What Are You Doing Right Now

nadnerB

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Bought coffee beans last week the first time in ages, forgetting I no longer have the grinder... now I’m grinding coffee beans with a mortar and pestle.

You know they sell coffee grinders now, right?

But no lie, mortar and pestle ground coffee is intriguing...

Especially when you discover that you have not properly cleaned off the dried Trinidad Scorpion from the last time you used it

RojoLoco

FINALLY got my special delivery... A blend of rye, wheat, and barley whiskies.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco good stuff

scottalanmiller

Just hanging out watching some movies with the fam.

EddieJennings

Current reading: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/monitoring_and_managing_system_status_and_performance/getting-started-with-tuned_monitoring-and-managing-system-status-and-performance

siringo

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Bought coffee beans last week the first time in ages, forgetting I no longer have the grinder... now I’m grinding coffee beans with a mortar and pestle.

You know they sell coffee grinders now, right?

But no lie, mortar and pestle ground coffee is intriguing...

Especially when you discover that you have not properly cleaned off the dried Trinidad Scorpion from the last time you used it

hahaha. what did the coffee taste like???

siringo

monday morning. lots of organising and an office365 outage of sorts.

nadnerB

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Bought coffee beans last week the first time in ages, forgetting I no longer have the grinder... now I’m grinding coffee beans with a mortar and pestle.

You know they sell coffee grinders now, right?

But no lie, mortar and pestle ground coffee is intriguing...

Especially when you discover that you have not properly cleaned off the dried Trinidad Scorpion from the last time you used it

hahaha. what did the coffee taste like???

The Mortar and Pestle takes some effort to grind the coffee, but it's pretty good.
While the Scorpion was flavouring it, it was more letting me know it was there with a bit of unexpected chilli heat per sip.

It didn't change the flavour much.

I have given it a thorough cleaning and now there's no more unexpected burning sensation.

EddieJennings

Heading to sleep. One more early morning task before I hand off the on-call phone for a couple of weeks.

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is very handy...

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/visa-calculator/

nup, can't see myself using that in th next month or so.
where's schengen?

EddieJennings

Video editing.

JasGot

Exchange On-Prem to Microsoft 365 migration.

scottalanmiller

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is very handy...

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/visa-calculator/

nup, can't see myself using that in th next month or so.
where's schengen?

Schengen is nearly the world's most important territory and by far the most used border as all the world's leading tourism is inside of it .... it includes Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech, etc.

Essentially all of Europe.

scottalanmiller

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

Quality of delivery for Amazon, at least for me, has plummeted in the last two years.

siringo

Just suss'd out sharing Onedrive folders with users outside the org.
Documented in my own words so it makes sense to me.
These things get changed so often, it's much better now than it was 2 years ago.

bnrstnr

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

USPS is a hot mess. They are sooooo slow. Since COVID we've seen packages travel back and forth between the same 2 cities 3-4 times. It's so ridiculous.

We have an Amazon distribution center locally, and they've switched almost entirely to their own couriers, which have been awesome. Before COVID we were getting like 95% of things next day, now we're slowly getting back to 2-day deliveries, but it's usually still more like 4.

pmoncho

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

USPS is a hot mess. They are sooooo slow.

Based on many of anecdotal stories I have heard over the past 20 years from many different individuals I know in multiple areas of the USPS, certain workers make sure it stays slow. Power of a Union!

Father-in-law was threaten to stop working so hard and friend was told not to return from their route until specific time or face the consequences. Those are just a couple stories from over the years. If a few people in the office don't want to work, they will make it so you don't either.

scottalanmiller

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

USPS is a hot mess. They are sooooo slow. Since COVID we've seen packages travel back and forth between the same 2 cities 3-4 times. It's so ridiculous.

We have an Amazon distribution center locally, and they've switched almost entirely to their own couriers, which have been awesome. Before COVID we were getting like 95% of things next day, now we're slowly getting back to 2-day deliveries, but it's usually still more like 4.

We are in Dallas and Amazon uses USPS constantly, even after we report every few days that our stuff hasn't been delivered. They do nothing to fix their broken processes.

scottalanmiller

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I swear our Amazon deliver rate is down to 50%. A huge portion of what we order gets delivered to other people and Amazon will do absolutely nothing to change the predictable problems. They keep opting to use a service provider (USPS) that they know doesn't know where our house is.

And half the time "out for delivery" never arrives. My package that was "out for delivery" at 8am today is now "expected in a few days". What?

USPS is a hot mess. They are sooooo slow.

Based on many of anecdotal stories I have heard over the past 20 years from many different individuals I know in multiple areas of the USPS, certain workers make sure it stays slow. Power of a Union!

Father-in-law was threaten to stop working so hard and friend was told not to return from their route until specific time or face the consequences. Those are just a couple stories from over the years. If a few people in the office don't want to work, they will make it so you don't either.

Ours here has had so many letters between my family in NY and here never arrive that there is an FBI case about it.