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

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"

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

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

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

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.

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