Good News: I just got promoted! From Analyst to Engineer, and now I'm a pod lead with a few folks under me and leading a migration project.

Bad News: Workday chewed my paperwork. Promo can't be finalized until I accept it on Workday. Sent me a notification that I need to sign the offer, but it throws me an error when I click on the link...

Been waiting for this since last November, they went on a huge back and forth until now (scrambling for a head count, trying to expedite by re-hiring me, then back out of that to give me a "proper" promo, all the HR yada yada, etc.), and now this. Sigh.

Long-roof Alpina for your time.

Hope everyone's still doing good during these unprecedented times(tm).

Things aren't bad, just got paid my year-end incentives (yay), but the promotion I asked for a few months back as a counter-offer didn't go through yet. They said they are aiming for next month "pending a market research by HR to try to get me a better rate". They did however made me a team lead now since our team is expanding, now I'm leading a few guys.

Only problem here now is I'm having a serious case of impostor's syndrome here, getting a bit fearful on what might come. Looking back, it felt like a flash. It wasn't that long ago I was still on Kinja writing a post venting about getting let go, and in just 2 years I've switched disciplines and leading some projects now. Not exactly small ones either, we're talking datacenter migration type of projects. Deep down though I still have a voice telling me I'm not quite cut for it yet. i just gotta find a way to deal with it, I guess, but it just feels like I'm about to lose control of things violently.

Really hope that promotion gets through though, at least it gives me a bit more comfort that my income is back to where it used to be. Part of me is still beating myself over wasting 10 years at my previous job and letting myself go stale, it feels a bit like redemption.

Should we call ours Bids and Cars?

Or better yet, just stay home.

Started like this:

And now like this:

... and I have summer-only tires. Guess I'm not going anywhere today.

Porsche 911 Targa M491 "Turbo Look"

Has the wider Turbo stance but still has the standard engine.

Kit is missing 4 elbow pieces to build the kit this way, so had to improvise a bit.

So these are the 2 pieces I need to fix it up, shouldn't be too hard to find.

(...but lockdown is still not over, btw.)

Bottle of C4 Corvette cologne in the 70s.

Today it's like 18C... I miss my convertible.

But next week...

I was going to get Kristin back from the storage next week and get on with the needed repairs. Now I don't know, my rule of thumb is 4C overnight consistent before I let the summer tires touch the road.

Oh and did I mention I miss my convertible?

@houstonrunner said in Hey look, a Versa.:

@bison78 Part of the Art Car scene here in Houston.

https://www.artcarexperience.com/

Art is subjective I guess... when I think art car I think this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shitty_Car_Mods/comments/ox5n6c/who_thought_this_was_a_good_idea/

From your friendly /r/Shitty_Car_mods.

If only that green wasn't a matte paint it would be my choice.

Unless it's actually a portal axle like the E-Class 4x4^2....

Stolen from Reddit /r/Shitty_Car_Mods.

At one point I actually wanted one of these. It's just a Grand Am but slightly less worse... but I want one.

@tripper Well my 328 has an N20, so there's that. I already dodged a $8k bullet on it because BMW goodwill-ed a whole steering rack on it.

@davesaddiction Yeah, a little piece inside my brain is telling me that if I do sell, it'll be a huge regret at some point. To be fair though, low mileage Solstices all of a sudden became plentiful around here.

@kitt222 I actually remember him from Motor Trend, when he was doing the head to heads.

So this just showed up in my recommendations. It's actually pretty good.