Or - Aunt Ing is going to tell you two stories today...
First, the Saturday before we left for vacation I wrote of Bubba and his going out with work buddies and leaving me alone for dinner... while that is still all true I got a better less butt-head story upon his timely (yes timely) arrival home that evening...
Bubba had asked young Jedi co-worker in numbers to make an appearance Saturday to help get reports and the like out the door in a timely manner and so Bubba would indeed make the sailing time and place of his vacation... because we all know his loving wife of nearly 20 years would have left his butt on the shore and enjoyed said vacation sans Bubba... I digress...
Since the young Jedi did appear and used the force for good with all the numbers Bubba was able to leave at a "decent" hour (i.e. 6 PM vs. 9PM) so our wise and elder number warrior took young Jedi to the Death Star Canteen (in this story also know as the Austin Grill) enjoyed said grog and meal and parted ways... So the moral of the story-- tell the wife before you leave so this information is shared and she doesn't waste an hour being ticked off... and you can be a nice guy when you want to...
Now... story number two... as I have previously written I work for Large Nameless Corporation and as such my computer is not my own... even less so as we have some sort of uber lock down software that I will call "Trust-Not-Desktop". Now this Trust-Not (for short) is on every computer on the Large Nameless Corporation network... it's like the Matrix the network knows you're out there and if it doesn't see the Trust-Not tag it will be forced upon you... much like green veggies when you were a kid.
So with Trust-Not a regular user cannot install software on their own computer, now I understand that is a preventative measure for idiots and managers who try to install screen savers that are viruses and other not good things but this Trust-Not software also prevents installing of new programs you need to do your job... and IT's answer is to wipe out your drive, install everything else including the new piece of software then force feed Trust-Not again... so 4 days later when you get your computer back - always missing something you needed... and you are just so happy to have your computer back you don't mind redoing 18 hours of work... really.
The last two days apparently big brother - aka Corporate IT has decided there are updates my computer need to have installed, probably more spyware to ensure that I am being a good corporate drone and am busily working hard every hour of every day... and not posting to a personal blog or some other such foolishness... Now normally these software updates are invisible to me except that I come in and find my computer has been rebooted the night before... this time - we've seen the tell tale reboot - only now there was some update that didn't work right... and it keeps trying to install in that quiet way of pop-up a window you can't get rid of announcing that in 10 minutes (with count down) this piece of software will be installed... AND an hour later you have to REBOOT YOUR MACHINE. Now when the install fails it still makes you reboot - every hour - on the hour and it counts down.... and the fun part boys and girls - YOU CAN'T STOP IT! It just takes down your machine Fun!
So a call to Large Nameless Corporation's IT department -and while they are attempting to be helpful they don't know why it's happening... (remember IT sent this to my computer - and THEY can't find the root of the problem). It would be funny if I didn't have to stop actually doing something productive to wait 20 minutes for my computer to reboot. Productive! You bet! I want that on a motivational poster - "Productivity - just ask IT how to suck it up!"
And finally a bonus tale -short but funny...
I went to get a manicure, along with other errands to be run during one's day at home you can get more things done in 30 minutes at 2:00 PM than you can in 2 hours on Saturday afternoon- I digress. As I sat there getting tended to the lady was speaking, not me as she was talking in her native tongue (that's her first language that is NOT English boys and girls) it has nothing to do with a body part... and she's getting mad and talking louder and more - I'm looking around at the other ladies who might have a clue as to what she is saying and they aren't paying any attention to her... ah who the heck is talking to?
Then as I sat drying (my nails - please pay attention) I noticed she touched her ear and began talking again.... SHE WAS ON THE PHONE - A WIRELESS HEADSET... and I sat there like an idiot thinking she's was yelling at her coworkers instead she was probably yelling at a family member under the age of 18. The joke is on Aunt Ing tonight...
Ok back to work, and then to face dinner and cleanup and another day...
enjoy the fall colors and we'll chat tomorrow.
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