Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

This might be a cultural thing but I have major beef with the American habit of scheduling meetings during lunch. It's fucking rude.

The blade had dulled over three summers, it had some fairly sizable nicks in it and I decided to purchase a replacement for about $28. That did it. It's as good as new. I'll try and repair the old one and use it as a spare, but I need some tools.

My 40v 20" Ryobi electric mower - which had previously been one of my favorite purchases started to perform really badly this summer. It would clog constantly, and seemed to be consuming the battery a lot faster. The problem was my ignorance of mowers.

This is hilariously accurate

I asked for a paragraph to be edited on our website, instead they gave me CMS access. I hope you like memes and cat gifs, you lazy bastards.

My 7yr old sat on a lawn tractor outside Home Depot. He said "I wish you would buy me one of these. *Finally* I would go where I want"

Lovely moonlit dog walk last night. Cool and dry.

I'm watching a news story about bus shortages in North Allegheny. But there's a twist, this is the district buses being used for private school kids, because that's how it works here.

Take your own fucking kids to private school. Taxpayer subsidizing your brat's transport and you have the nerve to complain. Fuck off.

Someone's put the absolutely brilliant soundtrack to Mike Leigh's 'Naked' on the 'tubes.

https://youtu.be/CcBIetAjxDo

No fucking way..

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/europe/russia-wagner-prigozhin-plane-crash-intl/index.html

All our host IPv4 addresses got changed in my absence. I was not told of the details in advance. All the firewall rules need to be updated. The changes have no propagated to DNS. Shit is fucked.

I come back from 10 days leave and all my wireless peripherals are dead. I have one charging cable. I'm very tempted to just go home.

I see the NYT is persistently running anti-China stories on the front page for the last week. They're very obviously being briefed.