Posts by chivo243 6677 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010
Well, if you only eat sliders after a night out sure, but anything does that at that time. Onion bhaji comes to mind there says the PFY... It's been decades since I stopped at a White Castle, I wish I could say the same for Golden Arches, I think it's only been 5 or 6 years since I've paid the clown.
I worked at a place that had a permanent temporary building, after one extremely warm summer, each room had an airco unit installed, you could turn the airco on or off, but not fiddle with the thermostat, that was behind a small faraday cage. Glad it wasn't IT's job to manage that, if an adjustment needed to be made, you had to call the facilities guys, Central Services at your service! Tuttle was here!
I just broke the news to mom today, that when her win10 lappy dies, it's this new MacBook. It's cheaper than the PC laptop I bought her in 2016. She's worried about learning macOS, like she knows anything about windows, except which icon is associated with Chrome, and Quicken, which has a mac version now. I know she'll find some things difficult at first, but so was win10 when I started supporting it. Onward...
I worked at a school at that time, due to a few nervous Nellies, the school was closed an extra week, just in case everything went pear shaped, which we all know didn't. The benefit was that the extra week off was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone, and Christmas break would be 3 weeks instead of 2 as long as I worked there. And, the building was closed between X-mas and New Years, paid of course!
Y2K Yeah!
Yep, hit the little guys when their down, Direct File, a free service, will be discontinued by the president. Now you gotta pay to file taxes unless you qualify for Free File or use a third party*(data slurper)
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-plan-to-end-free-direct-file-program-and-rely-on-for-profit-tax-preparers-is-a-mistake
There are other free ones*
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/ways-to-file-taxes-for-free
I did the same thing! We had APC and Eaton in the same Equipment room, I used the serial cable that was left by a previous tech on the APC, and I brought down two racks, the silence of those fans spinning down is deafening! You got that right APC and the cable is a tale for more beers!
yep, I had my ring get caught on a bracket in a rack, and on another occasion, I had my watch hang up in a rack and broke the pin holding the strap, I wear neither a wrist watch or wedding ring any longer. I still have them both, perhaps when retirement comes(sooner than later it appears) I'll get the battery and the strap for the watch replaced? The ring can stay in the box where it lives.
Too long for me, I'm almost on the farthest point from NZ on the planet. My antipode location puts me near Australia. https://mapscaping.com/antipode-finder/
By the time I get there, it will be overcrowded.
Sad face for my kid, what a crappy world we're leaving for them.
from a former colleague: As a young intern at some bigger corp, there was a print shop, and you submitted your print jobs, and you went to the counter picked them up from the printer(a person!).
When I was in high school, there was an industrial arts class "print shop" That class did all the forms for the school, all the forms(!), such as hall passes, tardy slips, and the "admit to class" you had to present for absences! I'm glad to have had friends in that class!
A leaf blower is definitely not an inside tool? Nonsense, I use a leaf blower to blow out he cottonwood fluff our of one window screen, the screen was in place when the window blinds were installed, to remove the screen for normal cleaning requires removing the blinds... BrmmmBrrr!
