Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Mom cook 99.5% of the time. We went out to eat on rare occasions until my brother and I were both teenagers and bottomless pits. We would go to a local Chinese food place just a 1/2 mile down the road from our house in Hawaii. We could eat our fill and not empty the kitchen at home. It was like a buck per head to feed us. Of course we were hungry in 30 minutes and ate everything in the house anyway. An active 14 year old boy is hard fill up. A 14 and a 16 year both old is impossible.

How do smoke alarms know when it is early morning to start chirping low battery?

In the hall outside of our bedroom is three smoke detectors. Well one of them is a CO detector and it is part of the alarm system so the alarm system beeps as well as the detector. One is a heat and smoke detector that is also part of the system and then the old detector that was wired to the house when it was built. Of course it has batteries as a backup. It will be a real challenge to eliminate it since a wire sticks out of the ceiling as part of the original alarm system. It was put up when the house was built and would require redoing 1/2 of the ceilings since they are connected. So I left it in place. When the CO or the monitored detector has a low battery I get an notice on my cell phone as well as hear the chirp. The old detector is just there as a belts and suspenders and backup since it is too much work to eliminate.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Yeah just how do they know? Seems like ours need replacing either in the middle of the night or right before bed time.

[RKDinOKC]

Them smoke detectors can also become more or less sensitive with age and go off for no reason, or worse not go off at all. Not sure if the test button just makes sure the batteries are good, don't know how it would test the sensor.

[Porsche-poor]

yep I replaced mine a few years back.

[GH85Carrera]

AGGGGHHHH

I have been working on the audit crap all day. I spent a ton of time over the last few weeks digging up the receipts and every scrap of documentation possible just to prove we have done nothing sneaky. The documents have to be in a certain order with 8x10 color glossies with circles and arrows, no wait that is an old dumb song about a restaurant.

My brain is fried. maybe tomorrow I will have everything done that I can do.

My accountant told me to follow the list the auditor mailed to me. Items A through Q and more than a few sub categories like H1 through H7.

I am just real glad I was enough of a geek to use QuickBooks and record everything. I can't imagine how bad it would be with a box of paper receipts and no real records.

I SOOOOO much want to label the report I hand her the BOHICA report. That is how I feel for sure.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Good luck to day Glen.

[RKDinOKC]

Just got back from my 30 minute morning department meeting that starts at 8:30. Left the house at 8am is now 10:45.

The really important thing...the meeting attendees discovered why I work from home!
Was able to keep it to a underwear only skid mark event. Still smells just as bad though.

Hope someone has had a Good Morning!

[flipper35]

Hola mi amigos.

Today sucks. There are people at work.

[RKDinOKC]

Looking on the positive side. Went in for meeting, meeting cut short, the room stinked. Changed underwear. Attended a couple of in office (open door) meetings they kept short because they didn't realize I had changed underwear and cleaned up. Then came home and changed back into shorts.

A New Productivity Tool!

[flipper35]

You get to go back home and deal with people indirectly.

I have people that can't use the scheduling assistant, call and complain when I am not at the meeting I declined and then complain they didn't get the notice I declined only to show me that it is in their inbox. Repeatedly.

Or, people that want a piece of equipment and are told to fill out the form, then ask others for the equipment who then say to fill out the form and then leave me voicemail asking for said item.

They did find the form and send it. It is not filled out or signed. I guess they aren't getting the stuff they want.

Some days I miss my old job in CA.

[RKDinOKC]

We have an internal home page that has all those forms, people go to that page every day for access to other things and still aren't capable of filling out the forms necessary

Have an executive assist that got approval to have full permission on a couple of the room calendars despite what I, the exchange admin said. Now she thinks she has to schedule events directly on those calendars and it causes problems. Room calendars are not setup to handle attendees replies and it causes a loop of canendar messages. Rooms are intended to be invited to events not schedule and manage events directly. The automatic scheduling gets confused. She does not listen and just keeps complaining when creating an event on the room calendar and it sends invites to the users several times over and again if someone accepts, tentative, or cancels. And because of her mucking about there is a display device for each room at the room that her scheduling events puts out of sync. Somehow it all worked fine before she got permissions to muck around with the room calendars. But hey, what do I know. I'm only the administrator.

[flipper35]

They tried to hand that problem to me also. I just flat told them it would not work. Sometimes they actually listen to me when I say "no". It helps when my boss backs me on on stuff. I have been lucky there with almost always having a great boss.

[RKDinOKC]

The problem is boss won't except when tools don't work like the users think they should. A screwdriver makes a poor knife, even if you sharpen the blade. And it doesn't matter that a swiss army pocket knife has both a knife blade and a screwdriver blade. It still does not make a screwdriver a knife.

[Porsche-poor]

give him and etch-a-sketch for a laptop.

[RKDinOKC]

With some of the stuff going on right now I think everyone in IT needs an etch-a-sketch upgrade.

Have a user that has been around a long time. her user name matches a username from somewhere else entirely that used our issue trak system once in 2011. So when they gave her a login for issue trak whomever it was decided it would be okay to give her a different one than her user id for everything else. Now they can't figure out what to do.

I don't understand why the system is not using the full email address if they are allowing outside users to submit issues so they can tell who the heck submitted issues. And why can't we give the local user a login that includes her whole email as well. Of course they fired the guy that set all this stuff up.

They have reset the local user's password 5 times now trying to get it to work.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang another day of playing an accountant. I would rather dig ditches or mow lawns for a living than push paper around all day for a living. Hopefully I will get everything finished tomorrow. My brain is fried again. I have a meeting with my accountant on Saturday. The real audit with the IRS is on Monday. It is just insane how much detail that want on every single transaction.

The smoke alarm started acting up again last night, fortunately just before we went to bed. I pulled the batteries (two CR123) in the smoke alarm and this morning the CO alarm was not playing nice with the alarm system. So I called for the repair guy. He just replaced both of the detectors. Then he had to test them. Poke the button for test and the alarm system starts squalling, the siren outside goes off the and the panel starts yelling about a fire. Real annoying.

I received test messages and email and the video system starts recording the front door and driveway. It all shut up and hopefully it is all done.

I have not left the house at all today. All day in my office.

My partner is flying with our camera in Florida. They have a fairly new Cessna 182 with a all glass panel for instruments. My partner is just riding along teaching the instructor how to fly down the lines and not drift off the line. It is hard to not use the ailerons and bank the airplane like a normal turn. That would tilt the camera off into the horizon so they have to use the rudder to rotate sideways.

My wife's aunt and uncle live in Ft Myers and they have electricity. So he is staying with them since all the hotels are full and the rest of the crew is sleeping on the hangar floor.

[Jim Richards]

Hola, y'all.

[RKDinOKC]

YaHo <-- "Hi" in Japanese slang.

Thought it was interesting because in American slang it sounds like they calling each other Hos.

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. I chatted with my partner last night. He had a long day. They have a dozen Cessna aircraft and even more pilots. My partner is a pilot and even a instructor but right now he is just the laptop operator and and he is teaching the pilot how to fly the missions and "mow the yard" in the sky. Today Trump comes to Florida so flight restrictions will pop up all over the state. The other pilots are sleeping two to a room in a motel. One motel has electricity, but no water and the other has water but no electricity.

My partner is staying at my wife's aunt and uncles place so sleeping in an air conditioned home with a shower he is living like a king.

He gets up and dawn and to the airport withing an hour of sunrise. They fly all day and he trained two different pilots yesterday. Our camera system is getting a good workout.

The funniest part is my partner shows up to work ready for the oppressive heat. The airport is mostly without power and closed to normal traffic. FEMA gives them permission to fly only because it is critical communication repair work they are doing. Anyway he shows up in a t-shirt with the collar and sleeves ripped out and gym shorts with clod hopper boots because he did not know what conditions he would have to walk around in. He is dressed VERY casual and trying to stay cool. One of the pilots is 70, and dressed in full jeans and a black long sleeve shirt and most of them are in company shirts and long pants. He is betting some may well be more laid back today. 98 degrees in 90% humidity is not a time for formal wear.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. I hope it works out well for your new company.