Daynotes On A Budget, V6.0

(NOTE:  I probably overly-complicated this thing, but I figure the problem-solving process might aid someone, some day...) I had to sign a document for work today. And let me tell you.  Living in the future, you would think this would be easier than it was.  Or maybe it was just my particular bent, preferences, and ... well, things. So I got the email from my boss with the agreement I needed to sign, but things started out complex right there. Because I was one of the wave of folks sent home in March of 2020 who was not at the time prepared or intended to be a work-from-home person, I was directed to take, from my desk, the computer, my keyboard, mouse, monitors, and power cords, and set them up at home.  For my employer who had previously sent folks home, the "reward kit" which appeared prior to a person being sent home was a laptop (usually a Dell, appeared to be the standard 15" version, though I understand many were equipped with the touchscreen), a pair of monit...

Was a pretty busy week around here.   I'm busting my tail parts in a short-term job, not because I expect it to turn into something else, but because I am doing my job.   I read a couple of articles this past week talking about something called "quiet quitting."  I figured it was where people might just stop showing up to work, or maybe it was folks who let their supervisor know they would be leaving the job, but did not want to let their co-workers know.   Nope. Turns out it's apparently a practice where people choose to stop working excessive amounts of overtime, taking on additional duties, and basically turn to doing the minimal amount of work they can.  Because they feel unappreciated.  I get that.  I've worked for some pretty good employers, I've worked for some good employers who hired terrible supervisors, I've worked for some below-average employers, and I've worked for some employers who were hard-pressed to remember my name, o...

I do not suppose it's a shock to anyone that I was voted "most likely to not be noticed" in my high school class.   It's a very strange time in a person's life, at least it was for me.  I went through a grade school with about 25 of the same kids over the eight years.  Due to the ... well, rather strange nature of where I grew up, I suppose I started out as the outsider. I grew up near a small town called Sartell, Minnesota.  My parents were from St. Cloud, and had chosen to live where they did in, I expect, primary consideration of my father's mother.  Dad was 40 when he married, so there was that.  My father did live with his mother for many years, and staying close to help her out was what folks did then.  And boy, did they ever. In my grade school class, we had somewhere around 20 kids who were related by marriage or birth.  That is, they were direct cousins or became extended cousins when other relatives married.  Sartell and St. Cl...

I am no psychologist.  I am a bit of a student of human nature, and it occurred to me this week that there will be a rather upsetting period of time for a rather large group of people coming soon. There are an awful lot of people who may never realize the level of deceit which a recent former president has used to ... well, convince them that he was and remains their champion.  I was never one of the fools with the wool, blankets, or anything but my glasses over my eyes with the orange buffoon, but the number of fools who fell for his shit are beyond disturbing. I do see a number of things I can point to and aid in explaining it.  After all, some twenty or so years ago the Republicants pushed through this "No Child Left Behind" bullshit.  Rather than teaching the history and the nature of the world at large, teachers were forced to teach to the test.  That is, everything I absolutely hated - but was good at - in school came roaring into the prime spot.  Tha...

Fifteen years ago today, I got the crap scared completely out of me.   I began the day in the northwoods of Wisconsin.  My son and I had participated in his very last Webelos campout.  It was a campout which was designed to entice those kids who might be waffling about Boy Scouts into getting into Boy Scouts.  We weren't waffling.  We were enjoying our selves.   We were part of a group which had driven up to Tomahawk Scout Reservation the previous Sunday.  We were isolated in a small camping area which was right down the hill from the dining hall, and right next to the lake.  We were going to spend Sunday/Monday/Tuesday nights in that site, then we were going to decamp - that is, we were going to grab our stuff out of these pre-set-up tents and move to another camp site over on the other side of the camp which was much less ... cushy, far more like regular Scouts would Camp.  I didn't have my Holy Grail tent yet, we had a little two-man tent ...

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