二十八

情人老婆仔，一转眼在一起二十八年了。

拍拖二十八周年纪念日快乐！

记得还是要继续牵手，抱抱，和互相开玩笑哦。

莫忘初衷，继续经营。

“关冷气哦！”

心语细述 |系列|

听说

听说，我加入公司那初期几年内认识的老同事们中，有好几位将要离开公司了。

遣散配套或退休配套的数额应该很可观…

都不知道自己是不是羡慕他们，还是最近忙得太烦太累了？

只知道自己不能没有工作，家里不能没有收入。不用几个月银行里的存款就会支付不了每个月的开销。

唉～

很快公司里认识的老同事又要变少了。虽然工作上也几乎没有接触，反社交的我也没有私讯他们什么的，但还是见了面就可以谈得开，见了面会有那亲切的熟悉感的人。

就是有那又要失去些什么的感觉。

有那自己会变得更加孤僻的预感。

随兴随想 |系列|

Getting too old for this

No thanks to the workload, I worked till late night on Wednesday, well, till the wee hours of Thursday morning, that is.

It's Friday today, and I am still suffering from that.

Plus all the stress related stuff. The headache, the IBS, the sleeplessness, the indigestion, et cetera.

I am writing this blog entry with a headache, with that acid reflux or heartburn feeling, and fatigue.

Getting too old for this shit.

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

1 versus 3

Spin it however you want, the fact is we are doing three projects. The desired end results are three products out in the market some time next year.

Call it common chassis, fungibility, compatibility, reuse opportunity. Whatever. It does not change the amount of work I need to do, and that's three projects worth of workload.

To be generous, let's say it's 2.5 projects worth of workload, even though we need to specify which of the three clearly when we present our reports and assessments. Whatever.

Different mechanical engineers are assigned to work on different designs, but one thermal engineer for all three.

One thermal engineer (me), three projects, one deadline.

Funny it's the thermal engineer who found out from the deliverable from other functional teams that things don't fit.

Life would be easier if thermal assessment comes after the others are ready, instead of being the one who is running at the forefront, who has to keep updating and redoing the assessment as the information becomes available.

Set whatever deadline you want, disturb me at the end of the day as you like, it doesn't change the fact that thermal model generation and simulation takes time. Stressing me will not make it faster.

Probably slower instead.

Other |wretched workaholic| category entries.

Granted!

Received an email today informing me that one of the invention ideas approved for patent filing, and filed back in 2021, has finally been granted the patent.

This is the first time I received such email, so I happily shared the good news to a few close friends, saying finally I have a patent being granted.

Then out of curiosity I went and checked the tool that tracks our invention idea submission and patent filing status, and noticed there is in fact another filed patent already being granted.

I am positive I never received email informing me about patent granted prior to today, so I wonder if it's because the one I got notified today is filed in US while the other one that I wasn't notified is filed in Europe, hmm...

And interesting how the patent system in Europe works, besides one main body that oversees the whole Europe, the patent is also filed in countries like France, United Kingdom, et cetera. One patent filed in five different places.

Well, regardless, I now have two granted patents out of the four filed. I hope I will get plaques for them, that's actually what matter most for me.

Don't get me wrong, the award money is nice, but I care more about getting the plaque. Something solid and tangible to commemorate the achievement is a boon to people with goldfish memory.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

如果…

如果被裁员了，应该做什么好呢？

草草算了算，拿得到的也不多，根本不能拿来做生意什么的。

是不是足够开个小贩档口都说不定那种。

更不用想可以退休养老。

这样的年龄了还要从头开始，只是想想就很累。

唉～ 烦。

随兴随想 |系列|

Rat race results

The Risk and Rally event in Diablo Immortal has ended a few days ago.

I did surprisingly well and managed to secure the second place among the other wizard players competing in the event.

Woot! Second place!

By the end of the event I was 20 points behind the player in the first place, meaning in four dungeon runs I was not in the same score group of the first place player. Basically that means I wasn't in the top three shortest time group in those four dungeon runs, but was in the top 4th to 20th shortest time group instead.

Like I mentioned in the previous blog entry, the playing field for the event was fairly, but not totally, even. The Pay to Win players still have advantages of one-shot killing everything including the bosses, and whatever useful benefits from the high level 5 stars legendary gems over a Free to Play player like me.

First place player, 5k Resonance.

The first place player has 5k Resonance and fully upgraded primary gears. The third place player has 4k Resonance, also with fully upgraded primary gears. Those Resonance levels at this time of the game life are only achievable by Pay to Win players.

Third place player, 4k Resonance.

Resonance is a multiplier for primary gears base attributes, namely damage and life. So higher Resonance means higher damage and life.

Playing since Diablo Immortal launched on PC as a Free to Play player, I currently have 1.5k Resonance. I think it's reasonable at this point of time for Free to Play player to get up to 2k Resonance, but that's just my guess.

My 1.5k Resonance.

So I think I have proudly represented the Free to Play players in this Risk and Rally event, sure feels good to beat a 4k Resonance player, probably many more players with higher Resonance than mine down the ranks but I only checked the top three.

Other |geeky gaming| category entries.