As with some other jobs I’ve had - I’ve been here a week and the tech benefits are showing themselves already lol. I was just given 2 ubiquiti ultra switches and a unifi flex which will go nicely with the udm pro I bought a couple of years ago.

On the final step with this car and for some reason my nervous system is acting anxious as hell. I don’t feel anxious but my body is reacting physically as if I were. Could use some well wishes/good vibes! Need this to go smoothly.

Monday I officially start my new roll (contracted out to another company) with my new pay! It still does not feel real.

So due to a mix up and adhd I've been without my blood pressure medicine for over a week. I just checked my bp tonight and they checked it two days ago at the doctor and both times it was around 138/85.....that's fucking great compared to where it has been on average my entire adult life lol

Douchebag cybertruck driver pulls up next to me at the charging place…just to park there and walk away. Doesn’t even charge. WTF are you blocking the charger douchebag?

Big news! At long last Kara is out of federal prison! Please send continued good vibes her way! But! She's finally free! 🕊️💗🤍🩵

Also, I hate when the only descriptors I can come up with for my day don’t make any sense to others. They don’t make sense to me either but the word “feels” like the right word to describe the day and that seems strange to me. Anyway, the word attached to today for me so far a sub-optimal

As much as I don’t want to, I am considering asking my doc to take me off vyvanse to put me back on adipex…at least to see if it will work and help me get below 300 finally bc nothing else is working well and it’s more of a “not having the energy” issue than anything.

Cross your fingers and offer up your best wishes into the universe... because with all hope and good luck, we may be finally at the conclusion of the awful, horrible, and oppressive chapter in the life of my dear friend Kara. 🧵

Also, fingers crossed I at least get a more solid date on the new job/position tomorrow. Assuming since I have not heard anything over the weekend that it does not start tomorrow LOL but that would be on par with the way it's gone so far

Thinking about making myself look another 5 years younger by going back to just a goatee...not sure that's worth getting rid of the beard though lol

Grabbed a piece of chocolate pie for lunch today and it hit me that chocolate pie will always and forever remind me of my great grandmother and how much of a pivotal role she played in my early life. She, I think, largely helped me feel any level of acceptance because she was fine with me just /1

Before I left for the day they said that now it could be as early as Monday…sheesh. Make up your minds in a time! I’m good with faster but come on…

Supposedly our new COO has been on top of things and told me today the new job thing looks like it is in the works and has been but now looks like it’s a couple of weeks out possibly. Apparently me stressing how much a 40% wage increase would be helpful made a difference?

And the new job opportunity within my company just got shifted to “they still want you in the position but we have no timeline for when that will happen” The great news just keeps coming.

My life feels like one really long inside joke that I’m not part of.

I literally just had a website engineer try to convince me that their authentication process/password reset KNEW if I was using a password generated by a pwm or if it’s one I created and would not allow the pwm one. I later found the problem actually was they say they support passwords up to 22 /1

The vehicle and my first time charging it.

I got to try authentic deep dish pizza from Chicago and I also got to visit the corvette museum in bowling green Kentucky in the last two days as well!

Finally home…now to get ready for bed!!!

Details/context now - I have solved my dead car problem with a huge amount of help and driving by a coworker. Not only was I able to get a car in my price range but I was able to get and EV.

No details or context yet but I am in Indiana and got to see the corvette museum in Bowling Green Kentucky. I will be in Aurora/Chicago tomorrow.

Maybe everyone but me and all the places I looked on line already knew this but if you do the login banner in windows via gpo and you need paragraph breaks with spaces between them this is how you do that: Type or paste your message into notepad with no white space. Anywhere you want the line /1

I personally think I am killing it with this magnetic nail polish

One think I have found over the last few weeks is if I can find a place that does a little flex scheduling then it would be great for both parties. I can go hard for a couple of hours sometimes and then I gotta take a break before being productive again.

I've been out for around 6 year and every time I go to make a post like this I feel just as much an imposter now as I ever did, but happy pride! I know things don't look the best right now, but the ones still here have survived so much and we will survive this. You are loved!

The level of self-hatred and self loathing because I feel like the absolute largest fuck up in the world right now is too damn high.

Of course one night where I really need the gym and heavy weights is the one night I don’t have a fucking car.

I just wish for once I was not being forced to rush buy a car because I have no choice so I could finally get one I want rather that what “will work” Oh well, that’ll be my last public bitching about it lol

Y'all know I'm selective with the donation campaigns I publicize, and that I only share them when I personally know the parties involved... gofund.me/fc94cffcd ...this is an important one for a good person for whom I can personally vouch. (And the goal is very low... can you help us get there?)

Not sure why I worried so much about identifying as polyamorous…find another human being that is genuinely interested in me is likely to never happen. I feel like one was pushing my luck :/

Car confirmed dead. Mechanic said it is “toast” which I assumed. Now I have to figure out how to buy another one with no ability to do so. Great fucking week.

Ended up having to push the car uphill again a little bit today...tow truck drive kind of shook his hand and said "Man, you are as strong as a bull" LOL sure dude...

Pushing a car up an incline backwards twice...by yourself is not the best. My back is screaming since I had to push it into the door frame to move the car lol.

And my car just died for the second time since I got it and it looks at the moment like it’s going to be another $5k+ repair and I have no more personal loan options I can use so I’m just good and proper fucked.

It was not just a vibe check ugh. Still hoping it went ok.

Really need life to stop trying to proactively negate anything good that *might* happen. Maybe just let the good thing happen and leave it at that.

Also, no coffee for me today and my car started making a noise so…yeah.

And of course I slightly fuck up my beard today. Not that anyone else would notice or care but now I’m going to be self conscious about it all day. :/ hopefully not

I wish I did work that would justify owning a hak5 pager - they just seem really neat.

I have a coffee meeting tomorrow (hopefully) with the CIO (used to be Director of Engineering at RedHat once upon a time) as well as an IT Director at the new position and should know more about this after that. Slightly nervous but I'm being told it's just a formality. 🤷‍♂️

Best answer to "How ya doing?" I've ever heard I think. reply: "Wishing ductape could solve all the worlds wrongs"

I guess since it's pansexual visibility day or whatever...Hi...here I am. Am I visible? Feel free to perceive me...for a little while anyway.

I'll be at @layeroneconference.bsky.social this weekend, woot woot! Are any of you thinking of attending but you failed to plan ahead? One of my team can't make it and we have a spare barcode up for grabs last minute. It was an early bird ticket, so this would only be $200... ping me if you wish!

The very thing I love most about my brain and how it functions is also the thing I hate the most in other circumstances :/

Not sure I can pull these off but assuming this new position pans out - the first thing I’m doing is eye doctor visit and grabbing these frames online! Might even get a pair of prescription sunglasses.

Local defcon meetup tonight. Bypassing mfa with evilginx yay!

Hello, internet. Here's a fun question for you all... I often keep a super old tech, no features brick phone in my travel bag. It's a good backup and I can toss in a local SIM in many countries, etc. This was the phone I had for years, dedicated to that purpose... www.amazon.com/dp/B07MZDZ8QL 🧵

I have one of those (a black cat), but they are a goblin and not photogenic at all!