Plook on Tour

BTW Poly made me do a spit check on my coffee when I read his post this morning...

Plus Plus on that one. Maybe Zappa needed the release from composing things like Dupree's Paradise and Herb &Mo's Vacation (which of course the title was a dig at Herb Cohen & Mo Austin).

But he had also done zanny tracks from way back in Studio Z

It’s a Plook on Tour Golf & Stuff


Went golfing 2 weeks ago and we had a 2 ½ hour frost delay, the drive was clear and cold at dawn…:guitar2:





Golf Henge was aligned…





Burrrr…:duh:







Then the sun came out and it was nice…





I made a Taco Omelet it came out good…:drums:





Last week there was no frost delay but it never got out of the low 40’s…:wow:








A heron was sunning in the sand trap on a par 3…





Winnie is trying to figure out what is going on next door…:grin:





While Minnie snuck into my golf bag pulled out all the practices balls and found a couple she wanted…





I found this picture of downtown Los Angeles when I flew there in September…





And finally for some humor…

Dam, it is official I am getting sacked March 29th unless I can find another position in the company...

We got walloped by the atmospheric river 730,000 people lost power in Nor Cal my power was off for 14 hours the longest by far since i moved into the house nearly 23 years ago. So Cal is in a state of emergency most schools are closed most business's too, but through it all Starbucks is open and everyone was there getting coffee this morning...

Internet was down too and the cell towers went into conserve mode so you could not hit the internet on your phone.

I had a fence down that I had to fix went to Lowes and it seemed like everyone was buying material to fix a fence.

Pool was loaded with tree debris and front and side yards were covered so I cleaned them all.

Someone about 5 streets up from my street was killed by a falling tree and Kats daughters friend and her mother were driving and a tree fell on the back of their brand new SUV fortunately they were unhurt.

The mountains got 5 feet of snow overnight and we got 3 inches of rain in about 4 hours.

So Cal got ripped also and they declared a state of emergency and put out a stay home order to allow clean up crews to do their thing.

The spark arrestor got ripped off the top of my chimney and anything that wasn't nailed down was going for a ride.

My dog Minnie isn't scared of anything she wanted out to investigate every noise, Kat said it is the only dog she every saw that ran towards fireworks...lol

Poor Winnie has PTSD and it was so sad how frightened she was, I had to get on the floor and hug her for some time and it ain't easy for this old man to get on the floor or get back up for that matter...

It's Flash Back Friday....:shocked:




Dust off the Pirate Ship...:drums:






Get suited up...:guitar2:







OH Yeah....:guitar:

But its Saturday here

I'm taking notes

Happy Valentines Day to all our friends at the Goose from Plook and Kat...:kiss:

I made Kat a card with pictures from our travels over the last 5 1/2 years, it ended up being a small book...


Fun Fact - We saw Dweezil it was almost his last show with the Zappa Plays Zappa band in San Francisco in 2020 right before the Pandemic, the show was February 13th and we stayed for Valentines Day on the 14th (4 years ago today) it was a great time.


When driving back on the 15th I had the local news radio on since they have traffic reports every 10 minutes which helps one reroute in case of big back-ups, but I digress...a story came on the news talking about a flu in China from a Bat that was killing people at a high rate and I told Kat this sounds like the movie Contagion and this could be serious, she had never seen the movie.


When we got back since she never saw the movie we watched it and she said "Are you trying to scare me..." well the that turned out to be prophetic and the takeaway is we all were lucky their wasn't a pig in the lineage of the Covid 19...:freak:

Chiko Roll for me :biggrin:

Can I pick all that apply...


I have done one to many corporate trainings...:freak:


Stay tuned for a BIG Announcement...:drums:

Remember to watch for the Friday Announcement







What a minute...We have a preview






:puzzled:

Here it comes...:drums:





I got the call Wednesday that am being offered a position with my current company working on determining the scope of projects that will run through at least August and possibly longer with the ability to apply for positions as requisition become available on the Career Hub at work.



Apparently my Line Manager from a few years ago herd I was getting cut loose and he is the Director for this Project that is a $14 Billion contract over 5 yerars...:shocked:






Since its Friday we better breakout the Pirate Ship...:guitar:







Get suited up for some Jellyfish Honey Badger Wrestling...:guitar2:















Oh Yeah...:bouncy:

Good news Plook, Cream always floats to the top and I'm not talking Eric or Ginger here maybe Jack thou

Had to get on a Teams Meeting at 6:30 am Pacific Time to meet the trainees that will replace myself and my counterpart.


We have 4 weeks to train them...:shocked:


But they want us to try and do it in 2...


Yes lets impart over 20 years of knowledge in 2 weeks...:freak:

They have me working my ass off at the salt mines, it is nuts...

My week at work doing to many roles...:drums:

Now I know what I have to look forward too tomorrow...

Over did that jump a bit, but I stuck the landing...

Its Friday Night and the Moon is Full...:grin:







The Jellyfish are active...:kiss:









The Pirate Ship is ready...:drums:








Gather the Crew...:guitar2:








Where's the Captain...:guitar:










Yes I have been working on my abs...




It's Friday Night Jellyfish Honey Badger Wrestling Time....:shocked:

Kat got some bad news about family stuff so the boat never left the dock...

Sorry to hear Plook, our dock is dry these days

Its getting worked out, a little inner family conflict which Kat is summoned on for her input...:freak:


You and Mrs. E need to scrape the barnacles off the hull it get sea worthy...

Eddie you need to pull up in this...:guitar2:

Laying low tonight and keeping the ship docked...:freak:

Its a very nice piece of beach, plus there is are nudist resorts a little further down the coast on Bog Lane :shy:

https://www.sunlandholidayvillage.net.au/index.php

https://www.facebook.com/p/Lake-Saint-Clair-Nature-Retreat-1...
1107 Bog Lane, Nora Creina, SA, Australia, South Australia

Oh crap, I can't unsee that...

you mean the Robe/ DisRobe sign

I was offered the Northwest Senior Construction Manager position and I applied, I have already been contacted 3 times in two days to answer questions. I have not been interviewed yet but I am sure that is coming soon.


I was not thrilled about this due to going back to traveling a lot (up to 50% travel), but the pay is more, the range varies between $5000 to $30,000 more than I make now...:shocked:


That concerns me since it probably relates to increased heartburn...


I was immediately told to take a training for how to perform some of the tasks in our master data base that a CM must perform.


It amounted to a shitload of data entree responsibilities that was immediately depressing to considerer...:mad:


I just keep remembering it is only for a few more years and I can apply for another position later if I sour on it...:verycool:

I got an call this morning and my interview is Monday morning...:guitar2:

A similar situation occurred in Malibu California a few of decades ago, the rich and famous had erected barriers to keep the common folk from encroaching onto the beaches in front of their homes.


This lead to the State of California creating a beach access rule to allow the public to be able to get too the ocean, I am not sure of the details but there must be access points every so many feet or some distance (maybe ever quarter mile something like that).


Many beach communities besides Malibu had the homes and fences situated so one could not get to the beach there without circumnavigating a great distance (as surfers we often made the hike if the waves were good...dam surf rats), the easements were created to create a pathway to the beach.


That was when Frank wrote Let Me Take You To The Beach....

It's Your Weekend Update...:drums:




Had my interview Monday and it went well may not find out for sure for a couple weeks due to the amount of candidates...:grin:


They really liked my resume I ran it through AI and that shit is awesome check it out...:roll:






I saw my Cardiologist...Yesterday he said all my heart problems are so far away now it looks like I am here to stay...:guitar2:





So much good news we should break out the ship...:shocked:






Now I need to find a Jellyfish Mermaid Pirate Girl...:guitar:














Mother Mary and Joseph I need a lab to mix this up...

Good stuff Plook, let me know if you find the Jellyfish Mermaid Pirate Girl secret

There is still access to vast tracts of public land here which suit the Grey Nomad caravaners free camping on there trips around Oz, so can't complain too much

Hey, I figured it out. Eddie's Robe/Disrobe picture above is 3024 x 4032, which is huge, so you type the image code as follows, but using square brackets of course:

(img=600x800)https://www.sunlandholidayvillage.net.au/images/2018/08/05/IMG_2729.jpg(/img)

And you get this:

To late...

OMG I am in training for scoping radio sites for mobile phones and I am pretty sure I if I owned a gun I would shot myself...

This is going to be a painful transition...

Quote: Originally posted by Plook

OMG I am in training for scoping radio sites for mobile phones and I am pretty sure I if I owned a gun I would shot myself... This is going to be a painful transition...

That sounds like a curious job Plook. You must be in the CIA.

Quote: Originally posted by Eddie RUKidding

Careful you will burn Plooks eyes out again :biggrin:

Are you going to go back and edit that post? All you have to do is replace [img] with [img=600x800]. For future reference, all you have to do is find out the resolution of the picture you want to post and use an appropriately scaled size for it. Your one here is 3032 x 4048, which is why I used a 3:4 ratio of 600x800.

True story we were working at the main west coast hub for the internet coming from the far east when the site technician discovered the splice by the NSA and that it was located where they could gather domestic side not just the international traffic.


There is a great show about this on PBS from 2009 called The Spy Factory. After the set up about the cause, terrorism, it gives a good look at internet backbone which I worked on for 10 years.


The last 13 years I have been working in the mobile device end, started on CORE which is internet backbone for mobile phones that lasted 7 years. Since I worked with Radio Base Sites (Cell Towers, etc.), Small Cell which is replacing WiFi out doors, In-Building which is replacing WiFi indoors, Private Networks which is an indoor cell solution for business's, and now they are shipping me off to Material Ordering.

A total waste of my expertise and something I do not like or want to do, but it may be the only way to keep my job for a couple more years until I retire.


I did apply internally for a Senior Construction Manager job for the Pacific Northwest that I have not heard back about, it pays substantially more, but it brings with it a lot more heartburn and going back on the road which I did for more than 15 years with 7 years being constantly gone as the Plook on Tour readers know well.

Well I said to much motivated by great disappointment...:freak:


When I started...:shocked:





Now...

Seems like hard times in the US.

We are largely not affected by the economic downturn in Oz (so far) my son however works out of Adelaide in Cyber Security for a Norwegian company that seems to not be making the money they want and is enforcing - must take accursed annual leave and only travel when approved by CEO requirements on employees- sounds like a lead up to selling the company.

I'm just glad to be semi retired, although I worked 30 hours last week and will be similar this week- and its cutting in on my Zappa listening and guitar playing time

Well I survived another week of Scoping Training and my brain feels like this...






I would like to break out the Pirate Ship but Kat is a little under the weather so she be staying docked...






The Jellyfish sleeps tonight...

LOL...Poly I ended up staring at it for a long time, it is something...

It makes my brain hurt lol
I'm sure an economist would say its non optimal

It's Your Friday Update....:singer:






Kat went back to work after going to urgent care and staying home all week...:grin:






I started a new job Monday, as I said I was working in BOM (Bill Of Material) creation which was not a good fit for me because I do not know all the different material (there are over 6000 items on one of the 3 lists we use) I complained last week (after 2 weeks of training) that I am familiar with the material but I don't know a CEQ.328861 TMA Amplifier from a CEQ.328862 TMA Amplifier...:puzzled:




I am now in SAQ (Site Acquisition) where we assess the site for the new scope of work, this I can do and I actually turned in 3 sites this week already....:guitar2:


The problem is two fold, one the director wants certain production levels regardless of issues with the site documentation and the shortfalls of the drone photos he is basically running a salt mine...:umm:





At least the process flow is less complex...






I should be good till my next pre-selected termination date of August, at least that gives me time to cook up another job saver....:drums:

Eddie I have been known to flow...


Maybe I can get Bonny to monetize my posts...


Great news hopefully you found someone willing to put with those POS's next door...:grin:

The Week That Was Update!




The good news is I am doing well in the Site Acquisition position, it is very complex but I am really good at analyzing cell sites and determining what the scope of work will be...







The bad news is I found out Thursday I did not get the Senior Construction Manager position I had applied for internally, well everyone thought I was the most qualified person there were probably others that were equal too or slightly lesser but younger...I am pretty sure I got aged out for the position, very disappointing...





The upside is I have until the end of August to find another position or prove that I am good enough at Site Acquisition to keep me on, all I can do is keep on rockin'...:guitar:...and hang in there...

It's Friday Night and here is your Update....:singer:






I thought I was a goner on Tuesday they said 60% of the Site Reviews we were working on got sent to a subcontractor...:shocked:






It turns out everything is fine and we have to review their work, so back to good until August...:bouncy:






Kats finally feeling better she had a rough go of it but the Pirate Girl is back...







I better make sure the ship is sea worthy...:guitar2: