Whenever we get a support voicemail at work, it’s attached as an MP3 to an email and sent to everybody in the office. It’s handy because then you can just play the audio file in the email as opposed to dialing into the voicemail and jumping through all those hoops.

Note that I said “everybody in the office” above.

We got such a voicemail email at 12:20 pm that was for me. Happens all the time.

Fearless Leader forwards me the email at 1:03 pm.

He set the whole voicemail system up, he knows how it works.

Two weeks ago I sent him an email with a small list of things I need from him. None of it’s done.

Today he forwards me an email for something that I’ve already taken care of.

He didn’t do it to be mean. He does things like that because he doesn’t want to do things that are his responsibility.

It’s a classic example of him “pushing papers” on to my pile that have nothing to do with him, all the while ignoring the papers on his pile. Let’s solve problems that aren’t ours so we can avoid problems that are.

I sent him a one line reply, “Yep, I saw it.” at 1:04 pm.

#worknews

Peeps, here’s your big-big-love Wednesday jam. One of my all time favorite love songs and definitely my fave Pixie. The lyrics and bass playing… Kim Deal could perform this solo and still pull it off.

He’ll walk her every day into a shady place. Like the dark, but I’d want him

I’ve never seen Crimes of the Heart but it’s been on my list once I learned it was the song’s inspiration. Part of what kept me from watching it, though, is that I personalize songs, attach my own meanings to them and the like. And sometimes pulling back the curtain too far can spoil the magic.

Regardless…

Lovely legs there are.

#musicvideos #pixies

The second piece of web software I wrote was a BBS and/or Forum. I moved the site away from all of that when blogs became popular but they’ve always had a special place in my heart. The now defunct Written Ignition had some of my most favorite online conversations written by some of my most favorite online friends.

With that said, I’ve added Forums to tcrbang.com. The codebase for them is all new so they’ll probably break now and again but overall they’re ready for use. Still lots more work to be done (uploading files, etc.) but I’m happy to have them back.

A permanent link can be found in the main menu along with the footer down below.

There’s two forums at the moment:

• Public House – open to the world but ya gotta sign in to post
• Members Only – you gotta be a member to see what’s here

Blog articles and comments that would be better as a forum topic will be moved over there at some point.

#webdev #tcr

#truckthoughts #lifechoices

Hope your day is filled with pixies and ponies but no bolognies.

🚗🌞 #photos #selfies #sugarskull #workday

#photos #nofilter #homeimprovement

While driving and someone in the next lane comes speeding up, it’s always been my first instinctual reaction to speed up as well. Keep them from merging into my lane and cutting me off. I’ve almost felt like it was my karmic duty to keep them from being too selfish because they’re obviously sooo much more important than everybody else.

If I’m going the speed limit you can, too, buddy.

Same goes for when I’m dinking along, going the speed limit and then some knob gets right on my ass… watch the fuck out. I now have a license to fuck your shit up.

I don’t even think about speeding up to keep them from getting in my lane, it’s just what I do. Ever since I can remember. Maybe I had too many butthead driver cut me off when I was first learning to drive. Who knows. It doesn’t matter.

What does matter is that while driving home I was thinking that I shouldn’t do that anymore. The world could do with one less obnoxious driver, myself included. I can let go of the need to be a jerk just because someone else is. Just because someone else did it first. “He started it, mom!” kinda thing.

And maybe if I slowed down a little and let the other guy in my lane he or she would see or feel that, not like a conscious way but in a back-burner, “oh…maybe the world’s not full of assholes” kinda way.

Maybe they wouldn’t be so inclined to speed racer around if they had the feeling that the other drivers were willing to share their lane. That maybe those other drivers would give them the benefit of the doubt because the speed racer does have somewhere important to be.

Maybe if everybody shared more on a global level our world wouldn’t be as fucked up as it is. Maybe people wouldn’t get viciously pulled off planes.

Maybe people still would act like jerks, some people sure seem fundamentally selfish. But maybe not. Maybe me being a better person would make somebody’s day a little brighter than it was before they rolled past me at 110.

Regardless… Be the change you want to see.

#trafficnews #lettherebehope #advancedsoul

…it really is grownup Christmas.

#photos #ups #amazon #christmas

…any other way moving forward.

#photos #cake

She does this all the time and this was the very first time I was able to snap a photo or two.

#photos #cats #thestruggleisreal