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At least the cop was reasonable about it with the verbal. I know one city in between us where they would have gone straight to a ticket with no discussion on the matter.

"Checking email" is not even considered a daily task at some organizations. I have someone that will only converse via email on Tuesdays.

Justified people rant

Hey, don't send them over here. I got enough of them to deal with already.

I lost my humanity years ago.

Err...umm...

Hi!?

(Yes, good recovery. I'm certain no one noticed.)

Let's make the water turn black!

You have got to stop whispering such sexy things into my ears.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Vanykrye wrote:

Drugs.

No thanks, I'm good.

Oh, did you mean the guest? I doubt it. I assume he didn't change his previous search, and so it showed him hotels where he had last been, and since it was after midnight, he couldn't book for Monday night anymore. So, basically, he likely just wasn't paying any attention while trying to book a room.

Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.

I have never liked that song, but I like it a little bit more now just because you caused Freehold pain.

Drugs.

Cosmo. Dude. We've talked about this. It's Friday.

You killed power to an entire town last night. I was *eventually* able to get my client's servers to come back up and behave normally, but it took a few hours and I have to get a root cause on why the SAN took four hours to stabilize after coming back up.

Then I got notified that a different client in a different town in the complete opposite direction was having horrible noises coming from their server room. Go out there and yeah...UPS battery backups aren't supposed to make crackling sounds.

This is all on you.

Knock it off.

Yeah, 93F with 75% humidity is not doing me any favors. I'd rather do 105F in Arizona than this.

If you didn't leave a message, then it wasn't important and I'm not calling you back.

I blame Cosmo for also being one of the people who bought that corner store.

Also for picking the other buyer, who is likely Cosmo's clone.

I blame Cosmo for cloned sheep as well, obviously. The logic is sound.

Oh, I knew you were going to enjoy that one.

Yes, I will make that speech naked. Adds to the absurdity of the request.

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

I have been asked again, by the same person at the same client.

The request was a report of all employees who have more than 200 unread emails in their mailbox and how much over 200.

No.

"So how am I supposed to know who is behind in their work? Open all their emails? Please advise?"

I can't tell you how to manage your employees, but I can tell you that's a useless metric for basing anything from. I can also tell you "No.". You should also STEP DOWN AS THE CEO.

Vanykrye wrote:

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

Obviously you agreed to do it.

No, I didn't. *I* found it creepy.

Also, I don't have the level of access needed to furnish the client with the requested data. And I'm very happy for that to remain true.

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

On Wednesday I worked from 8am until 6:40am Thursday.

There will be whisky.

Mieko repeatedly escaped a muzzle the vet tried putting on her last week. A cone is no challenge for her.

Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.

What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Not so much gone as just lacking security certificates, which at this point means do not use.

I had a planned 5 day weekend but I'm stretching it to 6. It's ridiculous that I can drive 7000 miles in 11 days and be fine, but put me on a plane for 2000 miles each way and suddenly my body forgets that I'm supposed to be able to walk.

And said app will have the same robust security as using pasta as a door lock.

Back at the airport. Heading to Seattle.

The Adult Kid lives in that town as well...near the Virginia. She hasn't mentioned anything about their power, so I assume she and her boyfriend are good.

I tend not to think about meatballs.

I did ask a parent with a leashed kid if the child was feral. I got a confused look that I took for "don't know what that means". So I rephrased. Was your kid raised by woodland animals? Not housebroken yet? I'm confused why you need a leash on your kid. Does it also come with a bell on the harness?

I may have been more than a tad upset with this person. Spent more time posing for selfies in the grocery store than actually shopping or paying attention to...the world around them in a general sense...

Friend of mine doesn't understand what I do for a living.

I ran into a strange audio issue on 2 of the three PCs in the house. Minor annoyance, I'll get to it later.

He's trying to help me troubleshoot, unasked. He's just trying to be helpful, and he is a friend. I'm trying so hard not to tell him to just go away.

I made peach sourdough discard muffins for breakfast this morning. They were freaking amazing.

You mean AI made you some peach sourdough discard muffins for breakfast.

*Waves at NH*

Ouch TOZ. Been there. You have my sympathies.

I hope the election goes in whatever direction you feel is clearly best.

Last time Mieko went to the vet it took three people to get a simple blood draw.

Mieko was twice as successful and sent two of them through the bite protocols and showed them how drawing blood is done professionally.

See Freehold? NH gives in to the Chaos Lords on occasion.

Sophie is at her new home.

Orthos and I are not doing well.

*Hugs*

Drove to Indianapolis for Sessanta v2 tour yesterday. That was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

Sessanta = A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Primus. However, they do not each play a set with long breaks between bands. Nope. They weave in and out every few songs, no breaks, and eventually you start noticing different members playing in different bands...until eventually it just doesn't matter and everybody is on stage.

Then the unfortunate part was I chose to drive straight home. That wasn't best.

As a side note, not only is the highway through gran's town a giant construction zone, so is the next major town over...all the way through to the state line.

I almost stopped at a certain hotel on the way back, but I remembered it's Memorial Day weekend and it would take longer to find a room than it would to just drive the rest of the way home.

Scintillae wrote:

Yeah, I've already looked into the tax brackets, and if I've done my math right, we're still coming out ahead. My retirement was never going to be secure, even starting on my investing as early as I did. I really hate that my generation was raised with hope only to have it ripped away right as our careers were beginning.

You're talking to an early Gen Xer:

(1) "Social Security? It will be bankrupt well before you retire. And pensions were phased out in the 1970s. You're on your own."

(2) "Medicare? Don't make me laugh!"

(3) "Oh, you think we're doing a terrible job as your leaders? Well, just try to vote us out! Oh, look at that! There are too few of you! You'll *never* have leadership positions!"

And at least #3 has come true in spades. Check for Gen Xers at any level of government and we are grossly underrepresented. An article I saw last week was titled, "GenX: The biggest loser generation" and I was wondering how someone was going to shift the blame onto us, but the entire article was, "Before you complain about your generation, this is all the ways in which GenX was screwed over."

So yep. We're legendarily bitter.

You do not summon The Latchkey Kids unless you have no other choice. We live on the edge of the woods for a reason.

And it's over. I've turned in my keys, cleaned my classroom, took down everything. It hurt more than I expected.

*Hugs*

Sometimes you're just at a loss for words:

Customer: When I apply a filter to the search I see fewer results. This is really impacting my work and I'd like to know whether this is expected behavior.

I punted. "This is indeed how our application works. I'm sorry that's not working for you. Can you let us know what you expected?"

Surprising absolutely no one except likely the customer, I would have been somewhat less tactful.

"Yes, because that is, in fact, how filters work. It's the very definition of the word 'filter'."

Option 2:
"Right."

Cyz successfully presented her CRP proposal yesterday and can continue forward in her program. It also means she is allowed to submit her paperwork for internship.

Congrats!

We are a terrible support group.

I was going to post a bunch of stuff about the problems caused by youth teams this weekend, but, frankly, it's so much that I feel like y'all might not believe me. Suffice to say, it really sucked and I'm glad that I didn't have to deal with it.

My mother, grandmother, mother's best friend, my ex-wife, my first ex-stepmom...all teachers.

Also there was a time I was in high school, and I know what we did.

I would believe you.

Also, we're starting to sound like a support group.

Stone-Baked Men isn't better either.

All of them. Also a couple of real ones, just to see who's paying attention.

Freehold DM wrote:

Math is evil.

{quickly skims character sheets of everyone in thread, notes lisamarlene's and Freehold's inventory; much secretive dice rolling behind screen}

Freehold's jade amulet of protection from Alton Brown grants a +4 to his Fort save. Similarly, lisamarlene's fresh cookies rations grants a +2 to her save. Everyone else in the thread takes 1 point of Taint from the corrupting effects of mathematics in the Shadowlands OffTopiclands. Celestial Hippeh Lawyer, due to your current low hit points and very low caffeine points, this proved fatal; you are now "pining for the fjords."

Wait- that can't- Noooooooo... {fades from existence }

Wait...what happened with my taint?

NobodysHome wrote:

Yeah, yeah, I know. "Griping about what once was" and all that, but seriously?

As of Windows 11 I noticed that my Word documents are now always opening in 2-page, side-by-side format. I hate it. So I Googled how to fix it. And learned that Microsoft removed that functionality from Word: You can no longer save your preferred view, adding two extra button clicks to every doc I ever open.

Hate you so much, Microsoft!

This is why I still use 10.

Which is no longer being supported in October.

Large Denomination Bill Issues

Honestly, we can run into those issues with $50 bills, let alone $100.

Today's gripe: Web pages that won't load unless they're active.

So, you go to your bank site. You sign in. You know it takes 30-40 seconds for the page to load so you go to a different tab. After a minute or two you go back to the bank tab. It hasn't done a thing because it won't load unless it's the active tab.

No! Bad coders! It's not "security" to prevent a page from loading when it's not active (unless Vanykrye corrects me about some exploit I don't know about), it's just forcing users to sit there while all your idiotic features I never use load.

EDIT: And it's a particular pain point for me because our new corporate UI uses the same "don't load unless active" mechanism, so I spend HUGE amounts of my day waiting on loading screens 'cause I can't switch to other applications while waiting.

That's usually not the web page. It's a newer feature of browsers, usually Chrome-based ones, to lower network bandwidth and memory usage.

It's intended to be used with people who routinely have multiple tabs open and they only look at a couple of them once every few hours or whatever. No need to auto refresh those tabs if the user is never looking at it. However, the initial page loading getting paused because you switched off would be a bit of an aggressive overreaction.

Well crap. Devin Townsend has a single 3 week tour in May, and then he's going on indefinite touring hiatus. Closest he gets to me in s Milwaukee, but it's part of a 3 day festival and I have no interest in the other bands. I can't justify the cost on this one.

Granted, better than his fans living anywhere West of the Continental Divide. You get a single show in LA. Enjoy.

Kind of figured on a "don't know" answer. I've got a friend in Omaha - she likely can't take on a 3rd dog, but she might have an interested coworker.

Unfortunately (or, depending on viewpoint, fortunately), Scint and Orthos are the only people I know in Kansas.

I'm sharing the link in a couple Discords I'm in.

Also ..how is Sophie with other dogs/cats? Should probably include that in the adoption post.

Random Dumb Old Man Crap

No need to be so melodramatic. Get your ass back in here.