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One of the most disheartening things I ever learned about the tech industry was that the slap-dash rush-job hack patch scripts and cron jobs that I would only use in extreme emergencies as temporary stop-gap solutions are in reality what run the entire internet with very few exceptions :blobsweats:

Wee.... now I'm talking with Hashicorp sales rep because gods damnit their docs don't list the paid features for Terraform cloud and my boss has tasked me with creating a write up to given to our new VP of Operations in order to convince people to pay for Terraform Cloud or Enterprise instead of continuing to have a 100 different islands of Terraform Community and a dozen different instances of free Terraform Cloud...

Finally almost feel like I'm awake for the first time this week! Time to finally start getting some proper work do-

Oh, it's Friday. :blobeyes:

Yay! :blobcheer:

The care and attention HandToolRescue takes in restoring old tools fills me with hope. ♥️

youtube.com/watch?v=9s2iZ7HrQX

Work.. Doing a Thing Almost Too Well 

So... my presentation and design docs for the architecture of the new Azure Kubernetes project I'm the lead SRE on went over so well that my manager wants to use my flow diagrams and matching why document as the standard for every new project plan we do in the future and as we bring new people on the team he wants me to train them on my thought processes and workflow for building out this doc..

Because nobody in our Org has ever really done a Why doc for a new project.. Just how-to sorts of docs.

Work thoughs, brain differences 

This project really illustrated something about what I enjoy vs most of my other SRE coworkers.

Them: "I fucking love Terraform, if I could just write code all day for stuff I would.. planning.. organizing.. stuff sucks.. Just tell me what you need and I'll write the modules!"

Me: "Ugh... I hate writing templates.. like I love how simple they make stuff but hate coding side..."

My Boss: "Hey Sam... We are going to help this team build this thing in Azure.. since you're completed the basic Azure training can you take point on this project. Figure out how we should made this happen and get stuff together to present to the devs doing the engineering side."

Me:"Sure.. okay.. I can do that."

A week and a half later...
My brain is so full of stuff and oh my gods I've done so much research and I can talk about this a lot..... I need to arrange all this in a sensible manner though.. because I have to talk about it in the morning...

2 hours of making workflow, pipelines and design charts later.. YES YES IT MAKES SENSE IN MY HEAD!

Send charts and nothing else to my team members.
"This is really good. holy shit!"
I guess I should start writing the words to go with this...

4 more hours later.. send off a doc to my boss and other team member.

"Damn this is really good and I like you approached it from a Why we should do things like this angle than 'this is how it should be done'. I think it will drive a lot of good how to questions and thoughts in the meeting tomorrow. Excellent Job!"

Me... to myself.. I really enjoyed that... like it was fun and interesting intellectually.. I like doing research and planning things...
Also me: Fuck I have to present this to people in the morning... commence the anxieties!

Weee... today I made a thing... a plan... a design for new upcoming architecture for the project we are building in Azure on Kubernetes... complete with some pretty diagrams.
I'm rather proud of it... but I'm super fucking nervous about presenting it to the dev team for this service in the morning..

On the upside my boss seems to be very happy with it and really liked the pair of charts I made for it.

furry commission request 

As an Admirer of Serpents, broadly defined, I for one enthusiastically support the tradition of Snektember. Anyone up for reinterpreting a colorful dragon as a huge colorful snake instead? (not looking for discounts, art is labor and I pay for labor)

what if🤔🤨😉we held hands☺️😲and we were both dragons :dragnowo: :dragnuwu: :dragnthink: haha, just kidding :dragnmlem: unless...? :dragnowo:

HEY HEY GO READ "THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR!"

@mawr YOU NEED TO CONSUME THIS MEDIA! GET IT IN YOUR BRAIN! I PROMISE YOU WILL LOVE IT!

In case you missed it: the Twine game "You Are Jeff Bezos". You wake up one day as Jeff, and try to give away all of his money.
direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-

I wrote a song today because I was feeling bad 

It helped me feel better, and let me make progress on a poem I started a long time ago. This is not finished but I wanted to share it anyway. ♥️

"Are there any monsters under my bed?" she asked.
"No monsters/None," came the replies.
"Then what are you?"
"Eaters/We eat."
"Eat what?"
"Toes/Feet/Anything sticking out"
"I still have all my toes."
"Well/We wouldn't/Not monsters."
"So what do you eat?"
"... socks."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Ugh... today dragons failed at teching... a lot.. I'mma go back working my AKS terraform PoC...

because I went to install a new edgerouter-X and had a bunch of issues.. none of my laptops have ethernet ports and I couldn't find my usb to ethernet adapter... so I decided to use the media PC...

Which is when I discovered our aging Onkyo receiver (RC160) has finally fallen victim to HDMI control board overheat death problem that apparently plagued them... after a decade of service..

Wierdness, Hot Tired.. Lewd??? 

Hot... tired... don't wanna work tomorrow... still 99*F outside...

damn... pulling on soaked in water long sleeve heat gear made some lewd sounds sliding on my skin... @.@;;;;

If I was a supervillain, I would want to be a pirate. In space. Not the Metroid kind of Space Pirate, just a space pirate. Probably not an admiral, more likely an officer/mad scientist/giant toothy firebreathing lizard monster with sharp talons.

I would pay someone to draw an interpretation of this

Fights caused by miscommunications are the fucking worst.

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