Friday: capitulation
Oct. 25th, 2024 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutWe’ve had a bit of a saga going on with the future pool deck drains. If the pool were outside, it would have a pool deck that sloped away from the pool and any splash our whatever would wind up in the plants (or it would be flat, and you could hose in either direction). But inside, there can be drains. Where do the drains lead to? The health folks said, absolutely not to the septic, which is fine. The engineer assumed he could daylight it, but the plumbing inspector said nope. There were efforts to get a variance, and we got a conditional one and then everyone tried things to try to get the letter the variance was conditioned on and failed. Tuesday night, I sent an email to the lawyer. Thursday I talked to the lawyer. Today, we all gave up. Nothing worked, but Plan B (send the drains through pipes and a pump back through the pool filter) still sucked, so we’re going to slope the deck to the pool. Which I asked weeks ago why we couldn’t do that and never got a great answer.
Here is the answer.
I walked with M.
I took A. to Crossroads Cafe, but we got there a little before 6, and they said “a few minutes” then wouldn’t say boo to us for 20 minutes as we watched a bunch of people with reservations come in and be seated. It looked like we’d be seated _after_ those people wrapped up their meal, so I looked online, determined that NYAJ would seat us immediately, and we went there before that could change and had a nice dinner.
I had a delightful phone call with K. She has a horrible residual cough, however, which is a bummer.
FF was fun. Altho apparently everyone is in a snit about the WaPo not endorsing a candidate this cycle and canceling their subscriptions or threatening to, which is absolutely fine and you can cancel a subscription at any time for any reason or no reason. I don’t really understand — anyone who reads the WaPo isn’t going to be swayed by their endorsement at this point in time, and the owner of WaPo is also a person who is navigating procurements at the federal level. I, personally, would like to have an alternative source of lift, so I want that process to work. Also, I would really like a lot of federal services to move to the cloud and generally be updated, and the top three cloud providers are the Zon, the Squish and the goog. I don’t want the Squish running shit for the federal government, altho I’d be completely okay with the goog doing it, I know plenty of others would object. The response to the lift question at FF was, once again, a deep look back into the past when it was a project run by the federal government directly. Specifically, “What did we use for lift in the 60s?” was uttered. Well, that cadence won’t work for what we need now, for sure. I don’t think I would mind if the federal government was running the space program, but _they_ _don’t_ _want_ _to_. *shrug*
I do love a True Believer when they are on the team I align with, so I’m not mad or in a huff or anything. But also, I’m like, Attainable Goals, people.
Here is the answer.
I walked with M.
I took A. to Crossroads Cafe, but we got there a little before 6, and they said “a few minutes” then wouldn’t say boo to us for 20 minutes as we watched a bunch of people with reservations come in and be seated. It looked like we’d be seated _after_ those people wrapped up their meal, so I looked online, determined that NYAJ would seat us immediately, and we went there before that could change and had a nice dinner.
I had a delightful phone call with K. She has a horrible residual cough, however, which is a bummer.
FF was fun. Altho apparently everyone is in a snit about the WaPo not endorsing a candidate this cycle and canceling their subscriptions or threatening to, which is absolutely fine and you can cancel a subscription at any time for any reason or no reason. I don’t really understand — anyone who reads the WaPo isn’t going to be swayed by their endorsement at this point in time, and the owner of WaPo is also a person who is navigating procurements at the federal level. I, personally, would like to have an alternative source of lift, so I want that process to work. Also, I would really like a lot of federal services to move to the cloud and generally be updated, and the top three cloud providers are the Zon, the Squish and the goog. I don’t want the Squish running shit for the federal government, altho I’d be completely okay with the goog doing it, I know plenty of others would object. The response to the lift question at FF was, once again, a deep look back into the past when it was a project run by the federal government directly. Specifically, “What did we use for lift in the 60s?” was uttered. Well, that cadence won’t work for what we need now, for sure. I don’t think I would mind if the federal government was running the space program, but _they_ _don’t_ _want_ _to_. *shrug*
I do love a True Believer when they are on the team I align with, so I’m not mad or in a huff or anything. But also, I’m like, Attainable Goals, people.
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Date: 2024-10-26 07:40 pm (UTC)Trump broke the political environment in which you can play both sides quietly with little cost. You can still probably do it, but it will be noisy and costly.
And honestly, letting the paper endorse the Democratic candidate as per usual was not going to rock the boat. Deciding suddenly in the middle of the election not to endorse is a chaos move. I don't actually care whether it's also some kind of chess move. The symbolism is horrible regardless. They can't not have known that people would experience it as a kick to the gut. Clearly the employees on the ground did.
I hear you and I am not arguing with you
Date: 2024-10-27 01:48 am (UTC)I don’t care about endorsements. I certainly don’t care about this endorsement. Will Lewis is a terrible, terrible, terrible person, and if that bothers you, you really should not subscribe to WaPo.
100% he is a shit.
100% there is no universe in with your politics and Bezos’ politics will align in other than an accidental way.
I value your perspective. I value what WaPo brings to the journalistic table. I value what Bezos did at the Zon and what he is doing with Blue Origin and with Kuiper.
Mostly, it bugs the hell out of me that Putin and similar keep exploiting these fracture lines in our society.