It's been a couple weeks now since they messed with policy and made the default empty tab in Edge generate a certificate error.
And as of Thursday—as I already complained about—they done did something that fucked up access to Gmail.
At best, this is a temporary hinderance that heralds the approach of an inspection.
At worst, some incompetent rando implemented a policy change for no reason.
I do accept that this could be a tier or two above the organization itself, but still.
Embarrassment and stubbed toes all around.
21 cars on the road this morning, including two police cruisers hidden off in a small alcove.
Nice try, fellas, but I see you.
Weekend was more or less a wash.
Didn't do shit other than drink and game, the final culmination of which was completing Death Stranding 2 last night.
36 hours total, it was typical bizarre Japanese story telling whose final few hours were complete fan service.
Solid 10/10, no notes.
Hell, they even heard the loud complaints about the more than half hour of unskippable credits from the original.
Other than that... not really much of anything.
Veterans Affairs disability investigation continues to progress through various stages before being reset back to evidence gathering.
So... not really optimal, but at least it's activity, I guess.
Meant to go check out the boat this weekend, but Mandy was particularly... extroverted, and I couldn't trust that she'd be back in time for when I wanted to head up there, so... I didn't. Of course, the blame ultimately falls to me since I just didn't wanna leave the house.
...And then I did more thinking about it this weekend and realized that at best case, I'd only get two days to mess with the boat any given week. Maybe more if it's operational enough to move from the Hampton area down here to Virginia Beach.
But even then, since Mandy has her social outings she's obviously free to go on, I'd only get an extra two days. More than half the week, sure, but those extra two days are work days, and I'm generally not willing to do much else after a work day is over.
Meh.
We'll see what happens.
Boat dude has been pretty silent since last Wednesday, so maybe that refund request I'd put in went through and he wrote me off.
On the work front, I'm slightly concerned that I didn't do something last week that I was on the hook for due to my general dislike of the projects involved.
And I'm not alone on that: they're projects whose scope continues to increase little by little, and it just adds to my frustration with this place and its lack of overall standard operating procedure (SOP).
At one of my previous commands, they had what they called the "OSCAR" series of SOPs, the first of which was a SOP about writing SOPs.
And it was itself structured in a way that made it the de facto template for future SOPs.
I loved it.
So yeah, my guilt was pretty much perched on my shoulder up until yesterday afternoon when I remembered: nobody here does their job to the maximum, so I'm allowed to have my faults, too.
So fuck it.
I hate that I'm willing to accept that as a mindset, but... here we are.
I think I'm gonna see if I can't free myself of those projects by shaking them off on to Carl.
...Since one way or the other, my time here is pretty much numbered.
Whether because I finally get rated 100% disabled and don't need the job, or find a better one.
Which brings me to that opening Steve had recommended.
Was gonna apply this weekend, but obviously slacked.
But maybe that's not a bad thing, per the Google reviews. Though I guess there theoretically could have been a bank there at one point? Meh, still still go through the motions I guess.
Only bank in that area that I remember was SunTrust, though.
...And it's been so long since I've been there that I don't even know if they're still there?
Eh.
Meh.
Nothing else going on worth mention.
Not here, anyway.
Five days until the weekend.