Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

ahh one of the joys I no longer have to deal with. Software and the inventory of such was my job prior to the sale of the company. Now I get to field all the phone calls from vendors and tell them not my job.

[GH85Carrera]

Wellll dogggies what fun. I "got" to take my business partner to the other side of the city to Will Rogers International. He is taking a commercial flight to Panama City, FL to fly some projects for FEMA as the ultimate customer. Our customer has the contract, so we are just sub contractors.

He looked at all the car rental sites, and no one has cars available. So he called a few and they all said, nope no cars at all, try next week. The company we are flying it for is a partnership. One of the partners owns a luxury vacation home in Panama City. It is is in a gated community, with an nice infinity pool and all the amenities. He has an Ford Explorer at the airport when my partner is landing, but the keys are with him in Germany at the moment, where is is away for business. So my partner will have a friend of theirs pick him up at the airport, and take him to the house. He will have to drive the second car, a Porsche Panamera. Dang, he has to stay at a fancy house and drive a Panamera, and the job does not even get started until tomorrow afternoon when the Cessna 172 arrives for him to fly.

He will just have a vacation like experience for a day. He will suffer through it like a trouper.

[Porsche-poor]

sounds like hard work but someone has to do it.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, my partner told them he was "there for them" and he even volunteered to go to Germany and let the guy stay at home and fly the project himself. They decided to just suffer through the Germany trip and let my partner fly the project.

[RKDinOKC]

That was nice of the dealership...
Cayenne making steering noise.
It was low on juice.
Filled it, got the air out, checked for leaks. Said it likely just got low due to age 145K miles. Said at certain point it gets air in the system and that's what was maiking all the noise.
The monkeyed with it for about an hour, charged me the big zero.

Sales guy told me they just got in a 2013 Cayenne Turbo S white with tan interior 35K miles for under $60K including the 100K miles CPO warranty. Think worth closer to $45K so no sale here.

[RKDinOKC]

Mertnin

[Porsche-poor]

morning. How are things back east and few hours ahead?

[GH85Carrera]

Beautiful day on tap weather wise.

The customer that makes me work hard decided he wanted a few extra files at higher resolution. That meant one project ended up at 13.8 GB of data! It takes my computer some time to churn them out. The good news is the data file is just a 6 GB string of text. The programs can open it and make it look like it should. It compresses down in a zip file a lot. Still some huge files to move around.

[Porsche-poor]

I copied all the family photos I have been working on to jump drives last night. Slightly less than 6gigs in total. Didn't take as long as I thought it would.

[GH85Carrera]

Copy all those files to your computer hard drive, burn a couple of double density DVDs or a blue ray disks. Put em on an external hard drive.

The best thing is to spend a tone of time on Ancestry.com with the software package. Build a family tree, upload each image to the person in the photo, and link it to the other people in the photo.

I have a Ancestry.Com app on my phone. At any time I can look up the photos of someone in my family tree, and see the photos, marriage licenses, birthdays, dates of death, and all that information of the deceased people. It is public. The information of living people is all hidden to all be me.

[Porsche-poor]

my niece may just do that. She has traced the family back to I think forming one of the states back east. Me right now I just want to be done with it.

[GH85Carrera]

I started tracing mine back on just one line back 10 generations. Past that is just silly. There are just so many branches after a few generations you can spend forever going back on any one line.

Like most folks, I followed back my family name to some British royalty with a few million cousins that far back. I have lots of German relatives from both my mom and dad. Maybe that is why I like German cars and beer.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Look like if I'm not careful I am going to be put in charge of doling out and keeping track of all the software licensing. It is really F'd up and that's just the Microsoft licenses and they do not make it very easy or affordable.

Not to mention Adobe, Solidworks, Infor, Kronos, Cornerstone, and some of the other packages.

Spiceworks.

[Jim Richards]

Spice Girls

[GH85Carrera]

Phew. Dang slave driver boss’s wife insisted I mow the yard since this is the first dry day in a while and rain is coming tonight. I feel 100% sure the jerk boss is gonna make me wash the 911 since I drove it in the rain on Sunday and the cars and coffee at the dealership is on Saturday. Gotta get some free coffee and donuts.

[RKDinOKC]

The dealership yesterday did say my 145K mile Cayenne Turbo was just broke in good.
They also said the color looked good too.

Have heard the same comments on the 72K miles GTS.

Felt really good a lunch today. The best parking spot was a parallel spot right out front. Backed into it perfect on the first try. I haven't tried to parallel park in ages. And no I don't have a backup camera or any of that see where your car is stuff.

[flipper35]

Don't need no backup camera in the Cobra. It is so small I can stand along side and operate the carb while reaching inside to turn the key to start it. I can almost open the trunk from inside. Sitting inside you practically have a birds eye view. I can reach the drivers side hood latch from the drivers seat if I lean forward. I can touch the ground without opening the door. It is so small that...

[Porsche-poor]

if it were any smaller your wife would tell you to get your own seat...............

[RKDinOKC]

So you can just carry it into your office with you like George Jetson?

The IT Department had our monthly pot luck lunch today. The theme was Mexican.
20 IT people ate all 46 pork tamales I made and took to the IT pot luck lunch.
And the IT Director brought chicken fajitas from a local mexican place.
A couple of other people brought chili, other cheese dip or picante.
In the past we've just done BBQ.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

if it were any smaller your wife would tell you to get your own seat...............

Maybe, maybe not!