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Sometimes in IT, you just have to be a jerk.
I spent from 12:30-7:00 pm yesterday helping my mother-in-law get her new fiber optic network installed (973 Mbps both up and down), and it turned out her ancient (15+ years old) desktop was dead.
So this morning I spend from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm transferring all the files to a spare laptop, getting it all set up just like she was used to, and she was back in business!
Only to get a call 15 minutes later that the laptop wouldn't boot at all.
I could picture the entire thing clearly in my mind: She'd had one of per phone cradles sitting there unplugged on the desk when I left. While I was gone, she'd decided to plug it in to the power strip. Not wanting to block any outlets, she'd set the tail facing away from the other outlets, over the power switch for the strip itself. It drives me crazy, because it's one of those bizarre, "everyone does this until you yell at them not to ever do it" moments.
So, to make a point, I drove over to her house, walked in, and asked, "You plugged in the phone, didn't you?"
"Er, no, wait! Yes! How did you know?"
"Because you put the end of the phone charger over the power strip and turned off the power switch."We walked into the computer room and it was exactly as I'd described it. We moved the phone plug, turned on the power strip, and all was well.
And it's just one of those things. Until you really drive home that they done goofed up, most people won't listen to you and will think you're some kind of magical computer-fixing genie.
*Sigh*.
Last week, coworker calls me, stumped by a problem. Knows I'm the magical IT wizard.
"User can type in the top bar in excel but doesnt see wrods apper in a cell."
I think for 3 seconds.
"They set their text color to white."
Lo and behold, it was.
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Almost to a quarter of a million posts! I'm hyped! :)
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Got evicted, since Ohio only stopped foreclosures, not evictions, because f*!$ poor people.
Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
Can't take our dogs, (her mom is on oxygen and can't have dander near) which hurts more than anything. My brother will watch mine for a month. We still haven't found a person to watch her dog.
Also my license expired in Florida. I can't get a copy of my Ohio license because the DMVs are closed and you have to go in person, and Florida will make me retake the test when I do. So I'll be there with no vehicle and no license.
We have to leave almost everything behind again because we can only rent one van (a moving truck doesn't have enough seats for both us and the baby, and nowhere for the dogs), including my only vehicle, a little 50cc scooter that was all I had left from before the divorce. I really wanted to give that to my daughter when she turned 14, too.
This is the third time I've had to reset my life since the divorce in under five years. That in of itself is stress, too.
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Got evicted, since Ohio only stopped foreclosures, not evictions, because f+*+ poor people.
Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
** spoiler omitted **
This is the third time I've had to reset my life since the divorce in under five years. That in of itself is stress, too.
Geez... *so* sorry to hear all that! But yeah, the moment I heard that the Federal eviction moratorium was ending on the 24th and most states that were doing anything at all were setting their moratoria to start on August 1 I told GothBard, "And here comes the eviction tsunami."
I'm sorry you got caught up in it, and even sorrier about the dogs. That's just the suck.
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Hurray for Western culture.
Note to self,
People who are tied up are probably innocent and shouldn't be shot with a sniper rifle.
In New Dawn, occasionally pickups with prisoner cage show up. Taking their driver out was terrible experience while playing on laptop - because of the frame rate tearing it was almost impossible to hit him with a handgun (and other weapons useable while driving—double barrelled shotgun and granade launcgher—were outrightly destroying the pickup).
Once I managed to take the driver out from far away with a sniper rifle. Yay! I tried that another time, from front. The bullet went perfectly through the driver... And the prisoner sitting some two meters behind him... Ouch.
It was sort of irritating because freeing those prisoners gives a perk point.
Why does everything automatically go for my face. I suppose now we know why everyone is scarred in post apocalyptic games and movies.
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Of course the most important lesson I learned is when a cultist van is passing you in the opposite lane while riding an ATV is probably not the best time to try out your new rocket launcher.
In fairness, I forgot I switched out my machine gun with the rocket launcher so exploding like that took me a bit by surprise.
Also, some guy wants me to liberate his Mad Max style dune buggy.
Better go buy some more rockets, explosives, and medkits
To be fair, sometimes we are some kind of magical computer-fixing genie. Because even we can't explain how we fixed it.
Some of us are more like computer-breaking ghuls. Because we can't even explain how they broke in our presence.
Last week, coworker calls me, stumped by a problem. Knows I'm the magical IT wizard.
"User can type in the top bar in excel but doesnt see wrods apper in a cell."
I think for 3 seconds.
"They set their text color to white."Lo and behold, it was.
That's why I set the background to black first.
Also, some guy wants me to liberate his Mad Max style dune buggy.
Better go buy some more rockets, explosives, and medkits
Is that Hurk?
Of course the most important lesson I learned is when a cultist van is passing you in the opposite lane while riding an ATV is probably not the best time to try out your new rocket launcher.
In fairness, I forgot I switched out my machine gun with the rocket launcher so exploding like that took me a bit by surprise.
I have the best sniper rifle in the game, nicely upgraded too (basic damage 800, I got it up to around 1200 or more).
An ethanol truck (which is the fuel in the New Dawn, and also a main ingredient for upgrading both the town and the weapons) passes me while I am doing other things. Without much thinking I switch to sniper and try the unlikely shot the driver stunt. Predictably, the bullet hits the hood... And the truck promptly explodes!
Before, it happened after a lot of hits that caused leaks, and the explosion was usually delayed anyway.
No, some other guy, he's in a trailer park just south of the bridge heading into the southern area.
Hurk asks you to help him with recovering his wonder car as his recruitment mission in New Dawn. It was painful on 5 fps because it involved driving through some narrow spaces...
Sadly, I stopped playing New Dawn. I could not go back to playing it in 5 fps after two days of actually proper gameplay with reasonable speed.
I installed Crysis 2 instead. It is lovely but at the same time it has some issues:
Headshots are not really effective.
Stealth kills are unreliable.
Enemies are armor-wearing damage-sponges.
You can only carry two weapons (plus rocket launcher separately, thanks for that).
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Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
So sorry to hear that.
Page 5000!!!
Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
Well Woran posted at 5000 so we are all in agreement she is permanently a nudist now right?
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Well Woran posted at 5000 so we are all in agreement she is permanently a nudist now right?Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
Now you're just teasing me.
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Got evicted, since Ohio only stopped foreclosures, not evictions, because f*~% poor people.
Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
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This is the third time I've had to reset my life since the divorce in under five years. That in of itself is stress, too.
Damn that sucks. Is there anything we can do to help?
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Now you're just teasing me.Well Woran posted at 5000 so we are all in agreement she is permanently a nudist now right?Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
With the current humidity not as fun as you think
What breed of dogs? Can the van also tow a trailer to get more stuff so you dont lose scooter etc?
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Got evicted, since Ohio only stopped foreclosures, not evictions, because f~$+ poor people.
Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
** spoiler omitted **
This is the third time I've had to reset my life since the divorce in under five years. That in of itself is stress, too.
That sucks! Let me know if you need anything.
Sometimes in IT, you just have to be a jerk.
I spent from 12:30-7:00 pm yesterday helping my mother-in-law get her new fiber optic network installed (973 Mbps both up and down), and it turned out her ancient (15+ years old) desktop was dead.
So this morning I spend from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm transferring all the files to a spare laptop, getting it all set up just like she was used to, and she was back in business!
Only to get a call 15 minutes later that the laptop wouldn't boot at all.
I could picture the entire thing clearly in my mind: She'd had one of per phone cradles sitting there unplugged on the desk when I left. While I was gone, she'd decided to plug it in to the power strip. Not wanting to block any outlets, she'd set the tail facing away from the other outlets, over the power switch for the strip itself. It drives me crazy, because it's one of those bizarre, "everyone does this until you yell at them not to ever do it" moments.
So, to make a point, I drove over to her house, walked in, and asked, "You plugged in the phone, didn't you?"
"Er, no, wait! Yes! How did you know?"
"Because you put the end of the phone charger over the power strip and turned off the power switch."We walked into the computer room and it was exactly as I'd described it. We moved the phone plug, turned on the power strip, and all was well.
And it's just one of those things. Until you really drive home that they done goofed up, most people won't listen to you and will think you're some kind of magical computer-fixing genie.
*Sigh*.
Last week, coworker calls me, stumped by a problem. Knows I'm the magical IT wizard.
"User can type in the top bar in excel but doesnt see wrods apper in a cell."
I think for 3 seconds.
"They set their text color to white."Lo and behold, it was.
had that happen once. Humbling experience.
To be fair, sometimes we are some kind of magical computer-fixing genie. Because even we can't explain how we fixed it.
which worries me sometimes. I will never forget my boss going absolutely nuclear at work one day because someone's computer wasn't working. He was screaming like a madman, ready to fire the person for breaking the computer. IT comes in, fixes it, and I pull them aside to ask what happened. They said they had no idea, laughed at me for asking, and then left. This is someone who is making twice what I am at least who had no idea they just saved someone's livelihood. Maybe its unfair of me to want answers, but...I want answers.
Got evicted, since Ohio only stopped foreclosures, not evictions, because f+@# poor people.
Moving back to Florida with Tala's mom on Monday.
** spoiler omitted **
This is the third time I've had to reset my life since the divorce in under five years. That in of itself is stress, too.
Godf%@@ingdammit. I am so sorry. Please let us know if you need anything.
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Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
Woran is no longer allowed to wear clothes. All hail the eternudity.
I found some guy, he said if I helped him he'd help me with my whole one person against an army of Peggy Hill's situation.
Then as soon as I help him he's all "yeah, I got promoted, I'm through with you!" I was thinking about just shooting him but then a truck load of cultists drove by and shot him for me, which pissed me off because I can handle my own problems.
Unfortunately, about then cult leader 1 decides he's going to kidnap me, unfortunately for them I'd just restocked on grenades, so while I was definitely kidnapped I did a phenomenal amount of damage.
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Also I've been looking through the APG and Starship Operations Manual and that's how I've spent my weekend so far.
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It's page 5,000 I say everyone is nude (adults only today).
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What I want when I become a billionare
I don't know...head pancakes don't seem that sanitary...
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To be fair, sometimes we are some kind of magical computer-fixing genie. Because even we can't explain how we fixed it.which worries me sometimes. I will never forget my boss going absolutely nuclear at work one day because someone's computer wasn't working. He was screaming like a madman, ready to fire the person for breaking the computer. IT comes in, fixes it, and I pull them aside to ask what happened. They said they had no idea, laughed at me for asking, and then left. This is someone who is making twice what I am at least who had no idea they just saved someone's livelihood. Maybe its unfair of me to want answers, but...I want answers.
People always assume computers are logical.
To explain that they are not because they need to accommodate us, I give the example that when you learn programming, one of the first things you do is learn how to program a basic calendar function.Because:
There are 60 seconds in a minute
60 minutes in an hour.
But 24 hours in a day.
7 days in a week.
4 weeks in a month, but a month is not 4x7 days.
A month is either 30 or 31 or in one case 28 or 29 days.
There are 365 days in a year, except for that one case where that one month has 29 days which happens once ever 4 years.
And that is just how we managed to eff up time.
Poor computers have it hard.
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Woran is no longer allowed to wear clothes. All hail the eternudity.Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
That is going to f*ck up the interns at work.
That is going to f*ck up the interns at work.Woran is no longer allowed to wear clothes. All hail the eternudity.Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
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Lessons learned from Far Cry 5.
1) while crashing a helicopter into the top of a roof is a really bad ass way of taking out one person, that still leaves you with something like twenty people to contend with, and it turns out your dog can't keep with a helicopter.
2) Just because you hire someone to be your gun for hire apparently doesn't mean they'll stick around as right after I hired this guy he just up and drove off in his van.
Now who am I going to accidentally blow up or lead into a turkey ambush.
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I helped Pastor What's His Face rescue cousin Merle from the cultists and then withstood a siege of cultist d#!#!eads.
That's how I got the helicopter.
Lessons learned from Far Cry 5.
1) while crashing a helicopter into the top of a roof is a really bad ass way of taking out one person, that still leaves you with something like twenty people to contend with, and it turns out your dog can't keep with a helicopter.
2) Just because you hire someone to be your gun for hire apparently doesn't mean they'll stick around as right after I hired this guy he just up and drove off in his van.
Now who am I going to accidentally blow up or lead into a turkey ambush.
Spoiler: the final battle is a shark flopping along the land. it also electrocutes things.
Electric Floppy Land Shark? Sounds like a s**~ty indie game. Or s*#&ty indie band. Or s@**ty indie movie. Something s%%@ty and indie.Spoiler: the final battle is a shark flopping along the land. it also electrocutes things.Lessons learned from Far Cry 5.
1) while crashing a helicopter into the top of a roof is a really bad ass way of taking out one person, that still leaves you with something like twenty people to contend with, and it turns out your dog can't keep with a helicopter.
2) Just because you hire someone to be your gun for hire apparently doesn't mean they'll stick around as right after I hired this guy he just up and drove off in his van.
Now who am I going to accidentally blow up or lead into a turkey ambush.
So if a unknown director made a movie about a archaeologist finding relics would it the movie be called indie Jones?
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That is going to f*ck up the interns at work.Woran is no longer allowed to wear clothes. All hail the eternudity.Merah has made it to the living room and is now boss of the couch.Is a 'couch boss' sort of like a 'cover boss' in Organized Play?Its more like the scarni, but instead of bribes she wants pettings.
EDIT: Yes, the cat does not wear clothes.
Good, you're hired. If I'm going to be always naked I'm going to need someone to point a fan at me at all time.