Short day for me here. It has been a long work week. At least the new guy is likable.

Yesterday was the first time all year we hit triple digits heat. It was 102 officially. It is likely the only time all year it will happen. We are forecast for just 90s and then a cold front comes through and we go to the 80s. I am ready. I love summer, but I prefer 80s for the high.

Last night we did our standard Friday night go out to eat. Since the Elky is sick with a leaking transmission we went in the 911. As we approached the area of the restaurant, we noticed all the lights were just dead, no lights at all. When we walked in to the restaurant we knew why, the lights were out. They cook with natural gas for food was still served. We ate by window light and emergency lights. When it was time to pay, no credit card machine. Fortunately I carry cash just for situations like that of "oh crap the CC machine is dead" and we paid and headed home.

As we were getting in the 911 a 2020 Chalk colored 911 rolled in. He had had it for a whole week.

For the drive back the home the power was coming back on but still lots of siting at a light since it was Friday nigh rush hour. The 911 blew nice cold air, and got up to 210 and I was about to turn the oil cooler fan but we were home so I just parked it.

I saw the weather forecast last night. He mentioned that for August we are 3.5 degree below normal. Whoo Hooo.

After this Labor Day we are supposed to get some highs in the 89s and lows in the 50s.

Moring all. Had a great weekend away from work but not people. To many out and about. AT two beaches we couldn't find parking. Dinners were take out and back to the rental house. Found one geo as the cell reception was not that great. Took a ferry across the sound to have an outdoor lunch with my sister.

Fun was had by all.

Now get back to work!

Glad you and the family had fun, that is the important part.

yep that is. I have 17 more days to burn before year end.

It is so typical of most work places, some people are always out of vacation days and sick leave, and others seem to have to use it or lose it at the end of the year.

Much like the chronic 5 to 10 minute late every single day folks. They just can't get there on time, but leave at 4:59 or before.

Oh will not lose it. I'll take the last 17 days of the year off if needed. I think its just stupid that Washington state has not adopted the laws like CA and CO have where when you earn it you get to keep it and not be worried about use it or lose it.

Our PTO rolls over from year to year but if you accumulate too much you have to use it or sell it back. I think 250 hours is the limit.

The previous tech that worked for me was always out of PTO because he would take off to help another family business then complain he couldn't take a real vacation.

For now they separate the sick from vacation. If they roll the two into PTO I want out. Studies have shown that straight PTO people will come to work sick so as not to have time off for vacation later. Thanks but I reserve the right to Lysol you from head to toe as you head out the door.

One of the problems with that is, lots of state employees in Kalifornia save up all their sick leave and vacation time, and cash it out when they retire.
That jacks up their income in their last year, which inflates their pension big-time.
Throw in a bunch of overtime in that last year, and they can come pretty close to 100% of their full-time pay as pension.

That gets really expensive for the people who pay the taxes to cover it.

Well in my case I work for a private company so my retirement is all on me. But at the end of every year I have to fight for a roll over of vacation hours cause they just cant let me take them off right now.

Government retirement plans are usually over promised, and underfunded. It has no relationship to private industry.

We had a 1.6 inches of rain yesterday, and that should put us into a above normal for August range. We had another 1.4 inches today. The state can thank us for the rain.

One of clients that operates at slow motion when it is their job to set the targets finishes that in the clear weather. Then the skies fill with clouds, and even thunderstorms. They may well get to reset the targets. It is out of our hands, but we needed the rain, I just wish it was after we had the project flown.

Morning all. Long day yesterday so I hope today is short or normal.

Morning all. Last and first. That's odd for me.

Once again somehow someone is hacking into my wife's Cox email account. Then they go straight to her Amazon account and try to order some weird stuff. Amazon has been great, and they just require a text verification, so that stops them.

The cox email has been hacked on 07/18 08/04 08/22 and today. That is insane. The password we use is one than no human is guessing and only a computer program banging away at it would ever crack it. It is long, has numbers upper and lower case and special characters. Yet somehow they get in, and Cox detects the suspicious activity, and changed the password to something simple. I have to log in on my main account, and start over. We did change her security question. Maybe it will takes longer than 10 days next time.

wow good luck with that I hope it stops. Probably some kid schooling at home with nothing better to do.

More likely some professionals in a foreign country. How knows.

Cox is getting out of the email business. I have 4 email accounts with them. The no longer allow me to add one, just delete them. I bet they unwilling to spend more than minimum amounts to maintain it, and want it to die. It seems crazy for an internet provider to not support email. I guess lots of folks use one with Gmail or Hotmail and they are not making money on it.

The MIL has one of those but refuses to switch to her Gmail on her phone and continues to pay some fee every month for the one she got years ago in Bend.

The cox email is "free" with my internet connection, so no cost involved just for the email.