now. It now tweets (or should that be toots) into a Mastodon account at https://mastodon.xyz/users/updatesbf
RSS feed functionality should still work, but it is not enabled yet, until I can get Keda to work.
Reminds me of my old job….
Source: dilbert.com/strip/201…
I should try this the next time someone asks to use my phone :P
Tina: My phone is broken. Can I use yours to make a call? Wally: Absolutely. If it seems warm, that’s because I was using it in the men’s room for the past two hours. Tina: I’ll ask someone else. Wally: Yup.
Source: Tina Wants To Borrow Wally’s Phone - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-05-01 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Tine: I hear you have some vacation days coming. Planning anything big? Dilbert: I plan to catch up on all the work I couldn’t get done here because people keep interrupting me. Tina: That’s a sad vacation. Dilbert: Then why am I craving it right now?
Source: Craving Vacation - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-03-15 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Boss: Our company spokesperson embarrassed us on social media. Does this qualify him for an “honor killing?”
Asok: No, and you’re a racist.
Boss: Here’s what he said on social media.
Asok: Okay, I’m in.
Source: Asok Agrees To Be Hit Man - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-12-13 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Wally: How’s it feel to be the hardest-working employee in engineering?
Alice: I feel tired, sore, exhausted, sick, angry, stressed out, and lonely.
Wally: You probably don’t want to know how good it feels to be useless.
Source: How It Feels To Be Useless - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-11-03 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
I know from past experience how Alice is feeling. ^_^
Wally: According to my fitness tracker, I took 20,000 steps yesterday.
Alice: What? That’s double what I did. You won’t win this! I will run to the ends of the earth to beat your step count!
Dilbert: Do you really have a fitness tracker?
Wally: No, it looks like a lot of work.
Source: Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-09-29 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
This wouldn't work on me. But leave me in a room with a flask of sake, a laptop full of anime, and a box of Pocky, and, well.... you won't like what you see, let's put it that way...
Much as I would have liked to have done this in the past with some really difficult managerial staff, the only time I would do this if I didn't care about getting a bad reference from my manager, or I wanted out of the job so bad, I didn't care if I was fired.
Dilbert comic strip for 07/17/2014 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive..
