What Are You Doing Right Now? (non OT version)

Legume

Congrats on the nuptials @CPFC1905

SciAggie

@CPFC1905 @Foghorn Congratulations to both of you. It's definitely satistying as a parent to see your children happy and successful. 

shtgunal3

@CPFC1905 and @Foghorn congrats to both of you guys and your children. Great accomplishments indeed.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

nolaegghead said:

Been messing around with some enterprise functionality in Oracle Enterprise in a massive data warehouse.  Specifically, this "parallel" DML mode and the DDL hints are nice, you can even specify the number of processors you want to allocate to a job.

Anyway, this system is super powerful, slated for production. Old production warehouse is a comparative dog.  I did some stuff that would have taken hours and paralyzed a system that ran in minutes.

you should start doing temperature controller reviews

Battleborn

Sitting in the car while my wife has a minor surgery. COVID and the restrictions it brings sucks. 

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - congrats on the news.  Not sure the custom in the UK but here the bride's side is on the hook for the wedding.  If the same, then you are doubly lucky!

The Cen-Tex Smoker

congrats @CPFC1905 ! I'm sure you can hold it together for one evening. If not, you will at least look the part. post pics!

JohnInCarolina

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

nolaegghead said:

Been messing around with some enterprise functionality in Oracle Enterprise in a massive data warehouse.  Specifically, this "parallel" DML mode and the DDL hints are nice, you can even specify the number of processors you want to allocate to a job.

Anyway, this system is super powerful, slated for production. Old production warehouse is a comparative dog.  I did some stuff that would have taken hours and paralyzed a system that ran in minutes.

you should start doing temperature controller reviews

He's already perfectly at ease calling people c0cksucker, so it's like he's more than halfway there!

nolaegghead

huh?

WesJohnson

nerd fight

CPFC1905

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - congrats on the news.  Not sure the custom in the UK but here the bride's side is on the hook for the wedding.  If the same, then you are doubly lucky!

OK, here's the deal;
Daughter 2017 - London (formal) and then down to Provence in a chateau just outside Chateau Neuf du Pape.  Close to Orange and Avignon, an hour north of Marseille. 

Son 2020 - Covid; him & her plus 13 guests.  No hymns at church and no party afterwards.   

Yes we pay for daughters too.

But in the interests of transparency I did not fund all of daughter's, suffice to say she's done well for herself.   And my gift from her was a Large BGE.  So you have her to blame. 

lousubcap

@CPFC1905- Thanks for the backstory.  Daughter must have had a pretty strong sense of the right gift.  A BGE is not what would be obvious to me.  However, you got here...

Kayak

Battleborn said:

Sitting in the car while my wife has a minor surgery. COVID and the restrictions it brings sucks. 

Hope everything went well. My wife had to wait outside the urgent care while I got glued back together a few weeks back.

Battleborn

Kayak said:

Battleborn said:

Sitting in the car while my wife has a minor surgery. COVID and the restrictions it brings sucks. 

Hope everything went well. My wife had to wait outside the urgent care while I got glued back together a few weeks back.

Appreciate that. She is doing well. She had her gallbladder removed. It was surprisingly quick. Had her there at 0600 and was back home in bed by 0900. 

Kayak

Battleborn said:

Kayak said:

Battleborn said:

Sitting in the car while my wife has a minor surgery. COVID and the restrictions it brings sucks. 

Hope everything went well. My wife had to wait outside the urgent care while I got glued back together a few weeks back.

Appreciate that. She is doing well. She had her gallbladder removed. It was surprisingly quick. Had her there at 0600 and was back home in bed by 0900. 

She's lucky it fit out the little holes!

Battleborn

Quick story from the road yesterday, kind of goes along with my above post. 

I responded to a welfare check of a 72 year old male that lived alone. One of his friends called us and said that she had not heard from the man in five days, which was odd because they talked every single day since they were 19. He was a drinker and would call her even more when he had been drinking. 

I get to the house and notice an Amazon package on the door and hang tag from a plumbing company about a missed appointment. Checked the mail box and it was stuffed full. Given everything I had seen, I called a locksmith to make entry. I knew 100% that this gentleman was no longer with us. I went so far as to have my report written by the time the locksmith got there. 

Locksmith shows up and opens the door. The smell of death immediately hit my partner and I. We go in and as we are clearing the house my partner calls over to me “he’s laying in the bathroom. Looks like he is dead.” We go to take a closer look.

Nope, he is breathing. Turns out he went on a massive bender and passed out in the bathroom hitting his head. I give the true heroes, the firefighters, a call to come take him to the hospital. I follow. When we entered the ER, I couldn’t believe what I saw. The place was packed. Beds lining the hallway, chairs filled with people everywhere. 

Moral of this long winded story. Do everything you can to protect yourself and stay out of the hospital. It doesn’t look like a fun place to be right now. 

Acn

Last night’s dinner:

Navy bean soup in the slow cooker for tonight’s dinner:

Just for fun:

nolaegghead

You saved the guy's life.  Or put him in overloaded ER-purgatory (but not your fault).  Normally I'm guessing if time is short you'd just bust a window and gain entry and not call a locksmith.

I went down some rabbit hole a few weeks ago (or days, time is a blur) and ended up, among other places, learning that there's something called "Old people smell"....something studied enough to have its own wiki article.

Some of these chemicals are metabolites of other chemicals that we find in food.  Turns out you can smell more like an "old person" depending on what your eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_person_smell

Bravo, sir.

nolaegghead

addendum:  do you ever fire breaching rounds or is that just SWAT?

frazzdaddy

@Battleborn, I echo @nolaegghead here. You saved a mans life. Well done sir.
Attending my sons swearing in at a new department Tuesday. Thank you for what you do.

Battleborn

nolaegghead said:

You saved the guy's life.  Or put him in overloaded ER-purgatory (but not your fault).  Normally I'm guessing if time is short you'd just bust a window and gain entry and not call a locksmith.

I went down some rabbit hole a few weeks ago (or days, time is a blur) and ended up, among other places, learning that there's something called "Old people smell"....something studied enough to have its own wiki article.

Some of these chemicals are metabolites of other chemicals that we find in food.  Turns out you can smell more like an "old person" depending on what your eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_person_smell

Bravo, sir.

That is correct, if there is exigency, like I can hear someone yelling for help or can see trauma from a window, the door would be booted. However, with everything I had, there was no exigency but plenty to make a warrantless entry for community caretaking. 

The smell, as it turns out, was from a broken sewer line (missed plumber appointment card). However, the smell of a decaying body is one that will be with you forever. 

Battleborn

nolaegghead said:

addendum:  do you ever fire breaching rounds or is that just SWAT?

Here it is only SWAT, but I do carry entry tools in my car (ram, halogen, bolt cutters, etc)

frazzdaddy said:

@Battleborn, I echo @nolaegghead here. You saved a mans life. Well done sir.
Attending my sons swearing in at a new department Tuesday. Thank you for what you do.

Congrats to your son! Nothing better than swearing in. 

SciAggie

@Battleborn Kudos for saving the guy. It's funny though when you mentioned smells one never forgets, it triggered one for me. A couple of times during my ranching days I had to pull rotting placenta from a cow that didn't shed the afterbith after calving. The smell (and sound as it tears loose) is another that is not soon forgotten.

nolaegghead

I have smelled decaying bodies more than I care to remember and you're right, it sticks with you.  Most were animals but it took months to get all the bodies out of structures. Now, New Orleans can smell bad in the best of times, but the smell of death hung over the area for months and month.   I was all over the place, had a lot of free time with no working office and working internet for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM8Rtr4SOQ

shtgunal3

Sitting in a waiting room waiting on the wife who is getting a root canal. I’m not sure which is worse. The waiting or the root canal?

SonVolt

I had one a few months ago and thought it wasn't that much worse than getting a filling. 

Kayak

nolaegghead said:

I have smelled decaying bodies more than I care to remember and you're right, it sticks with you.  Most were animals but it took months to get all the bodies out of structures. Now, New Orleans can smell bad in the best of times, but the smell of death hung over the area for months and month.   I was all over the place, had a lot of free time with no working office and working internet for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM8Rtr4SOQ

My buddies guard unit spent months there, hauling out bodies and doing what guard units do. He experienced smells he never did in combat.

GATraveller

Last time I had a root canal I was in so much pain the procedure was a welcomed relief. 

Battleborn

nolaegghead said:

I have smelled decaying bodies more than I care to remember and you're right, it sticks with you.  Most were animals but it took months to get all the bodies out of structures. Now, New Orleans can smell bad in the best of times, but the smell of death hung over the area for months and month.   I was all over the place, had a lot of free time with no working office and working internet for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM8Rtr4SOQ

I was there for a bit after Katrina on the Iwo Jima. Didn’t stay long because I went to a school, but man that was awful, what little bit I saw. 

TEXASBGE2018

Made some pasta with homemade pesto cream sauce and chicken also a French country loaf. Not a bad dinner at all.