Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

Apparently we have upset a neighbor who was enough of an asshat to stick this to my car window (leaving a bunch of residue) with heavy masking tape.
Reader's note: Property manager supposedly pays for yard care, tenants are not responsible according to our lease.

If they had put this on the door to the house I'd be less upset.. aside from the tone and general ass hattery of the letter.. but it also made one of our roommates feel unsafe.

Look.. I just want to fucking be a dragon in my solar powered wilderness cave and like run/build your infrastructure from remote with a fat fiber line and eat tasty veggies from my personal vertical garden with my kobolds >.>;

Is that too much to ask?

I guess the other part of this... is I don't eat/drink/breath/LIVE DevOps/SRE stuff.

Like outside of work, I want to do -other- things and so many fucking people in the space are like "Oh yeah in my free time I run a mini-kube cluster and build all this random shit to play around with it. But I don't actually -do- anything with it.. it is mostly just following some greenfield deployment doc and building it to have done it but isn't it cool?"

I'm like... why? yes the experience was probably useful.. but was it fun? Was it relaxing? Did you actually -do- anything with it when you were done?

/ramble

Like I do this stuff because I stumbled into it, it pays well enough for myself and my partners to exist and I'm clever/smart enough to be competent at it and that isn't enough for a lot of my peers, I guess?

Why is that there seem to be only two different types of Orgs in Ops/DevOps spaces?

Traditional fucking man-space mix of fresh meat techbro college grads tempered by married, cishet with kids/older Ops guys but it is all fucking guys..

And...

LGBTQ+ Rainbow of intimidating super smart ex-googlers/FANG folks with SWE backgrounds that are crazy technical and experienced while usually being groundbreakers/public figures in the field?

I get why the second sort of Org would form... but there is like no in between. That seems like a huge problem.. and fuck I don't know, I feel like I don't have a space to actually exist outside of putting on nerd camouflage, being super vague about my life outside of work because I can't related to my coworkers and if I did rely my life experiences even the most socially liberal cishet coworkers would be like "that is fucking wild"

At the same time... I'm really fucking tired of being -Deadname- at work when outside of like work and things that require a Real ID, I am not.

Maybe I'm just babbling because... being remote for the last year let me experiment with dyeing my hair and painting my nails and I'm so fucking done with western man office culture.

@mawr Yeah, I ended up taking 3 days of pto for the first shot with the last day being enforced by my boss when I showed up to stand up and everyone thought I looked like a zombie.

Took 2 for this one.. which was a good call. I came home from the shot + picking up some stuff from the pharmacy and passed out for an hour.. woke up.. drank good bit of water and ate a snack then passed out for another 2 hours.

@mawr Yeah, first pzifer shot I was miserable, fever, sore everywhere and exhausted for like 4 days after. Everything was -super- fatiguing.

This time round... first day I got pretty bad headache.. low fever for like 3 hours.. napped a lot. Joints were sore last night and for a lil while today but stretching and exercise helped.. but everything feels like takes -so much- effort D:

30 hours after pzifer shot 2... I slept through 15 hours of those 30.

Mostly just really tired.. everything takes a lot of effort/energy.

Fffffffff... yes lets totally move all the source of truth for all our terraform infrastructure for -my- project, the one I worked on for the last 2 years into Azure DevOps (from BitBucket) without consulting the Engineering Team using it.. cause reasons.. I'm sure that will go over well.
Yes we'd like to build of AzDevOps Pipelines to automate the deployments (if we can get that shit working at all because arggghhhhhhh jank) instead of having people grab the terraform from SC and run terraform plan/apply locally on their personal machine... but we don't need to lift and shift 40+ repos into fucking Azure DevOps to make that work... especially when we as a company are probably ditching bitbucket and moving to Github in the next like 6 months... with new security requirements for where code source of truths can live.

But this is the 3rd time someone on my new team has asked if we should move the entire code base to Azure DevOps.. not to mention we'd need to refactor numerous terraform modules because you can't variable-ize "source" for a module

If there is something I really don't like about the new team it is that they seem to be intent on creating additional work when it is not needed if for no other reason than to do something "new".

It is super frustrating.

@mawr This was the Pzifer vaccine for clarity.

@mawr Yeah, I scheduled PTO for Thursday and Friday and told my boss Monday will be tentative.

My team literally demanded I take PTO after I showed up the day after the first one and apparently I looked and sounded so bad everyone on the call was like "Go the fuck back to bed!"

@mawr I also.. I so not looking forward to next week. Second shot is on Thursday. First shot knocked me on my ass for 2 days and left me fatigued for 3-4 after and the second is supposed to be worse!

@mawr Honestly, it has been like that down here for everyone that I know.. except people with Kaiser.

Literally, last month I got email from Kaiser saying I was eligible, 5 minutes later I had an appointment for 3 days later. Granted I spent an hour and half standing in a parking lot to get it but still.

The rest of my household is eligible but has not been able to find -any- availability.

Meanwhile I have an appointment for my second shot (couldn't leave the monitoring area post first shot without scheduling second shot appt)

@Draekos

The impreza hatches are very nice! Fairly cheap for a new vehicle, solid fuel economy, AWD.

Crosstrek is on the same platform, just a bit taller, may find deals on them because they are very popular.

@mawr

I do find it somewhat ironic that some of the values and experiences growing up in rural Georgia and definitely partly instilled from my definitely racist poor, redneck side of the family helped me recognize why things like gun control laws are tools of the oppressor.

But also somewhat sad that they (rural, poor white) can't make the leap of understanding that the people they direct their hatred and racism toward are trapped in similar circumstances and the same forces are working against them and culturally they have far more in common than apart.

I kinda strayed from the topic but only marginally tangentially so.

@mawr Definitely looks worth a read!