Covid-19 Days – 70

broderic on May 22, 2020

I’m about to start collecting my social security since we’ve been at this for seventy days and it feels like seventy years.

This time it wasn’t an off Friday, but I played it like it was. I had a few meetings which I attended, but between them I went grocery shopping (I’m making ribs!). I had one more around 1:00, but it was moved to next week. So guess what? The holiday weekend started early!

I was also out on the road today circling on the beltway. It seemed like there were a lot more people on the road. The state’s been slowly re-opening. People are starting to move out and about. It’s almost like a normal day. The holiday traveling really has begun.

Are things going to be alright? We will get to a better form of normal soon?

Covid-19 Days – 68

broderic on May 20, 2020

I’ve had the windows in my bedroom cracked open since Sunday. It’s starting to warm up, but slowly, and I haven’t turned the AC on. I sleep with them open hoping that no night rains show up to wet my room. It’s been rather cool for the majority of this self-imposed social distancing so it feels nice when I get a cool breeze into the house. Without the windows open, I think it would be about 75 F in the house. As it is, it’s kept it at reasonably 70 F.

Covid-19 Days – 67

broderic on May 19, 2020

I’m sick and tired of work. But I think this is the story of this blog. For better than 12 years, I’ve been complaining about IniTech. Yet, I am still here. Looking to get fired though! So who’s hiring?

Covid-19 Days – 65

broderic on May 17, 2020

I’ve not done ribs very well. I try and try, but they never turn out right. Usually, my impatience forces me to find ways of cooking ribs quick but still getting them juicy, and that doesn’t always make for best ribs. In fact, I’ve failed most of the time.

Today, since I have lots of time on my hands with social distancing, stay-at-home, I’m gonna make ribs for dinner. I started last night with prepping the rib. Just dry it out and just season with salt and pepper. I leave it in the fridge overnight. This morning after drying out more, I put my rub on, then let it sit again for a couple more hours. Afterwards, it goes into the oven at 300 F for an hour and a half. I’m going to then paint a nice lacquer of BBQ sauce for the next hour and a half. That’s coming up. I hope in 3 hours at 300 it comes out nice…

Covid-19 Days – 64

broderic on May 16, 2020

It’s going to be hard to keep people home on a beautiful day like today. When it starts getting more and more spring or summer-like then we’ll see how well self-isolation can work.

Also, went to a friend’s graduation from college. It was virtual. We just really watched YouTube videos. I remember when I graduated from university. We stayed up all night drinking and smoking. I got about an hour of sleep before waking up and getting to the first of two ceremonies. I walked for the second one. I feel for my buddy missing out on these fun things. His parents watched in a Zoom window. I guess this is how things will be for a while now. Sad.

Covid-19 Days – 63

broderic on May 15, 2020

Let’s get to it early on this off Friday.

I don’t want to turn on the work computer. I don’t want to do some work. We always are in a state of flux. It is what we want to do. I sometimes wonder if I am the only one who sees that the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive. The way we’ve built our system is just a bad update from making everything not work, and it seems that they, the bosses, like to make it such.

Doctors believe in “do no harm” as their primary principle. I like to think that it should be the same for companies with legacy code. IniTech doesn’t seem to be. I think that we’ve lost our founding principles in software engineering when we thought we could do agile. In our minds, agile was the “anti” of what we were doing before. It stripped away all ideas of making things better using smart engineering and instead cast us back to the “big ball of mud” days.

Our software culture has really regressed. I am only along for the ride. I am part of the problem.