I feel your pain. In a similar run, my insurance company forgot to autodraft my car insurance for a couple of months and then panicked and pulled the money for the car out of my home insurance escrow. This caused a cascading panic where the mortgage lender saw the escrow was too low to cover the insurance, and they wanted to change a whole bunch of things to fix it. I told the mortgage company to relax, and asked if I could just pay extra on my next payment, stipulated to go straight to escrow, to solve the problem. The mortgage lender sent me through four different people, all of whom answered my "can I just pay extra on escrow to fix this?" with the response "but if more money goes to escrow, you won't have enough for your mortgage!" apparently failing to understand what "pay extra" means.
your mistake was not asking her if it was a laptop to begin with.
That is in fact precisely what I determined was the lesson I should learn from that experience. I haven't made that mistake since. It's on my checklist along with "Did you check *both* ends of the cord when you confirmed it was plugged in" and "if it won't play DVD's, first make sure it's not just a CD player."
She was a grandmother, with her granddaughter at the house during my entire visit. I'm pretty sure she wasn't looking for sex. I knew her for four years, and she never made so much as a suggestive remark.
I had a manager beg me to come to her house and set up work email on her new computer. When I got there, I discovered it was a laptop. She was appreciative and all, even gave me a beer for my troubles, but I still don't understand why she didn't think to bring it in to the office.
I intentionally searched out a school that had a reputation for being as liberal as it gets, and while the students and environment outside classes were awash with left wing ideology, all the classes themselves were solidly fact-based. Sure, we might have had a slightly higher number of classes available in women's studies, say, but ideology certainly didn't bleed over into physics, math, computer science, or even English or art history.
This, I think. I would have actually said "go back and time and learn to work 8 hour days and fill the rest of the time with something else of your choosing."
That said, and despite the fact you dismissed it, hobbies and pet projects are the way to go. This could include technical hobbies, which might even be part-time businesses, if you're really driven to work. I spent five happy years running a web-based computer game on the side when I was a PC tech, for instance. Trying your hand at some new technologies (mobile app, programming, database stuff) might be a fun way to branch out.
Besides that: try classes. There's a lot of neat stuff blossoming online. Coursera, Udacity, and the like have a number of technical and nontechnical subjects. You could also try a traditional class, if the combination of location, price, and timing is right.
And if that's not enough, read a few books, go for a few walks, dabble in some things, and chase after whatever seems fun.
I always loved the Cube design. Would have bought one if it wasn't horribly priced for what you got. Also, the lack of dual monitors killed the deal. I still want to pick up an old Cube case sometime, not even the working box, just to have one on my shelf as a memento.
The Pro is nifty looking by my tastes, but I drifted back to Windows desktops years ago because of the price. I still like Mac laptops though.
I'm more or less in the same category. I've explored just a bit more than you perhaps, but I still find picking a bottle to be a wild guessing game. Honestly, the app as phrased sounds silly. I don't want to find inexpensive substitutes for "expensive" wines, because I don't care about expense, and I don't believe price has a lot to do with flavor, other than perhaps at the very low end. What I would like is an app which can record wines I liked (regardless of price) and show me more wines that are similar to it, while guiding me away from wines similar to ones I didn't like.
The number of wines and varietals is a huge obstacle. I can remember at any given time about five brands, tops, that I probably liked last time I tried them. Without keeping an extensive journal which accompanies me everywhere, most of what I try, good or bad, is quickly forgotten.
Maybe the casino has a secret room in back where they always keep at least one more person praying for the casino than is on the floor praying for themselves? Assuming a mathematical equivalence in prayers, the casino should win most of the time.:)
Maybe both? I remember even when tapes were prevalent there was still an expensive early release intended just for rentals, and a later public release. When 'Fear and Loathing' came out on tape I tried to get my hands on it and was told it was $100 for the earliest copies. If I waited another three months for the public release it would be a more reasonable $20 or whatever.
The CEO of a company I used to work at gave that kind of rundown during a lunch-n-learn session. His conclusion came down to they needed to bill about three times what staffers were being paid to make a profit. That's fine, I understand that, but they were paying me $15/hour and billing $100/hour. He'd more or less said to my face he was ripping me off. It may vary by industry, but I'd say the $20/$95 difference is well into hefty profits rather than a thin margin.
I'd say offline mode has worked well for me most of the time, but a few times it has choked and refused to load the app I wanted. Maybe two or three times out of thirty-ish tries? So not a huge pain, but certainly aggravating when it fails.
Good story. I don't think I would have thought to take an insurance to small claims court. I always assumed that was more for interactions between individuals or local business, rather than with MegaCorp. Highly educational. Glad it worked out for you, too. I know several people fighting with insurance companies over lousy valuations, I'll be sure to mention this to them.
It goes both ways, though. Early on when I tried some online dating I spent too long talking via computer before actually meeting, only to find out some part of the physical/personal components didn't match up. Felt like I'd wasted a bunch of time on something that wasn't going to work. Not disagreeing with you, just saying you can go too far the other way.
I know how you feel. Around Y2K multiple groups put out "top 100 books of the 20th century" lists. I compiled several and set out with the goal of reading 250-ish of those books. Many were fantastic, some were obviously quality but left me not really happy in retrospect for having read them, and a small but substantial chunk I either hated all the way through or (later) just gave up on after 40-60 pages of misery. If I couldn't get into them by that point, I figured I wasn't going to. Some back-to-back combination of Edith Wharton and Samuel Butler broke me, I think.
Interesting. Now I feel even sillier for running back and forth on the same first few screens, thinking I was probably missing something. "I'll try this way for a bit. No? Okay, let's try the other way. Gah, I'm dead again."
Seconded. I posted above about how unintuitive Raiders was. I had the manual for ET and managed to figure it out. It may have been aggravating, but I could do it. On Raiders, I didn't have the manual, and couldn't tell what I was looking at. Often I died just by moving onto a wrong part of the screen without even understanding what there was killing me.
Which is funny, because Raiders is the only Atari game I could never figure out how to do anything with, and generally died on the second screen. I couldn't tell what I was looking at, couldn't figure out what areas were safe or deadly, and couldn't figure out how to accomplish anything. I didn't have a manual. That's probably most of the problem. But I didn't have the manual for a lot of other games and muddled through well enough. Raiders had to be about as unintuitive as it gets.
Considering your Facebook account is going to provide details about your family life, marital status, quantity and age of children, and religious and political preferences, I still don't understand how such a request is remotely legal. In fact, almost all such an account would do is provide answers to questions they're not allowed to ask, without answering any questions they're actually allowed to ask. Because who posts about their business qualifications on their Facebook account?
Then again, I wonder how prevalent this request actually is? It's the kind of thing that gets a lot of talk, but it's always been second- or third-hand at best by the time it reaches me.
I had an awesome home inspector. He found all sorts of details, down to "this faucet drain doesn't quite close right" and "the window sills are kind of sticky and you'll probably want them cleaned." I've been in the house five years now and can't think of anything important he overlooked. Maybe he's a rare find and I got lucky, as he's the only one I've ever used.
Well if you're going to teach creationism you really should teach all of them but as that's impractical as every culture that has ever existed has come up with different ones...
On top of that, a lot of the old ones involve either onanism or copulation, and thus aren't deemed fit for high-school-level discussions. I was pretty surprised to discover in a college religious history course how much had been glossed over or sanitized during my younger mythology discussions.
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I feel your pain. In a similar run, my insurance company forgot to autodraft my car insurance for a couple of months and then panicked and pulled the money for the car out of my home insurance escrow. This caused a cascading panic where the mortgage lender saw the escrow was too low to cover the insurance, and they wanted to change a whole bunch of things to fix it. I told the mortgage company to relax, and asked if I could just pay extra on my next payment, stipulated to go straight to escrow, to solve the problem. The mortgage lender sent me through four different people, all of whom answered my "can I just pay extra on escrow to fix this?" with the response "but if more money goes to escrow, you won't have enough for your mortgage!" apparently failing to understand what "pay extra" means.
your mistake was not asking her if it was a laptop to begin with.
That is in fact precisely what I determined was the lesson I should learn from that experience. I haven't made that mistake since. It's on my checklist along with "Did you check *both* ends of the cord when you confirmed it was plugged in" and "if it won't play DVD's, first make sure it's not just a CD player."
She was a grandmother, with her granddaughter at the house during my entire visit. I'm pretty sure she wasn't looking for sex. I knew her for four years, and she never made so much as a suggestive remark.
I had a manager beg me to come to her house and set up work email on her new computer. When I got there, I discovered it was a laptop. She was appreciative and all, even gave me a beer for my troubles, but I still don't understand why she didn't think to bring it in to the office.
Hey, once I hit 80 I expect to take a nap every 4-6 hours anyway. What's the difference?
I intentionally searched out a school that had a reputation for being as liberal as it gets, and while the students and environment outside classes were awash with left wing ideology, all the classes themselves were solidly fact-based. Sure, we might have had a slightly higher number of classes available in women's studies, say, but ideology certainly didn't bleed over into physics, math, computer science, or even English or art history.
This, I think. I would have actually said "go back and time and learn to work 8 hour days and fill the rest of the time with something else of your choosing."
That said, and despite the fact you dismissed it, hobbies and pet projects are the way to go. This could include technical hobbies, which might even be part-time businesses, if you're really driven to work. I spent five happy years running a web-based computer game on the side when I was a PC tech, for instance. Trying your hand at some new technologies (mobile app, programming, database stuff) might be a fun way to branch out.
Besides that: try classes. There's a lot of neat stuff blossoming online. Coursera, Udacity, and the like have a number of technical and nontechnical subjects. You could also try a traditional class, if the combination of location, price, and timing is right.
And if that's not enough, read a few books, go for a few walks, dabble in some things, and chase after whatever seems fun.
Now you've got me thinking of the weird stacked donut wax creatures from Brin's Sundiver series. What were they called, Jophur?
I always loved the Cube design. Would have bought one if it wasn't horribly priced for what you got. Also, the lack of dual monitors killed the deal. I still want to pick up an old Cube case sometime, not even the working box, just to have one on my shelf as a memento.
The Pro is nifty looking by my tastes, but I drifted back to Windows desktops years ago because of the price. I still like Mac laptops though.
I'm more or less in the same category. I've explored just a bit more than you perhaps, but I still find picking a bottle to be a wild guessing game. Honestly, the app as phrased sounds silly. I don't want to find inexpensive substitutes for "expensive" wines, because I don't care about expense, and I don't believe price has a lot to do with flavor, other than perhaps at the very low end. What I would like is an app which can record wines I liked (regardless of price) and show me more wines that are similar to it, while guiding me away from wines similar to ones I didn't like.
The number of wines and varietals is a huge obstacle. I can remember at any given time about five brands, tops, that I probably liked last time I tried them. Without keeping an extensive journal which accompanies me everywhere, most of what I try, good or bad, is quickly forgotten.
Maybe the casino has a secret room in back where they always keep at least one more person praying for the casino than is on the floor praying for themselves? Assuming a mathematical equivalence in prayers, the casino should win most of the time. :)
I'm starting a movement to have it changed to "copywrought" because I think it sounds nicer.
Maybe both? I remember even when tapes were prevalent there was still an expensive early release intended just for rentals, and a later public release. When 'Fear and Loathing' came out on tape I tried to get my hands on it and was told it was $100 for the earliest copies. If I waited another three months for the public release it would be a more reasonable $20 or whatever.
The CEO of a company I used to work at gave that kind of rundown during a lunch-n-learn session. His conclusion came down to they needed to bill about three times what staffers were being paid to make a profit. That's fine, I understand that, but they were paying me $15/hour and billing $100/hour. He'd more or less said to my face he was ripping me off. It may vary by industry, but I'd say the $20/$95 difference is well into hefty profits rather than a thin margin.
I'd say offline mode has worked well for me most of the time, but a few times it has choked and refused to load the app I wanted. Maybe two or three times out of thirty-ish tries? So not a huge pain, but certainly aggravating when it fails.
Good story. I don't think I would have thought to take an insurance to small claims court. I always assumed that was more for interactions between individuals or local business, rather than with MegaCorp. Highly educational. Glad it worked out for you, too. I know several people fighting with insurance companies over lousy valuations, I'll be sure to mention this to them.
It goes both ways, though. Early on when I tried some online dating I spent too long talking via computer before actually meeting, only to find out some part of the physical/personal components didn't match up. Felt like I'd wasted a bunch of time on something that wasn't going to work. Not disagreeing with you, just saying you can go too far the other way.
I know how you feel. Around Y2K multiple groups put out "top 100 books of the 20th century" lists. I compiled several and set out with the goal of reading 250-ish of those books. Many were fantastic, some were obviously quality but left me not really happy in retrospect for having read them, and a small but substantial chunk I either hated all the way through or (later) just gave up on after 40-60 pages of misery. If I couldn't get into them by that point, I figured I wasn't going to. Some back-to-back combination of Edith Wharton and Samuel Butler broke me, I think.
Interesting. Now I feel even sillier for running back and forth on the same first few screens, thinking I was probably missing something. "I'll try this way for a bit. No? Okay, let's try the other way. Gah, I'm dead again."
Seconded. I posted above about how unintuitive Raiders was. I had the manual for ET and managed to figure it out. It may have been aggravating, but I could do it. On Raiders, I didn't have the manual, and couldn't tell what I was looking at. Often I died just by moving onto a wrong part of the screen without even understanding what there was killing me.
Which is funny, because Raiders is the only Atari game I could never figure out how to do anything with, and generally died on the second screen. I couldn't tell what I was looking at, couldn't figure out what areas were safe or deadly, and couldn't figure out how to accomplish anything. I didn't have a manual. That's probably most of the problem. But I didn't have the manual for a lot of other games and muddled through well enough. Raiders had to be about as unintuitive as it gets.
Considering your Facebook account is going to provide details about your family life, marital status, quantity and age of children, and religious and political preferences, I still don't understand how such a request is remotely legal. In fact, almost all such an account would do is provide answers to questions they're not allowed to ask, without answering any questions they're actually allowed to ask. Because who posts about their business qualifications on their Facebook account?
Then again, I wonder how prevalent this request actually is? It's the kind of thing that gets a lot of talk, but it's always been second- or third-hand at best by the time it reaches me.
The only folks worse are home inspectors.
I had an awesome home inspector. He found all sorts of details, down to "this faucet drain doesn't quite close right" and "the window sills are kind of sticky and you'll probably want them cleaned." I've been in the house five years now and can't think of anything important he overlooked. Maybe he's a rare find and I got lucky, as he's the only one I've ever used.
Well if you're going to teach creationism you really should teach all of them but as that's impractical as every culture that has ever existed has come up with different ones ...
On top of that, a lot of the old ones involve either onanism or copulation, and thus aren't deemed fit for high-school-level discussions. I was pretty surprised to discover in a college religious history course how much had been glossed over or sanitized during my younger mythology discussions.
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