My immediate boss said a $500k contract is on the verge of being signed and the major resource (person) to work on it is me.
His boss, our manager, says I’m currently not meeting my(?) billability target. So, do I a) beat the bushes for some billable work and say I’m not available for the big contract b) send him that quote from Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind c) roll my eyes and say “whatever” d) ask him if that was a rhetorical email e) retire and say enough of this nonsense or f) none of the above?
(?) - I was handed a sheet of paper with my billability percentage target. That is a decree from on high.
I guess it had to happen sooner or later…I joined Facebook. Facebook disallowed Service. First I used Ecivres, then changed it to Serçice then I noticed my son had the right name so I sent an email got the correct last name.
I have “connected” with a couple of cousins that I haven’t seen since they were little kids.
Come on over and be my friend. 
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The door springs broke on the old dishwasher and the door is so heavy that one side bracket cracked the side of the door. We bought a new one since this old one has lasted over twenty years.
I uncrated the new Maytag model and put it in the space where the old one was. Two problems: the hot water fitting is in a different place so that I either have to cut the copper pipe or, my preference, use a stainless steel flexible line. I note that there is already a union in that pipe so I must have lengthened it when I installed the old dishwasher.
The other problem is that the sound deadening package of plastic and rubber flanges require an opening of just 24 inches. I’ll have to do some shimming of the opening and the kick plate area.
I guess I’ll be washing dishes in the sink for a few more days more.
I use rsync on my Unix boxes to archive or update directories on different host machines. Recently I have started using it to synchronize directories between my Windows boxes at work and at home (through the VPN) via the SAN drives. This works quite well, especially for files such as large Word documents as the format just seems to include new stuff in chunks so that the rsync algorithm need only update the changes. Using the -z compression switch also helps to speed the transfer.
I include a short file I’ll call rsync.sh. I run bash in cygwin and paste in the appropriate line. I keep the -n switch so that no action will take place initially and I’ll recognize whether the list of files to be transferred looks correct.
# remove -n to do the operation # home to work rsync -n -Cavz --stats /cygdrive/c/home/jservice/work/DIR /cygdrive/h/network/ # work to home rsync -n -Cavz --stats /cygdrive/h/network/DIR /cygdrive/c/home/jservice/work/ # network to desktop rsync -n -Cavz --stats /cygdrive/h/network/DIR /cygdrive/d/work/ # desktop to network rsync -n -Cavz --stats /cygdrive/d/work/DIR /cygdrive/h/network/
They have been pruning, hacking, and / or trimming the shrubs and small trees that grow along the path between our backyards. Some of those piles of brush have been sitting there since January. I called the city about it on Tuesday. Then I asked one of the parks workers about it yesterday when I happened to see them while walking the dog. Lo and behold all that brush has been removed. Finally! Now if they would do something about all the litter that collected in the brush over the last couple of months I would be ecstatic.