Get to a command prompt... type "FORMAT C:"

It'll take care of all your problems.

I think you're pulling my leg.

I said "take care of." Not "solve."

Meaning I wouldn't have to get up and come to work anymore? ;)

Evah. :headshake

Yeah, that probably wouldn't work out for me.

However, I am creating my own work-arounds for my (well, not my) issues and I am quite proud of myself. Guess they'll have to keep me a bit longer. ;)

You've been there how long and just now you're starting you're work-arounds?? Sheesh, took you long enough. I had you pegged for practically running the place by now.

Mud mud mud mud mud mud mud mud mud mud mud mud EVERYWHERE!:eyebrow:

A year...and 10 days, thank you very much.

What do you think a work-around is? :confused: If you mean "fixing a bunch of crap that was messed up before I got here" then, yeah...

One of these days, I'm going to get to work on fine-tuning things. Until then, it's just a lot of putting out fires. I don't mind. I like doing puzzles.

I run the world, just so subtly it's not even noticed.

;)

I had no idea what a work-around was.
Now I know - wow, isn't the internet a great educational tooo!

Yay you.

I might never have said how great it is that you (Ms I'm-Here-Til-I-Die_And-I-Hate-It), not only left the job that was causing you grief, but are now a consultant! And have a new job! And are dealing with it all wonderfully!

I would write more, but I've gone over my alloted ration of exclamation marks.
You're a star kid x (!)

Thank you so much. That means more to me than you could ever know. I'm almost choking up. :o

You rock Shaw and you know it! <taps screen> is this on??

Huh. Some fuckwad punkass just threw his paperwork at me because I cannot look up his account because he had no picture ID. FERPA law, fuckwad.

The things one puts up with that one would never put up with in the outside world...you all know me...think I didn't want to jump over the desk and smack him? :lol:

That is all.

Well?

Did you?

Of course not! I just looked at him. Neutral. :neutral: I'm sure the daggers coming from my eyes told my feelings clearly, but he had already made his grand dramatic exit, all put out and pissy.

I didn't even tell him that he and his ilk are the reasons I hate humans.

:p

Just like a man. :p

I think half of what you learn at uni/college is just that, when bureaucracy requires you to jump through a hoop, no matter how stupid and pointless it may be, it is generally easier and quicker to jump through the hoop than to argue why you shouldn't have to.

Maybe you could print that out and put it on the office door.

Ha ha ha...yes, we are teaching them subservience.

Bwaaahaaahaaaaa...the plan is working.

Seriously, you're right. There is a lot of bureacracy and there are a lot of hoops and I know it can be frustrating. These laws we have to follow came from somewhere, however. For example: identity theft, or the perception of it, isn't black or white. If I make judgment calls based on my perception (he seems like a straight-up kid) I am breaking a law that, frankly, I am ill-equipped to break because I "had a feeling" he was who he said he was. There are ex-spouses and investigators and others who can benefit from a student's personal information.

It's frustrating to have to jump through the hoops, but in this case I can only say vaguely:

1) The paperwork was to appeal another regulation: satisfactory academic progress, meaning the student had lost aid due to generally doing a bad job (this is appealable of course because there are legitimate cases where life just messes you up.)

2) He had a wait time of less than five minutes. Before fall quarter, the volume was so great that one could wait over 2 hours.

3) What I explained was that I couldn't look him up in our system based on him showing me his ID number on a sheet of paper he had typed. He then could have told me what he was doing and I could have suggested just dropping it in the drop box (completely secure) and he would have met deadline and everything would be just fine, as far as the immediate objective having been met.

4) A hoop or two to regain what you lost on your own seems a small price for free money for school: with a lot left over for "other" expenses.

So yes, I guess in some ways we're teaching them to live in society. Some of them will just be grumpy gimme gimmes their whole lives: the majority will learn what steps to take to avoid hassles in the future.

Some will choose the Unabomber cabin. I better get an offer in on that place.

:)

OH, and, my left control key has stopped working and it's really messing with my head.

Hey Boss, that Shawnee you hired a year ago, is messing with our long established system.

I know, but she works so cheaply, she's had to get a part time job.

:lol2:

:lol:

No, that sounds like old times, though.

I also used to tell students that putting a bit of paperwork into the bureaucracy is like putting a bit of lubricating oil into a machine. Some got it.

OMFG!

CRTL + A
CRTL + Z
CRTL + X
CRTL + C
CRTL + V

With the exception of Backspace, I think those are my most used keystrokes, except maybe space and E.
You are fully entitled to stop work until they get you a new keyboard.

what does control A do? The others I use constantly!

and, what is irritating me today? Amateur writers who use "tact" when they mean "tack" as in, taking another tack.

cntrl+A = select all

It is my home keyboard, and was really only messing with jumping in Toontown. :blush:

I did get a new one but haven't switched it out yet. To be without left control here at work would, um, not work for me. At all!

Might as well go ahead and explain what all the rest of them do. Someone may not know.


....like me, fr'instance.....

CRTL + A Select All
CRTL + Z Undo Last action (sometimes)
CRTL + X Cut
CRTL + C Copy
CRTL + V Paste

I've been trying to get my boss to use Control + (CVXZ) for years, but he continues to use the mouse for this stuff.

I appreciate that classic

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

Check out what you can do with the "Windows" key. Like Windows Logo+E to open a collapsed Explorer session. There's your everything.

I use the windows+D combination all the time when I've got a bunch of crap open and need to get to something on the desktop.

Ctrl + Alt + down arrow. :cool:

For my birthday I came down with the Swine Cold.

Worst cold I've had in years. Yuck yuck yuck.

Staying home with Theraflu for colds and plenty of tissues.

grumble grumble

Bit of a hangover.

getting sick! hope it's just a cold, and not the -- you know

Well, it is only mildly irritating so far, but ask me again on Thursday.

Bloody hell, it is only mid-November!

That cool change for the weekend has weakened and slowed, so we have:

Recorded:

Sa... 34.4
Su... 36.7
Mo... 37.0
Tu... 38.9
We.. 39.2
Th... 39.2

and forecast:

Fr ... 39
Sa... 39
Su... 40
Mo... 28 (whoohoo!)
Tu ... 30
We... 36
Th... 38

This is not normal. The average maximum in November is 24. The longest November hot spell (consecutive days over 35) we have ever recorded was four days, in 1894. If this forecast is right, we'll get eight straight days.

I know that one freak event does not prove (nor disprove) that climate is changing, but after the record-breaking heatwave in February and consistently low rainfall for a decade or so, I am starting to ask, how much more evidence do we need?

I don't think anyone rational is doubting that the climate is changing.

...Just who caused it, what we should do about it, and is it even a problem, amirite? :lol:

my cable decided to spontaneously reboot 5 minutes before the end of CSI:NY.

:(

. . . fortunately, the story continues tonight in CSI. If my cable shuts out right before the end tonight . . . I'll be really, really, REALLY irritated!

Do we have a thread for that?

I'm pretty sure I have another sinus infection or upper respiratory infection. Just awesome. Took me more than a month to recover last time.
Also is freezing in work, I'm hunched over my hot tea huddled in a hoodie that just isn't doin the job.

My computer thinks I'm an Atheist. I'm not that irritated so much as confused.

That last one needs a word of explanation Tora...


What's irritating me today is writer's block. I just can't seem to find the words. Every idea I have on how to start the chapter evaporates the second I try and actually get it down. This is in the irritating thread, not the upsetting thread, because I know eventually I'll break through it. But it is pissing me off.

I had a supervision meeting yesterday. Have changed my approach somewhat having examined the courts martial records. It won;t support a statistical approach, in order to get numbers worth a damn, the sample size wuold be too big and unwieldy. A manageable sample size would give figures too low to be robust or useful. Not a problem, I can still use the evidence in a different way. We ended the meeting with an agreement that I would have a chapter on the domestic economy of the soldier completed by our next meeting in mid December.

I walked out of the room buzzing with ideas, and by the time I got home two hours later, my brain had decided to take a celebratory holiday. Marvellous.

A recall on my Bug (my VW.) It's voluntary, and it's to replace the ignition coils, but I'm going to have to take some time off work to get it fixed (free of charge though) and a million other things I need to do that can usually only be done during work hours. Eh, a vacation day might be in order, but I just got back from being sicky sick.

Unhappiness is: being the last in a group to respond via e-mail bitching about something, and having your e-mail quoted by the target of said bitching in a retaliatory statement calling you and your ilk "unprofessional" and "disrespectful."

In other words: they know you're right, but certainly can't admit it.

Further unhappiness: experiencing that searing flush of anger in response, fingers twitching to reply something snarky, and knowing that if you do, it's not YOU who will pay for it, but your child.

Damn. Sometimes I really hate this town.

Tomorrow's forecast.

Today was 38.9.

Tomorrow will be 43 with late thunder.
WTF?
An extreme heat watch has been issued.
Bushfire alerts are all severe, extreme, or catastrophic.
The UV forecast is extreme.
Even the bloody pollen forecast is extreme.
A severe thunderstorm warning has just been issued for some areas for tonight.

"...and the forecast is for biblical weather, with diabolical early, and a chance of wrath-of-god later. Showers of toads may be expected in mountain areas..."

If you think that's bad ...
 

Yesterday, I got a Swine Flu vaccination:



now I have a craving for truffles.

Rain moving in. So I can't ride my bike.

All the youtube recommendations were all about Atheism I thought it was weird. But congras on breaking the block.

Ahh. I see now :)

women wearing prom gowns, wedding dresses, and other formals who raise their skirts for ease of movement with two-handed fistfuls. All dressed up and elegant -- with all the grace of a cow in a petticoat.

Delicately lift from the center of the gown with ONE hand! You're not stomping grapes, ladies!

So, it's preferable for the large raised gap in the dress to be at the crotch, rather than one smaller one at each side?

well, no. there shouldn't be a large raised gap at all. You pull out, and slightly up, in order to allow room for your foot to advance. Kick your foot out if your dress is long and heavy. This also leaves a hand free for shaking hands, your purse, etc.

Learned this at my high school graduation.

They taught you wrong, and you're out of date. One hand, yes, but from the side. ....Or just be realistic admit the damn thing is impeding your movement and pick it the fuck up. It's more about not caring/rebelling than not knowing, at least in my case anyway.

Is it okay if the dress in question is one of those giant-skirted wedding dresses, where the weight of the dress is literally too cumbersome to adjust with just one hand, and you're going up stairs and need to at least sort of see your feet?

Nope. Those are Darwin's answer to brides with too much money :lol:

oh wait, adapt and survive, two hands will make this fucker work...... :rolleyes:

Really? I thought that women, having donned "The Dress", fairly floated until it's removed? :haha:

It doesn't matter. They all end up on the floor eventually.