Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July.

We went to some people's house that I have know for about 40 years. They are good friends with a good buddy of mine. My buddy has sold everything he has, house, cars, guns, boat, everything. He is moving to New Zealand. It is a long and irrelevant story as to all the reasons why he is moving.

He is trying to keep his phone number, but not sure that is financially reasonable. His email is easy to keep the same.

I will miss him. I joked I would give hm 12 months to settle in before we come to visit. Evidently by law he has to buy a car, and move his assets to a bank in New Zealand, and then buy some property with a house or build a house in a certain amount of time.

[Porsche-poor]

Everyone but the dog had a great 4th. Lots booms and bangs.

[GH85Carrera]

I get a ton of junk phone calls. My message is clear, leave me a message, and I will return your call. I just got a call from some town in California I had never heard of, so I just ignored it. They left me a message that it was my final warning that they are going to close my file, and I will be responsible for all repairs on my car in the future. I will bet thousands it is not my final call about my car warranty. Since I have been responsible for all my car repairs for the last 45+ years I am not too worried.

[Porsche-poor]

OH great the new Lic mgr got installed and now none of the programs I need to use will function.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Even more stupid they asked me to come in and set up monitors at the new office. There are no docking stations and the cables that come with the monitors do not match the laptops.

[GH85Carrera]

Sounds like some genius level IT help there. But think of all the money they are saving!

Just get out the drafting table and the pen and ink. Analog never fails!

[Porsche-poor]

no drafting tables here

[GH85Carrera]

My former boss started his working life at an electrical company working in the drafting department. Imagine the tedious hand drawn schematics of the power plant. Decades later at the office, he came across a very high end fancy drafting table and all the arms and lighting and everything ready to go, just add draftsman. He had no real use for it, but it was just so cool, he ended up buying it, and then some pens and inks, and he really thought he might sketch up some drawings. Of course it became a junk table and place to put crap.

It was a really cool table, but that is like having a really cool buggy and buggy whip and no horse.

[Porsche-poor]

Ok I just finished hanging up 35 monitors.

[GH85Carrera]

Is that like hanging up the phone?

Be glad it ain't the olden days of 21 inch Glass tube monitors! Those things were heavy.

So are you going back to an office and commuting?

[Porsche-poor]

these are 27" flats but way to many of them. Yeah a few days a week now.

[GH85Carrera]

As I remember I could run 8 monitors with my one computer, if I had the space and the need. I hope I never need 8 monitors.

I started with my Commodore 64 and a little TV monitor with a great picture. My first DOS computer has a Compaq lugable, and had a little green screen. Black background and a few shades of green for text. To get the CGA standard was a big step up.

Then VGA, and on and on.

At work we had a 6 MHz IBM AT with an amber monitor, so black background and amber text. IT had a second monitor with a full size video card, that could display 16.7 million colors at VGA resolution in the early 1980s. It only displayed the graphic I built. That was when most people had no colors on their monitors.

We used it to build the graphics that I sent to the film recorder.

[GH85Carrera]

We hit 100 degrees yesterday for the first time this year, and since 2020. We never hit 100 last year.

It is just weird to me that the news is full of warnings that is it hot outside. During the dust bowl days of the 1930s we had some long streaks of 100+ days that are still unbroken. Almost no one had air conditioning, and only the rich folks in the city had electricity or fans. People were tougher back then I guess. I sure love our air conditioning.

[Porsche-poor]

100 and no a/c I'd die.

[GH85Carrera]

I think of my grandparents, and my wife's grandparents sometimes. In the 30s it was the depression, and my dad's dad was working at Armor and company, as a meat packer. Now imagine a 100+ (even 110 degrees sometimes) in a large warehouse, cutting up cattle, and how hot it had to be. Just driving past a meat packing plant stinks. I can't imagine it inside.

Then think of grandma. They had a "house" that was 15x20, one room with an outhouse out back. It would be like my attic or storage shed out back right now. And grandma had to fire up the wood burning stove to cook dinner. So she had to stand in the kitchen next to the stove, and cook the meal. If she wanted some water, pump the handle on the water pump. The water drained onto the ground outside. No electricity for a fan, just a candle to see by at night.

And then throw in a dust storm, so the air was thick with grit and dirt. You could not close the windows, or they would just die, so everything you ate or drank had sand in it.

We did not live in an air conditioned house until I was in high school as a junior.

I never went to a school with air conditioning. I can remember sitting in class with sweat dripping from my nose onto my test paper. I did not have an air conditioned car until I bought my El Camino 30 years ago.

I remember sitting in class promising myself that someday I will own a house, and it will have air conditioning, and I can keep it as cool as I like. I also remember one summer coming in from mowing and popping open a beer, and enjoying my nice cool house.

They were tough back then. The wimps moved out to the coast. The tough ones stayed here and made a living.

[Porsche-poor]

I'm a wimp. I hate the heat.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Back to working from home today. No point in going in when the monitors will not work.

[GH85Carrera]

So, now you will get to take all of those down, and put up new monitors that will work with the current computers, and no money for raises!

It looks like our plumeria is growing more flower buds, so we should have more plumerias soon.

[Porsche-poor]

No taki9ng them down unless they don't work. I just need the docking stations to come in. Those will be here next month.

[GH85Carrera]

I presume you have a company issued laptop with all the software loaded on it that you need, and you just take it with you to work, or back home to do the drawings. At work, plug in the laptop to the docking station and presto, the monitors are connected, and the files backed up to the server from your laptop.