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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 4:45pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Oh I have a vast reppertore* of schemes like that. Bright red earbuds so I can just turn my head, and she gets the idea. Then later when she sees I'm not in a Zoom, she starts up "...but anyway..." like I'm tracking the thread from 30 minutes or an hour before.

*I spelled it like that on purpose to amuse myself but now I can't spell it. Repertoir? Repartoir? Repartois? Repartoire. Repertoire. Ooh that one. 


SFW is catnip to all the receptionists. 

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 3:41pm

 islander wrote:


You should engage her in a basic hello/how's your weekend conversation for a minute or so, but look slightly up and over her shoulder. When she adjusts and moves into your view, say "hold on, something is up here" tap your ear bud and say "yes? can I help you?" to her. 


Oh I have a vast reppertore* of schemes like that. Bright red earbuds so I can just turn my head, and she gets the idea. Then later when she sees I'm not in a Zoom, she starts up "...but anyway..." like I'm tracking the thread from 30 minutes or an hour before.

*I spelled it like that on purpose to amuse myself but now I can't spell it. Repertoir? Repartoir? Repartois? Repartoire. Repertoire. Ooh that one. 

islander

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 10:41am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


That was a year ago and we have a new receptionist and my desk faces her general direction so she thinks I'm listening when in fact I only tune in when she takes a breath then starts up again "...but anyway..." and off she goes again.




You should engage her in a basic hello/how's your weekend conversation for a minute or so, but look slightly up and over her shoulder. When she adjusts and moves into your view, say "hold on, something is up here" tap your ear bud and say "yes? can I help you?" to her. 
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jan 12, 2024 - 10:36am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Our receptionist is very chatty this morning and she doesn't have any other targets yet.



That was a year ago and we have a new receptionist and my desk faces her general direction so she thinks I'm listening when in fact I only tune in when she takes a breath then starts up again "...but anyway..." and off she goes again.


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Posted: Oct 6, 2023 - 8:26pm

 ick wrote:

Forgetting to grab my coffee thermos when leaving the house.  Most of the time I just have to laugh at my old addled brain but it is rather annoying.



That would really piss me off.  (Depending on how far I got before I remembered.) Probably anything over like over four blocks or so


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Posted: Oct 6, 2023 - 8:24pm

Forgetting to grab my coffee thermos when leaving the house.  Most of the time I just have to laugh at my old addled brain but it is rather annoying.

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Posted: Oct 6, 2023 - 8:23pm

 Bill_J wrote:


I worked for a guy MANY years ago who would have the heat & air conditioning running simultaneously. 


I bet he went number one and number two at the same time, too, as well.

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Posted: Oct 6, 2023 - 6:18pm

 black321 wrote:

People who run air conditioners when the temp drops into the 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s and even 20s.
As if we could ever tackle global warming...unless of course there is a nuclear solution. 



I worked for a guy MANY years ago who would have the heat & air conditioning running simultaneously. 
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Posted: Oct 6, 2023 - 1:43pm

People who run air conditioners when the temp drops into the 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s and even 20s.
As if we could ever tackle global warming...unless of course there is a nuclear solution. 
islander

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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 9:55am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Gonna have to write down those instructions tho.


If you use a post it note you can move it to different trucks.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 9:22am

 islander wrote:


I think you need to back a pickup truck into the pole where the fiber optic cable is.


Gonna have to write down those instructions tho.
islander

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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 8:21am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I send an email with a question.
Company responds with more questions.
I clarify, with screenshots.
Company escalates problem.
I repeat scenario with new higher level tech support.
They call and walk me through the steps to solve the problem.

Now it's happening again and I need to know how to fix it and did I write down the answer? I did not. My email trail is useless! 



I think you need to back a pickup truck into the pole where the fiber optic cable is.
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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 7:56am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
The person closest to the audio system controls the Spotify. It used to be a 20-year-old from Denver who had decent taste and had a pretty broad playlist set up. The guy there now is from here and ergo I hear Wagon Wheel approximately 25 times per week.

This may qualify as an OSHA violation.  You should file a complaint and seek redress.

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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 7:48am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Yesterday someone backed a truck into a utility pole and took out fiber to most of the town, ergo Spotify was unavailable to our salesman. After an hour of silence it dawned on me to check and sure enough, I could hit the bluetooth system from my phone, so I put RadioParadise on for the rest of the day. It went over well except there was a Fever Ray song that raised eyebrows. But alas, the internet is back on and I just heard Wagon Wheel. 






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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 7:43am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The person closest to the audio system controls the Spotify. It used to be a 20-year-old from Denver who had decent taste and had a pretty broad playlist set up. The guy there now is from here and ergo I hear Wagon Wheel approximately 25 times per week.



Yesterday someone backed a truck into a utility pole and took out fiber to most of the town, ergo Spotify was unavailable to our salesman. After an hour of silence it dawned on me to check and sure enough, I could hit the bluetooth system from my phone, so I put RadioParadise on for the rest of the day. It went over well except there was a Fever Ray song that raised eyebrows. But alas, the internet is back on and I just heard Wagon Wheel. 

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Posted: May 24, 2023 - 8:16am

Taking my meds at right time.
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Posted: May 24, 2023 - 7:53am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I send an email with a question.
Company responds with more questions.
I clarify, with screenshots.
Company escalates problem.
I repeat scenario with new higher level tech support.
They call and walk me through the steps to solve the problem.

Now it's happening again and I need to know how to fix it and did I write down the answer? I did not. My email trail is useless! 



Google Fu,  Scott !

My motto, serving me well for a very long time: I'm not the first to see this problem. 

:-)
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Posted: May 24, 2023 - 7:49am

I send an email with a question.
Company responds with more questions.
I clarify, with screenshots.
Company escalates problem.
I repeat scenario with new higher level tech support.
They call and walk me through the steps to solve the problem.

Now it's happening again and I need to know how to fix it and did I write down the answer? I did not. My email trail is useless! 
Proclivities

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Posted: Apr 3, 2023 - 12:44pm

 Steely_D wrote:

I recorded so much of my own synth work onto a Portastudio cassette back in the day. So I still have the cassettes, but nothing to play them on. And two of the four channels are gonna be reversed if I use a regular cassette player. But, so much of it was experimenting that I don't want to send tapes labelled "Homework 4" off to some digitizing company and waste a lot of money/time.

I still have an old Tascam Portastudio like that - it still works but I don't have a regular cassette deck to copy the songs to anymore and I haven't invested in any digital transfer gadgetry.
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Posted: Apr 3, 2023 - 12:12pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


At least you can do that. I diligently put a lot of my past digital life onto Zips and now I can't find anyone to read them. I would ask you, but I can't decipher my disk-naming scheme so I don't know if the disks I have are the ones I care about. And by "care about," I mean "mildly curious about." So whatever's there, except for nostalgia, I would be better off re-building or forgetting about. Hell, half of it's probably in (Aldus) Freehand™

I recorded so much of my own synth work onto a Portastudio cassette back in the day. So I still have the cassettes, but nothing to play them on. And two of the four channels are gonna be reversed if I use a regular cassette player. But, so much of it was experimenting that I don't want to send tapes labelled "Homework 4" off to some digitizing company and waste a lot of money/time.




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