The only issue we had with a local app was a poorly written one specific to our industry. They would get mad because I would tweak their code and I would tell them they made some poor decisions early on and how to fix it. They just patched on top of the patch. Then it had to run maintenance on the SQL database because it was so convoluted.

For you laymen, they basically added a MFI in line with a 4bbl carb on a 2bbl carb because a 4bbl flows more air, right? And the MFI more precisely meters fuel so you have to have that. Oh, you have to change plugs and oil once a week because there is so much fouling. Since you are down on power we will put a Gear Vendors underdrive on it to get you moving easier.

When we first got our cannon color imagesetters the postscript drivers sucked. I went thru and rewrote it so it worked correctly. The area rep took a copy of my driver. 6 months later if you looked at the coding in the updated cannon driver, it had my name in it, Because I put it there. ...Maybe i should have charged them? Too bad I was busy with my art projects and was just happy that I could do proof printing on the cannon.

I've been sleeping in a king size full motion waterbed for 35 years now, I love that it's 85 -90 degrees when you get in on a cold night. I don't see us going to a sleep number bed anytime soon.

The people would try to tell me I had no idea what I was doing and this and that at which point I told them I wrote web code for a developer that made software for a specific industry and we sold to worldwide billion dollar companies. The problem was they would install an update and ruin what I did. They could never give us the reports we asked for so I wrote custom views and queries so we could get the data we needed. Never told them about that.

I had to write the driver for my printer for the CAD program I wrote so I could print the 3-views properly. I did that stuff because I was too cheap to buy stuff.

One of the best things. Warm all night long.

Looks like the oldest and myself are on our own again tonight.

Pizza and Beer!!

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did that the other night.

Back in the days before inkjet printers our company had a very high tech film recorder. It would record very high resolution images directly to color film, up to a 8x10 negative or transparency. The brand of recorder we wanted happened to mention they had a brand new prototype recorder they were working on.

Long story short we ended up with the prototype for free since I could test it in real world conditions. We paid cost for the very first production model. The company that made it would send me customers files from other companies all over the world. I would record the image to film and send it back to them to send on to the potential customer interested in buying the recorder.

I ended up changing the look up tables for the different types of film and I had better images than the factory could manage.

That entire industry evaporated when digital photography and inkjet printers finally got to a decent quality.

It was cool dealing with the engineers and software geeks that make the $150,000 gadget.

I told my wife if I wasn't home when she got back from work today that I won the lottery jackpot.





Hey,I'd call her from the private island. :D

Evening Y'all,
Is it friday yet? My son was off today for some med stuff and I had to do his job plus mine, well I didn't have to but I took it on. Since I did two peoples jobs today I should get a pass and be off tomorrow. I wonder how well that would go over.

Yep, today is friday works for me too.

Bough powerball tickets, to fund my retirement. I only bought 2 lottery tickets before, probably 25 years ago. But I was feeling lucky today.

Base molding project is officially done. Tomorrow, we're continuing to unpack. Saturday will suck...back to the DC burbs.

Why would you want it to be moldy? You just use that so you don't have to get the walls and floors very straight at the edges. Guess that's how trim carpenters got their job.

Funny...went through my kitchen bureau with my sister and sil. Tossed a box of stuff and made a box of give away. Most of the stuff I got rid of was stuff THEY had given Mom that didn't match anything in the kitchen and Mom didn't get rid of.

Have material for curtains, towels, tablecloths, placemats, chair covers, etc to completely redo and change the colors of my kitchen. It goes with all the chickens on the plate rack. Don't think I will ever use it. I think it is funny that my kitchen is all decorated with chickens and I don't even like chicken. Kinda the opposite of Chic-fil-a and their cows? Told them I was going to keep all the chicken stuff until I decided there was some other way I wanted to decorate.

They wanted me to throw away a book of recipes Mom had collected from just about everyone in the family. And its stuff you just don't find in cookbooks. When i told them what it was they said I would never find anything in it. Then as they thumbed through it they each copied down two or three recipes to take home and put in their book just like it. Don't think they think I can cook even though I've been doin ALL the cooking since Mom had her stroke 15 years ago.

Have cooked really well since I was about 5. When I was 6 my grandmother gave me a wisk for my birthday so I could make fluffy omelets like she did. My specialty growing up was made from scratch griddle cakes. Even did pictures in them as you pour the batter on the griddle. Made my own syrup too.

Also have a book of all the decorated birthday cakes from when I was growing up. On my birthday Mom and I would pick a theme, make a big decorated cake shaped like something and matching party favors, then invite the neighborhood kids over to eat it up. We didn't ever tell them about the party until they were to come over so they wouldn't feel like they had to bring presents. The fun was making the cakes and favors.

Man, going through stuff like that is always a trip down memory lane.

Sister must have felt bad about taking all the big pictures she painted off the walls when Mom passed. They brought a big painting of a sunset and hung it on a blank wall for me. As a single GUY just not motivated to do much of that decorating stuff. Been telling the that since there is no artwork on the walls it looks like the set of a porno.

First up?

Good Morning!

Morning Everyone.

A bunch of sleepyheads on the board.

It is FRIDAY! :D

Stop waking me up!

Thought waking up was the original reason for this thread?

We have a group mailing list our salespeople and distributors can join.

To join the email list you send and email to the list, then it sends back an email you must reply to, then you are added to the list.

This does two things. It makes sure you are an actual person by requiring you to send from an actual email address, and it makes sure the messages do not go to your spam folder or quarantine. I even have instructions for them to check the spam filter and whitelist messages from the list if they do not receive the confirmation email they must reply to then re-send the subscription message.

it amazes me how many of our sales staff do not seem to be actual people as they are not able to do this.

What's worse is my boss has me manually add them to the list. Of course since they could not follow through with the subscription steps they end up never receiving any list emails because they are in their spam folders/quarantine or their spam filters reject the messages and are unsubscribed from the list.

Are you sure this is not MONDAY or is it that people are morons every day?