Clients are neve happy, rarely right and hate the bill.

Yea, and the whine about the price for hurry hurry hair on fire, get it done now and super high res.

I just looked at CPU prices. Wow. Intel Core i9-7980XE Skylake X 18-Core 2.6 GHz LGA 2066 165W BX80673I97980X Desktop Processor is "only" $3,247.44. Gasp.

My current and paid for 3.10 Ghz 16 core will have to do for now.

MY has a sign in his office "you can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick 2"

Mornin' all. Next week starts two hours earlier every day for a bit as I train the new guy.

Start with sit then work on the hard ones like stay and roll over. About two weeks in he should be ready for play dead.

Just don't teach him shake hands! Just touch elbows. ;)

Pepper gets real excited when she meets new people. It took a couple of weeks to keep her from peeing a little. Now she jumps up in front of them, but doesn't actual jump on or touch them. Have worked on her just sitting and saying "hello." Still gets too excited. Stay still only lasts a few seconds. She does lay down when I say bang and point my finger at her, but it takes several shots and she does not stay dead very long. She doesn't do roll over, just can seem to get a grasp.

Camber, my last Golden started talking when teaching her to roll over. Instead of rolling over she would say "roll over" back to me. Because she was saying it so well, I praised and treated her. Then i made the same movements and said "Can you roll over" and she would roll over. But if you made the motions and just said roll over, she would say it back instead of rolling over.

Penny started her talking by saying "Hello" back too me.

Received and email that said it was from Paypal and I needed to make a new password. None of the links for were the email came from or where the link sent me to were paypal. So I reported it to my spam filter and saved it as junk. The bustards.

One of the recent projects was invoiced and they wanted to pay with a credit card. It was a fairly small job so not a major loss for the CC fee. It had been so long since I did a CC payment it took me a while to figure it out again.

And he has to pay sales taxes on just the prints. The expensive part is the flight, and that is a service and no sales tax. That will be our second customer since we opened our business. I pleaded with the sales tax folks to let me file once every 6 months. So every 6 months I file a three page form with all zeros. Next month I will have to file one with some numbers and pay them what we collected. Oh boy that will be fun. :rolleyes:

Funny! I was using that analogy with our CEO in our meeting this afternoon.

Speak is the last one they need to learn.....

"Hush, That's enough." or "Thank you, that's enough." Pepper seems to understand that for me and quits barking.
Please consider I am not employeed nor actually have anyone working for me at this time.

At the old photolab we went through a lot of employees over the 25+ years I worked there. We just called the new guys the FNG for at least a month unless they impressed us with their production and knowledge and not needing repeated instructions on how to do simple tasks.

One absolute rule that would get you fired for violation, don't open any door unless you are willing to bet your next two weeks of pay that their is nothing light sensitive in there you will ruin. Bang and knock on the door and listen, if you hear safe, go in, if you hear dark, just wait until they come out.

It was easy to ruin a $400 roll of paper in a instant with light.

Good Morning

This comparison work to dog commands got me to thinking about the differences in training my 3 Goldens.

My first, Penny, raised her for the first year just me and her. Kept and took her with me everywhere except work, and even sometimes there to (she would lay patiently at my feet under my desk.) She was a fantastic dog that stayed at my side and would not even take food from someone else unless I said it was okay. And could be trained by just showing her once what I wanted. When I went to stay with people she would stay right beside me and even sleep next to the couch or bed I slept on. Becase she was always with me she behaved so well nobody made any sort of deal over her being there. We stayed in hotels that had signs up that said they didn't allow pets. I would just ask and prove she went to the bathroom on command and would not speak unless I told her to. She also went with me and stayed right beside me when I went to radio controlled flying fields. The guys at the flying field would tell other people not to bring pets, but all liked Penny and said she had an invisible leash because she stayed right beside me and only interacted with anyone else when I told her it was okay. Usually it was to go to someone's pickup, and fetch a beer from the ice chest in the back. Not sure how she knew which truck. My brother did not want her in his room and she would only go to his door and sit. He liked to eat peanut m&ms. He would occasionally drop one. He would look over a Penny, say okay. She would run in, grab the m&m, run back out. and sit at the door and eat the m&m. I cried for 2 days when she passed at 18.

Two months later couldn't stand it and got my second, Camber. Mom and I were taking care of my brother with MS. Because I worked and Camber was always home with Mom and George. Camber was Mom's dog and not mine. Because Mom didn't go anywhere Camber didn't and did not learn to behave as well and Penny. But Mom had a stroke and a speech thearapist. While teaching Mom to talk again we taught Camber to speak english. The therapist said Camber was making all the right sounds, just counldn't move her lips. Even brought her kids to hear the talking dog that sounded like Astro on the Jetson's. Camber would say, "I want out". "Drink of water", "I'm hungry", "I love you", etc. Camber was still totally Mom's dog, slept with Mom and asked Mom to be feed, to go in and out, and would only go for a ride if Mom was going. When Camber passed Mom went to bed and would not get up. So I took Mom and bought the only girl golden available that day even though she cost $900. She had AKC and obedience heritage out the wazoo, her dad was a local media star in commercials and print, her granddad was Better Housekeeping pet of the year.

My third and current, Pepper, really changed Mom's dimentia. Pepper stuck to Mom like glue. Mom started doing things like cooking she hadn't done in 5 years. It was so Mom could feed Pepper off her plate. Mom's memory even got better. It was amazing to see. I even trainned Pepper to speak english like Camber as a puppy to help her interact with Mom. Because Mom let Pepper do anything it was difficult to really train Pepper basic stuff like stay. But she was a pretty good dog. But did have to keep going over things for Pepper to do them reliably. Still think it's cause Mom treated Pepper more like a cat than a dog.

A couple of months after Mom passed a made what I concider a huge mistake. Since had been home caring for Mom so long decided to take a 2 week vacation. Instead of taking Pepper with me I left her with what I thought was a very good dog trainer. When I picked Pepper up I found the trainer had taught her to not speak, or even bark. She just stood at the back door when she wanted out instead of saying "I want out" or even speaking. I have been working and working on her to speak. She does say "hello" at drive up windows because they give her a bite to eat.

Found training on the internet for diabetic alert dogs. You can take a well behaved dog to 2 weeks of class and they will help you train your dog to alert you when your saliva shows your blood sugar goes below 70 or above 130. They charge about $20K. Dogs can tell about 30 minutes before it shows up on a finger stick blood test. Bought cotton, baggies, and freezer containers to start freezing salaiva samples and was not looking forward to running my blood sugar low to train Pepper. Before I got much saliva frozen I noticed Pepper was waking me in the night to let her outside to do her stuff. This one time I felt my blood sugar felt low. Test myself and it was so I gave her a treat before letting her out. Kept letting her out and 4 more times in the next couple of months my blood sugar felt and measured low so I gave a treat before letting her out. One the fifth time after I gave her the treat she did not want out she woke me up because my blood sugar was low. She still wakes me up to go out, but she also wakes me up if I have low blood sugar, even if I have fallen asleep in the lazyboy or couch and it's no night.

Because of some of my physical health problems and that nobody comes to visit I have not been able to work on her basic obedience as much as Penny, but think Pepper is a pretty good dog since she is a diabetic alert dog.

I had a doberman adopt me. I came home one day for lunch and she was sitting on my front porch. I put some water down for her and she drank that, but I figured she would be gone when I got home after lunch. She was still there. So I brought her in, and let her run around in the back yard. I had to run to the convenience store to get a bag of dog food. I named her Betty.

After a week of no one asking about her, I decided she was mine. I had her fixed, and got her shots and so on. She was very smart, and easy to train once she understood that I was Alpha. She tested that a couple of times and learned I did not put up with attitude from her. I would roll her on her back, and just hold her down and get face to face and explain who was boss.

The neighborhood kids loved to come play with her and several tennis balls.

One of the times I had a new girlfriend at my house to spend the night, at 2:30 or so someone was pounding on my door with a cop knock. Betty was at the door making growling, barking and guttural sounds that would make any sane human think long and hard about trying to get past her. Turns out the chick I had over had a loony stalker ex-boyfriend. That was my last date with her.

Betty was a great dog.

Broke down and got a new iPhone. Hope don't have to charge the battery 3 times a day like now with my 7s.

I have a Pixel that's two years old. I can see the battery life percentage dropping as I use it. My wife and I had a Zoom meeting with some of one of our kids' teachers a few months ago. In 26 minutes I went from 60% charge to empty. I didn't have a charging cord with me at work, so I wound up embarrassingly dropping out of the meeting. Even after I went through and eliminated all unnecessary apps, the thing has the battery life of a piece of Bazooka gum.

So...If I were blind, how would i know I was done wiping?

Is a seeing eye dog trained to bark if the paper looks clean, ie, seeing eye dogs real job?

Is there a personel training program that relates like the sit, stay stuff?

Nah, you just sniff the TP.