Boy, this song really takes me back.
More seriously, here’s my own video for today :
No heavy handed political message today. I’m done with that for now. Now I am back to being easy breezy Fru wondering about the weird shit his health does.
I mean it about the people who leave comments, by the way. Nothing encourages me like engagement. I even appreciate the sad right wingers who tried to refute my analysis of people like them.
Or rather, failed to do so, attacking my implied worldview instead.
I guess they must have thought my analysis of folks like them was correct. I totally nailed their flaws, defects, and general patheticness.
Nice to know I got it right.
Moving on, after I made today’s video, I decided it was, indeed, time to give UpWork another try. But it was the same as before. No matter what I did, it didn’t recognize my ID, leading me to wonder if it just doesn’t recognize IDs from BC at all.
IT’s not like our IDs are weird or anything. They’re perfectly boring standard photo ID type documents. They don’t have holograms on them or anything.
Anyhow, after the damned thing failed to recognize my ID no matter what I did, I gave up and decided to sign up for one of UpWork’s competitors, a site/app with the depressingly low effort name “GoLance”.
Make UpWork seem dignified and respectable by comparison, dunnit?
Oh well, as long as I get work and get paid through them, they could be called DoctorFart.com for all I care.
Superhero or villain? Tune in and find out!
Come to think of it, I think Doctor Strange is the only major superhero with Doctor in his name. All the other Doctors, like Doctor Octopus and Doctor Doom, are villains.
Even superheroes who genuinely have doctorates like Reed Richards and Bruce Banner don’t make it part of their hero identity.
We really don’t trust smart people, do we?
Anyhow, where was I? Freelance job hunting, right.
So far, GoLance hasn’t asked me to scan my ID or anything stupid like that, and the site seems reasonably solid and well organized.
Apparently there’s no bidding on contracts like there is on UpWork. To be honest, I am not sure what people mean when they are talking about bidding. When I was active on UpWork, everything was done via proposal. If I wanted to apply for a contract, I would fill out a form for my proposal for that job, and the body of that proposal would be my pitch for the job.
Yeah, there was a proposed payment involved but I never thought of myself as bidding on anything. It’s not like some sort of horrible reverse auction where the lowest price wins every time. That would be terrible for the freelancers as it would drive the rates down into the gutter.
Anyhow, I am done with those assholes. On to GoLance.
So far, they don’t seem to have much creative work. Which sucks. But I did a lot of other stuff for UpWork clients. Scut work, really, but what the hell, work is work. If I can do it and they’ll pay me for it, bring it on.
Like I said, it would feel good just to have something to do. I am sick and tired of wasting my time playing video games. I want to do something with a purpose.
I’m sick of feeling like a hamster on a wheel.
I want to feel like a real live adult type human being who gets things done instead.
I’m working on it.
More after the break.
I pulled the trigger
Oh yeah, I finally ordered that new power supply for this ‘puter of mine.
It’s sitting in its Amazon package on the bed behind me. Joe just brought it in from outside the apartment door for me. Thanks Joe!
I must say, I am somewhat alarmed by how damn heavy the thing is. I hope I ended up with the right thing. I ordered what my friend Windchaser told me to order, so it should be all aces from that angle anyhow.
It’s probably just that this is what power supplies weigh these days. I know that to do their job of converting wall current to something the computer can use, they have to have a fairly large condenser in them in order to store the power while it’s being converted, so it would make sense if that made them heavy.
Same reason the adapters I used to get so I could play my handheld video games without batteries used to weigh so much.
I can still smell that combination of plastic, rubber, and ozone odors they gave off when they heated up.
I spent many a happy hour bathed in that scent.
That probably cost me a minute or two off my life. But it was the 70’s, when people still smoked indoors and nobody gave a shit about seat belts or children and lawn darts were considered totally normal toys.
We clearly had no idea what the fuck we were doing.
Anyhow, power supply. I will check to make sure I got what I ordered but assuming I did, it will have to wait till darling Spuug, my tech support cat, can come over next Wednesday to install it for me.
I don’t do hardware. Hardware scares me. If it involves the inside of the computer I leave it to someone more technical than I.
I know that’s silly. The inside isn’t that much more complicated than the outside. It’s still mostly a matter of plugging things into things, like putting together a component stereo.
Still, I would rather not go there. Plus it gives me an excuse to see Spuug and give him a hug and talk with him about science and other nerdy topics.
He’s going to be in Richmond that day for a Linux User Group (LUG) meeting, and it’s at the Richmond Public Library which is like three blocks from here, so it’s the perfect time for him to drop on by.
And I am not in that much of a hurry to get my computer completed correctly.
I’ve waited this long, after all!
Of course, this means I don’t have any spare cash left this month, but whatever. I knew that if I was to do it, I would just have to grit my teeth, spend the money, and deal with the fallout afterwards.
It cost me $85. It would have cost $115 but I got a “like new” used one.
Amazon themselves guarantees it, so I figure I can trust the self-interest of vast faceless corporate monoliths who don’t want to have to pay to replace it.
That’s how the system is supposed to work!
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.