Roman Fyseek

The number 4 had the potential to be a FAR larger problem than php2shell.

I've been loaning out a team member and the receiving team submitted a complaint about her progress, so I told them to fuck off with that, and they can find another loaned team member because I want mine back. She's a powerhouse.

I wish I weren't so timid around electrical wiring.

Getting the whole home battery backup mounted with the aid of an engine hoist with a hydraulic leak and some ratchet straps.

I thought this was America?

If there's ever an episode of Taskmaster with the most terrifying moments *for* the Taskmaster, it needs to include Catherine Ryan changing what's-his-name's name.

Three nights in a row, my dog has eaten the same toad and always with the exact same results. He gets it into his mouth, tries to hide it from me while looking right at me, spits it back out, and then spends the next 30 minutes 'dog spitting'. I keep trying to tell him about parasites, but dog, so..

No, you don't.

I have finally synchronized the death of all of my UPS batteries within a month.

A few minutes ago, I pushed the button to turn on the Roomba mop in the kitchen because I dripped and didn't feel like bending down with the sponge. At any rate, the *instant* I pushed the go button, the power went out in the entire neighborhood. Sorry, #MyREC Anyway, power is back on.

Why did YouTube just give me end-of-life advertising?

I learned that you can NOT set a hot metal pan lid on a glass cooktop or it will immediately bond with the cooktop.

It used to be that the smoking area was the great equalizer where somebody low in the organization could capture the ear of somebody high in the organization. Working from home changes that dynamic.

What do people do with the old spinning rust hard drives when one upgrades their RAID with new spinning rust hard drives?

Reading Catch-22 pre-military and reading it post-military hit wildly different. Pre-military, it's a story about the most colossally self-serving douchebags forced together through circumstance doing the most random shit over and over and over. Post-military, it's just a story about the Army.

Wow. Northwest Culpeper takes their fireworks *very* seriously. I'm pretty sure my dog will be completely desensitized by the end of this.

I finally met somebody who actually got to Mogadishu before I did, and I arrived on the very first plane. Turns out, it's a guy I've worked with for six years who was Army ATC. Said he watched the SEALs take the beach, watched the reporters swarm them, and then gave my aircraft landing clearance.

Changing addresses is INCREDIBLY stressful.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Got a new photo ID today and the photographer asked me if my photo looked good. "Goodness, no. It looks like *me*."

Books, puzzles, dangerous toys

Moving stuff out of my shipping container and into my new house.

I feel a little bit bad about printing out my electricity usage and costs for the past year for the realtor because I'm *that* guy who doesn't really use A/C unless it's stupidly hot. My average usage is $119 a month. My highest month last year was $177.

Beetle

Banned from reddit because I mentioned the R. Budd Dwyer solution for our national problem.

My builder somehow knows about the vampire thingy.

I can't play for shit but I think that was the point? jumpshare.com/s/OxJsgynmn1...

As a child, I remember seeing the "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your kids are?" commercials and thinking, "This is totally reasonable to wonder where we are. It's 10 o'clock. Am I actually where I told them I'd be?" Not that I'd necessarily call to update them, but whatever.

One of the worst things about having a new home built is that you now have a second air-conditioned and secure place where you can put your stuff, except that you're not allowed to put your stuff in it because the builders are still working.

I think what they did to Project Hail Mary in the movie was a tragedy. All of the action scenes in the book but just skip over all the exposition. Had I not read the book, I wouldn't have known why anybody listened to Eva, why the Xenonite chain was a big deal, or why the farm was so important.

Two out of the three holes in a properly-wired US electrical outlet are perfectly safe to stick paperclips and screwdrivers into.

The worst thing that could happen has happened. I have a "mailbox" now

Whenever I read something about Bletchley Park, I think of it as some remote outpost, but it's just outer London. It's like thinking of Lorton as being outer space for people in DC.

I'm listening to the audiobook "Service Model" for the second time, and I simply can't express how happy I am for the robot.

My youngest has been very opposed to learning Linux, but then he bought a Macbook and has to learn BSD.

We have this system at work where people show up to have me demand that they read error messages out loud until they actually read the error message.

I brought a bubble wand to Mogadishu with me. If you ever want to *infuriate* some O-4, bring a bubble wand on a deployment. My SFC boss poured it out when he (immediately) figured out it was me. But, I had a MARS radio, so my spouse sent me a fresh bottle. Which also got poured out.

I took a little nap and woke up from a nightmare that I'd left my SCIF laptop somewhere at ONI and I kept walking from room to room trying to play it off like I wasn't frantic. I haven't worked in a SCIF in 15 years.

To all the half-autistics out there, when it comes time for 'action' or whatever, I want you to eat like 8 square meals in a 24 hour period. You don't have to like it. Maybe pop a multivitamin with iron and calcium or something while you're at it.