Daynotes On A Budget, V6.0

 This has not been the best of weeks. I did work over 60 hours last week due to some co-workers being out of the office, so I tried to pick up the lose ends.  Hopefully it will serve me well, as I'm out of the office next week. But Sunday did not start too well when my wife informed me that one of her uncles - the last one - had passed away.  His widow is still here, but we're not heading to the funeral tomorrow.  While I remember the reminder I learned in high school that funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living, it doesn't much improve things if you're not there. The gentleman who passed away was always friendly and kind to me and my growing family.  And we shared a bond that no other two men will have on this planet.  One morning, early, my grandmother-in-law was having a medical procedure done.  It involved the insertion of some sort of technology through an artery in her leg, up near hear heart.  Mind you, I was young, foolish, ...

 About a thousand years ago as an IT manager, somewhat, I had to conduct training for my users on that new tool called "The Internet." Incorrectly, as most pedants, including myself, will point out.  Granted, I did come about this knowledge back in the day when "The World Wide Web" was in it's infancy, so I suppose, the description of me still fits.  But I - as ever - digress. During that training, I informed my folks that the company would be providing them access to the internet, but we would also be monitoring their use of it.  Filters and other tools weren't invented quite yet, and the browsers that did exist were all in single-digit versions, and when improvements were released, they were noteworthy, not ... Oh, hey, there's a thing popping up on my screen telling me I need to upgrade the third time this week... But getting back to the point.  I would tell folks that it is entirely possible as this tool evolved that they may find themselves on a web...

I live.  Allegedly.   My wife began her new job this week with an out of town training trip.  She traveled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota - about 3 hours by ... well, freeway speeds, I guess, where her new employer is based.  She is doing the same thing, just new challenges for new people who have made it deeply and profoundly clear that she is valued. A quick word to all of those organizations out there looking to hire: Don't forget your current employees.  My wife's employer has changed over the past few years, with leadership changes, that see the people less as people, more as parts to be exchanged, greased, and continue to move forward. It don't work like that. As a much younger man, I was part of a small but growing organization that occasionally experienced the loss of trained personnel.  We developed a sort of metric that made sense for us after a while.  The jobs we did required a heck of a lot of knowledge that wasn't just laying around at...