I might actually be able to make this timing for once.

Also the day Chris Cornell committed suicide. Eerie coincidence.

I would have much rather spent the rest of the afternoon with you and kb than having left to go talk about work and DAX and SQL...

Great lunch today meeting NikolaiFyodorov and seeing kleinbl00 again. Two people far more intelligent and life experienced than I!

I'm in a bit of groove at this point, not so much a rut, continuing to build my own little climbing community, met a couple more people this past Sunday at one of the crags in the area and climbed with one of them yesterday! Just from talking to people who were nearby and sharing in a little bit of commiseration on Sunday around the fact that there were FOUR FAMILIES who all assembled on two of the walls and put up four ropes and kept them up all day. Which was super uncool.

Going to keep doing what I'm doing because I'm enjoying it, it's working for me, and you know what? I don't like it, I love it and I'm not climbing Mount Rainier next weekend and I'm going to find some other stuff to do and people to do them with.

Engraved with what?

Allow me to be perfectly clear: There is absolutely no honor or utility in adapting to a custom so deeply and thoroughly broken as the modern hiring process. You will get a job by going "nice company you have here, I think I'd like a job" until someone says "...yeah okay that works for me." I'll go one further - based on what I've seen and the trends I've observed, it will work this way for the duration of your career. Get used to it, get comfortable with it, and accept that employment is a partnership. You're giving up a big chunk of your life so you should get a big chunk of their money. They aren't doing you a favor, you aren't "lucky to have the job", you have skills, they have money, it works out in their favor, don't ever forget that.

I'm really just reposting this part of your comment because of how strongly I agree with this.

Also heard this morning from someone around here who reached out to a place and was told there was 9 month wait to get into childcare which is basically a "fuck you" timeline.

I pretty much have to let the people on team who have kid(s) work whatever hours and do whatever because if I didn't, they would probably think real hard and long and leaving because of childcare issues. Instead, I have arguably less productive, but more engaged, happier people to work with, who aren't thinking about leaving.

Sooooo sounds like this is a follow up to many pub skis ago, or DMs that you and I had…can’t remember which.

How’s being in love feeling?

climbing climbing climbing. climbing trip was AMAZING, learning how to make decisions that put myself first which included booking a separate flight a day earlier than the rest of that group. which paid off as I was able to reconnect with a friend down in Las Vegas that extra day. The original flight day, which everyone else planned on, ended up being delayed 6 hours so they basically lost a full day of climbing.

meanwhile i'm supposed to be climbing mount rainier later this month, and i realized i'm really only it to please the rest of the group. i don't really want to climb that mountain on the route we're planning this year...not sure what to do, as dropping out i think will piss them off a bit and impact friendships...but i am really trying to be less of a people pleaser and to keep making decisions that prioritize me (and community).

vaguely interested in a couple of girls. they’re both climbing, mountain biking, healthcare workers. so nothing new on that front past figuring out if I want to ask either of them out on a date and if that’s a good idea in the first place.

man, that show looked incredible. glad you were able to be a part of it.