one of the fun parts of being an engineering consultant is seeing projects you worked on being released, and sometimes to great fanfare in a news article. the more fun part is when the client gets full credit for all the development and engineering.

Officially at the stage in life where Spotify lists my daylist as "nostalgia dad rock wednesday morning" and it's actually a bunch of stuff I like

The fact that I get so many of these ads on podcasts followed immediately by the phone numbers for gambling addiction help lines because they KNOW it's a problem is jarring every time

I have a habit of planning ahead when I do a task I think I may have to deal with again, then I completely forget about it.
Then a year or so later when I have to deal with it again, I'm like "oh cool thank you past Kyle, this was super convenient"

"Hey my racist followers, should I rehire the racist guy who said racist stuff?"

very frustrating that I didn't fuck around, yet now I am being forced to find out

nothing primes me to have a calm, reasonable discussion with a representative than 36 minutes of the same 30 second soft-rock guitar riff on repeat

We've just accepted that any healthcare related things are her domain because I get very confused, while she gets very obstinate and refuses to back off when the representative isn't helpful

My Wife: So you're telling me this "Allowable maximum" is just whatever you feel like paying that day, it's not a set figure based on billing codes
Cigna rep: Yes, an-
My Wife: I KNEW IT
*hangs up*

Anyway, health insurance in the US is as awful as ever

I can see it as white and gold or blue and gold. The white has a blueish tint to me, so I think my mind is saying "it's just the lighting" for that. I cannot see the black at all though.

There's a football game on and it's sponsored by "Go Bowling" which is the most straightforward ad campaign I have ever seen

A list of snowplow name suggestions from kindergarten thru 4th grade classes including "Control Salt Delete"

Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards

Driving near D.C. I noticed most of the huge buildings with big logos are right wing lobbyists. Weird that they apparently need to show up with a ton of money to get their ideas across.

I was so close to not having to deal with stupid things at work, but I took a vacation. Lo and behold, stupid things have transpired, and now I must deal with them.

For anyone else curious, looks like this starts out over Ireland and England, then travels southeast on an arc. You can see Pairs brightly, then Italy about halfway through the video, then cloud coverage until what I assume would be northern Africa

I'm an engineer but sometimes I do design work and when that happens I'm referred to as Kylé