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Oh and cows say hi. Spot the two calves for bonus points.

heading to CES. First time. Heck I’m almost 64 first time for everything. I get to run demos. Oooh aah maybe even dine with ceos and other c/suite folk if I’m good. I’ll manage. probably door dash. lol

dusting off my resume. subscribing to professional linked in

had a not meeting with my new boss and the in and outgoing team who’s who. Apparently the guy who complained enough to get them to add me to his team also decided it was time to leave, along with three others. Clear indications that aspiration does not equal execution. So I’m part of the “A” team now. But the position isn’t supposed to start until the 20th and I have until the end of the year to transition all my accounts. But there is no one to transfer them to, nor is there a job requisition. So, I’m putting out feelers. I do not want to be chewed up. I watched the description of my new role morph depending upon who it was being introduced to. Maybe they’re waiting for me to say nope, not doing that. It’s just exhausting. I’m being invited to join all kinds of meetings for the new job and declining most of them until the 20th. Ok so yeah second largest customer. Everything is high stakes. My salary needs a bit of adjusting upward I’m not built for that stress without compensation. I’m going to set a meeting next week to force the issue.

taking a new role at work, instead of regional, I’ll have one worldwide customer. To say they’re big is a serious understatement. I’ll be working as ww power architect for their business. Bosses boss says I can do a lot more “damage” there for the company than my regional role, where he thinks I’m wasting my real talent. Weird choice of words. I guess he means winning back business, besting competition, bringing 40 yrs of cutting edge engineering experience to bear on solving problems by defining solutions instead of just peddling parts.

didn’t expect that Tuesday would be last time I saw my best friends wife alive. We were at the cabin for the annual maintenance. last week. got a text from my son last night. His friends mom had been rushed to the hospital. she fell off a ladder picking apples. Branch broke, ribs broke, head hit the ground. I pray she didn’t feel it after that. Barking dog alerted the family some time later. Her husband found her unconscious and not breathing, no pulse. They resuscitated her, paramedics transported her to Seattle. She never regained consciousness, no pupil movements, no brain waves. They’re debating on when to pull the ventilator. Devastated.

I’ve given up on my happy place, I don’t think it exists. I’m going to choose instead “a happy place”.

was a wreck of a way to end a week, sitting in the vets office signing paperwork. Cremation, yes. Urn, no. He didn’t look sick at the moment, but with no functioning kidneys his organs had run out. He’d perked up from his bed when I grabbed my keys, one last trip to the vet. He loved the vet, lots of people who talked to him and rubbed him and loved him, the little extrovert was in heaven.

June had been brutal. Bad breath and low energy, shaking when he got tired. All symptoms had been missed by two vets. Kidney failure, likely antifreeze poisoning. One or two tablespoons is enough to kill a small dog and he was small. A week and a half in doggie er, thousands of dollars and 6 weeks at home care getting 200ml subcutaneous saline IV to flush him out. That’s a lot and he carried on like a trooper. Far longer than he should have been asked to, but we were trying to make up for the mistake of not taking catching it sooner. So very very sorry little guy. His last hour was happy and as he lost energy and waned fast we let him go. Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

seems to be my jam

And why would someone assume that they could leave a precision weigh scale out in the rain and not have it damaged?

I pointed it out and now I’m the one who didn’t give all the information. Do I have to say don’t leave an indoor scale outside and expect it to keep working?

Or that scales usually require a flat level base so their 4 load cell feet distribute the weight evenly. I didn’t have to say that right? Because it’s how things work. And I’m captain obvious.

my love language is service