Urgan Shows Up, Does the Thing

[Urgan]

7 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

This sounds similar to my workplace.  Every day is Casual Friday, but we do not want our customers finding out.  We had a sales manager complain several years ago with a broadcast email, then had a few people issuing reminders the day before.  I had a very much screw it mentality about it.

 

Maybe they got tired of reminding me and therefore stopped.

 

Welcome to the 21st Century!

 

Just try to remember to not do your routine while struck with a blinding headache. Just. Try. I think they had mercy on me?

[Sam Ashen]

Just now, Urgan said:

 

Just try to remember to not do your routine while struck with a blinding headache. Just. Try. I think they had mercy on me?

 

That being the case, assuming everybody else remembered, your punishment will be feeling out of place for the day.

 

In my case, the punishment was somebody waiting for me to leave my office, then leaving a photocopy of a page of the Employee Manual with the rule I violated highlighted.  Hmm.  Interesting.  I never read the Employee Manual.  CBF.

[Urgan]

3 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

That being the case, assuming everybody else remembered, your punishment will be feeling out of place for the day.

 

In my case, the punishment was somebody waiting for me to leave my office, then leaving a photocopy of a page of the Employee Manual with the rule I violated highlighted.  Hmm.  Interesting.  I never read the Employee Manual.  CBF.

 

Funnily enough, I was not. It was about 50/50. I has a confuse.

 

Wow. Passive aggressive, much?

[Sam Ashen]

2 minutes ago, Urgan said:

Wow. Passive aggressive, much?

 

Minnesota culture is all about passive-aggressive.  Guess how I respond to passive-aggressive.

[Urgan]

2 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

Minnesota culture is all about passive-aggressive.  Guess how I respond to passive-aggressive.

 

...not how they want, for starters, lol.

[shaar]

2 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

Every day is Casual Friday, but we do not want our customers finding out.

 

This mentality!!!  I do not get?!?!

 

NO NO BARBARA YOU CAN'T WEAR JEANS ON FRIDAY, PEOPLE WILL THINK WE ARE TRASH HUMANS AND OUR WORK WILL COMPLETELY VALUE ITSELF

 

Because there's a direct correlation between dress clothes and quality work!  Uggghhksdahjkas

[Sam Ashen]

4 minutes ago, shaar said:

Because there's a direct correlation between dress clothes and quality work!

 

I know some people who really believe this.

 

5 minutes ago, shaar said:

Uggghhksdahjkas

 

I cannot translate this!

 

To be a little more fair, back in my WoW days......

 

Epic level battle armor just looks a lot more impressive than lower level armor and trash armor.  So one would expect the character to perform better.  Most likely this is correct.  On the other hand you might find out the character is really being played by the player's kid brother or the player got there by getting pulled through by guildies.

 

Meanwhile I have no idea why I prefer to wear designer jeans when Dockers are so much cheaper and I never know when I am going to get them covered in transformer oil (which is so many times worse than gasoline) and black grease and sawdust.

[Urgan]

59 minutes ago, shaar said:

 

This mentality!!!  I do not get?!?!

 

NO NO BARBARA YOU CAN'T WEAR JEANS ON FRIDAY, PEOPLE WILL THINK WE ARE TRASH HUMANS AND OUR WORK WILL COMPLETELY VALUE ITSELF

 

Because there's a direct correlation between dress clothes and quality work!  Uggghhksdahjkas

 

I needed a laugh, thank you. It is so confusing, I don't know who needs to change attire? It's more important for people meeting the clients? No idea. I guess I'm grateful to even be able to wear jeans at all, but it does seem to be the bizarrest caveat, doesn't it?

 

51 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I know some people who really believe this.

 

 

I cannot translate this!

 

To be a little more fair, back in my WoW days......

 

Epic level battle armor just looks a lot more impressive than lower level armor and trash armor.  So one would expect the character to perform better.  Most likely this is correct.  On the other hand you might find out the character is really being played by the player's kid brother or the player got there by getting pulled through by guildies.

 

Meanwhile I have no idea why I prefer to wear designer jeans when Dockers are so much cheaper and I never know when I am going to get them covered in transformer oil (which is so many times worse than gasoline) and black grease and sawdust.

 

#worklife We do what we can, right? 

[Urgan]

11/11/2016 + 11/12/2016

 

Friday night got me like

Eat

Lunch - Chicken Soboro Donburi x 2

Dinner - Nothing; Burrito

 

Recover

Up with the Chickens - 10/20

Ice that Back - 7/16

 

Do the Thing

Journal weekday stress - 10/20
DB Rows - 2/4
Bokken work 1/4

 

11/11

OHP - 45 1x5

  59.5 3x3

  70 1x1--PR+1.5!!

R.Delt - 15 3x10

 

 

 

 

11/12

Squat - 45 1x5

  115 1x3

  145 1x1

167.5 2x3

Halting DL - 135 2x8

 

Not much to say here. It's been a rough week. By the end of Friday I was just Done and went straight to sleep, didn't even eat dinner. Most of my stress was from something I don't care to talk about, but suffice it to say it compounded the pressure to drive across town to pick up the last minute baby shower gift I bought online (I let this sneak up on me completely, my fault...) and get back to work in time to finish a task that needed to be done by end of day. Then it was off to get groceries and in general, by the time I'm home with those, I'm gassed. I did well in the gym both days, scoring a PR on Friday and doing halting deadlifts for the very first time. I have some learning to do there. Given that I skipped a meal on Friday, Saturday didn't suffer too much. 

 

Iced on Saturday in the process of laying around and that's about all. I did buy some straight-up unflavored creatine (as in, just creatine monohydrate at 5g per serving) and some water flavoring at Publix and felt extremely clever. #chooseyourownflavor

 

I hope next week will manage to buck the trend set by this week...I can has routine back plz?

 

[Urgan]

11/13/2016 + WEEK 2 DEBRIEF!

 

When all else fails, deploy the kitten

Eat

Lunch - Burger and fries

Dinner - Pasta alla boscaiola

 

Week 2 Average:

           Cals   /   Carbs   /   Fats    /  Protein /  Sugar

AVG    2402        260           99          117             47  

TGT    2400        237          102          120           100  

DLTA 2 23 -3 -3 -53

 

My averages are down because of Friday, but still within reason.

 

Recover

Up with the Chickens - 10/20

Ice that Back - 8/16

 

Do the Thing

Journal weekday stress - 10/20
DB Rows - 2/4
Bokken work 2/4

 

Baby shower happened. Iced. Worked on bokken suburi and kata. Did all the chores. Husband came home really, really late so....bombed curfew by an hour. That was fun. Lost an hour of sleep. (Not paying for it at all as I type this...)

 

I've had a lot more head related pain this week than I like. Three days plus Sunday night. I feel better when I ice, but it's very temporary. Here's hoping this week is better than the last, though in all honesty that isn't asking for much.

[Sam Ashen]

34 minutes ago, Urgan said:

Week 2 Average:

           Cals   /   Carbs   /   Fats    /  Protein /  Sugar

AVG    2402        260           99          117             47  

TGT    2400        237          102          120           100  

 

It looks like you shoot for 40/40/20 - or split C and F evenly after a certain P goal.

[Urgan]

26 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

It looks like you shoot for 40/40/20 - or split C and F evenly after a certain P goal.

 

Pretty much. Allowing for daily fluctuations, this is what each week needs to look like. 

[Urgan]

On the plus side, I think I've figured what last week was about....Shark Week is here. My hormones are borked. Yay. 

 

Also, raise your hand if you love being given bad files that will never produce the result you want but are 7000+ records long and the money field is buried in hex, so good luck fnding out on your own. The guy who attached the bogus batch to the issue I'm allegedly supposed to test is also out most of this week so some other poor joker is having to help me out. GREAT START TO THE WEEK. YAY. 

[ixaera]

3 hours ago, Urgan said:

Also, raise your hand if you love being given bad files that will never produce the result you want but are 7000+ records long and the money field is buried in hex, so good luck fnding out on your own. The guy who attached the bogus batch to the issue I'm allegedly supposed to test is also out most of this week so some other poor joker is having to help me out. GREAT START TO THE WEEK. YAY. 

 

BAD FILES?? GET THE ROPE

 

(I'm in data support that includes a lot of data file troubleshooting, I feel this)

[Urgan]

31 minutes ago, ixaera said:

 

BAD FILES?? GET THE ROPE

 

(I'm in data support that includes a lot of data file troubleshooting, I feel this)

 

MAKE SURE WHEN YOU GIVE EXAMPLES, you give examples of the WRONG THING ENTIRELY. THAT IS CALLED EFFICIENCY, BOYS AND GIRLS.

[ArgSki77]

4 hours ago, Urgan said:

Also, raise your hand if you love being given bad files that will never produce the result you want but are 7000+ records long and the money field is buried in hex, so good luck fnding out on your own. The guy who attached the bogus batch to the issue I'm allegedly supposed to test is also out most of this week so some other poor joker is having to help me out. GREAT START TO THE WEEK. YAY. 

I feel your pain...

 

I am working on a spreadsheet that contains hundreds of automatically generated plots that has been modified in certain places over time by different people. Certain people decided they needed to add a column somewhere and then used the shifted columns to make more charts. This affects about half of the charts but not the others. So now that I have to overhaul the tool, my only option is to shift the data for all the charts over by one column or rewrite a bunch of complex VB code that would handle the issue in the automation portion. I'm gonna find everyone before me that made changes to this tool and give them a stern talking to.

[Urgan]

49 minutes ago, ArgSki77 said:

I feel your pain...

 

I am working on a spreadsheet that contains hundreds of automatically generated plots that has been modified in certain places over time by different people. Certain people decided they needed to add a column somewhere and then used the shifted columns to make more charts. This affects about half of the charts but not the others. So now that I have to overhaul the tool, my only option is to shift the data for all the charts over by one column or rewrite a bunch of complex VB code that would handle the issue in the automation portion. I'm gonna find everyone before me that made changes to this tool and give them a stern talking to.

 

Ah, the spreadsheet as custom program. A classic. 

[Sam Ashen]

5 hours ago, ArgSki77 said:

I feel your pain...

 

I am working on a spreadsheet that contains hundreds of automatically generated plots that has been modified in certain places over time by different people. Certain people decided they needed to add a column somewhere and then used the shifted columns to make more charts. This affects about half of the charts but not the others. So now that I have to overhaul the tool, my only option is to shift the data for all the charts over by one column or rewrite a bunch of complex VB code that would handle the issue in the automation portion. I'm gonna find everyone before me that made changes to this tool and give them a stern talking to.

 

OMG!  Is everything now pointing to the wrong cell?

[Urgan]

14 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

OMG!  Is everything now pointing to the wrong cell?

 

When @ArgSki77 said "spreadsheet" and "modified," you are the person I immediately thought of. Your favorite, yes? 

[Urgan]

11/14/2016

Not this bad, but close

Eat

Lunch - Pasta alla boscaiola redux

Dinner - Tomato soup with bacon and gnocchi

 

Recover

Up with the Chickens - 10/20

Ice that Back - 8/16

 

Do the Thing

Journal weekday stress - 11/20
DB Rows - 2/4
Bokken work 2/4

 

BP 45 1x5

  55 1x3

  70 1x1

  81 5x5

  60 2x8--DB

 

 

You know you have successfully completed an upper body workout when your lower body is wobbly. I was surprised about the lightheadedness and how taxed I felt, but between the less sleep, the unrelenting increase in weight, and what I figured out later that morning, it's not nearly so surprising now. That and the work Fun were the biggest stressors. I came straight home after work, felt bad about doing so, but dang did that hot chocolate taste good. Did nothing else useful aside from dump some things into the pressure cooker and turn it on.

[ArgSki77]

11 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

OMG!  Is everything now pointing to the wrong cell?

Not everything...only half of the plots. If I run it normally, then the first half is correct and second plots are off by one column. If I adjust the sheet for the added column, it breaks the first half of plots but fixes the second half. Basically in order to get all the data in the correct format, you need to follow this super exact set of steps, some automated some not, which cant be fully accomplished with just the automation script I have. I either have to do a super complex handling of this with the VB script or change half of the plots all by one column(~100 plots). I hate everything.

[Dagger]

22 hours ago, ArgSki77 said:

Not everything...only half of the plots. If I run it normally, then the first half is correct and second plots are off by one column. If I adjust the sheet for the added column, it breaks the first half of plots but fixes the second half. Basically in order to get all the data in the correct format, you need to follow this super exact set of steps, some automated some not, which cant be fully accomplished with just the automation script I have. I either have to do a super complex handling of this with the VB script or change half of the plots all by one column(~100 plots). I hate everything.

*headdesk*

[Urgan]

11/15/2016

Cat in scarf: your argument is invalid

Eat

Lunch - Moar Tomato soup

Dinner - lemon dijon chicken breasts + potatoes + mixed veggies

 

Recover

Up with the Chickens - 11/20

Ice that Back - 9/16

 

Do the Thing

Journal weekday stress - 12/20
DB Rows - 2/4
Bokken work 2/4

 

Passive aggressive douchery from another branch of the corporation made things harder than they needed to be. Sigh. The commute isn't such a big deal anymore.

 

This is a rest day, so I came home, cooked dinner, and iced. And it was good.

[ixaera]

3 hours ago, Urgan said:

Passive aggressive douchery from another branch of the corporation made things harder than they needed to be. Sigh. The commute isn't such a big deal anymore.

 

Jobs. Can't live with 'em, can't pay bills without 'em

[Urgan]

11/16/2016

Driving by a Tuesday Morning on a Tuesday morning and it's closed

Eat

Lunch - Moar lemon dijon chicken breasts + potatoes + mixed veggies

Dinner - beef stew

 

Recover

Up with the Chickens - 12/20

Ice that Back - 9/16

 

Do the Thing

Journal weekday stress - 13/20
DB Rows - 3/4
Bokken work 2/4

 

Squats - 45 1x5

  100 1x3

  135 1x1

153 1x5         

153 4x3

DB Rows - 25 3x10

 

I was a little late getting started in the gym, but it didn't affect me getting to work on time and I still got all my rows in. I was worried about getting more passive aggressive nonsense, but that didn't materialize too seriously. Overall an okay day.