|
Sander Rossel wrote: Chores, garden, that sort of stuff.
I'm with you there: I hate mowing the damn lawn - you end up with a huge pile of cr@p to get rid of, and it just grow back anyway!
But I don't mind manual labour sometimes: fixing motorcycles (even cars sometimes), reupholstering my chair, making a fence. There is a sense of "completion" that you don't get often enough from coding.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Concrete? You can color it too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
I suggested green concrete many years ago.
She did start speaking to me again, after a few weeks...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
So suggest it again! It will not take away the problem of the garden, but at least she will left you alone...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
"Speaking" is not the only thing she doesn't do...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: I hate mowing the damn lawn - you end up with a huge pile of cr@p to get rid of Now that's when I get lazy... Just leave it lying there. It'll be gone in a week
OriginalGriff wrote: fixing motorcycles (even cars sometimes), reupholstering my chair, making a fence The only thing I complete is chaos. I'm really bad at that sort of stuff... Had to paint a wall. So I sandpapered it (with a name like Sander you'd say no problem!) and it did actually look pretty good. Then I had to clean my whole living room because it was covered in dust. So then I started painting and by the time I was finished I noticed it didn't look as good anymore. So the next week I sandpapered, cleaned and painted again. Didn't look good again, so then I just sandpapered it some more. It looks "okay" now, but screw that $#%@#^$*@) wall. It's only in my kitchen so I'll only have to look at it everytime I'm at home and in the kitchen, which is multiple times a day.
I kind of saw this coming too, so I hired someone to do the rest of the house for me
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
|
|
|
|
|
Sander Rossel wrote: Had to paint a wall. It is much more easier to paint a white wall programmatically - Blank[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: I hate mowing the damn lawn - you end up with a huge pile of cr@p to get rid of, and it just grow back anyway!
Just like programming.
|
|
|
|
|
Nope. 
|
|
|
|
|
"Lucky me" - told Carlo.
"Would you like it?" - Me asked.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Well, the opportunity to say a big no, is tempting...
|
|
|
|
|
I have been a team leader and a system architect in my time. Given the choice between being a mediocre team leader / system architect and being an outstanding software engineer, I will always choose excellence over status.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
|
|
|
|
|
I've accepted the step up into middle management a couple of times in different companies and regretted it every time. The last time was a few years ago at my current employer, now I'm at the point of beginning to look for work again. I think I've finally learned my lesson, I'm a software engineer, not a manager.
Give the choice now I'd not hesitate to turn it down.
|
|
|
|
|
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
|
|
|
|
|
Hi All,
Just testing to see if I get a Bob!
|
|
|
|
|
|
More testing!!, ah ha got the little so & so. 
|
|
|
|
|
Your excitement and use of language is unprofessional.
(Yes, I see him too.)
|
|
|
|
|
It's Saturday night/Sunday morning I have been drinking you expect me to be professional it work!!!! yay! 
|
|
|
|
|
|
You mean this guy ?
|
|
|
|
|
Yup, that's the dude, it's OK, I have now something in my profile got lost meaning I was a head. 
|
|
|
|
|
I told you so, but you wouldn't listen!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
The worst thing was I hadn't changed anything but the name! Put in my LinkedIn details again it works...
|
|
|
|
|
ah so instead of losing your mojo, you lost your bob ?
|
|
|
|