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trysdynMost people who would read this follow me on Twitter so they probably know how things went with the job. I haven't really had the time or inclination to write anything; it's been a stressful month. Let's see...
On the the job front, I was shockingly retained. I'm on a temporary contract to migrate our environment to the buying company's servers, then it's "expected" I find a role within the company to migrate into. I haven't decided how seriously I'll pursue that; first thing's first anyway. The last business day I'm an employee of the old company is probably Monday. We lost our tier 1 guys and our manager. So now there's no one insulating the system engineers from users and veeps, we're having trouble prioritizing or sticking to one task because no one's triaging for us or setting priorities. It's going to be fun when migration work begins.
On the home front, the partner-thing had a major medical issue mid-August and was put on a medication that made him ill for three months. So about once a week for three months we were going to the walk-in clinic or, in some cases, the ER. That seems to be settling now but I'm still in this hyper vigilant state where I feel like I can't fully relax because he may have another issue resulting in an urgent trip to a doctor. I'm sure I'll unwind in time but for now it's a rather intrusive thought constantly on my mind. He's off the meds now and improved almost immediately so... yeah hopefully it's over. Achievement unlocked: hit your yearly out of pocket maximum on your insurance? Blorf.
Furthermore our other roommate, who moved out in March to live with her wife, experienced a run of bad luck and the two of them may or may not be moving back in in trade for maid work. Don't know yet. Not looking forward to four people in this small house but it would be nice to have another presence here again. The house is oddly quiet with only the two of us here. I'm thankful to be in a position where I can actually help people in such a way. It wouldn't have been the case if the two of us had lost our jobs suddenly with all the medical issues hovering around.
Then I found out yesterday one of the big names in the retro speedrunning scene may have some kind of major health issue leading them to believe they'll be passing on soon. Details are sketchy but there's enough there to piece together a story that he's not expecting to survive out the year. That was a punch in the gut seeing as how much I like the guy. Death and I don't get along... Understatement of the century, yeah?
SPEAKING OF... it's my birthday in less than a week. I've largely not been a fan of celebrating it because it's also the anniversary of the death of one of my SOs. It's been 8 years now but it still twinges the back of my mind when the day rolls around. Especially when so much illness is surrounding me like this year. Still, I'd like to do something. For the past 8 years it's just been "just another day". Sadly on my birthday itself I'll be in meetings planning the migration of work's systems to the new overlords. I don't even get to take the day off as I've traditionally done every year.
Then you have all the political stuff going on, and whatnot. Yeah... it's been a really rough late half of 2017 for me.
I dunno, I just wanted to hash all this out for people asking what's been eating at me lately. The answer is a whole hell of a lot.
On the the job front, I was shockingly retained. I'm on a temporary contract to migrate our environment to the buying company's servers, then it's "expected" I find a role within the company to migrate into. I haven't decided how seriously I'll pursue that; first thing's first anyway. The last business day I'm an employee of the old company is probably Monday. We lost our tier 1 guys and our manager. So now there's no one insulating the system engineers from users and veeps, we're having trouble prioritizing or sticking to one task because no one's triaging for us or setting priorities. It's going to be fun when migration work begins.
On the home front, the partner-thing had a major medical issue mid-August and was put on a medication that made him ill for three months. So about once a week for three months we were going to the walk-in clinic or, in some cases, the ER. That seems to be settling now but I'm still in this hyper vigilant state where I feel like I can't fully relax because he may have another issue resulting in an urgent trip to a doctor. I'm sure I'll unwind in time but for now it's a rather intrusive thought constantly on my mind. He's off the meds now and improved almost immediately so... yeah hopefully it's over. Achievement unlocked: hit your yearly out of pocket maximum on your insurance? Blorf.
Furthermore our other roommate, who moved out in March to live with her wife, experienced a run of bad luck and the two of them may or may not be moving back in in trade for maid work. Don't know yet. Not looking forward to four people in this small house but it would be nice to have another presence here again. The house is oddly quiet with only the two of us here. I'm thankful to be in a position where I can actually help people in such a way. It wouldn't have been the case if the two of us had lost our jobs suddenly with all the medical issues hovering around.
Then I found out yesterday one of the big names in the retro speedrunning scene may have some kind of major health issue leading them to believe they'll be passing on soon. Details are sketchy but there's enough there to piece together a story that he's not expecting to survive out the year. That was a punch in the gut seeing as how much I like the guy. Death and I don't get along... Understatement of the century, yeah?
SPEAKING OF... it's my birthday in less than a week. I've largely not been a fan of celebrating it because it's also the anniversary of the death of one of my SOs. It's been 8 years now but it still twinges the back of my mind when the day rolls around. Especially when so much illness is surrounding me like this year. Still, I'd like to do something. For the past 8 years it's just been "just another day". Sadly on my birthday itself I'll be in meetings planning the migration of work's systems to the new overlords. I don't even get to take the day off as I've traditionally done every year.
Then you have all the political stuff going on, and whatnot. Yeah... it's been a really rough late half of 2017 for me.
I dunno, I just wanted to hash all this out for people asking what's been eating at me lately. The answer is a whole hell of a lot.
