What Are You Doing Right Now
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 Just dropped off the rental car. Time for real work, now. 
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 Working AWS BEanstalk and Lambda... 
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 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. 
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 @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. The one(s) by Timothy Zahn? So much better than what's on the boob tube. 
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 @scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. The one(s) by Timothy Zahn? So much better than what's on the boob tube. Those are the ones. 
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 @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. I totally understand. That was such a good trilogy. 
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 @scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. The one(s) by Timothy Zahn? So much better than what's on the boob tube. Those are good. 
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 When a job has "Lead team development including resolve conflicts in technical approach among technical staff" as the first responsibility... Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope 
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 @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: When a job has "Lead team development including resolve conflicts in technical approach among technical staff" as the first responsibility... Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope RUN AWAY FAST!! 
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 @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: 13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been. Everybody Loves Large Chests by Exterminatus. It's still actively being written and is available on royalroad for free. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: When a job has "Lead team development including resolve conflicts in technical approach among technical staff" as the first responsibility... Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope RUN AWAY FAST!! USGS is not a bad section of the federal government to work for. I knew (casual acquaintance) a few people there in the St. Louis area. No idea if they are still there or not. But that description is horrible. 
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 @jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now: When a job has "Lead team development including resolve conflicts in technical approach among technical staff" as the first responsibility... Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope RUN AWAY FAST!! USGS is not a bad section of the federal government to work for. I knew (casual acquaintance) a few people there in the St. Louis area. No idea if they are still there or not. But that description is horrible. USGS would definitely be a place I'd be more willing to look than most. But yeah. 
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 I was going to play with shrinking a filesystem and a LVM volume only to discover XFS can't be shrunk. Back to EXT4 for the moment.  
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 @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now: I was going to play with shrinking a filesystem and a LVM volume only to discover XFS can't be shrunk. Back to EXT4 for the moment.  That's because shrinking a filesystem isn't really something you want to be doing in production outside of the most extremely rare circumstance. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now: I was going to play with shrinking a filesystem and a LVM volume only to discover XFS can't be shrunk. Back to EXT4 for the moment.  That's because shrinking a filesystem isn't really something you want to be doing in production outside of the most extremely rare circumstance. I agree. I couldn’t think of a good reason to do it, other than wanting to see how it can be done. 
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 Being frustrated with Fedora and thinking about a famous quote, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No point in being a darn fool about it." W.C. Fields I just keep being the darn fool apparently..... 
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 after getting my ass kicked in a trainning session (well it was supposed to be a trainning session however they didnt do their part so instead turned into a rip apart the menu and criticize the software) I have a lot of work to do . 
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 Setting up Site to Site VPNs for AWS and other locations. 
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 About to sit in on an interview. 
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 @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now: About to sit in on an interview. Are you on the firing squad or having to dodge the bullets? 







