Jolt Country

Shit everyone! Time for a RECKONING.

It's the whole work-all-the-time syndrome.





THE
NO TIME
AARDVARK

jonsey, it's time for you to "rage against the machine" of busyness, for old time's sake if for nothing else.

Please find time in your busy day to rage. That's all I ask.

Sorry. I'll be back in a few days. I was dating four women at once. You have time for NOTHING else. That ended horribly (for all parties involved, I think) but now my text baseball draft is going on. I'm trying to put together a good team this year.

Some random notes:

- last.fm sucks for the 360
- I hate how you can't view other people's friends lists on the 360
- I'm gonna write where Effinger wrote soon!

Could tell you a dating debacle that would put to trump yours any day. People who are dating are a bunch of fools and idiots.

Well, that's the great thing about meeting people. It's not competitive.

AArdvark wrote:It's the whole work-all-the-time syndrome.

Yeah, at one point with my last gig I did work all the time. Couple that with the shitty traffic in Denver, and I'd come home extremely late and be miserable because of the driving.

A couple weeks before I was let go from the previous job, I actually had to fight to work the weekend and get some stuff tested.

There's no relationship between "staying late" and anything else in the workplace.

I'm really liking the way that things are setup at the new gig. We have six week software development cycles. The first week we decide what tasks we want to accomplish, and have meetings on that. We scope things out and meet a couple weeks later and revisit what we said we'd all do.

We have daily stand-up meetings, and I really think they help me focus. I mean, when you know you gotta go before your peers and tell them what you are working on, it really hammers home the desire to get shit finished.

At the end, if we've all done our stuff we get a bonus. So yeah, I'm really loving how the structure is in place at the new place.

My new benchmark for shitty traffic is Washington D.C. I've driven in towns all across America and, my God, D.C. is terrible. I'd say Chicago in rush hour comes close and I'm sure there are others that are bad as well but, holy cow ... D.C. is shit.

I used to think people took the Metro because it was faster. I suppose it is, over short distances. From where I was going, it was 90 minutes to drive and 90 minutes by Metro, but the Metro was much less nerve racking and I didn't have to deal with parking once I got there.

I've had lots of people "how can you stand to live in Oklahoma?", usually people who live in big cities who think that everyone in Oklahoma wears cowboy hats and rides horses. Oklahoma City may not be the 24/7 thriving metropolis some other bigger cities are, but if traffic is anything like it is in D.C., I'd rather pull my own eyeballs out and eat them than navigate through that bullshit on a daily basis.

I live 15 miles from work. You know how long it takes me to get there in the morning? 15 minutes! God damn. I'm going to go hump my curb with joy right now.

Yeah, seriously - as far as big cities go, people tell me that Denver is not actually that bad. On my personal scale, it's a 9/10 in terms of how much I hate it, so I'd bet that living in Atlanta or DC would outright kill me.

The Metro is a bus line?

There is light rail train that has a stop right near my tower. It's within walking distance, in fact, I often walk farther than the light rail station if I am going out for lunch. Been considering taking it, I just have no idea where I'd leave my car during the day. At the parking lot for the light rail where I live, IN THEORY.

The Metro is the rail system that runs through and around D.C. For what it does, I thought it was fairly efficient. I've ridden metro trains less than half a dozen times in my life and this was the first time I had ever ridden the D.C. one (much less alone) and I figured out the system pretty quickly. The only initially confusing part was which side the doors were going to open on. Just when I thought I had the system figured out, the doors would open on both sides and blow my theories out of the water.

But like I said, I really thought the Metro was all about getting places more quickly, and it's really not. It's about not having to have half a million more parking spaces downtown.

As I've often whined, Oklahoma City has (essentially) no public transportation. There is a bus system, but I've never met anyone in my entire life that's ever ridden on it. Ever. Even riding a bike here would be impractical or at least dangerous.

On one hand, I'm kind of jealous of people that get to ride public transportation on a daily basis. The idea of having some free time each day to listen to music to play games on my DS or something seems kind of fun. On the other hand, it takes me 15 minutes to get home from work so I can just play games when I get home I guess.

The time has come! LOL

Sorry. I'll be back in a few days. I was dating four women at once

You never did tell all how this situation arose and what the outcome(s) was. I gather from the Christmas card reply that things are well.


THE
JUGGLER
AARDVARK

Haha, well, I'll get into that!