Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

I am up at the regular "go to work" time. I get to mow the yard yet again. Dang stuff keeps growing and I keep cutting it.

Tomorrow is the autocross. Gonna be another hot one.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Our Honda CRV and Chevy Volt are each around $300, my 280Z is $185. Ouch.

I used to be able to tag the Porsche here for 5 years for under $100. Then our lovely anti-tax legislature added a $30/year “fee” to our registration so they could get by without a vote. Buying multiple years doesn’t have near the savings now. 😡😡😡

[GH85Carrera]

Grate turnout for the autocross. Fun course.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, that is a Tesla in the line. The silver car near the back of the pack ready to do another lap.
He discovered if you get it sideways, it makes plenty of noise. It is no doubt fast, but heavy.

[RKDinOKC]

When I drove a Tesla model S around the autocross course, it did pretty well. However, the lack of engine sound was a bit disconcerting. You don't know how much you rely on those sounds to tell you how fast you are going.

Crap I am getting old. Turned 60 today.

[GH85Carrera]

Well, I will say happy birthday anyway, even if you are not having a great recovery. So Happy Birthday.

It was weird to see that Tesla take off with no noise but the tires rolling across the small bits of gravel and stuff on the concrete.

[Jim Richards]

Happy 60th, Richard!

[pete3799]

Happy Birthday Richard.

[GH85Carrera]

Those major "speed limit sign" birthdays see to have more meaning to most people. I figure it is just a number, and I keep trying to be a teenager.

Never too old to have a happy childhood.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Well its a Monday here. We had a huge thunderstorm on Saturday and the power went out. Looks like part of the UPS system didn't come back up and so part of the network was off. All fixed now.

[flipper35]

Happy Birthday (late) Richard.

So the UPS didn't turn on automatically when the power came back on and the batteries were ready? Sounds like they may have a bad battery. Not that you take care of them.

I hate when people make excuses for other people not doing their job.

[Porsche-poor]

yep bad batt. in one of the 4 ups systems. moved everything from one box to another and poof it all works now. Nope not my problem till I'm the first one in the door and I can't work.

[flipper35]

We have over 20 here, plus three generators. It is a pain keeping up with which ones need replacing.

Oh, just so we are clear, my comment about excuses was for people here. Drives me crazy. You are either competent enough to do your job like everyone else or you are not.

[Porsche-poor]

we technically don't handle any IT here in Seattle. So you can guess how often the batts get looked at.

[GH85Carrera]

My wife was telling me that the university she used to work at is being audited by the IRS. The lady over the budget, and charged with dealing with sending reports and data to the IRS was relating her fun times. She ran a report that the IRS requested. It had over one millions rows. Excel will not open it, it is too big.

The IRS has an IT director that is stuck in the early 2000s. She can't send an attachment bigger that 1 MB. Any email with a mention of a cloud file, or FTP is just blocked at the server and never arrives. She is almost ready to print it all out on paper and mail it to him.

Of course the IT department at the university will not let her print a report or transfer the data to a CD or DVD, or thumb drive. She had to send about 40 little email attachments in a separate pieces.

Golly technology sure is fun when the IT directors conspire to make the job impossible. My wife is extra super happy she is retired and not in the middle of that.

[Jim Richards]

Yikes! That's a brutal way to do your job.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang I sometimes hate dealing with the analog real world.

In the world of business, sending and receiving checks is still a standard method of exchanging funds. We had a vendor that we owned a few hundred bucks. I mailed a check, on time and as directed. The post office lost it, or it vanished. Whatever the vendor is mad, and for some reason wants the check. So I printed a second check and it is in the mail.

I had to go to my bank to issue a stop payment on the old check. That cost 25 bucks, and 10 minutes of time. The branch is across a very busy intersection from a Office Depot, and I need a ream of good paper, and 100 #10 envelopes. Their web site says it is in stock. The web site lies.

So back to Amazon and getting what I need. Amazon really wants me to buy a entire case. One ream lasts two years, I don't need a two decade long supply.

I can find individual reams, but not prime. So it costs more than a local purchase.

And speaking of Amazon, how is they can figure out something you really want or need will take two weeks, but something that is not vital will be there overnight. I ordered a new 4TB hard drive, and some SATA cables. The cables were just for stock, and cost a few bucks. The hard drive is to replace an old failing drive. The cables came in 24 hours. The hard drive arrived today, after a 2 week delay.

[flipper35]

I think Sid customizes the algorithm personally for you!

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by flipper35

I think Sid customizes the algorithm personally for you!

Yup. I sit around watching Glen’s activity to see how I can mess with him.



It’s hard to say honestly without looking at the order history. Really depends on who it was fulfilled by.

[GH85Carrera]

Sid, it always seems to work that way. I ordered some more of the brand of hand cleaner I like only because the old bottle is low and I wanted the new jug in stock for the day it is needed. I can easily go a month or more before I am out of the old bottle. The new order was here in a day.

I once ordered some RAM memory we needed to add to a computer to finish a big job. It took forever to get here. Amazon and the shipping companies conspire to deliver the stuff not needed desperately instantly, and the stuff I need the most takes forever.

It must me the Unicorns and Bigfoot working with the extraterrestrials, FBI, CIA, NSA, and IRS to monitor me just to mess with me. It is a giant conspiracy, all covert and secret. It is all likely directed by you!

The sneaky part is I ordered two hard drives 6 months ago that I was going to put in stock as external storage devices. I have a gizmo that I can plug the hard drive into and it has the SATA and power connectors for two drives at once. It will even duplicate a drive to drive if I want. Anyway, I ordered them right before a big project was flown and I did not need them for weeks. Of course they were here in no time.