09:15 – Barbara called last night around 7:30 to say her dad was back at home and doing pretty well. I was mistaken about Frances staying with their mom and dad tonight. Barbara said they’re going to leave their parents alone tonight and just keep their fingers crossed that Dutch will settle in.
I got another batch of biology kits assembled yesterday. Today, among other things, I’ll start building another batch of two dozen chemistry kits. With what’s already on hand, that should give us enough biology and chemistry kits to last through the end of May. Then I’ll get started on building subassemblies for the first batch of 30 life science kits, which start shipping the last week of May.
13:05 – I thought of Barbara’s father when I saw this:
I’ve assembled four dozen science kits in the last two days, which got me down to dangerously low inventory levels on several items. For example, I’m down to only four 12″ lab thermometers and less than 70 splash goggles. Fortunately, I’d just issued a purchase order this morning for 400 thermometers and 400 splash goggles, along with a bunch of other stuff. That vendor had everything I really needed in stock and they generally ship pretty quickly, so I suspect the stuff will arrive late this week or early next. I was also going to order a couple or three gross of 250 mL glass beakers, but this particular vendor doesn’t stock glassware and sells it only by the case. The trouble is, their lead time on glassware is 90 days give or take. Oh, well. I can get those beakers quickly from any of several other wholesalers.
Good news; and good luck with Dutch & Co. today and tonight. Seems like he does far better at home.
Today is last day at the Plantation for OFD after two years with RHEL clusters. And 100% of the emails and phone calls rolling in are for gigs at M$ sites so fah. Bummer.
Great picture and very truthful. Good luck on Dutch!
Which pays more, unix admin or windows server admin?
I’m guessing that’ll depend on the type of shop. Windows Server shops will pay Windows Server admins more, and UNIX shops will pay UNIX admins more.
According to the regular polls I see in my emails and online, the various Microsoft admin positions pay a lot more than any of the UNIX or Linux ones, and topping the whole list is frigging Project Mangling. If the list has fifteen certs listed, for example, eight or ten of them will be M$. My next-younger brother was a UNIX guy for thirty years down in MA and has been outta work now for nearly two years. But it varies according to the type of site and what the local prevailing industry rates are; also whether an admin is permanent (increasingly less common) or temp contractor (more common).
Strange, when I saw that sign, I thought of you. On that same note, I’m going to carefully avoid showing that sign to Mrs. B, because she’ll think it applies to me.