burn the place down, make it glow like christmas

[the_siobhan]

May
1 – School Bus Drivers' Day: When you were young, did you have to take a school bus to get to school?

I have lived in a big city my whole life, so there has always been a school close enough to walk to.

2 – Bike Month: Do you cycle? If yes, do you do it mostly for fun/occasional outings, or is it your main mode of transportation? Does your municipality have good cycling infrastructure? Do you cycle year-round, even in winter (and in the snow if you get snow where you live)?

I used to. Vertigo put the kibosh on that, My balance is actually not terrible right now so I could potentially start cycling again but the occasional gravity storm means I probably shouldn't do it around cars. I have been looking forward to the construction of the rail-path behind my house thinking that would be a place I could do it, but that's two years behind schedule for even getting started, so who knows when it's going to be completed.

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Electricians are here. There is a lot more drilling and banging involved than I would have expected.

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A thing I got good at when I used to work in a lab; writing down step-by-step instructions. If it ain't part of the documented process, it does not happen. Conversely, if you do something - write it down. I used to absolutely lose my shit on one manager who would go into my lab and make changes and just breezily say, "Oh yeah, I adjusted the oxygen on the fermenter this morning" without writing it in the book. I would write Dr F made changes, no entry recorded and initial it just to cover my ass.

(It's probably worth noting I started my job there just as the Krever Inquiry was wrapping up and watching them comb through notes and records put the absolute terror of incomplete documentation into my psyche.)

A thing I am proving to be not good at, doing the same thing in verbal instructions. I say, "Hey since you're downtown anyway, can you pick up some crossword puzzles for the Old Man" - and then it genuinely does not occur to me to add "and then drop them off at the hospital that is literally a block away from where you are standing right now and do not bring them home to me at the house which is 40 minutes away."

So yesterday I went over instructions like make sure they wear masks and put up the barrier for the cats and maybe we should make a sign for the front door just as a reminder  - and it did not fucking occur to me that I would have to say out loud, with my face hole, YOU SHOULD WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF PEOPLE so of course they fucking didn't.

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[china_shop]

and it did not fucking occur to me that I would have to say out loud, with my face hole, YOU SHOULD WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF PEOPLE so of course they fucking didn't.

Uuuuugggghhhh. *facepalms forever* I'm so sorry. :-(

[greylock]

"Hey since you're downtown anyway, can you pick up some crossword puzzles for the Old Man" - and then it genuinely does not occur to me to add "and then drop them off at the hospital that is literally a block away from where you are standing right now and do not bring them home to me at the house which is 40 minutes away."

I mean, you didn't say! Of course, they could ask "do you want me to drop them off". It's not hard.

Electricians are here. There is a lot more drilling and banging involved than I would have expected.

Gotta get those wired in and out of the walls and conduits somehow, I guess.

it did not fucking occur to me that I would have to say out loud, with my face hole, YOU SHOULD WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF PEOPLE so of course they fucking didn't.

The cooker/tradie/macho overlap is strong.