I've had the same experience with my front door described by Clodfobble.

My front door swings open if not locked.

"We're not telepathic..."

Thanks for saying that. Because I really thought you were. I honestly, genuinely thought that you would anticipate my every need and want and then provide it for me although that's not telepathy as I understand it.
When I walk away from here I will tell everyone I know, in case they are labouring under the same delusion.

What's that?
Oh what you really mean is you're being paid to hear people whine, but I'm not being paid to whine and that somehow makes you better than me?
Oh right. Sorry.
When I walk away from here I will tell everyone I know, in case they are labouring under the same delusion.

FTR - for once this isn't about me. I'm just sitting too close to the One Stop part of the library, where people come to cringe and touch their caps because of problems with their benefits. And they get the same pat reply, whether they are in fact irresponsible, confused, obviously ill, stupid or the system is actually in error.
That and Computer Says No.

Off to the park.
At least the flying rats only poop on you.

Yesterday afternoon, while I was out for a short while, Dad answered a phone call from a neighbour who was asking for me.
I wasn't in a hurry to get back to him because it usually means he's buggad up his computer and wants me to sort it out for him.
I eventually called him and listened to a tale of woe. In all honesty, it's very difficult to get a coherent description out of him as to what the problem is and how he got there.
I managed to distill enough from the explanation to fear that he'd somehow contrived to wipe the entire drive but I refrained from saying anything.

When I went to collect the laptop, I asked exactly what he'd been doing immediately prior to the thing giving up. 'Installing Remix OS' says he.
I assumed that he'd wanted to install it alongside Windows but somehow managed to obliterate it instead.
I attempted to restore Windows but the machine just said that the hidden partition was missing so 'no can do'.
It's an Asus laptop and it's possible to obtain a recovery disc from the company. I don't know how much it will cost but the neighbour knows that all is not lost.

He's getting on in years, so in a way it's good that he still has a sense of scientific inquiry, but there's a fine line between experimenting and meddling.
He hasn't yet learned to recognise it.

You're a good guy, Carruthers

That's very kind of you to say so, glatt!

I'm taking the laptop back in an hour or so, by which time I'm hoping that my neighbour will have decided what he wants to do next.
If he decides to buy a recovery disc, I just hope that there's nothing lurking in the electronic undergrowth which will cause further problems. :eek:

glatt is not only kind, he's accurate. Just because you're grumbling and maybe a little cursing, out of anyone's earshot, does not negate your actions. We all piss and moan at these tasks even, or maybe especially, when it's for ourselves. That's why so many people buy new units when they've screwed things up, if they have the resources... or credit.
You can't help it, even if you don't always feel it on the inside, your actions will invariably be those of a good egg.http://cellar.org/2013/dog.gif

I can't decide whether this is irritating or amusing me. So I'll decide by vote.


The setup is, my financial institution sent out a survey specifically for their female clients, either to suss out potential sexism among their (99.9% male) financial advisors, and/or to use sexism to their advantage if it turns out their female clients do statistically want something different than their average male clients.

It was a fine survey overall, but right at the end came this question, which like I said, makes me laugh but also makes me mad that they think this is a legitimate question.

I mean... what?

And for another thing, did it really help narrow it down at all to describe her as "Mrs. Doubtfire in Mrs. Doubtfire?"

or

F. Just a professional and courteous financial expert to give me financial advice when I need it...

Well, now you're just being silly.

:p:

Total sexist pandering bullshit.

If you give it/them the time of day on this issue, you're being over-generous.

If the rest of the survey was ok, and this was the last question, it might have been an attempt at humor... or flushing out batshit crazies to recruit for ISIS.;)

or

G. Just a professional and courteous financial expert to give me financial advice when I need it, and who is paid a straightforward salary and not a huge commission in order to sign me up and rip me off.

The books I added to my Amazon order to get free shipping with Clodfobble's book have arrived, but her book has not, even though these were shipped on the release date. Fuethermore, the Scrabble Dictionary is damaged >:(

I'm run down per my clock change tradition, I can sleep in tomorrow must not get legit sick.

Frigging bats.

I guess the fireworks made one crazy inside its head and it decided to come inside and visit. Thankfully it wasn't swooping around. I heard a thunk and clatter clatter and knew that saint nick wasn't popping by for a cold one so I get up to see what kind of fucking critter has invaded.

I head down the hallway towards the sound, clunk, clatter clatter and don't see anything... except that's not a sock, WTF is that?

Frigging bat ran aground; "help me I've fallen and I can't get up!"

I go to the kitchen and get a big glass and my student loan bill and scoop it up, spider style, and toss it outside into the air with a little English on it, hoping the toss might jump start it. Otherwise one of the neighborhood's 10,000 cats will find it.

And as I toss the frigging thing I somehow manage to pull a muscle in my forearm.

Frigging bats.

not cool

does that mean you'll be batting left handed for a while?

I hope for your sake you're a switch hitter.

No good deed goes unpunished

Serves you right for throwing away perfectly good food. :p:

Oh the humanity...

I'm a utility player.

My thoughts, exactly, at the moment.

In fairness, I was feeding the local cat and skunk population. I need to stay on their good sides.

Always stay on the skunk's good end--er, side.

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Don't you hate it when you know what the outcome of a certain situation will be, but you have to let the other person realize that for themselves, because teenagers are dicks who won't listen to anyone? So you have to dutifully support them in their stupid dreams about getting hired somewhere they are in no way qualified for, until finally they've run out the clock and accept their food-service fate?

Yeah, me too.

It's called life which is another word for discovery. The best you can do is intercede when they say hold my beer and watch this.

But it's not fair, because all youth are told that the secret to life is just forging ahead with your dream; never give up on your dream;

...without the additional understanding all adults have, but fail to communicate, that this is a feel-good sentiment, not advice on how to live out a life;

...and when their dreams fail to come about, as they have for 99.99% of us, we will be there, with additional feel-good sentiments to ease the pain;

...and a lot of them will be about how important it was that you tried your dream.

Sorry, "dream" was ambiguous. This isn't like a hopes-and-dreams thing, more of an asleep thing. Her dream is basically "I'm too good to work food service. I'm pretty sure something else will be handed to me with zero effort." But with every passing day, another sliver of ego falls by the wayside. We're down to grocery stores now, which she initially poo-pooed, and still they aren't calling her back. We'll be at food service in another two weeks, I imagine.

Typically no one is ever going to call... they wait for the person to call them again.
Its the first sign of "I actually want a job"

Third interview blown today, this time at a Target. We might be getting closer.

is the teenager 18?

Yep. Still unlicensed as well, but making progress on that front. The military is always an option.

hmm that really is a sad state of affairs. Bagging at a grocery store is another option, I guess

has said teen looked on craigslist for summer jobs?

She's applied for several, none of them are interested so far. She looks halfway decent on paper, if inexperienced, hence the interviews at places that are genuinely looking to hire someone... but then the interview itself is, well, what a conversation with her is like. And they quickly change their minds.

Oh yes. All the online everything, except things like physical labor. She really presents terribly in person, the social anxiety just takes over and she becomes a zombie.

she should move here. we'll hire anyone with a pulse to bag

Yeah, I'm still hoping. There are a ton of grocery stores with a ton of turnover, so really she'll never exhaust all of them, she can just reapply every few weeks or so.

Texas is short on nurses and nursing assistants. She might be able to find a free, possibly paid (training wage), 4 week CNA course in exchange for working for the sponsoring health care organization for a period of time, probably a year, at full wages. She'd have to pay the course fee if she quits earlier though. You can search for info starting with places like this.

If she couldn't handle that amount of physical labor, she probably wouldn't make it through basic training in the military.

I've been working on a job building custom windows. My shop and all, literally all, my tools were either broken, dead, rusty or otherwise in need of rehabilitation. Spent the better part of a month repairing and rebuilding and dialing-in the shop and tools.

Got to work on cutting the parts. No problems so far, knock wood. I needed to make a spacer for my dado set so I planed a piece of wood to the desired thickness and I put a new blade on the band saw to cut the circle, I set the tracking and tension and the new blade was fantastic. I needed to re-adjust the guide block and as I was tightening it the screw didn't snug up; the %@#%& casting split at the screw hole.

No biggie, $6.00 part except... except... no one has this discontinued POS in stock.

Fuckers.

I'm going to see if I can silver solder whatever shitty pot metal they used.

0/10 Would not break this part again.

You could probably make one of these with shit you already have in your shop. Gotta be some way to mount it to you POS guide bar.


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That's an interesting idea--she's extremely anti-college right now, which accurately reflects her ability to complete coursework so that's actually fine, but a short training course might be something she'd go for, 6-12 months from now.

I honestly didn't think it was really possible to fail basic training, I thought they just made you go through it again and again until you were in shape.

But as usual, it looks like my judgmental griping was unwarranted and premature. Her second interviewer emailed back today with a background check consent form, so things may be more likely on that one than she first thought.

She could be an uber driver..... :lol:

I don't think it will come to that yet, but I've been thinking about something like that. There are a few after market set ups that range from $60 to $200, but for now, it works acceptably. It holds the cool block in place and with the saw adjusted properly there is very little lateral force on the block. (True love and tenderness still unaccounted for.)

The silver solder didn't work. I have no idea what that metal is but the solder just beaded up on the surface like water on teflon.

Back burner for now.

J-B Weld, maybe?

Work that in real good and then file/machine the surface back down?

What the flux?!

Oatey 94 Tinning flux.

I will try again today, and pay more attention to cleaning the joint before hand. I gave it a good spray with electrical contact cleaner, but today I'll soak in in lacquer thinner.

Plain Zinc Chloride is what the solder came with, but I'm out. Not sure if I can pick that up locally.

We are supposed to have Google Fiber available at our new house. And it will be...in January, apparently.

So I called AT&T to move U-Verse over to the new house...we're not in their service area anymore.

Which left us with Time Warner Cable or Consolidated...would you like a kick in the shin or a punch in the mouth?

I opted for the kick in the shin...c'mon Google Fiber!

So much drama at the fencing club. I'm pretty sure our coach is battling depression. So he's quit. I'm trying to organize a co-op so we'll see how it goes. People were very receptive anyway, but I'm sure we'll have to look at raising our rates.

Was the coach a volunteer? It's amazing how fast a position like that turns into a headache, and then a huge strain, even for someone who truly loved the job in the beginning. Volunteers get taken for granted so quickly. I quit a volunteer position recently because the fuckers were demanding unfair things of me left and right--and so far not one person has asked the same thing of the new lady yet. (Not saying you were demanding anything of him personally, Griff, you're the champion who's taken the helm. I'm just guessing that quitting might do a whole lot to alleviate his depression.)

It hasn't worked for me so far...

Said the actress to the bishop.

"Unchain my heart..."

Ooh! Joe Cocker!

Went bed at two a.m., woke up at 5:30 a.m., with eyes sprung wide open.

It's gonna be a long day, Tater.[/RonWhite]

Anyone have access (likely through a University library) to The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2012? There's a rumored article from a 1987 or 1988 issue of the UK Independent that I really want to see, but it's only available to institutions of higher learning. PM me por favor.

Some public libraries here subscribe to it. Even if yours doesn't, you may be able to access it through the interlibrary network using just your local library credentials. Worth a try if an easier access route doesn't come through for you.

Dana may have connections?

If her university library access wasn't deleted after she graduated.

It may have been, but she has friends there that might help. Or hire a hacker. :blush:

Unfortunately, The Independent Digital Archive 1986-2012 is a subscription service for libraries private and public. Even if someone in the UK is a member of a university; or, public library there, they might only be able to access that particular archive from within their country. It may not help to give Clod access to their account from outside. It could be the same if she became a foreign member of a subscribed library there which is easy enough to do.

Clod may have to find someone with access to a subscribed library stateside who would let her use their account or else describe what she's looking for and have someone else do the legwork to search, find, copy and send it to her from wherever. That's why I suggested the US interlibrary network approach. Of course, I'm just guessing about all this. I see nothing, I was not here, I did not even get up this morning. [/Sgt. Schultz].