I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another post.

I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in (or ) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.

I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.

Some day, I'd like to get back into , or maybe do some . I also enjoy and will, from time to time, post some , usually from somebody's .

I love , and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all really, though, as well as . I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching , and have really been enjoying the new episodes of lately.

Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise. 👋

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Remember four years ago, when the winner of the US Vice Presidential Debate was a fly that just landed on Mike Pence's head for like five minutes?

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I'm now happily employed, but I went through a layoff that took three months before I finally found my current job.

During that time, I sent out 91 job applications. Of those 91, eleven of them sent me an automated response saying they'd received my application, and nothing after that. 22 of them didn't even send that automated response. I didn't keep track of those that I got an initial contact from, but then got ghosted, but there were a few of those as well.

Do better. Have some respect for the people who are spending time applying to the jobs that you posted. I know hiring managers and recruiters are hardworking and have a lot of applications to go through. But, you could at least have the respect to have a form rejection letter to send out when you drop a resume in the rejection stack.

I started a new job yesterday where I work as a contractor (I'm a full-time, salaried employee at my company, but they contract my work out) on a US military project (writing code for the Department of Defense).

Due to all of the requirements for working with the Department of Defense, I'm now realizing that this will be the slowest onboarding process for a job that I've ever gone through.

I was just told that sometime next week I'll get added to the daily stand-ups. An entire week just before I even start going to stand-ups is just crazy.

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UPS says my new Steam Deck is going to arrive today between 11:45 and 3:45. It's already 11:52 and it still hasn't arrived, so, I'll just be pacing back and forth for the next couple hours. :sonic_waiting:

If Star Trek communications worked like real world audio/video communications:

Uhura: Captain, the Klingon vessel is hailing us.

Kirk: Lt. Uhura, have we installed the Klingon video and audio codecs?

Uhura: Yes, captain, but they've updated their protocol since our last hail.

Captain: Mr. Spock, install the software for their new protocol.

Spock: Unfortunately, Captain, the new protocol has not been ported to Federation OS.

Captain: Just fire phasers on the Klingon vessel!

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