PJSprog
Elite Member
72°F and cloudy this morning, got up to 86° here today. Had a few thunderstorms rumble through in the wee small hours of the morning. We've been getting rain here pretty much every day over the last few weeks. After the extremely dry start to the summer, it's become rather wet. Getting hard to keep up with the grass now.
"New" job is still going great (in parenthesis because I've been there for eight months now). Keeps me very busy all day, which seems to make the days roll right by. By special request from my boss, I imposed upon my coworkers at both US facilities this past week a series of Lean Enterprise Simulations. We made paper airplanes, and nearly everyone had a blast while learning the basic concepts of Lean Manufacturing. Did that Tuesday and Wednesday, and quite enjoyed the banter that followed for the rest of the week. Planted the seeds, and they're growing. I'm calling that a success.
Wife trotted off to the Atlanta area last weekend to deliver a rescue dog (Pomeranian) to a foster there. She ended up bringing home another Border Collie pup that she's been wanting for several weeks. Her markings are a mirror image of Evey, who died back in March, and she was born two weeks later. So, we now have four BCs. She promised this is the last one (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more ...). I took that about as seriously as she does when I say I won't buy any more musical instruments.
So, left to right, Tehya (the one from Oregon), Mika (no longer the youngest), Neve (the oldest and crabbiest), and Kaya (the new kid).
Got fed up with HughesNet a couple weeks ago, and jumped on the "Best Effort" plan from Starlink. The equipment shipped in just a couple days. When I'd checked our availability, they had pushed it back yet again to December. So, we'll see how this works out. The stuff got here last weekend, and tomorrow is the day I've put aside for getting it set up to see how well it will work. Even if it's at the lowest advertised speed, it'll still be more than three times faster that what we have now ... which approaches dial-up speed.
Hope everyone is well.
Good evening, gents.
"New" job is still going great (in parenthesis because I've been there for eight months now). Keeps me very busy all day, which seems to make the days roll right by. By special request from my boss, I imposed upon my coworkers at both US facilities this past week a series of Lean Enterprise Simulations. We made paper airplanes, and nearly everyone had a blast while learning the basic concepts of Lean Manufacturing. Did that Tuesday and Wednesday, and quite enjoyed the banter that followed for the rest of the week. Planted the seeds, and they're growing. I'm calling that a success.
Wife trotted off to the Atlanta area last weekend to deliver a rescue dog (Pomeranian) to a foster there. She ended up bringing home another Border Collie pup that she's been wanting for several weeks. Her markings are a mirror image of Evey, who died back in March, and she was born two weeks later. So, we now have four BCs. She promised this is the last one (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more ...). I took that about as seriously as she does when I say I won't buy any more musical instruments.
So, left to right, Tehya (the one from Oregon), Mika (no longer the youngest), Neve (the oldest and crabbiest), and Kaya (the new kid).
Got fed up with HughesNet a couple weeks ago, and jumped on the "Best Effort" plan from Starlink. The equipment shipped in just a couple days. When I'd checked our availability, they had pushed it back yet again to December. So, we'll see how this works out. The stuff got here last weekend, and tomorrow is the day I've put aside for getting it set up to see how well it will work. Even if it's at the lowest advertised speed, it'll still be more than three times faster that what we have now ... which approaches dial-up speed.
Hope everyone is well.
Good evening, gents.
