Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

I have never tried to pause a print job, most of the time the page prints in seconds, unless it is a huge print job. That sucks they locked it down and keep you from being the Admin. I have never had a computer that was not me as Admin. Well except back in the stone ages of Win NT and I had to be Administrator. I always resented having to type out Administrator to log in. I finally went in and changed it all to just Glen.

Well the storms last night were interesting. I severe storm was coming our way, and it just fizzled out to .017 inches of light rain. No complaints. Then in the middle of the night a second much bigger front finally got here from the Baja Oklahoma area and we had 2.15 inches of rain in short order.

Tonight is the club board meeting. Unlikely I will drive the 911. It will all depend on what the weather looks like obviously. If it look like that lumpy chunky rain I will just stay home. Liquid rain is OK in the El Camino.

[RKDinOKC]

The computer itself is a member of our domain stuff. It is locked down despited the users with profiles the other Admin doesn't even know about. What's worse, I can/t even find the computer in our directory.

[flipper35]

In windows 7 the print queue is in the notification area if there is something to print. Why would they not have you as a local admin on that PC? Why are your head IT guys like the ones in BOFH.

[flipper35]

After two weeks of fighting, I have the oil pan mounted in the Cobra. At this rate it will be ready to drive by September. What a Lemony Snickets.

[GH85Carrera]

That oil pan sounds like fun. Years ago when the original engine on the Elky had almost 200,000 miles the water pump failed. A friend said "While you are in there" with everything off, you should replace the timing chain that is just behind the cover that is exposed. Yea, right, after I pull the engine mount bolts, and raise the engine a few inches to get the oil pan off, then I can get the front cover off. It was a LOT more work than I expected or wanted at the time.

Yesterday I turned on the AC, today the heater goes back on. It is 61 degrees, raining, and the low tonight is 52. Into the 40s on Thursday night.

[flipper35]

Well, it is a baffled oil pan because having no oil pressure when pulling hard sucks. So, pull the pan and see the OEM pickup tube doesn't work with the baffles. Need a new tube to go with the pan. Need a new oil pump gasket now because you can't pull the pickup tube without pulling the pump. Can't get to the pump because of the windage tray. Went downhill from there.

[RKDinOKC]

They are not the brightest blubs..

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Well, it is a baffled oil pan because having no oil pressure when pulling hard sucks. So, pull the pan and see the OEM pickup tube doesn't work with the baffles. Need a new tube to go with the pan. Need a new oil pump gasket now because you can't pull the pickup tube without pulling the pump. Can't get to the pump because of the windage tray. Went downhill from there.

Yea, one thing I always hated about autocrossing the 914 was seeing the oil pressure light pop on in long hard turns. If they set up a 360 or even a 180 turn, it would light up. I do love the 911 dry sump, and 14 quart oil system. A regular oil change is just 11 quarts unless you bother to flush the oil cooler lines to the front of the car.

We have been know to set up the skid pad and then do multiple laps in the circle. That is hard to keep it right at the limit, and not spin, or drift out too far.

[GH85Carrera]

The mean ol Boss's wife pulled me away from my computer. My main computer is maxed out at 100% CPU utilization, and 100% hard drive utilization churning on a big project so I have to use my second computer to surf Pelican. So I was really busy watching the little wheel spin on the process percentage calculator. The project has been running for 20 hours so far.

My MIL has three chairs that need to be re-caned on the seat bottoms. It is really hard to find anyone that knows how, and will do it. We found a shop that still does, so we had to go drop off the chairs.

The lady that does it is about to retire, so the hunt will continue if more chairs need it in the near future.

[RKDinOKC]

Mom had a ladderback cane seat chair. When I was just a kid dad found a guy in Grove, OK. That made 3 more chairs to match and re-canned them all. Mom made seat cusions to protect the cane. I still got em, along witn 10 wooden commisary chairs like Glen has some cane, and some wooden. Mine are all wood seats, have cusions for those also.

Don't have leafs to expand my very old oak kitchen table to fit all the chairs, but we used to. Sister borrowed them, then sold em when she moved. Mom was pissed said she didn't know why she let her borrow them.

Same sister wanted all the antique furniture when Mom passed. Asked her if she was just going to store them in her basement like all the other furniture she has. She stopped saying anything when I made that comment.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Mom had a ladderback cane seat chair. When I was just a kid dad found a guy in Grove, OK. That made 3 more chairs to match and re-canned them all.

Yea, and assuming the guy was an likely an older man, and add your age and he is over 100 and likely long dead.

It is one of the skills that is hard to do, and does not pay a lot. Complex or difficult hand work is something going away. I can imagine there are not many old time draftsmen that can make a pen in ink drawing by hand. It is like a lot of what I did for so long for a living. Photography with film and light sensitive products and the darkroom work needed is something no one does except as a hobby on a small scale. No one can afford the equipment we had and the talent to make it work is just not around anymore. Of course computers replaces pen and ink and darkroom work. There is no digital replacement for a cane seat.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

They are not the brightest blubs..

A few fries short of an accordion? Couldn't play the dance if an elephant stepped on a thimble?

Muffinfroathobit. (Channeling Joe on that one)

[Outback Porsche]

Woohoo! Redundancy day is finally here

It's been a long five weeks

[Jim Richards]

So Jeff, are you redundant? BTW, retirement still rocks. You’ll be great at it.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Woohoo! Redundancy day is finally here



It's been a long five weeks

Wow, a five week long day must be like ground hog day. Was it the same thing over and over of like watching an opera-ballet marathon ?

[RKDinOKC]

Thought redundancy was an HR thing?

VP of IT just announced the company is going to a smartphone app for employee communications.
They are dropping 500 F1 web only users email accounts. It will save $2000/mo. Plus they can decommision 30 computers that are Kiosks for these users to use.
Don't think $2000/mo is going to pay the programmer required to create and keep it up.

He did not say anything about the reason we setup those email accounts in the first place. To interact with company learning and scheduling vacations, etc. They just talkd about employee notifications.

All employees are going to be required to have a smart phone? Is acting like that is no big deal. They are expecting these 500 employees to shell out $100/mo including a phone so the company can save $4/mo?
And that does not include the cost of the phone app and integrating it with everything.
Get $55 /mo for my phone because use it for work. $55 was supposed to pay for it, but was based on an introductory account and did not include the price of the phone itself. The actual account went up to $77 after 6 months but what they pay did not.

On yeah, we are going to facial recognition instead of passwords too. And they can't currently get Single Sign-On to work.

[Outback Porsche]

Yep, five weeks ago they notified me that I’d be made redundant today if they couldn’t find another placement for me. For five weeks I’ve been in limbo hoping that they couldn’t find anything for me. The severance pay is in the bank and I’m done with their crap forever. I’m now retired...at least til I’m sick of the honey doo’s

[RKDinOKC]

Talked to a friend last night that trains hospice nurses. Told her about my health issues, she thinks I should be able go on disability.

Have to go in and spit today. Guess that's better than filling the warm lemanade vial.

[Outback Porsche]

Or wanking into a jar

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Yep, five weeks ago they notified me that I’d be made redundant today if they couldn’t find another placement for me. For five weeks I’ve been in limbo hoping that they couldn’t find anything for me. The severance pay is in the bank and I’m done with their crap forever. I’m now retired...at least til I’m sick of the honey doo’s

Congratulations. Years of training has paid off.

My job is mostly like being retired. Working from home and being able to shift work stuff to run as I go to bed, or on weekends, or when I just monitor the program for problems.

Most folks that first retire love to goof off for a while, and then get bored and have to find a new hobby that is not very expensive, or get a part time job to get out of the house.