[Racer X 69]

Sadist!

[Parallax]

So bicycles just don't give you that warm fuzzy feeling anymore then?

I don't enjoy much of anything, anymore.

[robtcorl]

I don't enjoy much of anything, anymore.

Hang in there Jim, brighter days are ahead, just have to get past those cloudy skies first.

[VoiceOfReason]

Here's the most bizarre thing you're going to see this evening.

You Tube

You Tube

[bertwert]

Here's the most bizarre thing you're going to see this evening.

What the !!!



I think this comes a close second...

You Tube

You Tube

[Racer X 69]

I don't enjoy much of anything, anymore.

You Tube

You Tube

[RoxnDox]

It's great news, Mike.
It's been long time since I've been excited about a job and looked forward to going to work.

Just call me Wally... I do work on a legacy system being replaced over the next few months. 😇😎

Alice And The Legacy System - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-02-23 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

[Racer X 69]

Here's the most bizarre thing you're going to see this evening.

Azumadden Daeiou - YouTube

Looks like Minions on NASA.

[Racer X 69]

What the !!!



I think this comes a close second...
Helt Ramm - Funky Fishlegs - YouTube

Cross country skiing is such a brutal activity.

[Racer X 69]

Just call me Wally... I do work on a legacy system being replaced over the next few months. 😇😎

Alice And The Legacy System - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-02-23 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Way back when, once upon a time, in a land far, far away, that time forgot, I found myself employed at the PUD. They had an entire floor of the main office building devoted to an IBM Mainframe. What a monster. Big tape reels, paper punch cards, an airlock all the way around with restricted access.

Standing in the airlock looking at it run through the windows reminded me of the ICU at a hospital.

This Behemoth handled billing and other records data management. You know, stuff that people used to do with paper and file cabinets and typewriters. One of the things they had a database for was an inventory of every power pole in the county, location, size, attachments, age, etc. Important stuff to know in the business of Public Power.

It is called the "Pole Plant".

As time marched on computers changed, and became server based, displacing the dumb terminals. Some propeller headed geek figured out a way to port the database over to run in an IBM Emulator in the WinBlows NT environment. It looked exactly like it did on the dumb terminals, two colors, your choice of a few combinations, and had the added functionality of the mouse (although I stuck with using the Tab key to get around, way faster).

Life was good.

The IBM Mainframe was dismantled and removed, and only a fraction of the space it occupied was required for the server closet. The rest of the space was filled with customer service reps. You know, the nice people who field the thousands of daily calls from customers calling about why their power is getting shut off for non payment, or to report an outage, or get referred to engineering or operations, blah, blah, blah . . . . .

And WinBlows NT gave way to WinBlows 2000, which was replaced with WinBlows XP Pro.

Suddenly Pole Plant running on the IBM Emulator couldn't keep up.

So an other propeller headed geek wrote some neat stand alone software that took all the old Pole Plant data and converted it to whatever it is that the New Pole Plant needed it to be, and then continued on, able to run on successive versions of WinBlows with little or no fiddling about. It had a familiar and intuitive interface, and little training for the folks who used it.

Each time the propeller headed geeks involved were the older ones, as near retirement as the systems they were manipulating.

[BigMackCam]

Here's the most bizarre thing you're going to see this evening.

Proof, if it were needed, that Ecstasy and saki should never be consumed together...

[BigMackCam]

That's the worst reason for not buying a K-3 I've heard!

Seriously though - congrats! - sounds great

It's great news, Mike.
It's been long time since I've been excited about a job and looked forward to going to work.

Not at all Mike, I'm very happy to hear about your new adventure.
We all need a good buzz now and again.

Sounds brilliant Mike! All the best with your new job!

Elation is a good feeling to have.

Like a huge sigh.

*SIGH*

But you are too young to stay home everyday, sitting on the couch eating Cheetos and watching camera pron.

Sounds awesome Mike.

I'm excited for you too!

If I was bored I wouldn't have taken liberties with my reply. Seriously, it sounds like you will be doing something that you can be passionate about and enjoy. That is where find true happiness in life. And when we are happy, we are usually successful and prosperous.

I wish you every success in your endeavour Mike!

Have fun at your new work Mike!

Thanks, fellas - much appreciated

I have about three solid weeks of prep work to do. Sitting here right now learning HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Ajax etc. etc. Man, things have changed since I last did any development work

[ffking]

@Racer X 69 - really enjoyed listening to the BB King again - they don't write 'em like that any more

[Rupert]

I don't enjoy much of anything, anymore.

Well, you can look forward to improvement and a return to "normal"....but I sit there and look out my windows and have no hope of getting younger. In another decade you will look back and wish you were where you are today, as bizarre as that may sound. Old is tough, damn tough. Those of us that are roughing it struggle every day, knowing tomorrow likely won't be better. Like a clock winding down with no rewind key.

Hope that cheered you up! If not fry some bacon on that bacon cooker I sent you but have never heard a word about?

I was waiting to hear about it from you, but since I have been buying Aldi pre-cooked bacon ($2.99) which sizzles after 15 seconds in the microwave, I doubt I'd ever use one.
Regards!....

BTW- I still have the same phone number! Call and cheer me up!

[VoiceOfReason]

Rupert, you have to be the most cheerful person on this site and I wish I could take lessons from you in that. Also, I had 2 strips of bacon and 2 boiled eggs with a banana and coffee for breakfast, same as I keep having for breakfast. It is a surprisingly low calorie meal.