neomachino

I usually get "stuck" in whatever horrid nightmare I was having before waking up. For the first 5-10 minutes I'm not sure if I'm still in a dream or not, then I spend a while panicking about how I couldn't figure out reality and if anything is real.

Although things are usually a lot better when my son decides to sleep with us. He'll wake me up before the sun just yelling the most nonsensical stuff and it snaps me back to reality pretty quick.

My favorite from this week was "wake up daddy put your jeans on! (Throws my jeans at my face) We're late for work!" At 5:30am. I work from home an don't have a set time to clock in but oh boy I clocked in early that day.

They tried making us come in one day a month so me and the other developers just wouldn't work when we were in the office while we were "planning". Then it became "we need the day before to plan what we're going to talk about tomorrow" and "we take the day after an office visit to go over what we talked about". So 3 days out of the month where nothing got done and it made enough of a difference the office days lasted maybe 3 or 4 months before they fizzled out

I'm 6 years sober this month

Thanks for the reminder

Sadly I thought this was the US and was genuinely shocked that they received any kind of punishment, even an arrest. I came to the comments to look for the "they've been released and charges dropped" comment.

I have never just clicked around in a gui unless its me testing something I'm building. I would suggest finding some better tutorials.

Today I added a few features and fixed a couple bugs.

We have a screen where users can basically click through a list of contacts to send out emails. The list is system generated, and sometimes users want the email to go out to other contacts not on the list. So I added a section to the screen with a typeahead input box to search through all the companies in our system. Once the user selects the company it has to be broken down by branch (region) so I had to build out a small api for getting the company branches and filtering by some criteria to see if they're even eligible to receive these types of email, so with that data returned I generated a drop down to select the branch, from there another api call to generate a list of checkboxes for each contact at the selected branch. Then I had to build out a mysql table to store the additional contacts to email and work that logic into the code that sends out those types of emails.

Right there you have perl, mysql, html, CSS and JS.

Another thing that everyone's gonna lose it for when it goes live but took me no more than an hour. A lot of our accounting pages are historical reports, there's only a few that are updated in realtime, and almost all of them were super slow to load because of all the heavy calculations. I added a couple tables and a cron job to run daily and populate them. So now instead of doing calculations on the fly those pages just pull the data from the db and load instantly.

My 3 year old wakes up screaming at exactly 1 am every night. Not crying or yelling, full screaming like he saw a ghost. It usually wakes up my 6 month old and then we're all doomed.

I started staying up and waiting by his door so I can run right in. He's always fine and just goes "oh hi daddy do you want to sing me a song?"

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Socks at all times. The plain black ones that end right above the ankle and I change them about 3 times a day even if I've spent all day sitting at my desk.

fuck this guy

Very cool. Godspeed to the real heros.

So I was telling my wife about this weird daycare and she suggested it was probably preschool. I thought about it for a bit but I remember preschool fairly well. It wasn't like a real school, it was some rinky dink Catholic school thing at the church my grandma went too and I think they rotated teachers and my great aunt was one of them.

I do remember there was a billboard outside or very close to the daycare with a dog dressed like Peter pan or something of the sorts.

This place haunts me for some reason...