Today is my grandmother's 89th birthday. She's got a broken back and was just discharged from a hospital to a SNF. Hoping she'll recover well but she's 89 and I'm not holding my breath. My partner and I are celebrating 4 years around now too. Time flies.
There's something perverse in a theorist getting voluntold by a TA to help teach soldering. Classes are fun, life goes decently OK barring grandfather's funeral and inheritance proceedings. I joke that I wish he didn't leave, so that we don't have to deal with all this paperwork, but I hope nobody thinks for a second I don't miss him. Stellar guy, smartass to end all smartasses, taught me more than I can say. I wish we didn't spend the last couple of years letting the tempers flair up.
new drinking game: drink every time you read a comment like this on hacker news or reddit: the fetishization of trades by white collar tech employees is truly somethingEither I just unplug the thing, throw it in the bin, and go make something truly lucrative and sustainable in the near future (plumber, electrician, carpenter) that let's me sleep at night.
Why destroy liver over guys who'd bitch-out of apprenticeship faster than from equally fetishized BUD/S? Come to think of it, it's basically the same demographic: people slightly too pathetic to bully imagining themselves doing a 'manly' thing from the comforts of warm bed.