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With the proj manager and immediate supervisor leaving, I'm one of the people who'll be taking on 'interim tasks'. Not project managing, but doing some of the smaller stuff (authorisations and approvals in our Testing system).
Proj Manager was making cheerful and hopeful noises about getting me into permanency with the company...but I'm going to backtrack on that. I just don't want to. And if I lose the job...well, I lose the job.
It will make things more difficult financially, yes, but more in a 'discretionary spending' way rather than a bills-and-food way. The windows and the solar can be paid off with the mortgage offset, and then we're just back to paying off the mortgage slow and steady.
If I lose the job, I'll get somewhere else sooner or later - I have the right combo of skills and security access for government work - whether or not I can do it as comfortably, easily, and with such good people as I've had in this department? That's another question. But plenty of people take worse jobs for poorer pay, and I know I've been incredibly fortunate these last couple of years. I might get lucky another year or two more, who knows.
And yes, I'm planning for things that might not happen. That's how I manage my anxiety: I have the cascading plans for 'if this, then that'. Maybe that's the programmer in me: "If this, then that. Elseif this, then that. Elseif this, then that. Otherwise we'll just do this."
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Speaking of work, going down to the offices for the first half of next week, to meet a whole bunch of people I haven't yet met (was last there May 2021). At least it was next week and not this week, because two years ago, it was US Election 2020 and that was a really rough night away from almost all my support groups.
As it is, looks like the news is "not great" but "not as bad as was initially feared" and actually "a damn sight better than almost anytime it's midterms". There's always hope that Americans are coming around to the idea that 'all politics is important, all the time'. (I still think y'all need mandatory voting, and an independent (bipartisan) Electoral Commission, but hey, nobody's perfect...)
I posted a brief tiktok on Why US Elections Are On Tuesdays for an Aussie friend who never considered how classist having to vote mid-week is, and some American bros found it and are all "OMG, you blamed white males for something else" which, uh, yes, voting is inconvenient for so many people because once upon a time only the landowning class could vote and so they didn't travel on the Sabbath, they travelled on Monday, voted/marketed Tuesday, went home Wednesday, and still had Thursday-Saturday to work their land. And the US landowning class was bloody well comprised of White Males. So, yes, White Males
Protecting Their Own Interests Really Do Ruin Everything. Great golly gosh, idiots, get with the history.
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I have some pretty good pics of the lunar eclipse c/o my camera and a sky photography app that enables 100x magnification. They're still blurry because I needed tripod (and an actual lesson in how to use the damn app) but for a phone camera they're damn good!
Blood moon and spooky full moon:
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Parentals are back this morning, and I spent 3.5 hours retrieving them (and their luggage, which this time actually arrived with them) from the airport.
I hate Sydney traffic. I always forget how much until I actually need to drive through it for some reason.
Which means B1 is back in the house. We're going to discuss sorting, boxing, packing, and storage for stuff. Still need to find out how much a portable pod costs to hire for, say, four months...
Proj Manager was making cheerful and hopeful noises about getting me into permanency with the company...but I'm going to backtrack on that. I just don't want to. And if I lose the job...well, I lose the job.
It will make things more difficult financially, yes, but more in a 'discretionary spending' way rather than a bills-and-food way. The windows and the solar can be paid off with the mortgage offset, and then we're just back to paying off the mortgage slow and steady.
If I lose the job, I'll get somewhere else sooner or later - I have the right combo of skills and security access for government work - whether or not I can do it as comfortably, easily, and with such good people as I've had in this department? That's another question. But plenty of people take worse jobs for poorer pay, and I know I've been incredibly fortunate these last couple of years. I might get lucky another year or two more, who knows.
And yes, I'm planning for things that might not happen. That's how I manage my anxiety: I have the cascading plans for 'if this, then that'. Maybe that's the programmer in me: "If this, then that. Elseif this, then that. Elseif this, then that. Otherwise we'll just do this."
--
Speaking of work, going down to the offices for the first half of next week, to meet a whole bunch of people I haven't yet met (was last there May 2021). At least it was next week and not this week, because two years ago, it was US Election 2020 and that was a really rough night away from almost all my support groups.
As it is, looks like the news is "not great" but "not as bad as was initially feared" and actually "a damn sight better than almost anytime it's midterms". There's always hope that Americans are coming around to the idea that 'all politics is important, all the time'. (I still think y'all need mandatory voting, and an independent (bipartisan) Electoral Commission, but hey, nobody's perfect...)
I posted a brief tiktok on Why US Elections Are On Tuesdays for an Aussie friend who never considered how classist having to vote mid-week is, and some American bros found it and are all "OMG, you blamed white males for something else" which, uh, yes, voting is inconvenient for so many people because once upon a time only the landowning class could vote and so they didn't travel on the Sabbath, they travelled on Monday, voted/marketed Tuesday, went home Wednesday, and still had Thursday-Saturday to work their land. And the US landowning class was bloody well comprised of White Males. So, yes, White Males
Protecting Their Own Interests Really Do Ruin Everything. Great golly gosh, idiots, get with the history.
--
I have some pretty good pics of the lunar eclipse c/o my camera and a sky photography app that enables 100x magnification. They're still blurry because I needed tripod (and an actual lesson in how to use the damn app) but for a phone camera they're damn good!
Blood moon and spooky full moon:
--
Parentals are back this morning, and I spent 3.5 hours retrieving them (and their luggage, which this time actually arrived with them) from the airport.
I hate Sydney traffic. I always forget how much until I actually need to drive through it for some reason.
Which means B1 is back in the house. We're going to discuss sorting, boxing, packing, and storage for stuff. Still need to find out how much a portable pod costs to hire for, say, four months...
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