Happy St. Potty's Day from the Denver team. Hoping everyone has a fun and safe holiday!

Good morning

Crazy Day Coming

Last night Jen and I stayed at the hotel that is hosting her company’s function. I got up at 5:30, took a shower, and drove home. It’s a little wacky, but I am working from home on a day when we aren’t actually home. Does that make sense? No? So what, it’s how it is. Heh.

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Tomorrow I will work in the office, so I’ll be driving there from the hotel instead of from home. That’s going to be weird too. I was thinking that I would bring my camera with me and wander around the city after work tonight, but if I am going straight to work in the morning I will have my work laptop with me… so I think I will be going to the hotel after work, and it will be late enough that the sun will be down by the time I get there and put my stuff away. So maybe I won’t be wandering around the city after all. Maybe I’ll just stay in the room and watch Daredevil while I wait for Jen to come back from her post-work, work-events.

We’ll see. I did tell Jen that if I happen on a music store in my wandering and said music store had a Gibson guitar for sale for under $1,000, then I am totally buying it. I should see if I can make that promise come true. Heh heh.

Anyway, time to get ready for work. There is a contractor coming this afternoon as well as a delivery that I have to open the door for. All of that on top of having a crazy busy schedule. It’s going to be a weird one today. Big time.

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It’s been more than two months! The soap keeps freezing on contact.

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The #BritishMuseum in #London has been forced to partly close after a disgruntled former #IT #contractor sabotaged business-critical systems (interestingly this was done on site rather than remotely, and the suspect hung around long enough to be arrested by #MetPol ) #crime #cybercrime

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/24/british-museum-forced-to-partly-close-after-alleged-it-attack-by-former-employee

#KRITIS Sektor #Staat und #Verwaltung

#Govtech giant Conduent won’t rule out cyberattack as outage drags on

"An ongoing “service interruption” at #government #contractor giant Conduent sparked outages across several U.S. states, leaving residents without access to some benefits and support payments."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/govtech-giant-conduent-wont-rule-out-cyberattack-as-outage-drags-on/

A little bit of cold has never stopped us!

Shout out to the #Traffic #Light Doctor on #YouTube. This guy's #channel is great! He's a traffic #control #device #contractor near Jackson, Mississippi and his channel is full of videos of him and his crew installing new traffic lights and troubleshooting issues with the traffic lights and intersections.

It's pretty much him and his GoPro and his heavy southern drawl but there's just something almost relaxing watching (and listening) to this guy work.

Anyway, traffic lights are something that all of us have to deal with on a daily basis. This is a great channel to remove some of the "mystery" surrounding them!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cgrhoSbBBA4xeHG6Vgm-w
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/channel/UC6cgrhoSbBBA4xeHG6Vgm-w

One of the best decisions I ever made was to start my own business and become self employed.

I wrote a post a while back on the practicalities of it in the UK - mostly around IT contractors, but a lot of the advice will work.

https://paulsanders.co.uk/practical-consulting-101/

If you are considering it, why not give it a go!

I’ve been making the translation from a #freelance #contractor to building Yobah over the past 12 months. Here are some tips to help you do the same!

https://paulsanders.co.uk/transitioning-from-contractor-to-consultant/

Devenir freelance en 2025 ça vous semble réaliste à vous ? #Ruby #development #contractor

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Contractor on beleaguered B.C. North Shore Wastewater treatment plant says public being ‘misled’. #contractor #finance #politics #wastewater #infrastructure #Canada https://globalnews.ca/news/10891226/north-shore-wastewater-contractor-letter/

Friday Morning: JIRA and Taxes.