New Week

Think I wrote 4 posts last week, but I didn't share any of them because they all had the same theme.

I dropped my Steam Deck, and broke the joystick on it, ordered replacement parts and fixed it. Happy to have that ability, and it is a good reminder to purchase things from companies that let you repair them, instead of companies that fight hard to prevent you from repairing their products. (Hi Apple)

Except the problem was I didn't fix it. I bought a replacement set of hall effect joysticks on Amazon, and the package they sent me had already been sent out to someone else before. That person replaced their left joystick because it was drifting, and returned the set it for a refund. So when I put it in my system I got their drifting joystick.

I had to order another set, replace the joystick again, and sent the original set back. I put a post-it note on the outside, and inside of the box that one of these is defective, and not to resell it, but I'm sure it'll end up in the hands of someone else yet again.

Last Wednesday I sat through an all hands meeting with the CIO, where he spent 20 minutes talking about the Scotty tool, and how it would be the future for how we automate server provisioning and migration.

Named for both the Star Trek character, and Scott, the engineer that wrote it, it "beams" VM's around or across data centers, automating the provisioning of all the storage, and reconfiguration of the network settings to make it possible.

Scotty was a project that Scott built is his nights and weekends trying to make his and the lives of the other engineers across various teams easier. That's why it was so painful to sit there and listen to the CIO talk about what an important tool it is, when he's the one that laid Scott off 6 months ago.

Wednesday night I was playing Overwatch with some of my regular friends group, and my monopolistic cable ISP had another one of their nights where they struggle to provide service. I got dropped from several games in a row before I gave up.

Thursday I played a few games by myself which I rarely do. The first game we were playing against someone using wallhacks, as evidenced by the fact that they kept shooting at the walls thinking the person behind them was in line of sight. We got steamrolled, it sucked.

The next game was against someone using aimbots. Not wanting to waste my time again I dropped. The next game, more aimbots. I dropped again, and was banned for 24 hours as a repeat offender for leaving games. It was just quick play games, so didn't affect anyone's comp rank. But I guess mine was the bigger offense than cheating. Sucked that I couldn't hang out with my friends who all showed up a little bit after that.

Looking back they're all crappy things that I needed to deal with and move on from. But in the moment, they all seemed to pile up on top of each other and together seemed to be a bigger deal than they were. They all combined into a sort of a Voltron of "This is why the world sucks."

Anyway time to move on to another week. And while this one certainly will bring its own set of challenges, here's hoping at least I have a little bit of time and space between them to deal with them individually.

-af

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