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Decided to sort of break out my rants, whines and so forth from the main coffee shoppe thread just in case any were tired of hearing about it or just wondering when I was going to get over it.
Well, I probably will never get over it, so since this a thread away from the main one, thou can read or not as desired and get on with the other earth shattering topics that we and everyone else here talks about in great, painful and excruciating detail.
So the first thought that makes one go :ummm:
Why is it that when ever any of the system techs, with the exception of one (the lead tech) have a question they call me... the "installer" for answers?
Have not figured that one out, case in point the tech for Seminole calls and wanted to know the gate code for the tower site next to the hospital, I was working at last week. He didn't know they had put a fence up, okay he has been in the hospital himself with a major problem. So I understand why he would not be aware of the change.
However, why are you calling me instead of the tech's assigned to that site? Or the shop manager?
No, I did not say that to him ... I answered his question as to what he needed to do as the site now takes a soft key and code instead of just rolling up to the door as in the past.
But it does make me wonder, since I feel (real or perceived) as being treated as a bottom feeder or less then the dust beneath ones feet ... why do you call me instead of the other techs or the manager?
Other tech's and the manager are to keep their phones on and answer them as needed 24/7 ... so again why am I getting the call?
:ummm:
Just wondering :ummm:
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Well, more entertainment.
Was to slow to manage to take New Years Eve off, so one each skeleton staff on Monday there was a total of four of us present.
Wow, go figure, well, all I can say is that one of our OL needs to get on with it in regards to ordering parts for subscriber radio repairs.
I managed to wade through 15 radios myself on Monday and add that to the quantity that is already been evaluated and have had parts request submitted there is no less then three shelves of radios double stacked waiting on her to get on with it.
Lord only know what the delay is regarding ordering parts but it is quite annoying.
Went back to work on my staging rack for the hospital project and showed it to the engineer and went over a few details next thing I know the other system tech was messing about with one of the TX connections and :OMFG: the damn right angle adapter for the isolator came apart in his hands.
:whatthe:
Quite annoying, well made a major change to the staging of the system. Ripped out all of the adapters off the isolator's and changed both sides to right angle connectors instead.
Had ye ole system tech go ahead and start to install config files on the switch and router.
Couldn't do the router since we don't have the IP address to point the site at, so got the switch configured. Went to try and install the code plug in the repeaters and lo and behold they are missing no less then three license keys to enable the new repeaters to even work at all.
Turns out the licenses were bought we just did not have the details to do anything further.
Well, whatever it did allow me as mention to rebuild all of my transmit lines so I had 90° connectors on both sides. The I put together the "cookie cutter" document. In other words do it like this every time and no need to reinvent the wheel each time we upgrade a site. Reason being is that eventually all sites will be up to speed with the same equipment at each of them.
So put together a material list and a step by step on what to do and how to feel after you do it.
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Was going to try and get the university project to the next phase. Was going to go out tomorrow to do one more "warm and fuzzy" test. This would have determined how much padding on the signal would be required on both the 400 MHz and 800 MHz bands.
To do so, I need to turn everything on, since all of my coaxial jumpers are installed and connected.
However to do so I need to also have the fiber link complete between all devices.
So, here is the fun part the last time I was out there the 27th of Dec I was told that by days end the fiber link would be completed.
Turns out ... not so very much ... apparently the wrong connectors were delivered. So now we wait for the correct connectors (SC APC) to be delivered ... nonetheless now waiting on them ... again.
:tearlaugh:
:sigh:
:borednow:
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Well, the fun for tomorrow is now changed to pushing all the license keys across all three repeaters to get them up to speed.
We have done license keys to activate feature sets before so that will be simple and sort of uncomplicated. :pweez:
The next task is going to be to check the tuning on the combiners.
I have done that only once before so I am looking forward to being instructed on what to do and then do it myself. I learn best by doing ... I am definitely one of the touchy feely type of techs.
Just talking to me is not enough ...
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Here is the real fun, one of the groups at the hospital is complaining that they have radios that do not work when they are more the 20 apart.
Well, checked the code plug out for the all the radios in that department and there is absolutely no reason for them not to work.
So, what we have is a customer that is being recalcitrant, since that is the case send us two of the radios you claim do not work along with two of any other radio there and let us see if we can duplicate the problem in our shop.
This should put the cat among the pigeons :heeheehee:
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Next project will be to start staging out another system for the school board and this is with no details from the customer or a project manager.
The fun part is that I have done similar work for other county systems which means I could probably "finger it " out on my own.
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The last bit of entertainment is the hospital sent a ambulance in for repairs as it was getting out of range errors.
So the mobile guy, yes I suck at mobile installs so I let the pros deal with them instead of me making things worse.
Put the watt meter on it and got bogus results, so yanked it out and put it on the bench and hooked up the service monitor to check TX power out on it and all was good there, so had the mobile installer check the antenna out (yes, had corrosion on the contacts) however even when cleaned up we still had bad test results on the watt meter.
So had him replace the line between the radio and the antenna, and then ran the test again finally got reading that indicated that all was well, 22 watts forward 1 watt reflected.
Some days :sigh:
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Real fun trying to load in all the features for the repeaters the damn virtual server decided to give me crap ... I wound up having to reboot my laptop every time I switched from one repeater to another .. :whatthe: just to get all the features loaded ... I was in one of my :rat-atat: moods by the time I got that completed.
The code plug loaded nice and easy so what the frell was the issue with the entitlement key :ummm:
No clue but we did use up all allocated vile language for this year in short order.
Just saying ....
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The good news is since all has been updated and configured I can take the rack apart and box it up for shipment to the site and rebuild it out there, and once ready it will be a simple matter of are you ready, turn the existing off and the new on and viola ... happy, happy, joy, joy ... however I think Joy is getting smart, as the last I looked she was hiding in the chandelier.
Anyone believing that line ... me neither .. I can hope but ... best laid plans of mice and men go :kaboom:
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LOL......Not sure which line you're referring to.... :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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The part of:
"once ready it will be a simple matter of are you ready, turn the existing off and the new on and viola"
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I should have known....The "Viola" part gave it away LOLOL
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Got to love it when it is a problem on their part:
Don't allow me to take time off during the year
and this is what you get
I will be taking off Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks
:deal:
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Time for some more scary pictures from my trade magazine.
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And for contrast some real beauties
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Now for the Darwin Award
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Well, what a concept was invited on a site walk at the local VA hospital for getting the installation of a DAS system started.
Lo and behold there is a light at the end of the tunnel .... I can finally get 17 reels at 500' each out of my shop and delivered to the site. Granted I am more then likely going to have to deliver the material but hey what do I care it is out of my shop at long last.
The other plus to this is that I can also have the head end and remote equipment delivered. Which I have to install, mind you but at least the cabling is being installed by a third party :woohoo:
So looking forward to getting this project rolling at long last, been in limbo due to ... yep ... red tape ... :rat-atat:
The real amusing part is once again no one has bothered to determine what space is required for the installation of the head end and remote equipment or even if all of the parts have arrived.
Can you guess what I wound up doing ... yes, the so called "project manager" job.
This is not one of my projects, yet it looks like I just got handed the ball .... irritated .... sort of, kind of, maybe
Now I did know I would be installing all of the head end and remote equipment but all the extra tracking of material and parts needed to make it work, in theory should have not been on my to do list.
Just saying ... not that it does me any good mind you
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What are exactly the hanging bats on the bottom of Diff4.jpg.scale.medium.jpg? :puah:
Just curious: I thought I had seen them all at least once in life, but this is a first... :ummm:
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What are exactly the hanging bats on the bottom of Diff4.jpg.scale.medium.jpg? :puah:
Just curious: I thought I had seen them all at least once in life, but this is a first... :ummm:
It is a CRAY 1 Super computer
Here is a better pic
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Time for fun and games. yesterday went on a site walk with the sub that will be doing the newest project in Maitland. So far so good, it wasn't half bad overall, at least we do not have to do anything but forward details and information between all parties involved.
Lovely scenario as long as it stays that way :tearlaugh:
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Update on the VA hospital project.
Well, let us get some prints of what the scope of work is to be, since the real project manager hasn't made any progress guess I had better poke the bear.
Well, got prints that I could read to see what splitters go where, this is slightly important considering that there is no less then eight different flavors of the damn things.
So documented the location of them and then did a count and lo and behold we have one to many of two different splitters and are short two of another, can you say :duh:
Knew you could, well after double checking my count and then the actual items and cross checked with the quote showing what was ordered it was finally proven that yep there is a shortage.
Showed the engineer and he agreed that yep there is a problem and got them ordered.
Oh and let us not forget that all of the indoor antennas have not yet arrived and no one has followed up on that line item either.
Now as far as I am concerned someone owes me a case, preferably two, at the very least of some Sawanotsura Deluxe :sake:
One for doing his job and two for doing his job, and oh by the way did I mention doing his job .....
Even had to prod him along to get a truck with lift gate rented for next week so we can get all of the material delivered to the site.
The good news is that at long last I can return the original set of antennas that were used on the project. :yippee: They would have been fine if one wanted to talk to the coast but not so good for talking into the building. Case in point these monsters are 8" in diameter and 14 foot tall omni-directional.
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Made a phone call on the way home last night to the "project manager" and made a couple of comments on the project. Later in the conversation he made the point that ye ole shop manager has the memory of a lower rod bearing.
Apparently I was to go on a service call today and swap out a repeater.
Surprise I am on PTO today and tomorrow, plus the next two week.
Funny thing is that this is on the calendar work board and he saw it before he decide to try and use up his PTO
Like I said memory like a dromedary, or was that a lower rod bearing.
:tearlaugh:
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Well, got out to the hospital and installed the new system. Actually got the other two to do all of the work I just supervised since they need to start getting up to speed as there is going to be a lot more hospital projects just like this one for all campuses.
This one just done, well still waiting on them to give us the IP address for the router so we can turn it on, is number three out of ten.
So they need to get an education and fast.
As in addition to that there is also a DAS install for each of the sites which is separate from the TrBo upgrades.
No less then another seven site upgrades and right now we have a PO for the DAS install for about four of the sites already
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Trick question time.
If you just did a site walk and wanted a copy of the drawings and you had a link to them, but they are in CAD format what would you do?
1): Call me and ask for them in PDF
2): Go on the web and find a free program to be able to read and convert them.
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If I'm lazy, I'm trying to ask you for a PDF if I can't read a CAD immediately. :tearlaugh: But that is if you are available and not in a long weekend :ifonly:
Or if I haven't right to install a program alone on the machine - that in my peculiar case happened at job one. Had to call the company who sent the document for having another format.
Now if the machine can accept a new program without authorizations and help of somebody else, and the site is known to be sure, a search is trully faster... and will serve for next possibly CAD :shrug:
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Well, it is becoming more and more obvious that we have way to many people higher up on the food chain that are complete idiots ... yes that is not a surprise .. so don't fret that I have been willfully blind all this time.
Fun times are ahead no doubt, went back to the university to see about my testing of the DAS for what sort of padding we would need so we do not over saturate the system.
Well, step one fun, could only see one of the remotes. :ummm:
:whatthe:
Turns out after further testing that they did the fiber wrong, I asked for two fibers one from each remote as a dedicated home run. I got only one fiber and they fused it as a combined link which is not what we asked for and no it will not work in that fashion.
Next fun part was actually my fault ... gasp ... I admit to making an error in the installation ... yes I own up to my foibles including the fact that this is the first time I installed this product line. So, things are possible to be overlooked.
Reason being is that I was trying to commission the UHF portion of the system and was unable to do so, research revealed that there was a cable missing between the two devices. Found the cable at the office and when I went back to install it. I was able to see both of the UHF modules granted only one at a time, until they get the fiber link fixed that is, so on a holding pattern once more.
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This one is amusing, the repair that I was supposed to go on, during the time I was on PTO was postponed until I got back to work, imagine that ... not sure why that would be ... any rate went there with the other TrBo tech and lo and behold the system was working properly.
The funny part is the state of the install:
1) Sub-par grounding, in other words the ground is attached to building steel, however ... no paint was scrapped off of it at all.
2) Insufficient ballast on the non-penetrating roof sled. Five concrete blocks instead of the standard eight
3) Mast pipe is made out of get this, sprinkler pipe typically used for fire suppression. Twenty feet straight up, less then four feet of separation between the two antennas on it and with at least a 20° tilt to the right.
4) No support on roof for the cables to prevent it being a trip hazard.
5) No grounding of the mast or the lines on the roof.
Two derelict repeaters were found in another room, that were unplugged, which turns out to have been the root of the service call.
Why, simple really they had the same freqs, in them as the other repeaters that we found. So with both sets having been on, created interference with the portables not know which system to affiliate to, apparently someone had plugged them in without realizing what they were for and that they had been decommissioned.
When someone came back around to and unplugged them the problem went away.
Rather a dangerous scenario to be in the middle of, one would think.
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Went on a field trip to our other favorite spot over an hour away to do inventory on received material for the next upgrade.
While there we also looked at a case that was called into the NOC, after further investigation and questions. We find out the point of contact had turned off a device. He only just turned it back on the day before we arrived, lo and behold, the alarm had already cleared.
:sigh: Sort of proves the point if you do not know what the hell you are doing ... leave it alone.
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I have been know to take diagonal cutters to the power cords on items such as those "decommissioned" ones. :haha:
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That certainly would have been the best short term solution.
Better long term, would be to take the damn things out and find a dumpster for them.
Well, maybe not I am certain some ham operators would find a use for them.
A pair of Vertex 7000 series repeaters, only one duplexor, no idea what happened to the other.
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The last bit of fun from last week. Finally got the details from a customer so ye ole TrBo guy could build the code plug for them.
Now when I am going to find to program them, and oh how much fun they would like them to be delivered next week. Well, I was able to start programming them, however there are 24 of them and they also need the firmware updated. Which means that although the cloning of the code plug takes less then a minute, a firmware update takes a minimum of six (yes, Mr CDO timed one) then you have to record and document the ID to the serial number.
When left alone one can go at a decent pace.
Since when is one ever left alone....
However in an hour and a half I finished the first eleven, another thirteen to go, and I am supposed to deliver them on Wednesday of next week.
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Here is the next bit of entertainment.
Monday is a holiday, (paid for me) an since I am already taking both Thursday and Friday off, and also have Monday off as well, we now have :woohoo: a five day weekend.
The bad or fun news, depending on your point of view ... we are finally getting the material delivered to the VA hospital. My issue is that although a truck with lift gate can be rented we can't pick it up till Tuesday. The day we want to deliver the material, but picking a truck up along with loading 17 reels of cable, two 14' antennas, 14 boxes of equipment plus another 37 indoor ceiling mount antennas.
The day is going to be half over by the time that is loaded and delivered.
Although, I and the actual project manager (who I have had to poke and prod to get this project to go forward) will be out there early since he still hasn't determined where all of the equipment is to be installed. Yes, he knows where the head end is to be installed, but what about the other seven remotes. Considering that it will probably be me (more then likely) installing it. Inquiring minds need this information in advance. Since I could arrange for the equipment to be installed while awaiting all of the cable to be pulled in by a sub of ours.
Then to make it interesting I have a site walk to go to at 2:00PM for yet another DAS at another one of the hospitals. :sigh:
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Last day off of my five day run, and what do I get but an email asking if the just recently found radios at the hospital have been scheduled for programming.
:ummm: Let me think, I just found out about it on Wednesday about lunch time, and you really think we were going to drop everything to schedule 10 radios, that we put out the call to get all radios in for re-programming almost nine months ago ... what makes me wonder is what the other two who could do this did on Thursday and Friday.
Well, the one I know what he has been doing he is completely swamped with repairs with no one lifting a finger to help him out. I do when I can but there has been to many site walks and so forth the past week that has been preventing me from helping him out.
Then again with me scoring three day work weeks since the second week of January, been difficult for me to help. This week being a two day week is going to be even more entertaining. Then I have on more three day work week followed by having to do the jury duty thing on the last week, hopefully they will think I am to "dogmatic" and decide we don't want someone like that on the panel.
Then we are into February ..... :thud:
Did get updates done to my code quizzes for class, so that was a bonus had four of them that needed edits and addendum's. Can't wait to torture ... I mean present them ... to the students.
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See that....They just can't do without you..... :viking:
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Then they could at least pay me, like they can't do with out me ... :thud:
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How entertaining did a site walk this morning that took no more then about 30 minutes ... which was ever so nice.
Then time for a drive out to NASA again, this time to drop off portables for a new customer at the center.
What I didn't expect was 20 questions about them. Seriously, if you are the one that provided the freqs then why are you asking me what freqs were programmed in them?
The other questions were even more entertaining, what happens if some one programs restricted access into it ... uh no the front panel is disabled (as requested) so the user will never be able to do such a thing.
The only way one can program "enhanced privacy" is via the software and without the software, (which they could acquire) and knowledge on how to change a code plug (which they don't have) ... so not happening.
So should be interesting to see what happens after I can go out to install the mobile in the command trailer ... as I am seeing another round of questions and answers.
Than again at the moment there are only two of that can go out there due to badging requirements. Which considering that they are the ones on call for taking care of the system. Makes one go :ummm: as to why they let their badging lapse.
It is funny though that of the two of us that can go out there, I installed it which means I just racked and stacked the devices and cabled it together had nothing to do with commissioning it.
Yeah, you don't want me to fix it when it breaks.
:tearlaugh: :viking: :ifonly:
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Then is a few other odds and ends of entertainment to boot.
Was trying to get rid of the two 14' antennas that were originally for the VA by turning them back over to them. Here is the nonsense part, they refused them .. why because we can't get them on the elevator to get them up to where we would store them.
:whatthe:
How in the hell do you think we got them up to the roof in the first place to install them if not by the elevator.
But would anyone call me to refute that statement ... hell no so now we have those abominations back once more.
The real piece of work is that the guy driving the truck was one of the ones that helped install them so how is it you forgot how we got them to the roof?
Next up the university still hasn't fixed the fiber for the last step of the DAS install.
The hospital is now wanting to have a schedule for the installation of their DAS projects. :ummm: We have no material or P.O. and have yet to do a quote for each site so how are we to write a schedule? Turns out they just want a ball park outline to be tweaked as each project comes on line. :thud:
Some days I just wonder about our customers, oh by the way they are asking if all ten sites can be finished in the next two years.
:thud:
Also just got the features packs for the ten radios they just found and once again I am to schedule those ASAP to get them up to speed. :sure:
Why, because there is also another site walk for the university at a new location in downtown Orlando. I would say it should be interesting but I would be lying.
Then there is the upcoming "you have to report for jury duty" I can only hope that doesn't wreck any havoc on all these projects coming up.
I mean they are all for "public safety" ... who am I kidding they probably wont care one little bit.
Although I do have my ace in the hole.
As I cannot stay late for this selection process .. I have class that night .... "oh you can miss class for one night it wont be a problem" ... "uh, yes it will, I happen to be the instructor"
And :OMFG: I did a trial run on the number for taxes and it looks like I might actually get money back this year, the first time in eight years.
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How quaint, go into work and ye ole boss who on Wednesday of last week was taking this week off. What do I see but, when I come into work lo and behold there he is, and the notation on the work board has been erased. :ummm:
Oh and just for fun there is a new note indicating that I have a site walk in the morning. :ummm: Got to love being in the loop as to what is going on ... :sigh:
Got back from it and wow still had issue with inventory on one project, was able to finally get it sorted with help from the competent office lady.
Next got a email with the other part of a quote I was working on for an above ceiling project went to send it and what do I get, a bounced email. Seriously, I just sent an email a week ago and now it got bounced back :whatthe:
Finally got the go ahead from the university that the fiber link was complete, went to set up the final test on the system and what happens the one tech that was going to do the test who was not only out yesterday, is going to be out today, :thud:
Good grief, granted I was able to get the other tech to assist, but this constant out due to being sick nonsense from the other is wearing thin. Especially since I do not know what tomorrow will bring with the damnable jury summons. Got to many projects all wanting to be completed yesterday, which is crap, takes forever and two hours for any customer to provide us with the required paperwork to order parts let alone the wait for parts to be delivered and then they want it completed ASAP.
Well, let me think if you all had not dragged your feet and then throw up delays for access or network access required for the system, it would have been done on schedule. Heaven forbid that they be the cause for any delay, :tearlaugh: the biggest issue I see is to many projects all running at the same time and one delay cascades like no tomorrow and then they all have to be completed at the same time. Sort of difficult since technically I am still the only one that can do infrastructure installs on their own.
The other two guys really need to step up to the plate on their own and start taking on responsibility without being told every step of the way. :thud: :tearlaugh: yea what a pipe dream that is ......
The one positive thing that did come out of yesterday is that I got clearance to go and get my phone repaired, was trying to wait for the free upgrade in April, but the damn thing manage to drain the battery three times yesterday with no reason. Tis, most irritating to say the least, and of course my phone has one of those batteries not serviceable by the end user.
Now for the $22 question, when will I be able to take the time out, to go and get it repaired. :shrug:
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Oh great after all of the fun today to be detailed later, I called in on that damnable juror summons and I have to report :sigh:
Well, I guess if I just be my normal horrid self we might get the notice of " we don't want that bigoted, racist, dogmatic, bombastic .... humanoid" on this jury :tearlaugh:
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Why don't you just claim an old covert affair with the defendant that might affect your objectivity? :grin:
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Well, I was hoping to go out some sort of limb, however they never even called my number, and by 11:30 we were all informed that the judges had all the jurors they needed and we were free to go
Damn :rat-atat: waste half a day on me just sitting there looking pretty.
And we all know how difficult that is for me :tearlaugh:
I guess the only bonus is that I did finish volume three of the Homecoming trilogy "Hero" by R. A. Salvatore
Was going to start on the next stand alone volume "Timeless" but we were let off the hook.
The bad news is that I had to go in to finish my day off. Probably could have lied about it but that is not my work ethic, had a quote that I was supposed to do and then look over a proposal for another project.
Plus have a conference concerning the DAS at the university, apparently we are meeting out there to pummel it into submission. Granted I could see all devices, but my signal on the UHF was lock step with the noise floor .. not right by any definition.
So fun times ahead, afterwards then another site walk for the hospital at a different campus. Man these people are throwing money left and right to get their projects started and completed. All I can say is that it certainly does not look that I am going to be out of work for quite some little time.
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Oh BTW on the way back from the jury summons I stopped by the Verizon store and guess what they don't do repairs on phones, the battery is a non-user replaceable.
Yes, I know that .
We don't repair them, you could go to "You Break it, I Fix it" place and have them do it if you like ... :sure:
Sent an email off to the powers that be to find out when I am eligible for a new phone and am crossing my fingers.
Damn thing shut off three time yesterday due to the battery being drained.
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Take it easy Doc, it isn't only you.
Last year I brought my phone to "The Cellphone Clinic" (bells & whistles in central Munich, ads everywhere, We are the Ones) to get my poor shattered touch-screen replaced. Thank you for being our customer, absolutely no problem, come back in one hour, €95.00, have a nice day.
Two weeks later the new touch-screen began bursting out of the phone body. Back to the Clinic, uh oh most likely it's the battery swelling, sorry your phone is too old (18 months), this kind of battery's been discontinued, good bye sir.
Middle finger up, new cellphone (not by them, of course) :sad:
I'm seriously considering going back to good old landline & phone booths.
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Well, it decided to die at a critical moment today, like showing pics previously taken to identify rooms where equipment was located. Not a good thing as it certainly made me look like an idiot.
Frelling phone
Oh the sweet part is, I am not eligible for an upgrade till May
Until then I would have to pay full price ... well they would that is ....
Still the big problem is that I am unable to do my job ... period ... till this is resolved and it is seriously interfering with the customer talking with me via a phone call
Case in point was the afternoon task, the phone died and my point of contact could not get in touch with me because of that ... :thud:
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Here is the next bit of entertainment, got back on site at the university and after an hour wasted by us trying to sort it out and still not seeing valid readings a phone call was made by the engineer to the vendor and found out that one we were not in the correct GUI ... seriously ... why in the hell was this not provided from the get go :ummm:
Talk about right hand and left hand not working together
:sigh:
Nonetheless after we got the correct file and were able to get to the field required ... everything came up and was working properly.
Which believe it or not I was stating that we needed to set operating values of our own in the system to make it work properly. However why should anyone listen to the lowly installer.
Granted I have only managed to look at the set up manual briefly and the other two are way more conversant with the topic then I, yet it turns out that I was correct. :thud:
Go figure ...
Now the system on both the 400MHz qnd the 800MHz bands it is smoking hot as in -35 to a -45 regardless of which band we were testing ... which means we still need to turn it down a touch.
:tearlaugh:
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Remember that February 2, is the special day set aside to celebrate cute girls with twintail hair.
:pervy:
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LOL.....And how does one celebrate that exactly... ;perplexed: :whatthe: :shrug: :ifonly:
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:hubbahubba: :pervy: :cheer: :ifonly:
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Works for me.... :viking:
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Well color me annoyed ... well a little bit ... maybe
Rough draft of the dreaded Income Tax.
My first prediction was that I was going to get money back, (for the first time in over 10 years) not much as in about $700.00 now granted this was before I received the 1099 for my school teaching job.
Received that and have sat down with the inch thick forms and ginger tea to have a clear mind.
Now I did know the amount was going to change but, ....
Would you believe that the addition of $2100.00 of income has reduced the refund down to a mere $200.00
:thud:
Well, it is better then paying in and it is in an odd backhand way better then getting a thousand or more back, because that would then mean the bloated government swamp would have been using my money for free.
And that would make me unhappy
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The other bit of being annoyed.
Ye ole court appearance for jury selection.
Was never selected nor was I even called up to be cross examined. Okay fine.
They gave every one a debit card and stated it would be filled up on Friday night.
Tried to register it and it says there is nothing there .... :whatthe:
Now yes I told the truth and said my employer does pay for jury duty, but they gave me the card anyway and it is useless
Guess because I was never even called they decided that you get nothing, because your employer does pay you.
Which that logic makes no sense at all, then again if I had got anything it would turn into taxable income anyway, and the court system pays squat to begin with, so :whatthe:
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They give the cards out as a JIC measure....doesn't mean they will put anything in it.
My company paid for my time off also when I had to go to court eons ago and explain to them that I'm deaf in one ear and would need to sit on the stenographers lap to hear what's going on so I'd not be a good candidate for a Jury...to which they agreed....and when I went to give the card back...they said to keep it just in case any refund for expenses is put on it......and I still have the card....and to this day....nothing is on it :java:
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Figures but as mentioned it is unlikely there would be anything of use on it.
But then again $20 is $20, can get a haircut with that :tearlaugh: ... not that you would have such a need :tearlaugh:
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If the clipper is cute...I go and get the moustache and beard trimmed LOLOLOL
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Obviously mine is of Asian descent ... Korean to be precise ... :pervy:
I only allow her to trim my hair, the mustache is off limits to her ... the handlebar concept of my mustache is a bit beyond her
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We all know of my unholy obsession with manga ... so found me a treat ...
H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness Manga
.... will be June before it is available but :yippee:
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That's great! Please mention again when it's available. There was another Lovecraftian manga that I failed to get. As I recall, you found it odd that I was planning on getting it after church. Do you remember its name?
Guillermo del Toro has been threatening to make a movie on the same thing for a long time.
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The Hound and other Stories, by Gou Tanabe
Available at Amazon or Barnes and Nobels
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Thanks! This time, instead of assuming there would be time to go get it (it's still at the local B&N), I just clicked the Amazon link. :sure:
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:thumb_up:
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Time for some epic and I do mean "EPIC" cabling fails
Kick back and enjoy.
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:yeow:
A perverse Fate leaves me with sparse measly scraps of time for the Attic and other enjoyable activities until I'm done with a couple of impossible things, but letting them go uncommented would leave me with a bad conscience :smile:
1 - I didn't know that Robin Hood and Murphy have been working together...
2 - It may shed some light on the cabling technique that in Italian "CIRCA" (on the distribution box) means "approximately".
Good thing thing though that the wiring is thoroughly documented on the vertical wooden post on the left.
3 - It must have taken quite a bit of ingenuity to plug the other end into a 230 VAC outlet. Hats off!
4 - Were I a pregnant rat, how could I resist the compulsion to nest in there?
5 - Does it ever snow in the jungle?
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LOL.....Hard to believe folks got away with those wiring jobs......and I'm wondering what they were hunting for with their bow and arrow....
Reminds me of the time IC was shorthanded at the plant and moved a guy from shipping into the wiring department....
Took them months to trace all the panels he made errors on.....
Thankfully none of the burners were shipped out since they were stock units for our NY account who brought burners by the Truckload.
But it took a lot of rework so that was a very costly error and a lesson learned....
Pay the overtime...have those who are trained to wire....do the wiring.
(Yes, the whole thing stemmed from the decision of the Wiring Dept foreman not wanting his department to get overtime)
PS.....Needless to say...the foreman lost his position of foreman...and was put back to line wiring....he was lucky...most wanted him FIRED....
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Well, it was a day for the books is all I can say it started off so innocently ... we were going to move only the 800MHz at the university.
First thing there was an event (job fair) at the Arena that our point of contact was unaware of ... seriously just what we wanted to deal with while working on the radio system. But since we were only working on the Public Safety side and not the staff .. should have been no big deal ...
Went to the tower and disconnected the BDA out and went back to the arena and was greeted by the staff saying their radios no longer worked.
:ummm: we only are working on the 800 not the 400 system so :whatthe:
Anyway got a bandage on the 400 MHz side (switched them to a talk around channel) while we carried on with the 800 MHz install.
After a couple of false starts and oops need to make another trip down to my truck for parts we were ready to let the smoke out of the BDA and see what it would do when on line. Oh BTW I walked over 5 1/4 miles today.
:yippee: :cheer: :woohoo:
Worked like a champ still hotter then the hinges of Phelgethos, meaning we will still have to come back and tone it down a bit but will give it a day or three to run before we go back to mess with it. We will also get the rest of the old gear removed at the same time.
First up, let us give a kudos to the guys that were out with me, there working on the cut over, they did an exemplary job and got part one up in record time.
Now for the fly in the ointment. Since the 400 wasn't working anyway the point of contact pulled the trigger and said let us move that now. So got started and shortly thereafter we had it up and running.
Now here is where it gets :ummm: the 400 was still not working, in fact the radio would go "bonk" and not connect at all. So a big :whatthe: hell
More digging on our parts and at one point the other radio tech said this is looking more like a site failure, not a install problem. Couple of other tests and that was the only solution left. So while the other two were removing the old remotes and some of the antennas from the arena side we took a ride back to the tower and started poking about over there trying to find the problem.
:thud: Finally found it, of all things there was a power strip lying on the floor that the receive multicoupler was plugged into ... and yes .. it was switched off.
No wonder the portables would not receive :duh:
How did it get turned off well, it was next to the BDA that we moved and the switch on the power strip was flimsy at best, so if it got bumped by the excess cable that was pulled out it could have been turned off.
Seriously.
Well, turned it back on and lo and behold the portable can hit the system. Even pulled the antenna off the portable and still got into the system.
That cinched it, so back to the Arena and just using the portables the point of contact walked all the areas that previously had no signal while me and the tech started picking up our stuff. He checked in about a dozen times and it was nothing pure success.
So at last the job was complete and we had complete coverage on both bands 400 & 800 MHz and a vast improvement over the starting point.
Was quite dicey there for a while but the other guys plus the tech pulled it off.
And considering that we were only scheduled to move the one and not both, but the team did manage to once again pull a rabbit out of that extra-dimensional space.
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Now for the annoying part, remember ye ole work phone with the bogus battery, well got the phone call saying the battery had come in and you can swing by any time to get the job done.
Went there after we were done at the university, as it was well within the working hours.
Got there and was told it would be an hour and a half so I said I was going to wait outside in my truck and have lunch.
Okay fine
What happens when I go back in .... uh sorry we could not replace the battery because you can only get to it from the front screen and we don't have one of those in stock.
:rat-atat: I have been sitting out in my truck for the last hour and a half and nothing has been done :rat-atat:
Well I tried but it was going to break ....
And it didn't occur to yo to come out and get me ... I drive a big truck branded with "Motorola" on it I am quite visible.
Oh and by the way it is now going to be $150 to repair it inside of the $102 originally quoted.
Upset I am ... I do not for one minute think it took him an hour and a half to figure out that he was going to be unable to do the repair ... :rat-atat:
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Upset I am ... I do not for one minute think it took him an hour and a half to figure out that he was going to be unable to do the repair ... :rat-atat:
Some people can barely reach the concept of something hazy called 'self', imagine if they manage to to conceive that there could be other 'selves' outside...
Of course mass extermination is both illegal and immoral, but perhaps selective (ex)termination... :kaboom:
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Valid point I keep forgetting the "younger generation" has no understanding of anyone or anything beyond their rose tinted glasses ....
No doubt we do need some chlorine in the gene pool ... as in a lot
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Well, it got even better this morning when I grabbed the phone for the off to work I go ... a quarter of the screen was black as in not visible, shot to hell ... so on and so forth.
When I got to work and was relating the tale to the other guy whose was already there it went completely dark ... can see nothing period so :whatthe:
Boy howdy one would think the tech at the place I took it for repair would have just not bothered with trying to repair since he already knew things were going to be dicey to start with ... :thud:
When ye ole boss came in, I showed him what happened told him how long it was going to take for them to fix it and the additional cost to do so ... and got the "order a new phone now" directive.
Why do we have to take the long way round :ummm: who the frell knows ... could have avoided this if they would have just replaced it from the first instead of being cheap and try to get it repaired ...
The real fun is that I cannot do my time card since I have that two step authentication rig-a-ma-role I have to go through when I log in, and the code is sent to the phone that just died. And if I try to send it to the personal phone they want to take it over because they will think it has proprietary info on it .... in my case, not likely I am a bottom feeder, but whatever.
Then just to round out a perfect "damn what am I going to lose" off of this phone since I have no way to access a damn thing on it .... :thud: ... oh great I have a note pad file on it with all of the gate codes for the sites and a list of my passwords to log into the various places I have to go, which have to be updated every so often ...
I would say I am loving life now but that would be a lie.
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Now off to the races today .... went to ye ole hospital chain to reprogram 10 each radio's.
Want to guess how many radio's were there when I arrived?
If you guessed way over 10 and not all of the same model type .... move to the head of the class.
Got to love accurate information given to the rep setting the service call up ... nope, not blaming him at all for the inaccurate information.
The real fun is that of the 15 radio's they did bring to be worked on by me, surprisingly three had all of the required features needed to upgrade the code plug.
By end of day turns out I was short one feature on two radios.
Not to bad considering the right hand (hospital) and left hand (sale rep) do not speak the same language.
As in they do not know what they truly have, in regards to the full number of subscriber radio's ...
:shhhh: 889 ... as of today.
Been a decided lack of inventory management for some little time .. well at least till I brought out the CDO hammer ... that is .... :tearlaugh:
Yep, I am so OCD, that I put the letters in alphabetical order.
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Well, on another note they bought additional radios for the hospital.
We have officially broke the 900+ barrier for them. they now rival the hotel chain in the number of subscriber radios
On to the next part, finally got a chance to drill two 7' racks to the floor in the tech area, so I now have permanent staging area for these systems. We can rack and stack all the gear and cut all cables to length and configure the system prior to installing on site. Which is a good thing because we can ensure that it is going to work properly before standing it up on site.
So much better then the hit and miss previously practiced. Not really hit or miss, it just takes longer when I am doing it on site from scratch. I like the idea of getting it completely set and working prior to taking it out so therefore the set up time on site is less.
Loving that idea, except for the concept of that I will be having no less then another nine hospital campus', plus additional stand alone ED sites before the years end and god only knows how many more in the years to come.
Got one site staged for an upgrade to the system that the ambulances use to report in, and found out that once again not all the parts have arrived so how is one to finish staging it when all parts are not present?
Have yet to stage the second site, this is a Trbo system and all of the parts are here so it should be simple easy since I have already built two of them.
Still wondering just when I am to have the time to do so ....
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The reason I mention the time factor is that one I am not a Time Lord able to cross back and forth across my own time line. :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Second reason, still not done with the university project. Went out there today and at last we have got it fully commissioned. Ran into a really odd situation with it, the 800 MHz is working just fine, but when we went to the 400 MHz we had some odd behavior.
Did some digging into it after we came back from a site planning meeting. Yes, ye ole university is getting ready to spend a few dollars for site upgrades. :thud:
Found the problem although trying to get the fix to stick it took some extra work. However we won out in the end. So the install which "regrettably or fortunately" was my project from start to finish, as both installer and project manager, the good news is that it works and better then expected.
Now all that is left is giving all the readings to the engineer so he can generate the after heat map for documentation on the project. I also have to download the trace results from the TDR to include those results in the final set of documents. Plus, the university has to provide me the OTDR results for the fiber they ran so that can also be included in the final set of documents.
Then I still have labels to make for the equipment and plus a little bit of clean up and removal of abandoned antennas.
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Now for the part I find most annoying ... being volun-told that you will be traveling to Flagler county on Wednesday and Thursday.
Uh ... don't think so, I teach on Wednesday night ... :OMFG: ... yea he forgot .... the bad news is that he still expects me to go there on Thursday.
Still hasn't taken the time to talk to me in regards to if it is one day or not, and considering that I have no less then four projects that require my attention and they have yet to catch a clue in regards to increasing man power even if you get some temps.
I am confused as to how the powers that be expect these projects to be completed at all.
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The other annoyance is that I have another DAS project using SOLiD equipment that we need to start staging and fingering it out prior to installing it.
I am supposed to find time to do this when ? plus as mentioned we still have residual school buses to finish, and the previously mentioned hospital projects that are on the sidelines.
:sigh:
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More than 900 radios? :panic: Are they created them in a secret place while you are doing the job? :hypno:
You really need to be cloned to do everything they want you do.
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More than 900 radios? :panic: Are they created them in a secret place while you are doing the job? :hypno:
You really need to be cloned to do everything they want you do.
Indeed
As to the 900+ radios just remember this is across nine different facilities.
:thud:
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Well, the field trip to Flagler county was most annoying.
Hour and a half to drive there and once on site found out from the other guy that they technically are not ready for us to do the install. Improper sized ground to each console position. Improper grounding device. To whit they are using a ground strip from an electrical panel as the method to tie the grounds together. Several cables to go to the various devices are not long enough and no extension or just out right longer cables were provided.
Now the interesting part we were supposed to install the rack, however no cable tray for the network cable to connect the consoles to the network. No decision as to where they want the rack to be installed and the most important part no ground available.
:sigh:
So a ten hour day and all that was accomplished was that we got the console positions installed as far as we could go with what was provided, took the trash out and then again with the hour and a half drive back home.
Which was still considerable amount of progress but still the big push that they had assigned to this, and the state of the project upon arrival left a lot to be desired.
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:yippee: The last trip to the university.
Did a bit of the shell game, knowing what is coming up down the pike we took out some of the software padding on the signal and replaced it with mechanical padding, this way when the next set of upgrades go into effect we will not have to do crazy things to balance the signal.
After making the adjustments all was still good, checked a couple of things and all was still on point.
:woohoo:
Final round of labeling of the lines and antennas was next, then screen shots of all of the settings. Then installed innerduct over the fiber, although technically this should have been the university to-do .... although they did supply the innerduct ... wrong color though :sigh:
Single mode is to be yellow, multimode is orange, and laser optimized is aqua.
Removed the last of the decommissioned antennas and power dividers and at last ....
Got the customer sign off for completion of the job. Double :woohoo:
Got back to the shop and submitted the last of the pictures that were requested and all the screen shots of the settings to the engineer along with the sign off doc to ye ole office lady (den mother) and now all we have to await now is a replacement antenna that a student destroyed to be received to then be replaced and we have achieved the 100% completion on the project.
After numerous delays by vendors and the customer it is at last complete.
:viking: :viking: :viking: :viking:
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Although the back side to that is there is no less then seven ... I think ... other projects that technically require my attention next
:thud:
there had better be a raise in my future or someone is going to be slightly :rat-atat:
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Do they do reviews with you before dishing out raises. That would be the time to speak up if they do that....
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He did last year so I am hoping that this year will not be different.
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I remember that now. I'm sure they will do it again....just go in with your guns loaded....Point out what you've accomplished....and go from there...
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And trust me I have done quite a bit in upping my game as to what I can do now and have done since a year ago.
I can now do simple repairs on radios, and have just upped my game by being the project manager for the first install of a SOLiD DAS system.
Then there is all of the work I have invested in the hospital upgrade, with more on the horizon. Gods above is there more on the horizon ... :thud:
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Well, went to cut over one of the hospital upgrades.
First off I so despise the lackadaisical attitude of their internal wiring folks ... I have never saw such a craptastic job for a network drop ... :rat-atat:
Man it so irritates my sensibilities on how a job should look and the key word is "professional" and what they provided me was no where near even a level -5 install.
At any rate it now gets better, apparently ye ole system tech who was in such a hurry to do the cut over and keep the down time to a minimum missed something ... the router that I moved over from the old to the new system was only configured for a two repeater site.
Problem is that the upgrade now makes it a three repeater site and there was no new config blown into the router to make allowances for there now being three instead of two repeaters.
In essence the system did not see the third repeater and while viewing the system on an Anritsu we were not seeing any activity on channel three .. well that explains that anomaly.
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Well, how about that in the afternoon a semi pulls up with a delivery ... fine ... oh wait yo have what on it?
Sixteen pallets of coaxial cable. (15 reels @ 500' of 1/2" heliax and 1 reel @ 200' of 7/8" heliax)
:ummm: Where is your lift gate :ummm:
We go through this every time request a lift gate and they don't have one when they show up. We do not have a loading dock or a fork lift. I have a pallet jack but that is it ... So refused the delivery .... they must have got their act together because at 3:00 they show back up with a lift gate ... imagine that :thud:
Now ye ole shop is slam full again with all the cable and still have all the equipment for Flagler.
The tech center is not much better as there is no less then material for nine projects sorted in there, although at long last one of them is going out today. Only has been sitting and waiting for all the parts to come in since September of last year. :sigh:
Some days our sales staff that orders the radios and repeaters leave a bit to be desired in how timely they get stuff delivered so the job can be done and everyone gets paid.
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How quaint I just got an email asking when the material for the hospital project ... that I just received yesterday can be delivered so they can get started :thud:
Oh could you have some one there to verify what is being delivered and how much ... oh and next week would be great ... :thud:
I really need to stop chewing through the leather straps
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Yuppers...... Just take the news in and be Calm, Cool and Collective my friend.....and all will be well.....and your nerves won't be shot LOLOLOL
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Well, found out the true reason for the issue for the upgrade at the site yesterday, apparently repeaters one and three were attached to the wrong ports on the combiner which accounted for the odd behaviour.
Could have sworn I had everything labeled and sorted prior to the install but apparently some one can not read labels properly, and two of them go swapped causing all the problems.
So how did it happen, I have a theory, I worked as more of a project manager instructing folks as to what to do instead of doing it myself.
Granted I had everything cut to length and labeled but some how two of them got swapped .... and I have no idea how ye ole other workers managed it but it happened ... which just made me put another line item in my procedure list for deployment of an upgrade for a site.
:sigh: At some point I will get all anomalies accounted for, so we can keep the egg off our face when we do an upgrade.
Fortunately this site had bad problems from the get go so the fact that it wasn't working right we were done, was the only saving grace, meaning that it was not any worse then before, ... not where I like to be after doing an upgrade.
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Or they could read and really didn't care what the markings said. A project managers job is not just set up....but also to check the work of others to make sure it's done correctly. We both know it only takes one ass to make the rest of the job look messy.
Best thing to do is talk to the team and ask if there is anyway to avoid this mishap from happening again.
You never know....maybe they resented you labeling everything and sorting everything... etc...
Hard to tell though.
As you said....in this case the site had bad problems to begin with...but you do want to figure out how things ended up as they did....
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I did eventually figured out what happened ... best guess ... and have solution to prevent such an occurrence from rearing its ugly head in the future
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Excellent.....Old saying....."Earn as you learn" You figured out the solution....while earning money....Coool beans....
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Glad you figured it out, J. Humans are endless inventive -- no matter how much I try to build idiot-proof procedures, they will always find a way to make them not work in spectacular new ways.
"If you make your software idiot-proof, all your users will act like idiots."
Walter J. Doherty, IBM
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LOLOL.....Isn't that the truth......
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Trust me, my human helpers are quite the challenge in regards to keeping them from crossing the line in doing a proper "infrastructure" install.
Sometimes it really is troublesome that we all have different levels of install skills ... in other words ... can you see it from your house and does it look clean and presentable.
Granted, they can do mobile installation that look like it came from the factory as part of the package.
I cannot
But, give me an infrastructure install, then I can say yes, "I can see it from my house and I will sign my name on the install" ... and then there is the CDO level I display when it comes to documentation of everything I touch .... currently no one else is close, "this is what I have been told" not my ego speaking out loud, for a change.
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Well, a lot has happened since the last I scribbled but I will start with the most important detail
Is there a year end bonus and raise
Well turns out that there will be both ... not certain what form the raise will take, but the bonus has been defined ... there is some sort of fuzzy math involved with the final amount ... however that amount is based on a percentage posted by the powers that be ... the percentage I learned that I will receive is a half a percent above the maximum ... okay works for me since I have stepped up to the plate and done much more than last year.
So that means a decent bonus .... I think ... but will there be a decent raise :ummm: and what exactly is the best path for me to pursue for growth within the hierarchy ...
Service and maintenance
DAS install
Project supervisor
I already do path one and three to a certain degree to begin with.
Path two requires a certain amount of traveling which interfere's with teaching and unless they deign to make up the lost wages ....
:sure:
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Defining path three I have already been thrown under the bus ... in other words .. I found out in detail that I am already the Point of Contact for no less then six projects ... sounds like a project supervisor to me
Never knew that is where I was to focus my career path .. yes sarcasm .. as I really do not know where I should focus my skills.
Never held a job that provided that much variety of growth paths.
Not sure how I should respond ...
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Path two doing DAS installs would be as a project supervisor ... a working one.
So not only would one have to supervise the project but would also be installing them and that would be anywhere in the state.
So traveling, and since I teach eight months out of the year plus being a reluctant traveler to start with, and have a pet, there are difficulties with that concept to say the least.
Not entirely happy with the ramifications that I see in that path.
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Path one seems to be the one I am currently doing the most, as I do infrastructure installs, and I now can do repairs on subscriber radios. Plus I am or have already done maintenance on the subscriber radios and some system work, maintenance wise that is, tuning, code plug and firmware updates and so forth.
My guess implies that I would still be doing the documentation, staging and installation of the projects. Which to me seems a bit like staying where I am at with no real progress, pay raise yes, but is there any real growth or new learning of skills?
Unknown.
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Hard choices.....I always picked what I'd felt happier doing.
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:woohoo:
At last they have issued a stamp honoring the first responders.
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Back to the work "games"
Over the last three days I have walked a total of 14 miles doing installation at two sites, with the normal array of problems, setbacks, delays and overlooked details.
I really should get a plaque for not doing anything to these people that requires bail money, an attorney, or jail time.
It is that close. Case in point first project "have to start" the DAS install at one campus for the hospital. Fine I can get that started and rolling, get it set up the morning before and what happens right before end of day told that I have to attend a safety orientation before I can start.
At 7:30 AM sharp ... my normal work hours start at 8:00 AM
:rat-atat:
Why couldn't this have been mentioned previously, I was just out there the day before for a final site walk and not one thing was said about one.
Ye ole nut job at the office didn't care he more or less said you should have known ... that is not the point ... we were just there and it was never mentioned.
:o_go_on: It will not be longer then maybe 30 minutes
NOT
2-1/2 hours later we get out of the damn thing, the "I am so cranky" part was that it was in two groups
For all of you that only speak Spanish come in, for those of you that speak only English we will get back to you after the first group is done.
:thud:
Wow nice kick to the balls ...
Nonetheless at last we get to get rolling and unloading and getting it moved up to the comm closet and start the install by finding out where everything is at and what rack space I am to use and so forth.
Not a very productive day, having wasted all that time on a safety meeting that after 30 years in construction I feel mostly confident that I know most of the safe work practices. Then getting the equipment up there and finding out where all the supposed provided conveyances were located, the day was shot, it was a school night so not staying any later then I have too, just saying.
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Sounds like a FUN day to me...... :ifonly:
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:woohoo:
At last they have issued a stamp honoring the first responders.
Picked up some just the other day. I finally ran out of stamps. I only use one a month...except when Christmas rolls around.....I use a FEW more.....but not like the old days. I had a Christmas Card list that was 4 pages long.
A lot of my Distributors and their extended families, my Family Members, Friends, Etc....I believe you got a card or two from me....but nowadays, with stamps being at the price they are....NOPE....>E Cards for all......LOL
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And then there's
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/01/on-call/ (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/01/on-call/)
The case of another insane client.
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Oh my giddy aunt :noway: would I have ever accepted a job of that nature with such antediluvian components and software.
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Got to love it all to "something unmentionable".
Continued back on the MedCom project over in Altamonte, got all the equipment installed and to my satisfaction.
So went downstairs to put in the remote portion of the project, and guess what happens when we plugged everything in and got to test the remotes.
If you guessed not a single one worked .... congratulations and move to the head of the class.
Normally one would guess that would be a problem on my side and yes typically we would assume it was something we missed however ... after performing the due diligence, guess what, it is not us at all.
It is the hospitals network that is the problem ... and that is after they cried and cried for us to provide them with the network details on the equipment being installed.
Yet, when push comes to shove they were not ready for the completion of the project. :noway:
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Got to love emails from customers that start off with "what is your schedule like this week?"
:ummm: Booked ... would be my answer
The university is ready for the last of the clean up of decommissioned equipment and the return of a power strip we loaned on a temporary basis ... and oh by the way once the clean up is done we can pay the final invoice.
Well, I guess that will take priority over anything else ...
I wish on all the Gods and deities past and future that ye ole manager would get some temps hired instead of dawdling, granted we do desire someone that would be useful in a working environment ... or at least trainable
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Always remember....be careful what you ask for....Remember last time you wished for help.....???? LOL
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Indeed ... I did hear him mention something about getting temps in ... and he did not like the original wording that he was using ... "trainable"
... however I said 'willing to learn" and a "self - starter" ... might be a better set and he agreed.
So we shall see what happens ... if anything
... although rumors has it that it will happen ... I will believe it when I see it.
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Finally getting around to learning how to delegate at long last instead of doing it all myself.
So got all of the upgrade equipment de-racked and re boxed for delivery tomorrow. Also got the primary required remotes attached to rack panel blanks that I can install for the primary vendor pulling the antenna line, so they have a point to pull the lines for attachment.
The amusing part in my mind is that there were cables not shipped and after a week we had not received a reply so the engineer barked it up and asked .... yep they did not know why none of the requisite cable was sent ... :thud:
So got to love that ...
Doesn't really matter in the long run to me ... why .... let us count the ways
1) No hospital critical power available
2) No connected Earth ground
3) No conditioned air (AC) in the room
4) Secured room ... is a contractor padlock ... not a keyed lock ... what ever
And they really think they shall achieve a CO (certificate of occupancy) with the above listed deficiencies which will prevent me from doing a proper commissioning the system.
I so want whatever it is they put in their coffee.
Just saying ...
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Do you really want to put the cat among the pigeons?
I started the process to get badging for one of the customers on the Federal side back in November.
Got a call on my personal, which I did not answer but, did check with personnel, before I even returned the call since it came in on my personal phone.
So apparently the Fed's will call a personal number first, before a work number :thud:
Apparently, I have yet another interview with this customer, and all for a badge to be "unescorted" to the bathroom and in and out of the work area.
Ready for the real fun, as mentioned, and I do understand that security is an issue ... however my application has been in the queue since 11/2018
And you are just now getting to me :ummm:
:sigh:
Are they stretched that thin?
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The annoying part is that I have the final interview next week and I can kiss two hours of my Monday good bye to accommodate this task.
I am so going to stop chewing through the leather straps.
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The only time the Federal Government is quick is if you owe them money....or a favor LOLOL
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That is so true ... however it is so annoying that I have to once more again, have to be subjected to yet another background check.
Tis so annoying, how many times and by how many different agencies, do the same thing over and over again.
I so dislike having to give up personal information to multiple agencies. Considering that my information was stolen once and still to this day I have to use a PIN number to file my income taxes.
The warning that one should not give out your personal information :noway:
yet every time one turns around they insist on having it to do the most mundane of tasks :rat-atat:
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Even more fun, went out to the site on Friday and brought all of the upgrade equipment.
Met the GC's electrician foreman and he seemed to be concerned about the statement of also working on the relocation of the existing radio system.
The fun part is that obviously someone is misinformed as to what is going on. Why, they are fearful that we are actually moving the existing radio system to the new tower, when in actuality we are installing a completely new system.
Turns out that there is a distinct lack of understanding of terms between us and them.
And now here is the fun part, originally the fifth floor was to be built out in its entirety, and then someone changed all that and now the fourth and fifth floor are not to be built out, well how is power supposed to be provided for the BDA so you can get your CO?
With great difficulty obviously.
The equipment is installed on the fifth floor and that is where I will require hospital critical power, A/C and a connected ground. Which as mentioned before still does not exist.
At any rate though we did bring out all of the relocation equipment and installed it in the rack provided. What I found amusing is that although the other two installers unracked everything and packed it for transport. When they installed it, however they seemed unable to remember what side of the window filter is the top and which is the bottom.
:sigh:
So the real reason why this is all a problem ... is that even if we get the CO for the tower, more likely it will be a TCO (temporary certificate of occupancy) there will be several outages of power as they continue to build out the fifth floor. Which if they persist in that, there will be ever so much fun, as the brains of the system (DMS) has a hard drive in it and as we all know hard drives do not like sudden power outages.
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First off, let's clear one thing up.....
EVERYONE has to have a PIN number to file their taxes. I have to and the wife had to and Lorna has to my neighbors have to etc etc etc.
SECURITY is the name of the game nowadays. I'd much rather have to remember a simple pin then to have someone hack me. Which is why I use VPN's , Password generators, change passwords yearly, etc etc etc.....
And it sounds like Friday was a fun day for you LOLOLOL
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First off, let's clear one thing up.....
EVERYONE has to have a PIN number to file their taxes.
How odd up till I had my identity hacked I never had to use a PIN number to file my tax returns.
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Additionally my PIN number is mailed to me by the IRS prior to the tax season.
It changes each year ...
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But you can change it manually yourself also. There is an option for that.....
I've changed mine many times. I do that with my Medicare and Social Security sign in options also...I use a pin. and when I mail them anything....I use a pin.
I use a pin to sign into Facebook, a pin to sign into all of my accounts....and that's in addition to my password.
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Well, it is getting to the point at the hospital for the DAS install that I am at long last waiting on others.
Checked the work of the others today at the site to see if it was all good and up to "standards" minimum company standards this is .... hopefully mine might be met.
And yes I am harder on myself then on others ....
The nonsense started with the meeting I attended this morning to make certain that all the goals for the CO inspection can be met.
Yes, they are still off on several topics but I will not bore you with all of the details.
Then right before end of day I get an email forwarded to me crying that my remote in the first floor comm room needs to be moved.
Would have been nice if someone had mentioned prior to me installing it exactly which rack it was to be installed in, I only put it in the rack that had RF cable already pulled to it ... apparently that was not the correct rack ... :sigh:
I am so going to stop chewing through the leather straps
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Well, I find out that the other installer who was supposed to be in, called in because the daughter was sick all night long.
So I wound up going out there and moved the remote myself, and once I got back to the office sent the installer that did show up back out there and had him finish all of the grounding and strapping the antenna lines to the wall in the comm room.
Now to really stir the pot, got an email today from them saying "you can't use fence posts to support the antenna lines on the roof" ... methinks these people are idiots ... I do not use "fence posts" I use rated sleepers to support and manage the cabling on the roof.
Besides I have been using them for years, as in at Seminole and Orange county, plus I already have used them at all of their other hospital sites.
So please do not tell me that I can't use them, when I have been using them for years and they happen to be the approved method of support on a roof.
I think this is more a case of someone calling them by an incorrect name then anything else. Mainly since the GC for the project had no objections when I explained the 5 W's of how it would look when I was done.
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Went on a different site walk today, one more for the university.
Man, I tell you I walk entirely to much each day ... have a step counter app on the phone ... just for fun and logged at over 4-1/4 miles today.
Anyway the new university job is going to be a doozy, another three channel site, but at least it is being built on the standard install pattern. So will not be to bad, except for the time frame that everyone wants us to meet.
:thud:
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There seems to be a decided disconnect in regards to how many people are in the shop and how many projects are going on simultaneously ... was just asked about the status of six projects.
That are all in various stages of installation. There are not enough people to go around and regrettably the other installers do not have the requisite knowledge to work on their own and get it right the first time. Which would mean another trip by me to verify the install.
And let us not forget the real wrench throwing one, Flagler county that wants 12 racks and three pallets delivered next week.
Also found out that a salesman is asking about the status of six site walks that I am supposed to fit in somehow ... really .... when am I supposed to fit this in
Then guess what, we finally got in new light fixtures for the tech center. So I am supposed to install these when ....
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Then guess what, we finally got in new light fixtures for the tech center. So I am supposed to install these when ....
Ooh. Ooh. I know the answer to this one: "In your copious spare time." :ifonly:
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Ooh. Ooh. I know the answer to this one: "In your copious spare time." :ifonly:
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Still trying to find this spare time that they think I have ....
Any clues or help you can provide would be nice ... :thud:
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I use a kanban board to record all of my current projects. When the boss shows up at the door with a sheet of paper in his hand (an inevitable sign that he wants to give me work), I open the board. When he says "This should be done soon," I ask which of the other "should be done soon" projects should be delayed to do this one soon. He either leaves to find someone more cooperative or says "Well, when you get to it."
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I need one of those ... the distressing part is that technically I am not a project supervisor ... but what else is new in the business world ... right
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Well, something is amiss went to work on Friday and I swear someone must have decided to not tell me it was cancelled due to lack of interest ... four people all gone for the day and another only worked half a day.
:whatthe:
Must be nice, I guess the plus side is that I got another hospital MedCom project started in the staging rack, still missing four devices so how is that going to work "Mister when can you get it started salesman"?
In my mind not very well, then got notice from NASA that I have a mandatory training class I have to take .. 2 hours ... must be that copious spare time I have is when that is to be done ... :thud: the plus side is that I do not have to do it all at once so I got one module done.
Then got more new radios for the hospital that needed to be logged, tagged and programmed. At the rate they are adding radios I am thinking that we will reach the magic number 1000 subscriber radios very soon.
At any rate I did complete the inventory for the trip to the other county with the 12 racks and so forth, even got another six done since the racks followed a standard format and I was able to do mostly a copy and paste of the general information then change serial numbers and MAC address's and call it good.
The real surprise was that I got started on switching out the light fixtures in the tech center. Going to need sunglasses in there now, the plus side is you can now see and we have proper lighting at last.
The caveat to that is that one of the lights to be changed had a whip to it that is against code and I will have to make a new one for as it is entirely to short to reach the new fixture.
Oh haven't mentioned those details. They are 2 x 4 lay in LED fixtures. They as multi voltage so they can take either 120v or 277v so that is a nice feature, they are extremely light weight and here is the real bonus, they are no more them a couple inches thick. I put the first one in the ceiling grid and it is no thicker then the grid itself.
:thud:
The downside is they are subject to shipping damage, as two out of the ten ordered were no good. Literally bent in on itself.
Almost forgot the other bonus they are dimmable which would work for those folks that think they are to bright, I don't think are so I am just pleased to have proper lighting at long last since the ones I were pulling out were in several states of not working worth a damn. Which basically means all have been straining their eyes daily.
The bad news is at end of day I get an email stating that my certification is about to expire in 30 days for installation of the public safety equipment. I have to retake the exam to be good for another year. Specific vendor requirement, for one to be able to commission a site you have to be certified.
What I find annoying is that the email says take it at least 60 days prior to the expiration, so when do I get it, if you guessed it is only 30 days before it expires, move to the head of the class.
The first time I took this, it was a difficult test to say the least as most of the material is all the fiddly computations for bandwidth, frequency and signal levels. I did pass it but it was a barely thing in my mind. As I do not do "engineering" tasks. I put it together, and have had little exposure to commissioning any system. So definitely felt like a fish out of the water.
Granted we have completed one install successfully, but again I did not do all of the commission of the levels so that did me no good to feel comfortable that I know what the heck I am doing. Would have liked to have got a second one done before having to do this test. With me pushing all the buttons.
But, now I have to take another exam to renew. At least they will provide access to review material and although it is a 50 question test, there is no time limit and I can start and stop as often as desired, the caveat that has me concerned is that I must pass it with at least an 80%
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I need one of those ... the distressing part is that technically I am not a project supervisor ... but what else is new in the business world ... right
So, I did this before I managed other people as I kept getting projects, but they were more "projects" because while they weren't official, they had to be done. There's some web software that works a lot like those boards. Actually, there are several of them, but the one that I use is:
https://trello.com/en (https://trello.com/en)
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Sounds like what the Smartsheet on line app does, I use that more for inventory purposes however it can do all that Trello showed in the link.
I just had not considered using it to track projects I will have to consider setting it up for all general shop projects and not just the DAS projects.
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How wonderful, we were to deliver racks of equipment to sites that were supposedly ready.
If you guessed that was sarcasm, move to the head of the class.
One site we could move the racks inside although it took five of us to do so since the path to the shelter was dirt and we had to dodge obstacles, and let us not forget the 12" slab that had no ramp to facilitate moving racks into it ... yes we did have a solution for the event but trying to pull, push racks that weigh over 500# through fill dirt is so not on my list of things to do .....
Drove to site number two and what do we find, a 120' trench dug in for them to run power to the shelter ... since it cuts right in front of the shelter ... so not moving anything in there .... remember 500# a piece. Not jumping any ditch with equipment of the weight ... just saying.
Last site, the shelter had not even been set yet :thud:
I am beginning to think some project managers have "mush for brains"
Went over to the OP center to drop off console position and what do we hear when we get there... "oh we are having a special lunch event and you will have to wait :rat-atat:
Yet ye ole brain dead thinks that although the truck is left over night and there is a threat of all day rain at those sites that we will be back tomorrow to finish the delivery.
For some reason he thinks he can pervert the laws of nature and we will be able to drive from Orlando to Bunnel in time to move the racks into the shelter between the rain and muddy dirt leading into the shelters.
:sure:
Like this is the only tasks on my personal dinner plate ... arrogant puppy ...
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Sooooo.....You're saying you had a better day than normal..... :yesway: :java:
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Well, if that is a working definition of better then the norm ... then yes
... although I am beginning to become worried about thy definitions of "normal"
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Normal is how you conceive normal to be..... I'm absolutely normal.....base your normal from there :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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:ummm: "I am not so certain about your definition of normal" .... but it is a good place to start I imagine .
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Yesterday was cancelled because of rain ... so after pulling strings to get another person lined up since the other had a doctor's appointment today ... we did manage to get back up there to finish unloading the truck.
There were other hiccups in the time line to manage this ... but we will spare thee the tedious details.
Just imagine anything that could go wrong ... DID .. nonetheless some how all of us managed to persevere and completed the unloading.
We so have to stop pulling rabbits out of you know where ....
The real fun was bring the truck back to Orlando, sorry but I have never driven a 26' truck before and neither has the substitute worker.
Ah well, best I can do is lay on the horn and floor it .... :heeheehee:
Let me tell you that truck is the most uncomfortable and unstable vehicle I have had the displeasure to drive .....
My body still hurts in places I did not know could be affected.
Did get back to the shop without having to fill out inch thick forms in triplicate and give up a pint of blood so I am calling that a win.
What can I say I am not a truck driver ......
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Yup....If you've never driven something that big it's tough at first. Making corners on tight roads is a learning experience by itself.....LOLOL
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Indeed I jumped the curb twice, once when leaving the place and once when I got back to the shop
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If that's the worse that happened, I would call it a success. :yesway:
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I totally agree....... :yesway:
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Seconded ....
Trying to return it was a real hoot, I have been to this place once six years ago and no one at the shop knew the address so I did the ye ole "navigate to" thing and boy howdy was that a exercise in futility. Meaning I wound up going around in circles for a bit till I found the frelling entrance that took me to where I wanted to be ... :thud: ... at last.
Not looking forward to ever having to do that nonsense again ....
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New fun went to the airport to cut over the system to a new set of microwave equipment ... got the first line patched no problem, the second one gave us issues ... turns out I missed the pair it was punched on by one on the receive side got the transmit right but the router was not coming up ... took a few minutes to figure out what happened ... once I did it came back up at last.
Once that was sorted, went to patch the second router in and after it greened up it was time to go downstairs and build a new cable to move the site to the new microwave equipment.
Now to make all this interesting my badge for the airport still does not work, even though I have already informed the powers that be of the disconnect.
So I am being escorted by the only one who has a badge that works to do my job. On top of the that the folks who are doing the antenna work have to be escorted by some one who has a badge ... such a pain.
Bottom line though we did accomplish what we had set out to do and my side of the task is complete and working.
Calling that a win.
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Got an odd email asking for the part number of a male to male adapter for the antenna lines for the hospital project so they can do TDR tests on all of the lines ran to demonstrate they are to industry standards.
:ummm: What you do not have a simple barrel adapter on hand :ummm:
Apparently not I guess, I have these thing around the shop by the handful ... did give them the part number so they can order one.
But, will be going out on Monday to provide him with an adapter, and to also shoot the antenna lines from the BDA to the antenna to get base line signal levels, and confirm I am pointed in the right direction.
Guess I am being a bit arrogant to think that all cabling companies would have such esoteric adapters and connectors in their tool set. If one does not do RF you would not likely have such items.
At any rate I will drop of a set for them to use in the interim ....
The fun part is that there is still no power for my equipment in that room, nor is there conditioned air or a completed ground bus.
Can't wait to see how they are going to fool the inspector during the inspection for their TCO.
Should be fun ... methinks
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Now for even more "excitement" :shhhh: yep that was sarcasm.
Found out that the other hospital chain is also going to need to have DAS systems installed to be compliant with the NFPA 70e.
Oh great, guess I will be kept busy for a while longer to say the least. Because the other side of that statement is the schools in Orange county will also have to be upgraded with DAS systems. Now call me pessimistic, if you like but there are 191 schools just in Orange county alone.
:thud:
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Pssssst...... That's called Job Security. :ifonly:
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Yeah but having that much job security means I will not be retiring till noon on the day of my funeral :tearlaugh:
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Just think of it as a building block. Your building up your 401K for retirement which will come when you're ready to retire. Yes.....You are the one that makes the choice on WHEN you want to retire.....
Unless they decide to retire you early.....but with all that work...I doubt it.
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Indeed ... don't believe there is any concept of them retiring me early for exactly that reason. Way to much work and no end of it in sight.
Not complaining mind you even if it sounds like it
As long as I do not have to install all of them, and can move up the ladder and do the project management and commissioning for the projects.
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Venting is what I call it....
As long as you Vent here and not to others on the job your fine LOLOL..... I had to put up with a few BSB's in my time but I always won out....
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Well, we certainly have a reason to vent today. Went back to the hospital to check on how good my aiming skills are with the Anritsu.
What do I see when I get up there the antenna lines had been ran over with a cart as they were bent and two of the sleepers supporting said cable were ripped from the surface of the roof. All three lines had damage to them, how severe I don't know yet as I did not the TDR with me to actually check that out.
How is that for lazy, I suspect the roofers since the cart had flashing on it and here is the real :whatthe: they left the cart right in front of the line, there was no mistake as to what occurred.
The lines do not seem to be kinked, but I wont know for sure till Wednesday as today I have to go out to NASA again. However I already wrote the polite nasty gram to the site managers and informed them of the incident and that if they have to be replaced ..... got a reply with them copying the GC saying if indeed they are damaged someonejusy bought them. There was also the bit in there about other contractor to show a bit of respect for the work done by others and so on ...
The other tidbit I find of interest is there is still no power in the room, or conditioned air. And my sub has just now got fiber in the room. Still has to terminate it and then he still has to run a TDR test on all lines that they ran for the antennas in doors.
If those lines on the roof are damaged though that is a major set back as that was two days of labor times three men to get that all completed.
Do not have time to do work over just because of an inconsiderate :rat-atat:
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Always something to make your day hell LOL.....
What did your other workers say when they saw this?
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It was just me and the one system tech that came upon it. Haven't had a chance to show the picture I took of the incident yet to the others since I was out at NASA today. Am certain that will get a rise out of them though, did have to mention one thing though to one of them about leaving all excess material there and some trash.
We do not do things like that when leaving a job site.
At any rate I am going back out there tomorrow to shoot the lines with the TDR to see if there is any damage to them that would require them to be replaced. That would put us behind the eight ball, as we all know one never has time to complete the job in the first place, let alone do it over because of willful damage.
The plus side is I can install the correct polyphasor for the antenna line for the DAS. I like little victories when it comes to installs.
Such as when we were on the way back from NASA took the time to stop by another of the hospitals to did a site survey for upgrading the MedCom radio system. Man, oh man the site has serious issues is all I am going to say about it. How serious ... put it to you like this it will probably be a two day job for two people just to clean the site up and make it ready for the install and another two days for two people to actually do the upgrade.
Yep, it is that bad over there ...
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At least the day was halfway good....so that is a plus.......
When you get to the site that needs cleaning yell out to the crew....
CLEAN UP....AISLE 9......
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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You bet your bottom dollar that I do so now.
In my mind it should be part of ones work ethic, leaving the place cleaner then it was before one showed up.
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Yup....we always left the Boiler Rooms cleaner then they were when we got there and then some. Didn't want our new piece of equipment being showcased in a dump LOLOL
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Even getting around to a bit more of "taking them to task" and getting support from the shop manager.
Such as, we need to have more sleepers cut and prepped for upcoming jobs. Oh and by the way if one put an extension ladder in this position you can install the last of the bay light in the fixture by the break room.
If I am having to quasi-manage the jobs and scheduling, confirming material and so forth the least they can do is give low level ground support.
Right :ummm:
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Yup....we always left the Boiler Rooms cleaner then they were when we got there and then some. Didn't want our new piece of equipment being showcased in a dump LOLOL
Too right and besides remember, "I can see it from my house". So yes, I want it to look as clean and nice as possible.
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Even getting around to a bit more of "taking them to task" and getting support from the shop manager.
Such as, we need to have more sleepers cut and prepped for upcoming jobs. Oh and by the way if one put an extension ladder in this position you can install the last of the bay light in the fixture by the break room.
If I am having to quasi-manage the jobs and scheduling, confirming material and so forth the least they can do is give low level ground support.
Right :ummm:
One would think......
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One can dream ... right
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Click your heels three times and see if anything happens LOLOLOL
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We don't wear heels ... we wear steel toe boots ... thank you
One wonders if the same result would occur?
:ummm:
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We don't wear heels ... we wear steel toe boots ... thank you
One wonders if the same result would occur?
:ummm:
Mayhaps
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Well, it is official the antenna lines that were ran over with a cart at the hospital have to all be replaced.
Three runs each at 130' ...
:sigh:
Color me annoyed
So got together a quote and submitted it to them, should make a certain contractor quite annoyed when they get back charged for damage done by their crew.
My problem is going to be when am I supposed to find time to do the "install over"
:rat-atat:
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So passed the quote over to the hospital and they are balking and state I need to talk to the GC and work it out that way.
:thud:
Passed it to the engineer who has the time to deal with the politics of contracts gone bad.
So it should be quite interesting what happens next as I read his reply to them.
On to the next event:
Went to do another MedCom install at a different hospital, and what do I find when I arrive they only managed to correct one of the four deficiencies that was the GC's responsibility to address prior to our arrival on site.
Did manage to get a large portion of the install completed despite them dropping the ball. Mainly because I was able to get all three of us out there to work on it. So it went better then I thought, as all that is left to do is the jumpers from the polyphasors to the radios and then make the CAT 5 connections to the remotes and test for audio from the county.
So calling this a win on all fronts.
However, now I am supposed to go to the shop in the morning early, as in an hour early, as there is a shipment that is to be delivered, but there will be no one to accept it ... except ... you guessed it me, since they asked me to show up even earlier then I already do ... :thud:
I am so going to stop chewing through the leather straps.
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Oh and did I mention I still have to find time to review the material for the DAS vendor that we use and get re-certified ????
Wonder when I am going to get time to do this since I am supposed to do so before the end of the month.
:ummm:
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The month is early yet ...... You got PLENTY of time..... :ifonly:
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Oh :sure: another of those types :tearlaugh:
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Yup....I don't say I don't have time until I truly don't have time....LOLOLOL
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That is where I am at, if one wants me to study for an exam at the same time.
BTW, I have the review material it weighs in at 3 GB of data, not light reading to say the least
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Just remember what the Human Brain capacity is.....
HUMAN BRAIN (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/)
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New fun, they are trying to roll out a new method of time keeping and tacking work being done. Had the training class yesterday, one would think if you are rolling it out to be implemented within the next two weeks plus or minus that you would one have all of the people that you expect to use it on the database to be able to install and access the program.
:thud:
If you already figured out that not only was I not on the list, but so were two others and to add insult to injury the demo version already had two bugs in it. The production version did not have them but I have no access to the production version, in other words I cannot log into it. Even what I could log into as mentioned had several bugs and it took them pretty much the entire three hour training class to get it where I could at least sign in and follow along.
Now for the icing this is an app on the phone :thud: to me so far it is clunky and how is this supposed to save time or create a more accurate snapshot of what is done is beyond me.
The only good news is that this is more for the public safety side of our business and not the commercial which is more of what I do ... although it was mentioned that eventually all commercial and Federal will be rolled into this time keeping app.
:sigh:
I am so going to start spreading jalapeno pepper sauce on the straps, to break me of the habit of chewing through them.
:iminnocent:
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LOL.....As you know from past experiences....Chewing Straps gets you nowhere LOLOL
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Well, after today's meeting with the Fire Marshal for Orange county you might be on to something, installing the cable for these public safety DAS that we are doing is going to get even more complicated once they (Orange county Fire Marshal) get the resolution they are working on passed and adopted.
Looks like I will have something that resembles job security for some little time too come to say the least.
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At last a true win, been hinting for proper lighting since I started seven years ago and last year they finally got proper lighting in the bay, granted I was the one rewiring all the fixtures for LED lights and installing them, yes I made them bring a lift out there so I could do it safely.
Funny part was there order two light shy of what was required.
Finally this year I got them to order the last two and said the tech center for lighting is becoming completley untenable so ye ole boss finally broke down and found 2 x 4 LED fixtures for the drop ceiling.
:yippee:
Well, at long last in all that copious free time I have :iminnocent: I got them installed man oh man what a difference that makes, just to keep poking the bear I counted how many more would be needed to do the rest of the place.
Another 32 and he actually wrote it down and ... well who knows
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You'll end up with two more and will have to fight for the rest....but just consider it a challenge LOLOLOL....But good news on the two you do have now....
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Well, both the bay and the tech center, along with the shipping/receiving area is properly lighted now, so I am already calling that a win, now if we can get enough to completely retrofit our side of the building I would be happy, no idea when I will ever get time to install them but then again I do not expect to see them in the next three days :tearlaugh: either
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That's a Plus Plus at times I'm sure :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Went on a hunt for radio signal ghost's today at two sites and boy howdy did we ever find some ... although let me tell you we did pick a bad/good day. They were having a hazmat drill today at all campus's and did we observe some odd readings ... yes we did ... even worse by end of the trouble shooting.
Fun point was two things ... while at one site the higher ups see us and say oh by the way our radios do not talk to this or that department ... turns out yes they wont as they are on a direct talk group and are not on the system so therefore they will never talk to another group.
Then we get accosted by another department saying we just got this radio back and it does not work at all, yep never been reprogrammed.
Well the fun part is I took care of business on it once we got back to the shop and delivered it on the way home. Yes, it is a bit out of the way but not terribly so ... and that surprised them, so calling that a win.
The fly in the ointment is that while there I get an email stating that they have two radio's at another site that one have no asset tag, on them and two have not been programmed so when can I get out there to take care of business. :thud:
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See that....You're making yourself indispensable :yesway:
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I so want to say "never" does never work for you
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See that....You're making yourself indispensable :yesway:
Occasionally
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Well, we went out with my senior bench tech to look at the problem at the Altamonte site and lo and behold ... he finds that the preamble tone it is making indicates no RAS (restricted access system) key is in the radio, which would cause the problems that were reported.
Well, after we put the key in, yes I have a copy of the code in a text file, and then changing a few other fields he got it to work as intended. Granted it still can only talk at and on that site, but the director is cool with that, so reprogrammed all 20 of them and he was pleased as punch.
Did find one while testing that had no TX audio so brought that back for repairs, but now that we have a copy of the code plug for that model of radio all is cool now.
So called that a win for the day.
Went to our next adventure for the day, which was comparatively simple, a different site had two radio's that did not work during a disaster training drill. Turns out that one we had never touched them to begin with, so no auto tune, no firmware update, and most important no new code plug, so they would talk on the system.
The bad news is that the lady in charge was not available to answer the question as to which template was to be installed, so based on the email chain I had, I guessed that they needed a "safety" template, since "disaster training" was in the email thread.
Anyone figure out I was wrong in my guess :thud:
The sad part was I was back at the shop and was trying to wrap up the day when I got the call saying "oops" wrong template.
So drove back out there to programmed them with the correct template and then looked at the time, and said the day is over, time to go home ... that is after I restocked the :sake: :tearlaugh:
:yesway:
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Looks like next week is going to start off with more programming of radio's for the school buses .. as in 140 of them ... the good news is they are not installed which means it will go pretty damn quick with two people that know what they are doing :iminnocent:
Yes, we are sorted trained up to the to the point of being able to run with it, when all the details are presented to me.
So twixt the two of us we should be able to blow these out by noon based on starting at 8:00 and considering that they are not installed yet, yes that makes it so much easier and quicker.
Think about it the radios are still in the box and not in the bus which requires extra walking and set up to program them.
This way all I have to do is plug them into my power supply assigned the ID's and push the code plug in them and off to the next one. No walking from bus to bus and so on and so forth ... hey I walk on average three miles a day to start with, so any time I can get a break is fine by me.
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Expected common sense yesterday. :thud:
That will teach me, was going to replace the antenna lines that had gotten damaged over at the new addition at the hospital.
Anyone guessed that there was even more damage done to them since the last time .... knew you could.
What the hell is so difficult about picking your :soapy: material up and walking over the lines.
Apparently everything.
Well, after a phone call and a meeting with the rep at the hospital which prompted a conference call, everyone signed off on yes, since the physical protection material is not here there is no reason to even bother replacing the lines today. So instead we ripped them off the roof and went back to the shop.
Now this is going to make it awkward for their first inspection next week. So the solution that all agreed on was to run a temporary line the day before the inspection and commission the system and once done with the inspection it can be removed and turned off. Reason being is that the protection for the cables will hopefully arrive after the inspection so got to make it work somehow and with lazy so and so's trashing our work :sigh:
This is all we could come up with, and yes not holding my breath on getting my material in a timely manner.
Why? Well, placed the order on the 10th of the month, checked to see what the expected delivery date was on Monday afternoon (15th) turns out it had not been ordered yet.
:soapy: When I present a parts request that means I need them ordered now, not a week from now :soapy:
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Part two of yesterday.
Went back and installed all of the jumpers needed to connect all parts of the system together installed a power strip since their idea of a circuit for each rack was to put a quad outlet on each side of the room.
:sigh: One of these days I guess I will learn how to speak stupid English and be understood, instead of speaking proper English and get the exact opposite of what was requested.
I have three devices for the DAS that require 120 and that basically eats up the entire outlet box. So a power strip with surge protection clears that issue right up.
Their spot cooler is ever so cute as well we have a 12 x 12 (approx) room and they bring in a 18 inch square by three foot tall spot cooler, :tearlaugh: methinks it will be Wednesday next week before that place is even remotely cooled down.
However that was not the real fun, the real fun for the day was let's turn it on and start the commissioning part.
Started off good, everything turned on and surprise the fiber's were seen and greened up first time, so at least the system sees them.
Had the dreaded red alarm light on the portion of the system where it is looking for an antenna and since we pulled the lines out it should be in alarm so far so good.
Now the fly in my ointment using the web GUI went to tell it find do its inventory .... :noway: nope, nada, don't know what you want me to do :noway: ... the GUI was saying it could not communicate with the BIU ... IP address was apparently in conflict, and since I do not know what the correct address is no way am I going to attempt to hose it up further.
Called in a trouble ticket and then waited and waited and waited some more and still no call back so wrote an email to notify them that I was leaving the site, which got promptly denied, apparently they changed their email address and never updated the firmware in the box with the new details. The phone number worked so that was something at least.
Anyway left the site and was ten minutes from the shop and now I get the call back, and no I did not turn around and go back, it was already close to the end of the day and I was not going to fight traffic.
Explained what was going on and what IP address I was seeing and bang ... that is not right that is the gateway IP you need to plug in this, that and the other in it to make it work. I will send an email to you with instructions and when you go back out it should bring it right up.
:ummm: One can only hope at this point because we are right down to the wire at this point. So going back on Monday to try again so that when we go out Tuesday to drop a temporary line in we can get it to work and provide the needed coverage so they can get a TCO.
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Sounds like more fun times at the OK Corral LOLOL.....
You've got to get better at "Stupid English" in order to be understood. I once had to learn "Hood" talk when I was working at the Newport News Shipyard. :thud:
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Indeed there are even times that I feel that I do not make myself understood to my other installers.
:sigh:
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Well, hand basket meet journey to places not on the list to visit.
Went back out to implement the fix that I was instructed to use.
:thud:
Yep, the "fields" I was supposed to click on and then change do not exist on the version of management server that we use on our installs.
We have installed the 600 version and the instructions I was given were for the 1200 version.
Sucks to be me ... called in another ticket and after waiting forever for the return call and then turned on remote access for them and watched him work a couple of things.
The interesting part is that I had a thought while waiting on them to call back, went checking into the tech manuals from the new training manuals that I have to take my new certificate exam and and it turns out that my thought was correct. Wasn't really confident enough to push the changes on my own in case I hosed the system even more then it was to begin with, but it was nice to know I was on the right path.
Then to make things interesting, I was sent a instruction manual for the version of the DMS server we do use, here is the interesting part the one with the GUI to the device is only 28 pages. The one that I was given is 65 pages.
Guess which one had the details I needed, to maybe actually commission this on my own, and make me feel confident that I wasn't going to make it any worse.
:tearlaugh:
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Went back out there to install a temporary cable for an inspection tomorrow turns out the according to different sources that we were in the right spot to commission the system yet however ... it still did not want to place nice
Looks like tomorrow is going to be ever so interesting and that is sarcasm just in case no one picked up on that .... and hopefully twixt all of us with support from the manufacturer's we should be able to sort this "rubbish" out
:pweez:
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Have you ever noticed that every time you use the word "RUBBISH" something happens....and never a good Something :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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I need to remember that as it certainly does bite me in the ass every time
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Going for the short version
Took four days to sort out the "rubbish" of the install at the hospital.
Yep, no less then four mistakes or oversights on the manufacturer's part.
Now here is the "fun or crap" part as mentioned no less then four factory defects, which took multiple calls to tech support to sort out.
The rubbish part is that if they had provided proper support via documentation or their web GUI, we could have sorted this on our own.
And yet these "insert favorite adjective" still want us to re-certify to be able to install their product line.
As a company we care not one whit about carrier DAS, we are public safety only, and desire nothing else.
So we are hoping that something might change on that front during the time I have left to renew my certification.
The crazy part is that we did get it to work at last however, it is working in a non - NFPA format
Got to love it ... right ... :noway:
Well, we will be out there on Monday to ensure that it is still working and has not suffered any further damage from the "*&@#$*^$@"
Yes, I am not impressed by the monkey's they have for contractors. Then again, when I was in the trade, all respected each others work, and did it no harm. Or spoke to you to first and indicated that they needed this much space to do their work.
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Sounds like another great day at the OK Corral.....And you start all over again tomorrow.....
Hope it goes better for you...
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Well, it survived over the weekend.
However while we were checking things out in the room. Lo and behold the exhaust for the spot cooler was on the floor and the room sealed with temps in the low 80's
No cooperation from anyone I swear.
Then we went on the roof to check the cable and ensure it had suffered no damage from the lower primates.
What do we see, two other people on the roof and here I was told it was secured and needed key access to get on the roof.
:ummm: Sure
Anyway they are walking across the roof and we are watching them like a hawk to see if they will step over the cable or not.
Well, I'll be they stepped over it ... :thud:
However, yep you knew this was coming didn't you?
When they turned around and came back what the hell the dude deliberately stepped on the cable .... :rat-atat: if you guessed I unloaded on him you guessed right.
What did I get in return the blank look of a lower primate ... didn't give a damn one bit. How is it you can step over it the first time but not the second time .... just what is your problem?
Well, when leaving we did notify the powers that be that the spot cooler was off and that people are still walking on the cable.
We had good signal levels mind you but this damn physical protection material can't get here soon enough.
Which if ye ole office lady that orders part would have processed when I gave it to her instead of a week later ..... need I say more.
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Sadly, it sounds like "situation normal all fouled up". I hope each of these visits costs the institution that is not enforcing your request NOT TO HAVE THE CABLE STEPPED ON, but probably not. :sure:
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You got that right tis always a SNAFU .... moment ... however I typically use a much stronger word in place one of them ... but what else is new
The good news is that yes, probably the GC since the building has not officially been turned over to the hospital, is paying for the replacement of the damaged cable, plus the physical protection for them.
Bet they will wind up passing that cost on to someone, hopefully it will be the frelling roofing contractor that did the original damage.
Right now, I only have one temporary cable up there for the DAS, and hopefully no knuckle dragging lower primate will have damaged it beyond functionality before tomorrows inspection at 1:30
One can hope :sure:
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Well, we have another of those days where I certainly must like the taste of the leather straps.
They went live with a new app for doing incident tickets at work. Can you say it didn't work for me ... knew you could ... how long did it take to get it working for me :sigh:
if you guessed two days congratulations. The powers that be screwed up my credentials so bad it took them two days to sort it all out.
Got to love it when the highers up do their due diligence and enter in the correct credentials for each employee
:rat-atat:
:noway:
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Here is the real kick in the pants this app is for only when we go into a monitored site, ... meaning a public safety site (county or city)
In other words since I do commercial and Federal sites which are not monitored by this app, the purpose it serves for my work is :noway:
I am so happy I got to waste two days of my life on something that I will never access.
Oh by the way ... yes that was sarcasm :cheer:
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Ya never know.....maybe someday YOU WILL need to use it.....maybe they have a plan :ifonly:
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Fortunately I do more commercial work then monitored system work, so it will be a while before it affects me. Then there is also the Federal work that I do which also would not fall under this lovely new apps purview ... sarcasm ... in case you did not catch it.
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Nope...didn't notice it at all.... :ifonly:
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:kianna: is on her way over to administer an eye and hearing exam
:tearlaugh:
Guess I am not as obvious as I thought :thud:
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Got both the eyes and the ears checked recently....both are fine.... :tearlaugh:
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Kianna will still stop by to give thee a second opinion
:heeheehee:
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She'll be to busy meeting agents demands LOLOL
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Beginning of day two upgrading the combiners for the system at NASA and what fun not, tis a two part effort. We are replacing the combiners and the tower crew is replacing the lines and antennas.
Problem one when we got to both the oldest and the tallest tower once the tower crew did the survey they said :noway:
Will have the rest of the details tonight as it is time to get cracking.
There was crazy "rubbish" going on and I think a few of thee might be doing the :duh: when I get done.
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Well, turns out that several of the guy lines for that tower are in shall we say poor condition .... as in very poor condition.
Looks someone (as in the customer) is going to have to re-guy wire that tower ... which looks like that is going to be some little time before that event shall come to pass.
Well, not our problem as our part of the job only encompasses changing out the combiners and re-terminating the lines inside the shelter.
The tower crews has the dubious honor and pleasure of climbing the tower and pulling in new lines and hanging new antennas.
So the "Weather Tower" from Monday did not get the lines and antennas installed.
We did do the combiner switch out, though and here is where yesterday got interesting when we arrived at the Weather Tower there was already people climbing the tower :whatthe:
As no one knew the reasons for or what they were doing on it ... big first reason the site was still active as in 600w of ERP (effective radiated power) being pumped out by the antennas. Not good for humans to be climbing by or hanging out in the vicinity ... just saying.
The most distressing part of all of this is that no one knew they were even there .... :thud:
Talk about oversight and "safety"
Lack of ...
Now we did replace and upgrade the combiner at the weather tower so that aspect is complete but there is still work by others that will need to be done at some point in the future.
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The real disturbing part of yesterday was getting ate up by all the flying insects out there I am still broke out all over my arms and damn do they frelling itch.
Today's adventure was at the shop tower, which the tower crew was able to climb and pull in the new lines and hang new antennas.
The fun was in the cutting in of the existing lines to the new combiner. Before I forget it we had so much fun shall we say ad-libbing the install. Why, because we did have to ad-lib the install as the floor has asbestos in the floor tiles. So no drilling the floor at all ...
We got past that concept and began cutting in all the transmit lines and was done well before the tower crew was and even did the combiner tuning and line sweeps on the inside lines so things were looking damn good on our side.
Now here is the insult ... ye ole project manager as in a "company" person who has not been out to the site in forever sent no connectors for the lines that we had pulled inside the building. So guess who, that has bits and pieces on his truck to do damage control for the :rat-atat: on the higher ups part.
Sucks to be capable of pulling rabbits out of places they do not belong, however it is nice to be able to keep the task going forward in spite of the :duh: quotient that other seem to posses in abundance.
Must be why they still keep me around.
Nonetheless, I do what I need to do to finish each project, just because I that is my work ethic.
Here is the insult to the day, why because I got a phone call after I was already home. Hey do you have the superflex connectors for the shop tower ... umm yes .. why ... and that turned into a ten minute conversation sorting out what the hell and explaining the situation.
Almost looked as if I was going to have to drive back out there to drop those connectors off .. got lucky and dodged that bullet.
So not looking forward to tomorrow when we "hopefully" do the last tower site out there ... I see all sort of fun and games waiting on the sidelines.
One; another site that asbestos in the floor so no drilling at all
Two; out in BFE so definitely going to be more of the flying "no see them" insects.
Three; a school night for me as in part two of the final exams.
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The only thing I can help you with is the insects.
I use Avon Skin so Soft (https://www.avon.com/best-mosquito-repellent-and-bug-spray) and it keeps ALL bugs away.....
I've got my whole family using it plus Pat, Mel, Shannon, Phil, Vickie, their grands, neighbors, neighbors neighbors etc etc etc....
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Not certain that we are dealing with anything but the no-see_um nasty stuff
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At last the next level has been reached
:luvbooks: 2906 :luvbooks:
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I'm thinking your going to start a sinkhole soon if you keep adding to that collection LOLOL
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A real throw back from the way-back machine.
Recently bought a copy of Heavy Metal on DVD
Man oh man the only time I watched this was way back in my "ehem" days
And yes due to the nature of the items imbibed I recall very little of the movie.
All I can say watching with a clear head is "oh my giddy aunt"
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Yup...that be a mind bender LOLOL
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Color me irritated now. Just got one of those damn red light notices.
Why am I irritated, well because it is $158.00 out of my pocket.
The suck ass part is that I was behind a semi and never would have been able to see that the light had turned yellow let alone was turning red at the time of the incident.
Yeah, try and get the court system to say sure no problem, would be like getting Luffie to admit he loves Kianna.
Because the problem with fighting it is that if you lose, not only do you still have to pay the fine but you also get to pay an additional $250.00 of court costs.
Talk about rigging the system
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Color me irritated now. Just got one of those damn red light notices.
Why am I irritated, well because it is $158.00 out of my pocket.
The suck ass part is that I was behind a semi and never would have been able to see that the light had turned yellow let alone was turning red at the time of the incident.
Yeah, try and get the court system to say sure no problem, would be like getting Luffie to admit he loves Kianna.
Because the problem with fighting it is that if you lose, not only do you still have to pay the fine but you also get to pay an additional $250.00 of court costs.
Talk about rigging the system
That is not that bad fine compaired to here the fine for running a red light in Las Vegas is three hundred five dollars ($305.00). However traffic tickets no matter what the fine is not a happy situation.
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Yikes I am getting a bargain there in that respect.
Just irritating that even though I did not see that the light had changed to red I am still getting penalized for it.
The real eye opener is I watched the video they have of me going through the intersection and I must say that the length of time that the light is yellow is noticeably shorter.
But we know that trying to fight it would be losing proposition so :sigh:
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Want to have fun....next time you come to a red light....stay there...even after it turns green....see if you get a ticket for that....
Oh wait....that would be fun for ME.....not for you.....but I don't feel bad....since I didn't bring up the "K" thing :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
And no....you have NO chance in court. The light changes are based on traffic flow.....not built in timers....all computerized....
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Got people sitting at a green light as it is, playing with their :soapy: phones because that text message or Facebook post is more important then driving
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Well, even more and more for the MedCom in regards to equipment for each campus ... :sigh:
Why am I :sad: guess it has to do with the concept of too many cooks .. and since I have been herding the kittens for this customer for over a year. I guess that I am the one selected to keep on top of all their equipment.
And what else do I get to see, but another 10 radios from one site and another six new ones for a different site.
The fun part was we, me an another picked up the 10 from the one site since the complaint was they didn't work during their last disaster drill.
Well, what do we find we we picked them up, yep never inventoried, never tagged, never programmed.
:thud:
Imagine that ... however I worked on them at the shop and all of that got corrected and now they will work as intended.
Even delivered them back to them before the end of business ... got both the "oh my, really" and "thank you so very much"
Brought them up to date as to how the template was configured so they will be able to integrate with the other radios for disaster training.
Another happy customer ... :ummm: haven't had that happen often :yesway:
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Holy Moly......I'm about to faint..... A HAPPY ENDING.....FROM "J" ??????
The worlds gonna end tomorrow I'm thinking LOLOLOLOL
Just kidding..... If folks have faith in you...enjoy it and be glad that they do my friend.... Better to be praised then bitched at.....
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And clearly well deserved praise!
:toast:
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Indeed...... :toast:
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A second happy ending, :thud: dropped off the other six radios I had programmed yesterday to the surgery department at a different campus.
Well, once I found her, yeah no one knew her or where she was at, but at least they could find the surgery department. Took an hour but at last we got there, and yes she was surprised that the radios were delivered so quickly. She was pleased and indicated that her boss was going to be even more pleased.
Well, didn't expect to hear that ... then the unexpected ... oh by the way we will be ordering more radios in the near future.
:thud:
I am telling you this Advent Health hospital chain is going off the charts in regards to number of subscribers and infrastructure.
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There you go..... Positive thoughts give positive results.....
Another day in the record book.....way to go "J"
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Now, now I am mostly positive all of the time. I just choose to not show it all of the time. You know the saying,
No expectations, no disappointments.
I am one of those "guarded optimist" types.
So yes, am pleased when I achieve little victories as indicated above.
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LOL......If you say so....and we'll leave it at that..... :yesway:
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:tearlaugh:
Think I just did
:tearlaugh:
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Which one..... "Saying So" or "Leaving it at that" :shrug:
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Yes
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I thought so.... :sure:
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That is what my old man always used to say to me
:tearlaugh:
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:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Well, here is one for the record books. Ye ole senior bench tech has gone loco ... well maybe not ... anyway believe it or not he found himself a new girlfriend .... scary part is he is two years younger then I ... four days younger then dirt.
Guess it is possible for folks in my age group to find partners ... well some can ... hasn't happen for me ... but I have never really had any luck with the ladies ... and I am reconciled to it.
Nonetheless the real kicker to the opening statement ... they intend to marry in June and I received an invite ... as did several others in the shop .. not sure how many and don't want to ask others in case they weren't invited.
The crazy part is one, I do not and never have owned dress clothes including dress shoes.
He says no problem ... business casual is the dress code of the day. Okay, I own mostly jeans and can find at least one or two polo shirts with no company logos which would be cool, according to him.
The office ladies seem to think that my shoes are a bad choice. So since all I have are work shoes, as in steel toe boots, or sneakers and then flip flops.
They seem to think that steel toe boots worn to a wedding is wrong. Why I don't know :tearlaugh:
The other office lady is even saying I should find some different jeans as in khaki's whatever that means ... yes I am ignorant in the ways of fashion and always have been.
:sigh:
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Makes me the only single person in the shop :sigh:
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You're single because of the way you dress :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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:@u: Well, at least I have clothes on :waveass:
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For you that's a major accomplishment :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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How quaint you noticed .... :tearlaugh:
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I'm just taking your word on it LOLOLOL
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What I find amusing is that the one Office lady (OL) said I am to take a picture of the shoes and send it to her for approval :thud:
However I just found a pair in my closet .. need to see if they still fit though ...
Plus was on the phone today doing a financial assessment with my retirement account folks to see how close or far off I am.
So never got around to considering that task ... :sigh:
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You do know that you can buy a nice pair of shoes, slacks and dress up shirt real cheap at Walmart.....
Less then what you pay each week for a Anime movie and book for that matter LOLOL
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:soapy: Thanks for raining on my parade ... darn it
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Just being realistic...... :yesway:
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Well, it certainly wasn't that cheap at Wal-Mart but truth be told I did pick up two pair of pants, two shirts plus the shoes and some socks on top of it all.
Definitely going to mess with O.L. tomorrow when she tries to give me grief on "did you get proper shoes"
At this point please just smack me up side the head what is with the cleaning jag I just got done with ... vacuuming, mopping floors, cleaning counter tops :puah: please make it stop ... make it stop
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LOLOL.....Cool beans my friend..... And they look spiffy..... Good choices....
I'm doing the laundry.....both of ours LOLOL......So it's been one of those days....
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Well, had one of those weeks all in one day
Two site walks for upcoming free standing ED departments. Delivered 15 radios to a different campus, then walked two more jobs and wrote up quotes for them and to put icing on the cake went to the airport and installed bushings for cable protection that the other company neglected to provide.
To make it even more interesting we have a new employee, well technically a temp and regrettably not to help shoulder my work load so I can move up the ladder. More to help on the bench and to shoulder some of the load from the Trbo system tech. The fun part is until he gets full time he cannot log any of the repairs that he is doing so it is up to the other tech or myself to do so ... want to guess who is logging them more often then not :tearlaugh:
Which it is not the big a deal mainly because I have a few short cuts fingered out and log them fairly quickly. The fun part is that it slams the OL in regard to having to process them for delivery back to the customer ... :heeheehee:
Now the reason this new temp can handle the repairs so easily is that he used to work for the customer that we repair the radios for .... :whatthe: imagine that ... he even has brought over all the code plugs and option board details for the radios at the place which has improved the ability to program the radios when they come back from depot.
Depot is where we send radios that we can repair on the bench, however that means that the code plug and option board files are erased and if we were unable to save them out prior to sending them in which does happen sometimes we are at a loss as to what files to program back into the radio ... no longer have that problem :yippee:
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:yippee: I finally got back on the task to inventory the library.
Yeah that monster one that we so love to be around and add more books to it every chance I get.
Well, we finally got the bookcases in one room completed. The first seven (7) bookcases, is all and there is a discreet 1250 titles just in that one room residing on those shelves.
The reason I am wording it that way is that I found that I have some three in one volumes, as in several.
Probably will have to do a recount of the number of books and reconcile that to the actual number of titles I have.
No real big deal, I think I am still accurate on the actual volumes, twas enlightening to see that I have so many that are actually multi-volume books.
Nevertheless, the real point of the post, yes one room is done.
Seven bookcases, just checked the rest of the place and we only have another ... wait for it .... 12 bookcases ... to inventory
:thud: :thud: :thud: :thud: :thud: :thud:
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:tearlaugh:
Just read this on my Japanese product site that I visit
Happy Kiss Day from Japan! Tomorrow, May 23, has been designated as ã‚スã®æ—¥ or Kiss Day, because it was on this back in 1946 that the first kiss scene was shown in a Japanese film (called Hatachi no Seishun).
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Did you ever look at the Book Inventory Program I sent you the link for? They keep improving it each year. They've added more titles and covers and other info.
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I did look at it and forget now why I was in two minds of using it.
I will have to look at the link a second time.
Most likely is because I am a cheap bastard ???? and refuse to spend money on a program to track inventory especially since it gives me a chance to see and touch each volume.
Who knows I forget why I did what I did
What the hell did you do with my :sake:
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You still have to put info into the program so you would have to handle each book....
It will certainly save time and would be much more accurate then you would be in recording them....
Sake does that :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Still waiting for the updated link good sir
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Nonetheless got into the other bedroom upstairs and in addition to shredding of ancient history ... I have no idea why I still have documentation of bills paid in 2014
:whatthe:
At any rate I added another 120 volumes to the inventory. The scary part is that is only four out of five shelves in one bookcase.
:thud:
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Link is sent.....now get busy LOLOLOLOL
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Already have been ... at least on the entering of my volumes.
Even managed to find several older books the actually have no bar code on them ... go figure that is some crazy details.
Managed to shred some of my ancient history documents ... filled up a 30 gallon trash bag today.
And still have a long way to go ....
Now what is this "service plan" that they are charging one for, granted the first year is free but does that mean you have to renew it every year .... or is that just a one time thing and you get to choose if you want to continue renewing it?
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I'd keep an eye out on the specials they have for the service plans through out the year.
They have been adding tons of new features since I started using the program so I extended my service plan until 2026 for a fraction of the cost of a year by year deal.
You have time to check it out but take advantage of the first year and always see what they add to the program when they ask you to. That will update your existing program also.
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So in addition to the base price one has to buy a service plan on a yearly or what ever schedule on top of everything else.
Seriously ... you can call me a cheap bastard all you want ... one never owns anything you purchase unless you keep updating it :sigh:
That is why I am against these sort of programs.
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You don't have to get the service plan.
All it does is update new books, info, etc.
Which is why I scanned all the barcode books first since all others without barcodes have to be hand entered....
Which means you can do the same thing. All the service plan does is upgrade their info that you can use ....
But many of my comics can't even be found anymore so I had to put them all in by hand along with all the info I had...and I found many of the covers on net and just put them in....
Choice is your's though LOLOL.... and you ARE cheap...don't deny it LOLOL
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:noway: are we denying a darn thing :tearlaugh:
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Day one of ... who knows how many ... for doing PM's on the fleet of radios for the hospital customer.
The annoying part of my morning had nothing to do with the task at hand ... imagine that ... my holster (belt clip) for the company phone ... broke and the phone now falls out of the holster :sigh:
Got to be something or else life would be dull, boring, tedious and commonplace.
Other then that my list says there should be 64 radios of a certain type, I only have 40 at the moment. Can't wait to see how this is going to be resolved.
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Which just means that obviously they are still being used while the first batch gets their 20,000 PTT tune up.
My only problem as I see it is that they want to kick one out by 4:00 as that is when they go home. And with every radio taking no less then 25 minutes to run through the auto tune process kind of cuts down on how many I can do in a day.
Yesterday I only managed 18 and of them I have to bring five back to the shop for repair. So technically only 13 got the good housekeeping seal of goodness :tearlaugh:
Came in earlier today and have made good progress so far and thought I was going to have to leave early like yesterday but just found out that no only the receptionist leaves at 4:00 so that means I should be able to stay and finish all the radios since by my math that is now possible.
Which the fun part about that is I went over to see them yesterday to inform them I would be starting by Thursday and they had no idea what I was talking about ... again.
So that was fun getting them set up and ready to endure my presence starting tomorrow.
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Good start I'd say..... :yesway:
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Went to check on whether or not the next department would be ready and nope, not going to happen apparently the message that was left for them was a voice mail and to the wrong person and although I had spoke to them yesterday they did not indicate that it was going to be a problem. Well today they said they were not going to be able to make it work due to the short notice.
Guess that is what happens when my boss leaves a voice mail only and doesn't follow up with an email. Got to have that paper trail in my mind.
So now they wanted to schedule it for next week covering three days, which is about right for just silly little me doing it. Problem is that there is about four other things that all need to be done at the same time and I am adamant about not cloning myself :tearlaugh:
Sucks to be wanted so much, a little bit is fine but this much is kind of spooky
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LOL....Enjoy being wanted by work and bosses...tis better then being wanted by the law LOLOL
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:tearlaugh: Valid point :yesway:
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Well, the end of day five of doing PM's on the portables and mobiles for Security and EMS.
Are we even done with them .... :noway: there are still radios missing from Security. Also have subscriber (portables) missing from the EMS department. The only good news is that I have only three trucks with mobiles that have not been touched as of this afternoon. Considering that the mobile first is tested for forward and reflected power and then removed brought in to me for firmware updates and then the auto tune part once done then it gets installed back in said vehicle. A basic 30 to 45 minutes per and with 25 vehicles you can see that it would not get done in a day. Does ye ole leprechaun see the math on the wall. :noway:
Nope, he takes my installer away after Friday's work. Today, I get the new hire who has some experience with radio from his previous job, nothing with mobiles but I will give him points for initiative and being a quick study, showed him once and he was good to go.
Now that works for me. Only problem, wound up finding two problems with three radios. Two had the ignition sense wire loose in the connector and then another had a bad connector on the antenna line. Good news is that I could fix the ignition sense issue. The bad news is that I had no more mini UHF connectors to fix the antenna problem so that will have to come into the shop for repairs.
Possibly, if I can get some connectors from the shop and get them back on my truck I could possibly fix it on Thursday when I will be back out there starting on the Engineering department radios.
:shrug:
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Now we get to go to the Post Office at the airport tomorrow and then back to to NASA for yet another round of renewing our freaking badges. Could these loser not just grant us access for a year and be done with it instead of this three month rubbish.
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Went to NASA this morning and after an hour long wait to get to the person behind the desk. I get hooked up ... supposedly ... why do I word it like that .... well the other tech I was there with was still in the process of getting his done and he was surprised I was already done. The guy behind the desk was also surprised and said he wanted to check the credentials after he got the other one sorted.
Guess what I had no permissions any where. :thud:
Well, that could have been quite awkward ... anyway got that all sorted ... another half hour I will never get back. There is no plus side to this though it is still only good for another three month, although it was stated that when we come back for that renewal we will get a year long badge once more.
I will believe it when I see it.
Next field trip was to the LCC to make a phone patch cable from a patch panel to a Cisco switch.
Eight pin to a six pin ... so how do you want this wired?
Got an answer and it seemed straight forward enough, although now sitting at home I have a feeling that is not right. The picture he was looking at was showing a POTS config with an 8 pin on one side an a 6 pin on the other.
I am just now remembering that it is Red, Green, Black and Yellow ... tip, ring, tip, ring.
The picture showed both the red and black coming from pins 4 & 5 on the eight pin side going to pins 3 & 4 on the six pin side.
Which means I wired it with both "tip colors " landed instead of one tip and one ring.
Bet that :soapy: will not work as intended ... :sigh: some days I can be so damn dense.
The next bit of fun drove to a tower site out there, yep the fun one, that has asbestos in the floor :noway:
Went to install the "repaired PA" back in the chassis of the system and guess what it is still FUBAR as in not working throwing alarms across the system and so forth ... how much fun is that ... yea about :thissmall:
So yanked it out to bring back with us for another trip to the depot for repairs.
Next trip out to the newest free standing ED for the hospital chain and met with the powers that be from the hospital to go over rack space requirements, power, conduits and grounding. At least that came out well not happy about not getting as much room as I wanted but at least I can sort of kind of make it all fit. Going to be a tight one mind you but it can ... well has to be done period.
Now for the disappointing part of the day decided to swing by the shop to pick up repaired radios for delivery seeing how I will be out there again tomorrow morning. Out of the five I processed for the new hire, he still does not have access to the log in on the ticketing for repairs, ye ole younger office lady only had one of them done. Just one.
Got all the ones for the one attraction, processed but not the hospital. And yes, when I popped in, once again doing God knows what on her phone instead of getting the repairs processed so they could be returned to the customer. Has had all day to do them and they were still not done, now granted I do not know what steps are involved but if one can not processes the 30 or 40 repairs that were on the shelf in an eight hour day I want to know what the problem is, because 40 radios should be five an hour, or one every 12 minutes.
That should not be that difficult to achieve, especially if you concentrate on doing your job and not farting around on your damn personal phone.
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Sigh. It sadly sounds like a typical day. I hope you don't have to go back to the LCC to fix something about which you were told incorrectly.
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So do I but I am certainly not holding my breath on that happening.
Just heard even more fun coming up, another ambulance company is in need of an update to their fleet of radios.
Up to 60 vehicles and subscribers radios. 120 devices possibly, the fun part is that all are on the county system which means new ID's for all and more documentation ... which is simple for me ... but :iminnocent:
The trick for these is that the new guy could possibly do them but since these radios are all APX8000 and he has no experience with them it would be quite ... :ummm: awkward for him to do them on his own.
BTW way I forgot to mention we still need to go back to the school bus depot to finish programming them before the new school year :thud:
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Some days I need to stop chewing through the leather straps
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On a good note.....with all these jobs you have going on.....Your 401K is building up..... Right... :yesway:
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:tearlaugh:
We are on track with a minimum of 91 hours this pay period.
And with me giving 7%, with them matching 100% on the first 4%
You would be right
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Well, started the next big department, Engineering. Will say this it looks like some lessons from last year were taken to heart. As there are no earpieces or add ons with any radios. Last time a few got put on the wrong radios by accident and other claims were made that we had one and now we don't, so all of that got nipped in the bud.
:yippee:
The bad news is getting kicked out of here so early, I have to wrap it up at 3:30
:sigh:
Will do so today since I have more radios to drop off for repairs and hopefully some to pick up when I get back to the shop.
Definitely going to see if there is a way I can stay a bit later to get these done in a timely manner because based on the math leaving at that time it will take five days to do them all.
And I certainly do not have that luxury considering how many other departments I have to complete.
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Well, so far the only option I have is to start even earlier then I already do, :sigh: and that will be the only way I can get more done in a day so as to complete this department in a more timely manner.
Mainly because after two days I am still nowhere near to being half way complete. I have 36 complete out of 85 :thud:
And it doesn't matter if you try and send another person out, unless there is a second service monitor to do the task it is a waste of time.
I am so looking forward to the solution for the next big PM push for the hotel chain. Again over 900 if not 1000 subscribers to complete and trying that with one service monitor means ... well a lot of things ... most of which I should not repeat in public or on line. :zipit:
Sucks to have overtime so readily available ... :ummm: ... oh wait the only problem with that is I will have even less of a life than I already do.
Oh how quaint it is doing the serious :rainy: now ... at least all of the laundry, dishes and cooking has been completed so I guess that is a bonus.
And how quaint :tearlaugh: Watanuki still is trying to get me to play fetch and succeeding to a certain degree
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:tearlaugh:
We are on track with a minimum of 91 hours this pay period.
Turned out to be 95 1/2 for the pay period
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Books, Movies, Food and more to put away in your 401K......that's what the OT gets you....... :yesway:
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Truth
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Time for a little bit of cable gore
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Looks like someone was knitting with the wrong needles LOLOLOL
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No doubt although why one would be trying to knit in a comm room ... is beyond me :tearlaugh:
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Privacy my friend....Privacy :tearlaugh:
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Hadn't thought about that :tearlaugh:
Although knitting on a job site using category rated cable is not on my top ten list of things to voluntarily do ... just saying.
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Riddle me this ...
Placed an order for more books ... of course.
So if it was shipped from Maryland and then showed up in North Carolina then in Jacksonville Fl,
:ummm: in the devil did it take a side trip to New Mexico
And one wonders why the Post Office is always in the red :noway:
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Well, New Mexico is SOUTH of Maryland...as is Florida....so they probably packed all SOUTHERN shipments together.....
See..... A very logical answer...... Right..... :yesway:
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Time for a little bit of cable gore
Looks like you have your work cut out for you. Never a dull moment.
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Looks like you have your work cut out for you. Never a dull moment.
Fortunately I do not have to fix any of those sites. :letusboogie: :havefun: :cheer: :sassy: :happydance:
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Riddle me this ...
Placed an order for more books ... of course.
So if it was shipped from Maryland and then showed up in North Carolina then in Jacksonville Fl,
:ummm: in the devil did it take a side trip to New Mexico
And one wonders why the Post Office is always in the red :noway:
It seems the postal mail took weird ways.
A friend in Oklahoma made an order in the beginning of the last week, order which might to fast. Departure of the pack was in Pennsylvania. 3 days after, it was always in the same State.
Finally arrived at Dallas in Friday evening...
She lives in the South of Oklahoma, and Saturday they always were saying the pack was to arrive Monday.
Yesterday, the pack was... at Oklahoma City :thud:
Finally pack arrived today. 8 days for a fast pack.
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Well, New Mexico is SOUTH of Maryland...as is Florida....so they probably packed all SOUTHERN shipments together.....
See..... A very logical answer...... Right..... :yesway:
Logical not so very much .... remember I said it was in Jacksonville, Fl. and then for reasons unknown they decided it had to go to Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Well, had another 12 hour day and that was only because the lady in charge asked how long to finish and my guess fell within the parameters of the HMFIC departure time. So was asked to stay till all was done as they were wanting for it to be completed if possible today.
Well, excuse me for being only one person, then again they do have 85 radios to work on. However ye ole boss knows that it takes this long to do a PM and to have only one each of people and equipment means it will take forever and with so much more coming up in the next couple of weeks that will be starting this is not a tenable situation.
Just saying ...
Here be the fun and games part, the EMS department got the last two ambulances in, so in addition to working on the engineering department I finished up the last of the ambulances. The real fun was that the fleet manager for the EMS department made the comment that he had spares in the basement. OK, so why don't we run those through the PM procedure so in the case of ... you have a spare you can swap out in an instant instead of having to make a special trip to get it looked at ... damn he said that is a great idea ... :thud: ... little things ... tis all I can say.
The interesting thing was there was another ambulance that was still having problems with transmitting ... my only thought was that the mic was possibly bad, the fleet manager had a spare mic from all the spares he found for me to work on and surprise he swapped it out and so far at last report it had cured the problem.
Imagine that ....
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Fortunately I do not have to fix any of those sites. :letusboogie: :havefun: :cheer: :sassy: :happydance:
That is good. It looks like that would take more than a few hours to sort out that mess.
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And the delivery of my book is still in limbo in Albuquerque ... :sigh:
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Well, I heard something interesting today at work but, until I get more positive proof of the details I shall not say anything more.
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And the delivery of my book is still in limbo in Albuquerque ... :sigh:
Now it is Denver ... :whatthe: ... is wrong with these idiots
Wednesday, June 12
8:14 PM
Package arrived at a carrier facility
Denver Co Network Distribution Center, US
Monday, June 10
9:15 PM
Package has left the carrier facility
Albuquerque Nm Distribution Center Annex, US
5:41 PM
Package arrived at a carrier facility
Albuquerque Nm Distribution Center Annex, US
Friday, June 7
4:23 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility
Jacksonville Fl Network Distribution Center, US
Thursday, June 6
12:17 PM
Package has left the carrier facility
Greensboro Nc Network Distribution Center, US
11:37 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility
Greensboro Nc Network Distribution Center, US
10:22 AM
Package arrived at a carrier facility
Essex, MD US
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Oh your postal services are becoming as stupid as our national postal service :panic:
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Hopefully this wasn't next day air or 3 day air. I think at the lowest rate they put it on anything that move when there is space available. Usually it take two week to get to your house on book rate postage, now we know why.
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Hopefully this wasn't next day air or 3 day air. I think at the lowest rate they put it on anything that move when there is space available. Usually it take two week to get to your house on book rate postage, now we know why.
I have gotten packages (books) much quicker then this as it came straight here instead of taking the scenic route like this package is doing.
The previous one would have been here in three days except I had it delivered to the office and they tried to deliver on Saturday which meant that I got the following Monday.
Hell even my anime and manga which comes from Iowa can get here in less then a week.
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Dang some one took pics of me at the wedding of my co-worker ... :thud: ... tis amazing I do not break any mirrors ... man one never really knows what one looks like based just on what you see in a mirror.
And before you ask to see them, I have to run them down a bit as they are over 6 MB a piece
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Cool beans Can't wait to see them.....
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Worked on the inventory of the library again today
:yippee: Finished the upstairs bedrooms. So the first ten (10) bookcases have been inventoried.
Over 1600 entries mind you, and now I get to move to the downstairs bookcases, of which there are nine (9) more to complete.
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:thumb_up:
And did you receive your package finally?
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Congrats on having a whole floor finished, J! I'm with Aelin: did that wandering package ever arrive?
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Not yet, it is currently in Denver and has been since the 12th definitely a :whatthe: moment.
You can rest assured they are not going to get a good review at all.
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That's all you got done?????? Geeeez.....Getting slow in your old age my friend :tearlaugh:
Just pulling your chain.....good job.....the tunnel end is near...and I'm sure you'll catalog your books as they come in ..... Right..... :yesway:
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TL, you forget J has to take care of miss K, that's why he makes it slowly but surely. And remember, it's better to be a turtle than a rabbit.
Always Denver :thud: I hope the pack will come fastly to you with the beginning of the week.
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LOL......I agree with the Kianna concept but not to sure on the Turtle and Rabbit concept
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That's all you got done?????? Geeeez.....Getting slow in your old age my friend :tearlaugh:
Just pulling your chain.....good job.....the tunnel end is near...and I'm sure you'll catalog your books as they come in ..... Right..... :yesway:
Pull this ..... we also got all of the shopping done, mopped and cleaned all floors and vacuum the carpets plus the normal dishes and laundry like the rest of you lot.
Updated the Dr. Who inventory of episode to include the new season and Christmas special. Made lunch ... :sigh: going to be sandwiches again, since I will still be doing PM's on the subscriber radios this week.
Plus did more work on three pictures currently being constructed for uploading.
:nanana:
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TL, you forget J has to take care of miss K, that's why he makes it slowly but surely. And remember, it's better to be a turtle than a rabbit.
Always Denver :thud: I hope the pack will come fastly to you with the beginning of the week.
Miss K is up North taking care of Luffie after his spinal tap
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:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: Being busy is a good thing.....
My Ribs are almost done...and the homemade BBQ sauce came out great.....
And yes...did laundry to day also.....well....Lorna helped a little with the laundry..... :java:
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Just started to do ribs myself for the evening meal, although I use Hoisin sauce instead for my BBQ sauce.
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Not yet, it is currently in Denver and has been since the 12th definitely a :whatthe: moment.
You can rest assured they are not going to get a good review at all.
What a concept it is now back in Jacksonville as of tonight, how droll it was in Jacksonville on the 7th and now finally it is back.
A nine day delay ... seriously ... :noway:
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What a concept it is now back in Jacksonville as of tonight, how droll it was in Jacksonville on the 7th and now finally it is back.
A nine day delay ... seriously ... :noway:
We cross fingers the pack comes to you really this time :yesway:
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Me three
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Now for the other side of Cable porn
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Now those are neat.....
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Wow those are the neatest cables I ever saw. Hats off to the person or people who did that. :thumb_up:
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Too right
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Well, how is this for fun, thought I had the surgery department under control only had one radio not located. After discussion and getting approval we sent the stun command to that radio and turned it off.
So if any one tries to use it they are in for a surprise ... not going to work at all. :ifonly:
The boring part is that I thought I was done at that point ... my point of contact asked if I had done any of the radios on the second floor.
:ummm: :thud:
What radios?
Turns out that there is another 20 radios on the second floor of the surgery department. Guess what, I went to look at them and they have never been inventoried, or asset tagged. Further investigation showed they have not been reprogrammed with the new code plug, nor has the firmware been updated. And yes, they also have never had a 20,000 PTT tune up.
Guess who is going to still be working in the Orlando surgery department on the morrow. And I was scheduled to be in Altamonte working on the Security department radio's .
And let us not forget that Lake Mary still needs to worked on, then starting next week we are supposed to start on the hotel chain.
I still refuse to clone myself ... just saying.
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Well, at least you're wanted......and not by the law........ :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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I know ... small consolation in my mind ... but one has to start somewhere I guess ....
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:sadder: H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness :sadder:
Release date has been pushed back to July 9th
Good news :yippee: H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness vol. 2 is to be released Oct. 29th :yippee:
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Those are indeed beautifully dressed cables.
At the Mountains of Madness is huge. I'm glad it is not one volume. I'm also disappointed that it's not going to be available yet.
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Indeed it was originally the 25th of June and now I have to wait till after my birthday before it is available.
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The only good thing though is my price at the on line place where I get all of my anime and manga
Instead of the normal $19.99 price, my price is $14.24 :woohoo:
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Because of the delay or something else? I'm guessing that it's because of your patronage.
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Because of the delay or something else? I'm guessing that it's because of your patronage.
Member of the site ... which doesn't mean that one could not order two copies one for me self and one for another to save them a few hard earned greenbacks :iminnocent: ... just saying ...
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What a week it has been, the continuing saga of doing PM's on the radios for the hospital. What I find amusing is that there are radios still missing at certain campuses. Across the board of each department that I have been tasked to work on, imagine that, how does one lose or misplace radios?
Inquiring minds want to know, granted some of the models are quite old and out of date so to speak, first clue there are no updates for the firmware any longer.
As mentioned above what I find amusing is that more radios are still turning up that have never been programmed, or inventoried. There were two more at another engineering campus that just turned up. :sigh:
The fun fact about them is that the new tool I have which checks battery health indicated that the one battery was not only beyond its useful life but was completely unusable, in other words you could put it on a charger and it would not charge ... just get the error code showing that it can not be charged. Now that is one messed up battery, then again it is over six years old.
New fun we get radios to be programmed for yet another campus, the paperwork said engineering department so that is what the new guy programmed into them. I go to deliver them and that is when I find out that oh by the way these are for our disaster training drills and need the template that allows one to talk to any one in any department or campus.
Well, thanks to the salesman for not saying a word as to the actual use. Why does this matter? Well, it turns out that I had to reprogram them on the fly plus do two other radios before I could go home. Could I have taken them back and had them done at the shop, .... probably but then a return trip to drop them off would still have to occur ... executive decision on my part just said do it and get it over with as I have no time to make a return trip.
As mentioned elsewhere just at 105 hours for the pay period (bi-weekly) not sure if I am making good choices or not but at least all the departments that were scheduled to be worked on did get done so I guess that is a good thing. :ummm:
Why because starting on Monday I am supposed to be at the hotel chain next and do PM's on their fleet of radios. Yes, we use the word fleet with great precision. They are actually over 1,000 radios. The hospital chain by comparison has only 978 radios.
Small difference I know but it is going to be crazy for me for at least another month if not longer. Why, we still only have one service monitor to do the work with, we have acquired a second but we are still working on getting the needed software to enable it to do the work. Once we get that and vet it we will then have help to work on them. To be honest don't see the man power issue changing much till the end of the week.
Even with two service monitors it still takes up to 25 minutes per radio for the task to be completed. Then add another six minutes for updates to the firmware. Add a few more minutes to log the battery health and log the fact that the radio was seen and we are looking at just under 45 minutes.
Times 1,000 radios ... got me work cut out for me to say the least.
With the other two installers in Flagler county all of last week and apparently for the next two weeks as well, short handed does not even begin to describe the state of affairs in my world.
And before I forget let us not neglect the other projects that are awaiting our attention. Mainly mine, since I seem to be the only one who knows what goes where and which project is at what stage of completion.
I tell you there had better be something extra in my paycheck and pretty damn soon too, lest I start to accidentally on purpose forget things .... not that I would mind you but it did sound pretty damn good in my head.
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OK. Let's do the math.
1000 x 45 = 45 000 minutes.
Let's assume generously
8 x 60 = 480 (work day's worth of minutes (no eating or breaks)
So, that's
45 000 / 480 = 93.75 work days or 18.75 weeks for 5 day weeks.
:panic: <------ doesn't even come close. I hope I missed something.
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Regrettably, you did not miss one detail
:panic:
It is ever so disturbing that your math matches what I see in my head .... just shy of five months on my own.
... which based on the math even if there were two of us doing the work it would still be a minimum of ... just shy of three months.
Double :panic: mode
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So you more need a :OMG:
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Indeed I do ....
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Yes, that's closer. I think I wanted more
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Methinks you are on to something
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Shared the math with the folks at work and their collective jaws hit the floor. I did caution them though that was provided I did not have to run the tests over when they failed just to make sure it was a true fail and not a fluke.
Nonetheless methinks that point of one machine and one guy is not a tenable way to do things and with all the current pending and upcoming tasks one can only stretched so far before one gets :rat-atat:
The highlight of the day was the stupid question of "are you done"? Uh no, I am at the International location and they have 70 radios in their fleet.
Why are you there, I thought you would have started at Universal as they only have 30 radios.
:ummm: Even if I had, I still would not have been done since the best I can manage on my own is 18 - 20 radios in a day. And that is eating a sandwich for lunch while still working.
There are days I seriously want whatever they are putting in their coffee.
Reason he asked though, is that at long last almost two years later, the school board is now ready to have their dispatch center installed. So guess who is getting pulled off next week to do that ... yes a holiday next week along with my birthday and I have to contend with nonsense like this ....
And we are still waiting for the upgraded software packs for the extra service monitor so we can get two of us out doing the work.
:thud:
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They'll probably also eventually need to hear Fred Brooks' comment about the cook:
“An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices—wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices. The cook has another choice; he can turn up the heat. The result is often an omelette nothing can save—burned in one part, raw in another.â€
-- Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Invariably, the impulse is to ask you to do it faster. This little story illustrates quite well why faster is sometimes a really bad idea.
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You hit it on the head Sir Knight...and great analogy....
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Marvelous and it is ever so apt since the software pack is still not in our hands, and believe me I am not letting them send it out without vetting it first.
Back out there today and continued with the work and let us say we got lucky we got 21 radios completed today. Imagine that start two hours early and you can get a couple more completed :sigh:
Still sucks although as I was there for 11 hours today, granted about an hour of that is travel time but still .... I am just now past the half way mark.
39 out of 71
Big :thud:
At least the top of the food chain boss didn't annoy me with "ehem" drivel.
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Here you go "J".....This will relax you
https://youtu.be/EJ09pSuA9hw
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More like energize ... many thanks
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An extraordinary video. Over 1 000 000 views in five days!
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I love it.....but then again....I love all her music and vids.
And "J"...when you said you have her CD's.....I'm taking it as just the music only....or have you brought her DVD's that has all her music vids on them. There are 3 Music Vid DVD's in her collection....
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Not aware of any of those ... I did search one title and surprise it will not play on players in the US so this might be a bit difficult to locate.
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Well, how droll, a site walk I did at the beginning of the month is now wanting to know when I will be able to schedule the install.
Well, without a PO not any time soon. :tearlaugh:
Then we have to order the parts, since they did not like my original quote and want me to use their coax now I have to order connectors instead of just pulling from my stock.
Unless I were to install it without lightning protection ... :tearlaugh: ... as if I would do an install of that nature.
I leave that to the fly by night companies.
The real problem though, is that yes a PO was cut and delivered, however that still leaves the problem of how is this to be installed when I am the only one around that does installs, the other two are still out of town. And the new guy could not manage this task on his own without guidance.
Then there is also the concept of we have to wait on the parts to be delivered. And with me having to use their coax means I have to wait on a delivery of a NF connector for LMR 400 :sigh: if I could have used what I wanted to use it could be done any time ... now not so very much ... than again as mention apparently next week I am supposed to go the School board police dispatch for an install ... and I don't care who I piss off but we also have to leave early one day to get my tags renewed.
Mainly because I am a cheap bastard and refuse to pay extra for sending it in by mail nor will I pay extra for using a debit card on line or in person.
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Not aware of any of those ... I did search one title and surprise it will not play on players in the US so this might be a bit difficult to locate.
Take a peek here:
Vol. 1 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume1/720960882?search_term_id=73220909)
Vol. 2 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume2/720960329?search_term_id=73220909)
Vol. 3 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume3/720648868?search_term_id=73220909)
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That narrows it down my thanks
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And this morning I get an email from a sub stating that they got pulled off of the one project at the hospital. They are almost done, mind you, and will be working on the other project about two weeks.
Well, again no problem don't have the manpower to go out there and finish commissioning the system anyway. Plus there is another project that is now at the commissioning stage, yet there are a few loose ends such as none of the remotes are connectorized yet.
Granted, I was asked to show the new guy how to do that along with the other desk jockey. The claim was made that they will be going out this week to take care of it.
:ummm: It is Thursday and you still haven't asked me for the termination tools ... so not buying that story any longer.
And apparently the software has finally arrived and he (desk jockey) was installing it on the two AeroFlex machines we have. Still hasn't been vetted, nor can he answer the question about whether or not the new one needs the resistor across the banana plug on the AC meter in port.
Does me no good, so still working alone (not that I mind working alone) just wish I would get a thank more often then once every three decades ... case in point went in even earlier since I know nobody will process the new guys repairs because they are so busy. :sure: Must be nice to conveniently forget that one once was at the bottom, never forget where you started is my mindset. Heard someone come in, now they would know it is me because of my truck, but did they even bother to come by my office and even say good morning
NOPE not one tiny little bit ... what a moral boost that was .... :thud: ... yep sarcasm.
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It sounds like the desk jockey's have a different definition of "this week". :sure:
I think the management principle is "find the busiest person and give them more work." :yesway:
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Actually Management likes to overwork the ones who get aggravated the most :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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It sounds like the desk jockey's have a different definition of "this week". :sure:
I think the management principle is "find the busiest person and give them more work." :yesway:
Sounds like what is happening to me at the moment, tis so annoying ... but what do I know.
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Actually Management likes to overwork the ones who get aggravated the most :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Oh great, the real problem is the one adding annoyance to my day to day is not the real boss, but is the fair haired boy, desk jockey, in training project manager ... choose one ...
and to prove that things are in the toilet .... I asked ye ole fair haired boy to clean out the tech center as in there is trash that needs to get to the dumpster.
Never happened, how do I know, I dropped of radios for repairs and what do I see when I get to the shop?
Yep, all three trash cans are filled to brim and the trash I asked to have taken out in the tech center is still there .... :sigh:
Just because all the folks that typically work in the shop are not present doesn't mean that taking trash out is above or beneath you ....
I remember where I started at ... the bottom of the food chain as a janitor ( way back as a teenager) ... taking out trash ... one is never to high up on the food chain to not be "the trash man" and I still take the trash out. So their problem is ... :ummm:
However not taking it out because they think it is either beneath them or not their responsibility ... :soapy: me the :soapy: off
And that is the polite version.
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Sound like that business is run like an organized mess....
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Well, surprise surprise the upgrade software for the Aeroflex has been installed and vetted .. well that is what I was told but, after it was brought out to be used to help do the PM's I am not so sure, it only does eight of the test that the R8000 does (which does a total of 12) and that makes me suspicious.
Nonetheless, the first hotel site was completed and guess what according to my records they are missing four portables.
:thud:
Passed that tidbit on to the powers that be and we shall see what happens.
Was able to move to the second site this afternoon and get a start on their fleet which fortunately only numbers 30 in total.
Managed eight of them before it was time to leave.
Went back to the shop and as mentioned in the post above got super annoyed
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Sound like that business is run like an organized mess....
When it comes to the every day to day like keeping a clean work place ... yes
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When it comes to the every day to day like keeping a clean work place ... yes
And true to the maxim ... yes my work place is cleaner then the home ...
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Always remember.....A Neat Person makes for a Messy Mind.......
I just made that up :java: Ahhhhhh
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Sounds about right ... I know that I keep my work area and space cleaner and more organized then my home space. Mainly because no one messes about in my home space. So it is still where I put it at regardless of the time frame ...
All I can say is that it sucks that no one else seems to think they should clean up after themselves.
Not how I was raised ... just saying
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Always remember.....A Neat Person makes for a Messy Mind.......
I just made that up :java: Ahhhhhh
A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind ... is what I heard ... so not sure how that would translate out in the "bay"
Bottom line if you emptied out your office of rubbish, just taking it to the bay trash cans, so someone else has to empty them is not cleaning out your office.
Yes, I did call him out on the concept and in detail ... sorry in my mind this is still rubbish. Now if I could only get the others to see that .... like the mobile installers and anyone else that works in the area.
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Well, finished two out of seven hotels.
Results are in the first site is missing four radios and they know not where they might be :ummm: they also have 15 batteries that are in need of replacement.
Second site also has four radios missing. but only seven batteries that are in need of ... funny bit was I was asking for a certain radio and they kept saying no we have never had one with that ID at this site. :ummm: Not good to say the least.
However when I got back to the shop and mentioned that, ye ole senior tech asked me to repeat the story and then said hang on and what does he do pull out a radio that was handed to him earlier that day, while dropping off repairs at the other hotels and said this one was found at R7 and belongs to R2 ... and it was the radio in question that they said never existed.
See I am not going crazy, since I was the one who created and had maintained the master inventory sheet since we took them on as a customer.
Imagine that, and since they are sort of, kind of on my way home I went to drop it off and took along a repair that had been completed for the first site. Dropped it off and what do I hear, one of their missing radios has turned up.
Imagine that ... so instead of eight radios missing out of a total of 101 it is now down to six
Getting better, still not what I want to hear but 5.9% missing after four years I guess is saying something. Mind you as I keep doing these sites I am quite certain that I will be finding them at other sites in stead of the one they are supposed to be at just like I mentioned earlier so they might turn up "eventually"
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Latest excursions into la-la land
Damned fair haired boy of a PM, for the VA hospital seems to think that I am available to do the final termination and stand the system up.
However I am only one person .. the last time I looked .... and there is a clock antenna at a different hospital, followed by the replacement of the damaged cable at another hospital, finish building cable for the school board rack. Oh let us not forget about making labels for each of the cables also ... then there is the balance of the cabling for yet another "Free Standing ED" (FSED) in the works and then to get really annoyed, there is also the MedCom for that site plus its BDA .... plus another FSED along with its MedCom and let us not forget that they will need a BDA as well ....
And how about this for a new wrinkle, the competitor hospital has also just had material delivered for their new FSED being built as we scribble.
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I am so about ready to do a small :rat-atat: on them if they keep pushing my buttons
Especially since Friday, is my birthday
Ingrates .....
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You keep getting worked up like this and you might not make it to Friday...... :tearlaugh:
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Sounds worse then it actually is, mainly because finally getting some support from ye ole boss.
Got called in the office to talk about the rack for the school board Police Dispatch that I am cabling up and several things were mentioned ... main one being that folks have forgotten where they started at and where they came from .... I started work in my teens as a janitor taking out trash and cleaning up. Here it is fifty plus years later and taking out the trash is not beneath me.
However for several others in the shop it must be ... for obvious reasons.
Next point that logically devolves from that is that before you were a system tech you had to be able to connectorize RF cabling ... so why am I the only one doing so on the infrastructure jobs. I can understand why the new guy isn't as I have not had time to train him but the system tech should remember how to do so, if you can't, then read the instructions. :thud: Oh that's right who reads those :tearlaugh:
At any rate the upshot of the conversation was :thud: I have been given a promotion. Basically I went up one pay grade. What changes in my daily tasks probably nothing as I more then likely (in my mind) am already doing the tasks of that pay grade to start with :sad:
Reason being is that there is still no one capable of doing what I do infrastructure wise, nor track multiple jobs all a the same time.
Currently, let me see I have 15 jobs running at the moment, all in different states of completion.
Case in point today took a break as I had just finished the last of the CAT5 cabling for the rack and it is now time to make labels for it. Oh by the way, could you program these radios for the hotel chain. Sure ..... why not got nothing else to do ... but then again it is a break and a chance to do something different to clear the mind.
Boy howdy did I ever clear the mind. After adding them to the master inventory list, assigning ID, it went straight to hell in a hand basket. Why?
It is a different model of radio and the code plug for that property doesn't have any of that type. So had to have ye ole senior bench tech guide me through the steps of modifying the existing code plug to be compatible with the model of radio in front of me. Yes, it can be done ... only took an hour to do so :thud: it is not as simple as drag and drop.
Anyway got that done and programmed the radios and that was that ... then lo and behold what do I hear but the boss walking into the tech center saying wrap it up and go home.
:thud:
Will wonders never cease
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Sounds worse then it actually is, mainly because finally getting some support from ye ole boss.
Got called in the office to talk about the rack for the school board Police Dispatch that I am cabling up and several things were mentioned ... main one being that folks have forgotten where they started at and where they came from .... I started work in my teens as a janitor taking out trash and cleaning up. Here it is fifty plus years later and taking out the trash is not beneath me.
However for several others in the shop it must be ... for obvious reasons.
Next point that logically devolves from that is that before you were a system tech you had to be able to connectorize RF cabling ... so why am I the only one doing so on the infrastructure jobs. I can understand why the new guy isn't as I have not had time to train him but the system tech should remember how to do so, if you can't, then read the instructions. :thud: Oh that's right who reads those :tearlaugh:
At any rate the upshot of the conversation was :thud: I have been given a promotion. Basically I went up one pay grade. What changes in my daily tasks probably nothing as I more then likely (in my mind) am already doing the tasks of that pay grade to start with :sad:
Reason being is that there is still no one capable of doing what I do infrastructure wise, nor track multiple jobs all a the same time.
Currently, let me see I have 15 jobs running at the moment, all in different states of completion.
Case in point today took a break as I had just finished the last of the CAT5 cabling for the rack and it is now time to make labels for it. Oh by the way, could you program these radios for the hotel chain. Sure ..... why not got nothing else to do ... but then again it is a break and a chance to do something different to clear the mind.
Boy howdy did I ever clear the mind. After adding them to the master inventory list, assigning ID, it went straight to hell in a hand basket. Why?
It is a different model of radio and the code plug for that property doesn't have any of that type. So had to have ye ole senior bench tech guide me through the steps of modifying the existing code plug to be compatible with the model of radio in front of me. Yes, it can be done ... only took an hour to do so :thud: it is not as simple as drag and drop.
Anyway got that done and programmed the radios and that was that ... then lo and behold what do I hear but the boss walking into the tech center saying wrap it up and go home.
:thud:
Will wonders never cease
In my vast experience of working from 1974 to 2015, if you pay too much attention to work it will drive you crazy. Caring is good and doing the best you can is great too. If you can learn not to take it home with you and do things that interest you: you may avoid insanity.
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In my vast experience of working from 1974 to 2015, if you pay too much attention to work it will drive you crazy. Caring is good and doing the best you can is great too. If you can learn not to take it home with you and do things that interest you: you may avoid insanity.
I leave work at work, when I am home. And do what interests me while home. Poser, watching Dr. Who, and anime, listening to classical music, reading for pleasure not job related.
I do think about what has to be done at work while driving to work and about what needs to be accomplished while driving home but once home ... see above ...
Oh and the sissy in me drinks :sake: when home also .... :yesway:
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I leave work at work, when I am home. And do what interests me while home. Poser, watching Dr. Who, and anime, listening to classical music, reading for pleasure not job related.
I do think about what has to be done at work while driving to work and about what needs to be accomplished while driving home but once home ... see above ...
Oh and the sissy in me drinks :sake: when home also .... :yesway:
Oh yes my weakness is drinking Chocolate Milk I can understand having a weakness.
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Cooooool beans on your promotion and upcoming raise. :yesway:
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I am still curious about what the difference is between the two in "duties" that is if there are any ... or am I just receiving compensation for what I have been doing all along.
Flip a coin ... promotion and more money is fine ... but we were raised to see what needed doing and either take care of it or notify those in charge.
But we do like the promotion and pay increase regardless.
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Let me think for a moment ... four out of nine are not going to be in tomorrow which means I might get something done for a change.
Of the five that will be in, one is ye ole shop manager, another is the senior office lady plus myself. The other two happen to be one of the mobile installer's and the new hire for the bench repairs, which until he is formally hired one of us (meaning me) has to input all of his repair details in the internal logs.
Oops, I just remembered ye ole shop manager is also taking the day off so that means only four of us will be in .... wish we call call the day off due to lack of interest ... :tearlaugh:
Since it is certainly looking like that to me
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Well, had a total of six show up today. All four of us in the tech center, plus one office lady and one salesman. He didn't stay long though, as he was gone when I got back from making a delivery to the hospital.
I at least did accomplish what I wanted to do, finish making the rack ready for the school board. Got all the cables labeled and dressed inside the rack. Scheduled delivery of it for Monday, as that is going to be the only day that the other two installers will be available as they will be going back to Flagler county.
:sigh:
The part of the day that annoyed me though is the new bench tech failed the "initiative test" I started to build out the MedCom rack for the next "Free Standing ED" ... and he was doing naught but watching vids on the computer. What type no clue, might have been pertinent .... again no clue.
At any rate when one can hear a drill gun in the background installing equipment and you don't even bother to turn around or inquire as to what one is doing. For me that means you failed the "show initiative test"
Not really certain how others view what I do in the tech area ... do they see all the equipment as being my responsibility only and unless asked will not touch any part of it ... I do not know ... I do inform them as to what the equipment is for and when I build something out or start to, how much coaxing should it take for one to assist ????
One would think that knowing the current work load coming up, and what needs to be done to get these projects rolling folks, would not need my encouragement to "pitch in"
Guess I must have missed a lesson or three in how to motivate others to look beyond their immediate work load and to plan for the next upcoming project.
We went above and beyond as well, since I did not want to get in the middle of doing cabling and leaving it uncompleted on the second rack I built. I asked the office lady if I could process the returned from depot repairs. Turns out that there is a decided lack of information being put on the tickets by the other office lady ... :sigh: ... was shown the right way by the senior office lady. So I pitched in and processed several of the returned from Depot, and what did I find, two of them that were processed wrong.
Double :thud:
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Entertaining bets as to how messed up this weeks worth of entertainment shall be ...
I am currently at 50% ... due to the school board and the hospital project.
Wonder which one will tip the scales of ... well insert your best adjective ...
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Just be like Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz.
Click your heels 3 times and all will be fine.....
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:ummm: I wear steel toe boots, not certain that one can click the heels of those together :tearlaugh:
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Especially without looking quite :odd:
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Then again I guess :odd: looking is the norm for me
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But to cheer up your week....save you money so you can get these also. I got them in 4 days after ordering them and they play fantastic....
I know one can view most of the them on You Tube.....but someday You Tube will be all pay as is many other places we now enjoy for free....so I'll keep buying the up to date ones as they come out.....
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Ah yes on my list to purchase ... but first "At The Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft ... manga version .... Can not wait ... :ifonly:
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Well, the school board was every bit of "ridiculous" as I thought it would be ...
We got everything loaded up with the other two guys and got it to the site and ran into problem one .... parking
Did get it sorted out, but the real fun was, there is a parking garage and not one of our vehicles would ever fit in there :sigh:
At any rate the guys put the dispatch stations together while I was working on the logistics of :whatthe: the balance of the install.
Was told to make sure I sleeve the wires through the wall, like the others .... rrriiiggghhttt ... there is not a single thing sleeved above the ceiling. Surprised not really, but our work will be done right so not caring one little bit.
I do our installs to all local, NEC and R56 codes, so there is never a doubt that if someone was going to inspect the install it would be right.
The real fun is going to be tomorrow as the other guys will be back in Flagler and the system tech that was to help is no longer available due to system upgrades.
So :ummm: how is one supposed to pull nine drops across the ceiling by myself.
Yes, inquiring minds want to know. Granted I have an idea or three already but still it would be so much easier with another and oh yes the new guy for what ever reason is taking tomorrow off and when he gets back the following he is supposedly still going to help the wanna be PM with the install at the VA hospital.
Ran into several other issues that when I called for clarification no one at the office or the system tech have answers for, that should be ever so much fun. Even more fun is all of the extras that were not considered when ye ole shop manager did the site walk way back when ... yes, this has been sitting on the table waiting to be installed for quite some little time.
I usually manage to make it work and get things done ... which I guess is why they keep me around. :thud:
Doesn't make it any less frustrating mind you ... aww well tomorrow is another day will probably try to get the mystery answers and then order the bits and pieces that were overlooked.
Then bitch at the junior office lady and find out why the parts I requested back in March are still not here and what happened to the order. If I get the same crap as I have in the past that it was not ordered I might become a touch unglued , as this is not the first, second or third time that she has done this to me.
The real beef I have is that I asked for the details at the beginning of the day and when I came back to the office in the afternoon, she still had no answer ..... :whatthe:
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A follow up on the parts order that has not yet got here since March ... oh it is on its way.
So what happened to the order, did it get mislaid, lost, not ordered ..
It will get here when it gets here
Seriously
She never admitted to not ordering it the first time
I am beginning to think that it would be better if I just order what I need when I need it and put it on the company credit card at least then I would get the parts I need when I need them instead of never getting them.
Especially since I do need these parts when we build out the new MedCom racks for the hospitals.
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Well, new wrinkle on the work load.
Yep good ole "high level law enforcement" agency requested someone to rack and stack a cabinet of equipment. Install a power supply and cable and ground the equipment and rack.
Sure, out of nowhere can you please drop what you are doing and take care of this ... :sigh:
Guess who they would prefer to come out and take care of them.
Yes, how much fun, a law enforcement agency wants me ... to cable up a new rack of equipment.
Yes, I was requested by name.
:sigh: Sucks when you do your best every time ... not really ... it is just that I have so many other projects that are requesting my attention.
The only reason I can fit it in, is that I am at a standstill on most of the other projects due to "pick a reason".
Go figure ....
The amusing part is that I am still awaiting the final on the background check there, I have made it to the "contractors list" but there is still more that they desire to do I guess ... although they do make me wonder ... how long does it take, it has been another three months on top of the ... gee I have no idea how long they have been .... with this check.
Been over a year if memory serves.
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A follow up on the parts order that has not yet got here since March ... oh it is on its way.
So what happened to the order, did it get mislaid, lost, not ordered ..
It will get here when it gets here
Seriously
She never admitted to not ordering it the first time
I am beginning to think that it would be better if I just order what I need when I need it and put it on the company credit card at least then I would get the parts I need when I need them instead of never getting them.
Especially since I do need these parts when we build out the new MedCom racks for the hospitals.
I wouldn't do that......
Things won't change by backdooring the problem.
When someone asks why you are not getting done what needs to be done.....tell them why. I never got the parts. Don't explain a thing. Let them dig into it.
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I wouldn't do that......
Things won't change by backdooring the problem.
When someone asks why you are not getting done what needs to be done.....tell them why. I never got the parts. Don't explain a thing. Let them dig into it.
Sound like good advice to me.
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Thank you
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Well, it is apparent that the powers that be at the national law comm center, like my work too much. Taking pictures of the completed rack and sending it to the person in Virginia who is building the other rack and telling them this is what it should look like .... yikes ... although yes the rack does look good ... it is just slightly embarrassing to have people being that impressed.
Makes one wonder what or how bad a job was done in the past by other installation techs. Must have been fairly "rough" I'm guessing, mainly since I have been requested by name and no less then four or five times. Scary part is that they are already mentioning upgrades to be done next year and that they want me back to do the work. :thud:
Even more scary to me, is the concept that when I show up the powers that be, a total of four that I answer to when there, actually ask how I have been and say "glad to see you again" and even one of the security guards talks to me about a little bit of everything.
Not used to the concept of folks actually looking at and liking the finished product and then actually saying so .... most unusual ... nice though ... a kind word/thank you does go a long way in my book.
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That's a plus........don't bite a gift horse in the ass.... No clue what that means....but it sounds great in my head....
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Try to bite a horse in the ass will certainly get you sent into next week ... one would think ... and by an appendage connected to its ass.
:tearlaugh: :duh:
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Well, finished the job, only took two and a half days for what was supposedly to be just a rack and stack of equipment in a rack.
In other words a one day job ... :thud:
But if one does that, then there is also grounding, power and let us not forget that there is also data cabling the needs to be considered
The powers that be seems to overlook the peripherals too often.
Nonetheless I do not ... so therefore ... all of that is completed and even received a verbal atta boy on the install.
Apparently there is a concept overlooked in staging for servers in regards to being pulled from the rack while still running (yes they have hot swappable parts). But if you can not pull it from the rack while running, the hot swap concept is useless.
:duh:
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Maybe they'll learn something.....be it slow or fast......Learning is learning.....Right.....
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I would so look forward to that occurring ...
Case in point
The cable matrix I was given was sadly lacking the important stuff as in port assignments and the details for where the connection between the main site and the back up site which is what I was building, where they to be located.
Sucks that I have a uneasy clue as to where they should be plugged in at on the other side, but we shall see if my guess is right or in left field.
Till then .... not interested ... much
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Maybe they'll learn something.....be it slow or fast......Learning is learning.....Right.....
As I am fond of saying if you find a theory that holds water ... you can use it to hold water.
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How about a small break from the day to day adventures in Federal, County and Commercial radio systems.
Out and about buying more books ... what else would be out and about purchasing :tearlaugh: (2936 :luvbooks: )
And what do I see but the original Godzilla movie "restored" ... so on and so forth, but yes the 1954 version in black and white with original Japanese audio and English subtitles.
I know it might seem odd that I have never seen the original, let alone any of the subsequent ones, but I have not, so tis a first for me to watch it as originally broadcasted.
And yes we are enjoying the watching of it to be honest.
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I really like Gojira. I think it is better story than the American production of Godzilla King of the Monsters which is a reworked version of the original movie.
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Interesting, was not aware of that ... the set I bought does have a version of the 1956 "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" movie included.
So I will get to see both takes :heeheehee:
Going to be a grand time watching movies this evening methinks ....
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Have fun watching your movies.
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Interesting, was not aware of that ... the set I bought does have a version of the 1956 "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" movie included.
So I will get to see both takes :heeheehee:
Going to be a grand time watching movies this evening methinks ....
Saw the Americanization in a theater when it first came out. Had to trick my parents into letting me see it.
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Well, the original is just now finishing up ... next up something resembling supper, followed by the Americanized version.
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:tearlaugh:
Raymond Burr as the lead and what is his character's name :
"Steve Martin"
:tearlaugh:
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Interesting breath weapon he has ...
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Oh wow, I knew nothing of this conversation when it started. But a few nights ago, I stumbled across two Godzilla movies, one a B&W English dubbed Japanese movie I might have seen as a little kid on Sunday morning tv. Freaky. Weird. But cool! Uh yeah I watched them till I fell asleep on one of em.
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Synchronicity! Queue the spooky music!
Good morning, McG! I hope you're well.
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Well, it happened again.
My prediction that they needed more cables to be ran over at the Federal law enforcement communication place.
Dang, I so dislike always being right about such mundane things. Although it does prove one thing, the engineers have no clue as to what they need or how much, since I ran cable based on their original diagram.
Which by the way was a crap diagram, thank goodness I am skilled enough to read between the lines and figure it out sort of on my own .... mainly because I have cabled up set ups like this more then once.
The only bonus to all of this is that I did receive a "High Five" for the work that I had done without any supervision.
And this was from the Federal System project manager. Which I have received one from him previously, so it is quite nice to receive a second one.
The amusing part was although I did not get a "High Five" from the engineer, he did state that he loved the work I had done.
Guess I can do some exemplary cabling when given the time and full details ... :iminnocent:
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Way cool.....A "Pat Yourself On The Back" moment. Feels good every now and then.....doesn't it.... :yesway:
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Yes it does ...
As I have said before a "thank you" does go a long way.
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Now the cranky part, was told you need to go out and raise the receive antenna for the VA hospital.
Today, as in right now.
:rat-atat:
Sure let me see if I have something in the shop to pull this one out of my a**
Damn it, I can ...
I really need to stop doing rubbish like this ...
So me and the other two installers went out there and since we had a game plan prior to even getting there we were able to get this task completed in roughly 4 hours and that is including travel time there and back.
Got to love a roof with the white reflective membrane on it with an outside temp of 95° with no heat index factored into it.
Do I sound cranky, well yes I am ... out of the blue .. it is now important to raise the receive antenna, considering that I found out the other day that due to the Federal ST inability to properly commission the system, it has never work properly from the beginning.
Now I want to know is long will it take to get the ST out there to sweep the line and check the isolation twixt the transmit and receive. Because if it is going to be weeks or months they deserve every bit of my angst :rat-atat:
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Oh, damn I got the material needed to finish up the additional cable needed at the Federal law Comm Center, :sigh:
It so sucks to be me
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Oh, and by the way we have 15 new radios that need to added to the hospital inventory, asset tagged and programmed.
:thud:
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Ka-ching...Kac-hing......Mor' Money....Mor' Money
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One could hope ... yes indeed.
Although yes, I did receive a raise I am not certain yet as to how much it is till I see the next paycheck. You can tell me annual numbers all you want but they mean nothing to mean to me till I see the hourly rate.
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Well Pray they never offer You Salary As all You Get is Screwed! :dispute:
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Anyway had to go back out to the Federal comm center, why as mentioned previously, I predicted that there was not enough cables ran to set the system up.
The funny part, I was told, we need four more cables ran.
:thud: When I got there this morning it turns out that the six I had previously ran were in the wrong rack ... thank goodness we do not do banjo string cabling, which means I was able to re-route them the where they wanted with slack to spare.
Then they wanted another ten cables made, eight within the rack of the new equipment . Plus two more to tie the back up to the core site.
This is starting to resemble one of those career mistakes where I am to good at the (what I consider to be) simple stuff that everybody wants me to do it for their projects.
I really need to get others up to the same level or I will go nowhere.
Case in point I just received another "high five" for the work I did for this install. And yes, we are quite pleased to receive two for this project.
Then again, I heard what the system techs encountered when they went to the other site that was supposed to be installed in the same fashion.
In other words the other crew just racked and stacked the equipment. They did nothing about power cords, grounding or data cabling.
:thud:
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Well Pray they never offer You Salary As all You Get is Screwed! :dispute:
That is what I have heard from many others ... which makes me so suspicious of that pay grade.
Fortunately, I am still hourly
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Cable Management Training or You looking for another teaching job!
Cause You will be trying to teach people who don't care and are just there or the pay check!
The Problem is you got the Order Sickness of someone who needs to do the right thing and wants others to follow too!
This can only be cured with lots of Therapy But mostly with Death of those who do not follow your lead! Called Culling the Dead Wood From your department!
it also for some strange reason gives you long jail terms too O.o
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Tis obvious most don't give a damn .. need to find a solution to that mind set.
.... way more difficult then I thought ...
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Holy freaking goodness ....
Home for a half hour and what do I get but a hailstorm the likes of which I have not seen in decades. Size of golf balls on average and it is coming down still 15 minutes later
:rainy:
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Well, down to a light drizzle now and all of the hail stones have already melted ... man that was crazy there for a long while.
Anyway back to the days events, did a bit of the jiggery - pokery and got the other installers to take care of one project while I wrapped up the one I was working on and with the three of us doing the antenna move at the VA hospital we managed to wrap up three jobs that can all be billed now. :woohoo: :yesway:
Even managed to finish up the cabling needed for the new hospital Trbo system. The good news is that the tech finally got off his back side and got the repeaters programmed and the combiner cans tested and swept. And ye ole senior bench tech has the MedCom equipment programmed and working so I guess that means I can unrack everything and boxed it back up for delivery and installation.
Which oh joy that means I can start on the Trbo and MedCom for the next hospital site in Oviedo ... :thud:
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Holy effing crap ...
I just received a third "high five" for the work done at the Federal Law Communication Canter.
Call me totally floored because, although I do my work not expecting anyone to say thank you, but to get three of them on this project is simply crazy.
The even crazier part is that due to having now received five "high fives" apparently I get some sort of award from Motorola on top of it.
:yesway: :cwave:
Damn seriously did not see this coming one little bit ... I just run with what I know to be proper and if something is suggested that makes sense I incorporate it.
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Congrats make sure they put that in you HR File so you can get promotion points maybe? o.O
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I have done the research and the previous ones are in my HR file ... which means all of the new ones are also in there (yes we did check) ... just have to see what the final outcome will be as I just received the last one a couple of hour ago.
Most crazy to say the least .... am curious as to what form this award is going to take though .... never had a thank you on this level before
:cwave:
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If it is like my old Job We got Ice cream! o.o
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As I said this morning....CONGRATULATIONS my friend....let me know what you get LOL
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Well, we are pleased to say the least mainly because I do not know of any of my other fellow workers that have done the same. Unless they take it for granted and chose to say nothing about ones achievements.
If one does it in such a manner to boast and be overly prideful then that is wrong, in my mind. But if one shares the achievement in a matter of fact manner which is what I hope that I do, so am curious if any other folks have done the same at our shop.
Ah well, doesn't matter a whole lot, I am just pleased that I actually got a "high level thank you"
Now as long as this does not get me stuck in a rut (niche or typecast) as being only good for installing systems.
As I want to do so much more .....
Although I have a feeling that anytime that ICE calls for an upgrade to their system, I am going to be tapped for it regardless, granted so far only I have gotten through the many hoops to being granted an unescorted badge access. Still have one more to go ... :sigh: ....
As long it is just only one customer I guess I could live with that, as mentioned I just don't like the idea of a rut and being know for only one thing.
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Let them know that...... They can't read minds. Right?
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Already did, but that was after I got the fourth one.
Might have to reiterate it now that I received a fifth.
Especially now, since this makes four received in relationship to the same customer.
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Random shots of the sort of things I get into :tearlaugh:
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Boy howdy it just posted them however the heck it wanted, however when you open them they do come out orientated properly.
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O.o Why Your Antenna Higher that the lighting rods?
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Optical illusion, due to the angle that I took the picture.
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Yup on the pictures...there is something in our settings that make our photos look wonky until you open them....then they come out as they should. Been working on that flaw for a while now....can't find what got changed.
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O.o Why Your Antenna Higher that the lighting rods?
The overhang you see is actually tall enough for me to walk under it and I stand 6' so when the rest of the structure is factored in, it is about 15 to 20 feet higher then the top of the antenna.
Optical illusion to say the least I know.
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All right it is quite apparent that I have a severe problem with books ... :luvbooks:
We all know I tend to buy them faster then I can read them and have several that I bought just because they are considered classics.
Probably will get around to reading them eventually just might take a while.
Case in point as to why I think I might have a problem. I managed to get the upstairs bookcases inventoried and due to that all the books, I have bought in the month of July are on my computer desk.
The scary part is the month is not over yet and there are still more on the way.
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I know you enjoy reading all sorts of material, and you ought to take pride in being able to do so!
You have one volume in the stack I recognize as an excellent read, a worthy adventure at the heart of one of his "long segment" series. That is a pile of books in itself, actually. Terry Brooks "Landover" series! A Princess of Landover.
I am no expert on Brooks, but have enjoyed his Shannara series for half my life, and still look for new ones in that series I have missed. I don't want to miss ANY of the 'Crew of Cogline and Allanon' adventures! Druids of Paramour. yep fun stuff. And cannot forget Rumor. Nope, he materializes to remind us he's right THERE! LOL! For me, Shannara from Brooks and Paolini's Inheritance cycle are the core of my "library" of paper books. then there are Deveran Chronicles by Robert Luis Rabello. He is a guy thats a longtime regular in alt.binaries.3d.poser, and he likes illustrating his own books. He's pretty good at both writing and illustrating!
Enjoy tetris'ing your books into your Library!
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Took me a while to find the volume as it was not on the store shelves when first released and I knew naught about it for a long time.
Finally found a copy that was reasonably priced and you know the rest, my only dilemma is going to be do I read it as a stand alone or go back to the first volume and read them in sequence.
Decisions decisions
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When it comes to my fave reading, I do it however I get my greedy mitts on em! Fortunately Brooks books usually can be read in and out of sequence. Then reading an earlier one makes the last read more sensible. But like you I am slowly rebuilding my Brooks books series, Shannara. The branch, Flight of the Jerle Shannara is a GREAT subset, and I have to find all 5 of them again. grrr! KIDS. Sometimes they aren't worth the trouble I think!!!
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Must be one of those things that I instinctively knew would be a problem so never took the final exam :tearlaugh:
Just did a count of the volumes by him in my library, and counting the one in the picture I have a total of 34 volumes by him.
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I'm jealous,
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We are just lucky ... what can I say ....
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Well, believe it or not I have been considering an upgrade to my kitchen as in a complete remodel well, I replaced my tape measure today while out and about and boy was that an eye opener. I so thought my kitchen space was larger .... must be one of those the eye is bigger then ones stomach or some other fable.
Nevertheless measured it and did the math and I actually have barely 70 sq ft total in the area that is allocated for the kitchen.
:thud: :thud: :thud:
Not a whole lot one can do with that amount of space.
:sigh:
I think this is going to be quite challenging to get something a bit more shall we say ... useful and utile for my cooking flow.
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Well, it is so lovely that I have no less then three hospital projects requiring attention.
One is waiting for confirmation that there is A/C in the room with permanent generator power available.
The other site we just finished staging and it has been programmed and tested on all fronts. So it is ready to be installed, if the site was ready for such activities.
Then I had the next one up and staged before I took my extended weekend .. which means it is up to the others to finish the details I can not, has more to due with lack of information then ability.
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Will the Floor Hold up?
Will you need to Reinforce it before you upgrade?
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Fortunately the kitchen is on the first floor and is concrete slab
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Well You might look into maybe removing a wall? o.O 70 Sq feet
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Moving a wall might be a concept although I do have cathedral ceilings in this area, which sort of makes it a challenge. But I do like the idea ...
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Well, ye ole shop manager seems to still think I can pull miracles out of my .... back pocket?
Yeah I dodged my normal verbiage ... not sure why mainly because it seems to never end.
Wanted me to get further along on the school project, seemed to think I had all the material here ... :ummm: ... not ... turns out he was looking at the quote for parts to be ordered. Not the packing slips showing what has been received.
Big difference .... just saying ...
Trust me being able to conjure out of thin air two each 6db gain 800MHz yagis is a wee bit difficult.
The back story though is even more disturbing, when the parts were ordered that item came up as being nonexistent. OK and why was this not addressed at that time to get a comparable item ordered back then ???? I got no answer ... again.
WTF
:sigh: yet, what do I do but, find two of them in my "stash" :sigh:
I so got to stop this nonsense .... at any rate I got Ren and Stimpy to go over there, while I worked on getting another job started for the hospital and then helped senior bench tech sort out a problem with the flight VHF radio for EMS.
So got material up there for the project and oh by the way this project changed from when I did the site walk and I now have to reinvent the wheel on the fly ... :sigh:
I so need to stop pulling rabbits out of thin air ... or whatever the saying is ...
And it turns out the problem with the Flight VHF radio is apparently the base station radio, hopefully it is something we can resolve programming wise once we get into the radio. I have the programming cable but was unable to locate the software on my laptop for the radio.
Then again I was told by ye ole bench tech that since that model of radio is no longer sold or supported the software may not work on a Win 10 system. So will need to investigate that detail.
Fun it is not so much ...
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Part two:
Ye ole design engineer is starting to get to me now.
Oh by the way we are going to be redesigning the DAS installs to start using low PIM connectors. OK and .... I think he was trying to impress me for some reason. Yes, I know what it is and the benefits but were you expecting me to be excited?
Hope not.
I wasn't
Next both him and ye ole knot head project manager (fair hair boy) are wanting to have new receptacles installed in the server room with twist locks instead of straight blade. OK on the surface no big deal till I find out that the new UPS' that were bought require a 30 amp circuit not a 20 which means I have to pull a new line over and reinvent the wheel.
Then I found out that there were two UPS' that were replaced at a customer site that wound back up in our shop.
:ummm: If they were bad to start with why in the hell are you bringing them here there is already to much rubbish in our place.
"Case in point. Last week they went to an office that was being closed and brought back a crap-ton and a half of rubbish that we will never use so why in the hell did it come back here?"
And last but not least ye ole engineer is all excited that he is now in the final stages of getting a 50" TV screen for our planning board to log who is where and schedule jobs out, so now instead of writing it on the whiteboard you will have to log on the computer go to the calendar part of your mail to enter the details of whatever the hell you are doing.
Again I think he thought I would be impressed and gush all over the concept of being able to do it that way.
NOT
I guess it is OK for the office folks and long term planning by that lot.
However, sometimes I am doing things off the cuff and just working it in, like all the work that got done yesterday. I am not going to dig out the computer and log in and waste all that time to record the event.
I could have had it wrote on the white board and be out the door by the time I go through all that nonsense.
Oh why does it bug me, because you know who has to provide a receptacle above ceiling for the computer that is going to drive the board and drop a data line down to it ...
And these project are all prefaced, when you are not doing anything .... the only time I am not doing anything is when I take a day off and the answer is no I am not going there ...
And by the way he thought I was to be impressed about the large screen TV taking place of the whiteboard .... sorry not so very much ... I am not a desk jockey that sits at a desk all day, every day of the week.
Doesn't happen ...
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When my children or colleagues bring me stuff that they think I might like, I ask THEM to take care of the disposal. Usually takes a while before that is repeated.
I suspect a phone app is the next step in the 50" white board adventure. :sure:
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Oh No You will get a Bar-code reader and a set of Bar-codes for Each Job so the accounting Department can Micro manager each job for the Magic CFO who does nothing but tells you why did it take you an hour to get to this pace from that place it is only 100 miles apart! o.o Yep laws of Peter Principle are what I am hearing in the Wind! :sure:
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Was afraid of that
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Yup....Rad is right. They called it TIME MANAGEMENT at our plant.
The guys had to scan a code when they got to work, changed a job, completed a job, went to the bathroom, came back from the bathroom, went to lunch, came back from lunch, went to get the components needed to work on their assigned task, came back when they got the components needed....etc. etc. etc.
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Great, they already have part one in place, they call it "Tigerpaw" I call it "Clubfoot"
Not only do I fill out a regular time card for Motorola to get paid, but I have to do this abomination of Clubfoot detailing the five "w's" of how I spent my time that day.
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We just started something like this last month. I've been trying to get the guys who work for me to do it. I guess I'll find out today how many did as they'll come after me for those who haven't. Ours is web based. Toggl. Unlike J, no one has suggested another name yet although Boggle comes immediately to mind.
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Indeed that does sound like an appropriate name.
I believe our has a license fee associated with it. It is installed locally on each machine and it all goes back to our server which ties into the "Clubfoot" server so perhaps it is also a web based program.
Because there have been issues when the Clubfoot server is down for what ever reason we can not do time entries.
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For the cost of shipping
2 EA DC3000U 3KVA UPS 30 amp twist lock plug
for sale.
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You know they make adapters for those that use normal wall outlets.
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Yes we have a cord cap for that concept, however I have both of my systems on separate circuits like a good electrician.
And regrettably have no use for an UPS of this magnitude.
Which is why they are up for sale.
If not, we will be scrapping them both for batteries and what whatever scrap value we can get for them.
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I would think Asking in the Coffee shop or thelufias might be able to use them I already Have three that are close in operation.
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Sent a PM to Luffie
Wanted to start off and give first chance, in here for the more technically inclined folks.
Just posted in the Coffee Shoppe for the others
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And I thank you both for thinking of me.....but right now I have enough toys to keep me busy. Some not even in operation as of yet....but getting there slowly. One good thing about retirement....time is no issue....well, almost not an issue LOLOL
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Well, ready for today's adventures in radio land ... :tearlaugh:
Working on infrastructure for the helicopter and flight radios today, and oh my goodness, I was able to get the back side working and installed.
In other words the antennas are mounted, cabled and grounded outside. Have the lines inside the IDF (intermediate distribution frame) room, have them ran to the ground bus I installed and terminated to a polyphasor. Have my bus, grounded to the building ground bus. So all is good so far, even have all of the grounds to the equipment.
Now for the fun part, hooked the radio up and surprise we can get the transmit to function correctly but for some reason the receive is kicking up a fuss. All of the lines are connected properly as I can send tones across the receive lines as intended according to the senior bench tech.
Which prompted me to ask it was working at the shop ... right?
I was assured it was but I am sort of skeptical ... I mean reason dictates that if it was working at the shop how could it possibly be not working now ... so irritating as everything else is working properly.
So what changed?
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:ifonly: You forgot that moving anything automatically breaks it! (Used Car Salesman Law)
Could the Receiver side line have a power line running near or next to it?
Also are you using dual antenna one of each or dual modulation?
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The only power out where the antenna is installed at, is outdoor lighting in EMT conduit and the antenna is about ten feet away and ten feet above it.
There was one anomalous reading though now that you mention power and that was when I put a watt meter on it. My meter was being pegged to the max limit of the load (100 w) without the radio being keyed up. This would go away but it came back multiple times.
I did get a proper reading for the radio, but that getting pegged to the max without the radio being keyed up did bother me then and now after your comment it does make me wonder.
It is one antenna only, it is through a mobile base station (XPR5500e) with tone remote adapter using four wire audio.
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O.o Microwave or Air condition heat exchange near anything?
if the setter was reading 100W with no external power You might be getting inductance from an external source like a Cell phone tower that is transmitting outside is setting But you would need to see if the watt spike came at regular times might need more shielding around the line.
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Microwave or air conditioning near the antenna?
No, although in retrospect I do not know positively will have to investigate further. One thing I do know though is that there is carrier DAS equipment in the room with the radio equipment. Although that is not unusual as this has occurred at other sites and I have had no problems.
Although as mentioned there is carrier DAS in the room so their antennas must also be on the roof, although they are no where near mine.
While I was watching the watt meter it followed no real pattern. But it was a persistent and irregular signal.
As for shielding on the line, I use nothing but LDF-4 heliax coaxial to the antennas on the roof. So not certain I need additional shielding.
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Well you might see if Wire Self Inductance Calculator a try to see if it is the wire it self might be doing it.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/tools/wire-self-inductance-calculator/
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Worked it out but not certain that it is the culprit.
I think your previous remarks about another system getting into it makes more sense. Because with carrier DAS up there somewhere close by or it could have something to do with the lighting that is up there, although it should not be on in the daytime. So still puzzled by it.
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It does not sound like Power line interference as that would be Constant and would sweep up and down.
Florescent ballast might be going out near one of the wire traces?
Some Refrigerators will cause this type of stuff but I would thing the Size would be noticeable. A Electric Motor might be a Handicap door near anything?
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I see, the lighting out there could be florescent or maybe they have LED lighting don't know... as said I will have to investigate further. Did not really look that closely.
The other thing about this whole install that annoys me is that I was not involve on the site walk. And then was told on Wednesday of last week it had to be installed before Monday coming up.
Granted it has been in the shop awaiting installation for months but that was when it was going to be installed elsewhere and then they changed their mind and now we have this ehem "issue"
I will say this about the interference, was quite persistent and fairly constant as in it never really completely quit for any appreciable length of time.
There is one handicap door up there but it is a significant distance from the install.
However you have given me food for thought and a path for trouble shooting the problem.
Thank you
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Oh Get a Small Battery Radio and walk the line trace might give you a better idea when it starts to act up.
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The hand held portable associated with the system, or are you talking about something else?
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Just a portable Radio that you can listen too as you walk around to see if there is something in the area that is Producing the interference. Was something one of my guys used to find what was causing our problem.
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I have the portable associated with the system, well the senior tech does, will put that on the list of things to use during trouble shooting.
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Well, the plot thickens, ye ole senior bench tech and myself went back to the site and focused on the Rx audio problem. Brought out his TIM set and went digging and it just gets better.
Still no audio, so swapped out the tone remote adapter. Even though we can get a signal via the TIM set through the box we still can't it via the radio. Checked everything one piece at a time ... even broke out the manly manual :thud:
You know it is puzzling when one resorts to reading the user manual.
Got it down to; there is no choice but the radio. So brought it back to the shop so he can dig deeper into the set up and figure it out.
Now here is the real :rat-atat: it works perfectly fine at the shop. The damn thing passes Rx & Tx audio with no problems or complications.
:whatthe:
Due to all of that fun we never got around to investigating the RF issue mentioned earlier in my thread guess we will sort that out later as in when I get back. I have to go back out to NASA tomorrow ... joy, joy .... all of that because they want me to install a new server in one of the racks out there.
I mean I know they have a service contract with us but seriously a 120 mile round trip for an hour or two worth of work.
My goodness, either they like the work that is provided or they are so constrained by "red tape" that breathing is an issue.
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Sounds like something in the Environment or the wire for some strange reason has come in contact with power of some kind ether through physical contact to magnetized field of some kind or a EM Broadcast Emitter. But Have Fun at NASA I Love all the Guns pointed at you when you go to the wrong Place cause you were sent there to fix someones printer! :ifonly:
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Fortunately I have to be escorted everywhere I go out there so they be pointing the guns at my escort first :tearlaugh:
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The extra details about our trip to NASA, the other person who was supposed to help ... guess what he left behind ... his access badge .
To get into the rooms and buildings we have to get into, we need no less then three different badges :sigh: that is a Federal site for you ... three pounds of extra documentation and access cards.
No wonder it is so over-rated.
Nonetheless since he forgot that extra badge I wound up having to install the server by myself and cable it up and so on and so forth ... granted the only reason I need him is to help set the server in the rails as that is a two man job due to the weight of the thing.
After that ... seriously do I need help to make network cables .. no ... tell me where they go and get the **** out of my way.
For me the fun was the concept of the power cords that were ordered with the servers ... not long enough to enable the separate power supplies to be plugged into two different circuits and allow the servers to be pulled out from the rack fully for service and upgrades.
And ye ole point of contact was trying to lay that on me.
Excuse me you ordered the equipment not me .... not my problem.
:sigh: Someday's that person just tries my patience with capital letters, underlined, italicized and in bright shining lights.
Oh by the way my phone patch is wired properly, however and you know there was going to be a but ... apparently the function has to be enabled in the provisioning manager ... :thud: ... and the person who might have been able to do that just happened to have called in sick today. Scary thought though ... food poisoning ... :whatthe: ... definitely do not wish that event on any person.
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They don't have a lift for putting the server in the rails? :yeow:
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The power cord thing is a pain in the ass We had to Order sets over and over cause no body took measurements! o.O As for putting the server in I used a small step stool and set of Shims to install them. The Most painful was the Customer wanted the battery backup in the top of the Rack case! o.O Had to pull the batteries just to lift it up!
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Sounds like the window filters I use in the MotoTrbo site installs. it is at the top of the rack and takes two people to lift that thing but once it is in there it is easy as the device below it supports it while one bolts it in the rack.
The servers we install are not to bad they are HP DL 380 Gen 9's two RU in height. The rails snap in place no problem it is getting the server to lock in place on both sides at the same time is why one needs that extra set of hands.The back two pins require the server to be tilted and at an angle to get them to line up properly and then after that it just lays right down, have to make certain the other three pins latch, but other then that they are not that hard to install.
Depending on what type of rack I have also makes a difference, I have these in a true four post rack that uses cage nuts, the Chatsworth racks that are all bolt it in place and the dread two post racks, real fun those are even with the adapter kits that allow you to do such silliness.
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Take a peek here:
Vol. 1 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume1/720960882?search_term_id=73220909)
Vol. 2 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume2/720960329?search_term_id=73220909)
Vol. 3 (https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Lindsey-Stirling-Music-Video-DVD-Volume3/720648868?search_term_id=73220909)
Ordered them just now.
:heeheehee: Can't wait to receive them
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Cool beans. I know we can always view them on Youtube....but I want my own copy because like most thing in the world....change will come....and All of youtube will be PAY TO VIEW.....
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Well, it has shipped but apparently there is no tracking until it gets to the States.
Same holds true when I order from Japan, so guess that is the norm.
Moving on it is official :woohoo: I did receive a raise ... doesn't seem like much on a pay check to pay check basis but according to those business math calculators it works out to being a 5.6% increase.
So not complaining
Weird was getting an email from Core Compliance department saying congratulations on your promotion :ummm: I guess going from one pay grade to the next is a promotion.
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Yup...I didn't get a notice either until it's in the states.....
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Very good.
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Moving on to today's adventure putting in a receptacle to be powered by a circuit close by for the abomination of a TV.
Fun part which circuit feeds that receptacle and why is lighting in the same box.
It makes one think that when the building was originally built that there were nothing but apprentices with no supervision on board. Case in point was just finding the circuit that fed the receptacle to begin with as the labeling in the panel box was vague to say the least. Did eventually find it and found the lighting circuit as well, took more then a little while to do so but we did succeed.
Then it was nothing but comments and suggestions from the peanut gallery the entire time of doing the install. When we finally got to hanging the TV what ever rocket scientist designed the wall bracket must have been still hung over, following the original instructions had the thing at about a 15° angle in relation to the wall.
So lots of jiggery pokery to get it to hang level in the vertical plane, horizontal was a piece of cake :tearlaugh:
But at long last it was completed and it is up with the computer mounted on the wall above it, with cabling all over the place :tearlaugh:
Some of the configuration is done as well, so one can actually add events from the calendar app on the phone or from the laptop.
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They really gave me nothing to work with either, the TV is literally flush to the wall so could not hide a damn thing behind it, then ye ole engineering wanted a big ole honking surge arrester plugged into it. And on top of everything else the computer has the damn converter power supply that you have to dress in how?
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So you're saying you didn't bring your Magic Wand into work today?
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If I had done that; with all the back chatter I was getting from everyone, it would have been lost up someones :waveass:
:iminnocent:
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Do you know so of them might like that Magic Wand placement! O.O
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I certainly think some of them would enjoy it entirely too much to say the least.
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Next adventure is on Saturday, I go for the kick off meeting for the new school semester. A new batch of folks with heads full of oatmeal that needs to be squeezed out of them on the topic of structured cabling.
:heeheehee:
Time to renew my evil teacher of the semester certificate. :tearlaugh:
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Well, got back to the hospital site that was giving me interference problems.
After testing it at the shop with no problems whatsoever ... :thud:
We took it back out there and before we connected the radio to the antenna line we put the senior tech watt meter in line with a load on it ... :whatthe: not a single spurious reading.
Hooked up the radio and tested it again ... :whatthe: ... again not a single spurious reading.
Used my watt meter and again nothing ... what the hell is going on ... two days ago had nothing but rubbish induced on the line.
Now, not a damn thing and the system works as intended ... again :whatthe:
My head hurts ...
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Time of Day interference. Something is not on now but was on then. Still be a good Idea to look around before you get a call from them complaining about something.
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Fun times in store for me on Monday, scheduled to go out to the VA hospital and install filters to prevent the oscillation that was present when turning on the DAS previously ... I am a bit skeptical but I shall keep my misgivings to myself until I get further details.
And see that the fix actually did something ... there are to many of these seat of the pants things where it seems we are reinventing the wheel way to often.
Monday should be interesting to say the least.
Tis also the first night of the new semester for the class I teach.
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Time of Day interference. Something is not on now but was on then. Still be a good Idea to look around before you get a call from them complaining about something.
My thoughts exactly .. the odd thing is that it was about the same time of day ... give or take ... so we are totally baffled.
Even mentioned this during the teachers meeting, (they have all been doing electrical longer then me) I attended today and they also scratched their heads as to what was going on ... so got us a real winner here no doubt.
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Weekday Vs Weekend?
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Both times were during the weekday
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Might run a Shielded line if this happens again. o.O
Maybe a Ground loop Isolator?
isolation transformer or Signal isolators?
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I have LDF-4 heliax cable ran to the antennas. Theoretically it is a shielded line
Yes, we know that if you find theory that will hold water you can use it to hold water.
So going to most assuredly keep abreast on how the base station functions and get that warm and fuzzy feeling that all is working properly.
It might be a back up radio but that does not preclude that fact it must be in working order at all times.
So keeping an ear open as to its status.
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Might run a Shielded line if this happens again. o.O
Maybe a Ground loop Isolator?
isolation transformer or Signal isolators?
Nice suggestions I will keep them in writing just in case they be needed.
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Well, time for some more details on the fun and games in the installation world that I dance within ...
Tried to get the other guys out to the one free standing ED to install the antennas on the roof and run the lines inside the building, what do we get though, naught but push back from both the GC and the point of contact for the hospital.
Seriously, and you want to open when ... well, then we need to get on with it then ... the real fun is this ... no freq's yet for the repeaters or site basically. So how are we to bring this on line? Oh and by the way since this site is not in the code plug to begin with, none of your other radios will ever work here until we write a new code plug to include the sites and the freq's assigned.
Just saying.
Imagine this though, just got four new portables and mobiles for the EMS fleet that need to have the new and not yet designed code plug programmed into them.
Oh and let us not forget the original 65 units that will need to be reprogrammed. So they will work at all sites.
:thud:
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Make sure you remind them that restriction to the site will cost them more the longer it takes to get the required stuff done. o.O Maybe you need to have a check list for things that the buy needs to know before bidding on work.
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Tried to wrap up the VA hospital over the last two days in addition to the other fun and games.
Well, we did manage to get the main filters installed and were able to get the main hospital up and operational with out putting the site into oscillation. So achieved that on day one.
Went out again today, to install the rest of the filters and after waiting an interminable length of time for the escort/key assist to show up we got started installing the last of the filters and did accomplish that before the rain came through, remember this is Florida :rainy:
Now all that is left is to optimize the system, which means that yes, I pitched a fit that if you continue to stand these systems up more and more, then more then just you will needed to be capable of commissioning them. So yes, I need to be the one following the steps and pushing the buttons so I can write it down and take care of business.
I am much more then just a wrench turning, cable terminating bottom feeder.
Or is that more then a pretty face ... I get those confused quite often.
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Make sure you remind them that restriction to the site will cost them more the longer it takes to get the required stuff done. o.O Maybe you need to have a check list for things that the buy needs to know before bidding on work.
Yep, throwing that in their collective faces as we scribble ... so love educating these folks.
:ummm: Maybe
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Wow went back out to the VA and boy howdy there must be some really entertaining problems out there went to turn on the other remotes and what the hell happened to the noise floor (at a -50), and why is the signal (at a -40) only 10 dB above it?
Also how can I have a value for the TX and RX power on some remotes and then on others no RX power reading and on some other ones no details at all?
:whatthe:
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Fiber loss from breakage? o.O
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According to ye ole engineer he claim the system is tolerant to a reading that high ... me I am not buying into it. So we shall see what the outcome is next week when we get support to dial in and see what is what .. however we are going to break out my fiber end face cleaner and hit every connector.
Not suspecting any breakage as it is all single mode and that would pitch a fit rapidly. However I can see each of the remotes via its fiber link so I am thinking more of dirt or perhaps a dirty splice.
Which that would suck ... as how to isolate where the problem child is located?
So glad it is my sub that has to finger that part out.
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Oh forgot to mention that two of the fibers have what I consider to be fairly high loss, considering it is single mode.
1.0 dB seriously ... max according to the TIA/EIA is .02 dB
And with the other five runs showing a loss of 0.0 or 0.01
why is there two runs that show a loss of .09 and 1.0
Something is not quite right there in my mind ... despite ye ole engineer saying all is fine
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Now for the "pieces de resistance" the Lindsey Stirling DVD's arrived today, as in all three volumes.
Oh my giddy aunt we are in heaven
Total run time between all three DVD's is right at 5 hours so don't worry as to what happened to me, we are just spending time with a talented young lady ... probably thinking improper thoughts, but what did you expect I am a guy :pervy: after all.
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Micro cracks / dirty are possible with low quality fiber. Who tested the lines and who pulled it might want to look into splice breakage from poor surfacing of physical connection. Possible the equipment itself may not be sealed for a dirty environment and might need to be cleaned and resealed?
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Seconded, I have no idea what fiber they were using to splice with and into the existing, granted it was all fusion spliced but it was not in their scope to provide ye ole fair haired PM, with an OTDR report which is an oversight in my opinion.
I was not the PM so the fair haired boy gets to make all of the mistakes because well, he is the youngster, so yes in my mind, a whole lot of room for errors and for dirt to get into the circuit and make life miserable.
It does still suck that I was the one who took all the parts and spec sheets and collated all the data to determine what splitters went where, for the sub doing the installation and also showed that wrong quantities had been ordered.
One would think that is the PM's job not mine, as my only role was to be for the commissioning of the system. Not managing the install, so I would think it would be the PM's responsibility to check and verify material needed against received.
And considering he never asked or said a word to me prior, (yes ye ole anal me did it on my own because I just have that mind set and experience) unless I can touch it and see it in my received material I take nothing for granted.
This project could have really taken a turn for the worst in ways that are not wholesome to talk about ....
Really need to stop doing rubbish like that unless asked, other folks assuming I am going to catch them when they fall is definitely wearing thin. Granted I did get a raise for the work I do but still methinks I should have ye ole boss outline my actual "scope of duties"
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That is when the fun part of your contract says "Other Duties as Assigned" o.O :ifonly:
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Twas afraid of that ...
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Well, Friday was ever so much fun .... NOT ... had a problem over at the Altamonte site and knew what to do troubleshooting wise so set the boys up with all they would need to do a proper job to find and correct the problem.
So much for that idea ...
Got a phone call two hours later with the one guy giving me some really disturbing numbers off the watt meter, so me and the senior tech decided that we needed to go out there and just to be safe we took a replacement repeater with us as insurance.
Got out there and first thing that was found out was that one they was reading the meter on the wrong scale. "Whew" so nothing major there, slightly relieved.
Now the real fun, checked everything else and after running RDAC on both repeaters, we found that one of them had severe problems with the PA on it, so swapped it out, (thank goodness we brought a spare with us) reprogrammed it to reflect the proper site information, checked its error log and then turned it on and linked it into the site.
So far so good, all is well once more, back in Altamonte. Granted I am low on the food chain and do not get any notifications of problems with sites, as I am not a system tech, thank goodness.
However theoretically all things are working as intended, will find out tomorrow when I go back to work.
First things first, though, on Friday we had to get everything up off the floor in our respective offices, as they were cleaning the carpets and tile floors. Lots of luck with that concept since the tech center is covered with material for multiple projects and since the powers that be decided to pull office crap from a closed office I have no where to put anything .... :sigh:
How boring, I have been here almost eight (8) years and now all of a sudden they decide to clean the carpets and floors ... Really?
Whatever
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Now for a hilarious moment ... printed out a recipe for the ribs that I posted elsewhere on the site.
A simple note pad file ... ye ole engineer decided that was not good enough and had to scan it in, convert it to a .PDF and then tweak it in Word and then print it out to give to the wife.
The amusing part at least to me is that he mentioned it at all to me, as if I was to be impressed.
Seriously .... I should care about that why?
:tearlaugh:
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The things he thinks I should be either impressed or excited about, just baffle me.
Another example, using low PIM connectors going forward on all DAS projects. Yes, it is a good idea but why expect me to be excited by the change?
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Maybe he is just lonely and need someone to Praise him! o.O He might be a bit Autistic? :sure:
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:ummm: Had not considered that, I live alone but that does not make me lonely, and he is married so no clue as to any other variables.
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You have a Cat! You are never Truly Alone! No matter how much you want to Be! :mwah:
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True, however there are no "humans" here and that was what I was referring to ....
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:o_go_on: Sure You are! :likeyou: Keep telling yourself that if it Helps You sleep. :ifonly:
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:thud:
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Well, it certainly got interesting at the VA hospital. Went back to doing some troubleshooting to see if we could determine where the issue is at, :thud: found it sure enough we do ... :thud:
Checked a connector right outside the room where one remote was located. Damn thing could be spun around on the end of the cable no problem, took it apart and lo and behold, the cable cut was to deep, the end was not flared, and the dielectric was not cleaned and compressed. Then to add insult to injury I was able to pull the connector body off the cable with ease. There was even one where the collar that is to grip the center conductor was bent :ummm: just how in the heck do you manage that trick.
:noway: should not be able to do that ... just saying.
By the time we had finished checking random connectors we were at five for five that were bad.
So guess who gets to check and fix all of them, yes the people that installed them .. not me :yesway:
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Went to do a check on one hospital in progress and found out that the conduit needed for the DAS cable was not even ran, yet the ceiling grid is up.
:thud: that should be fun since it is a 2" conduit that is required
Turns out that although the GC got the details, he did not act on it because "he didn't understand what was wanted and it did not come through the proper channels"
Seriously, and you didn't think to ask :ummm:
:sigh:
Educated him and the electrical foreman so they now know what is needed and can get it installed. The other interesting details is where is my rack space located. Took pictures and sent emails out asking to clarify things. All I saw back was an email chain of the hospital staff asking the stupid questions as to who is responsible and do you have a picture of the room.
I sent the pictures I had taken, (surprise, I had thought ahead for a change) but there was no further replies from them ... :sigh:
And they want to open this in Sept. so not seeing that happen ... just saying.
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So they going to send a competence Crew this time?
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They are coming to my shop for remedial training tomorrow
However first things first ... show me what and how you did them, then we can get you up to speed.
I hope ... :sigh:
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You do know the guy who did it just Read the paper that came with the press fit connector right! and was Hired that day from outside Walmart.
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Today we had even more fun, called doing a site walk and PM on the radio system at the Post Office in Lake Mary.
Well, I will say one thing who ever did the install actually knew what the hell they were doing. They got it almost right. Most of my check marks were on the grounding, but I believe that when it was first installed till now the guidelines have changed. So it might have been correct back then but it is no longer correct.
The real fun is that they have Quantars for their radio system, and the site walk was to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century with SLR5700 repeaters.
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You do know the guy who did it just Read the paper that came with the press fit connector right! and was Hired that day from outside Walmart.
Indeed, he watched a you tube video :thud:
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Just think of all that room for Rack mount battery Backups once the Quantars are removed! going from 6u to 1U should give them lots of room for added Cellular / satellite backups!
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Well, we had way to much fun today, first had to convert an Astro 25 code plug to be usable on an APX radio. Simple enough since there is a migration assistant that does all of the fiddly computations.
So when and if the ambulance from the other hospital chain comes back at least we have a code plug for it.
Next bit of fun I have the next Mototrbo site ready for the combiner to be tuned and got the senior tech to tell me what to do as I pushed all the buttons on the service monitor ... at last doing it instead of just watching. I certainly do not learn any other way.
The fun was I had to make up test cables first as there were no NMale to BNC cables laying about the place and I needed two of them, so after I made some test cables first ....
Got all of the cavities on the combiner tuned to the freqs, for the system and yee haw that means I can now disassemble that site and box it up for delivery.
The bad news is that I can start another site as there is two more in the wings awaiting "staging"
:sigh:
And the final bit of :puah: is that the people at one of the sites scheduled to be stood up next called and wanted to know what is the hold up at that site.
OK, I am not the PM for any of these projects technically, even though I have been telling the PM what needs to be considered and in what order ... however I told the person what was holding us up. Then I called ye ole fair haired PM and said "yo, you have a fire to put out"
So at end of day he was having ever so much fun, granted this is the guy that goes home shortly after lunch. Why, oh yes, that is right I have four kids and have to help momma with the school pick up and so forth, I still wonder if they know what activities caused children to show up.
Nonetheless apparently he still works from home but that doesn't make me any happier in the long run. Then again everyone else calls him because a site is not working and not me, so that is a win.
Although I am getting tired of being the knuckle dragging, nut and bolt turning Neanderthal and want to start doing more of the technical. Which is why I got guidance from ye ole senior bench tech to help me tune the combiner.
Nevertheless there are several things, that the fair haired boy forgot to take into consideration and get handled prior to today. Will not go into detail as there are several points that were overlooked on his part.
He is the PM and it is on his list of things to do, not mine.
Just saying.
So it should be ever so much fun on Monday because the hospital want to turn the DAS on and get a TCO and until they provide us with the list of items I told then that were required there is naught I can do to make it happen. The fun part is that next week not only I am attending a class, but so is the PM and the engineer for the shop and none of us will be available to commission the DAS when we get a antenna on it.
:tearlaugh:
What can I say, I have mentioned to him that there are many other things to be concerned with on these projects and you need to get over your obsession with getting a server working for what ever the f*** it is you are trying to do with the thing.
It is getting in the way of you managing the projects that you are responsible for, and just because I know how to do things of this nature does not mean I am just going to jump in and help especially when I have not been formally asked or tasked.
Assuming I am going to bail you out just because I am there is three levels of arrogance that I do not stomach well at all.
Especially as I mentioned before with his obsession with an unrelated project and this always going home early because of family issues.
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See if your Company will spring for one of these.
ConnectoRF RF Connector WIFI Universal Adapter Kit 30pcs
I See The Tracking Program was made for Your PM's who can't do their job.
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I actually have one of those kits in my tool set, that the company bought. The other techs have one as well, they actually have the one pictured in your link.
Didn't occur to me to use them, beside I now have two more test cables for in the future.
My kit is a bit different as it has a couple other pieces that other guys don't have in theirs.
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Oh by the way the one detail that will not allow that to be turned on has nothing to do with cobbling it together ... permitting is the word I am avoiding ... permitting .... county and FCC.
Which although mentioned before has not even been addressed.
Like I said previously he needs to get over this server obsession of his and concentrate on the jobs at hand and in my opinion since he seems to have difficulty remembering things he needs to start making a list of line items that need attention per job so he can better track what needs to be done next.
Not everyone can track multiple jobs in their head and know where they stand and what needs to be done next, not that I am a pro at that concept but I seem to be slightly better at it then him :iminnocent:
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Day one of the three day boot camp for the DAS renewal certification ......... My head hurts and not in a good way.
I sort of understand the math a little better but until I can work out some mnemonic devices to remember them I am still going to be struggling.
Managed to push buttons today in the GUI so that was a real help, granted I am just following along in the manual, but that is certainly what I would be doing in the field as the odds of anyone remembering all the steps is slim too none if you do not do this each and every day and the amount of time I get to do this is so limited I will probably need the training wheels for some little time to come to say the least.
The biggest hurdle in my mind for me is the fact that I do the installation of the system and have little too no face time, commissioning the system so it frustrates me to no end trying to follow along with all these others that do nothing but that, and saying oh here let me show you ... :noway: that does me no good, tell me what buttons to push, do not show me as I do not learn in that manner. I have to do the touchy-feely to even begin to grasp what needs to be done.
Just saying .....
Today was downlink or TX; tomorrow it will be uplink or RX :sigh:
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Are We Talking Distributed Antenna System or Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Construction Contractor Prequalification Program?
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As for the Gui Problem can you screen shot or take a picture then make a gui book say if you hit this you go here. or if you see this screen you are here? o.O
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Are We Talking Distributed Antenna System or Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Construction Contractor Prequalification Program?
Distributed Antenna System
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As for the Gui Problem can you screen shot or take a picture then make a gui book say if you hit this you go here. or if you see this screen you are here? o.O
Yes, we can and I have started a version in long hand, and have seen bits of it on line in the support portion of the web site. Just need to as you say turn it into a reference book and add in what they don't show.
And delete what has no bearing on what I do, as I do public safety only and no carrier DAS at all.
That is where most of my confusion comes in ... why not certain, it should be simple to enough to reconcile that regardless of the freq, I have this many remotes on this many different freqs how much attenuation do I need to get a value the head end likes ...
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Oh my :sadder:
the boot camp is nothing but way to fast and highly abbreviated overview ... in my opinion ... of their product line.
The part that still rubs me raw is that I have to take this class and pass a test when the bulk of the class deals with carrier DAS and I do not and will never do anything else but Public Safety.
So very frustrating ... enough to make me get "bitchy" ... granted there are days where that is not anything new ... however this is one of those days ... where it is a given.
Personally I feel this class should be more then three days as there is a lot they gloss over as they must think that all are integrator's and set up people. I am only a knuckle dragging installer and do none of the math that is needed to commission a system and as mentioned they are more concerned with carrier DAS in other words you being able to use your cell phone in a building.
I do public safety and could care less about carrier as that is not our companies focus.
The only thing I will say is thank goodness that for the exam we were allowed to use all of the resources to take it, so the four of us from Motorola went back to the shop and worked on it together.
I will not go into detail as to how frustrated and upset I was with the test and the inability on my part to be able to figure out the "math" questions.
Although, I will say this I found out that I am still thinking in "real number terms" instead of "linear terms".
Nonetheless, we all worked together and after the others finished, I still had another 10 to go, although I had six of them answered but hoped for a sanity check to confirm before I committed my answer.
Well, we got the support from the others. Now they did not just give me any answers they just showed me how to arrive at an answer, and surprise my answer was among the ones offered.
Bottom line ... yes I passed ... but man oh man I was within 1.32 inches of breaking out in tears due to the stress and relief of passing the exam.
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Hope you have Monday off.....I'm thinking you'd be blown off any high place you were at.... :blownaway:
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Yes, we do have Labor day off from the the day job and the teaching job.
And it gets even better, we are intending to take two days off as PTO, considering I have over 100 hours off .... pending ....
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Gives you time to clean up the mess made but Dorian...... :yesway:
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And Now For Entertainment.....
Something SUPER DIFFERENT from Lindsey Sterling....Love the Music........
https://youtu.be/mK5Jb1vgrgw
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Now for something totally different just got notified that due to that summer storm coming over the weekend that they are closing the shop not only on Monday but Tuesday and Wednesday as well, which ties in with me taking off Thursday and Friday as PTO so after the counting is done that will be nine days in a row :thud:
:whatthe: I will not know how to act to say the least
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Be Prepared for Getting Called in for Emergency Damage Control.
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Technically not high enough up on the food chain, but I am not holding my breath
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Well, after four days still waiting for the rain and wind. Still not here :sigh: supposedly it will get serious this afternoon, so going on the wait and see mode.
Nonetheless school for Orange county says it will still be closed on Wednesday. The day job says it is closed today but tomorrow is still open for debate dependent on how it behaves.
And with clear skies at the moment and the ground being dry after the morning drizzle, might have to go in to work tomorrow although to go in for just one day the odds of getting anything useful done is sort of slim ... maybe I could work from home and continue to modify the code plugs for the EMS department to add the new sites coming on line.
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Wow how crazy stupid is this our lovely smart-aleck IT department decides to send out a "phishing test" during the hurricane.
Seriously do you morons have nothing better to do but waste my time?
First off since it was titled IT Help desk and I have never interacted with our IT department to start with, receiving an email saying you have reached the IT Help desk was my first clue, that it was crap.
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Well, the class for school is officially cancelled :sigh: and me without a drop of water or fresh puff of wind.
Got to be kidding me
Still no reply from the day job so don't know if we are to show up or not as it was a wait and see message as of yesterday.
Just sent an email to regional manager so we shall see if I get a reply or not.
Oh joy he will not be making a decision till 7:00 AM as to whether or not the shop will be opened.
:sigh:
All I have to say is based on today's actions it will most likely be business as usual ... whatever
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Heard a little rain last night that had promise, as in this must be from the storm.
Promptly fizzled out, heard some this morning and it to promptly fizzled out also,
Thinking I called it as far its strength when it got to me "summer squall with delusions of grandeur"
Not taking away from those who got hit by the full strength and lost everything, I am only referencing its strength by the time it got to my neck of the woods.
Besides as mentioned I have been in Fl for over 60 years and have hunkered down through all storms that have crossed our path, so yes we are prepared, but by the same token after 60 years I am a touch immune to the media hype and fear that seems to be generated by each new storm.
Should not be saying this next bit .... ah what the hell .. had a girlfriend at one time that was recently came down from Canada, came home from work one night while it was raining and couldn't find her anywhere in the mobile home (remember I have lived in them for over 30 years) turns out she was in the addition I had built on to the place, hiding under my computer desk.
:thud:
Guess they don't get much rain up there .... yeah it was a heavy rain storm with lightning but nothing (in my mind) to get that terrified to make one hide.
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Tis most annoying, the shop was to be open today.
The catch "will be open at 10:00 am"
Really, the day is half over to me by then, so what happened. I went to work at the normal time. What did I see when I got there, well initially no one but me. Five minutes later the senior bench tech shows up, first words out of his mouth, "Well, I see that only us old farts showed up at the normal time."
Indeed, and within another ten minutes the other old fart, the engineer, shows up.
No one else showed up till 10:00 as instructed in the email. :tearlaugh:
Twas mist amusing today in a multitude of ways though, the special delivery of batteries and charger that the office lady was supposed to get on Saturday never showed up till Sunday night ... as in 9:00 pm ... when I walked in this morn, all I saw was 86 each batteries of one type, instead of 100 and none of the other type (another 100) plus no chargers for either type of battery.
:thud:
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The other half of the day was that we got a call asking what is the status of a project, went to investigate and how amusing ... none of the customer responsibilities were completed.
Imagine that , maybe that is why it is still not ready to turn on ... :sigh:
Once I got back from that excursion I began to start staging the next rack of hospital equipment. Got both the Trbo and the MedCom gear racked and stacked. No power, grounds, or data lines made, well except for the one that is the interface between the repeater and the RGU (radio gateway unit).
Other then that tried to take it easy, got asked the traditional three dozen questions about jobs, material received and so forth that for some reason I am always the one asked .... sucks that I am so anal obsessive about material received.
Second case in point, last hour of the day before I was going to tip out, received more material for the other hospital chain. Turned out to be two desk top remotes that we have been waiting on to finish that project. Still waiting on the radio though that the remote connects to ... :thud:
So close and yet so far :tearlaugh:
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You know Things that Work together never get shipped together is a Law some place or Other. :o_go_on:
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It is being proved each and every day with how equipment is received at the shop.
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I am going to be tasked to go on a cruise ship to replace an antediluvian system and drag them into the 21st century.
Yee haw, not really I got sea sick the last time I was in a boat, granted it was a 16' Hobie Cat in six feet waves, kind of an incompatible situation.
The fly in the ointment is that it would be in ones interest to have a passport, mine is expired, to make things simpler. Technically I don't need one as it is just one of those weekend vacation cruise things. And if I never go off the boat I need only a birth certificate, however mine is a British one and I am tired of dragging that out for rubbish like this, background checks and so on ....
The reason I even bring this up is that trying to use the company credit card to pay for it, was a new can of worms.
Why, apparently the way that my company has clerk of the court charges classified they consider any transaction as one trying to pay alimony ... :thud: ... how entertaining so I had to pay for the renewal out of pocket, granted I will get reimbursed but it was so annoying to have to give up the money up front.
Because as one knows passports are not cheap, if I had thought about it I could have kept the cost down and renewed it before it expired back in the day. :sigh: whatever
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The real fun occurred later this afternoon, I am off till Monday and I get a call asking about a site walk that I was to have done.
:sigh: Right, never mentioned to me and it is not on the scheduling board so how was I to know?
Turns out it was a verbal twixt the shop manager and the sale rep only ... :thud:
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"I'm sorry, shop manager. My mind reading isn't working today."
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:thumb_up: too right
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Too add insult to injury said shop manager is still on PTO until the 16th, he is in Scotland :sigh:
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I play hell just getting two days in a row and he takes three weeks :thud:
Oh BTW the shop engineer will be taking 2 weeks off (to Germany) starting when the shop manager gets back
:thud:
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:ifonly: Well you can look at it this Way You are Too Valuable to the Company to not have around while they are so useless they can be gone and never missed! :likeyou:
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That is certainly puts a positive spin on it does it not ....
thank you for the perspective
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Well, took my two days off and when I came back .... "mein Gott in Himmel"
I swear take two days off and the "SHTF" scenario is putting things mildly, good grief
All I got to say about today though besides it is Friday the 13th with a full moon is unprintable but the short version is :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
Followed by
:rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
and the fact that I did not get home until 7:00 PM should explain my lack of a personable attitude
Seems to be related to the concept of someones alligator mouth overloading their canary asshole and promising that which they could not deliver.
Why?
Because I am the one along with my installers that has to deliver on their promises.
And if ye ole fair haired project manager has no clue as to how to schedule things because one can not be in three places at once. Plus, when the promised pre-work by others is incomplete excuse me but: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
at any rate as you can tell I am still ... peeved ... so am looking for my security blankie :sake: :sake: :sake: :sake: :sake: :sake: ...now where is it at
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It Happens! But To be fair I Do not think Your Management Staff can tie their Shoes much less know what the Time Requirements are to actually do the work.
Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again?
Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But ye don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ye in two.
Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Kirk: [over the intercom] Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
:likeyou:
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Truer words have not yet been spoken ... written ... oh you know what I mean
I also blame the customer thinking that they are the only one, I have to be concerned with so that in their heads when they say jump we are to ask how high.
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Oh by the way the install was completed and operational for their precious MedCom (yep that was sarcasm) by end of day, as in 5:30 pm
The drive back home from Lake Mary to Winter Garden was the part that really sucked .. two accidents and numerous slow downs on the way home put a real "spin" on my mood.
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that is OK Friday night High school Football Repairing a Score Board till 11pm last night. Never Volunteer cause you know a thing or two about electronics! o.o
Water resistant Connectors are not made of Electrical tape!
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Good Grief seriously only electrical tape :thud: some people should not be allowed to touch anything or own any tools let alone use them
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The Jury rigged Fix from last season was! :noway:
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:thud: Dude I feel your pain ... we both seem to run into and have to fix "Darwin recipients" attempts at repairs, installs an so forth ...
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Well, all I can say is that I am 17,256 kinds of :rat-atat: pissed off
This morning started off with a lovely drive up to Flagler county. Was supposed to install the GPS antennas, however it was so much fun when we arrived.
Why, because one, they did not know we were going to show up and two, they had physicals for staff scheduled today.
Seriously ... once more ... getting jerked around by these "insert adjectives of thy choice" ..... frelling morons ...
So what was accomplished ... worked it backwards from the comm room and pulled the lines from there out to the room where we were supposed to drill our entry hole and left it coiled above ceiling.
After that it went to hell ... in a hand basket ... the bed-slide in the truck decided to go belly up. Yes, in other words it is no longer working as intended. The release handle to move it in and out and lock it in place is not functioning.
:sigh:
Just what we need.
Why, because in the middle of taking care of the county system, got the phone call "oh you need to grab the roto-hammer and come back to the hospital in Waterford" we have issues for them to get their C.O. Now the battery back up rubbish is rearing its ugly head in "spades" very little I can say on the topic except I am not liking the crap that is being bandied about by these "spoiled brats" ... there is more but I am going to stop now ... as in I have been warning them for months about the loose ends that were apparent to me that I saw as biting us in the ass.
But, heaven forbid one should listen to ....
However ... comma .... the lovely IT people screwed up the port assignment for the MedCom so of course it did not work and after some trouble shooting and phone calls .. we did we eventually find out why.
One, the ports out to the MedCom stations had no patch cords going to them at all ... :duh: wow .... connectivity is achieved how?????
Second, the patch cords that they had provided were going to the wrong switch.
Or in other words their IT person never cabled up the connection to the remotes for the radio system.
:rat-atat: x 10^17256 power
Oh and let us not forget that the NASA badges need to be renewed before months end along with the hospital credentials :tearlaugh:
Jack legs each and every one of them, is the only polite words I have because yes there is more but I will refrain for a few hours before I try to vent on that topic.
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Stuff like this can get you to Drinking Fast!
it still sounds like your upper management :likeyou: can not do its job still with all the heavy lifting for the so called management software is great if the Management could find their ass with both hands might help.
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:sake: by the delivery truck after this week of :soapy: events
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Well, "why am I in this hand basket?" was certainly today's word or is that phrase of the day.
Did all the rush rush rubbish to satisfy the disgruntled Inspectors and what did we get at the last minute.
Oh it is being cancelled and there is no one else that can come out. The earliest I can make it out will be Tuesday of next week at 8:00 AM
:whatthe: ever loving frell sort of crap is that ...
Have been jumping through their damnable hoops since I came back from the two days of PTO on the 9th. Now this ...
My other guys went over to the other site that they are trying to open up hot on the heels of this one, because oh my God you have to get it ready for TCO and AHCA inspections ... jacklegs.
Anyway let us see how well that worked out, the roof is not completed with the felt so we cannot install antennas, there is no bushing on the weather head pipe so we cannot terminate our cable to the polyphasors.
Sweet, and since I was last out there on the 26th of August and took pictures, they were not installed then and now on the 20th of September they are still not installed ...
They did get cable pulled up to the roof for all six antennas, couldn't go any further with it though, and to insult to injury they were fighting on and off rain the entire time while they were there ... :thud:
Amazing ...
Next up there was a change in how the conduit for the DAS line was to be piped and guess what it was never communicated to the electricians at this site. So not done at all ... :sigh:
One trunk line is complete so they were able to run part of the lines, however the electrician will not be running the other line until after their above ceiling inspection.
Well, I understand that you should not be doing work above the ceiling especially if you are asking for an inspection. But for the hospital PM not to relay the change order to the GC and electricians at the site smacks of carelessness on their part. Which means I don't give a damn about their precious schedule, if the hospital PM is not going to do his job why should I care ... well, probably because I just care about doing the best job I can despite the obstacles.
Still doesn't mean I like it or will not "think out loud" at inappropriate times.
And trust me getting the damn battery cabinet up on the shelf the GC put in for us and then getting the batteries in the box made me run through more then one of my favorite set of "ehem" sentences.
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The Key Word is After Action Report!
this Covers your Ass and Lets the Customer/ Boss Know in Writing things that must be done before work can continue. This might be something that Your Big Boss Needs to start implementing or the Jobs will not get done.
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I do take that path on a regular basis now if I could only get them to heed my reports.
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Well There is always the old Staple gun and post it note to the forehead option! :ifonly:
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:heeheehee: Oh my goodness I so like that option ... probably the only way to get their attention ... just saying.
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Well, been going over in my head the list of things that require attention tomorrow and sorting them out in order of importance ... methinks I should stir the pot and take a couple more of my PTO days off to drive my point home.
Considering that I am still over 100 hours and the fact that one can only roll over 40 hours by end of year I think they are going to get a little taste of something ... the thing that is really annoying is that this has happened each year for the last five. Too much work going on that apparently only I can sort out (seriously, why am I the only one that can keep track of projects) I hope that is not the case.
The upcoming week should be interesting to say to the least ... because I am going to be the one to say I want PTO next week.
That should make life interesting to say the least. :tearlaugh:
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I Lost 6 weeks of Comp time when my Department was outsourced! :sure:
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Six weeks ... that sucks with capital letters good sir.
Which is why I am on top of mine I refuse to give a single day of it up.
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Oh I Found out the Day I was coming back from a Job and was Watching the Servers being moved into the back of a U haul Truck and watching my Department Load Boxes into the Back of Their cars and was told to go to Personnel and Get my Severance pay and that the company got bought While I was out on a Job on a Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. :sure:
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Damn that is a right proper :rat-atat: sequence of events and worthy of many other words of discontent to say the least.
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Oh Did I Tell You the old Boss Embezzled the Retirement Fund and left the country with his Hot Young Secretary? o.O
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Well, now the :rat-atat: level just went up by a factor of 100 or is that a 1000
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Well to make things More interesting What little money We had went Got invested in a Little company Called Enron. I think You know what happen with that Money So I Became a Local Camera Guy at the City owned Cable Channel. Tada! :likeyou:
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Definitely is a definition of "What the fuck" I am certain I am not familiar with ... Lord knows, I am cognizant of several versions .. just not certain which one is appropriate ...
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Anyway Use Your Time off Have Fun Because you can not Save Time in a Bottle No matter how much They Claim You can! Go get a Tan in all those places The Sun does not get to see all the time! :mwah:
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Seconded, time for some :waveass:
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Well, have a loose plan laid out for the day let us see how well that works for me.
:tearlaugh:
Got several questions about some parts as well, that seem to be unaccounted for, this ought to make the day very entertaining.
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At Lest they have not implemented bar-code everything yet! Each part had to have one tiny bins with screws or Nuts washers etc.. take one scan it out o.o oh man that was a pain in the ass. :sure:
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Indeed that would be annoying quite rapidly. However my problem revolves around the fact that they were never ordered to begin with, how droll.
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Damn one of those days that I am glad that it is over. The four of us from the shop spent our day up on the roof of the hospital replacing lines damaged by careless, thoughtless, :rat-atat: individuals.
Stinking :soapy: times 10^17,256
Why, am I so cranky, simple got up there and the temporary line I had placed in to tie us over for the damn TCO and until I got all of the hardware, was trashed as in capital letters and bright shining lights.
It is so frelling irritating ... at any rate from loading up and returning back to the shop call that an entire day spent getting the three lines replaced, protected, terminated on the roof and in the comm room, grounded and all those other pesky details that I take into consideration when doing an install.
At least it is completed and on the morrow I do not have to work on the roof sweating "body parts off" still have more work to do to get the DAS completed and then it is time to commission the system with the added remotes. Then at some point if they ever get all of the dust cleaned off all the equipment I might even turn on the Trbo and swing that over to the upgraded system.
Found out to that radios I had previously programmed for Orlando actually needed to be programmed for Waterford, guess those are going to make a return trip to me for "tweakage" inaccurate information results in doing it over :iminnocent:
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Do you Take pictures So your Company can get their money from the Idiots who destroyed your Equipment. o.O
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Always
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Before and after pics
Yes that is me standing on top of the cover.
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A couple more shots of the same
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Now for tomorrows fun, yes time to renew that silly badge for ye ole NASA ... 120 miles of solid windshield time coming up :tearlaugh:
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Ah the Joy? No thanks Did that for a few years too much work and equipment loss for it to be profitable. Depending on how classified a system is depends on if you get anything back that you took to the site! O.O Laptops included!
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Fortunately nothing that classified for me. I just install the new P25 equipment and cable it up. The system techs and Federal ST get that level of fun that you are describing.
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Well, after a lovely 145 mile (total) round trip for the day to renew my badges for NASA I am home.
Had some interesting rubbish thrown into the mix on the way back from the badge renewal, stopped by the new ER for ye ole hospital chain as there was a problem with the transmit power, had the TDR with us and had an odd reading on it, then put a watt meter in line and started breaking it down to try tracking down where the problem was located.
First clue that something major was wrong was that the tape pattern on the roof did not match what was in the comm room. Mind you this was after we pulled open what was the transmit (so we thought) to check the power and it was still nasty.
Well, that is when we started to compare tape on the antennas to the lines inside the room.
Yep not so very much on the matching of the tape.
Opened up the weather head and then started pulling lines to identify them, and guess what ... if you guessed that there was a mismatch on several of the lines
'ding, ding, ding ...'
You are absolutely right
As in five out of six were mismatched.
:thud:
Made a phone call to my installer and said you get to go on a shopping trip ... and you need to pick up marking tape as in six different colors and a minimum of three rolls each so the pair of you have a roll and we have one in reserve.
Then explained to him what had happen and how to make certain that this does not happen ever again.
:thud:
I am sorry that I am just three kinds of CDO when it comes to documentation and yes that includes when I pull in multiple runs of any type of cable or wire .... and this was really a serious wake up call that not every one thinks the same way as I do when it comes to a methodical and accurate install.
Must be due to the fact I have pulled in a large quantity of cables in the past on a regular basis, apparently the other guys are used to only doing one or two at the most, which explains why for me proper identification is second nature.
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So when are they going to move you up the chain to Management? :likeyou:
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I think they are doing that in the most of round about of ways possible.
Lord knows there is a decided need for a bit more ... okay a lot more ... accountability and management of the loose ends on the last couple of jobs.
The sad part is that in my mind it could have been prevented .... but why would any one listen to someone that has worked on and ran low voltage commercial projects ...
The only thing in my mind if they want me to do that with all projects on deck and coming up then I certainly do not have the time to go out and do the install at the same time.
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May Have to Run a in Shop Certification class for the Sub contractors / installers Just to say this is what We Require when we hire you! :ifonly:
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:heeheehee: Indeed I so see a need for that as in ... insert your favorite time frame ...
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Well if You are Board You could write up a proposal and show the cost benefits of doing the work the right way the first time vs having to fix other peoples :sure:
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Bored I am not, got more then enough to be "working on" such as updating code plugs for five different models of radio so EMS, the ambulances can talk on the system at the new sites.
:thud:
Heaven forbid that others should do things right the first time ... especially when they can do it over.
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Just remembered the other fun fact about the install. All the antennas are on the roof, all the antennas have coax going to them and have been terminated and weatherproofed.
So what would be the most important thing left to do ....
"grounding" of course;
Hard to ground the array when they don't even have a halo on the roof at all.
However these are the people that say you must get it done and have it installed now.
... all righty then ...
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Well then you make take a giant 1 inch copper line and you attach it and run it down the outside of the building and dig a deep trench around the building and lay the cable in it pour cement on top of it and say that will be 100,000 dollars! :ifonly:
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We so like that idea :heeheehee:
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Well, the rest of Friday's adventure were even more entertaining.
Why? let us count the ways, first got there early and emptied the truck so I could get the bed slide fixed. Then it went downhill from there found out after I was done and was going to turn the laptop on that I had neglected to bring it with me. :thud: Seriously ...
Well, got that sorted out and got back to taking care of business.
Next problem, or entertaining event. Got ye ole project manager (fair haired genius boy) acting like one of his kids. In other words does not put material back where he got it from, nor does he know how to throw his trash away.
Which I did not find this out until I got back from the shop to repair the bed slide, which was a complete bust as they could not do so, we need to order parts to repair it.
:thud: What you do not keep parts in stock for them? Not for the older models ...
:sigh:
Now I have to wait on them to order, get them in and then I can get the repair completed. Hopefully ...
Ever so much fun as in not one tiny bit.
Well, got back to the shop early and began to go over the code plug for the EMS radios, managed to get one done on my own. Only had one error in it, the call ID for the new ambulances need to match the radio ID.
:yippee:
The downside was that means I have to go back to the template I modified for the portables and make that change in the contact list and program them all over again.
Just got a call for the truck yes, they can get the parts :yippee: the only problem is now I have to go there and give them a deposit. And no I do not give out credit card information over the phone. Been burnt before not going there especially with a company card.
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Wow just went out to the newly installed site that I had staged at the shop in respects to it looking presentable and orderly.
I have no idea what my installers did but all I will say I would not sign my name on that install.
:puah:
How in the heck did it get so :soapy: up ... I have no idea ...
The real deal is now I and two others are to go out there tomorrow and make it operational.
Seriously
Well, all we are going to say is wish me luck :pweez:
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Best of luck!
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Some additional entertainment
New trucks were added, :ummm: that means the code plug needs to be modified to add the new trucks, plus the new sites need to be added in so the radios will work out there as well, sound like fun yet?
Yes, it was a rhetorical question.
The real fun was after I got all the existing model radios updated for all the new details, what do I find when they start bringing all the ambulances to the shop for programming ... yep three that were not on the system from the get go, (not sure how they managed that) plus another three that had the wrong ID's in them, and they wonder why they have such "odd" behavior on their radios.
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Best of luck!
Thanks dude ... it is appreciated.
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The plus side to all of this is that I did learn how to modify the code plugs for changes of this nature and I did get it right for all of the models of radios in use today.
Granted having to add two new vehicles after the fact just means that if they want to have them identify themselves properly I will have to touch them again.
However I did learn that they are going to be adding more radios to the system over the next couple of months, which just means that when they come back for those radios, the others assigned to the unit will get updated then, so no real problem
Sort of, kind of, maybe
:pweez:
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I Did Mention that You might want to have a Company Certification for your Sub contractors to Work for You. :likeyou:
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The only problem is that they are not sub contractors, they are fellow employees ... :thud:
Guess we have to have a "serious chat" with them
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I think that falls into a Training Class or a Boot to the Door. :ifonly:
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We have also scheduled two days off next week .. I wonder how much documentation, for openers is going to be overlooked.
:thud:
Should be intriguing ...
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I think that falls into a Training Class or a Boot to the Door. :ifonly:
Seconded, granted they do mobile installs to the degree of it looks like it came from the factory.
Infrastructure is not their strong point .. however I am trying to drag them kicking and screaming to be capable of that also;
... and it needs work is the polite thing to say about it at the moment.
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I think that falls into a Training Class or a Boot to the Door. :ifonly:
Or perhaps a Boot to the Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo)
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As My Instructor would say if they do one thing good and another thing bad they do not wish to work here any more. :likeyou:
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Oh so hilarious, been a while since I have seen that .... :tearlaugh:
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As My Instructor would say if they do one thing good and another thing bad they do not wish to work here any more. :likeyou:
Or according to the one of two "I don't get paid enough to be that proactive"
Well, if you do not put forth any effort now, what makes you think I will pay you more so that you will take some initiative?
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Well There is Always the Retired in Place People "I Am Happy To just do this and I Do not want to do anything Else." :sure:
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Most likely that is their mind set .... which just means to me quit complaining about your pay scale
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Well, we have had a two day stint of nothing but :rat-atat: at the next FSED (free standing ED)
First up had to install another one of those abomination of a battery box on the wall above the cable tray. :sigh:
Man, that rubbish just has me concerned as that is a lot of weight in the air above the cable tray about eight (8' AFF) feel mostly confident about how it is secured to the wall, I just do not like anything that heavy that high above the floor especially when it weighs enough to kill if it hit you or at the very least maim you.
Moving on, I am every so ready to smack the installer that put the site together, "mein gott in himmel" talk about an install that makes my eyes hurt.
I had it looking correct and proper at the shop and yet when they got done with it and I saw it this week, I came unglued. I would not sign my name off on that level of work. EVER ... NEVER
The real icing on the cake is with two conduits up to the roof what in the hell possessed them to send all six cables up one pipe only and then have the ugly crossing over and around each other rubbish going on ... yes quite disgusted with that and decided to check that all cables were going to the right resource and routed them in a more orderly fashion instead.
Got to checking the system out and right out of the boat the loads are getting toasty hot, WTF .... after checking and poking about find that the combiners were no longer tuned properly :whatthe: how did that happen, inquiring minds want to know.
Now to really get ones dander up what the hell did they use as a wrench to tighten the connectors on the cables and then on to the correct ports ... their fingers, I think since we were able to spin them literally with our fingers that I might be on to something.
Most annoying, along with several things but I shall stop ranting for the moment
Went back out there today with ye ole bench tech and fair haired genius project manager, to set up the MedCom we hoped. Yes, I said hope, I have yet to see a MedCom configure go correctly the first time ever. It makes no sense why that is to me either. But, each and every time it is like pulling teeth with no anesthesia ....
Twas no exception this time either ...
First level fun gather MAC address for all devices and soft ID numbers from the desk top remotes. Give them to the hospital IT guy and tell him we need a total of seven ports to connect all of our equipment up.
He gives us only six at first :thud: had to wait for several hours before we got the last one, not really an issue to me since I still had to make all of the cables to plug everything in, eight in the comm room and another three at the nurse'e station.
So at first they were waiting on me to get the cables made up, but when I was done, we still had not got the last port and IP assignment.
Then the real fun began as the config was giving him problems on one of the three resources that we have to set up.
Well, he hacked on it until he realized that he was making no progress so called it a day. In other words was at the point of not being able to see the forest because of the trees.
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:likeyou: Here :sake:
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Thank you we shall definitely enjoy every drop.
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We better give him another one Rad..... JIC :sake:
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I truly, truly feel your pain. Where as you are dealing with the hardware side, I'm dealing with the same incompetence on the software side. I have an entire University Academic Resource website that was coded by a programmer who thinks he is a designer. I've been tasked with making 1000+ pages ADA compliant and mobile friendly, all within the current framework, as "we don't have the resources to do a total rewrite" per our director. I don't think he truly understands the magnitude of the situation. Every single page has to be rewritten anyway. It would be easier to do a total rewrite than to try to go in an hack my way though the garbage that the programmer used and try to bring it into compliance.
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Ah The Joy of Web Sites! The Sales guy says it can do all of this (if you buy this whole Service from us.) for this tiny cost of (Insert the whole Departments budget for this Decade.) Do we get a School Discount? O.o I get a Free Mouse pad! :likeyou:
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:luvbooks: 2,990 :luvbooks:
:heeheehee: So close I can almost taste it
Wonder if I can make before Halloween
:o_go_on: Who am I kidding, this close it is a given, that I will make it so
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Would it not be hilarious if the aforementioned site was your company's?
Visions of red faced managers......
8 )
Cheers
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Ah The Joy of Web Sites! The Sales guy says it can do all of this (if you buy this whole Service from us.) for this tiny cost of (Insert the whole Departments budget for this Decade.) Do we get a School Discount? O.o I get a Free Mouse pad! :likeyou:
Oh, we certainly don't have that luxury...they blow the budget on other departments..on garbage programs that don't live up to the hype and then we are stuck trying to figure out how to make them work for our needs..been dealing with 3 "programs" they purchased this year, like that...none of the 3 have integrated well...and the director is not a happy camper, hence why I don't get the "budget" to do a full rewrite of the resource site..even though that is what I am doing LOL Gotta love the politics of the office
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Would it not be hilarious if the aforementioned site was your company's?
Visions of red faced managers......
8 )
Cheers
Fortunately, not a chance, I work for a University in Salt Lake City...J works in Florida...so we are safe "whew"
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Fortunately, not a chance, I work for a University in Salt Lake City...J works in Florida...so we are safe :wink:
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Safe being a relative term. Damn powers that be decided that oh you have to go back out to Oviedo and run the last cable to the DAS, fine whatever, get out there and yes no less then three hospital IT people in the way of where I have to work. :sigh:
:shrug:
Worked around them and carried on, the fun part is this though the lightning halo is still not connected, they have at least now got the lightning spikes and some wire ran, but not complete and not tied into the building ground system.
Hope we don't get any more rain today as that is an accident looking for a place to happen in my mind.
One for the cuckoo's nest, we have one of them new-fangled devices that read the health of the batteries for the portables. Comes with three different holders for the different types of batteries in use. Needed to check a different battery type and would you believe that the only way to swap out the holders is to take the damn thing apart to get at the locking clips :thud:
Wonder what rocket scientist decided that was the way to make the device. Oh by the way states device has no user serviceable parts inside :thud: so how do we change the cup out without taking it apart :ummm:
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:ifonly: they want you to buy two more! :mwah:
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Indeed, thank goodness we are slightly more mechanically inclined then the average bear, and removing four screws was not beyond my scope :tearlaugh:
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Well, had the most annoying Wednesday of this week just past. Get the phone call from both sides, yep the other install tech asking me to put together material for him to finish the install in that other county.
:ummm:
Seriously we helped pull the lines in two weeks ago and now you are asking for help to get the material needed to finish that part of the install? :whatthe:
Give me a break and start acting a bit more responsible and step up to the plate and get things done on your own, yes ask for advice but waiting till the day of you going back there to say oh my I need ... is :rat-atat:
Next up get the call from the boss saying you must get the MedCom working at the new hospital. Sure why not I don't have any female connectors to connect the last line so what do you expect me to do?
If you have to use a bullet and a male connector to make it complete. :thud:
Sure, why not
Well, did that and then tried to get the grounding done on the roof, that was never started or completed when the guys went out there the first time. :sigh:
Insult to injury, did nothing but spit and drizzle rain the entire time I was out there, so nope, they got the last antenna line connected but not any of the grounding. Being wet and miserable is not one of the things I get paid for, plus I did have class that night.
Meanwhile once ye ole senior tech arrived we started to sort out the issue with the MedCom and what is the first thing I found ... can you answer me this
"what is the most important part of a cable installation?"
If you guessed testing and confirming each link works ... move to the head of the class.
Yep, two of the three lines we needed were punched down wrong.
:sigh:
Then had to wait for the vendor who installed it all to come out and fix it ... I am not touching anyone's else network for any reason and considering that the building has not been turned over yet ... yep, not going there ....
They finally got out and yep I was vindicated and they were completely hosed, turns out that not only were my connections wrong but according to the IT rep from the hospital indicated that there was another 40 connections that were not working. Guess that we have another instance of an install not being certified.
:sigh:
Yes, I have ran into one previously.
At any rate once that was sorted the senior tech continued to hack on the config problem. What was disturbing is that the final solutions was to blow in a separate config into each device ... then it worked. What the hell ....?
That worked up till the last one which for unknown reason would not connect so we had to confirm that it was on a port that was "unlocked" yep it wasn't ... after that was resolved ka-boom everything was at long last working.
Local, State and County MedCom, so in theory then and since I was not disturbed much by the shop while on two days of PTO they passed their damnable AHCA inspection and got their precious TCO.
I am sorry, (not really) I have little sympathy for corporations that think that with money and bluster they can do whatever the hell they want ... and to hell with the people doing the work.
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Now to make the PTO weekend even more interesting due to my class having just taken the midterm exam, guess who had to write up 19 report cards.
Yep
How annoying .... always has been the part of teaching that I loathe with great intensity. Considering I have to write a comment for each one.
Oh by the way got a text message from the ambulance fleet manager hey can I bring one over it has problems. Uh please call the office lady and schedule that since I am off ... :tearlaugh:
Then I get another text asking what is on my schedule next week as we need to get PM's rolling at the next hotel .... apparently his puppy dog is doing something else the entire week, how droll, and today I just find out that a site walk I had scheduled for next week is going to take two days and I just got news today that I will have to take next Friday off as well, as the powers that be have decided that it is time to replace my gas meter at the house.
Which considering I have a lot of time to burn up before I lose it I am not really in distress by that at all ... just makes things interesting.
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:likeyou: Not sure if there is cases of this :sake: or do you need :whoops: before you go :seeyou: :crazy: :whacked: :psycho:
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Well :sake: can be bought by the case but a little bit of some :whoops: activity would be most welcome for this single person to keep him from going :whacked: :crazy: :psycho: :seeyou:
Just saying ... :pweez:
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Well the only Help I Can Give is This! :likeyou:
http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/cpg/displayimage.php?album=828&pid=37978#top_display_media (http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/cpg/displayimage.php?album=828&pid=37978#top_display_media)
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That certainly is an excellent start, since I am partial to raven haired beauties
Many thanks
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T-minus 7
:heeheehee:
:luvbooks:
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Reminder the number of Good Books is Decreasing Collect them or the only books left will be Harlequin Romances! :likeyou:
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:puah: Those are not proper books in my mind thank you
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I'm a readaholic so I read anything.....and yes..that includes Harlequin romances and Zane Gray westerns LOL...
PS...Check you PM's some time today "J"..... Geeeeez....
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All ready have and as mentioned you all seem to write 17,256 PM's on every topic so I read the highlights and comment occasionally
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Fine....then don't act startled when decisions are made without your input....just saying.... :yesway:
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I have been reading the PM's good sir
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Moving on to the next bit of excitement.
First up mid term exams for the kids and then the part I loathe with great intensity ... writing report cards.
The interesting part there is an extra credit question on the exam and more then half the class did not even attempt it. Including the one who came up with a new acronym to help remember the 25 pair punch down order.
:thud:
Worse grade turned in was an 81%, the best was a 109% in other words not a single person, that also did the extra credit, got a perfect score.
:thud:
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O.o 81% is quite good for a group of people who you are not sure if they have been putting berries up their nose! :mum:
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This week even more entertainment two days worth of site walks to upgrade the county MedCom system to GTR8000 and get off the old Quantars and Astro-Tac
A total of seven sites are getting the upgrade and boy is it going to be a some kind of fun as in "sarcasm" why because they want to reuse as much of the original install material and also keep it up and running while I am to install the new radios ... sure of course, sure, if you say so .....
Well, haven't had a chance to write up the quote for the extra parts need to do the job so this should be educational to say the least.
I took plenty of pics and notes so at least I should be able to get the shops half of the quote worked out.
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Except for one small detail for the last two days I have been back doing PM's at the hotel chain. I am taking tomorrow off so will not be able to finish up. Only have seven radios that were not available to be done, as they were in use by staff.
So hopefully they are going to be able to locate and track them down so I can get them balance of the radios completed and we can call that hotel done.
Four down three to go
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O.o 81% is quite good for a group of people who you are not sure if they have been putting berries up their nose! :mum:
I think that if they could fit their damn cell phones up there they would .... they are just like every other person I come in contact with during class and most of my day now that I think about ... can't go two steps without that damn phone in their face
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I Think We Are Already Gone.
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Got a phone call from the boss this morning asking about what dies we have for our 12 ton compression crimp tool.
Well, long story short he was under the impression that I had certain ones which I did not, plus when he bought a second compression tool the dies that were in my case were transferred to the new tool. So there is not a "second set" of the common use dies for the work we do at the shop.
So now I need to hunt down part numbers for the dies to build out a second set and order an extra one of the odd size so either set will have all of the dies required to make any compression crimp needed.
How wonderful, hope this means that the next person doing installs will be needing the tool, more then me. :thud:
Yeah, right ... but since I keep hearing talk about site walks and quotes and now PM's and working with code plugs. I am thinking it might be in the cards for me to work my way up in the food chain.
Possibly ...
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I Think We Are Already Gone.
Undoubtedly
although some of older farts can actually take more then two steps without looking at the damn thing.
In fact I have on many occasion left the house without it and never went back to get it
:OMFG:
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:OMFG: How is it that I have all of October bills paid and have started on reserving funds for November :whatthe:
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Moving on, totally crazy I sent out an email to the hotel chain indicating which radios still need my attention ... or is that :kianna: attention.
Only to have it kicked back ... methinks either he can't write very well or I can't read his hand writing :shrug:
Quite nonsensical to say the least
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:OMFG: How is it that I have all of October bills paid and have started on reserving funds for November :whatthe:
Keep in mind when you question things like that you jinx yourself :haha:
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That has been known to happen in other area of the day to day.
However I am doing the :shhhh: :zipit: dance now and hope to not jinx things
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T - 1
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Obviously time for a trip! :skellie:
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Indeed because I just now found out that one of the books I bought is a duplicate :sigh:
So close to the next milestone.
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LOL....How much did that book cost you compared to the program I told you about????? :ghost: :ghost:
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The book can be returned for a refund and since I am in there at least once a week, no foul in my mind.
And we are still entering the contents of my library into the database and am not yet complete, so would have done little good.
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Yup....they are good about returning books that are duplicates. Happens to my brother and mother all the time....and yes....they use my B & N card often LOLOL
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I still have an original card when they first switched from the genre specific cards (Sci-Fi Club) to the all encompassing card.
Tis most interesting as most of the time they have to hand enter the account number, it has been used that much :tearlaugh:
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I get a new card every year. I like being nice to people LOLOL
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I like the notoriety that I hold one of the "original" cards which are seldom seen in my neck of the woods.
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They're probably thinking "Here comes that old fart that can't keep up with the times" :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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:thumb_up:
That is my gift to the world of mindless sheep ...
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LOL....You know what they do with Old Sheep like you....they turn you into binder glue for books :tearlaugh:
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Still with my beloved books ... tis a win
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Oh great having one of those days ... he says I need "to be flexible" ... I say that "poor planning on their part does not constitute an emergency on mine"
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Flex-able Cost $150 an Hour Cash only! :mum:
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Oh great having one of those days ... he says I need "to be flexible" ... I say that "poor planning on their part does not constitute an emergency on mine"
Unfortunately for you....it does LOL......They own the Company.......
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Yet one would think after 90 years they would have a clue as to what is needed to build a site.
And plan for it ....
And could indicate this with a bit more lead time.
Which since I am still whining about the abuse .... apparently they still do not have their act together ....
:yesway: they still don't ... and the story is even more disturbing then that ......
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You just put the finishing touch on the conversation.....
They've been doing this for 90 years....doing what they do the same way they've always done it and they must be succeeding at something one would think....or they would have been gone a long time ago.....
Just saying :java:
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Be that as it may I still doth protest with great vigor the behavior that is being exhibited by the higher ups.
I have a life and it is a matter of "I work to live" not "Live to work"
I value my time off so I can unwind and not have a need for bail money or a lawyer the rest of the time.
Oh and now what happens, I find out that yet another person is taking a week off to go on a cruise.
:thud:
I am lucky to get two days off in a row and now this is the third person in the office that has been able to take week(s) off in a row.
:rat-atat:
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Oh BTW
:luvbooks: 3007 :luvbooks:
:letusboogie: :cheer: :yippee: :cheer: :letusboogie:
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See what OT gets you :tearlaugh:
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Bet you didn't see that reply coming LOLOL
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:thud:
Valid point
However I went out to look for rubbish at the shop for death march in Flagler
And since I had to return a book from last week that was a duplicate but we picked up a couple more..
:luvbooks: 3010 :luvbooks:
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And then made a second trip to the office to pick up additional items that I know I would need for certain connections not mentioned elsewhere, sucks to be cognizant of the tiny details that none take into consideration.
Sucks to be ... shall we say detail oriented ... yet understand what is needed to complete an install ... and do what one can to be prepared.
:sigh:
Not that they will give a damn
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Not to be overly concerned about the details ... however I decided to do some math tonight and found out that according to the wisdom passed down through the millennium from ancient Babylon (The Richest Man of Babylon by George S. Clason) as in 8,0000 years ... sort of, kind of, maybe.
I am on track with the guidelines set forth in the text
:woohoo:
Just need to be vigilant in staying the course.
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My mind has told my fingers to be wary of what I type..... So, I'll just say.....Nah.....I'm just going to :zipit: :yes: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Indeed however when it comes to some of the crap I get put through at the day job it is exceedingly difficult to keep quiet.
Week two of the death march has started and it is off to a great start.
First up told the boss I am not working the DC "hot" oh you can't turn it off the microwave is up and running.
Uh, excuse me it has an A side and a B side. I only propose to turn half of it off at a time.
With the string of batteries each side has there is no way I am working it hot. I will have to get the details later, as the only thing I remember is that there is 16 batteries per leg and at $2500.00 a piece there is $80,000 just in batteries in the room.
Got it wired up at the batteries and went to turn it on and what do we have, four devices that did not turn on
:sigh:
... and two of those devices the other installer wired, makes one wonder what is so complicated about landing wire on a terminal block, well if indeed that is where the problem lies, wont know for certain till tonight.
All, I can say he gets to take a week off for a cruise and I am stuck here fixing this crap
The other fun was looking at the panel schedule and who ever wired up the microwaves can't count the schedule says it should be on circuit one, if you guessed that he wired them up on circuit two
move to the head of the class. Which is going to be fun since that circuit is needed for something else ... and no I do not have time to move it for yo ... losers
Always fixing your problems does not make the task get completed by any means, oh and where are the power cords for the inverters as they have an AC input too.
Plus how did staging lose the protective shields for the connections on the inverters
Now since I have an A string and a B string, why would one take the A side of one device and the B side of another and put them both on the B side?
This system is designed to be redundant so if one side goes the other side carries the load, and vice versa. Plus there is also a generator on site.
So again why do something as daft as that ... makes no sense to me.
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Oh and the system tech that was supposed to be there yesterday morning
yep
no show
Which makes me think I am being lied to again
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Just think of all the Job opportunities! :mum:
Ghostbusters - Janine someone with your qualifications...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roiRpwv9zFs
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Well, the death march kicked it up a notch.
Freaking boss, still is crying about it needs to gets done.
I am still saying if there had been more lead time notice it might have been possible.
But, why listen to the only person doing the work ... yes, there is only one person doing the work.
Why?
Because the boss doesn't trust anyone else to do the work.
So how did the idea get into anyone's mind that five sites could have cable pulled and terminated in four days time.
I want whatever they are doing, since it is better then anything I have ever had in the past.
The good news :ummm: is that all the Motorola boxes are complete and I have one site 100% done and is up and running, ready for the "full diaper" ST to do their thing.
Yes, I heard he was whining that it wasn't ready for him, so sad far as I am concerned, sorry that your diaper is full and needs changing.
Did get good news in regards to being able to finish the terminations at the sites for this abdominal 48 V
Put ye ole meter on it and was able to determinate that I can work on it with no safety issues, to bad the boss could not say so upfront, granted I would still check ... but not a word upfront from him.
:rat-atat:
The real question that is still in my mind is why is is -48 volts positive ground so "frelling" wonderful?
In other words the black which would typically be the ground or "return path" in the real world of DC connections, is now the positive side.
:thud:
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Can You Get Your Boss to let you Train / Bring up from the ground up a Helper that is just your Helper? O.o or Give you the power over a team? :mum:
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Been working on that to happen for some little time ... and still in my my mind have not seen any progress on that front.
Claims are made that he is trying but ... really eight years later and there has been no "progress" that I can see ...
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You have the same problem I had being too Good at Your Job that had me working solo for 9 months 24/7 I was Dead inside. Was on call could not have a life or anything. got call while I was doing a call was a mess is Why I do not Like Cell phones.
There is a Name For it RTF Run Till Fail.
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Indeed I do believe that you are on to something there no doubt.
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The real crappy thing to me is the comment "Oh I have never missed a deadline before" for some reason I think I have heard him use that statement before and what I want to know is this ...
Do you get a cookie for every one you meet ?
Since I think I have heard that comment before methinks that you might be over playing your hand, and why would that statement make me bend over backwards anyway ? I am just one person ...
Because, if you do why am I not getting the cookie since I or the others are doing the work and not you.
Must be an upper level management thing,
Was funny as he made mention of, if it wasn't done by Friday night that they were going to be bring in others to finish it.
And I am wondering as to why I should give a damn, since everyone decided to wait till the last minute to say oh by the way this needs to be complete by Friday of last week. I too have other responsibilities and a life.
But really, five sites, pull in wire and terminate ... :ummm: I am only one person so in what universe would this have occurred?
Which I think that might be part of the problem, I am not certain that these upper level :rat-atat: do not realize exactly how many people are on staff to do said work.
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Sounds like When I Worked for Sears and I Wrote the inventory control Program My Boss Got a Raise and I Got Let go. Your Boss Sounds like a user.
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Well, this is going to be another one of those nasty weeks.
Wanted to get home at a reasonable hour, but so much for that idea, such as 13 hours today, and now at the end of week one of the new time card.
58 hours ....
Technically I should only be looking for 80 hours over two weeks not 58 hours just in the first week.
:sigh:
I like a little overtime like most others, but this is ridiculous
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That's at least 10 more books and 4 vids of Anime via overtime......LOL
I took care of the Monthly Challenge and I THINK I updated all the items that needed updating for the new contests...but one never knows LOL
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Haven't found anything as of yet that you missed, my thanks as you know I was out of pocket definitely the past two weeks
And got to love this work schedule
NOT
I ache all over and in places I didn't think could ache
:sadder:
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One of the good things about weekends....is you can rest your weary bones. Somewhat. There is always something to take care of....but you can do them at your own pace....
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Like a hair cut, grocery shopping, going to the post office, laundry and the list goes on, just I am certain it does for everyone else, just wish the weekend was longer then two days
.... and no that the extra hour from DST ending is a small consolation.
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How much vacation time do you have left? Isn't your place "Use it or Lose it? Or can you carry over. I forgot...
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I can carry 40 hours over
However I have more then enough to take at least 40 or more off with no problem, and still have 40 hours or more left.
But, knowing how things are now with the workload I will be getting an extreme amount of push back when I ask and yes I am going to ask for it anyway ... I am at one of those snapping points.
Yet, the other installer can take a week long cruise, granted he probably planned that months in advance, but still ....
Then the boss took three weeks off and the engineer took off two weeks ... yet for me to get two days off is like pulling teeth and when I do get it, comments like "oh we will manage somehow" and other such disparaging comments are made before getting it.
And just saw that the senior bench tech will be taking a week off this month. However I do not begrudge him time off, the only problem I see is who is going to be covering his absence :ummm:
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YOU..... :haha: :havesum:
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:yippee: The last day for a while (please make a it a long while) from the Flagler (Fagler) project.
Got all this damn positive ground DC connections made and connected at the five sites that needed to be up and running. And let me tell you -48 volts is frelling odd.
I get to go back to the Orlando office as in where my "personal room" is at :tearlaugh: tomorrow
The downside is I have two weeks of what ever was delivered to the office for projects that most likely needs to be inventoried and stored away according to projects.
The cool part is that I pushed for PTO since it is one of those of "use it or loss it time frames".
Yes, I got this Thursday and Friday off .... :yippee:
And here we go got some serious :rainy: action going down right now ... yikes
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:sno2: :kitty: :congrats:
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Glad you got the days off, Jherrith. Definitely deserved and then some.
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Trick question that maybe one of you might be able to answer
explain to me why a DC positive ground is a good thing.
In other words the black which is typically ground is now connected to the positive terminal and the red (or another color in DC) is connected to the negative.
Why is that a good thing, or better still what benefit does it bring to the system?
I did some research on my own and I am not getting anything that makes me think this is a benefit.
It was talking about it in relationship to an automobile battery, and galvanic and corrosion reactions.
Now remember this is on a public safety radio system, with lots of fiddly electronic gadgets.
So any insight?
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This might help!? :sno2:
https://www.poweringthenetwork.com/uncategorized/negative-48-volt-power-what-why-and-how/ (https://www.poweringthenetwork.com/uncategorized/negative-48-volt-power-what-why-and-how/)
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Immensely, my thanks good sir.
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:yippee: The last day for a while (please make a it a long while) from the Flagler (Fagler) project.
Got all this damn positive ground DC connections made and connected at the five sites that needed to be up and running. And let me tell you -48 volts is frelling odd.
I get to go back to the Orlando office as in where my "personal room" is at :tearlaugh: tomorrow
The downside is I have two weeks of what ever was delivered to the office for projects that most likely needs to be inventoried and stored away according to projects.
The cool part is that I pushed for PTO since it is one of those of "use it or loss it time frames".
Yes, I got this Thursday and Friday off .... :yippee:
And here we go got some serious :rainy: action going down right now ... yikes
Enjoy the time off my friend. Only thing I know about DC is that AC told him where they were playing next... :java:
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:thud:
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Now I know everyone would say be grateful for the overtime however, we all know the hours you work that there is a diminished returned on those hours worked.
Yes, I do also know that being hourly is way better in cases like this then salary since on salary it doesn't matter you have to get the work done and there is no such thing as an overtime scale (at least I think that is how it works)
My point is, 24-1/2 hour of overtime seems a bit much considering that my normal pay period is 80 hours.
Guess the retirement accounts are going to get a decent bump is one bonus
.. might be a bump in the manga/anime collection :iminnocent:
Yes, I do usually work some fairly regularly but no more then five or six.
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:thud:
Oh my giddy aunt I just got word that my "provisional" background investigation for the CBP, is now complete at last.
Only been working on this since about June of 2018, well that is the oldest email I have found so far, however I feel that it has been much longer than that for what it is worth.
Go figure.
:thud:
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That spy vs spy agency has to take it's time with this sort of stuff LOLOL.....
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As you say ...
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Just for giggles
As you may know, the Japanese are fond of designating random days of the year, based on how they sound phonetically, or sometimes based on the kanji. February 22 is “cat day†in Japan because the numbers sound like nyan nyan nyan, and August 2nd is Panties Day because the numbers 8/2 can be read as pan-tsu in Japanese. December 10 is Moé Day because the date in kanji å月åæ—¥ looks like the kanji for moe (èŒ). Because the Japanese word for “good†is ii (pronounced like the letter “eâ€), and because the number 11 can be read this way, there are a lot of these random “good†days this month. Like today, which is ＃ã„ã„ãŠã£ã±ã„ã®æ—¥ ii oppai no hi or Nice Boobs Day.
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Sooooo......you saying you have Boobs? :thud: :haha:
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Uh :noway:
I would love to find a set that I could examine and get very :pervy: with in detail.
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Don't forget.....You asked for them:
:kianna:
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:sigh: No respect .... ever
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Well, :thud: double :thud: and a triple :thud:
... why the surprise
we have a new hire
:thud:
Well, at any rate probably a temp till someone higher gives the sign
So far he seems all right, work wise, seems knowledgeable also, and has worked on some of the same jobs that I have in the past, notably the Amway Arena.
Has some very specific tech skills pertaining more to carrier DAS and phone, with some data experience.
Next to nothing for installation skills, but actually wants to learn more of that ... :thud: well that is a switch.
And happens to be in my age bracket :thud: (60+) still younger then me (by two years) so at least he is not wet behind the ears like some many of my students.
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Always good when you get someone new to work with you that you don't have to worry about too much. Hope it's a permanent placement and not a fly by night arrangement.
Less stress on you.
I bet your scalp hairs have been falling out in greater quantities of late :tearlaugh:
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Definitely sort of starting to see what could only be referred to as a "receding hairline"
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My hairline no longer exists....so your lucky :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Well, not certain what I was expecting but the extra 10 hours of overtime only netted $200.00 in the final reckoning.
Just seems a bit light considering all of the headaches and driving involved
Yep probably just being greedy
:shrug:
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Even more entertaining is, told that the old paging system would be decommissioned by mid-November and could be removed and disposed of at all sites.
Well, since I needed the room and the receptacle for the last remote and it was in the way and since it was supposedly no longer needed I turned it off and moved it out the way and then had it removed the following day.
Three days later, as in yesterday found out that, uh no there had been delays in the cut over and they had got trouble tickets on the system.
:ummm: and you were going to tell us this when :ummm:
Of course after we had already taken the old out, why should anyone say anything in advance.
Have an email chain to support our decision to remove it. :sigh:
Nonetheless three days before anyone even noticed it ... doesn't sound like it is being used much to me.
Fun part of the three trouble tickets they received, two of them were because the user had dead batteries.
Amazing, well at least we do not have to go out and turn the main one back on at the Orlando campus which was also serving the Winter park campus.
:ummm: You have a system at both sites yet Orlando is serving Winter Park :ummm:
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Last bit of fun .... our illustrious parts and repair lady.
I order or should I say try to order and when I inquire about the parts, all I get is it hasn't been ordered.
:thud:
Then why in the devil did I give you a parts order if you were just going to ignore it.
:rat-atat:
Well there is three shelves worth of repairs double stacked waiting on parts to be ordered or pulled from stock.
Guess where she was, out sick yesterday and has PTO today.
And we have repairs waiting since mid-October for her to do her job.
Guess who learned how to do their convoluted song and dance to find tickets that had all of the parts in stock so it could be documented and then pulled and place on the to be repaired shelf
Yep ...
Granted only ten tickets were filled but that is ten repairs that did not need to sit there waiting on her "happy ass" to get around to doing them.
Also found out that just because the computer says we have them in stock certainty doesn't mean they actually are in stock.
So what is the point of doing inventory?
I am certainly afraid to look at the back log of repairs that have to go to the depot for repairs. I shudder to think as to how nasty that looks.
It is moments like this that make me wonder just what the hell it is that she does all day long .... I am thinking not what she was hired to do .... just saying.
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I'm going to have this gal give you a shot to calm you down ... :nurse:
Was going to have "K" do it but you're upset enough....Figured I'd spare you ..... this time.... :haha:
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Well, not quite certain how one can calm me down, but 'eh' whatever
Today was even more entertaining, why because at long last I got to start getting the bay cleaned out of all the old equipment and recyclables.
:woohoo:
Two trips to the place and then a full day to finish cleaning, rearranging sweeping up and tossing out other "rubbish"
How droll though, two trips of junk to the recycle place only netted approx $600.00 ... still better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick ....
And damn ... what is this that I see .... floor space, as in uncluttered .... seriously
Quick don't say :shhhh: anything since anyone finds out I have uncluttered floor that will be the end of it ....
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Take a picture Before anything happens So you have evidence! :thud:
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I agree with Rad LOL
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Indeed that is second nature ...
....... granted do not share them with anyone but it is as you suggest "documentation" is a prerequisite ...
So why I am holding on to cabling that one can no longer get connectors for :thud:
Yes off to the recycle place ....
it goes .... oops .... :tearlaugh:
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:haha: I Think the term is Nostalgia! :thud:
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Or the Whitworth Syndrome..... There's always that one fastener that wont match up.
Motorcycle mechanic....... never throw anything away..... you never know when...
8 )
cheers
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Better still ye ole shop manager showed up today after a two day excursion to St. Pete for some sort of managers meeting.
At least he said that the work that was done looks good ... later on I find out that he was hoping for more to have been done.
Well, do I have permission to get rid of the following ....
Found out that at long last yes I do
:yippee:
Guess what is going to happen next week if I have the guys sitting around doing nothing
:heeheehee:
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What the double hell
:thud:
Another new hire showed up today.
Supposedly for a "DAS" team but I still am expected to train him up to install standards.
Here is the fun part, was asked to train them both up to install levels. So showed them how to do the MedCom rack for a site, made them do all the work I just advised.
Man, I can tell which one has done basic CAT5e terminations and who has never
:thud:
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And the hits just keep on coming.
Good grief! The place is a madhouse.
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And the hits just keep on coming.
Good grief! The place is a madhouse.
Indeed
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:thud: So They hire out of Walmart this time or the Soup kitchen? :haha:
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Not certain but since he hails from Venezuela and one can tell from his accent ... He has relative experience but it is on the commissioning side (apparently) not the installation side.
As I could tell right away from watching him try to make a patch cable.
:thud:
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But on a good note.....Your getting the help you need...though they are not so helpful yet...they someday will be helpful.....hopefully....
Whew...that was a mouthful :thud:
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Glory Halle - frelling - lujah
At last after two months of waiting my bed slide is repaired.
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It is the crazy time of the year for me, final exams for the students and then the most undesirable part of my job .... writing report cards.
:puah:
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Grading was the part of teaching that I always disliked the most.
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Glory Halle - frelling - lujah
At last after two months of waiting my bed slide is repaired.
Ummmmmm.......Hummmmmmmm.......... You SLIDE out of bed? Or do you SLIDE into bed? I'm not confused often....but you got me this time :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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The bed slide is in my truck :thud: :tearlaugh: it is how I can get to all my tools without having to climb in the bed of the truck, since I also have a topper on it, with storage on both sides.
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Grading was the part of teaching that I always disliked the most.
Grading the tests is fine but that writing the progress report or report card and having to give it a positive spin is the :puah: part
For some reason they wont let me write the one comment I got from Rad in here, at least I think this is where I heard it.
"At least he wasn't picking his nose while ignoring the lecture."
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The bed slide is in my truck :thud: :tearlaugh: it is how I can get to all my tools without having to climb in the bed of the truck, since I also have a topper on it, with storage on both sides.
Phew......That straightens that out.....for a moment there I thought maybe you fell at the job and hit your head....and came up with this sliding bed story LOL
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For example
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LOL....Got it.......but sometimes, with you.....ONE NEVER KNOWS :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Tis a gift of mine to keep all guessing and on their toes tis how one stays young :tearlaugh:
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Well, two out of three ain't bad :tearlaugh:
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:o_go_on:
:Felix:
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All this legal rubbish is making my head hurt.
Went on a site walk today for the details of a temporary fix to a DAS for the emergency room. Why a temporary, well because the original project to put it in was scrapped due to major renovations and expansions coming up at said facility.
So all that material that was bought and partially billed for that project has been in limbo, however those are the parts that will be used to install the temporary solution. Even though they were billed on a different job ... same customer ... different job, PO and IA
And when all the building is done then they will move the temporary to the final location and adjust their invoicing and billing for the 17,256th time .... my head hurts ....
:rat-atat: .... don't talk to me about your damn legal, billing and invoicing rubbish ...
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Hummmmm......I don't think their talking about it is the problem.....You listening to it is :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Which is why I left when I did, as mentioned it was making my head hurt :tearlaugh:
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Good Move LOLOLOL
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Well, back at the syllabus for next year and man is it ever complicated. Man this is harder then I thought it would be, but it is the first one I have ever done and we are just "winging it" so to speak.
I think I got the copper part worked out, next up time to write up tests for the talking points.
Then on to the Fiber-Optic portion.
The only bonus is that I do get paid for the task so that is nice.
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Pay and Bonus always go hand in hand LOL
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Oh and enter the grades for the tests already done and see who is where grade-wise.
Thinking I might have to re-write a couple of report cards as their skills on the hands on part demonstrate that they are not nearly as skilled as I thought them to be.
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Oh this sucks, turned on the monitors for Stormbringer and methinks I might have screwed something up, the keyboard is not working at all.
I do remember laying the textbook on the keyboard all night long.
Kind of scared to reboot it to get it to work again, since I have to type in a password, and if the keyboard doesn't come back then I am going to be very unhappy ....
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Their future is in your hands....... :thud:
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And the release for the trap door is under your foot....
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Some of them certainly need to get a taste of what lies beyond the trap door ... in my opinion.
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Have another one of those abdominal MedCom projects decide to rear its ugly head.
Granted I built out the rack as of last week.
But, after some soul searching it dawned on me that none of the installation material had even been ordered. Yes, no coax, no antennas no nothing.
This is not going to be fun in any way, shape, form or fashion.
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And the holidays are coming which will make everything even more fun! :haha:
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Don't remind me ... please ... :tearlaugh:
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I can already hear Santa going HO HO HO.....and pointing his finger at you :haha:
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Why am I not surprised .... :thud: Santa do like to laugh at me on occasions ... :shrug:
Well, we finally got radio management installed, configured and connected to the server so for my next fun in the sun task, read 345 subscriber radios into the data base, so they can be programmed :thud: :thud:
Could be worse ways to spend an eight hour day right before the Thanksgiving break, yes we have both Thursday and Friday off :woohoo: a nice little four day weekend and we have no desire to even look at a car or get on the rode this Friday :noway:
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What do you not want to go to a Mall this weekend? :haha:
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Only if I wanted to do myself an injury :tearlaugh:
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Well, there is the first 100 done .... :thud:
plus tuning a duplexer for one of the MedCom projects
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Well, by end of day I got 210 out of 345 read into the database.
Not to bad considering I also found an error in the database, and had to figure out how to correct and edit the database.
Yep, poked it till it did what I wanted it to do and didn't break it ... :yippee: bonus :yippee:
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Now go relax for a few days....
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Indeed we have off till Monday of next week ...
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Yup....I saw that.....ENJOY...
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Going to try and work on the new curriculum for the students next semester while I am off as well as relaxing.
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:luvbooks: 3043 :luvbooks:
Just how far will I get by years end :ummm:
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You'll be buried under rubble because your second floor has collapsed :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Tis evenly split between first and second floor thank you
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I still say it will be evenly distributed on top of you.....and you're welcome.... :haha:
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Only if I happen to be in my bedroom and even then it will only be from the bedroom directly above me.
Remember I have a cathedral ceiling in the living, & dining room, and the kitchen.
How about that it just dawned on me that I have a three day work week this week too, :woohoo:
Got to burn up that 100+ hours of PTO somehow, and before Feb. which is when it resets.
Going to be having lots of three day work weeks in my future.
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Use to love it when the company use to let us carry it over. I had at least 3 months of Vacation time saved up because I traveled so much and that was better then Vacation time. Many a time I'd take the wife and kids along. Room charge was no different and I typically drove everywhere I went and the company paid for the rental car and gas.......so the only thing I'd have to pay for was food and entertainment for them. Worked out well.
Then they changed to no carry over. Which didn't really bother me since I had 6 weeks of vacation time a year. Which I started taking after they said "LOSE IT" if you don't use it.
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We are at that point here, used to be able to carny 80 hours now it is down to 40
And since they always whine about jobs waiting and pending and apparently I am the only one (still) that can organize and get them out and done. Getting time off used to be tough until I put the foot down and said "poor planing on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine" and started standing my ground.
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Yup...gotta do that every now and then.....
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Finally, am getting better at it as well, used to be not as assertive.
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Serendipity has struck
... was in the bookstore earlier ... yep ... no surprise there ....
What do I find but, a title that just reached out and slapped me in the face.
"The Library of the Unwritten" by A. J. Hackwith
Read the back flap and the inside page and then read about ten pages at a random location in the volume.
Then realized it was time to buy it :tearlaugh:
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Well, now yesterday was one of those eventful days.
The proverbial SHTF was the beginning of the morn, a MedCom project that was staged and waiting on material was sent out anyway to be installed. Several disconnects between all involved on that one, as no parts were ordered and then ye ole fair haired boy decided that, nope we are installing the county 800 over here, not there, yep ye ole boss was not happy about that, for once though I didn't fully throw someone under the bus by stating that yes, you did see that statement in the scope of work, he was not owning up to the fact that he had seen it and was just sticking to his story that he had already arranged for three network drops in the room and didn't want to split any of the equipment up and so forth, I know better though, anyway he got lucky.
Why because the big problem was what type of cable was ran in there, I seemed to have remembered the cheap ass LMR 400 crap. Which would have been a real pain as then we would want to replace it and since no material was ordered. :shrug: Would have had to pull something out of my hat yet again.
However all of the critical lines were actually in LDF4 so no cable needs to be replaced. It was even grounded to spec ... sort of ... will have to check it out when I go out there this morning. Yep, finally getting to the point of not having to go out all the time, sent the two installers plus the two new guys out there and said make it look like it does here in the shop staging rack.
The one picture they took shows that they are pretty close to being right on the money, so might not have to do much else then say thank you, good job.
However that was just the equipment now were are going out there to sweep the lines with a TDR and see if the existing lines are still usable, should be since they are indoors. Then determine the health of the existing antennas and re-use one and replace the other two.
Then we are at that sweet spot .... waiting on others ... yes they might have the three network drops in that room but downstairs they now need five and there has been no confirmation that it has been done. Without that and the IP address .... waiting on others.
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Finally had the last night of testing for the structured cable class, and boy howdy put them on their own and say do the tasks on this board it is quite apparent that one they can't read or two they don't care.
I am thinking a bit of both, as the quality and accuracy of the work left a lot to be desired, and I do mean a lot.
Granted I get the fact that you all are electricians and do not and probably will never touch this again but after 2 nights a week for 16 weeks you ought to be able to manage the simple stuff, make up keystone jacks, male mating plugs and land cable on distribution boards.
:ummm: Not so very much ...
Well, the good news is that no one will have to repeat the class, the bad news yea not having you do any cabling work for me ... yet.
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Finally got all of the portable read into the Radio Management database and assigned ID's to them. Still have the base stations to read into it before I can start checking firmware and assigning templates then do the actual programming so moving forward on that project.
Going slow because I am the only one doing the work, granted there are only two other people on the RM network that could access the database to do the work. However this is the first deployment from scratch and I am of the mindset that too many cooks spoil the broth. So let us not get ahead of ourselves, since these are being deployed on a cruise ship while it is on the ocean en route, and if there is an issue support is going to be kind of hard to get ... just saying.
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Hummm, you may have cursed yourself. I'm thinking half the class is heading to your place of employment and are in the process of filling out job applications.... :xmas2:
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:shh2: They are the Sub contractors he has to clean up after! :haha:
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:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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:shh2: They are the Sub contractors he has to clean up after! :haha:
That I can believe .... shudder
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Hummm, you may have cursed yourself. I'm thinking half the class is heading to your place of employment and are in the process of filling out job applications.... :xmas2:
:tearlaugh: :noway: Would a one of them get a recommendation from me, well maybe if it for just rack and stack with a touch of grounding, certainly nothing more complicated then that though :thud:
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How entertaining found out today that although ye ole fair haired project manager (I still contest his abilities) asked for three network drops in the cupola, turns out that no one kept each other in the loop till the very end because we actually need five network connections. One for each of the remotes, for a total of five remotes, plus we will need nine IP address to boot.
Three for adult EMS remotes, two for Pediatric EMS remotes and then one for test and set up of the system.
So talk about a sort of, kind of, major disconnect on resources required.
:sigh:
Just a touch off, now granted there is time difference between the original site walk and today when I am trying to bring the new system on line but still, that big of a disconnect as to what is requested and what was asked for could have been prevented.
But what do I know ....
just saying ....
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He might be a Great Sales man but he is no Manager! :sno2:
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Truth :thumb_up:
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I agree Rad....
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Well, here is one for the cuckoo nest, I now know what an ARS storm looks like ... the way I understand it, is that the radios when keyed up get checked by this service and the system then knows what radio it is and where it is located and then ensures that it is on the right resource.
In other words a radio at Apopka is talking on the Apopka system.
Well, if this service is off and one tries to talk on a wide channel it has no idea what you are trying to do and you get denied most of the time or you only get some transmissions.
Well, we got there and was told to check it out and that the rep at the hospital would be checking the ARS computer since it is in his data closet.
Fine, what ever we get there and the first thing we found was the switch was in half duplex not full duplex. Reset it and carried on, hmm no beacon is being sent out.
Reset all of the radios one at a time and got a beacon back. None of this is making any sense to the lead tech, so put the spec analyzer on the system, again hmm not seeing anything much going on there that would cause a problem.
In the meantime though the switch had dropped out of full duplex ... how is that possible ... don't know but by the time we got to a stopping point that switch had dropped out five times. Plus, the beacon was lost multiple times in the same time frame.
Called the shop and had one of the hospital spare brought out, swapped it out and got full duplex out of it and it stayed stable. First good news all morning.
However the beacon issue was still present and our test radios still could in the system once in a while or not at all. So okay maybe a code plug is corrupt somehow, read the master and one peer nope nothing odd there. OK let reset the RAS key on the master ... no joy. Opened up RDAC, which is a test and diagnostic program not a single event was recorded. Again how is this possible we had been turning on and off and disconnecting radios left right and center, however nothing.
At this point the lead tech called back in and said I am out of ideas ... don't know what else to check.
At this time is when I was asked to put the switch back in half duplex and tell the office monkey what sort of activity did I see, told him and he says that certainly sounds like an ARS storm, let me call the hospital rep and see if he has checked the computer.
Ten minutes later, he forgot to check it this morning and just went in to look at it and the computer was off ... :thud: seriously we have been out here for the last four hours trying everything under the sun to resolve this issue and he forgot to check the computer ... :rat-atat:
Bottom line though it was turned on and the system started to go mad while it worked on clearing all of the events logged. Which for perspective the issue started on Tuesday at 6:00 PM and we got out there in the morning at 9:00 AM it was 1:00 PM by the time the computer in their office was reset. So lots of events to clear, as this is across all 12 campus's and it does carry a lot of traffic.
Nonetheless there was nothing else for us to, it was clearing and getting better so we notified those who needed to know and then left.
But, seriously folks why was not the ARS computer checked first before you sent us out to bang our heads against the wall for the last four hours. The only :heeheehee: thing is that it is a billable service call as this was not the system failing but an oversight on their part.
Makes me wonder why in the hell didn't this get thought of the night before when it first started. Oh, that is right ye ole fair haired PM doesn't drive anywhere if he can manage it (something about four kids and a fifth on the way, makes me wonder if he knows what activity is causing that to occur) and tries to work everything remotely.
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Can the ARS computer be Twinned so you can have one where you are also? :xmas:
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Now there is a thought, don't know that answer. Will have to inquire, I do know that technically this service is supposed to reside on the WAVE server but in the beginning that was not 100% stable, however now that it is I am thinking it should get moved to it and stopped with all this points of failure due to not being fully integrated
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Still sounds like a one point failure System with out redundancy or offsite back up How did this system get cleared by FEMA or EM?! :thud:
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FEMA would have naught to do with this it is a hospital chain and therefore a commercial entity not Federal
There is redundancy in the servers I was just referring to the main one that the database is supposed to reside on. The entire communication network for the hospital is backed up and redundant in several ways that I am not fully conversant on, still just the knuckle dragging primate that builds and installs, more then the one who knows how it all fits together and works, getting more training (at last) on that part, still have a ways to go eventually I will be more proficient in the ins and outs of how it all works together and where the fail-safes are at for the system.
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Well always fall back on the rule if You did not Check it must not be on! :thud:
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Indeed and that is what should have happened yesterday. Instead of wasting the lead tech and my time ... plus ye ole fair haired PM not doing his due diligence.
Let us pass the buck on to others, heaven forbid we have any accountability.
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:luvbooks: 3055 :luvbooks:
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Hark....I hear another creak in the floorboard :xmas2:
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Hark....I hear another creak in the floorboard :xmas2:
I don't as they are currently on the ground floor which is a concrete slab ... so if anything thou art premature in your assessment. :tearlaugh:
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Give it time....I'll hear that creak sooner or later..... :haha:
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:o_go_on:
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:haha: He lives in Florida his Books alone are causing it to sink into the ocean! :shh2:
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Damn ... my secret is out
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What all the cool radio techs have:
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And serendipity struck while I was in the book store yesterday.
Browsing music and video when what do I see but several CD's of music by The Trans Siberian Orchestra
Pick up a random two hoping I would get the one that has the very popular song on it.
:yippee: serendipity won
Quite certain, I scared or frightened a dozen straights while driving back, because when the song came on the volume went to max and I started banging on poor steering wheel in a chaotic fashion (to others, to me I was in sync) with all the windows down so as to share the tune.
Then played it a second time :tearlaugh:
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And serendipity struck while I was in the book store yesterday.
Browsing music and video when what do I see but several CD's of music by The Trans Siberian Orchestra
Pick up a random two hoping I would get the one that has the very popular song on it.
:yippee: serendipity won
Quite certain, I scared or frightened a dozen straights while driving back, because when the song came on the volume went to max and I started banging on poor steering wheel in a chaotic fashion (to others, to me I was in sync) with all the windows down so as to share the tune.
Then played it a second time :tearlaugh:
I was playing all of TSO's Vids on You Tube this week....Great sounds when Decorating....and other times....
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TSO - :yes: :Hi5: :woohoo: :thumb_up:
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Absolutely
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Well, tis just another reason why I dislike turning ye ole computers off.
Finally got around to installing the three new (free) UPS from work. Powered everything off and then found that the one cord was not long enough to reach the outlet, as I have the two UPS on separate circuits, one for each computer.
Missed by 8" damn guess it will not sit in the rack as I first desired. Standing it on the edge in between the desk and back wall of the staircase did work so one down, the other piece of cake since that receptacle is right next to my rack.
Turned that one on and talk about some nail biting although the computer turned on the hard drive was not doing a damn thing as it never booted up, multiple attempts to no avail. Brought down the other spare computer and I do not know what was done to it last time I had it on but it was a complete nope not working .... blue screen of death multiple times regardless what I did in the Boot menu.
Put the original back in and tried once again this time :yesway: success.
Turned Stormbringer back on and once more get the damn we need an internet connection to renew your lease. That crap still annoys me to no end. I went off to do something else and now I know what the damn thing is doing if connected.
The damn thing is talking to Renderosity as I had seven (7) notices about rubbish that R'osity is doing or what is on sale and so forth.
I use Poser to attempt to do art, not get pestered with notices, ads, announcements.
Took the spare UPS and went over to the TV/home entertainment center and got it on UPS back up power now.
Took the other one upstairs and now not only is the third tower on UPS but so is my router. Started to set that PC up for me to be able to do work up there now. Got the internet part worked out and have Office and Acrobat installed so I can now do work on the inventory and syllabus upstairs as well. Even took the old entertainment center up there and it too is hooked up for music.
All I need to do now is network them all together so I can share files and programs across the two generic computers.
The boring part is that I had to empty my truck out so I can go to see the old man tomorrow as he has some clocks to pick up as he is downsizing.
Anyone want to buy a 4000 sq ft house on 10 acre with a pond in the center in lovely Geneva Fl. it is only $500,000.00
:thud: :tearlaugh:
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I got up one morning to find my older boy was sleeping in the younger boy's bed (the younger one is at college). When I asked why, he said that the beeping wouldn't let him sleep. The Verizon router is in the closet in his room. I had a UPS on it. The battery had died. The UPS wanted to be sure that everyone within hearing distance knew that the battery had died. Fortunately the walls are pretty thick. :sure:
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Anyone want to buy a 4000 sq ft house on 10 acre with a pond in the center in lovely Geneva Fl. it is only $500,000.00
:thud: :tearlaugh:
Does it come in multiple colors? I'll take three if it does. :crazy:
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Snicker ... maybe in the different rooms you might get that ..... :tearlaugh:
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Well if sponge painted walls are your Thing My Mother would be happy to Redo your house! O.O Not as bad as My Friends wife who is an Artist who will pull up your Carpet and go all industrial on a brand new house! O.O :thud:
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Might be taking a very long rain check on those offers :iminnocent: :tearlaugh: :thud:
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Well, all I have to say about the trip out to the old mans place is this he collects clocks like I collect books.
Can't say I have ever seen any place with clocks stacked five deep before.
Nor have I ever seen so many grandfather clocks in one place. I brought one home for me, but there is still no less then seven (7) more still there, Gods above I wish I could pick up a couple more.
But nonetheless, there so many clocks both wind up and battery that it boggled the mind.
Even saw the works of a grandfathers clock set up and ticking away, no case for the thing just the works and chime ... looked cool to me.
Heard some back story to some of the pieces which in the past always annoyed me as he does tend to ramble, today was slightly different so that is a win. Except it still take an hour to drive there and back ... :sigh:
Will have to make another trip out there though, as there is a radio that belonged to my great-grandfather that I was asked if I had room for it.
I took one look at it and said "I will make room for it"
Bottom line I wound up with four more wall clocks, three wristwatches and one pocket watch.
Yes, we too collect "things" just like he does ... :sigh:
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So if you gathered that he still has an assortment of clocks for sale you would be right ... :iminnocent:
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Sounds like you made out pretty good.
As for Rendo.....I haven't even updated mine as of yet. Don't know if the update is still available....
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I got up one morning to find my older boy was sleeping in the younger boy's bed (the younger one is at college). When I asked why, he said that the beeping wouldn't let him sleep. The Verizon router is in the closet in his room. I had a UPS on it. The battery had died. The UPS wanted to be sure that everyone within hearing distance knew that the battery had died. Fortunately the walls are pretty thick. :sure: Does it come in multiple colors? I'll take three if it does. :crazy:
The rooms are painted different colors does that count. :tearlaugh:
There is four bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, breakfast nook, kitchen, formal dining room, parlour and a foyer, plus a two car garage. Fenced, plus a gazebo on the pond and other out building as work shops
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Well, now tried to the dog and pony show with the Cruise ship install ... and nope didn't want to play nice at all.
So several problems were found some still defy the solving off.
One was somewhat simple to locate after another tech looked at the code plug. The freq's were reversed.
So I started work on the one part I knew I could manage.
However it means that all of the radios I had previously programmed need to be done again.
Well, supposedly with the first run I had enabled WiFi in each radio with the OTAP feature turned on as well, that worked all right up til I got to the 93rd radio and then :rat-atat: it stopped working
No real explanation was found by me at end of day, however tomorrow is another day so we shall see how much more trouble I can cause.
:heeheehee: Since the so called genius boy is off on PTO due to his wife having a doctors appointment tomorrow
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Internal limit of the Wifi to handle the load might be what is going on with the radios.
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Possibly, I will have a chance to check into this in further detail tomorrow ... would be cool if I can either fix or find the disconnect before Friday.
Crossing fingers that I can find the disconnect between the radios and the radio management software.
That would be ever so cool if I do .....
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Internal limit of the Wifi to handle the load might be what is going on with the radios.
According to the radio management software no more then 16 radio's at a time. And I had completed three sets of 16 prior to the last batch going belly up. So something is "squirrelly"
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Maybe they have Multiple WiFi Stations spread over the ship that are holding the load before the system maxed out.
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This happened at my shop. I haven't even got to the boat yet.
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Well, it got even more interesting this day. First off the OTAP feature still was not working this morning. Next I went ahead and started to reprogram the radios manually.
So much fun as in not so very much. Nonetheless, in addition to doing that I reprogrammed the control stations. Turned the repeaters on to check if the radios were working properly since the reprogram. :woohoo:
The :odd: thing is that when I went back to my office I saw something unusual on the device programmer. It showed the control station as having "no jobs pending" ... :ummm: I programmed it earlier so why is it showing up a second time.
Well, now that could only mean that the OTAP must be functioning again. So based on that theory I started to power up radios from the next box and "shazam" it started to function as it was supposed to, in other words within 30 - 45 seconds they were being found by the device monitor and getting the update.
Now the whacked part is that it did 11 radios and then it stopped working again. Say what ... seriously .... definitely a :OMFG: day.
Now to make things interesting I am once again due for the mandatory training to renew several of my badges. That is three hours I will never get back. Now to make it truly annoying, I have to now drive out to the airport to get my new badge for there and then drive to Seminole county and then get fingerprinted for them, and then I have to drive to a second city in the county for more fingerprints. Since for some reason that city is not on the county wide system.
Again .... seriously
Looks like tomorrow is mostly windshield time ... oh probably will be stopping in at Home Depot to pick up some rolling tool boxes for the cruise since the concept of me toting my tools on-board with a shoulder strap, is so not on my top ten. The good news is that I can put it on the company card, along with that external CD/DVD player that may or may not be needed for installing software.
Yes, that lovely new laptop they bought for all employees that need one does not come with a CD/DVD player. Big problem for the techs and quasi techs (like me) there is a lot of devices that still only load software via a disk. :iminnocent:
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Well, every bit as entertaining as I thought my day of windshield time would be ... got to the airport to renew my badge and oops sorry you are not in the system for renewal.
:thud:
Wait I got notice to do the training and this, that and the other. Well, the person who told you to do that did not put you in the system for renewal.
:OMFG: You have got to be kidding me.
So called the person who is in charge of dotting the "i" and crossing the "t" and what do I get naught but voice mail.
Great ...
Went on to my next stop on the paperwork drive. Got to the county courthouse and had to get the cyber key updated, actually had to get the battery replaced first then it updated. :tearlaugh:
Then I was able to give up the fingerprints to them and get my 2020 badge ... :o_go_on: .... whatever
At that point I finally got a call from the person who dropped the ball at the airport ... he actually had the audacity to ask if I was still out there ... ah no ... it has been two hours since I called you ... do you really think I was going to sit out here for two hours ????? so now .... I get the privilege to go back out there on Monday and try again. :rat-atat:
:sigh:
However in the meantime my next trip was to another city police department to give up fingerprints yet again.
Wish I got paid for every time I have to give fingerprints my up ... :tearlaugh:
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Go work for DoD every Department has their own Set! O.O :thud:
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That is certainly how these county and city people are here ... to say the least ... it is so annoying.
And yes, I have had two Federal background checks done, so yes another 17,256 times we have had to fill out the forms with personal info and get fingerprinted at least that many more times.
:thud: At this rate they have fingerprints of every stage of ones life :thud:
And heaven forbid you have an accident and mess up a finger :thud:
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Well, my Friday the 13th was entertaining to say the least, as in accidents on the road.
Saw no less then four of them in my driving, the first one and most interesting was the one on the on-ramp from Hwy 50 to the Turnpike. Right in the middle of the last part of the bend. two police cars, four wreckers and one big ass dumpster truck, facing the wrong way and stuck in the soft grass.
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Oh by the in the shop and heard the latest on the switches and repeaters. Yes, they are working now.
Sort of, I only say that because the radios only key up one repeater, regardless of which one is the beacon. In other words if the correct repeater is not the beacon, the portable can not key the repeater.
That is so whacked.
Here is the next :whatthe: part, was set to have to reprogram the last of the radios by hand. So started to break them out and put batteries on them so I could get rolling. Then what the hell, they started to auto-update again on their own. By the time it was over only two out of the 30 plus needed to be done by hand.
Well, not sure how that happened but will call it a win. However when I went to start the next batch, scheduled the job and then waited for it to process the job. It failed, and just to make sure I was functionally insane, I tried it three more time and got the same results.
At that point I decided to call it a day and headed on out.
I really need to stop chewing through the leather straps.
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Something is Different!
Ether the radios are not all the same or the code inside them is different?
Look at the Makers instruction book and see if they changed something between then and now. might be like for of the GPS units that need to be charged before you can program them.
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They are all XPR 7550e and ye ole fair haired project manager wrote the code plug. So as since it works sometimes but not all of the time I am leaning more to the concept of something is whacked in either the code plug he wrote or the actual radio management software.
Wont know more till Monday and that is fine by me ... need a break ... oh that is right I get to drive back out to the airport for my access renewal :thud:
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Oh and to address your first comment they are all the same make and model, they also were all manufactured in the same time frame.
As to the part of something being wrong with the default code plug on the ones not programmed that might be something to look at, the ones that had already been programmed once and had Wi-Fi turned on so I could do the over the air programming already had the new code plug in them so it is very strange behaviour no matter how I look at it.
Ah well, Monday is another day
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And what a day, got back out to the airport and now they want to see my passport for the badge, :whatthe: didn't have to provide one two years ago. You didn't ask for it when I came in last Friday and it was not written in the email telling me I might need one to renew my badge. Why cannot anyone spell it out the first time and be consistent. Yes, I know I was born overseas, but it wasn't an issue the last time so why now.
Wound up driving all the way back home (45 minutes) pick it up and drive all the way back (another 45 minutes) at least this time I got no denials of service ... at last ... although the clerk did say smart move to bring a book in to read while waiting ...
that did not make me feel good, and sure enough, eight windows of clerks to process the badge requests and only four working the other four :whatthe: who knows what they were doing.
Managed to read 36 pages while half listening to hear my name called, ignoring the back chatter around me and still follow the story.
Nonetheless, three trips out to get a badge that I will probably (if this year is any indication) use twice. All for the amazing low introductory price of $52, thank goodness the company pays for that and not me, as that would be annoying if I had to pay for it and only use it that many times. Oh, and let us not forget to give up another set of fingerprints while you are at it. :thud:
Got back to the shop and what do I hear then, oh you can pick your badge up at Universal, :sigh: you couldn't have called me and said something?
Apparently not.
Well, there is five hours I will never get back, just on renewing credentials.
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Well, don't know what the problem looked like that was causing my trouble in radio management on Friday. Cause ye ole fair hair PM fixed it and only told me what was wrong and not where to find it and fix it on my own.
Something to the effect that the configuration file had a reference to lights and siren alerts in it and a portable does not have such a feature but a mobile does, so how did those references get in the config ... :whatthe: ... great we so love mysteries :noway:
So at last was able to get that started for the other boat.
Funny thing is that he said I have the repeaters and radios working now, can key it up no problem, here let me show you.
The dog and pony show was a fail ... it didn't work ... how entertaining. Went back to his dungeon to try and sort it out. Thought he had it figured out and came back to demonstrate ... again ... no dog and pony show a second time
:tearlaugh:
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Remind Self Not to let your Manager near Important Equipment. :thud:
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Now to truly irritate me and the senior bench tech.
We are to go out to the hospital in Celebration to finish up the MedCom install and configuration at the desk top.
The claim is that the drops are ready ... so where is our IP address' so we can finish it up.
The fair hair boy says oh just get with the contact from the last install and tell him the MAC addresses and wait for them to get the IP addresses.
Can we say not frelling impressed with this slipshod BS
Oh and to make it perfect the email comes in at 3:00 in the afternoon. So make sure you drop whatever you are doing and go out there first thing in the morning. :sigh:
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Remind Self Not to let your Manager near Important Equipment. :thud:
That is certainly something that I need to start doing regularly
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Gives verification of the phrase "failing upward"
And the worst part? you can't just shoot him.
*sigh*
Take it easy Jherr
Cheers
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Gives verification of the phrase "failing upward"
And the worst part? you can't just shoot him.
*sigh*
Take it easy Jherr
Cheers
Indeed that is the troubling part ... although on this upcoming cruise (working cruise) where we are replacing their radio system. Apparently people have been known to fall overboard ... supposedly :iminnocent:
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The way things go for you on these jobs.....I'd put on a life preserver ..... JIC ...... :xmas2:
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That might work.......
After all you'll be busy fixing all the managers errors, and can't be faulted if the "overboard alarm" doesn't go off.....
Hrrrrmmmmm..... 8 )
Cheers
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That is my story and I will stick to it :tearlaugh:
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Another one of those right hand meet the left hand days.
Went out to Celebration as we were informed that they were ready for us .... NOT
Got out there and what do we find, yes they had a line out on the floor to the desks.
Problem number one ... they were not patched all the whole from the radio down to the desktop.
Excuse me ... I thought you said that you had the lines ran and patched all the way from point A to point B.
Again .... NOT
The cool part was that the supervisor for the ED department followed us around and made things happen to the best of his ability which means that we at last got proper support.
The only problem is that it was still not working by days end.
Why, well heard at the end of day that in addition to us trying to add new devices to their network, they meaning their IT department decided to add new security protocols to the network.
Which means that with us trying to add new devices at the same time ... :rat-atat: ... not working at all.
See you tomorrow morning :sigh:
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I do understand the need of security especially with PPI going across the network.
But, to not bother to say you are upgrading policies when we are out there adding equipment that the Emergency department needs to do their job is rubbish.
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Had an "IT" Guy Like That Hated People adding to his Perfect Network.
He Removed all the routers to that Department and we had to get a Isolated
line in that did not touch his stuff! :thud:
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Sounds like what I am dealing with ...
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The problem was finally sorted out. It was part on their side and part on our side. We had install a switch from the spares that the hospital has (yep, we are storing them in our shop ... go figure) However what was missed was the fact that the switch had a config in it for the Trbo system from a different site, so when we tried to tell it to ping the gateway and device IP's for the MedCom at the new location it was saying :whatthe: and that was the biggest part of the problem.
However the bottom line is that it is now working as intended even though the nurses in the Peds department are crying about us eating up their desktop space.
Granted while waiting for the IT assist we did do some research and found wall mount kits for the desk sets so ....
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Well, it has got even more interesting with Wi-Fi in the office. It comes and goes just like ... well .... there are a few analogies I could use but they are all political so I will refrain as I am certain some of you can come up with your own.
At any rate I got 44 of them completed over the Wi-Fi yesterday before it said :noway: not working any longer. Come in today and it is working again. We definitely have something crazy stupid going on in the office no doubt.
It was working from the fair haired boys office this morning then it stopped again. Took it to my office and :whatthe: it started to work again. Go figure as I cannot. At any rate kept on going and it got sort of spotty once or twice as it took some extra time for several radios to complete the update.
Oh and as to why are we touching each radio a third time. The first time you have to get the code plug in them which has the Wi-Fi protocols. The second time was because a certain someone reversed the Tx and Rx frequencies. However with the Wi-Fi enabled now it should have went lickety split and as you know it has done anything but that, however I got through them all. Now the reason for the third time we have touched these radios, that same certain person fat fingered four out of the six freq pairs.
Which although I had straightened it out the first time, seeing that they were wrong to start with did no good at all, so had to do the radios a third time.
Talk about "we get it right because we do it thrice" :tearlaugh: The fun part of the last pass through was the detail after I had finished getting the Wi-Fi to update the last radio. He comes in my office and says according to the job processor seven of them did not update, they still show as pending.
:thud:
Well, set the two new guys on looking for the serial numbers of the ones that eluded the update. Which they did and at last the first ship is now complete. That includes the base stations as those needed both the freq's straighten out and a firmware update.
The good news is that now that all of the errors and fat fingered numbers have been found and sorted, I can now program the radios for the other boat and do it one time. I hope ... well, except for the first 40 that I had done before I went to do the MedCom install. At least I did not have all 163 of them done so that is a win.
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The real fun is next week I go in on Monday, and then am off till the following Monday.
Then starting in January I will be working a three day week for the entire month so as to burn off the excess PTO instead of losing any of it.
Should just take a whole week off but I have to many loose ends and besides the other "knuckle draggers" around the place can't find anything on their own nor do they clean up after themselves you have to tell them ... which is ever so sad.
Case in point, I come in from the MedCom install and there are all the replaced emergency wall packs just laying on the bench instead of having been thrown away ... seriously ... :thud:
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:ummm: At 3074 :luvbooks: currently
I wonder how close I will get to 3100 :luvbooks: :ummm:
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A mere 26? You might do that in one trip if there are new items in your interest list. It IS Chrismas next week, after all.
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:iminnocent:
Considering there is another five being shipped as we scribble
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bly1M4VFoVk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bly1M4VFoVk)
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Just got back from my home away from home
+4
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
The Quantum Labyrinth by Paul Halpern
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
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ENJOY ENJOY......
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Always do ....
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Oops just ordered another seven ....
:sigh:
Someone has an addiction ... methinks
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Why some people should not be allowed to do cabling ... just saying
https://youtu.be/JjCxkYu10OM (https://youtu.be/JjCxkYu10OM)
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A quality install that should warm the cockles of your heart
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So Your Graduating Class has been hard at Work! :haha:
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Considering what their hands on final exam work looked like I think you might be onto something ... :tearlaugh:
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Well, we are officially off duty until Monday of next week.
:woohoo:
Did manage to get the last of the portables programmed for the other boat, along with the mobiles.
Set the new guys on the task of putting dust covers on and adding an antenna to each radio in the box.
Then we got started on setting up the repeaters, registering feature sets, activating them and then reading them into radio management and assigning alias and ID's.
Then the boss comes in and says we are closing up at 4:00
... how about that ... right after I had finished what I was hoping to accomplish. Couldn't have timed that any better if I had tried.
:tearlaugh:
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A wonderful way to end the work week. :Hi5: :yes:
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Now enjoy your Holiday Weekend HO HO HO.....
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So close and yet so far on reaching the next level of 3100 ... I missed it by .... guess .... :tearlaugh:
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Strike one
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If I strke one...that make it's 2 :woohoo:
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wrong direction :tearlaugh:
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And now Watanuki wants to play fetch .... :thud:
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Was within 7
Am at 3093
Now on to better news two day work week :woohoo:
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Uh oh, apparently I've been away for quite a while... had to peruse the previous 4 pages in order to decrypt at least partially the last one! :lostme:
Well Doc, consider yourself lucky that you can still count your books! :winks:
Last time I tried and faced such an ordeal at my place, after a couple of days I had to swallow my frustration and desist: firstly because at my age the chance to see the end of the job was negligible; secondly because something weird hiding amid the books might bite off my hand; thirdly because every time I checked off a book I couldn't resist leafing through it (but just a little), and you know all too well how this story ends... (see below :smile: )
I asked myself how the hell could so much printed material come in unnoticed and find a place on the shelves (and on the tables, on the nightstands, under the beds, in the kitchen cupboards, on my desk, in my wife's jewelry box, in the cellar, virtually in every corner of the home).
I have a few tentative answers still awaiting proof:
- weakness of character - no matter how firm my resolution, I never managed to get out of a bookstore empty-handed. The same goes for the wife. Nothing to do, incurable.
- too many sadistic friends - what shall we get Chiron and Chironess for Christmas? Well, they like books...
- physiological inability to get rid of a book - regardless of its quality, once you read a book it becomes a part of yourself. Giving it away would be like giving away a piece of your soul.
- delusion of omniscience - once you close a book you think you'll retain its contents forever. Any attempt to disprove that will only result in reading that book again to recover the forgotten info.
- too small a home - not a realistic answer actually: whatever the size of your home, you'll eventually fill it with books to the ceiling. It's only a matter of time.
Would your personal experience support any of the above? :winks: :luvbooks:
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Uh oh, apparently I've been away for quite a while... had to peruse the previous 4 pages in order to decrypt at least partially the last one! :lostme:
Well Doc, consider yourself lucky that you can still count your books! :winks:
Last time I tried and faced such an ordeal at my place, after a couple of days I had to swallow my frustration and desist: firstly because at my age the chance to see the end of the job was negligible; secondly because something weird hiding amid the books might bite off my hand; thirdly because every time I checked off a book I couldn't resist leafing through it (but just a little), and you know all too well how this story ends... (see below :smile: )
I asked myself how the hell could so much printed material come in unnoticed and find a place on the shelves (and on the tables, on the nightstands, under the beds, in the kitchen cupboards, on my desk, in my wife's jewelry box, in the cellar, virtually in every corner of the home).
I have a few tentative answers still awaiting proof:
- weakness of character - no matter how firm my resolution, I never managed to get out of a bookstore empty-handed. The same goes for the wife. Nothing to do, incurable.
- too many sadistic friends - what shall we get Chiron and Chironess for Christmas? Well, they like books...
- physiological inability to get rid of a book - regardless of its quality, once you read a book it becomes a part of yourself. Giving it away would be like giving away a piece of your soul.
- delusion of omniscience - once you close a book you think you'll retain its contents forever. Any attempt to disprove that will only result in reading that book again to recover the forgotten info.
- too small a home - not a realistic answer actually: whatever the size of your home, you'll eventually fill it with books to the ceiling. It's only a matter of time.
Would your personal experience support any of the above? :winks: :luvbooks:
We are a touch worse, my car cannot go past a bookstore with out pulling in and then getting out empty handed is an exercise in futility. Yes, incurable.
Inability to get rid of a book, absolutely as no one will give it a better home or treat it properly except myself. Add to the part of having read it once it is no longer able to depart said residence.
The only delusion is that I could have sworn I had that in my library, then get lost for hours trying to find it only to realize that I never had it to begin with, get a new copy and return home only to find it tucked away in a corner.
We have a wee bit of time before that will ever be a home with the home. Although 20 bookcases is eating up the available wall space rapidly, the beauty is that they are currently all single stacked book cases with no double stacking ... yet.
As to how it gets in without being noticed, I will have to blame it on Professor Chronotis in Shada w/Tom Baker as the Doctor.
After he upends a briefcase of books and papers on a dining table. "Excuse the muddle, creative disarray."
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Well, what a wonderful start to my day, got all the way to work before I realized that I did not have tee backpack with me (it has my lap top in it) so had to turn around and go all the way back home to get it and then drive back to the shop. :sigh:
Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps.
And what an absolute slow day that had no pressing work that needed attention, such as the rest of the repeaters for the cruise ships, why because the fair haired project manager did not come in again today, turns out he is sick again :thud: damn youngsters.
Had but one bit of excitement a consolette came in from one of the city police departments because it was overheating.
Well swapped out the fan and set it to running and listened to traffic on it for a while and after a couple of hours yes, it still overheated again. Well, ran it back through the front desk office lady to order a new power supply.
Bonus was the other office lady ordered pizza for the entire shop. :hny schultz 02:
Well, the only thing left for me to do was to go back to work on my tests and syllabus for next fall semester. :iminnocent: Yes, I keep the files and book with me just in case I get a moment.
Completed two more exams and answer keys, plus tweaked a couple questions for correct verbiage.
And we are now off till the 6th of January
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I suspected it was quiet at your work since you were chatty in here :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Well, seriously surprised was back at doing inventory for the library and am currently getting into the manga section.
Just grabbing at random and entering the details and got to the series titled
Princess Resurrection
Interesting bit is I only have seven volumes, however there is supposedly more, did the research, yep there are more and all in a language I can not read :sigh:
The real fun bit is the quote on the inside front cover
That is not dead
which can eternal lie
and with strange eons
even death may die
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A quote from "Call of Cthulu" if memory doesn't betray.
Sounds like an interesting read.
Cheers
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You are absolutely correct, which obviously is another volume in my collection volume #1062
Princess Resurrection is a seven volume manga with a 24 episode anime to go with it.
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As long as they weren't destroyed ny flood and hurricane, I have all Lovecrafts boockes as well as Derleth and Dunsany, the trio for the Cthulu ancient olde ones stories.
Somewhere I have a boocke by Blocke that detailed how they corresponded to create the mythos.
Cheers.... Readers Unite!
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Lot of Manga today is going Digital. Makes it hard to get them all in Paper.
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Interesting that would be to find the volume detailing how the mythos came to be, just did a brief search and it is unavailable at the one spot I typically buy from, might have to be doing some further digging.
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This book?
A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos by John D. Haefele
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Lot of Manga today is going Digital. Makes it hard to get them all in Paper.
Worse still is the concept of them taking a while to get from one volume to the next. I have one series that claims to stick around for volume four and just did some research and found out that the English publisher cancellenting :
Worse still is that according to the research there was at least 11 volumes and guess what not a single one is available.
:sigh:
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This book?
A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos by John D. Haefele
Looks good can only get it at Amazon but that is not a deal killer so
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Haefele sounds familiar. I think the R. Bloch was an article in fantastic stories. So many boockes and articles I tend to lose track of where I read what.
*sigh*
Here's one dor ye Jherr..... Whomjabbadapolaandovaxisi.
Heh....
Cheers
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Whomjabbadapolaandovaxisi.
Heh....
Cheers
:OMG:
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It might make sense if you place "Doctor" in front.
8 )
Cheers
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I must be incredibly dense as I typed in Doctor in front of it and the search engine still gave me nothing.
You have me sort of, kind of, maybe stumped on this one for sure.
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No worries, it was an obscure article in a now defunct SF magazine.Let's see........
William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, John Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, Sylvestre McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt, Chris Eccelston, David Tenant, MAtt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker.
From the base series all played the character named above, I think 3 actually know the name.
Cheers
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I got the Dr Who part the rest I have no idea unless it is about the current failure.
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Seconded
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No, wayback when Bill Hartnell was the doctor, his name was stated as being Doctor Whomjabbadapolaandovaxisi, to give an otherworldly flair to the character, but Verity decided that just Doctor Who would give a more mysterious feel. and just The Doctor would create great mystery and drama...
Worked as 50+ years later the series is going strong. I'm a bit confused with the dislike of Jodie's Doctor as the non binary nature of timelords was established as far back as Tennant, reinforced by Smith. Master\Mistress.
Cheers
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Well I stopped at Tom Baker So the Newer stuff is Not Cannon for Me.
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I see where BBC had a Doctor Who Marathon throughout the Holidays.....
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No, wayback when Bill Hartnell was the doctor, his name was stated as being Doctor Whomjabbadapolaandovaxisi, to give an otherworldly flair to the character, but Verity decided that just Doctor Who would give a more mysterious feel. and just The Doctor would create great mystery and drama...
Worked as 50+ years later the series is going strong. I'm a bit confused with the dislike of Jodie's Doctor as the non binary nature of timelords was established as far back as Tennant, reinforced by Smith. Master\Mistress.
Cheers
Well, that explains the name
as to the list of Doctors I started on Tom Baker and worked my way through all of them. Definitely like the classic seasons more so then the newer one. Eccelston was not bad, Tenant and Matt Smith were quite decent after a bit. Capaldi took a bit longer but he was also decent. The one off with McGann was decent, however the anniversary episode with John Hurt was spectacular.
As to Jodie the story writers for her first season is what killed it for me. I am sorry but to much political correctness and so forth. That is not what the Dr Who is about, just saying. The Christmas release was decent as it brought the Daleks back so did enjoy that episode.
I have hopes that the new season will return to the tried and true formula, instead of trying to portray a political slant/bias .... but I will not know till it comes to me on video on this side of the pond.
I do not watch any TV programming so I wait till it is released on video. Might not like where it has gone but I am a collector and will continue to collect all episodes of Dr. Who.
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A long time ago when Television used Aerials to recieve, there was a neat thing called an athmospheric bounce. That's where the signal bounced off the ionosphere from far away.
Whilst living in Texas in 63, caught a skip from canada, saw a programme, titled "An Unearthly Child" Found out it was Dr Who. decade later watched it on WGBH Boston, with John Pertwee. Fell in love with the series, recorded the episodes on VHS. Starting with Eccleston, I recorded on DVD, to where I am now, mid last season DVD failure.
*sigh*
Cheers
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Worse, First episode was "Logopolis" with Tom Baker
And now we have each and every episode from the Unearthly Child all the way till now.
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Ouch, That was the end of Bakers tenure. Davidson took over and was hamstrung by the producer. Dinnae want Peter to be funny. a shame as he's hilarious once he gets going. ... ... ... ...sorry brain circuit just did a slipped mickey quick flip. lost all track of thoughts and concept.... 8 \
Cheers
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Tis all good as mentioned I have every episode
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Richard Hurndell, David Bradley played the first Doctor in the later series. Naturally Peter Cushing did the 2 Hammer movies.
Love the series, even the episodes taken from the Quatermass series. I have all the episodes, and access to the ones that I missed.
Happiness is a warm temporal circuit in the Tardis.
Cheers
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Haefele sounds familiar. I think the R. Bloch was an article in fantastic stories. So many boockes and articles I tend to lose track of where I read what.
*sigh*
Here's one dor ye Jherr..... Whomjabbadapolaandovaxisi.
Heh....
Cheers
Here is a better one
Dr. Caligari
What episode did the Doctor actually refer to himself by that name?
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I want to say Brain of Morbius, but I'n not sure.... I do know it was T Baker I think.
Then again. it does sound like something Pertwee would say.....
Hrrrr,mmmmmmmm........
Cheers
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Try William Hartnell with Dodo and Steven
Now can you guess?
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Celestial Toymaker with Michael Gough?
Although a referance to "The Cabinet of Dr Calagari" would go over most peoples heads, it did mine.
Man.... memory retrieval is getting quite a workout, I have to turn the exhaust fan.
8 )
Cheers
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Nope, the Doctor actually named himself as Dr. Calagari in "The Gunfighters" when talking to Wyatt Earp
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That's the one where Steven sang "Last Chance Saloon"?
I'll have to rebelt the VCR and rewatch that.
Cheers
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Yes it is
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Do you remember the earlier Cybermen? their voices always sounded sad to me, then after McCoy they started to sound more like the Daleks. That irked me slightly, bad enough they expressed surprise.Of course Terry's Daleks were always meglomaniacal "terrified children" in their speach.
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Fun when memory kinda works,
Cheers
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Well, had the dubious pleasure and honor to have to go back to Bunnell to wire up more -48 V equipment that was not in the original scope of work.
I so detest the 1-3/4 hr drive there and back, granted as it is travel time I do get paid for it, so small consolation.
You would think after being in the business for 90 years project engineers would have a clue as to what is needed and get it right the first time. But, I guess we are in that fantasy world of mine again.
Anyway the day could not have got off to a worse start if it tried harder, and yes the day is over and I am home so we are not challenging it, Lords knows if I had said that earlier all hell would break loose.
How bad was the start of my day .... got stuck in the mud, hit a patch on the road up to the tower and the next thing I know ... BANG ... no more forward motion. Fortunately was able to get one of the county guys that was getting ready to do his thing on a dozer to throw a strap around his bucket and slip it over my trailer hitch and he was able to pull me back onto solid ground. But, man it was so not a good start ...
Add insult to injury my feet got wet while going back and forth trying to get help and then the other guy showed up. Good thing to since I had no keys to get into the sites and had four sites to go to bailing out project managers that make twice or three times what I do .... and they still can't their act together :shrug:
Next bit of fun I was told that the drawings I had were up to date and would tell me where to land the new equipment. Looked at all of the emails concerning it yesterday and talk about a pack of LIES ... The only thing it showed was the existing that was already there, the other guy who was with me sent a message of to ye ole project manager saying :whatthe: and he send back the same document that we had .. :sigh:
What ever I am landing them wherever and you lot can just deal with it. Going to have to write up a proper document stating what is landed where but that is just a couple of minutes, and then off via email to the :ummm: yeah that person.
The only ray of sunshine in this whole silliness was that when we went to he second site, there was nothing to be done :woohoo:
Went to the third site and had the same amount of work to do as I did at the first site (4 new pieces of equipment). Wrapped that up by noon and then moved on to the last site and :woohoo: nothing needed to be done there.
So after a shaky start was able to get everything done and was back home by 2:30, (after leaving at 6:00AM) instead of dark thirty
Got to love it, and yes I do
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No idea what today's task will be (since I am off Thursday and Friday) I seem to recall that it might be round two of the dog and pony show for the cruise ships .
Hope so since I have done most all of the work on programming and setting it up. Did not do any of the the networking part of it but nevertheless I did all of the rest of the set up, initial programming and inventory for the project.
And since the last show the quirky bugs that mar the performance of the first show have been squashed so it should be smooth sailing if indeed we have a round two show today.
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Additionally, looks like the first set of the Florida State Public Safety project is going to be starting soon.
Heard on Monday when told that you need to go back to Flagler county to add in the new devices to the DC Breaker Panel, that Volusia county will be starting next and will have 15, yes 15 new sites, going up and that they will all be configured the same way. :sigh:
Why do I see an unreasonable amount of windshield time in my future?
:thud:
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Well, you could schedual vacation time during the longer trips.....
Just a thought.
Cheers
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With how rapidly my PTO accrues I would love to do so and say sorry can't help you.
But, I already know I would be denied for some reason ye ole shop manager trusts me to do the DC wiring, must have something to do with my past as a licensed electrician.
:tearlaugh:
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Well, just finished the dog and pony show and it looks like the end of this month it will be time to get seasick on a cruise while installing a new system from the ground up.
:puah:
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Well just got a confirmation email today, and yes we are out of pocket from the 31st of Jan till the 3rd of Feb for the UHF upgrade on their boat ... which ought to be interesting as there seems to be several other projects that are to be worked on, or completed by months end and I am still only one person.
You all should thank all the Gods you know and and any "ehem" ones that there is not more then one of me ... I am quite certain that this point in the space time continuum, more then one of me is not a good thing.
:iminnocent:
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Guess the only thing I need to do is get a external DVD drive for the computer. Damn new laptop came with nothing.
And if I am going to be on a boat in the middle of nowhere I need me some video .... :tearlaugh:
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Comes with a Case too! :coffeemaker:
https://www.amazon.com/External-ROOFULL-Portable-Protective-Carrying/dp/B07V4J3WBW?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-brave-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07V4J3WBW
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Looks good just need to get it before the 30th
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Well just got a confirmation email today, and yes we are out of pocket from the 31st of Jan till the 3rd of Feb for the UHF upgrade on their boat ... which ought to be interesting as there seems to be several other projects that are to be worked on, or completed by months end and I am still only one person.
You all should thank all the Gods you know and and any "ehem" ones that there is not more then one of me ... I am quite certain that this point in the space time continuum, more then one of me is not a good thing.
:iminnocent:
More than one of you would be quite a scary notion :nopanic; ... would each one come with an own Kianna? :nurse:
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More than one of you would be quite a scary notion :nopanic; ... would each one come with an own Kianna? :nurse:
Now that is an idea :heeheehee:
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Looks like it will be an interesting week, why .... because I have a site walk on Tuesday at Disney Reedy Creek for another base station.
Going in blind on that one ... but what else is new.
Then we still are waiting on paperwork from Disney Cruise Lines, although I am starting to believe they are not going to provide any documents for me. Will just have to make my own and go forward and seal them when done and send them to our rep so they can load them on the boat which will make life easier.
Not happy about the loss of "chain of custody" but it will certainly make my life simpler.
Then to add insult to injury that "hurry up and get it done" project for inter-operability on the county system. The system techs claim that the consolette are ready for install.
:sigh:
The bonus is that although Monday is a school holiday and I do not have to teach class, it is also still a three day week for me, tis the last one for a while, but it is still a three day week.
Why because the following week is going to be the week of the cruise and based on how the days fall out it will be a two week stretch with no time off.
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but the overtime.... trapped on a boat..... think overtime.
Cheers
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I am ..... however the downside is that there will be a large amount of children on board and as a single person with no children skills ... that should be quite interesting ... sort of, kind of, maybe ....
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Hrrrmmmmm..... Usually all I do is smile at the anklebiters... and they run screaming.
Or you can ask if the mini human belongs to anyone, or is it a free range snack.
>8 )
Cheers
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Rowan Atkinson Live - Headmaster kills student :coffeemaker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppVpdsClN80
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Liking the suggestions
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Hrrrmmmmm..... Usually all I do is smile at the anklebiters... and they run screaming.
Or you can ask if the mini human belongs to anyone, or is it a free range snack.
>8 )
Cheers
That has worked in the past for me as well .. :heeheehee:
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And what do I find out when I got to work, today is a paid holiday and I forgot completely.
:thud:
So only a two day work week. :thud:
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And went in to work this morn and get all sort of flack, oh once you get done with your site walk this morning I need you to go over to Reedy Creek to install the inter-op console.
It will take a mag mount antenna ... well that is great I guess I have to leave now to drive back to the prime site to pick everything up and then drive all the way back to EPCOT.
Oh we picked it all up last Friday, ... After I checked ... sure ... where are the power cords and the antenna.
So had to drive all the way back to the prime site to get the missing parts. Then had to drive all the way to EPCOT for my site walk that yes, I was late for due to the bungling by others.
Then had to drive to the Reedy Creek site to install this "precious" inter-op console ... yep ... sarcasm in bold, capital letters, underlined and in bright shining lights.
Oh and to make it even more interesting I am to go back to Flagler county tomorrow morning because, ye ole boss that sits at the desk said that yes the last site DC power will be completed ... :rat-atat: .... by Friday ... I call that someones alligator mouth overriding their canary asshole. Considering that I am scheduled to take Thursday and Friday off.
He is not doing the work, I am and I am sorry but I have PTO still to use or loose and that will not happen.
You don't let me take time off during the year, because there is so much work to be done and for some reason I am the only one that can do it, :whatthe: well, you made your bed then in my opinion, because now we have have to take a lot of time or loose it, and as mentioned above ... NOPE .... NADA .... :noway: ... you have no one to blame but yourself.
And to make it interesting, I just passed the next threshold and have earned additional PTO hours this year (28 days) now.
Let us see if he learns the lesson .... not holding my breath
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Hoisted by his own punchcard.
Whilst you're on PTO, you *could* suggest double pay with bonus' then you'd *consider* coming in.
I found when you strangle their wallet, they pay attention.
Gods I'm glad I'm retired.
sometimes.
Cheers
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That might work, except the last time (yep he didn't learn from it) more or less said point blank, don't care about how you feel, the work has to be done.
That was before I was taking the PTO off and wound up working over 20 hours of OT, which as we all know after a certain threshold they take more out, so the point of working all that OT is ... moot
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Well, we got ever so lucky yesterday, sort of ... After a nice just shy of two hour drive to the site. Which by the way the GPS said you have arrived but I saw no road or dirt trail at all till the second time I drove by it, talk about being hidden. I mean yes I could see the tower kind of hard to miss a 300' self supporter, just took two attempts to find the path to it.
Anyway once we got inside and set up, did the assessment of what needed to be done and did I have everything, we got started. Went pretty well for the most part and once I got to a point that we needed lines extended to the main panels, got the other guy on the project seeing as he was done with the antenna lines. Well, at least as far as he could go since there were tower guys outside still running lines and hanging antennas. :ummm: And this is supposed to be done by tomorrow, when the tower crew was not even complete ... they need to stop fibbing, granted we are actually in a better place since we are waiting on others and not the other way around.
Anyway while I was working on the breaker panels in the top of the rack and the inverters I had him start on extending all of the 14AWG wires to the front. Once I was done with the racks I moved to the main panel and started to sort out what I needed and in which panel they needed to be. Had a bit of a moment because there were some duplicated labels but that was sorted out quickly and got back on track in a timely manner.
Almost got put in the dirt because I ran out of the proper lugs for the mains, however we still had butt splices that would enable me to use the jumpers for the panel boxes on the rack to enable me to finish the job. Got the go ahead from the boss before I did it though.
Yes, even finished with a half hour to spare since I did have to teach class last night in addition to the day's adventure.
Did a hot check on the work before leaving, and lo and behold even with the momentary lapse of what I was doing, I got it right the first time so definitely a win and apparently someone came out there and put in breakers in the breaker boxes on the racks. I didn't see any when the racks were at the shop and had made a list of the shortages. Which means that not only did everything get wired but there were breakers enough to go around and all systems powered on as they were supposed to, all I had left to do was the almost two hour return trip back to my side of town for class and then finally home.
Oh by the way, the morning started at a brisk 38° and never got warmer then 53° with on and off wind all day long.
And yes, since I got it all done I am off today and tomorrow :yesway: :cheer: Calling that a win
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AHhh... tis wonderful when the gremlins are off elsewhere not paying attention to ye.
Enjoy our time off.
Cheers
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Indeed the gremlins were pestering ye ole boss. The other installer was supposed to have been going over to Apopka to finish the install of the inter-op radios ... called in sick ... yep ... what a hoot and :yesway: that was sarcasm.
So ye ole boss picked up material from me to be able to do the last connections.
Oh by the way apparently I am the only one that carries a wide variety of material on the vehicle to the point of being able to fix, upgrade, install just about any thing. Another beef I have with the other guys they do not have any material and never think to restock or ask for stock for their trucks. :whatthe: How are you supposed to get anything done if you do not have random install material.
Now just to clear the air they are not a standard CAT5 connection (568B) ... not even close :noway:
Motorola has more wire connections and patterns then a dog has fleas.
Just saying
However it appears that I am so far the only one besides a system tech who can make the connection and get it right the first time.
Yes, ye ole boss and one of the new guys attempted to do them and gave up ... I even gave them the paperwork on how to pin it out and all the material and they still were unable.
Boy howdy, they would be in a world of hurt if I were to up and leave for whatever reason ... :iminnocent:
Maybe they will not take me granted as much any longer ... well it did sound good in my head.
Reality says .. don't get your hopes up.
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Well, the gremlins struck but on a different front and project.
Go figure the Disney cruise trip called in today (while I was off) to the other tech who was to be on the trip and said "oops, we overbooked it and do not have any room for you this time around.
The earliest that all the stars and paths line up now is the 21st of Feb. :tearlaugh:
Wow a big cruise line and you can't figure out that you were overbooked a week and a half ago when we put in our request for rooms to do the UHF upgrade on your behalf.
WOW such skill and expertise in their daily tasks cannot be equaled .....
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Time to unwind and relax ... :yesway: .... Dr. Who marathon Matt Smith 7th season
Watching at the moment "The Asylum of the Daleks: and loving every minute of it
Up next "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"
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Starting "The Rings of Akhaten" now
Don't panic I watched all the episode between the two.
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Wow got a text message from the hospital in Celebration asking what is wrong with the remotes for the MedCom. Oh, great took a look at the picture he sent and told him that it looked like it had lost power and it just needed to be rebooted.
One could have hoped it would be that simple, however he texted back with problems still present. So called him this time instead and tried to sort out what was up and it was even worse then first thought.
Had to call the senior tech and outlined what was wrong and he then took over since I am off duty today. Crazy that the customer calls us first instead of the office, guess that is the problem when I have to call them as my point of contact to do the work to begin with, they just automatically assume that if there is a problem let us all the person who installed it.
Go figure
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Never consult the manniken when the mechanic is nearby.
Cheers
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Had to make another trip out to BFE or in other words the old mans place. Yep, location "nowhere" middle of, 45 miles from my place.
Any way he is downsizing as they are moving into a retirement home. The step mother failed some stress tests and it they decided it was time to downsize and move. Just heard the appraisal price is $675K, 10 acres of land and a 4,000 square foot place.
However picked up some of the family items, as in has been in the family since I was a little kid.
Or in this case I brought home the radio that my grandfather had back in the day.
Yes, tubes and capacitors, broadcast radio (AM) is what the user manual calls it ... however it gets better it is also a shortwave radio.
Built in 1935/1936
:thud:
Had no idea that they even made them like that anyway for those of you that like to read specs follow the link
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_a65.html (https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_a65.html)
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With all the stuff you've been bringing home you'll have to UPSIZE. LOL
That's what we've had to do with Mom. The house was officially sold on January 24th. A lot of the items Mom and Hughie (Stepfather....who passed away) had we not antiques. Mom now lives by my brother (10 minutes away) in a two bedroom Apartment. It's a secure place built for the elderly who can fend for themselves.
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A few pics of the new radio ...
Two of the front and one of the tube and capacitor array and one of the speaker in the base of the unit.
The clock on top of it is electric and came with it, do not know the story behind it though
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Looks to be in GREAT SHAPE....Love it....and am Jealous LOLOL
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Well if You need parts!
https://www.thetubestore.com/ (https://www.thetubestore.com/)
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A few pics of the new radio ...
Two of the front and one of the tube and capacitor array and one of the speaker in the base of the unit.
The clock on top of it is electric and came with it, do not know the story behind it though
Touching! :cry2:
How not to recall the first time I inadvertently caught the 450V anode voltage between thumb and forefinger? An electrifying, instructive, unforgettable experience... :lightning:
:tearlaugh:
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Another one of those days that required windshield time.
:thud:
On the road and made it to the Matanza site. What was the problem this time. Oh by the way the breakers for the mains for each rack of equipment needed to be moved to a different buss in the DC power panel.
How boring you called me up there to move four single pole breakers and two three pole breakers
:whatthe:
The only reason I am saying anything is that all of the six other sites were done by others and they couldn't do these as well, WTF
How boring, damn rubbish.
The bad news though is that while moving the first breaker, so far so good went to put the final turn on the bolt for the breaker and what happened ... yep twisted the bolt right off.
WHAT
That is so much nonsense, great a broken bolt in the buss and no replacement holder for the breaker and now somehow I have to get that out and get the breaker back on that spot in the panel.
:sigh:
Well, first things first moved the lines to a different breaker and moved it up to the other bus. Then moved the other breaker up, powered that side back up. Then moved the other two breakers up, once I learned the trick to those damn things.
Such as hand tight no ratchet on the them to tighten them down. Turns out the bolts holding the breakers in are no more then plated copper. No wonder I was able to break one off just by looking at it.
Good thing I learned that on a single pole breaker because as mention when I went to the other site that needed to have breakers moved, yes someone moved the easy ones and left the three pole breakers for others ... as in me.
:rat-atat:
Hell, just pulling them out was a challenge ... got them out and having learned my lesson at the other site, I was cautious to the point of paranoia moving them. Was able to get them moved up with no real trouble, had a little heart thump trying to get the last one moved up it was fighting me on the threading of the bolts into the buss. Backed off and relaxed, and tried again and finally it threaded in with no cross threading. Yep, that was told to me after I broke the first one , that there is a danger of cross threading them if not cautious.
Thanks a lot ... couldn't have said that sooner.
Drove back to the other site and met the boss back there as he went to get tools that I don't have ... :thud: ... me not have specialty tools just because they are available :ummm: how odd.
Anyway time to bring the rectifier buss down along with the battery strings and then finally started the nail biting part of drilling the broken bolt so as to insert an "easy-out" to attempt to remove the bolt.
Emphasis on "attempt"
So what happened, while drilling the bolt the bit caught several times and what did it do, but threaded the bolt all the way through until it dropped out the back side of the buss.
Didn't expect that ... now for the $17,256 question where did it roll off to ????
Eventually it was located and a way was devised to push it to a spot where it could be retrieved :yippee:
Now time put everything back together and then normalize the site and start turning everything back on. Oops trying to thread the bolt back in the spot where it needed to go had another heart in the throat moment, as the threading in was fighting me, backed off and relaxed multiple times and then finally it threaded in as intended. :sigh:
Well, at last all was energized and after checking it did look like all was good. Although the rectifier bank controller was throwing an error message and it turns out that there was a device missed that was not wired previously ... whew ... good news it is something that I don't have to deal with, :woohoo:
Finally all done and drove back home .... what a day.
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Copper plated zinc from China! Now in Your Home! :cheer:
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Oh joy and this is in a public safety radio tower site.
Got to love it :thud:
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Wait till You get the Chrome ones in your Car! :woohoo:
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I think I would prefer to wait a very long time on that "gift"
Fortunately the personal car is a 2008 and still might have one or two bolts and screws made of real metal.
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How very droll went out to go to work this morning and started ye ole truck up and what do I get as a gift.
Low tire pressure alarm (11#)
:whatthe: got out and looked and sure enough flatter then, ... well one of those
An hour later after I get it changed looking at the tire I see a gouge in the tread and a nail in it as well .... I loathe Flagler county with great intensity.
Since that is where I was at yesterday, that is the only place it could have occurred. I am just surprised I made it home without having this become an issue while trying to get home.
Someone is definitely looking out for me
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Remember When they Would Let You patch a Flat now days you have to buy a new tire so your insurance will cover You! :cheer:
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If it wasn't for the gouge in the tread they would have patched it for me, and apparently ye ole Lease plan that manages the vehicles doesn't even flinch, as they have done it already to one of the tires on the truck and allowed it.
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I ended up with a nail in my SUV last year and took it down to PUMPS tire repair and got a patch put on...cost me nothing with my insurance......Gotta love Statefarm....
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O.o You all must be lucky I get the sidewall Nailed and they will not Patch it.
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You are so right on that...sidewall they won't repair. Mine was right in between the tire treads.......
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Liability issues with a sidewall puncture. As it "might" have damaged the sidewall threads. When I was a tyrebuster years ago, the rule was no patch sidewall as it may blowout violently.
Cheers
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Indeed I would not allow a sidewall patch just for that reason. Tread as in between them not a major issue in my mind and that is where the problem was on the first tire.
The second though had tread shaved off plus a nail so yes, for me a new tire makes sense
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Okay, scary part I added up the W-2 for my jobs and was surprised by the final number before taxes.
Granted I plan according to my take home but still the before number was scary.
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As you might have guessed there are days that I feel like the proverbial mushroom.
No information until the "oh by the way moment"
Well, yesterday while sorting out just exactly which style of connector is available for the 7/8" coaxial I have and or need for an upcoming project I get the phone call saying oh by the way I will be out of town all week and I need you to go to a kick off meeting over at Disney.
Okay ... Well, I am no longer in the dark now just the one kickoff meeting indicated that is is another "xx" projects all on the board to be completed this year, in addition to the one I did a site walk for at the end of Jan.
Then what to my surprise I get invited to a phone conference call right before I leave that meeting/site walk for yet another project for the boats.
Sat in on that one while driving back to the shop and I guess no one could hear me, but I could hear them just fine I got volun-told that I will be going to Miami for a site survey of the one boat down there and it sounded like I was getting volun-told that I will be doing another maybe in New Orleans?
:whatthe:
And before I forget let us recall that on the 21st I go out on the first boat for the weekend to do the first install.
I think February is to short of a month to cram all this in during the last two weeks.
:iminnocent:
Just saying
Another tidbit, from the class I teach apparently starting in the fall semester they are cutting class by two nights because ye ole coordinators need more time to process the paperwork before the Christmas break.
:thud: And me with a new textbook starting in the fall semester, we now have to adjust the pace of the material, to still cover the important stuff, have hands on practice and time for the mid-term and final exams.
Sounds like crazy talk to me
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:(ROFLMAO: But You are in the loop! or is it a Spiral Downward? :woohoo:
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Afraid to check :tearlaugh:
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Okay, scary part I added up the W-2 for my jobs and was surprised by the final number before taxes.
Granted I plan according to my take home but still the before number was scary.
:sad:
Well my first pass says I owe this year, although it is a paltry amount for a change. In a way, I guess it is okay since if it was a refund that would mean they have been holding onto my money all year "interest free"
:rat-atat:
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At last ye ole fair haired genius boy got the switches for the next boat finished today. So at last I can put it all together on my staging rack and fire it up for testing.
Fun part finally got ye ole FHGB to show how the monitoring program Genesis is configured and set up. The boring part is that he just ran through it all pushing the buttons himself.
I said that did no good as I learned nothing because you pushed the buttons.
So got him to erase the config so I could start from scratch .... now that was much better.
Almost can understand what is going on there, I poked all the main menu drop downs and that was educational and surprise, surprise I didn't break anything ... :thud: how boring
Part two of my day was (with help from the senior bench tech) updating the code plug in my test radio to include the cruise line settings so we now have a test radio for testing when on board, once done we saved the code plug to a thumb drive so the senior tech could do additional work on the code plug, since for some reason my radio has different features in it then his does and I could not just clone the updated code plug due to that detail.
Fussy ass radio ...
Nonetheless by days end we could talk to each other on the ships freq's
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Next day on the cruise ship prep got the computer with the monitoring program installed, configured and rolling. Add some extra bells to it such as a copy of the programming software plus the passwords to be able to program on the fly.
Was shown how to set up talk group names and run reports so getting a little more comfortable. Trick was learning the steps to set up a new admin account as the default dies after 15 minutes if idle. Got that sorted so all is well with the system. no error codes, no fault lights, just running fat and happy.
:woohoo:
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Just now occurred to me what good does it for them to have the ability to program a radio that had a problem or actually any device in the roll out if they do not have a copy of the code plug that is "uncorrupted"
Guess we had better mention that tomorrow to FHGB, since as mentioned I am starting to pack and sort out tools and what not for the trip.
Granted working on the stuff that I do not need to have on hand daily, but still trying to get ahead of the game.
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At any rate he is supposed to be back tomorrow and maybe we can get him to go over the proposed cut over because I read it a second time today and have several questions as to why he has said one thing but wrote down something else.
Man ... consistency is the name of the game
Some people especially those of us that take thing literal prefer special instructions to be precise and in detail.
After reading it a second time I see that the outline is full of gaps and that if I were to give this to one of the other installers they would foul it up .... in bright shining lights with fireworks.
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:tearlaugh: Tomorrow is Black Friday for me .... and before anyone says get over it and move on
I already have .....
Doesn't mean that I have forgotten having, my still beating heart ripped out of my chest and stomped on with four inch high heels
:iminnocent:
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Site walk today to bring another hospital on line with the rest of the chain ... and guess what there is actually no room whatsoever in the only comm room in the facility.
Between the Trbo system and then adding a MedCom set up, there is no way it would ever fit in that room, nor could I get antenna lines to the roof and the list of challenges just get longer and longer :thud:
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Had a second site walk at the hotel chain that we maintain, they had a power outage that was over three hours long guess, what died.
Yep, the radio system, two reason obviously no UPS holds for that long and two the circuit had no generator back up.
Well, it does and it doesn't the generator power is only available via a static transfer switch, meaning you have to go up the 26 flights of stairs to get to the room to manually transfer power.
:thud:
Yep, let me put that on my top ten list of things to do during a power outage.
:noway:
Anyway put together a list of maybe five different solutions to correct the problem, gave to ye ole FHGB and it is on his list of things to do in regards to making my document "diplomatic" and forwarding the list to the customer and go forward from there.
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Well When you got the money they install this mess!
Tripp Lite SU8000RT3UHW 80000VA Smart Online Double-Conversion UPS, 6U Rack/Tower, 200-240V Hardwire output $4,594.64
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:thud: :yesway:
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Just got volun-told today that you are going to New Orleans on the 6th of March for the DCL boat site walk for Wonder.
Oh yes, just to make it interesting ... Mardi-Gras is in full swing.
:thud: Seems like the company will not pay out bail money :tearlaugh:
Having never been to Mardi-Gras I have no idea what is to be expected, the front office lady did find out that we will miss the "Bosom Buddies and Breast Friends" portion of the event.
:thud: Damn it, :sigh:
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It is a very enjoyable CHAOS.....Been there twice...Both on Company time.....remember the second time very well since I had given up drinking...but have no idea about the first time...but I didn't end up in jail...nor in my Hotel Room.... :thud:
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And never fear about bare breast not being shown....Every night the balcony folks will have many baring the boobs and throwing out beads to all.....and that's all year round.....
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:pervy: moments then abound is what you are saying.
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Crocodile Dundee "lady" in bar :woohoo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6fgPX3NjyA
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Been out all day working on the new syllabus for next semester. Finally getting started on the Optical Fiber portion, so far just chapter talking points but still on the last chapter and almost done with the easy part.
Then we have to write exams :thud: should not be to much trouble as the first ones went rather easily.
Never got around to finishing my taxes :tearlaugh:
The real fun begins on the morrow, get to go to the bus depot for the school board, have 120 radios to program. Shouldn't be too bad with two of us doing it, and since I am driving straight there don't have to fiddle around with shop nonsense in the morning.
After Wednesday afternoon all bets are off since that is the start of the debacle know as boat site walk followed by a boat install.
:sigh:
Well, now was minding my own business and what do I hear but :rainy: as in with a vengeance been a while since we have had rain with an attitude.
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Could probably put this elsewhere however ...
Finally got around to watching Suicide Squad
Man oh man that was one hell of a flick
Got a question though how in the hell do they keep firing on and on, I mean where do they keep all the ammo
Got a kick out of the line Killer Croc said prior to doing the swim scene, the soldier were saying :noway: it's underground we will handle it, and he says I live underground you all are tourists.
Nice ending, since as we all know the Joker can't be killed he comes back for his lady, oh by the way Harliee has one sweet looking ass :pervy: those shorts did serious justice to the displaying of .... :hubbahubba:
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And this ny friend is why one should avoid online "reviewers".
The amount of hate, and comparisons to previous actors playing the parts..... *Sigh*.
I alsp enjoyed the film, thought their take on the Joker\Harley relationship was very well done. Jay Leto was a little restrained, but, a "good" restrained exuding the right amount of menace. After I saw the film I watched a couple of you-tubers trash it.Dissapointment reigned, I wondered if they watched the same film.
Doom Patrol, a series, an attempt to bring the comic to life.
As one who read the whole series........ not bad, Rita wasn't quite what I expected but well acted anyways.
(Steps off soapbox)
Wow, it's tall in here....
Cheers
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Never saw any "reviews" so no problem there, did see a promo before it was released way back when ever this first came out.
Thought it was pretty cool and at last I finally got around to buying (it was on sale) and watching it.
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I bow to the wisdom of the master.
Though work related only perepherally, The down-time relaxing films are of value.
thanx for putting up with my silliness.
8 )
Cheers
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O.o No idea Do not go to the movies much any more I think They Shall Not Grow Old, Midway, and 1917 was the last movies I seen in the theater. :whatthe:
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Can relate to that easily. Haven't been to a movie place since my teenage years, Used to rent movies now I just buy what I want to watch when I get around to wanting to watch it.
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So why am I the only one that thinks of these things and at such random hours of the day?
Just wondering since the Genesis computer is just a computer who has the keyboard, mouse and monitor that I need to make it all work?
More to the point where is it?
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o.O The Fancy Computer with all the Options one or something else?
https://www.originpc.com/gaming/desktops/genesis/
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Something else entirely, this is the computer that has the "Genesis" software on it, it monitors and runs reports on the radio system in detail and tracks all activity.
The computer itself is one of those tiny little paperweight things, I have books that are bigger and weigh more then that thing does, will have to look at while at work and get the correct model name for you
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We call those a computer appliance. Tiny thing fits in your palm of your hand. Lots of companies make them. I have seen lots of them being installed for free internet at libraries.
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One other thing about the movie last night. In one of the scenes where they are all being tempted by dreams it has Harliee dreaming of being married to Joker and with two kids.
Man, can you imagine the havoc she would unleash when pregnant, mood swings and cravings would be off the freaking scale
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The computer we have for the Genesis software (using the 35w version)
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240 (https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240)
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Drive to Miami, they said it would be fun, go on a site walk in Miami, they said it would be fun. So when does the fun start? Hotel right across from the airport, well it is convenient to where the site walk will be, but man oh man, being this close to the airport one gets a new definition of how loud they truly are, :shrug: . At least they stopped taking off early enough so one could get some sleep. Already looking forward to going back home, roads and travel here is way worse then in Orlando.
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Well, the Miami portion of the excitement is over.
Will say this about the ship, talk about a "hot" RF signal the best level was a -14 dB the worst was a -85 dB.
It certainly needs next to nothing from us. Well, unless they want to get on Radio management for ease of managing their radios and probably the GenWatch (Genesis software) computer to run reports on health and usage of the system.
Beyond that they really need nothing for an upgrade they already have American radios (SLR 3000) even have a selection of Wi-Fi capable radios although there is a disparity on the firmware version. But other then that the system needs little upgrade from us in my mind.
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Do not Worry the Sales Guy will Find Something to Sell them! :woohoo:
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Currently washing clothes and packing the bags for the "excursion" tomorrow. All sorts of thing that I forgot earlier but think I have a handle on it now.
Seriously how does one forget a hairbrush ... :thud: ... trust me, long hair like I have is not happy with a comb by any stretch of my imagination.
Found out today that there is a meeting at 9:30 AM concerning the install tomorrow that I knew naught about, then also found out that a request for additional documentation for said meeting was requested. Granted I have all of this as a file on ye ole laptop. Only needed to format and print it all out ... :o_go_on: ... radial segment of a baked confection.
As we know I so love last minute surprises ... whatever ...
Time to check on the laundry ... late
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Do not Worry the Sales Guy will Find Something to Sell them! :woohoo:
That is certainly the truth
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I have a Packing list to Check off when I go places. One for tools also helps. :coffeemaker:
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Interesting I have been winging it ... previously
Would be curious as to what is on your list
If you do not mind sharing ... that is
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Sure
this is the small one you will need to cut out the stuff you do not use.
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Many thanks as I so forget rubbish ... regularly
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:iminnocent: :woohoo: Don't We All! :whatthe:
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Sure
this is the small one you will need to cut out the stuff you do not use.
OMG, that looks more like a dictionary than like a list! :OMFG:
Once I made peace with the fact that I would overlook something essential anyway no matter how complete my don't-forget list, I resolved to pack up very carefully anything I couldn't buy on the spot and then to make sure I had a credit card in my wallet :smile:
Things are drastically different when the wife does the packing: she would never go to Lapland without bringing along the fridge... :tearlaugh:
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That is the only thing that bothers me, as I am certain ... almost that they will not have my favorite drinks available.
Such as the water I drink when on duty, the odds of them having any :sake: or decent :sake: is of course slim to none.
Most likely can get away with bring some of my water, the :sake: not so very much
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Always the same when one travels.....Picky folks suffer.....Believe me.....I know :tearlaugh:
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Picky not so very much, do have some favorites.
I like certain types of water and saké
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I survived ...
Well, I don't know (I think I did) really the getting on board and then off once the trip was over was some of the absolute worst moments of the entire trip.
Getting on board as a vendor was fairly painless this was the part were I got my tools cases on board before the mad rush of passengers. Did some of the walk about to sort out where the work was being done, got introduced to the people that would be the escorts, checked in on the material that was to have been delivered to the ship.
Oops ... where is it :whatthe: anyone thinking that they just about fouled things up ... as in royally
Their shipping folks somehow managed to send the radio stuff out last as in right before the boat was to sail ... :thud:
Idiots, since without the gear there would be naught to do ... period
However they managed to get their act together and we got our stuff
Now the getting off as a vendor and then back on as a passenger was the real ... just shoot me now moments ... in line with thousands (yes thousands, just shy of 4,000 I n out later) was nasty. Lines that don't move, kids that were fussy and whiny and all those other adjectives was just the real fun ... uh that was sarcasm, just in case you missed it.
Finally got on board however the cabins were not ready, we were about an hour early. So, found one of the restaurants and went to eat. Did hope that the cabins were ready, but when dragging all my stuff to where I was assigned :noway: not so very much.
Now a little perspective, the rowboat is 1155 feet long my quarters is aft, the other two guys are forward and the food was midships. So walking was the main point of the entire trip. Had lunch at last and then got into our rooms and at long last got the equipment sorted and delivered to the radio rooms.
And that is when we started to run into all of the lovely :ummm: challenges
TBC ...
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Looking forward to the rest of the story. Your life certainly is an adventure.
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LOL.....Only you would grip about a Cruise Ship Trip.....Even if it's a working one.... :tearlaugh:
Can't wait to hear more....
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The trip wasn't so bad, it was finding out that I had no sea legs once in motion that was disturbing. Considering, I still have a bruise on my left wrist.
I think the more annoying part, although I do understand why they have to (should) do it is the constant emptying of my pockets of all metal. It feels like I have to strip just to get through their security, truth be told it is the same at an airport ... :sigh:
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Methinks "karma" is stalking me ... why ????
I have to go back to Flagler (Fag-ler) county again tomorrow and possibly Monday
Last time I was there I wound up with a nail in my tire along with a chunk torn out of it.
Why .... because the ********** that are project managers have no clue as to what they be doing or how to do it.
The shop I work out of has more jobs going on then just theirs, :duh: obvious ... to me .. however methinks they have the special glasses on that only sees their personal needs :rat-atat:
Reason, I am getting up tight, there are currently three jobs that I am "deeply involved" in ... yet I am to drop what I am doing to accommodate others that have no clue as to our work load and more ......
It really does no good to say the same thing over and over as it is ... or has become obvious to me ... the higher ups don't give a damn.
Why should they, not a one of them turn the wrenches, and according to them "people like me" are a dime a dozen.
Would like to see them try to find someone with my skill set .... sorry but I have yet to see anyone that tracks material and jobs in their head to the same degree that I currently demonstrate.
Whatever, they can continue to live in their glass domes ... I will continue to put systems together as this is to help people during their time of distress.
There is my job satisfaction
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:whatthe: I have Been Told By Several Bosses that I Can be Replaced by a Guy off the Street. I Trained three Replacements who left When they found out the Scope of work and How little I was Paid. :thud:
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Sounds like the two new hires, they were hired specifically for commissioning DAS installs, however I think that neither of them realize that their scope of work includes installing the DAS, they seem to think that it is all paperwork and programming.
Just realized how little the one knows when it comes to installation. Turns out he has no "construction" or installation skills whatsoever. Can barely run cable in a cable tray, I have seen him terminate CAT5 once and it was to painful to watch .... literally. Yesterday I had him practice doing 25 pair on a punch down block ... I showed him the first five pairs and said have at it for the rest of them.
Checked his work and told him to do it again ... now I know I am quite capable of doing that type of install and am not half bad at it ... but if if I could only do three blocks in a day I would not be on the payroll for very long unless I showed rapid improvement.
Yes, he was only able to do the block three times in an eight hour day.
:thud:
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Another one of those rude pay periods where Uncle Sam gets to rape my pay due to the number of hours I worked this period.
113 1/4 hrs
I so loathe working that many hours as I am aware that the tax rate changes when you run up that many hours.
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I get the feeling that ye ole boss is trying to pull a fast one on me.
Was in Bunnell today to do alarm points, which I was told the new guy was going to do once I gave him some guidance.
However it has dawned on me this afternoon while I was driving home, that one he has no tools or way to get the material back and forth. Additionally no badge or key to get into the sites, did give him the code for the locks. To add insult to injury I also see that I will have to go to the shop tomorrow to pick up bridge clips for the punch blocks, and then to Home Depot to pick up chase nipples to get the wire out of the j-box that contains the alarm points that they did pull. :sigh:
And so far he is not showing much improvement on the paying attention to what is going on around him part. Granted it has only been one day since I brought that detail to his attention.
Missed a wire in his punch down and these were for real not practice any longer. Fortunately it was fixable ... but it was ever so close to a :rat-atat: moment.
Man I see there is a fast one being pulled on me ... the boss only mentioned one site to get done by Monday and now if I read between the lines it looks like it is all six sites. :@u: is all I have to say to him that is printable.
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to pick up chase nipples! :woohoo: :whoops: :bouncy: :cmereJ: :34dd: :sexy3: :40: :icu: :tearlaugh:
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The only enjoyable part of the tasks for today.
Now if I could truly be shopping for them that would be ever so nice :shakeyour: :40: :whoops: :cmereJ:
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At last a description of my hobby, obsession ... whatever
Tsundoku (Japanese: ç©ã‚“èª) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them
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Kinda like the Freebies I collect --- use some....not all....but I got them.... :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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:thumb_up:
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Time for me to catch up with some of the other primates in here ... bought Aquaman a month ago and am finally watching it tonight.
So far so good as to plot development
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Fish man selfies :tearlaugh:
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As a Comic Book Collector I have yet to watch hardly ANY of the Marvel/DC Universe movies. I read the review, see the characters, see the plots....and they ruin the characters I grew up with....But someday.....who knows....I might buy some of the Collections they have out now. They have all the Spider Man movies in one set...which I would buy.... Batman....maybe....Iron Man .... Maybe..... Aquaman seems to be well accepted by the Comic Book community so that's a good possibility.
Anyway.....we'll see as time goes by and by how bored I get with Streaming TV LOLOL
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On to this weeks topic, yep another frelling field trip.
The New Orleans trip starts on Thursday and ends on Saturday.
And to make it ever so crazy is the fact it is nothing more then a site walk.
It starts on Friday morning so we have to get there the day before so we can be around the following morning and since we have no idea how long it is going to take we can't really plan on leaving till the following day.
So looks like I will be out this upcoming Saturday.
The annoying part is that I have three days here in Orlando, hopefully I can get out of the rubbish going on in Bunnell after Monday. Why, because some nitwit says I have a conference call I have to be in on, as to Wednesday ... who knows.
All I know for certain though is ye ole fair haired genius boy is now out for the next six weeks due to the new baby, which means my work load just gained weight as I am now the point of contact for the projects he is working on.
:thud: :sigh:
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Uncle Sams going to LOVE YOU and your PAYCHECK...... :woohoo:
No worries on Saturday.........you're covered....as always....well, not always....and I'll leave it at that..... :iminnocent:
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Well, we are not going to love what he is going to do to my paycheck. I am the one that had to put up with the agony of the long days and the continuous ones in a row.
:sigh:
New wrinkle, was over at the Prime site yesterday for Flagler and lo and behold what is this I see but, three multicouplers. :ummm: that is awkward as there is only one point listed on the drawing so what do I do with the other two?
Tried calling the boss and got no reply until I was driving in for class.
"Oh I was in a meeting" .... Really, since 11:00 AM and it is now 3:00 PM
And to make it interesting I also found out that the documentation I was given for the punch down has a conflict ... yep two different pages for the punch and .... wait for it ... they don't freaking match.
:thud:
After I have already completed three sites I catch this:sigh:
I went be the drawing not the spreadsheet, however we did get lucky and the drawing is the correct version. So that made me feel better, until the engineer had the balls to aask whether or not I was pulling wire and punching it down on all points mot just the ones that had been pulled.
:rat-atat:
Moron
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Always an adventure......but as I always tell you...it keeps you on your toes....Right?
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My toes hurt
:yesway:
Had even more fun today in addition to trying to get the alarm points punched down (with a green helper) I had to attend two conference calls.
Man oh man it looks like my work load is going to get crazy with the Disney Cruise Line project. Not only do I have the site walk this week for Wonder. I also have the off loaded inventory from Dream arriving in port this Friday, which means it will probably not get to my shop till the end of next week.
Guess who gets the privilege of doing inventory and shipping to the various departments ... :ummm:
Yeah that person
:iminnocent:
And there are so many new updates to the inventory for the Fantasy boat that I will be kept busy for several days ... to be polite.
Also are getting low level issues already being reported. :sigh: Never happy.
Then again we did ask for all of the inventory details upfront for the departments on the boat and they didn't care at first ... apparently now they do.
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I think all of that is a good thing my friend. When they start going to you it means they trust and have confidence in you.
I'd much rather have it that way then be thrown "Scrap" jobs that are dull and humdrum......
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But then and again....I keep forgetting that you LIKE to gripe....it's like a hobby :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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I think all of that is a good thing my friend. When they start going to you it means they trust and have confidence in you.
I'd much rather have it that way then be thrown "Scrap" jobs that are dull and humdrum......
That is how I am taking this, the frustrating part is the ye ole leprechaun of a boss, yes Irish he is, thinking that I can do both the public safety and the commercial projects at the same time. If there is separation of the time lines yes, if not :rat-atat:
:noway:
And no the world can barely handle one of me so do not even try to clone me :tearlaugh:
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But then and again....I keep forgetting that you LIKE to gripe....it's like a hobby :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
:@u: I call it venting, thank you.
Saves on bail money :iminnocent:
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Might I suggest a Strolling through the Gallery might make one feel some what better? :iminnocent:
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That helped
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And we are off to sunny (?) New Orleans at the ungodly ass crack of dawn. No idea why I picked such a time but :shrug: tis the luck of something.
What I don't know but ...
Another of those abominable working vacations. This time walking the Disney cruise line Wonder (tug boat) :tearlaugh:
The sad part is the amount of other work for the office that has to be done while there. Write ups for their island Castaway Cay, there is a 800 MHz system on the island that is limping along, and I do mean limping. Have to write up a recommendation on the repair aspect of it. Then the results of the site walk for the two boats, Magic and Wonder.
Plus, create a drawing in Visio of the install on Dream, with notations.
Then as if there is not enough already to do, I have that paralyzingly, dull, boring, tedious and commonplace task once again to attend to, writing midterm report cards for the 17 darling students.
:thud:
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For my protection .... from all the weird ass normal straights out there
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Even better I picked up some for the neighbor and their kids that were watching the place and taking care of Watanuki for me.
Well, the parents were home when I went over and gave theirs to them, and tried to give them the ones for the kids at the same time, they then said you need to hold on to the ones for the kids and give them to them personally it will mean more that way.
Well, that is what happened as the kids were out on the weekend visit to the other parent ... yes it is complicated ... nonetheless ... when they came back the mom brought them over and each of them got their own "string voodoo doll"
All three of them seemed pleased by the selections I had chose, so calling that a win.
Then to put a little icing on the cake, whilst I was out at Barnes and Nobels (really does it surprise anyone where I go on the weekend) I saw that the sequel to Frozen was on sale. So since I am so behind on the rest of the mainstream folks and finally bought the original movie, I picked up the sequel today.
Decided since it was going to be a while before I would have a chance to watch it myself I "loaned" it to them to watch it, mainly since the daughter was so keen on watching it when she saw that I finally got the original.
So all others in the household above the age of 13 (she happens to be 10) are in pain, as in the fact that the daughter will be singing the songs for days, the good news is that I get it back on Tuesday.
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From the guy who's brother used to give out chili on Halloween with a ladle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so49WpSj9bo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so49WpSj9bo)
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I Like Traffic Lights :iminnocent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850ci_XMOps
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And I am back in the office and lo and behold but what do I see but the balance of the cable needed to finish off Flagler sitting on my desk ... :thud: :whatthe: is wrong why did not the other person go out there and install it all one has to do is run two additional lines and tie it down to the cable tray and punch it down on both sides.
No need to worry about bridge clips and lining up alarm point to match on both sides I already did that part.
So why is it sitting here, then the guy comes in and actually asked when are we going back to finish it. :thud:
So explained what I was thinking to him and at last he showed initiative and made arrangements to go out today and take care of it.
Good grief and he along with the other new guy are going to be in charge of DAS projects. Seriously !!!!
Which reminds me if they are in charge of the DAS projects then why am I still involved with them ... :sigh: ... guess maybe I can hand it off to them when it comes time to install the equipment. Probably will have to show them how but if that is all I need do I might call it a win.
Well, at last the used radio and repeaters have arrived from ye ole tug boat. Got my six boxes back and loaded with junk is an understatement. Heavy as you know what ... yes that heavy.
Now, come the fun part .... inventory ... how joyous is that, granted it is what I do best and in my sleep most of the time. The wrinkle on this is that x-amount of radios of certain types get distributed to folks.
All, I have to say is that me and ye ole senior tech get dibs on at least four a piece for customer testing purposes.
Hopefully I don't get de-railed like yesterday and I can focus on that task and complete it because ... yep ye ole boss already is wanting to bill for it. Seriously, we just got the returned equipment yesterday in the late afternoon.
Oh come to find out that there is now three additional job numbers for these projects, never was told that from the get go, I so love how for a communications company we do so little of it internally.
:shrug:
Not going to change anytime soon
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Thought that Big old Flat screen was to keep up with that you know the so called manager was to keep it up to date! :whatthe:
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So did I
So much for that concept
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Worked on the inventory of returned material from the ye ole tug boat named Disney Dream and boy howdy does that have about four different directions it is to take ...
Glad that inventory control for me is .. second nature ... :sigh:
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Man oh man was I ever right in regards to the silliness of the returned material.
Now granted I knew up front that they had "mixed set" the bulk of them was the European version of the XPR line that we use here in the states. DP 3600 instead of an XPR 6550, and the DP 4800 instead of the XPR 7550 series.
Well, keeping several of the best of the returns and will be making test radios out of them. Handed out several to the bench techs and then ye ole engineer that can be a thorn asked for some too, by this time though there were not enough antennas for all of the radios I was handing out. Which makes no sense since if you gave me an old radio it should have all components .... right. Not so very much in this case, I get the feeling that for whatever reason they just didn't return all of them or maybe they were using them improperly. Like I said they have a 6000 series radio and I have quite a few antennas for them, I don't think that many but who knows, the only problem is if they tried to use those on the 7000 series radios they are not made the same way and will not work properly, they might work ... sort of, kind of, maybe, but I would not hold my breath.
At any rate it was fun watching the engineer try to remember how to program radios. The first bit of fun was just watching him get the software and then firmware packs. Then when he tried to update the firmware it threw an error out on him and did not see any packs. Turns out yep, it was so far back on the revision schedule that it would not allow him to update them to the latest and greatest, he had to take literally three separate jumps to get them up to date.
Funny thing is that mine just updated no problems, must have had newer firmware in mine. The firmware versions were all over the board to say the least, saw a R2.40 version which was the oldest one, the ones I had were on R02.07.00 which wasn't to bad as I said but it was an eye opener to see radios so far out of date that you had to update them in steps, that was a first for me.
However now the real fun begins, was going to pop my code plug for the hospital in there and it was not happy about that one tiny bit.
Yep, you guessed it wrong model number, to be able to clone a code plug into a radio, it has to be the same model number but a different serial number. These are a series K model number and my code plug is written for a RA series.
So I get the dubious pleasure of having to write one from scratch, granted a lot of it is drag and drop but still not going to be easy. Since it will be the first time I have done so, have wanted to learn how so it is a good thing, just going to be "challenging" to say the least.
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Wow that must have been one fancy ass hotel we stayed at in New Orleans, I know it was by Hilton but got to review the bill today and submit my expense report.
$145 a night plus tax, tag, title, shipping and handling.
The surprising thing is that this is a Motorola approved hotel for business purposes. Granted it was quite fancy, a full kitchen with dishes, silverware to go with the cook top range, microwave, refrigerator and so on .... crazy
Obviously I do not get out much and travel.
Case in point on the way back to Orlando, hit the bathroom prior to leaving and saw a "bathroom" for service animals. Granted in retrospect it makes sense but it was a surprise to see one, the one in New Orleans actually had a fire hydrant in it, sad the Orlando had just astroturf :thud: :tearlaugh:
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Well, decided that I was going to have to appease ye ole boss by getting back on the two channel MedLink upgrade.
So I had a stray brain fart and decided that if I got the other guys doing one site and I grabbed the radio for a second site they could finish the first place 100% and I could get the second site up to 75% where all they would have to do is run some cabling and grounds.
It did work so well, basically got one site completed and for the other my guys just have to run three cables and all is good and that would be two more sites completed. Maybe he will stop riding my ass about it, :ummm: since that is not the only project that is wanting to be completed
My problem is ye ole boss does not realize that the other customers want their projects worked on as well, he seems determined to do the :o_go_on: rubbish to any and every body else.
Sorry but methinks that is the wrong approach ... just saying .... considering that the one is slated to spend just this side of $20 million this year ... that was not a typo by the way.
Ah well, getting a eye opener to the additional work that goes on at the shop that I am only peripherally involved in since the "fair haired genius boy" is out till mid April due to nursing duties, oh BTW their fifth child (a boy) was delivered on Feb 29th, yep a leap year baby .... :tearlaugh:
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:iminnocent:
Leap Day Paradox from The Pirates of Penzance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WTSlr_WRgo
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Wonder if the flat screen is ever going to be used by more then me and a couple of others. Ye ole office lady says I don't have time to look at it ... hmmm you don't know how to add additional calendars to your phone :ummm:
:sigh:
Reason being, I put on the board I would be working on the county MedLink project, which means I would be going by all of the sites included in the project, including the master site.
"Why, didn't you tell me you were going to the master site, I have equipment that could have gone back."
The reason she was moaning and groaning about it was that I brought in a piece of equipment for repairs.
Wow, if you had taken the time to read the board you would have know I was going to be making the rounds, and could have called me to ask the questions. But, heaven forbid....
Personal problem on their part not mine, and no I did not make a return trip to the master site as I had other things to do, did call the guys at the master site and said hey we got this and that here at the shop if you are in the area come and get it.
If you guessed that did not happen ... move to the head of the class.
Like I got nothing better to do then be your personal parts runner.
NOT
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Had the privilege ( :puah: ) to attend a phone conference call regarding the Flagler project ... how paralyzingly, dull, boring, tedious and commonplace.
They never did talk about the alarm points that were installed, which would have been where I would have come in at, they nattered on and on about how to configure the "UEM" (unified event monitor)
So again another hour of my life I will never get back.
Whatever I guess, still got paid for the time spent, :whatthe:
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Now you're learning.....Go with the flow.
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Next up, started to break down the equipment for the DCL Fantasy boat install and pack it in the crates for the transport.
Hopefully we will get to do the install so I can get the equipment out of the shop.
Boring bit is that they need to order more portables, just saw the purchase order for them to be ordered so guess it will be a matter of time before those show up.
Then it is time for the inventory, enter them into radio management and then program them and assign them per department.
:sigh:
Ah well, it is my project (among several others) so someone has to do it as they say
Not that anyone else shows any initiative to jump in and say can I help?
Children ....
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As the crocodiles in the NY Sewers say Go with the Flow! :iminnocent:
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Did get a small bonus from the previous install on the boat though, all of the old equipment was shipped back to us and guess who found a "quantity" of XPR 7550e UHF portables.
Which means I can now have test radios for all of the commercial customers. Plus, the two bench tech have radios as well and even had enough left over that ye ole engineer was able to get some for the church he goes too.
Crazy part was how far off the firmware was, had to update them in two steps to get them up to date. Although the engineer had to update his in three steps to get to the latest and greatest.
:tearlaugh:
The real fun is I still have extra radio's, no antennas for them but do have the radio and a battery, but antennas are cheap. So still a win, granted at some point I will probably want to update them to the latest firmware but that can wait for now.
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As the crocodiles in the NY Sewers say Go with the Flow! :iminnocent:
Indeed
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And last but not least ye ole NLECC has called for my services ... again
Surprised, not really ....
Was kind of scary, why ... because of being requested by name and comments made about how I install cabling and the neatness of the final install.
The person that requested me happens to be a NLECC employee and the other is the on duty Motorola rep.
:ummm: Methinks my work ethic proceeds me ... then again at this point I am the only one in the shop who has been cleared by CBP via a background investigation to work there with no escort.
The only bad thing I heard as that there is more work for NLECC/Ice that is coming up in Tampa and Jacksonville.
Did state that Jacksonville is a bit out of my area ....
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These are also the guys that gave me four "high five" when I was last at NLECC.
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Got a nasty gram from the company credit card people saying that I have not processed charges against my card.
Did some checking and not true, told them so and we shall see how long it will take to get that sorted out.
Was reminded that I need to work on a quote for a two site upgrade to an existing site that currently has three sites, which will bring them up to five total. Certainly a different level of quote writing, usually don't write quotes for major upgrades to site systems.
Boy howdy did that make my head hurt, not done with it but at least we got started on it.
When ye ole head started to hurt got up and worked on other tasks that needed attention.
Like finished packing up the install for the Fantasy boat. Then got rid of all of the extra boxes and trash, the funny part I recovered about 25 sq ft of floor space back. :shhhh: Don't tell anyone ...
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Then of course since I had floor space back what do you think would happen. Yep, received the additional radios for the tug boat. Well, part one at any rate, a total of 37 of them.
So entered them in the inventory list and then read them into Radio Management, assigned ID numbers to them and selected a configuration to program them with, and that is when it went :cmereJ: up.
Would not allow me to write the config to the radios. It was crying about the language pack not being the right one.
well, tried a few things on my own and none worked. Imagine that ... called fair hair genius boy, technically texted him since for unknown reasons he could not talk on the phone.
:whatthe: Whatever
Well, told him the problem and every solution he had I had already tried and failed on each of them.
At that point I told him that I had noticed a firmware mismatch. The new radios have 2.10.08 firmware in them, the RM server is only up to 2.10.00
Wonderful, guess who gets to download the appropriate firmware, install it on the server and then update the language pack.
Then sit back and cross my fingers.
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The hardest part in quoting is calculating labor cost....not so much the component cost.
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Definitely agree on that ... it does help to write out he steps of the install to project a realistic amount of labor fortunately.
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The odd part is that there is two equipment costs.
One for installation material which I can handle, the other is the actual radios and so forth which the salesman has to input in, as it is not in my scope to quote that rubbish.
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Yup.....component cost is typically in house quoting. Install quotes were done by the field installers.
Me, I had to quote the whole job in some cases....Especially when quoting the government. They didn't want to spend time installing boilers and burners so we would send out our distributors installers. Between the two of us...we always did good on the quoting part....
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Cost per hour is Calculated the same as Beer Math! :iminnocent:
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Easier as a BMW mechanic, every job has a work unit attatched.
one work unit About 7 minutes usually rounded to 5.
Simple tuneup, about 15 WU for a twin.
8 )
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I normally gave them their bill at a bar so it worked out perfect..... :iminnocent:
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Indeed building a RF site from scratch is several magnitudes higher.
For a site it is measured in days to say the least :tearlaugh:
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And that is provided that staging up in Schaumburg, Il. does their job properly
Which is not always a given ... just saying :iminnocent:
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I normally gave them their bill at a bar so it worked out perfect..... :iminnocent:
Fortunately I am not that high on the food chain to present bills.
Besides the quote has to be approved first with a PO cut and an Installation Agreement signed before I do anything.
So I am good.
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Man I am so not looking at my investment accounts during the panic mode that is in full swing
The value of them has dropped so much that it makes me sick.
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Man I am so not looking at my investment accounts during the panic mode that is in full swing
The value of them has dropped so much that it makes me sick.
You can thank you big fortunes who removed their money from markets, and will sooner restart to buy but at tiny coasts for them. Don't care about the other people, never cared about in previous crisis :shrug:
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You can thank you big fortunes who removed their money from markets, and will sooner restart to buy but at tiny coasts for them. Don't care about the other people, never cared about in previous crisis :shrug:
And the Senators (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/two-senators-are-under-fire-for-selling-stock-before-the-coronavirus-market-crash-but-do-insider-trading-laws-apply-2020-03-20) who sold their stocks before Stock Market plunge. Didn't Martha Stewart go to prison for insider trading....
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Saw that and another tidbit that there were several others that did the same damn thing.
Mostly Demo - rats .... imagine that :sigh:
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Guess all those guys 3 weeks ago at the CDC when they where telling everyone it was going to be bad will get Fired now. :whatthe:
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And the Senators (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/two-senators-are-under-fire-for-selling-stock-before-the-coronavirus-market-crash-but-do-insider-trading-laws-apply-2020-03-20) who sold their stocks before Stock Market plunge. Didn't Martha Stewart go to prison for insider trading....
And you forgot to talk of Dianne Feinstein, who made the same in Democratic party. Probably not alone. I wonder how M. B. prepared to that.
Now guys, there always are the reassuring words of governements, to avoid a panic of the population. Here was the same attitude of the government. In January, I heard on radio the in charge minister of the health, Agnès Buzin. She said we had very few risks, near 0, to have covid in France.
I didn't buy it, when my Mom and grandma were agree with the minister. And I prepared enough to be ready in case.
Now, we are in, and I'm not surprise. Always stressed for a part of family, and I can't do more.
But people in politics, no matter their level (governement, senators, chambers...) they see different things compared to us. What is to go before a court, it's they have probably made insider trading.
I'm sure we have case in France, and there are case in many countries.
The thing in each country, it's perhaps it's time to forbid politics or their wife/husband to own stock exchanges during a mandature. But only a law can make that possible.
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I agree with you 100% Aelin. Politicians are a breed of their own. Most are inbred I'm thinking..... Wisconsin was the only State not to vote in the new proposals to help it's citizens through these times. They were proposed by the Senate and House in DC.... And the backlash from Wisconsinites has started. :iminnocent:
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And back to my adventures on Friday.
Received 37 radios for the Fantasy ship. Well, the easy part was doing inventory and adding them to my list, assigning ID's to them.
Then I read them into Radio Management (RM) one at a time. So far so good ...
The real fun came in the concept of trying to get them programmed via RM, it was having no part of that concept at all.
:sigh:
It took all day to get it to play nice. I actually did figure out what the problem was and when I implemented the fix it finally got to the point where I would be able to program the radios.
Problem was when I read them in it said the language pack had been modified, however the configuration file would not work at all, did finally see that the firmware was totally out of sync.
The template was written for 2.10.00 firmware and the new radios had 2.10.08 firmware in them. Guess what, they do not play nice together.
Made a change to the original config and ta-da the error messages disappeared.
Sucks that it took all day to figure out the easy way to fix it. I had another solution by oh my God it would have taken forever to implement it.
So quite pleased I fingered it out, and this was just from poking it until something click and it did at last.
Oh before you say read the help file, I did and guess what, it was written for version 2.08 and the latest version is 2.21.61 lots of details were left out, like the one I was trying to solve for .... glad I fingered it out, not pleased that it took the better part of an eight hour day to do.
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O.o Firm Needs to be the First thing You Check as this seams to happen a lot in your Work?! :whatthe:
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Got other interesting news on Friday, my job over at NLECC has been cancelled due to this Chinese virus, (yep not politically correct, deal with it) looks like there is a conference call in two weeks to see if it can be scheduled then. So time will tell.
The only fun part is that the cruise ship upgrade is "tentatively" on the schedule the following week.
Should be interesting, especially since I do not have all of the remaining radios for the install. So no idea if I will have the entire complement of radios prior to the sail date.
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O.o Firm Needs to be the First thing You Check as this seams to happen a lot in your Work?! :whatthe:
Indeed you would think I would have spotted that right off the bat.
However according to the Help file it stated that it would automatically upload the missing files.
It did not and it took me a while to figure it out since they do not let me do work of this nature regularly.
No wonder it takes me so long to figure it out.
Still feel like a knuckle dragging Neanderthal, (some days) good for only installing systems and not knowing anything more then how to do that only.
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Help file o.O My Good Man That is not What Men Do! Read Instructions! Next You will Go off on Learning Things like using Light, or Lighting Fires and Living in a House in Not in These Wonderful Caves! :whatthe:
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:tearlaugh: Too right it hurt so much I deleted that file immediately
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Made another run to the old mans place today, good grief some of the things I am now the owner of, a piece of payload liner from the Atlantis during the link up with Mir. A commemorative plaque with a USA flag on it that flew on the second flight of the Columbia.
Another ancient radio well, only from the 50's.
The crazy part is I am last learning what he did while in the AF, worked on the nuclear bombs (Mk6) that were loaded on the planes. So did not see that coming, he was basically the last person off the test strip as he checked the electronics prior to test launches.
Worked on the wiring and set up them as well, what is really whacked as he had what looked like a heavy metal trash can in the garage, it was actually part of the container for the radar system for the bomb. :thud: Yes it has a new home now :tearlaugh:
Several other odds and ends were collected, mostly things that have been in the family for years.
Lo and behold I even wound up with some books. :luvbooks: Go figure, selected several of them as they were definitely classic books but the intriguing part is the copyright dates on them.
The oldest was 1938 then a few from 1939 and several from 1945-1946 so we wound up with another 12 books.
One of the books was the UK equivalent of the AAA, back then it was called the RAC
The real whacked part is now I have one the footlockers that he had during his years in the service. :thud:
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Well, got back at the radios for ye ole tugboat. and actually got to a stopping point.
Why is that a good thing, why but of course the lovely hospital is having issues .... again.
It truly does baffle me how things can work one day and not the next. :whatthe: :shrug:
At any rate went off to take care of the higher priority call, apparently the quick re-program they did last week has "ehem" issues.
Thought I had it licked and went off to the original call.
Turns out that it was a back up system and there was no receive audio coming across it. Plugged in tone generator and traced the circuit and it is fine, checked the device for wiring issues and found none, so off to depot if goes for no receive audio.
Then got a call to return to the first site because it stopped working about 20 minutes after I left .. :sigh:
So upon arrival I worked on them some more, and it would work about a couple of times per block of time, then back to the out of range, or worse a deny tone. However the real problem is that for there only being four radios on the site there was some strange activity on the repeaters. As in why are they showing traffic when I have all of the radios in my possession. Was on the phone with ye ole senior tech trying to sort it out and was unsuccessful after an hour and a half.
Grabbed all of the radios to bring back to the shop for further evaluation, since they aren't working it is no inconvenience to them.
However the real inconvenience is me calling the guy who programmed them to see if after they were done at the original site were they working? No reply.
Called the fair hair genius boy to inform him that something is not right with the code plug .... no reply.
Yet me and ye ole senior tech answer our phone even after hours, my calls went out after 7:30, and I did not get home till 8:00 PM.
Yet no one else cares to take the time to reply when I have a questions, but heaven forbid that I do not reply to them ... :rat-atat:
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You got unattributed Traffic on your Radio or Network? :whatthe:
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Network, which should not be possible since it has both enhanced privacy keys and RAS (restricted access to system) keys on the system.
Yet I am seeing Rx traffic pass on it, occasionally and it is not traffic that I am generating.
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Or is it?! Might have an Open Handshake not locked down. Can You Hear anything from them when you use IP Tap to see if it is from a System inside the Network or A Windows 10 Machine has its Friends Share Setting ON.
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Will check on that notion today.
Since I have never mention what is used, here is a description of what is used for the system.
Linked Capacity Plus. General Information.
Requirements:
When operating in Linked Capacity Plus Mode, MOTOTRBO trunks the logical channels of multiple MOTOTRBO repeaters at multiple locations and combines the logical channels into one logical channel. This allows radios to share the logical channels and increase the RF coverage area of a MOTOTRBO system.
Linked Capacity Plus (LCP) is a trunked multisite multi-channel configuration of MOTOTRBO, which combines both the Capacity Plus and IP Site Connect configurations. This combined configuration requires only software updates for radios and repeaters, but does not require any new hardware.
Linked Capacity Plus allows up to 15 sites in a system. Each LCP site can have up to 6 trunked repeaters (12 logical channels) and 3 Data Revert repeaters (6 logical channels) per site. It is not a requirement to have the same number of repeaters at each site.
NOTE: Only repeaters with 32 MB of internal memory (e.g. DR 3000 or MTR3000) can support the LCP configuration.
The call start-up of LCP is a combination of IP Site Connect and Capacity Plus configurations with the following enhancements:
- LCP supports both local and wide area talkgroups. A wide area talkgroup call lights up only the sites which are statically associated with the talkgroup. Please note that if even one of sites does not have idle channel for Wide Group Call, then this call won’t be established. So to transmit Wide Group Call, all associated sites should have idle channel for this call. In Master codeplug you can set amount of Reserved Wide Area Channels if needed.
- The talkgroups not defined as wide-area are local talkgroups. A local call ‘lights-up’ only one site where the initiating radio is located.
- The LCP Private Call initially “lights-up†all the sites but after approximately 400 milliseconds, the call continues only at the sites (at most two) where the source radio or destination radio are present.
- LCP allows a customer to reserve a number of logical channels for wide area talkgroup calls only.
- Just like a Capacity Plus system, an LCP system has no controller. Repeaters of a site trunk the logical channels available at the site. The trunking process in LCP is similar to that of Capacity Plus. Repeaters of a site do not participate in trunking the RF resources of another site. Each site trunks their channels independently.
All repeaters at a site must be on the same LAN, in other words, they must be behind the same router and plugged into the same network switch. It is strongly recommended that no other device be present on the LAN. The broadcast messages may produce some adverse effects on the other devices present on the LAN.
The router must support NAT. In NAT, internal UDP/IP addresses are translated to external UDP/IP addresses. In the simplest and most common configuration, an Ethernet switch with a router is used to connect all the repeaters at a site. Although Linked Capacity Plus works with most off-the-shelf network devices, the following Ethernet switch and router are suggested for use (recommended by Motorola).
• Switch – HP Procurve 2510-24 (J9019B)
• Router – HP MSR 20-20
The backend network cannot be based on dial-up connection (due to small bandwidth) or Satellite Internet access (due to large delay).
Note! For LCP software versions R02.10.00 and prior, the router at the Master repeater’s site should be capable of hair-pinning, to ensure that the firewall is open to limited UDP and IP addresses. In software versions R02.20.00 and later, LCP can work with, or without hairpinning capabilities in the router at the Master repeater’s site. When a non-hair-pinning router is utilized, each LCP repeater at the Master repeater’s site must be configured with a unique static IP address and a unique UDP port. The Rest Channel/Site IP address must also be configured as a unique static IP address and a unique UDP port for the site. If a non-hair-pinning router is utilized, the router must be configured to “no port address translation/port preservation for UDPâ€.
Every LCP system needs one repeater to act as the Master. The Master repeater has a static IP address, while other repeaters can have static or dynamic IP addresses. All the repeaters in the LCP configuration register with the Master using its static IP address.
The Master then notifies all the devices whenever the IPv4 address of a device changes. The devices may be behind firewalls. For successful communication between two devices (D1 and D2), the firewall of D1 must be open for messages from D2 and vice versa. Since the IPv4/UDP address of an IP Site Connect device is dynamic, it is not possible to manually configure the firewalls. The Link Management procedure overcomes this problem by periodically sending a message from D1 to D2 and vice versa. On a receipt of an outbound message (for example, from D1 to D2), the D1’s firewall keeps itself open for a short duration of approximately 20 seconds for an inbound message from R2. A device sends the dummy message to another device only if they are parties to the same call.
In LCP, a channel is configured either for trunking or for data revert. But both channels of a repeater should be used for the same purpose. In LCP, a Data Revert Channel can be configured either as a local Data Revert Channel, or as a wide area Data Revert Channel.
A Data Revert Channel could be either an Enhanced GPS Revert Channel or a normal Data Revert Channel. Each logical channel of a Data Revert Repeater can be independently configured either as an Enhanced GPS Revert Channel or as a normal Data Revert Channel. A radio has a list of all Trunked Channels and a list of Data Revert Channels for each site.
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Might want to look this site over https://cwh050.blogspot.com/ (https://cwh050.blogspot.com/)Some MOTOTRBO CPS error codes and how to solve them
https://cwh050.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-mototrbo-cps-error-codes-and-how.html (https://cwh050.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-mototrbo-cps-error-codes-and-how.html)
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Went there and no luck, so off to the land of experimentation
:pweez:
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It is official, another day of working on trying to solve for the connectivity issue at the one hospital location and are still no closer tot a solution.
Forward and reflected power all good per repeater.
No outside interference coming into system.
(what I thought was outside interference was just the wide area talk groups keying up)
Code plugs for repeaters checked, revisited the code plug on the portable.
Everything is fat and happy.
The mind blowing part now, after each test and or adjustment made the portable would key up about three maybe four times before it would send a deny tone.
Every single time we changed something.
:ummm:
At this point I feel "as helpless as a paraplegic with a hard on."
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Wipe and start new. :iminnocent:
Something is not loading or does not have the right Privileges.
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At last have isolated the precise issue.
Still no closer to a solution, however ...
When the repeater one has the rest channel (or beacon) all is fine.
The moment it rolls to the next channel, this is a three channel site, which it is designed to do ... bang down it goes, and until the rest channel comes back to repeater one it does not work.
Found this out by building a demo site at the office and programmed it with the site code plug and details and just watched it and kept checking it out till at last we noticed the behaviour.
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Well, the real fun is that the class is cancelled for gathering which means I had to provide a class lesson plan for the next six sessions.
Now, I am supposed to monitor my school email account to field any questions and grade homework as it is turned in ...
Fun fact number one: I have never used my school email for anything to start with ... so :ummm: how do I log into this "mysterious" account?
Got details on how to do that, and lo and behold I have only "342" emails in my account that I never read ... :thud:
Go figure
Fun fact number two: two hours into what would be class time and not a single email for guidance or an assignment turned in .... technically not expecting a thing tonight which just means the rest of the week and weekend is going to suck if I have to keep checking in for student participation.
:sigh:
At least I am still getting paid to do so .....
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Happy dance time ye ole senior bench tech found the glitch.
:happydance: :happydance: :happydance: :happydance: :happydance:
The repeaters had the frequencies for channel two and three entered one way, however the subscribers had them reversed. So when the rest channel rolled to the next repeater the subscriber did not know what to do since the freq in the radio did not match the repeater.
Made the change in one radio tested on our mock up site and it all worked just fine. Forced it to roll the rest channel and :happydance: it still worked. Forced it to the next rest channel and had three for three.
Programmed the other two radios and all three were behaving so off on the road trip back to the site to drop them off and before we even got there, turned a radio on and were able to hit the site from several miles away. Got in the parking lot and tested it again before we went inside.
Went inside and spoke to the woman in charge :iminnocent: and slightly skeptical she was, so she took a radio outside and tried to talk to us inside and :happydance: loud and clear both directions.
Well, since we now had a clue to a problem that apparently had been around since day one we looked at the security guards radio while there and yep same problem was present in it, fixed it and then tested it and was able to talk back to dispatch with no problem.
So we had job satisfaction today in spades to say the least.
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Huzzahs and handsprings!
Great that ye figured it out, and it sounds like an easy\quick fix.
Heh heh, make a note for future id... ermmm techs so they can resolve it as you did.
Take a cookie from the jar and have a little sake.
Cheers 8 )
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Lots of :sake: if you please
six piece unagi rolls with wasabi
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Well, it is official I am essential personal and have to continue to go into work.
Why, is this a big deal, well the word is out Orange and Osceola are under mandatory stay at home, unless you are providing essential services.
Guess, public safety communications is essential ... :tearlaugh:
No, it is and I like it.
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Tis KO until you have to wear a bunny suit.
For those reading confused, THink IBM clean room or CDC field workers.
Cheers Mike, good to know you're essential.
8 )
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Well, got the work done on the subscriber radios for ED as they had the reversed freqs, once those were all done. Sent the junior bencher out to the other site where these radios for ED had been programmed and got him to fix them.
Wah-bam all better.
Then we got started looking at the templates for the EMS and Security department and yep all reversed so worked on getting those set and fixed.
So starting tomorrow we are having all of the ambulance come through to get sorted out and reprogrammed. Shouldn't be to bad as I am in charge of the inventory sheets so it should go smoothly.
Just need to pay attention to my ID list and all will be well, the only fly in the ointment and it is not really that bad is all of the new mobiles and portables for yet to be delivered ambulances will need to be touched again. Well, at least they have not been installed yet so even easier to bring them up to speed.
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Tis KO until you have to wear a bunny suit.
For those reading confused, THink IBM clean room or CDC field workers.
Cheers Mike, good to know you're essential.
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Have had to wear the bunny suit once before while traipsing through the hospital in areas on the way to where I was to do preventative maintenance on a departments set of radios.
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Did they let you use the cooler fan thingy? the one time I wore one I near passed out from heat frustration.
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Cheers
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Didn't have one, thank God, I was only wearing it long enough to pass through the area. Found an alternative path to get out so did not have to wear it a second time.
So total time encased approx ~ 20 minutes
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Well, managed to get all of the trucks in town ran through for the change to the freq's so they can talk consistently at one location.
So far so good, now they need to find the other portables to go with them.
But, that is not my problem, I can provide them with the details on what they are called and how they are numbered, but it is up to them to find them.
Plus I have three trucks according to my files that I still need to visit.So not bad for a one day visit
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Turns out of the three missing trucks, two are in the shop being repaired and the other was in Ocala on Friday. Did make a list of the missing portables and sent them off to the department head so we shall see what will happen next.
Got back on the Disney Fantasy boat project. Received the balance of the order "104" more radios.
Guess who is going to have to do inventory, upload them to RM and then program them ... yep you guessed it ..... "Luffie & Knight"
:tearlaugh:
OK, really it will be me but that sounded pretty good in my head.
:tearlaugh:
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Somehow, I think your customers will be a whole lot happier with you doing it that that dream team. :thumb_up:
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:o_go_on: You know you can handle it :tearlaugh:
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Well, tis so boring that all of the Barnes and Nobels being closed, did receive an order from my on line place.
:dancingknight: "whew" :dancingknight:
Only four more volumes but that will have to do ... whew ... scary withdrawal scenario ... cancelled
Thank goodness.
Almost was unhappy with the delivery though, I had got a free "$25 blind box offer" previously. Used the code and what did I get ...
A copy of a DVD/Blueray I already owned .... that is until I read the fine print ... it has an English dub instead of all Japanese audio.
I so like listening to my movies and not having to read them at the same time.
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:o_go_on: You know you can handle it :tearlaugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjA92f_iCHQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjA92f_iCHQ)
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:iminnocent:
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
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:ummm: Oops methinks I will be showing my ignorance again, never saw this movie so do not understand the reference.
Blame it on all the anime I watch ...
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Haven't watched the other one either
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*Looks down at sig, looks back up at Jherr et al*
Highly recommended, Peter Weller excells in this film even bettre than "Screamers".
Cast is a who's who of movie heros and villians, scrambled a bit.
Chris Lloyd, Clancey Brown, Jeff Goldblum.... Exciting funny and interesting, with a plethora of one-liners that'ss cause you to laugh.
And..... huh? too much? oh ok....
It's a good film, get a chance, watch it.
Bettre? *sigh*
8 )
Cheers
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:iminnocent:
RANIA - Dr Feelgood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDEWopV8w4
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*Looks down at sig, looks back up at Jherr et al*
Highly recommended, Peter Weller excells in this film even bettre than "Screamers".
Cast is a who's who of movie heros and villians, scrambled a bit.
Chris Lloyd, Clancey Brown, Jeff Goldblum.... Exciting funny and interesting, with a plethora of one-liners that'ss cause you to laugh.
And..... huh? too much? oh ok....
It's a good film, get a chance, watch it.
Bettre? *sigh*
8 )
Cheers
Have put it on my short list
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Good stuff, You'll not regret.
"Not my planet monkey boy." Chris Lloyd delivers this straight faced and intensely.
Enjoy the film Mike.
8 )
Cheers
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:ummm: Oops methinks I will be showing my ignorance again, never saw this movie so do not understand the reference.
Blame it on all the anime I watch ...
I didn't intend an obscure reference. Simply that we'd probably be like Dr. Lizardo in the opening sequence -- hair standing on end, eyes bulging and sparks everywhere.
But, I also enjoyed the movie. It is very, very weird. "What is that watermelon doing there?" No further reference to this as many other oddities.
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Buckaroo is a parody of Doc Savage, multi-doctorates, expert at everything, charisma coming out his ears, speaks every language, the only thing the film dinnae cover was, bronzed body of a god.
Cheers
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Will have to acquire a copy of them to edu-ma-cate myself
:tearlaugh:
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Currently watching "That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime" and with my normal outlets closed it will be a few days til I correct that detail.
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Well, I am certainly about ready to stop chewing through the leather straps.
Get into work and picked up where I left off with the reprogramming for the EMS department of the hospital. No problems there ...
Updated the ID number in the mobile for the boat since the balance of radios received would skew the number scheme off. Again no problem
Then what happens but a call from the hospital "oh by the way" we found some (22) radios that we do not know if they will work on the system. Oh great just what I wanted to hear .. as in not
Well, the good news is that I have seen them before and have previously programmed them. The not so good, it was over two years ago.
So time for a 20,000 PTT tune up on all 22 then rewrite the code plug to include the new sites that have been added in the last two years. Well, got the code plug rewrote and all of them reprogrammed, still have another 11 to put through the preventive maintenance process. So far so good, that was until I got notice that the EMS department found 16 of the portables that did not make int in on Friday past.
If you guessed they will be showing up tomorrow ... move to the head of the class.
Then "oh by the way" you have to go on a site walk tomorrow morning at a new building ... what sort of system they want or need is unknown, the site appears to be a academic campus of some sort.
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Oh how quaint just got word that school is going to be closed till the end of April. I have to come up with another five lesson plans
:sigh:
I am at that point where most of my class is on hands work so this might be a touch difficult.
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O.o What They just Volunteered to "Help" in Laying Cable on a Slow Boat to China! :iminnocent:
Lots of Hands on and you get Free Room and Board!
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Indeed they did :tearlaugh:
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Well, we are every so disappointed due to this lovely pandemic all of my students get a pass with or without a final exam being administered. Based on whether or not he school reopens in time.
:sad:
At this rate I will never get the evil teacher of the semester award :rat-atat:
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I'm sure you got that award the first day they met you..... :iminnocent:
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Went on a site walk this morning, however since I got there entirely to early, I went and checked on the cabling done by the other guys for the MedLink upgrade and got thoroughly disgusted.
How complicated is it to run cable in a neat and orderly manner. Especially the part of when one adds additional cables to an existing bundle and ties it in, the original tie wraps are to be cut out, they were not at all.
Cables woven in and out of existing and the poor power cord was wrapped up so tight that I am surprised that it still worked.
And to think that I thought, I had trained the one better then that, well sent all four of them out today to fix all of the sites "dressing in of cable" issues, which ultimately means that I am going to have to go back and verify the work meets the standards that have been set since I started working on the tower sites.
Like I really have time to be breathing down their necks to make sure that the work is being done correctly.
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I'm sure you got that award the first day they met you..... :iminnocent:
:o_go_on: You're just saying that ...
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:iminnocent:
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The site walk was even more entertaining, turns out this place is a "dorm for students" housing area.
Something about "Disney University" and how just in phase one there is right at 11,000 rooms.
:thud: WTF
Good grief where the hell are they all at now, and what are they studying, and what jobs are they going to be filling????
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Continued to get the updated code plug in the essential radios for the hospital. Turns out that of the 22 I picked up from incident command yesterday, another 16 came over today for the same update.
:sigh:
So was quite busy to say the least trying to get them up to speed. Granted I did start yesterday and did have the code plug updated for the 22 radios and was half way through the preventive maintenance part so that was not to bad.
However pulled the proverbial rabbit out of somewhere not polite to mention and got all of them done for Incident Command and for EMS too, dropped them off along with a repair that was completed by the bench tech and delivered by the end of day.
Got an atta boy from them, now if they would only pass it forward to my boss ... ahh well he would have to acknowledge their compliment ... technically not overly worried by it my job satisfaction is providing them the ability to communicate and assist those in need.
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Well, now the only problem is I now have to write up two job quotes and then sort out the issue with a third project.
This one is interesting since the site is not allowing any work to be done due to the COVID19 virus ... yet they want the job done :ummm:
Explain this to me ... please
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I Means you get stuffed into a Trash bag and Sweat your ass off to Do the Work Required Or that is what it Meant in my Old Job in Clean up. :whatthe:
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Maybe this will Help You! :iminnocent:
190220 Mark - Shahmen | Dance cover by 艾玛寒亚
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuq4Xs_1MUs
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Mesmerizing
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Well, this tele-schooling thing is a complete bust in my mind so far only two students have bothered to turn anything in, we have a total of 17.
The sad part that due to the Covid-19 all students get a free pass to pass this class.
Which is a rip off in my mind some of them barely put forth any effort to begin with and now with this, although "supposedly" they do not know they are going to pass regardless, this is a pitiful turn out and shows a distressing lack of initiative and accountability.
Granted they will pass but that doesn't mean they will get a high mark. Rest assured that will not happen on my watch
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Well, no fun today spent all day writing up a quote for the site walk I did yesterday. Basically a site that will be dorms for university students, nonetheless it did keep me busy all day. Took a break to work on a second quote and tried to see if we could get a replacement working for the desk top remote that I brought in for repairs a week and a half ago - why do I stress that - because it still has not been shipped out for repairs.
I am quite pissed by the way. It should not take that long to get customer repair out to the depot. They have maintenance contracts and as such and should be processed the same day they are received.
And no the silly girl who is to send these things off is not that damn busy, why do I say that, because I see her on her damn phone doing anything but company work. Have seen her surfing the web on sites again totally unrelated to her work.
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Take a Deep Breath! Count to 10! Let it out slowly! :iminnocent:
Jim the Waco Kid: [to Bart, after the old woman insults him]
What did you expect?
“Welcome, sonny?â€
“Make yourself at home?â€
“Marry my daughter?â€
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know…morons.
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Yes, there is something lacking in my ability to grasp the lack of accountability with those younger then I.
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Not quite sure whether or not that I can manage that trick though, :iminnocent:
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Still working here although the silliness has risen its almighty head.
Yep, keep the back gate shut and only have one garage door open and oh by the way all pick ups and delivery's are to be in the bay.
This is now two weeks after the fact and the magic leprechaun who has been working from home since then comes up with this brilliant plan.
Seriously :thud:
I am glad that this morning going in to work that I drive East bound and not West. Someone in their car decided to make a mockery of the road, as in destroyed the front end of his car and all lanes were blocked. Must have just happened as I was getting to that point as there were no emergency vehicles at all, just FHP was there and the cars were backing up rapidly.
For a county that supposedly is on a mandatory stay at home, there sure are a lot of folks out and about.
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Well, this is ever so entertaining got a notice from PayPal saying we noticed a sign in from a device we do not recognize.
:ummm: How is that possible since I am on the same device each time and in fact I processed a purchased through DAZ last evening.
:sigh:
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Look very close at the email address that send you that email. There are scams out there that use either a closely related email address or just logos and letter head that Pay Pal uses. Do not log in through the email. A program that is old call a skip trace log can copy your log in information and send it hackers. Be very careful, I would just log in on a incognito page and see if there any problem with your account.
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Well, after getting the morning part of the day sorted me and ye ole senior tech went back to the "Mission Control" for EMS dispatch at the hospital. Still trying to sort of the reason why it was not playing nice in regards to being able to hear receive audio.
Today it was attacked with both a service monitor and a TMS set and we conquered the gremlin.
:yippee: :woohoo:
Turns out that the jack at the outlet was the culprit, mind you it took a bit to be positive of the thought but once it was confirmed it did not take long to implement the fix.
Once I was done replacing the compromised jack and then just for consistency replacing the other jack and testing one final time to ensure all was good at the base level. Went and normalize everything and then had the helicopter do a Service check on the radio ... and what the hell they claim it is still not passing receive audio.
:rat-atat:
at this point ye ole senior tech had an inkling of what was going on just based on how dispatch called for the radio check.
So went down there and he explained to them the matter of "semantics" in other words they were asking the pilot to do the opposite of what was to be tested and so forth :sigh:
Granted I wasn't certain what was going on till he explained it to me but once he did and I translated what the dispatch ladies did I understood why they heard nothing ... they were to test the back up radio and how they worded it they got the pilot to check the secondary channel of the back up radio and with out being switched over on the desktop remote, of course you will not hear receive audio.
Good grief .... at last though once that was explained and tested one last time they were happy and content.
Once again the OFD (Old Farts Department) wins over youth and exuberance.
Twas a shame I was not able to sort this out when I first went there, but after discussing it with the tech a TMS was required to check the levels and determine where the fault laid, my toner/amplifier was not the right tool.
In fact we truly needed two TMS sets, however senior tech turned his service monitor into a second TMS set and we were able to check the levels of the signal being sent through the line and lo and behold passing it through the jack it lost way to much signal strength.
Case in point for a sanity check I had the line plugged into it and could not hear the signal at all.
Changed the jack out and then plugged the original cable into it and I could hear the signal finally coming through on the receive line.
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Look very close at the email address that send you that email. There are scams out there that use either a closely related email address or just logos and letter head that Pay Pal uses. Do not log in through the email. A program that is old call a skip trace log can copy your log in information and send it hackers. Be very careful, I would just log in on a incognito page and see if there any problem with your account.
Receive the email after I had made the purchase.
Definitely did not use any of the links in the letter to look at my account.
Looked at the sending email and it is legit and they addressed me properly in the letter so far I think it is all good.
Will look into some other details as you mentioned but so far I am thinking naught is wrong, tis odd though
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did You use a Cookie Cleaner or Have a System Wide Reboot as those Change your Authorization Cookie Vs IP
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Not between last night and tonight
I do use a cookie cleaner but I do not believe I did so last night
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Well My Mothers Computer Always has this Problem and it is Caused by our Provider giving us a rotating Ip. :whatthe:
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Then this is odd, as I too have a dynamic IP but this is the first time I recall this letter being sent,
Has my full name in the salutation and naught but links to "I guess verify " my actions.
No not going to use them as there is no problem with my account
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O.o Ip Trace the Email?
Wait it Start of Month Did You Cookie Expire?
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Might as Well Do this.
Report a suspicious email or website
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem
Suspicious emails
“Phishing†is an illegal attempt to "fish" for your private, sensitive data. One of the most common phishing scams involves sending an email that fraudulently claims to be from a well-known company (like PayPal). If you believe you've received a phishing email, follow these steps right away:
1. Forward the entire email to spoof@paypal.com.
2. Do not alter the subject line or forward the message as an attachment.
3. Delete the suspicious email from your inbox.
We'll look into it and email you a response to let you know if it is indeed fraudulent. In the meantime, don't click any links or download any attachments within the suspicious email.
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Don't know, did do a recent cleaning on the system which does wipe the cookies, however I had bought something the day before and had no letter. Yet last night I did, just sent the letter to their phising department and we will see what we shall see
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Well, after a lovely exercise in futility trying to buy groceries at Sam's Club it is back to work I go. Most of my work is either at a customer site for repair or installing new equipment at a customers site.
Kind of hard to do that at home.
Might be able to program radios at home ... however ... the radios still have to get to my place and then back to the shop so :shrug: :whatthe:
Could do quotes at the house but then again, there are bits and pieces that I use from the shop which are not available to me at home.
Plus we are still getting in material that needs to be checked in added to the inventory for what ever job it is allocated for and stored away.
So hi-ho hi-ho it is off to work I go with razor blades and hand grenades hi-ho hi-ho
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If the numbers keep getting bigger in Florida some of your supply sights might not be operating full speed. That's what's going on here. Spectrum was in the process of burying cable/internet lines....Now it's stalled since materials are had to get.
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Well, I tried during senior hours at Sam's this morning with the same amount of success so I went and did the on line shopping for pick up, sort of went well, at first until I got the check out part.
Tried to do so and it said no pick ups available for the next two days.
OK no problem I have been two weeks since I last got in there, nope it did not care, it would not allow me to check out.
So changed the store still denied, damn, tried a third time and at last this time it posted the transaction and I can get my order tomorrow after work.
The good news it is still in Orlando and not to terribly far out of the way. Bad news I have to go the opposite way of home.
Not a real deal killer since when I went into work this morning traffic was so light that I drove the entire distance just under 15 miles and never got stopped by a single traffic light.
That simply does not happen.
Even my return trip tonight and although I went a different way, it is still about the same distance and this time I hit only one traffic light, yes over 25 lights and I had to stop at only one :whatthe:
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The Force was with you, young Carwalker.
8 )
Cheers
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Well, at work today finally finished the quote for the installation for USPS. Man oh man that is going to be a doozy.
However before I could even get started on that had three deliveries, 13 mini work stations, two laptops and a battery back up w/annunciator panel.
Good grief, so much fun, inventory and store the items away. The only problem the parts for one project, does me no good, as the project is on hold due to the restrictions of the virus. The other one I can get the tech to come pick his stuff up and go on about my business.
So finally did finish the quote sent it off for review and then got hit with a "oh by the way" you are going to be doing the City of ***** PD department upgrade.
:ummm: Whoa wait ... huh
What the heck, the rude part is that I have to go to the site and pick up the equipment, bring it back to the shop, inventory it and then have it programmed and then transport it back and install it.
So why did it get shipped to the site instead of the shop :whatthe: beats me, ye ole sale rep in my opinion is an idiot.
And apparently due to all the fun and games of the virus I get to do the work by myself. :thud: Granted it is just an upgrade of the infrastructure in the radio room. Thirteen, there is that number again, consolettes along with three CCGW . Definitely not that complicated to do and plus the room is rather small anyway so one person is probably good enough. Provided I do not get any or too many surprises.
:tearlaugh:
Yeah right when does that ever happen :iminnocent:
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Fun and games galore, went to go pick up my order from Sam's and lo and behold they did not have my order ready. :whatthe:
Turns out that the claimed they were busy and they were only up to the 3:00 orders. Mine was for 5:00 and and I arrived after five.
Got that sorted out .... however upon driving home
Good grief, to make it interesting for about the first ten miles my truck thought there was a passenger in the passenger side of he truck and the seat belt light was going stupid.
Am wondering just how do you put a seat belt on a two case of water and a package of frozen salmon fillets and other seafood items
:tearlaugh:
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Well, made an error on the quote and had to make some adjustments man I tell you what you miss and item and then add it in after the fact and boy did the final out the door jump. Holy moley crazy stuff.
Finally had a chance to go check out the cleanliness of the install for the MedLink radio upgrade and oh my goodness, was I ever disappointed.
Could have sworn I trained them better then what I saw, cables interwoven and not neatly bundled in a row. Cables just spread out all over the tray and not tied down or together. Cable types mixed in with each other. Heat shrink not properly applied. Missing grounds, cables on the outside of the cable management brackets. Disconnected cable that is still flopping about in the breeze within the racks Even equipment that was supposed to be removed which I was told that they had done so was still there at one site.
Called them in to see who had been at what sites and said sorry but you need to go back and fix all of this, and since I had pictures of what I was unhappy about that took care of showing what was wrong.
Had to once again explain that our function is the installation and appearance of the site. The messy ass mess that I saw is not acceptable.
Look behind you at the other existing racks and copy what you see there if you are unsure as to how it should look when finished.
Well, I wasn't going to take any of that cabling out because every time we do the ST's come back and say "oh we were using that as test cabling". Doesn't matter it needs to come out as most of it was floating ground cable, oh and what is with unplugging a radio from the back but leaving the power cord still in the power strip. The extra RF lines that should have been removed are not in a spot where they would do any good to begin with and as I already said if it is not connected it needs to go away.
So he has several days worth of work to get the sites up to speed and yes I will take a second look at all of them as well, because ultimately ye ole boss comes to me if something is not right and I am so not letting that happen.
The final bit of the discussion had to do with material because one of the first excuses I heard was I didn't have this or that and I ended that quick, you do not wait till you are out of something to restock, when you get down to ten you had best be asking me for replenishment of said item if it is not in the open. Certain things are kept locked up so I can order before they are all gone, because when people take stuff and say nothing, well sort of causes problems ... don't you know. Boy howdy did I have to restock his truck, makes one wonder how he got anything done at all.
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Sent the other guy back to Flagler county to install surge suppression on a punch block. Showed him here at the shop before I turned him loose and lo and behold I still got four phone calls and five pics sent via text messages.
Granted I do like the idea of asking if you are unsure of what you are doing but seriously, showed you at the shop and gave you a picture of which ones get grounded.
Damn phone still blown up with calls and text. :sigh:
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And last but not least received the elusive bonus check or performance merit check.
Whatever
First time I ever got one that had a remark saying this is how much you owe to continue working here.
:tearlaugh:
No, not really got a check that sort of resembles one of my overtime checks, so got a couple extra dollars I can rub together for a change. Anytime, I can stay on top of my expenses and get ahead of them is a good day.
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Yes indeed........ :#1:
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How very odd and rude.
Doing the distance learning for my class of seventeen, so far only eight have turned in any work at all.
And of the eight who have turned work in, only three have done all parts of the homework.
:sigh:
Makes me think that someone let the cat out of the bag and told them that they all will get a pass regardless.
How annoying
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Not Really :iminnocent:
http://eagnews.org/poll-47-of-public-school-students-havent-attended-single-online-class-during-pandemic/
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Hmm, cool regrettably I teach a trade school class and that is what the powers that be told me.
Regular grade/high school might be different in regards to getting a free pass.
But me dealing with adults and a trade school curriculum is different .... doesn't mean I have to give them a good grade .. just a passing one.
:heeheehee:
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Back to work on writing the rest of the tests for the new book. One more to go and then a final exam to put together and the new syllabus and tests for the textbook will be complete.
Man, it has been an undertaking that I am so glad that the end draws near.
Still need to do one final review of the material for grammar and repeated questions, however I am glad that at last it comes to a close.
What an undertaking condensing a 33 chapter textbook with over 1100 pages down into bite size piece for electricians that may or may not ever touch structure cabling. In my mind even though it is a text book that is suitable for people that are more IT orientated but, it shall give them a chance to decide if they so choose to diversify and or specialize.
That is the main reason for using this text book next semester. Give them every chance to grow and reach their full potential.
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Well, we are now up to nine students that have turned in some work, only four have turned in all of the work. How crazy this is going to be to sort out a grade for them.
Aw well, at least I am caught up with the grading.
The only dilemma I see coming up is that since the school is shut down, the coordinator cannot go into the office so he can print out the monthly subsidy check plus the checks for the syllabus I have been working on.
So going to be a delay on those checks .... darn
:tearlaugh:
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Well, at last got the last of the radios for the Disney Fantasy boat programmed, dust cover installed and antennas placed with each one in the packing boxes.
Got them sorted by ID and department that is to receive them.
And not to be to :rat-atat: If any other but me hands them out, I will be removing limbs at the joint such as elbows.
:iminnocent:
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:whatthe: With Disney 13 Billion in Debt I hope you get paid!
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Methinks we might they just signed a maintenance agreement for the boats ... which is just words but nonetheless it is a step in the right direction.
So time will tell as to how that will pan out.
Started to pack up all of the equipment for the installation and am having concerns about it all fitting in the six bins, mainly because there is more of it this time. Last trip they had a miscount as to how many radios they truly needed, this time I have that adjusted for, and now I am running out of room.
Down to only having to find room for 266 batteries but still that is a big deal.
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Well, and just when I thought I was almost done with the new syllabus, I was asked oh by the way do you think you could work up a syllabus for the teachers. What to cover this night and how long to spend on it, plus what are the truly important parts of the chapter.
We will pay up for it obviously ... :thud: ... well, looks the side work is not quite over with yet.
Got two of the three extra lessons done last night, one to go and then it is caught up, till I get home tonight. Just received five more homework assignments to grade. Haven't even considered the final exam yet though so still going to be ... :ummm: ... occupied ... yes, occupied, that is the word I am avoiding :tearlaugh:
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Well, off to a good start I have the same amount of batteries as I do belt clips ... only problem not certain that I have the required 266, as half I had before from the first shipment and this batch is after so guess who gets to be truly bored out of their mind counting them .... :odd:
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And we are in luck, there is the correct number of batteries, only have to charge them up now but I see no reason to start that since it will be a month or more before we do the install, and they would have discharged just sitting there anyway.
Boy howdy are those darn things ever heavy, the one shipping crate is 172# with batteries mostly, plus two boxes of portable.
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Okay I need someone to explain to me why there is now a "Denim Day" set aside in the Orange county School system.
Their reason is to show support and solidarity during April which is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
WHEREAS, the Denim Day movement is a worldwide effort that started as a
grassroots protest against an Italian Supreme Court decision, in which a sexual assault
conviction was overturned because the victim was wearing tight jeans at the time of
the attack;
So we are all to wear jeans on Denim Day to help spread
awareness about the physical and emotional trauma that accompanies sexual
assault, and to show our support for survivors in our community.
Great so a court overturned a rape charge due to the victim wearing tight jeans, so let us wear jeans in support of the bringing awareness to "sexual assault" victims.
Somehow I see this as a double edge sword that can backfire spectacularly ... just saying ...
So if anyone can explain why this is a good thing I am ready to listen.
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I've got nothing...
Cheers
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:whatthe: What The.... Allowing the Crazy out more now Days!
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I'm waiting for some complete idiot implimenting "Bikini Day".
No..... really..... I'm waiting....
8 )
Cheers
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:whatthe: What The.... Allowing the Crazy out more now Days!
That is my thoughts ...
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Thought that was Casual Friday! o.O :woohoo:
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That is what I thought
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Well, part one of the final exam for next semester has been completed.
Next up after the answer key a syllabus for the instructors so they know what to cover :sigh:
Just got an email from the school board stating the rest of the 2019 2020 school year has been cancelled and is distance learning only.
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So Power point or Flash cards in the Future? :whatthe:
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Uncertain at the moment probably a combination of both.
Well, got the final exam and answer key for next semester completed so that is a bonus for me.
However, now I have been requested to write an outline for the teachers so they focus on the important bits of each chapter. This ought to be fun as in not really .... just saying .... considering I have never done one before, new territory for me.
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And the "teachers" are qualified to teach the subject how?
"Hi there, I'm teaching this course and I want YOU to write up everything I should Teach"
Sorry, My mom was a teacher, even as a sub she'd go over the material and set her own outline and syllabus.
*rant ended*
see? 8 )
Cheers
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Definitely had a weird day today, first off, ye ole stomach has been hurting all day. I think it might be linked to me feeling a bit on the bloated side and did some Magnesium Citrate yesterday. Boy howdy it did do a number on me but as mentioned seemed that the stomach was still protesting. It is better then it was in the morning, still not up to speed. Hopefully thing will be sorted by morning.
Anyway, had a conference call first thing about the Post Office quote, yep they wanted some changes, and once I explained why I had put the line items in they understood why, but assured me that they were not needed. Rewrote it and gave it back to ye ole leprechaun for review and eventual re-submission.
Then got another batch of radios (50) for the hospital that needed to be added to the inventory and be tagged. The crazy part there is no less then five hospital projects all slated to be completed this year. :thud:
Sure you and what mouse in your pocket?
Forgot about the most magical thing still in the wings, yep the Fantasy cruise ship is still waiting to be installed.
Oh and by the way apparently the NLECC folks are now ready for me to come in and add some more of the lovely "cryptor" devices to the network. Which just means that I will be badged as an allowable contractor and at last be able to go to the bathroom without an escort :tearlaugh: Little things amuse me occasionally ... what can I say.
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And the "teachers" are qualified to teach the subject how?
"Hi there, I'm teaching this course and I want YOU to write up everything I should Teach"
Sorry, My mom was a teacher, even as a sub she'd go over the material and set her own outline and syllabus.
*rant ended*
see? 8 )
Cheers
The only real qualifications are that they are all licensed electricians however the newest two followed me for the previous school term to learn the ropes of what to focus on and what is important for the students to take away from the class.
Additionally I had them as students several years earlier, so there is that in their favor.
Well, the real point is that this is a new textbook that is much larger and more comprehensive then the previous one so the coordinator wanted me to select the important sections and write it all up so there would be a consistent method of instruction.
The one good thing about the headaches of writing it all up is that I am getting paid.
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Well, alright then. The Nicola Tesla school of "I know what I'm doing".
8 )
Cheers
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Have You tried the bottom line up-front system?
1. Conclusion (The Key point of the information)
2. Introduction (Supporting Information)
3. Body (the process used to come to this conclusion)
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Going to be one of those nights that I will get nothing constructive done ... watching "The Clash of the Titans", "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", and now "Conan the Destroyer"
:sigh:
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I've always like the trailer of Clash of the Titans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXttqg0RWU8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXttqg0RWU8)
The music is "The Bird and the Worm" by the Used. If the video for that song is very disturbing and it's easy to guess why they didn't use the lyrics.
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I have the 1981 version with Ray Harryhausen's special effects.
Haven't seen the 2010 version before, definitely an upgrade to the special effects in the one trailer
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Oh goody I now have been requested along with the rest of the shop to enroll in on line training for some new-fangled camera system for collecting evidence in the field.
Too bad they cancelled all of the classroom training, could have got a free trip to Allen Texas :tearlaugh:
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:whatthe:
SerVision? o.O
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4RE System by Watchguard
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The crazy stupid thing is that for some reason my computer will not go there via Chrome, tried IE and got in there the first time and was able to log in, change the password, enroll in classes.
Had to close IE and when I went back it again fusses about not letting me in.
Now I am getting :rat-atat:
For some reason I tried to get there on my phone, as it has a Chrome app on it. Wham-bam in there lickety split ... :whatthe:
Checked with one of the other guys and no good on Chrome, got in with IE and was able to get back in after closing the browser down .... :rat-atat:
So back to the drawing board tried Edge and did a search for the site , it found it and here is a link for the training if you have an account ... and now it works ... oh please where is my :kaboom: when I need it
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Do you need the Manuals for that system?
https://www.manualslib.com/brand/watchguard/
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Not certain but I shall bookmark this link as a safety precaution.
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This is driving me :rat-atat: I can not go to my bookstore as they are closed, they do have an online order option and even have curb side pick up at some places.
My only problem is I :luvbooks: so much that I am severe withdrawal. I have to be able to browse and touch, feel, fondle and inhale the sweet fragrance of books, books and more books.
And don't even talk to me about ordering on line it takes so long for my order to get processed, shipped and delivered .... I am in seven kinds of pain.
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Have you read all the books you already have? If yes....then start all over :iminnocent:
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But ... but ... but .... what about all of the new ones just released ..... they will feel unloved and lonely if I don't greet them ....
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:iminnocent:
Read or Die AMV - Book-Lover's Prelude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9fDxEfMgpY
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That would be me and yes we have the Movie and the first volume of the TV series in my collection
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But ... but ... but .... what about all of the new ones just released ..... they will feel unloved and lonely if I don't greet them ....
Believe me....No one is getting anything in that's new if they are not a grocery store, pharmacy, or restaurant.
Book stores and the such are on the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to that....
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:o_go_on: I get notices of new releases all the time from my store.
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Yup....doesn't mean they have them in the store. Just mean it's a new release...I get them also....
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Stop :rainy: on my dreams
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I have two books I ordered a month ago that haven't come in.... Priority of shipping has gone from us regular folks to first responders, hospitals, etc....and most companies have to deal with having half of their drivers out....shipping anything has been a chore...Your grocery store shelves reflect that each week.
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A month where the devil did you order them from .. I have got my first order in a week, a second is to be delivered by the middle of next week and a third is at the shipping facility and being readied for shipping.
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Barnes and Noble.... Our State is locked up tight (except for the idiots who take their children to the protests and the children are holding signs they don't even understand) and only essential items are being shipped and received.
I guess they don't consider my books essential. Amazon just cancelled an order I had for a filter for my Microwave because they can't get it in. I ordered it a month ago...and Amazon kept changing the date of shipment each week. Buying from Whirlpool direct was twice the cost for the filter....and their delivery time before the virus was 4 weeks.... :thud:
I can understand it though. So I didn't bitch. I'll just clean the $13 filter as best I can since I'm sure no one else has one handy either.
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:whatthe: Ok :coffeemaker: I am going :whatthe: about Microwave Filters thinking it is a Electronic part but no it is a Filter for air! :whatthe: I Have Never seen one!
Had to look it up! ;perplexed:
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My Microwave is above the oven and the bottom part of the microwave is the exhaust fan for the oven. It has a filter....
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:whatthe: Ok :coffeemaker: I am going :whatthe: about Microwave Filters thinking it is a Electronic part but no it is a Filter for air! :whatthe: I Have Never seen one!
Had to look it up! ;perplexed:
And there are two carbon filters in this Microwave that need changing once a year.
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Another good reason as to why I do not use or own a microwave
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Finally getting more work turned in by the same students. Yep not all of them have turned in the work assigned so this will be fun, have permission to downgrade the midterm grade and .... sorry about your luck guys but this is all you get.
The one thing I have noticed is that their handwriting sucks. As in I bet my neighbors 10 year old can write better then these "adults"
Which makes me wonder if you have a computer to send email then apparently you would also have software to write with, even if it is just notepad.
So why are you writing it out in long hand with unreadable penmanship? Thank God I had a penpal in the Philippines whose handwriting, grasp of English and penmanship was borderline difficult to interpret. Tis all that is saving me here trying to read these guys handwriting.
:thud:
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That's why a lot of schools want to do away with cursive writing.
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They were printing their reply's
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:whatthe: Cryptography? o.O
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One needs to be a cryptographer to read their response no doubt.
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When you are using too much computers, and less hand writting, it's what happens. I never had the best cursives, but now it's very not good. One always can read, but... there is a huge difference between before I had a comp, and now.
I can always take care of course, but that asks many more time than I have sometimes.
Even at job, there are folders made on comps. And mails, lot of mails.
We receive also letters regularly. One letter in December stood out from others. Calligraphy. The man who wrote made it in calligraphy. And it was 3 pages like that :hypno:
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Me and cursive are old friends in fact give me a quill pen and I can blow your mind.
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I learned ( much to my chagrin) that whether quill, nib, ball, brush or pencil my handwriting is near illegible. Now that I'm older and all the accumulated damage to my hands is extant, it's even worse. I've been accused of writing Narn, Bostone, and Cenobyte.
*sigh*
Now to convince the keyboard to type what I wish.
8 )
Cheers
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:tearlaugh: Some folks do have extra "challenges"
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Well, went back to trying to watch these training videos and still am denied in Chrome and Internet Explorer ... however can still get into their site via Edge :thud:
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Programmation of the site wasn't done for other browsers :whatthe:
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Can you down load the videos so you can review them later? o.O
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It is both text and video, the only catch is that there is an exam as well at the end of each course they want me take :sigh:
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Actually Edge has been very good to me of late. Been using it more and more.
I'm wondering if what your trying to access was made using MS Technology (Such as Publisher etc.) and will only work with Edge. IE won't work with many things anymore...it's been Edged out by Edge....
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Screen Capture for the text or Can you save the web page?
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The odd thing is I got in there once with IE and the other tech in the office can get into it using IE
I (once again) am the :odd: man out.
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This is a copy of the error message from Chrome
training.watchguardvideo.com normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Google Chrome tried to connect to training.watchguardvideo.com this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be training.watchguardvideo.com, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Google Chrome stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.
You cannot visit training.watchguardvideo.com right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.
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And IE just says
This site is not secure
This might mean that someone’s trying to fool you or steal any info you send to the server. You should close this site immediately.
The hostname in the website’s security certificate differs from the website you are trying to visit.
Followed by:
Error Code: DLG_FLAGS_SEC_CERT_CN_INVALID
Because this site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security, you can’t continue to this site at this time.
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My guess is they really messed when they did the site.
I know one site with 3D freebies which is no more available since months. Waterfox is saying
"Your connection is not secure
The owner of www. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Waterfox has not connected to this website."
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Where did the links for the training videos come from?
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How to Clear or Disable HSTS for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
https://appuals.com/how-to-clear-or-disable-hsts-for-chrome-firefox-and-internet-explorer/
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http://training.watchguardvideo.com
via a Motorola Solution email address :tearlaugh:
And yes we have logged all error messages and problems with them concerning my difficulties in accessing this course
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I like being safe mind you....I have Malwarebytes, CCleaner and a number of other safeguards..... But time and time again Chrome thinks it knows it all and blocks legitimate sites.... Which is why I use Edge more and more.
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What blows me away the most is that Motorola set this up for us to get the training and the company that is providing the online training, doesn't work :thud:
Except on Edge for me
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:whatthe: Then use Edge.... :iminnocent:
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I am it is just annoying that the statement was made that it will work in Chrome, which it does not, the they said well try IE, worked once and then denied, got lucky that it works in Edge and still does so obviously that is my only method of taking the training.
But, when dealing with public safety communication devices and the software to make them work and get training for them, and it takes three attempts to get it to work, is not really saying anything nice about the parent company for the new device.
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To that.....I agree with you 100%..... Have fun with the training.
I'm getting my externals geared up for a Backstage Items Download marathon....I stayed out of there for 3 months so they can build up their items that I don't have....and they have accomplished that....
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Here is one for the cuckoo nest, had an email from them before going home and in it they said that yes for some reason unknown to them logging into the site with Chrome from a Motorola computer/network is giving problems to more then just me.
Just proved that to be a true statement, I am here at home on my personal computer, and whabam using Chrome am in there like swimwear ... :pervy:
:whatthe:
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How to Clear or Disable HSTS for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
https://appuals.com/how-to-clear-or-disable-hsts-for-chrome-firefox-and-internet-explorer/ (https://appuals.com/how-to-clear-or-disable-hsts-for-chrome-firefox-and-internet-explorer/)
Damn I missed your post earlier, when I get back in the shop and on their network I will see if I can solve the problem that way.
It would be ever so cool if it works then I would tell ye ole providers of the training links ... "what for"
It will be a day or so we have a NLECC job this morning and maybe part of tomorrow.
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Well, still at NLECC and it do not look as if I will be done till Friday. Granted I believe Friday is just making and applying labels on the cables so that is a win. But first I have to complete running the cables and terminating them.
Supposedly :thud: just a couple three cables, NOT.
I have 29 cables for all of the servers going back to the new KVM device. Plus three more from a new server to their LNSW and a NAS ... how quaint ... it would be so nice if some folks could learn how to count ... :shrug:
Just spent the last hour and a half terminating the final cable at home so I can pull them in under the floor first thing tomorrow.
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Looks like the students are finally getting a clue and are now going to the site and downloading the work and turning it in. Problem being though only one new person jumped in and inquired, they have yet to turn anything in
Going to be interesting to say the least
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:whatthe: Even a Fool has one Talent! :iminnocent:
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Seems like they all share it :tearlaugh:
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So love specific set of instructions and not having a single student that can put all the work in one file.
They know how to use a phone to text, play games and surf social media but use a computer or even their phone for real document editing .... NOT SO VERY MUCH.
The fun part as mention before why are you hand writing out the answers, in the worst possible penmanship, and then scanning it to send via your email address.
"Mien gott in himmel", this bunch of students makes me leery of future generations.
To think that most if not all indicated that they had a computer at the house, can certainly tell that none have a clue as to how to do simple word processing and file name protocols.
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Finished NLECC today, ran the last of the cables and once done, returned to the shop and printed out labels for the all the cables.
The annoying bit was once I was done and left for the site, I get a phone call from the office lady (the younger of the two), saying what the hell, can't even stop in and say hello to us.
Uh I am trying to get this job done 100% before the end of the week since I am scheduled to start another on Monday and I have yet to look at the scope of work docs, :whatthe: is your sense of worth so fragile that unless you are greeted regularly you collapse?
Never was good with interoffice politics to start with but this is silly, by the way this is the same person who takes forever to send out repairs to depot, order repair parts in a timely manner or even order my parts needed for a project to be completed, and she wants to whine about me about not spending time to say hello to her and do office chat with the both of them.
Seriously
Sorry, I don't sit at a desk "effing off" all day long I have tasks to complete and more on the way.
The back story is there was a problem with the install that needed sorting out as well, but I didn't go into that since the point of contact was trying to call me, while she was talking to me, to ask if I was on my way back yet.
:sigh:
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Modern Public Education is not meant to make people who think but to make them Dumb enough to obey. :whatthe:
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Then they have failed as they cannot obey a simple homework instruction, do these two exercises together and turn them in.
Nope they can't even name a file with the name of the exercise they are doing ... :tearlaugh:
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Well then they must be the top of the class! As the Ford Motor company Distorted the public education system So they can get Slaves to work the assembly line.
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To right
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:yippee: Friday
After having to wear a mask at NLECC for eight hours a day while doing the work there I can finally breath air instead of whatever those mask things are made of, man they play the devil with my nose and ability to breath freely.
I take the thing off and it is the next thirty minutes of blowing my nose and other things not fit to be printed.
I understand why they and others want one to wear them but man they annoy the heck out of me, including the lovely fogging of the glasses.
At any rate, a little paperwork and then that project is 100% not on my list of things to do. Downside I have a conference call this morning, one of the regional managers is retiring today and we all have to do the wish him well, and share nice things about him.
Should be interesting since I never really worked directly under him, nor have I ever interacted with him on a level. So say something nice :ummm: very tricky.
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Then already have to get started on another job, have yet to see or read the scope of work so this is not nice, oh and to make it truly fun it is another federal agency. Granted it is only the Post Office.
The fun part is that I know this job has been in the works for over a year and the short version of the project is "forklift" it all out and replace with brand new. And the radios will work how, from the existing system. There is an answer however ... BUT ... yeah I know you saw that coming, the code plug for the repeater that will make this happen is still not complete.
Seriously, over a year and a half and you lot can not get a code plug wrote and vetted by the 17,256 pencil pushers, and you want us to start the install on Monday. the real hilarity comes from the fact that the project manager asked will we be done by the end of May.
:thud:
Really, you are not replacing any lines, just the antennas and the actual repeater and then the handheld portables. And you think something that small will take a month to finish. :thud:
The only reason it will take a month is because you jack legs drag your feet on every single dotted "i" and crossed "t"
Icing on the cake ... supposedly all the equipment has been there since March, yet I have not seen it or check it against an equipment list to ensure that all the parts are there so .... heaven help me.
Moving forward time to get Friday started and get to the end of it so the weekend can commence.
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Something nice......... " He left me alone so I could work efficiently."
8 )
Cheers
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He was the most impactful of all the Leaders I have had! :havesum:
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:tearlaugh:
Great answers the pair of thee
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Hey, combine them, Rad's first then mine, not only makes sense, but impact too. 8 )
Cheers
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:thumb_up:
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I am so worried about the next generation, they wonder when all assignments are to be turned in, yet they "know" that class ends on 05/11/20
So when are all assignments to be turned in :thud:
..... and I still have over half of the class that has not turned in a single piece of homework, and the half that has done so, has turned in only half of the work.
And this is the generation that will be taking over when I am retired ... yikes ... scared I am ... for methinks a damn good reason.
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:whatthe: Do not worry We will be Dead long before these idiots do anything!
kent brockman welcoming our insect overlords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c
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That is one truth I wish to not dwell on ... sort of sad I never did try to raise a family that had morals, work ethics and a clue so it could have been passed forward ... thankfully immortality or a long life is not the norm for members of the human race.
There are exceptions that we always hear and read about but the odds of it being the norm and not the exception is a bit off in the future.
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:iminnocent:
Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
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Well, day one on the Post office project and can you say "WTF" ... knew you could first off the supposed inventory that was done by a new guy, had no documentation of any sort indicating what was received.
I do not even have a packing manifest. No serial numbers of any radios and no accoutering of the installation hardware. The real kick in the ass, the cabinet was damaged during shipment. Which just proves that no inspection of receivables was taken in addition to the lack of proper documentation by our :puah: new hire.
The amusing part was this morning I got his email chain on the task to do the inventory, what do I have ... pictures of the boxes of equipment.
How is that an inventory, better still does he even know what the word means ... well obviously in my mind ... not one tiny bit.
Shorted on parts in my mind because an install that is a fork lift out means that the install needs to be up to code period. Granted this will never be inspected by any other then the postal people. Bottom line though in my mind is I refuse to have them come back at us saying that it was not done right, so if we did only the bare minimum, they could get pissy with our shop.
:rat-atat: Not letting it happen, unless someone in authority puts it in writing, I am not allowing our shop to get raked over the coals, in the future over the install. Maybe I am over thinking it, I don't know but I have been almost burnt before in a similar situation. And I believe in safe then sorry.
The real surprise we finally got the code plug for the repeater at 11:00 last night, apparently. Wow, what a concept. Here is the other wow part we have four multi gang chargers, and part of our task is to charge the batteries before turning them over. Have over 190 batteries to charge and since it takes a full 24 hours to charge a battery from scratch, so at 24 batteries at a time per day it will take 8 days to do them all.
I on the other hand want to be out by Friday at the latest so methinks that someone else will be finishing the charging of the balance of batteries. Certainly not something I am going to concern myself about for very long.
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Day two is over and starting day three and if nothing changes or very little does, then we are at the sweet spot of any project that you could desire.
"Waiting on others"
Yep there is no analog line available for the Zetron interface for the voice patch. Plus the power that is up there is not compatible with the new UPS they bought. The existing is twist lock the new is regular straight blade. :thud:
I swear no one looks and sees what they are looking at any more these days ... but then again that is a common refrain from me ... :sigh:
At any rate, once we swap the indoor antennas around with the new ones and get the one existing line outside switched over tot eh new equipment we are ready to turn it on and run some prelim tests.
Still have the rest of the portable to program, but with battery charging being the speed bump not a whole lot one can do. Although I did manage to switch out the set that I had loaded in the morning by end of day so that is something. The other tech stayed later then I as I went to pick up pars to keep us going forward till the rest of the ordered material shows up. So the first set of batteries are probably all packed with the newly programmed radios which means there is only 24 fresh charged one available for use.
Which in the long run as far as I am concerned I should be able to leave tomorrow and go back to the shop, (I see no reason for me to be there for the acceptance testing) and get the next two projects inventoried and ready to roll out :sigh: Never ends ....
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Well the end of day three and the prediction of still no power or analog phone line is still true.
:tearlaugh:
On the plus side all of the portables are programmed and the spreadsheet for documentation is updated and ready to be presented to the powers that be, one of the other guys decided he was ill, maybe is was maybe he wasn't, don't know the details so can't say ... although I am skeptical.
Regardless we got the other guy out there and put his ass to work and we have just one more indoor antenna to install and then replace a polyphasor. Then waiting on them for the above mentioned items. Granted we can fake some temporary power to do the acceptance test tomorrow, however there is no need for me to be there for something like that, so I will be at the shop because of the fact that there has been an abundance of material that has arrived that needs to be inventoried and sorted by job and we both know I am not letting that other person even pretend to do an inventory. So as of yesterday when I swung by the shop to pick up parts to keep the project moving forward, there is material for no less then three projects that need to be checked in and sorted. :thud:
One thing that I did notice though is ye ole other guy still needs some work on his work habits and material kept on his truck. Definitely lacking on both fronts.
I am going to spare all, the details but let me just say how do you get anything done if you do not have the proper prep tool in your possession and why haven't you ordered a replacement since you know you do not have one?
Hint this has been a deficiency for almost a year if my memory of when the event that brought this to pass occurred. And he has done nothing about it :thud:
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:whatthe: When I was at school, I remember I had to learn how to check packages, even if often it was after the departure of the post man/ deliverer. But becoming from a school, it was tacit we were hurried, and them too.
There always had a notice of what was asked for the command, somewhere in the pack, or one of the many packs. If I wasn't able to find it, I only had to look on the comp, like the company sent it also by mail to be sure.
Then, I checked in the half day of the reception between daily work, children asking for bobos, questions of teachers during the break time in middle of morning or afternoon...
And when a command was for several of teachers, I just had to separate the stuff and keeping a track for them of everything was necessary. We didn't have serials numbers, but it's logical to keep track of that when there are somes :lostme:
It will be far west with your guy if he continues like that.
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At long last on Friday they finally had power provided for the new radio system. Wow only took four days to get something done that supposedly was already done. The story is that "they knew nothing about it till we showed up", :ummm: sounds like left hand meet right hand now talk to each other ... :pweez:
Well, at least we were able to get to the next step without having to resort to temporary power from the other system. Checked all of the settings on the repeater all passed, then checked the antenna and all passed there and finally got around to testing coverage with the portables. :yippee: Again all good.
So nice, once we got passed all that nonsense we were finally able to get rid of the old or rather existing system, a pair of Quantars and associated parts. So nice, got the rest of the antennas removed and moved them to the loading dock.
And for the $22 question, what about the phone line, as we were picking up and getting ready to leave they at last come up with the phone line that was also requested at the beginning of the week.
Better late then never I guess, man I tell you some of these projects are just a complete total demonstration of lack of communication. The good news is that the tech that can program the phone patch said that he checked the line and was able to get into the box which means he can program it from anywhere :woohoo:
So got home early ... that is if 2:30 can be considered early. Compared to 5:00 PM I guess that is a true statement :tearlaugh:
Have problems with the other guys though, one gets a headache and misses a day and the replacement who came out bumps his head on the top rail of the lift and he doesn't show up the following day because of ... a headache ... boy howdy these youngsters are quite delicate.
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Todays workforce thinks the word "WORK" is a BAD WORD.......and try to shy away from it...especially if it's manual labor. They all want to sit in front of a computer to make money....not enough jobs in the world to do that youngun's.....Sorry.....
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How quaint I ordered new checks and what fun that turned out to be, ordered them and waited and waited and waited some more ... was shipped by one carrier and then handed off to who else the Post office.
Thirteen (13) yes, 13 days later it finally gets delivered to me :whatthe:
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Todays workforce thinks the word "WORK" is a BAD WORD.......and try to shy away from it...especially if it's manual labor. They all want to sit in front of a computer to make money....not enough jobs in the world to do that youngun's.....Sorry.....
They certainly do however the pair of them can only use a computer as far as surfing FB and browsing for Lord knows what, have not seen any indication of anything above that and the occasional reprogramming a mobile radio.
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The majority of schools here in Wisconsin have Computer Classes set up as Mandatory in the senior year of High School. Just the basics mind you....but you have to pass the class to graduate....
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Wonder how then we have such a lack of up and coming folks, so deficient in basic computer skills. Obviously we have nothing like that here I guess, :shrug:
Seriously, how many folks who have a computer would not be able to open Notepad to write answers to the questions I assigned to them. Save the file and attach it to an email to send to me for grading, oh and give it a meaningful file name would be nice :tearlaugh:
What do I get, freaking chicken scratching that would make a doctor envious of their prescription writing skills, that then get photographed, then scanned as a jpeg and then finally attached and sent to me, with a disgusting file name that is naught but a string of numbers.
Yes, I am certain there is a pattern to the numbers but you know saving it with a proper file name that would be an indication of what it is about is apparently a thought not a one of them could come up with on thier own.
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To many the choice is made by the following criteria .....
What is quicker.....
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Methinks typing a notepad doc and attaching it
is much faster
then writing it out in long hand, taking a picture, then scanning it, and then at last attach to an email.
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I agree....BUT....Keep in mind....we are thinking like adults...... :iminnocent:
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;perplexed: :shh2: :iminnocent:
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:thumb_up:
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Damn not that again, thinking with logic and common sense ... :sigh:
Not to be considered ... :sigh:
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I was certainly born in the wrong era
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It has just gotten worse, I just got some assignments that they put the image of the hand written answers in the body of the email :sigh:
I swear .... as in fluently
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Worked on the grandfathers clock again this evening and at long last it is properly leveled and adjusted it has been running properly for the last four hours.
:happydance: time
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Some of me students are arrogant to the extreme ....
What do I see when I get home tonight but seven assignments from one student who has yet to turn in a single bit of work.
... waiting till after I turn in the report cards ... thinking that I will grade their work and raise their grade.
Hmm, all I had to say was this:
You still had your class calendar did you not, so you do realize that the class technically was done on the 6th, as today is when I had to turn in report cards and all that would have been done in class is indicate if you passed or not.
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Can't wait to hear them whine and cry "foul"
Because, I had all the work set up and on line for them to do since the week following spring break and they just now decide to do it and turn it in on the last night of class, where all I typically do is say you passed or failed and this is your grade, have a nice night
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If nothing else they learn that a Deadline is the end.
8 )
Cheers
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Wait for the Helicopter parents trying to drag you into some kinda parent teacher garbage. :whatthe:
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Not happening, they are (supposedly) adults and are on their own, if they still live with the parents that is their problem not mine thankfully
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If nothing else they learn that a Deadline is the end.
8 )
Cheers
One certainly does hope that it sinks in
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Crazy stupid things happen at work. Ye ole mobile installer has to print labels for the extra cables that were ran by him. First off never saw someone whine as much as he did about doing so then him. You lot think I cry a lot man oh man I could take lessons
First up he gives me a copy of them to print that were in the wrong format and from the wrong page of the template.
Then when he printed out a test copy he prints in landscape not portrait and finally he is using Win 7 and for some reason the template did not like it at all although I previously have printed using a Win 7 laptop.
Oh and before I forget he had nothing on his local drive it was all on Goggle Docs and that abomination of a "whatever the hell it is" messed with the formatting of the doc constantly.
Got so disgusted that I said send it to me via email and let me try it. Zip bang had a test page printed checked the alignment made one adjustment and was done, printed out seven sites worth of labels in 45 minutes.
He had been trying with help from me off and on all day to just get one to print properly. Don't know what is wrong with his laptop but it fought both him and me tooth fang and claw. It was weird did find out that he made changes to the template ... why I do not know ... all I know is that nope it doesn't like that and no just can not just add rows to accommodate extra labels the template was written by others and what you see is what you get; any alterations makes it go cuckoo.
Funny thing was that previously I have printed the exact same template on a Win 7 laptop and had no problems ... but on his .... :rat-atat: is how I felt the entire time.
Didn't help matters none that the wi-fi in the building was down when we got in and my printer is a wi-fi printer. And the shop servers are all in the parts room and it is kept locked.
Who has a key you ask, why the front office girls, who both conveniently decided to not show up till 8:30 and 8:45 respectively. The shop is to open at 8:00, guess since the boss has been working from home since this rubbish started that they have decided that they can show up whenever they like.
Seriously it can't be because of taking kids to school since it has been closed since spring break so what the hell .... I lost power and my clock stopped :thud: :o_go_on: that is so not an excuse in this day and age. Since she can't move two inches with out her face in her cell phone, I guess she would try and tell me that she doesn't know how to set an alarm on it to wake up by ...
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Well, started building out cables for the Tx and Rx of a new system scheduled to go in at the end of the month, first of next month.
This should be ever so much fun since the other two installers are in Flagler county starting next week ... again. Then what do I get but a call from the non-existent (working from home) shop manager.
Just a checking in call but the details I can drag out of him are most disturbing. Which is how I know that the cabling project I am working on is already scheduled.
The distressing part is that I have also heard of two hospitals, with two each projects per, plus another three projects for the city of ... in the works ... by summer's end ... :thud:
Plus there is a site upgrade ... adding two more sites to an existing system from the dirt up ... which I get to do the inventory for on Monday next, and then transport it over to the site that it will be tied into "eventually" which means it get built out and then cable up to tie into the system so they (I have so many descriptive terms for some of these folks, I will just let you provide them) to do their test and balance for lack of a better term. Prior to the final installation at the new sites, one in Animal Kingdom and one in the fancy hotel in the theme park. Yep, this one project is in that theme park. :iminnocent:
And before I forget, there is a preventive maintenance job for the FD, PD and Public Works department for a different city of ...
I do understand that job security is rare in this day and age, however working in "public safety communications" I am thinking that I will be busy for some little time to come.
:iminnocent:
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Oh great was told to watch the "town hall meeting" from ye ole day job.
Parts were not nice but in a round about way I understand the five "W's" of why they are doing what they are doing.
Doesn't mean I am happy, however they claim that the upper level management have taken pay cut in addition to the other cuts and reductions across the board, which obviously the one that is contentious to me is that the 401K match is being cancelled until the end of the year.
They are also doing "targeted" voluntary layoffs.
Sounds like upper level folks and not us bottom feeders ... not holding me breath considering my age group but then again I so far am the only one that takes this rubbish seriously in regards to project accountability and organization.
Time will tell
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Reminds me of the hostage taker..
Pistol to his own head, and says,
"Don't laugh, you're next."
8 ) Darwin at it's worst.
Cheers
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Well your Department should not have a problem You have work and Contracts are being paid for Service and upkeep. the Departments that are not making money are the ones who will be trying to oust your boss to replace him with a senior who is looking to cover his failures. :whatthe:
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My thoughts exactly ... way to much in theory ... coming up ... as of yesterday I counted no less then 10 up coming projects ... as to pending I do not even want to consider :shiv3:
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Oh look, how cute I am still getting homework from students that have not figured out that class ended three days ago
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:whatthe: Hum Just like everything else they Do it's too late and not Enough! :havesum:
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Pass \ fail...... Incomplete?
Failed Physics due to undone homework, passed all tests 100%, just didn'y do homework. Teacher said he'd give me a point or two for a passing grade, but I knew the weight of homework towards the final grade. Took the fail and thanked the professor for the knowledge I gained.
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Now for today's head scratching
:whatthe:
This is one hell of a ground ... right
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O.o a Floating Ground in a Bag! Please say this is a joke! :whatthe:
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Found it as a post on Facebook .... so one would think and hope it is a joke.
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I Fear it was one of your students Homework Projects they just turned in! :cheer:
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Granted I would not put it past one of them ... fortunately this time they had naught to do with it ...
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They are also doing "targeted" voluntary layoffs.
Sounds like upper level folks and not us bottom feeders ... not holding me breath considering my age group but then again I so far am the only one that takes this rubbish seriously in regards to project accountability and organization.
Yep the targeted voluntary lay off details were sent out and guess what being over 60 I got one of those emails.
:thud:
I would like to think that it will not trickle down to me due to number one, there is only seven people in our shop that do all of the work that we churn out to begin with, plus getting the over 60 crowd means you take out the manager and the senior bench tech out too.
Somehow I do not see that happening, why ... the ones that would be left are people that have yet to show a lick of initiative in doing what I do to drive and supervise the commercial and public safety projects. Granted the junior bench tech does show initiative but the knowledge base comparison between him and the senior tech is a ways apart obviously and there is even a knowledge gap compared to me, so crossing the fingers that the upper level shake down doesn't get down to where I lurk.
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Well if it was a Government Job I would see all of the 60 year old Retired and watch the shop shutter inside 4 months! cause nobody knows what to do.
Had that happen a few times in my life. :woohoo:
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Well, now for something different from all of the covid panic and posturing and so forth.
I was in New Orleans right after Mardi Gras and walked up and down Bourbon St. for several hours and came back home and have still not had any problems.
I wear a mask only when asked to and that is obviously when I go to the hospital to drop off repairs or do repair work on the system. They check ones temp when you try to enter ... I passed my exam BTW and scored a 97.9° :tearlaugh:
Other then that I do nothing different, it is called "herd immunity" ...... folks, some of us have that talent.
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Now for a real step to the left, got the neighbor to take me to the gun range today as I am contemplating the purchase of a hand gun.
Let me tell you he had a variety of calibers to try out, so I got a taste of the full spectrum. From 22 caliber all the way to .357 caliber.
All I can say that although I have not fired anything in about 30 years and that was a 30-30 rifle I really did not do half bad.
As in that according to the paper target, someone would not be walking away to say the least, if I was popping caps at them.
That .357 definitely has some kick to it but I was fairly accurate as in four out of five were body shots. The 9mm was better in regards to accuracy, as all six were valid shots on the paper. Granted in real life you do not get the option to take your time but it was an intriguing lesson.
Also fired a .380 caliber, although it felt a bit light in my hand, I was still fairly accurate for a first timer. But, after listening to all of the details to take into consideration about conceal/carry I understand that it is a balancing act to say the least in regards to purchasing.
Because in the real world you will not get the chance to "prepare to return fire" but still enjoyed the lesson.
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And we are off to do inventory over at Reedy Creek this morn. Should be entertaining, as I will be there early getting started on it and will have to wait on the others to get there with the truck to transport it to the master site.
Wonder if they are going to be smart enough to bring the big moving cart and a sheet or two of plywood to roll it along across the ground at the master site.
Hope I do not have to send a text to remind them of that, oh wait this is the pair that can barely figure out how to print labels and dress cable in neatly at a site. :sigh: Along with the fair haired genius boy who lacks in the PM skills department ... I am so .... insert favorite descriptive term(s)
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Well, had misgivings and was hoping to be wrong. However, no such luck, yep when I got there the warehouse did not have a packing slip or any sort of documentation showing what was expected to be delivered and what showed up. Then to add insult to injury apparently there was several days no one was at the warehouse and it is lacking space for shipments. So apparently several deliveries were turned away.
Great .... now for the bad news ... for whatever reason they decided to stage the material to be picked up "outside" which if it had been this morning it would have been all good, however they staged it on Friday and left it out all weekend and yes, we got rain ... multiple times.
Should not be a big deal one might think, except for one teensy weensy detail ... they left two each 20kVA UPS units outside the entire weekend.
Can you pronounce "water intrusion" since the units were only protected by shrink wrap .... talk about a fire storm that started .... all I have to say is I am not delivering them to the site until they are checked out by a manufacturers technician.
Now to stir the pot even further although I did an inventory on the serialized parts which is typically all I care about, yes I check to make sure that the installation parts are there and in the correct quantity, I do not write them out in long hand (Excel) for any reason. Today had to be different and I had to provide a full list of everything that was received and get Disney to sign off on it, before we could get on to part two of the day. Apparently there have been issues in the past with reconciliation of material shipments.
Now the fun begins, no radio equipment was received so we are going to tie this in with the master site how?????????
Oh I forgot there was several feeder bands of rain that was also hampering today's activities. :sigh:
Yet according to all of the powers that be they said that all equipment was present, not so very much since it was not present when we showed up.
Yeah sure .....
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Well, how about that we managed to get everyone together to deliver what we did have to the master site for Reedy Creek.
Only have enough parts to build out the Network racks since I do not have any of the P25 (public safety) equipment. So interesting moments coming up for that silliness.
Time to wash my hands of it until someone gets their act together.
So it is one of those "whatever" moments for me.
Get back to the shop and what do I find but all sorts of boxes to break down and toss in the dumpster ... why ... because apparently no one else can be bothered to toss trash out. They seem to wait till I can't stand it any longer ... so they do not have to take it out their own self.
Ass hats ... just proves the old adage that those that keep their work places clean have a less then spotless home place. Which if you were to run the white glove test at my house you would be better off wearing grey ones :tearlaugh:
By the same token that means they have a spotless home area yet work in a less then organized and clean area doing the daily tasks for a pay check. Why do I word it that way, because I am certain they only look at the job as a paycheck, instead of a career, and do only the bare minimum to achieve that goal .... getting a paycheck.
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Well get to hopefully finish the Post Office today, since we need to let them know we are heading out there to reprogram the repeater from mixed mode to digital mode and that will wrap that project up.
Still waiting on other parts to show up before I get to the next project, have already heard from the sale rep that the customer is in "oh my goodness when will it get started" mode, fortunately I am not the one holding it up, :thumb_up: the sale rep neglect to get the wall mount bracket ordered at the same time as the repeater.
oops
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Got to love vague descriptions of customer problems. The volume seems low....
:whatthe: hell does that mean
Seriously, if it is low turn the damn thing up ...
Updated the repeater code plug to change it from mixed mode to pure digital mode. While there we did take a look at the code plug for the worker bees radios and it is set for a "loud" environment. Not knowing what their definition of "loud" is makes me wonder if that was the appropriate setting for the radios.
Reason being it certainly did not seem as if it was that loud of a facility.
Will have to wait till I get further feedback from the customer before I go any further, since the next response from the engineer was to show them how to adjust the audio settings on their own ... and I am so against allowing customers to independently adjust volume settings.
God only knows what rubbish will happen, think about it when you let over 100 employees independently adjust audio settings on a radio.
Shudder ...
I am willing to bet most of them can barely do more then surf social media sites .. letting them adjust audio settings on their own just sounds like a disaster looking for a place to happen.
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Oh my goodness, There was a package for me from Viavi by way of Motorola.
Lo and behold after going on nine years they have finally got me a service monitor to use for auto-tuning, system analyzing and so many other more tasks that I have yet to do whilst here.
8800SX (https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/products/8800sx-digital-radio-test-set)
Way different from the other two I have used previously and definitely a sweet set up. I so look forward into digging into the feature set and learning how to use it to its fullest. Basically all that I have been shown how to do till now is a basic 20K PTT tune up on subscriber portables.
First hurdle was trying to update it for the latest firmware for the public safety radios. Reason being was, I did a tuning on a 7-800 MHz radio and it failed.
:whatthe:
Called support as it would not recognize the USB drive and it turns out that the updates now have a different file name structure, so since the files I still had the old names, the device would not recognize the USB stick
:thud:
Changed it and at last the device recognized it and then updated it. Since that was end of day, tomorrow will be time to run new tests and see if there is any change in the test results.
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:happydance:
Time again ... why I got the new 8800 to finally play nice on a simple auto tune for an APX 900 radio.
All I got to say is that this box is different from the other ones I have used previously, man what a learning curve. Why because it does thing so radically different and since I was operating it based on my previous exposure, that was the main problem.
In addition to the below listed items, it no longer requires the Motorola test box any longer to run auto tune tests. :thud: Certainly explains why I had so much trouble, as I am used to using the test box. Plus, this detail is not wrote down in the manly manual, it took a youtube video of all things to sort it out.
First thing different you have to select the mode to test in, turns out LMR is the correct mode for a subscriber radio.
Second it prefers that you use a battery eliminator when doing the auto tune tests, typically do so but for some reason I used a fully charged battery instead, but by the time I got to a point where I was making progress the battery was getting run down. So broke out the eliminator and moved on to my next step.
Third at this point in my tests I was getting better reading with less tests failing. Not good enough for me though ...
Sent the results to tech support ... once I figured out how to get them copied to a thumb drive ... yes, not user friendly at all, did manage at last. First thing he noticed was there was no cable loss values entered.
So he said follow these instructions and determine the loss on the cable and try again.
Well, had a odd thought that the senior tech would be able to set it up with no problem, nope this box is so weird that he couldn't finger it out.
Then had the proverbial dozen of fires to put out and once I finally got back to it twas after lunch time. The good news is that I followed the instructions in the link that was sent and got valid numbers that I entered into the appropriate fields and ran my tests again.
:dancingknight: huga huga :dancingknight:
Finally passing on all freqs and all tests with no snooty behaviour at last.
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Here is one for the cuckoo's nest, I get tomorrow off as a paid day, no deduction from my PTO account, just a "thank you" "theoretically" from the company for our response to taking care of business during the 'nonsense'
The reason I say theoretically is due to the "targeted voluntary layoffs" they are pushing on those of us that are over 60.
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Finally got myself back to work on the instructor syllabus for the new text book for the up coming semester. At last it is finished after another 10 hours of breaking it down in bite size chunks for the other teachers.
So can cross that off my list of things to do at long last.
Next up ... who knows ... calibrating my clocks for something that resembles accurate time .
Good thing only nine of them strike on the hour and half hour :tearlaugh:
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Did some anime earlier (one that is on its 20th anniversary) imagine that, didn't know it was that long ago.
Now back to my Dr. Who "The Wheel in Space" is on deck at the moment ....
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Time for "The Dominators"
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Fun in the morning installing a rack at the Orange county prime site and then supposedly off to the Reedy Creek site to "possibly" unload and do a tie in to the system.
Lots of luck with my day being as easy as all of that .... sarcasm or being pragmatic?
You decide ....
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Well, made it through the day and boy was it a doozy
The easy part sort of was installing the extra rack at the county prime site. Sort of, had to gather all of the pieces from my "stock" to make it happen.
The nasty bit was the after party, you, and two others need to go out to the Reedy Creek site and wait for the delivery truck to arrive to unload the rest of the equipment for the upgrade.
Got the proverbial time of delivery called some time between 10:00 and Noon
:sigh:
All I can say is what I was told was being used for the delivery and what showed up could not have been further apart.
Was told a box truck was being used to make the delivery, what showed up a 53' semi ... :thud:
Not a good combo considering the site is a good 150' away and it is all soft ground with dips, ruts and patches of just dirt.
Which means he could not get anywhere near the door to the site, fortunately he had two sheets of 3/4 plywood with him and I had the foresight to make certain we brought some of the same with us. Must be physic to have planned for that eventuality, at any rate it did pay off.
So had a plywood moving brigade to enable the truck driver to unload and move the racks into the shelter. Yes, the truckers unloaded and moved it into the site for us. That was certainly a bonus in my mind. After all that was done then it was time to use some ratchet straps to tie the racks off to the cable tray above them, to give a sense of stability to the racks. I mean we are talking 500 to 600 pounds for the two radio racks so tipping over is certainly not on the list of things to allow to happen.
After that was complete then I got the pleasure to do inventory of the newly received material. Greeeeaaattttt.
Not
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The real fun was the rest of the afternoon once I got back to the shop. Received more material for other jobs and projects and it looks like I have enough material to get one of them completed tomorrow.
Well, that is good news, since I have been asked on two occasions when it was going to be done. :ummm: Let me think, when I have all the parts in ... maybe :thud:
Stupid heads
Worked on getting this set up for the morrow and then what do I get but a phone call saying that oh by the way you need to build out the Reedy Creek rack based on the existing one in the site and have it done before Monday of next week.
I so love my job :tearlaugh: :thud: :sigh:
The only good news is that I can get the other guys set up to do the install, have my senior tech oversee and give the final blessing on the install, and once they get rolling I can go over to the Reedy Creek site and get started on the cabling. The reason this is not a bad thing, is that both jobs are five miles or less apart.
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The other cool thing is that I got the quote for adding the options needed to get the 8800SX capable of doing MotoTrbo.
It can do Astro 25, APX to start with, so once we get the Trbo software, we are in the money for portables. The other option that is on the quote is for doing repeaters.
So this will making doing PM's on repeaters so much easier going forward.
:woohoo:
Sweet since we will be the only shop that will be able to do perform those tasks. I like it ....
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And great went out to load the truck for the ride in to work and what do we see but some inconsiderate "dog" owner allowed his mutt to crap on the curb right in front of my walkway into my place ... and had no courtesy to clean up after it.
I swear some of my neighbors are ass-hats with capital letters.
Was it on purpose who knows all I know is that this is not the first time someones mutt has left rubbish like this near my vehicles and in the curb in front of my place.
As bad as the other neighbors who delight in leaving beer bottles in my yard and bottle caps everywhere.
How do I know for certain, well they happen to be the only ones that drink Corona ... needless to say I picked up the beer bottles and placed them on their porch.
I barely pick up after myself I will be damned if I clean up after those nimrods.
Oh the real reason why the morning is disturbing, storm clouds, dark, thick and heavy and I was hoping to get some work on the roof over at American Campus done this morning.
Where is my coin so I flip it and see what shall happen ... :thud:
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And here comes the rain ... I didn't even get out of the house to drive in to work yet :sigh:
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And wound up dodging it three more times during the course of the day.
Gee just what I wanted to deal with .... the rough edges are the roofers at the install site I wanted to accomplish today, decided that "oh my you can't install your antenna on the wall" as it will cause problems later, however their suggestion will never work for the sites future expansion, so it sounds like there will be some head butting on the morrow.
Not my problem, since I quoted it as being installed in such a manner, and the owners signed off on it, so the poor roofers will have to deal with it as they did have the opportunity to weigh in on it and cry foul. However they did not ...
So much fun for us, however we did get the inside work done so that is a win.
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My fun was once I got them rolling at the install site, I went to the prime site for Reedy Creek and started to work on cabling those racks up for the internal stuff.
Was supposed to cable it as the existing in the site. However the existing had other cabling ran that would not be the same with the upgrade racks. So now what the hell am I supposed to do ... whatever ... oh and by the way got rubbish news in regards to material the was delivered to the prime site had to be gathered up and taken back to the shop as a rep from Eaton will show up to determine if the water damage requires replacement or is not something to be concern about, so much fun. Then again they are the ones that will sign off on it, not me, so technically not on my list of things to worry about.
We like that ....
Twas crap that all of the material we had previously stored there and now has to be returned to the shop for evaluation ... this really blows.
The only good news is I was able to delegate that task and I was still able to cable up what I could on the racks and was done by end of day.
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Looked out the door this morning and what do we have but a nice even uniform shade of gray across the entire skyline.
Hmm, not promising for any roof top work to say the least. Checked the weather sites and promising it is not, we have a 11% chance till about 11:00 AM after that it goes to hell in a hand basket. Jumps to 36% then all the way to 90% by noon and tapers off to 50% by 5:00 PM
I thought we dodged rain a lot yesterday, it seems like Mother Nature has my neck of the woods firmly in the cross hairs for the :rainy: activities today. Almost afraid to look at the long term forecast :thud:
Looked anyway ... :thud: that was a mistake
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Hmm, methinks ye ole weather weenies are definitely a real bunch of losers. Predicted rain in my neck of the woods all day long not a drop til I pulled out to go home. Then it only rained until I got to the first traffic light after leaving the shop, in other words about a mile.
As for today they are predicting rain as well, however the sky is clear with scattered clouds at this time. This should prove to be interesting. Because once again they are predicting 58% chance by 11:00
Ah well, never got a response to either my voice mail or email as to what is the status at the site where I still need to have an antenna installed, since the roofers were pitching a fit.
So looking forward to what happens next.
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:woohoo: Well in theory the UPS for the upgrade site is going to be all right there was no water standing on any of the boards inside the cabinet, he did recommend that they have a rep come out and do the install for the amazing low price of :shrug: but if something does go up in smoke it would be covered by warranty. If Joe Blow does it and it goes up in smoke, sorry about your luck.
Had some decent news in the afternoon, they are still trying to turn our place into a UO center and it has been decided that the parts room is where it will be at, so all the non-stock rubbish that we have never been allowed to get rid of or heaven forbid use in a pinch is now slated for disposal :happydance:
Only problem the dumpster is full because the city of has not bothered to come by and empty it.
Why, oh he comes by at 5:30 to 6:00 and the gate is locked ..... :ummm: you all have a key to the lock ... so the problem is ... can you say to lazy to get out of the truck and open it ... knew you could.
Also was given carte blanch at long last to get rid of some crap on the shelves out in the bay. Most of it has been sitting there since before me or shortly thereafter. So that makes me happy. Even jumping on the mobile installers to clean up their crap that is also on those shelves or out it goes, actually going to make them take it out I am so over cleaning up after the pair of them.
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:yippee: they emptied the dumpsters today.
Oops they are full again due to the promised cleaning :tearlaugh:
Well, left room for the regular office trash mind you but still all full ... how droll ... still have a boat load more of nonsense that we can get rid of ...
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Maybe the upper wienies will spring for a "construction dumpster"?Holds about 3 times the usual dumpster, and is temporary. They drop it off, you fill it, they take it away. NOt too bad for cleaning up.
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Cheers
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Probably not the upper weenies are cutting things back because oh my goodness we didn't make enough profit in the first quarter due to the covid-19 scare.
Yes, my employer match on my 401 gone, next years incentive bonus canceled, plus they are targeting the over 60 crowd with voluntary layoffs but if they don't have enough of them then they are going to say "you bye-bye."
Most like not me since right now in Orlando I am the only one doing the installation/infrastructure work but who knows about those pencil pushing, blinder wearing, shirt and tie people.
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Well...... if the wonder weinies succumb to stupidity and release you into the wild.
Then once they realize their fatal error, you're in the catbird seat for the rehire negotiations.
Twice the pay, half the time, and concious assistants.
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Cheers
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Indeed
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Or Go contract at 150 an hour! :whatthe:
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:heeheehee: Now that is a thought :heeheehee:
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Hi guys! Jherrith, is there a special thread for our computer builds? I Pushed da Button on a new build . The parts start arriving like, tomorrow maybe? Most through Walmart.com as their prices are the same as the origin will charge me. So, why not?
Which Ryzen did you get? Motherboard? How much ram you put in it? 64g or 128g? Also, I decided to get the mobo in a chipset they got Win 7 drivers and stuff for. I MUCH prefer that over 10.
Oh, Ryzen 7 3700X with Wraith Prism cooler. 32 g DDR4 in 2 DIMMS. Gigabyte AMD AM4 X570 Elite WiFi mobo. Plus another 3D NAND SSD, a 2 TB one. For now, I will use this old case, the 750W PSU, all my SSD's and the SATA BluRay drive. Just be my luck I missed some tiny detail which will force me to get yet another item. I mean, that's the way of it, right? It Is The Way. (Mandalorians!)
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You can create a thread of your own in the "Computer Corner" board and go in to details on what you are doing and what parts you are using
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Oh what a wonderful reason to wish for Monday's to go take a long walk on a short pier.
Morning started off with having to wait on the ST to show up with a truck to move the radio racks to their permanent home.
Typically our day starts at 8:00, he doesn't show up at the shop till 8:30 and then it is another half hour before he gets to the site.
The fun part was he calls me to say he is outside at the shop, well whatever I am at the site waiting on you. You need to pick up the cart, plywood and the portable ramps at the shop and com eon over. "uh, where is all of that at?"
Seriously I am thinking, maybe if you open your eyes and go in the bay you might be able to see them as they are all standing there waiting on you. Oh by the way go inside and tell the other two guys it is time to roll.
Some people just require to much supervision and direction in my opinion. Drives me to distraction to say the least, why because the other two guys are more concerned about shooting the shit instead of getting ready. Oh, I have to program radios for the sale rep, he has a demo later in the day.
When I went in there to tell him that I was going to the site and that they need to be ready when the truck shows up, what do I see, running off at the mouth and working on something totally unrelated. Yep, real important .... whatever ...
:ummm:
Finally get everyone together and at the site to load the truck and the first words out of the ST mouth was, can you back up the truck, I don't think I can, seriously .... what the hell .... finally got the truck in the right direction so the ass end of it was pointing at the door of the site, can't believe he thought that having it pointing the other way was a good thing. If there was a smidgen of a working brain inside of him, I bet he would take it out and play with it.
At this point I realized that I did not bring any ratchet straps to secure the racks to the truck for transport. So left them to work on getting the racks loaded while I got the straps. By the time I got back they had on rack on the truck "wow" about time they got a clue, the only down side is that the left the OP8's on top of the rack. They are not needed at the new site so let us leave them on and create more work once we get there .... :sigh:
Well, at any rate after all of the nonsense trying to get them loaded, tied down we got them transported to the new site. When I first saw it all I have to say is the person who designed the layout needs to be shot, strung up by his toes over a low flame and smacked upside the head multiple times.
Who the hell designs a enclosure with the gate on the opposite side in relation to the front door? Then to make it even more interesting the distance from the fence to the front door, there is a window of about eight foot. And we have to maneuver a 7-1/2 ' rack that weighs about 600 - 700 pounds in the confined space. Then to add insult to the whole drill, there is a pad at the door about another foot up. So not only do we have to get the rack sorted to bring it in the shelter but we have another step to take it over to get it inside.
A**hats
I want one of these genius desk bound paper pushing jockeys to install these damn racks ... they probably wouldn't get it but it would be fun to watch.
I think the thing that really gets me irritated is that he (my boss) pulls all of us off the many projects we all handle to move these damn racks. It would sure be easier if you just hired professional movers. Consider the hourly cost of the four of us versus the cost of pro movers. I am willing to bet there is a cost savings.
Thus ends part one of the morning.
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Part two got worse because the whining started to ramp up, ye ole ST was more in the way and did little to nothing to help move the racks inside. Got in the way of moving the plywood to continue leap frogging the sheets to enable to the rack to be moved. The whole yard is gravel so nothing less then plywood enable on to move racks. Just like the same rubbish at Reedy Creek.
Got the racks inside and just got rid of him, since at that point he starts on oh I need cable run from here to there and I need ... at this point I just said get a cable matrix first, then talk to me.
At that point we got started on attaching the racks to the floor. Which was when the ST decided to take the truck back, left half of the moving material there instead of taking it with him. :sigh:
Then the other tech decided that now I am going program the radios I brought with me, :sigh:
So guess that means I have to manhandle the racks where I want them, drill the floor and then bolt the racks down, yes there is a fourth person, but his infrastructure install skills are non-existent. Definitely put him to work on learning how, besides it does take two people to get those racks to move around for installation.
Why they ship these damn things fully built out and then expect puny humans to install them without doing ourselves an injury baffles me. Because the next statement is that you don't have time to unrack them to move them easily and then build it back out.
Anyway manage to get the racks lined up and then drilled and bolted them one by one. The funny part is the other tech whining about the noise from the hammer drill .. asked if he wanted to trade and do the drilling and get close and personal with the lovely racket.
For some reason he declined :tearlaugh:
Got them finished at last. Then started some of the simple cabling and at last said I have had enough, at this time the damn tech asks me to take to the radios back to the shop for the sales rep, the sale rep never came to the shop. :whatthe:
Oh I forget the "cute" part the office lady called saying the UPS that were just checked out might get wet since the skies looked grey, you need to move them ... :ummm: I am moving racks now just pull the garage door down if it gets to that point. So had a second task when I got back to the shop, moving them to the other side of the bay. Oh and let me not forget to mention picking up after the ST who just dropped the moving material in the middle of the walkway.
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Ever Tell You about a Rack install in the middle of a Warehouse and to protect and keep the dust off it they Wrap it in packing saran-wrap! Nice and Air Tight it was!
:woohoo:
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The fun part finally got home and what do I get is a phone call from my coordinator for class asking for one more task from me and got all sorts of news as to what is happening with class. Good grief is it going to be interesting to say the least.
Bottom line is in addition to doing the final proofing before I send it out to all the instructors, I am to make up five (5) hand books for the instructors with all the material for the class, including NEC code quizzes.
The good news is I am to buy the notebook, paper and ink for my printer, keep the receipts and we shall reimburse you.
So looks like I still will get one more paycheck for doing the write up for the new textbook.
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Ever Tell You about a Rack install in the middle of a Warehouse and to protect and keep the dust off it they Wrap it in packing saran-wrap! Nice and Air Tight it was!
:woohoo:
Don't think you have, but it sounds interesting to say the least, wrapped up that tight how long did it last ????
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1 Day! looked like a Balloon! They kept rebooting it cause it got hot and would shut down for some reason! :whatthe:
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Wow ... and they never figured it out I am thinking .... some people just should not be allowed out without adult supervision to say the least.
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Nope We where getting chewed out for selling a Broken Rack We Came back to Recover the Unit and Replace it as it was under Service contract. We Took pictures of the unit and sent them to HQ to ask if this voided their Service contract. The Next Rack was a DUSTSHIELD DS 700 Series.
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Honestly some people ...
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J, you sure had a fun day. Surely they all don't "go that well" do they?
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You can create a thread of your own in the "Computer Corner" board and go in to details on what you are doing and what parts you are using
Thanks! Getting there ... :coffeemaker:
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Wow had the dubious pleasure of meeting the ultra moron of a "community associate" No you can't bring in any material at this gate you have to go to the one on the other side of the complex and sign in there and then you can bring your material across the complex.
:rat-atat: effing morons ... I am here to finish the install of the radio system for you lot, and have a lot of awkward and heavy equipment to take up to the fourth floor and out on the roof. What the hell is the problem with taking the material up at the closest point.
Well they continued being dicks about it so since we only had a two hour window before the rain might come in, I gave up on teaching them common sense and how to be accommodating ... effing idiots.
All I got to say is that they got lucky that the rain did not show up till up after we left cause I was this close to telling them to eff off and I will come back later when you all get your head out of your ass.
Oh and to make things interesting the "escort" while I was doing the install was a woman and apparently a "snowflake" as later on I got a remark from a different community ass...., saying she felt uncomfortable by my talk while doing the install.
Considering it was not directed at you what is your problem and why don't you grow up and stop being so damn delicate.
My God in heaven .... everybody is so quick to be offended and uncomfortable at the drop of a hat these days.
I am thirty plus years heavy construction I do not know how to talk "candy ass" to these damn snowflakes.
Someone please send building "escorts" if needed that have a frelling spine I do not have the delicacy or patience for crap like this at all.
The only good thing is the install is complete and we can get paid ... and although I know there might be more work in the future for this customer, I know I want no part of the install if their reps are going to be pathetic snowflakes.
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:iminnocent:
Comic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
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Indeed ....
Just heard of a second intelligent snowflake.
They decided to drive to a spot that was in a state of unrest bordering on a riot, and apparently was arrested while there and had their righteous outrage posted on F***book.
Well, guess what snowflake if you are going to a place that is in a state of turmoil and then get arrested for being there who is to blame ?????
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I know we are all familiar with the "Darwin Awards". And seems some of us would be ready and able to help some of these workplace idiots into getting theirs post haste. Ah but that would be criminal! So might need to do some lesser thing.
How about we create an Award just for some of these jokers job failures? Maybe the DoA Job Award or somesuch? RadKres's airtight wrapped rack seems pretty eligible to me! And a few you've shared in here, J, would be very likely candidates too. Well, was just an idea is all. :coffeemaker:
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Hrrrrmmm..... something like The Cranial Rectal Inversion Award?
Given to those that live in their own darkness, and gleefully spread it around.
8 ) Cheers
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Retro active Evolution! Cleaning the Gene pool One Bug at a time! :iminnocent:
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Sweet idea and boy howdy are there several prime candidates.
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:iminnocent:
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAk4OAAzZBs
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Nice! Need some? ;o) :coffeemaker:
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Good thinking guys! Um, Wizzard? You are just plumb WICKED Wizzard! LOL!
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Hrrrrmmm..... something like The Cranial Rectal Inversion Award?
Given to those that live in their own darkness, and gleefully spread it around.
8 ) Cheers
Seems I recall (and we ALL seen this one many times I bet!) in Buckaroo Bonzai, the times he said that catch phrase, either his teeth or eye glinted the sunlight! Anyone else remember that?!
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:iminnocent: As I know not what thou art talking about :sigh: yep, sheltered life.
So it was interesting to say the least after our conference call, man did the ball get dropped as in hard and boy howdy did it bounce hard and long. Never heard so many loose ends as we unveiled during the call.
Not going to list them due to the volume, let us just say though it is going to be amazing if the job is completed on time.
Going to do my site walk this morning and see just how :caveman: it is hosed.
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I doubt much that you dropped that ball, J. Sorry to see you likely get the added workload though.
That's what you get for being THAT good!
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Mc-G, multiple times an eye glint would occur as a nod to the audience. lightly tapping the 4th wall.
Having been a mechanic, given improbably short deadlines and equally improbably goals, ( make thes old BMW run like a Hurricane) I do tend to be a bit short with top down idiocy.
Add to that my morbidly obtuse humour and......
8 ) Cheers
Jherr, I tell ye... flatrate. ON my chart along with sparkplugs timing and engine removal, was customer foolishness and presence during work time. pretty high number if I recall.
8 )
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I need that chart ... thank you
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I doubt much that you dropped that ball, J. Sorry to see you likely get the added workload though.
That's what you get for being THAT good!
Indeed no dropping on my part since I am not the one that orders material, I write the quote up on some of the projects and then I get the right material and in the correct quantity.
This one was wrote up by ye ole boss and collaborated on with one from the Lakeland shop, as there are several other branches of the hospital chain opening in their neck of the woods and they will be doing the install.
Provided we can get them trained up to our level of installations for the customer.
I saw their work on a different hospital project and about had a fit. Incorrect type of cable, cable not grounded, mast not grounded there was a couple of other things but those are the top three mistakes. I mean seriously who uses LMR 400 as a transmission line for a radio system, especially line that is not rated for outdoor use. Then no grounding outside at all :thud: :whatthe:
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:whatthe: Maybe Time to Break down the jobs by skill level?
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There are days, that would be the better way to assign these tasks.
They might know how to make a radio work and repair it when they break, but to install a code compliant system .... not so very much
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Flat Rate chart is pretty easy. take one "job" staple down 1 metre of cable, time how long it takes you, that's one work unit. Usually 5-15 minutes.
As example, I Work Unit for us was the time it takes to remove and properly install one sparkplug. was about 7 minutes. as proper installation requires gapping, cleaning and lubing the threads, proper torqueing. Everything goes from there. A complete engine overhaul, is listed as WT (work time) as it takes as long as it takes. Naturally parts are not included.
Setting one up can be a pain, but once established, *can* make things a little easier.
The chart I had on the wall, had:
Customer in work area asking questions whilst work in progress:: +10 WU per.
Customer touches or handles mechanics tools:: X100 per.
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Cheers
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Well J, I think you looked at it and thought "they never did one of these installs before!" and flubbing like that with no adequate grounding? No Thanks. I rather calculate the entire load, add 25% more to the ground load, then run the grounds for that figure as insurance. That has paid off in happiness every time done. I mean, can you *really* have too much grounding? :)
:coffeemaker: :#1:
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Hey, I would love "breaking IN" to the electrical industry today. It is much broader in scope than anything we had to train for in the 70's! It is also being taught to be cleaner, neater, and even more safety oriented than back when. I am seeing an amazing world open to Electricians now than we had. And I love what I am seeing J!
YOU just keep up the Good Work man, and keep training these people up to safe and useful workers!
If even 10% of them pass your courses, earn their letters and pass license tests, that is a handful of good people doing this critical level of work with a double handful of maybe decent burger flippers (failed out).
Man, do I ever recognize that I lack severely in skills and ability in today's Electrical Fields. But I do know enough to see the GOOD in Today! :)
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At several of 'the employers' work sites they owned, some of us dozen Electricians would post a printed page somewhere on site that read a simple addage:
"There are OLD Electricians. There are BOLD Electricians. There are NO Old Bold Electricians."
(original author unknown)
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How wonderful went to start work on scanning some receipts and the printer has its own version of the BSOD along with an error code which when looked up it does indeed signify the BSOD rattle.
:sigh: and I just bought and install fresh ink cartridges.
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For BW Go Laser in the long run cheaper to use.
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Valid point, I do like to have the option to print in color but in retrospect there is not a whole lot of color printing that I do now or have done in the past. So it might be time to switch it up.
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Went with a laser printer as suggested and got it all configured and set up. Did a test scan since it has that function available and so far so good all worked the first time.
Imagine that ... the cool part is that the school will reimburse me for the printer :yippee:
Did not expect that to happen, figured I would be out some portion absolutely, so wasted the money on ink but got full price on teh new printer ... still a win ... in the long run.
Oh look, we have some of the :rainy: action going on now. To the point I can hear it inside the place over the movies or is that anime , no wait I distinctly recall watching the Doctor at one point in the past or is that coming up next.
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man I got so sick of the ink cartridge scam. they would dry up on me all the time, and the last ink jet printer I bought was an all in one scanner-copier-printer, and on WiFi. Now its just a wifi scanner! I bought a Brother color laser for under $200 at Wallyworld about 6 years ago. Never dried out, always prints whatever I send to it, it also is WiFi, and its still using the original toner cartridges it came with. THAT is what I'm talking about! Yessir! :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
:havesum: :cheer:
Oops sorry man, your thread!
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How fun, they seem to think that I can be in three places at once and get them all done at the same time.
:whatthe:
I so want to smack someone, when they start talking rubbish like that, since they seem to expect me to do the work as my finished product is different from others.
How annoying
I did notice today though that I am once again at that point where is I do not start taking PTO they are going to get burned at the end of the year. Just like it has been every year for the last six, for some reason oh my you can't take any time off because this project has to get done, first and the list just snowballs after that .... :rat-atat:
So tired of the nonsense and with a hiring freeze I am still never going to get anyone on board to train up to infrastructure standards. Because it has become painfully obvious that the mobile installers just don't give a damn about infrastructure and it shows. Just saying :iminnocent:
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All I have to say is that it is a good thing that despite how upset I get about things of this nature,
thank goodness I am not as violent in real life as I sound.
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:iminnocent:
GATE AMV - The Vengeful One - Disturbed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeY_Uje27wo
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Definitely sounds and looks about like how I feel on occasions ... :iminnocent:
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J, what would happen if you just dropped your double armload of their crap, and just walked off ? Think they could handle it?
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The place would in my opinion go to hell in a hand-basket so fast that their collective heads would spin.
They are or were offering targeted retirement packages to those of us that are over 60, however for me it would be at the bottom of the pool, in other words 7 pay periods (pay period = 2 weeks) not nearly enough cushion in my opinion. Plus unused PTO, so a grand total of eight weeks or in other words two months pay.
Granted I could start to claim SS however once again claiming now would put me at the bottom of money collected. So, once again not a viable option in my opinion.
Wish I would have pushed the envelope on him and said that I was considering it and see if I could not have gotten him to panic, since at the moment there is no one that does what I do in regards to keeping jobs moving forward in completion, ensuring parts are all on hand, building out and testing systems prior to installation, inventory of all incoming radio equipment by job ... and quite frankly the list goes on .... and on.
Modifying code plugs, programming radios, commissioning new installs for public safety departments, repairs and troubleshooting of subscriber radios .... damn the list does keep growing ... better stop.
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Have you thought to talk to the Big boss and ask him about the Mismanagement of your Department?
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I have only talked to the immediate one I have a feeling that if I go above his head that it would end badly.
Then again if I were to do something of that nature I would have to make certain that I have a fully detailed list of the nonsense with suggestions ... however .... I do not have my facts in a row.
Regrettably, the problems that exist I think have been here from back when we were an independent shop and well before my time. So I see little chance to make changes that would benefit the workload that each of in the shop carries, first reason being that upper level cares little about the commercial accounts that add to the county public safety accounts that all come out of this shop.
Commercial and public safety is what we do here and whether or not they choose to admit it, a large chunk of money is generated by the efforts all put forth. So not certain how one would present a case to anyone higher up on the food chain, that "yo, we are not machines" and we have feelings among other things.
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Can You Still Get Time off or has that been crushed? :whatthe:
if You can Take off Take a few before you get sick of this mess.
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Man, I think a little bit of name dropping is totally in order. Like, "Hey boss, thought you'd want to know that Picaune Public Safety is taking over your customer base!"
"WHAT! How do you know THAT!"
"I started that company yesterday!"
Hears happy whistling as J ambles off...out the door... leaving AHole company in the lurch...
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Can You Still Get Time off or has that been crushed? :whatthe:
if You can Take off Take a few before you get sick of this mess.
Oh I can still take the time off, but you can bet there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth on their part. Or you can't now, we need to get this finished before the end of the month.
So I am just not sure when, although id-jit says well, we will just have to work around it. Going to have to and at the same time get those other installers to step up and start to pay attention and do more then the bare minimum.
Case in point they both leave at 4:00 regardless, they skip lunch so that means yes you could leave then or get paid overtime. However when, 4:00 rolls around they are out of there so fast you think a gale force 5 just blew through the place. The one just picked up and was on his way out, even though the vehicle he was working on was hanging half out the bay, couldn't be bothered to move stuff out of the way so he could pull it all the way in before leaving. I even said as much ... he still drove off leaving the other guy to do it, which since he came in late made it his problem. But still that is lame in my opinion. Guess they are only here for a paycheck.
So they certainly will have to work around it, mainly because he never learns, since this is scenario is still going on year after year.
Anyone else, with the exception of the senior office lady (who is in the same shoes as I am) can take time off whenever they want and no one seems to care.
But if the senior OL or I take time off it as if the apocalypse is starting.
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Seems they have the typical M.A.P. - or Managers Attitude Problem. I wonder if a lug wrench would adjust it? Heh! :coffeemaker:
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Would have to be large enough to deal with the inflated ego as well ..... :tearlaugh:
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Well, it didn't get any better still working by myself, granted I am in two minds about any help as there is really ony so much room in the shelter and we would be in each others way "maybe"
Although in my opinion there is still plenty of things to do that would keep us out from underfoot.
However apparently the other folks are to busy painting antennas for another project, not saying the other project is unimportant but man seriously ... we are getting to a point on the work I am doing in the shelter where a second hand running lines to the window.
Plus, we do have two GPS antennas that have to be installed on the building with lines ran inside and connected. Would be nice to have a second body, but nooooo apparently the two slackers are headed back to Flagler county again.
I did stir the pot though and put in a request for PTO ... and of course got no response .... :tearlaugh:
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Hurrah I did get an answer at last and time off has been approved
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Alright! Had to happen J! :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
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May you bask in goodness and SAKE! for a few days!
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Looking forward to it no doubt considering the rubbish that was spouted this afternoon.
The project I am working has to be completed by months end. The two new sites for Reedy Creek also have to be done by months end. First week of July the hospital ER department has to be complete and ready to open for business.
Oh by the way none of the equipment for the hospital has managed to show up, plus the roof conveyances are completely wrong and have to be reworked. So this is going to be completed .... how :ummm:
Oh there is also to be a site walk to move radio equipment for a different hospital chain at some point also ...
Someone needs to strap on some tools as this is not going to get done if I am doing all the work myself. Just saying
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Here is the mind bender scenario of the day.
At 10:00 AM was told that ye ole boss was sending someone out to help with the install ... (wow only took him three days to realize this) ... It was 11:30 before I got a call from the guy asking where in the bay is the cable I wanted him to bring so I could get the lines form the window to the radio equipment.
Got that sorted out, at 1:00 he shows up.
:thud:
Seriously four freaking hours.
WTF did you get lost ... out doing something else when called ... can't drive worth a damn .... inquiring minds want to know.
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Well he took a 20 foot Fiber cable and cut and spliced it in to 2 inch units for the project. :woohoo:
This did happen to me I found out he was dyslexic!
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Oh my giddy aunt
... that is ever so rude ....
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The real guys doing the work on the tower are having more fun then I want to consider.
They have been dodging rain for the last three days, welding new clips on the tower that were damaged during build out, then assembling all the supports on the ground then winching them up 140' and attaching them to the tower (monopole) then winching the antennas up, and eventually the lines for the antennas.
Climbing 140' straight up is so not on my list of things to do ...I am ever so grateful
As of end of day they got all the supports up and two out of five antennas installed, then the :rainy: happened ... again.
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I have done that sort of thing. Climb up into a gantry crane, 100'. Climb out the boom to mag line spool to replace the belly button brushes. 90' to the mag cable reel. Thing sways in the breeze. An electrician before me on the same crane simply slid down the hoist cable to the 92" 250vdc magnet. Then the operator lowered it to the ground. The owner was standing there leaning against a light pole on the ground, watching him. "Stop by the weigh station and get your check, you're out of here". That guy tried for a year to get his job back. Nope. I took that as an object lesson. No matter how long it took me or how ridiculous the rule might have seemed, I followed them to the letter. And kept my job. The work out there was seldom easy. But, that's why it paid so well, I figured.
You might not be one of the owners but I gather you are likely one of the bosses!
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:ummm: I said to all that I would be on site by 7:30 ish (and was) when does the helper they sent me yesterday show up, if you guess 8:00 AM and then took another 15 minutes to get sorted and ready to work then move to the head of the class.
The tower crew can show up when they desire as I am not their boss. Plus, they are the ones climbing the tower so you can come in when you are good and ready.
But, my helper said he was going to be in at the same time .... not so very much, although I did say that "as long as you are ready to start work at 8:00 AM" that will be fine.
He failed
Made sure that he was doing all the nasty crap, installing the GPS antennas on the outside of the building. Although I prepped the antennas with cabling, weather proofing and the mounts. Had the pair done before he got the first set of supports attached to the building :thud:
Had to show him how to attach a ground kit for the antenna line and ground to the exterior building ground plate. But left him to his own devices, while I took care of the other loose ends. New data lines for the T-1 microwave links. Finished the punch down of the 25 pairs for the alarm points. Installed the polyphasers on the GPS lines on the inside of the building, terminated the antennas to them and now we wait since the project manager or engineer neglected to order the proper quantity of connectors.
Tis funny I get two lines preterminated on one side, plus two loose connectors. Then there are the polyphasers, which means you need another two connectors per run.
So got shorted four connectors, sigh, fortunately I did have two on my truck so was able to at least get the lines terminated on the inside on the polyphaser side and grounded. just can't do the other side to the trac unit.
Got him to ground the three racks while I was doing the entry port work. Once done started picking up and had it all cleaned by the time he got done.
In the meantime the tower crew has been doing their thing and it looks like all five antennas are complete and it now requires the lines to be pulled in, connectorized, jumpers built, attached and weather proofed.
Then I will have to come back and finish the terminations from the polyphasers back to the radios.
So the good news is that I am at the perfect place on any job.
I am waiting on others, (until the antenna lines get pulled in I have nothing else to do) (and until I get the other connectors for the trac unit .... can not help you)
:cheer: :dancingknight: :cheer:
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Just one thing is always the MacGuffin of every Job!
A Bulb, A Jumper, A Cable, A Breaker, A Zener diode, Etc ...
Makes life just a bit more :whatthe: :woohoo:
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Too right
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I wonder how many people that read this thread actually know what a DIODE does? And too, a ZENER Diode! (raises both arms waving wildly!) I do I do I do! Awww shucks... well anyways. You got half a weeks work (by HIS example!) done in under a day. Mighty good job!
Semiconductors, mighty cool stuff!
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Well, took the first or is it the second step towards being a responsible owner of a hand gun.
Took the NRA Basic pistol class, was kind of disappointed that the 9mm I bought on line had not arrived in time to use during the practical portion of the class.
I will need a lot more practice to feel truly comfortable, however on my first set for "practice and getting the feel for the gun", that grouping was not half bad, as in 11 out of 12 in the area the size of my fist.
And this is the second time I have picked up and used a handgun, still feel as if I am a bit shaky using it but I feel confident that will go away with time and practice.
Made the same mistake a second time today though, when I went with my friend to shoot for the first time I held my left thumb in the wrong spot and when the slide chambered the next round it said hello to my thumb and drank some blood again. :caveman:
It hurt just as much this time as the first time.
Got to the final practical which was to put five rounds in a 2" circle in four quadrants on the target paper.
Yep, did that felt that I could have done better, but the bottom line is the pattern was nice and tight and within the target area.
:woohoo:
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Having the right grip will come in time as long as you go shooting for a while but if you stop the bad grip will come back.
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That is what both the instructor and my neighbor said
So practice practice practice is my goal.
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Shooting CAN be fun. I enjoyed the learning experience while in Boot Camp :)
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Shooting CAN be fun. I enjoyed the learning experience while in Boot Camp :)
Read the PM and it sounds about right thank you
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Hey J, I got a question about onboard video. I never had that before cept for laptops and tablets. This mobo does have PCIe full slots and I can use all my old PCIe vid cards with it. But this thing has a Display Port and HDMI port in the back. Does that mean I can use this without putting in a discrete vid card? I know this Ryzen 7 3700X says right on the box that a discrete video card is needed. Would the mobo built in one do that job, if needed for a little while?
I discovered this has quite an array of fun stuff. Like LED light show(s) built right onto the motherboard, and controlled by a windows app.
AND I get to buy Win10 Pro x64 man. Grrr.
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Read the PM and it sounds about right thank you
Sorry I covered you up with all that text. Did not start off to write a book. You're quite welcome too!
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Well, had the dubious pleasure of dealing with the moving the racks for the Reedy Creek upgrade.
Can we say :rat-atat: times 10^17256 power
Knew you could.
Had the do nothing ST as driver and supposedly to help ... :thud: your little daughter for those of you that have daughters would have been of more use than that loser.
Then we had a couple of paper pushers who were as useful as t*** on a nun, b**** on a priest and these mother f***ing cockroach
Then there was the newbie, who had to be reminded and told repeatedly what to do next and then there was me and one other who knew what was going on and how to do it.
I swear, common sense and logical thought of what is the next task and what should be done next is certainly a lost skill ... my goodness ... tis so annoying.
Then I get the news that oh by the way you need to get this up and ready to be turned on in two days .... again double :rat-atat:
It is annoying that I am the only one that knows what he is doing at these sites to make them ready and apparently the help I was given can barely remember what was said ten minutes ago, as I had to repeat myself multiple times on multiple occasions.
Seriously :whatthe: and the illusionary boss still doesn't get the point as to why I am on edge so often.
For the real fun, you should see all of the crazy nonsense that we have to go through just to get on property to do work on their behalf ... :thud:
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You had a good day, getting rubbed ALL the WRONG way. So you get to basically do it all. :coffeemaker:
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Well if it Requires a Body cavity Search going in and coming out of a High Security Prison Level of Intrusion on your Person then they are not trying hard enough! :havesum: :woohoo:
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I do try to explain what the end game or result is to be but I swear either I speak too good of a version of English or everyone else has incredible difficulty translating my English into whatever there 1st language is ... and as mentioned when I have to repeat myself multiple times every time it just proves one point ... "not responsible workers" .... is what I am blessed or is that "cursed with" to assist.
And people wonder why I drink ... :sake:
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Day two over at the Animal Kingdom and what can I say but the helper I have is definitely more a data person and not a RF cabling person. The only saving grace is that he might be trainable.
If he could remember from one minute to the next what was said and or demonstrated.
Seriously it is that bad, gave the 411 on how to connectorize 1/4" superflex with a Nmale connector. Repeated the instructions no less then six (seems like more) times.
And this type of banter from him goes on all day. Apparently "he is messing with me" however this job needs to be done by days end, preferably since I have other tasks to complete before months end and although being serious all the time is not healthy, there is a time and a place to goof off, and since the project is not at the "waiting on others" mark now is not the time.
Oh and to add insult to injury I get stung by a wasp :caveman: at the end of the day.
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O.o
Asperger syndrome? :whatthe:
As for the Wasp Are you Treating it?
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Not familiar with Asperger, but read up via a general link and doesn't seem to be a complete match.
As to the wasp bite just a general antiseptic and insect bite ointment. Which seems to have done the trick, as all redness and swelling is already gone and I have no residual pain from it.
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Did some additional reading on the condition and it makes me wonder if that would explain some of my behavior Quirks sort of, kind of, maybe
Inability to understand emotional issues. People with AS may have difficulties when asked to interpret social or emotional issues, such as grief or frustration. Nonliteral problems — that is, things that cannot be seen — may evade your logical ways of thinking.
First-person focus. Adults with AS may struggle to see the world from another person’s perspective. You may have a hard time reacting to actions, words, and behaviors with empathy or concern.
Exaggerated emotional response. While not always intentional, adults with AS may struggle to cope with emotional situations, feelings of frustration, or changes in pattern. This may lead to emotional outbursts.
Social difficulties. People with AS may struggle with social interactions. You may not be able to carry on “small talk†conversations
Exceptional verbal skills. Adults with AS may have typical to strong verbal skills. This may translate to greater vocabulary skills, especially in areas of interest.
Lack of eye contact. When talking to another person, you may not make eye contact.
Obsession. It’s not uncommon for people to have hyperfocus as a symptom of AS. It’s usually toward a specific topic. They may have a deep understanding and vast vocabulary related to this topic. They may also insist on talking about it when engaging with others.
Quite an eye opener, as I might be the problem, not others. :ummm:
:o_go_on:
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I Find a lot of Engineers fall into it. :whatthe:
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I definitely do not qualify as an engineer (in my mind) however I find little to no reason to disagree with your statement as I do know one engineer and he can be quite the handful.
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Well, after today all I can say is I need a key board like this as my attitude went to hell today.
Made the goal of getting the first site complete and ready for others and what do I get a "thank you " a "kiss my ass" or "absolutely nothing"
If you guessed the last you know the jack-legs that I work with very well.
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You got stung Again! O.o Near your house or Work? o.O :whatthe:
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LOL! cute! :coffeemaker:
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House this time
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Oh today was a real winner for the books this time.
Got up at midnight to get ready to go in to work. Got there at 2:30 AM and the communications director pulled up at the same time so was able to get a game plan together by the time the other guy from the prime site showed up it was time to unload and get in the building.
Well, not certain how long ye ole boss thought this was going to take but I got a call from him "checking in" and he had the nerve to ask if I was done as I had been at it for a while now.
"Uh no"
Fourteen new consolettes, new power to be identified, grounds attached and two each data cables per consolettes with a damn proprietary pin out from Motorola. So 28 cables, cut to fit, pinned out, tested and then on to the next step, which was the ST doing the back end programming and confirming talk groups and functionality.
Did get breakfast from the customer for free so that was a win, so made sure that we kept her happy at the end of the day for if the lady in charge is not happy no one is happy.
Even being single I know that much.
Anyway finished up around 4:00 PM with the install, clean up and assorted loose end details that others seldom take into account when quoting jobs.
I am so beat, thank goodness that I have a four day weekend .... and a big :nanana: to any who try to call or talk to me.
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AMEN, J! Been a major week for you. Benadryl does calm those sting pains, eases the swelling, and often gets one to that 'soft and dreamy' state. You can even enjoy a bad movie!
Curious, in Stormbringer and W10, did you have any problem with the scroll wheel 'bounce'? It reverses direction while you scroll. That is driving me nuts over here!
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No we do not have that issue
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Time to try a different mouse then, methinks!
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RFT
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Must seem like a mini vacation, and sure seems to be well deserved!
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You have no idea, the bad news is that I got two work related calls today :sigh:
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:whatthe: You charged them to going rate of 150 dollars an answer right! :woohoo:
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I remember what that was like growing up, with my Dad getting calls from his job and then I got calls from my job too. That, I do not miss!
USB 3.2 gen 1=5gbps, USB 3.2 gen 2=10gbps. USB 2.0=480mbps? Plugging the mouse into one of the USB 2.0 ports stopped the mouse bounce. Seems the overpowered super USB ports don't do simple so well. Heh!
I now feel like a human with a bad ass toy! :D
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More power is not always a good thing
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I bet that's why USB 2.0 is still in use! :winks:
but seriously, I could use a few more USB 2.0 ports in the back. The docs SAY they are all backward compatible with USB 2.0. Apparently I got hold of the ONE that is not. Lucky me.
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Stormbringer has four on the top of the case and another 6 on the back of the case.
:whack:
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this one has 6 in back, two in front and a 2 port connector on the board yet. Oh the CPU fan is plugged into that. Hm. Yep then there is an empty connector for some USB 3.2 gen 3 module that has to be bought separately. Beats me, time to crack open the mobo manual and see which is what!Those 4 on top sound great!
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Icing on the cake is the docking port for a hard drive on top
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Yeah! Well when I set mine up there, plug in its brick for power and the USB port, then mine is up there too! Yeah not the same. What kinda case is yours? :coffeemaker:
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:o_go_on: making me look up details like that at this hour ... thou shalt be flogged by :kianna: .. although I can glance over and see that it is a case made by Ultra, the other details would be in the post I shared.
Seriously asking me technical questions after I have had a few ... :@u:
Well, went out and was hoping to purchase my handgun and boy howdy are there ever so many ways to ignore a customer. Yep, went one place and was there for the better part of 45 minutes browsing and not a single soul bothered to ask if I was finding everything I was looking for or if I required help.
Left that place post haste.
Customer service folks still counts in these days in my opinion.
Went back to the place on my side of town and they did did not have my first choice in stock and the manufacturer was like a month behind on orders.
So was looking at what would have been a second choice and the got spun into the "here let me show you some alternatives" well the good news is that one of the alternatives actually felt better in my hand whilst holding it, and pulling the slide back felt better comparatively.
Bad news is that it was more than I wanted to give up, then they mentioned that you can finance here ... well all right ... let us see what happens when I try that concept.
:thud: Seriously ... I was denied ... why ... because I have no revolving credit ... ugly rat bastards .... whatever
Now granted that I do have the cash to purchase the piece but however I will never let them know that detail, until I desire to do so, which will be tomorrow. Since I get paid on Friday and my check will have about 16 hours of overtime on it I am thinking that all the money issues will be taken care of then with no difficultly.
I swear so much red tape, trying to purchase a handgun.
The other side of this coin is that I did make the appointment to apply for my CCW permit today, which will be this Friday.
So file the paper work on Friday and pay for the hand gun the same day or on Saturday, since they are opened on Saturday. :yippee:
So it should pan out for me relatively straight forward ... one can hope.
Oh and yes, we are going with a different model entirely, still a 9 mm, but a Walther instead of a S&W 9 mm Shield.
Do not remember all of the identifying numbers and details off the top of my head but once I have then in order I shall update this post.
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So, the FBI background check thing is done with applying for the permit right? I dunno, I never applied. Never had to back in the day. But then, lost interest over time. So, I dunno what the process consists of now.
And, comparing Walther to S&W is like, well YOU are getting a Mercedes, and THEY are driving a Ford F-150. The Walther costs more, as they are very proud of their craftsmanship.
Enjoy your new sidearm, J! Sounds like a good one.
No revolving credit?! Jeepers man. But, you applied for store credit, guess that's a loan.
I haven't had a credit card in over 10 years. Used to have 'credit debt' out my ears, and a high credit rating. But then I realized how much I was paying out just to have that delay in paying. So, I paid off my cards, paid all loans off including for the Jeep. And started paying cash on the barrel (debit card). And bought things I enjoyed with that savings! We tend to get used to living to patterns. That's a piece of the pattern I dint' like at all.
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Was denied the store credit so go figure the last credit card I had was during the last bankruptcy in 2010 or thereabouts, haven't had one since. I too pay everything with a debit card. Pay nobody interest and I do not have a bill due the following month for any reason.
I thought the funniest thing about the whole reasons denied was what debts I do have are to new :ummm:
Really ... the mortgage was taken out in 2007 it was refinanced once by me and has been sold by the mortgage people at least twice since then so do not know what they mean by it is too new. It is not my fault that lenders buy and sell each others loans as often as I change socks. The only other loan I have is the student loan which I took out in 2011 I think. Apparently that is to new as well, :ummm: nine years is new ... really ... who would have thought.
Which the whole deal just says that once again you can't get credit if you don't have any, and yet they deny you when you apply for credit so you can build some because you don't have any :thud:
Whatever blows their skirt up is my thoughts now
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What they want is lots of Action on your credit is some kinda game to them or something. :whatthe: :whack:
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The people get paid out of the interest you pay in. If you'd like an idea how those peoples incomes look, well check out their cars, clothes and houses...or condo's. I did, and decided to make them a little poorer for the Utter Lack of Usefulness to the world. What do they actually DO? They don't make things, do not build, so what's left? They are playing a money game, and making US think that we HAVE to have what they offer. But what ARE they offering? CREDIT! Have "IT" now, pay later! Pay LOTS and *LOTS* later. Rather than wait a month, have it then for just a little. Hmmm. What Is Wrong With That Picture?!
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I do believe Jherrith has the right idea. stay away from credit debt!
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Which is why I am not going forward with trying to get any credit, all it took was a little shifting of my disposable funds and with 16 hours of overtime on my check this week we are covered and even got some good news when I went in tonight to place a deposit, which started the three day waiting period/background check.
I will be applying for my CCW license this Friday so working both sides to the middle basically, yes I am. The good news, I heard while there was they just got in 9mm home defense ammo (hollow point) in, so made sure that they held two boxes out for me when I come back on Saturday to finalize the purchase. :heeheehee:
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Indeed the credit debt rubbish can take a long walk on a short pier
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All those people working so hard to buffalo us gullible illiterate jesters into PAYING them to get something for us....we already had. :nopanic; In the end, that really wasn't a good idea. :sure: :whatthe:
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Well, the losers of the world must be getting desperate ... went to open the phone and clear any unread work emails and saw a text message saying, "I want to sleep with you with"a web link attached
Followed by two more all from unknown phone numbers.
"no, you don't"
"You don't know me"
:tearlaugh:
So nice to see people with nothing better to do with their time, trying to waste mine.
:tearlaugh:
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Part one completed the background check is good ... obviously ... I have had so many working here that it boggles the imagination.
So delivery on the week end and filing for the CCW permit tomorrow
:ummm: a wee bit (8 days) before the birthday ... what a present :tearlaugh:
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"But we need to verify this is a viable number for cloning"
Bad enough spam hits your inbox, but when they hit your phone.....
Didn't the fed pass a law about spamming cells?
Concealed Carry, I used a shoulder holster, and an under belt holster. On the job, I had a hipholster exposed. Well.... I also carried an AR15 so....
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Cheers
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Not making any threatening moves at you good sir.
Will be picking mine up on Saturday
Walther PPQ 9mm (https://aliengearholsters.com/blog/walther-ppq-m2-review/)
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Added the link to your post...very impressive piece.....
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No worries Jherr, I'm more Cap and Ball\Flint and Steele these days.
There's something about holding 6.5 lbs of weapon with a 1" bore in your hand.
And when you fire? the range dissapears in a cloud of smoke for about 30 seconds.
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Cheers
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Naw You want a little tiny thing with an open top trying to squeeze off a round from m1911 with grip safety and drop it on the rage floor and feel that burning sensation across your chest and the bullet enters the message board behind your head! :woohoo: That is when you leave as fast as possible! :whack:
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Don't have to drop a Colt 1911, the recoil twists it outta my hand. qualifying was funny ( for the rangemaster) as I kept having to pick it up.
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Cheers
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Not had that happen when I fired one but I have almost been killed by my Boss who bought a gun with no training and was using it to point at people at work to show off his new toy! :whack:
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Huh..... I just yell "Assault with deadly" then advise it be put away before the police arrive. Alternately, there's the self defense tactic, large and heavy aimed at the nose.
Restrain and incarcerate. No patience with Darwin Award candidates that involve others.
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The Bad Part he is a Lawyer! :whatthe: :whack:
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There was a joke about lawyers... but it escapes me at the moment.
Cheers
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Was it the one where the rules apply to you but not me? :whatthe:
or that 99.9999999% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name?
Bury a Lawyer 12 feet deep cause way down deep there is some good in them?
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12 feet face down in case we're wrong?
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Cheers
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:whatthe:
Think that goes with out saying along with the stake in the heart and the Brick in the mouth and the decapitation to just be sure!
Ray Stevens - "Sittin' Up With The Dead"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJNZyhRfA4
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That PPQ looks real nice, J!
Agreed about the Darwin candidates that involve others.
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I am so looking forward to practicing and becoming comfortable with it, comparing it empty and dry to the others that were in stock I was definitely loving how it felt in my hands and it did not feel awkward compare to the S&W 9mm that I have used previously, so I believe that I will be pleased.
Granted I just placed on hold another 200 rounds of "practice" shells to use for gaining familiarity in how it might be or is different from a S&W 9mm
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ah don't worry about the differences. You got THIS Walther PPQ, so take it for what it is, learn it firsthand, and become at ease shooting it. The others are ancient history! ;o) This one is YOUR baby.
:cheer: :#1: :woohoo:
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Part two is now complete, I have submitted my application for the CCW license
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:cheer: :dancingknight: :cheer:
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:rat-atat:
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Part three is now complete. :yippee:
Had the neighbor come over and he was also impressed, said it did not fit his hand right, apparently my hand is slightly bigger as to me it fit just fine.
The speed loader took a bit of playing before I figured out the trick. Went pretty smooth after that, although when I removed all the shots and then loaded it by hand I was able to do so quicker then the loader :ummm:
Didn't see that coming
Followed the instructions and field stripped it, well my neighbor did it the first time I did it the second time around and when the neighbor did it he was very impressed during the reassembly. It literally has two steps less then his does ... sweet
Busy this weekend, so might not get the chance to blow things up. Next weekend is the actual birthday and have to go somewhere, but the weekend after, me and the neighbor are going to go to the range and blow stuff up.
See that I will also have to make a trip to the local place and pick up an ammo box to store all of the ordinance safely away, :tearlaugh:
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Oh by the way it is ever so good looking and a fine display of craftsmanship.
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Glad that all is going smoothly......
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So far so good, waiting now on the approval and issuance of the permit.
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Then buying a proper holster and also need to invest in a cleaning kit
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That site I posted in here that had the description of your new piece also has free shipping on orders $60 or more.....and they are the experts in figuring out what you'd need....
The Grandson deals with these folks often. He got his holster here...
Concealed Carry Holsters (https://aliengearholsters.com/)
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Good going J! Won't be long now, and you get to put holes in perfectly innocent and intact paper targets, tin cans, plastic bottles etc.! I know how nice it is to have on view a finely crafted machine. The key being Finely Crafted. That always looks good!
Hm. Reminds me. I got some 'Fine Crafting' to do yet inside BadMoonRYZEN ! Gosh I like that name! :D
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It would be so nice if people above me at work would tell me what they were expecting to be done today at the hotel.
On Friday I was told to sweep the lines to find an additional three lines for the antennas needed to complete the system.
What do I find out after I get back to the shop well, why didn't you install the one GPS antenna that you found a line for ... "that should have been the next logical step" ... uh, maybe but that was not what my instructions on Friday were ... :caveman: oh and once again we have to make someone else look good by having this and that done by a certain date. Even though the big hold up will be the electricians getting the UPS installed and wired.
Does it really matter if I take an extra day since it will be some little time before they will be able to turn the system on anyway.
Because not only do we need power for the equipment, there is a T-1 that is needed to get over to the rack as well, so it can be tied into the core at Hartzog Rd. They happen to be using fiber :tearlaugh: which means a media converter is needed to plug in to my rack ... not my problem :yippee:
:caveman: :rat-atat:
So I wound up going back out there even though I am working on getting the hospital MedCom rack ready for installation.
Why am I the only one that can do things on my own and get them done right (providing I know what the end result is supposed to be) is so annoying.
Not really sure why some of the tasks that I do are so complicated and beyond the other guys abilities. They seem to know how to do one thing and one thing only. Heaven forbid you ask for them to go outside their comfort zone. Like print labels, he has the program to enter the details but can he figure out how to get them to print properly ... no he whines because he has to check a draft copy to the labels before printing the final copy. :thud:
Oh by the way I entered the data on Friday of last week and printed the final copy this morning and gave them to him so he could put them on ... and yep he continued to sit there instead of applying them.
Asked him to make CAT5e cables while I went back to the hotel ... I mean he was sitting there doing nothing ... did that happen ... nope ... apparently something came up that was more within his skill set.
:sigh:
The sad part is that there was another there that should be capable of making cables ... nope ... didn't happen.
Ah well, the comeuppance is tomorrow they get to go help the useless system tech in shooting the other lines at the hotel.
Sent pictures to them so they would be able to find the cables in the morning, we will see if they can manage that tomorrow.
Ah, well the pair of them will be on their own tomorrow shooting the other lines to find two more usable lines. Not my problem, the system tech makes more then I and heaven forbid he follows through on his tasks .. correct me if I am wrong would it not be in his scope of work to file the findings with ye ole shop manager?
According to him I should be the one reporting the findings .... uh blow me you are the tech you file the report ... since I already know there will be a dozen questions asked about the state of the lines and I will not have those answers. EOS
Oh by the way when I had my point of contact open the room up a second time he was able to show me some additional rooms to enable us to trace out some missing lines and guess what they go to the roof.
And while out there I disconnected them from the antennas on the roof since they are not connected downstairs. One can only hope that they will be able to figure out which lines to test.
:thud:
One can only hope that I will not get any calls tomorrow .... I mean the lines will be laying on the roof ... one would hope they would be able to find the lines to test.
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When one's confused and in great doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
Another will come and find a way,
To rescue you and save the day.
They should have never been taught that. Plus he gets paid more than you?
Another fine example of failing upwards. '8 \
Cheers
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The tech is paid more? No I won't go there.
:coffeemaker:
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I try not to go there as well, then again he is on call 24/7 and has to fix the dispatch centers that I put together and install, plus the core radio site if it breaks.
I merely install the radios and peripherals, then cable them up, dress the cables in and label everything and occasionally install upgrade material when scheduled.
Oh got a real doozy of an email this morning from him I sent a picture of the roof top as to where the cables are located and he says didn't get the picture.
:thud:
Tell you what, if you really need a picture to be able to determine that the four cables disconnected from antennas are the ones to be tested .... :rat-atat:
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Taking bets on and how many times I get called to explain this to them .... what do you all think?
none, one, 17,256 times :shrug:
The reason I am so sarcastic is that those labels I printed up, I found out that the other installer was to do it. Back story, is I got a call from him asking why all the cable labels didn't match. :ummm: Did you forget this was cobbled together from left over radio equipment they had from a disabled site?
Of course the labels will not line up. "Well, why wasn't it taken care of if it was known?"
Good question I was just sent in to install the system as it was sitting from the prime site to the remote site. It was all cabled up then I just plugged them in and walked away from it.
Then the rant on his side started, stopped him real quick with a "if they are wrong, write the info down and print new labels, how hard is it to figure that part out?"
He came back to the shop later that day and gave me the list ... (didn't know at the time that it was his to do) it was only ten radios so it was not that big of a deal, considering that I can type rather well for looking at the keyboard still, I use mostly eight fingers when I get on a roll.
In other words what took me 30 minutes would have taken him well over an hour or more, and then I would have to listen to the whining about having to print a test page first before printing the actual labels.
You all think I have moments of "never happy" this guy is the poster child for the phrase.
Well, time to drive in and see what sort of entertainment will be delivered today.
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Damn. I was on call 24/7 the boss thought. I told him HE was the one on call 24/7 as HE made all the big bucks and bennies! He didn't like that. When we went Union, I got rather sudden $4.00 hour raise...then a $3.00 an hour raise when we signed contract, plus the bennies. The contract did include a paragraph concerning "call pay" for being on call. Obviously. If I did NOT get called, I got 50% pay for that whole night. If I DID get called, I had to stay 4 hrs and got paid full shift, full pay. Better :)They did not call me much. Heh!Sunday pay was always double time. All over 8 hrs was time and a half.
I don't think they liked me out there, they got to thinking I screwed them. Where it was really they screwed me behind my back and laughed at me. Monkey in the middle thing again.Loved doing my work man. I came to hate that company though.
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Well, this is fun ... not
Found out that my senior tech has all of next week of as vacation.
Damn I play hell just getting two days off happy for him, but it sure sucks to be me.
Why, because it all boils down to me being the only "fully qualified" for infrastructure installations person. Sorry the other two show no interest and do not remember from one day to the next what the end result is to look like ... so annoying .... and I wind up having to inspect and validate the install if I send them out on their own.
I swear and with a hiring freeze still in place I will never get anyone on board to be another infrastructure installer.
My work life sucks ... ah well, better then unemployed.
Why am I feeling annoyed, oh we have to get the newest hospital ED ready for opening on Monday the 6th.
Well, this is rubbish since I have been getting all of these other projects that must get to a certain place by end of the second quarter that I am at the point of wondering why I did not take that early retirement and let them all sink ... as I damn well know they would not be able to swim, if I was not driving the projects.
Bunch of frelling cocksuckers. Or jackasses depending on your point of view.
Today just proved the point more then normal and I am obviously upset by the utter disregard shown to the workers.
Where is my :sake:
Good night
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I sure hope your work is as high paying as I think it is. So that said, yes, at least you ARE employed and getting hours in right now. Lots of folks still ain't. Sooo grin n bear it? SAKE to me Sake to me Sake to me! Yeah you remember Rowan & Martin's Laugh In, doncha ?? Heh!
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It is not as high paying as I think it should be considering all the different line items of responsibility that I take care of, when I first started, there were three infrastructure installers. Two got promoted to system tech and were never replaced as installation tech, and now I am it. There are two other guys but as yo can guess from my trash talk they only are there for a paycheck, doing mobile installs. Getting them to do infrastructure and do it right is like ... :ummm: don't really have a good analogy this morning. I can barely get them to do basic clean up of the bay after they do a mobile install.
:sigh: I better stop now, as it is going to be a long day and if I get cranky now, it will just make it a miserable day completely for me and that I don't need.
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Well, it certainly did go to the "handbasket trip" this day.
I will tell more later right now I am still mean, irritable, cranky and bad tempered and I am only on the second flask Of :sake:
One thing I can say, for multi-million dollar companies the powers that be do not learn from the past. Why? The difficulties I am encountering today have been present in the past.
Yet, we keep having to solve for the same thing every time.
"WHY"
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:whatthe:
Go watch something funny
Hataraku Maou-sama! (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)
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Don't have that one ... yet
Doing a combo of Soul Eater followed by Porco Rosso with a dab of Ai Yori Aoshi
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I watched the new MIDWAY. Pretty good movie!
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All I can tell J, it's as soon as you can take your retirement, and you wish to be retired, don't hesitate.
Looking how TL and Rods are busy since they are retired, you won't be bored too soon.
But it's not your business what will happen to the company once you will go. You do what you have to do for your job, but you aren't the decider for the good or the bad of the company. If they want to stay on the bad side of the slope :shrug:
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I had more time for myself when I was working :thud: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Well, that would be nice to have some time to myself, but I do not see it any time soon since ye ole leprechaun decided to send a text message with a phone number only and no explanation.
I replied with a ? and boy did that open a can of worms ... I am so pissed off at them all that I once again could (can) spit 16 penny nails through a 2x4 ...
I have to go to Fagler (deliberate misspelling) next week to re-punch down the alarm points because they are not in the right spots.
Well, as I am fond of saying, I did it according to the list I was given ... so blow me .... give me bad information, you get what the instruction stated.
Not my problem, totally sucks that I have to go back to that abomination of a site
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Well, we managed at last to get the MedCom working for the new hospital.
And I am still standing by my original statement "why do we have to reinvent the wheel every time we do an install."
The mag mount antenna for the county 800 MHz didn't work, the day before. So I went out today and after more crap then I feel a need to write down I got a line to the roof via a conduit that is incorrect but for a temporary fix to pass an AHCA inspection it will work. Oh it still didn't work ..... WHAT !!!!
OK maybe it is not pointing at a site, which way do you want me to point the antenna .... yep blank look and 30 minutes later I still could not get an answer from him. Damn and you know this crap better then me and you have this much trouble just giving me a direction.
Well, now it is getting ugly since now we have to make another trip back to the shop to pick up test equipment to find the site. However when we got to the shop, he pulled out a omni antenna which would work regardless since it does not have to be pointed at a site (omni = omni-directional, doesn't have to be aimed)
Installed it right ahead of the storm, barely and the damn thing still would not work.
So now that it is getting to the point of ready to drop some nitro-9 in the building and level it. Ye ole senior tech decides to read the code plug in the radio ... why the hell did you not do this sooner (in retrospect) ... because guess what ... the code plug was hosed, no control channel information in it no wonder the easy fix of a mg mount did not work.
When he put the control channel info in it, had to be programmed again ... why because it had hosed the radio ID, then it also hosed the radio personality.
:sigh:
After getting all of the bugs out of the code plug, it finally worked as intended. Got a radio check from Orange county MedCom on the desk set and at last it is working.
All I want to know is why the hell did he not think of that first? So irritated.
All the work I did today could have been avoided if we had circled back around to nail down that the code plug was correct in the first place.
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Good thing you get to vent in here because I'm sure you'd be looking for work if you vented off to them like this LOL.....
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Take a Deep Breath! Let it out!
Eat something, Take a seat, Watch something and Slowly unwind!
:woohoo:
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Oh we also had a different kind of fun the other installer that was to go out with me to continue doing work in the comm room, comes in shuffling alone like an old man just shy of death.
What the hell is wrong? My back is hurting ... seriously dude it is not like you did any heavy lifting at all I installed all the gear at the site.
All I have to say since you knew what we would be doing today and if you were hurting that bad then why the hell did you even come into work?
The thing that slays me is that he is much younger then I and has this many problems. Don't know his back story so hard to say what difficulties that he has been through, but man if you are that bad in the morning then why did you even come in to work?
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Good thing you get to vent in here because I'm sure you'd be looking for work if you vented off to them like this LOL.....
No doubt, since all the leprechaun cares about is the reputation of the Field Service Office (FSO)
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https://youtu.be/N5RboyCOOzU
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Take a Deep Breath! Let it out!
Eat something, Take a seat, Watch something and Slowly unwind!
:woohoo:
Working on it, have a slice of salmon in the oven, a flask of :sake: next to me and watching the next episode (whatever number I am on) of Ai Yori Aoshi
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https://youtu.be/N5RboyCOOzU
I actually watched this all the way through without getting bored and antsy ... totally funny
A good thing I have no iron that I could use ... only lead :tearlaugh:
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Indeed LOLOL
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The crazy stupid part was the leprechaun saying you have to go to Fagler next week ... at the end of the day ... then stating oh you have four days to get over it and do the work.
:ummm: let me count, I have Friday (holiday) Saturday and Sunday that makes three not four days :rat-atat:
But what do I know
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:iminnocent:
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Such an adorable guy! No, not you J, the Leprechaun! I didn't know they were so vicious.
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(uh oh . . . I'll get me coat . . . )
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Oh joy, went back to the "job from Hell" and after I waited on the ST to show up so we could start working out what is wrong with the alarm points.
Boy howdy, did the engineer that gave me the directions on how punch them down, really get them totally hosed.
Yes, totally!!!!
He wrote it out with no explanation, one was a drawing showing the physical location and then a listing of alarm point to be landed, however there was no cross reference provided, and I do recall when I raised that point I was told to follow the drawing. :sigh: and now I am back again fixing crap, never frelling ends it really never does with this abomination of a project.
Bottom line I had to move everything up then move bridge clips to match.
Seems like we have a bogus device though, the hi temp device never cleared at the first two sites I worked on, not sure what that is all about, turns out the AC power alarm at the second site didn't clear also, I recall it giving the tech some issue and he did something that I did not see and it did clear at last. However it never cleared at the second site I went to in the afternoon.
To add insult to injury for some reason a "consultant" dislikes the use of wire nuts to extend the cables that were too short to reach the punch block, I now have to use "push pennies" basically what I would also call a "polaris tap" in a electrical application.
I think that is a bad call, mainly because one side is #18 stranded the other is #24 solid and the best the boss could dig up was taps that had a range of #22 - #26
The good news I was somehow able to get the stranded crap in there, trying to get it to stay put while I worked the LRCH (little red c*** hair) in there and crimp with both inserted was a real pain in the :waveass: some how I managed and got one site completed with that update.
Jack legs, I so hate always having do things over.
The second bit of fun was the tower lights that come from outside to inside, did the people that ran them mark anything ... nope ... not one tiny little bit. Had to go outside and open the control boxes for them and what do we find, yep only one of of the four boxes had the wires terminated. Was at least able to figure out which one was which, fun part they are short one.
Losers, not my problem ... for a change.
Now we get to the pièce de résistance there were additional alarm points pulled in, from the generator apparently. Problem is not a single label or legend indicating which one is for which alarm point.
Wow, how professional ... NOT
Obviously I have the dubious pleasure and or honor to go back out there tomorrow. However knowing what I know now I should be able to get another two sites sorted out tomorrow. Apparently only four of the six sites have the need for the "push penny" update. And since I now know what it is supposed to look like, I should be able to plow through the simple stuff in a timely manner.
Provided no ones wants to act all superior.
Then they have to get the generator rubbish sorted, and until they sort out what is what, who cares ... well, I guess I will have to since apparently no one else is capable of doing a simple punch down :sigh: give me a break.
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Seems you are the victim of severely poor planning, J. I feel for you man!
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The powers that be certainly have poor planning down to an art form.
And I always reply to their nonsense with "poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine".
Not that it does me any good but I do so love to say it
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Drove out there this morning and took care of the other site that needed the rework on the extension of the lines. Drove to the furthest site from where I was and knocked that one out then drove back to the second furthest which means I would have been closer at end of day to drive home.
That is when it went belly up, guess what the ST from the other day was there and said hey got the generator alarm points figured out.
:ummm: after looking at his answer it dawned on me that it was what I was suggesting yesterday to do ... :sigh:
Heaven forbid a lowly installer should have a frelling clue
So took care of them at that site after a five minute argument as to what pair to land the first one on. If pairs 25 - 30 are in use at the MOSCAD then on the punch block at the door, I would start at pair 31 then, man oh man did he get hung up on the fact that pair 25 was being used, on one side it is, which means on the other side I have to skip it. He fought about that for over five minutes before I could get him to see I was saying the same thing but from a different perspective.
Some people :thud:
Drove back to the furthest site and did the generator points there, so now I have to go back to the previous first two sites to do the generator points and then finally finish the last two sites hopefully tomorrow. Considering that the leprechaun said oh I wont keep you out there all week, I will have someone else finish it off.
Rubbish
I didn't even waste my breathe calling him to say a thing, just going to go out there, get it done and get the :soapy: out of there.
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And finally after another 20 hours of work proof reading, printing , collating and assembling the binders for next school semester I can at last call that task complete. :thud: whew
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:iminnocent: :woohoo:
Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
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:whatthe: Flying dogleg now is going on, still have not had an opportunity to replace the ailing Blu Ray player.
In addition to it not playing any Blu Ray I own, and fussing on several DVDs tonight's new wrinkle is the music part of the sound track is playing but not the character dialog on one of my sets ... all of the commercial and trailer have all the audio present so how is that possible?
Oh great another random series no character audio but the sound track plays ... what the ever loving flying :soapy: is going on ... I can see the lip flaps of them speaking but their audio is not being played.
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How much rubbish ... the next Dr. Who episode I was going to watch next (Frontier in Space) is playing with complete audio, what is going on?
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:iminnocent: :woohoo:
Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
How appropriate :tearlaugh: haven't heard this one in its entirety in a long ass time ... :iminnocent:
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Disk Sound is set on the wrong Channel on the disc have you tried going through the disc menu and see if the sound is set wrong had that happen on a dub for me.
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They have played properly previously - there is the problem - methinks the ailing player is going down hill continuously .... and in spurts and spits ... that sounded better in my head.
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sounds like it might be time to lay it to rest J. Its symptoms do sound strange, curious. But, is it worth trying to repair?
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i just went shopping Walmart.com for BluRay players. EGADS! People are sticking with DVD way more than I thought! There are some inexpensive ones, and as you would likely guess the prices really escalate. From the $30's right up to the $1000's even. I got 3 BluRay players that do function. I like the one with WiFi best. I'm lazy! :)
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It gets stranger, as said last night the Next Dr. Who I was going to watch played normal audio, through the home theater speakers.
The last anime that played normally through the home theater, played fine a second time
A random DVD played normal audio through the home theater speakers
An anime that did not play through the home theater speakers still did not, tried Rad's suggestion and found where I could switch between TV speakers and the home theater, switched it to the TV speakers and lo and behold audio is playing correctly.
Double big messy :thud:
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Sounds like the DVD author messed up putting things in the 'angles' on disk.
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Nope you are not getting it, before my player started acting funny everything played just fine through the home theater speakers.
EVERYTHING
It has only been since the player has been dying that things are messed up
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:whack: The Firmware might be Bad I wonder if there is a Factory Reset inside the bios of the player?
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Ok I get you J. Tracking mechanism wear. Since it operates normally with microscopic steps, sure don't take much to foul the whole show. Plus, the problem is escalating over time. BluRay will show this worse than DVD methinks too.
My players wear seems to be buttons on the outside, the contacts under them warping, breaking. IR Remote Use only. They still play disks. But, the older ones have no WiFi, and this newest one is really nice because OF its having WiFi. So me, I look for WiFi in any new players.
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Tired to install the latest firmware file I found on line, however it said no update needed. :ummm: So no uploading or overwrite of the existing file. :sigh:
As to a factory reset, just where would I look for something of that nature? Tis a crazy set of rubbish, that happened to this literally overnight. No clue what made it go tits up .... :thud:
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:yippee:
I am done with the re-punch of the alarm points at the six sites in Fagler (misspelled on purpose) county.
What a mess they made of the instruction to me for when I first punched them down. Engineers .....
I am so glad it is complete and I am out there.
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IT's mechanical, moving parts. You know the old axiom: If the machine can move it, the machine will break it. Just a matter of time in use. And since you use the player(s) a LOT, well, hate to say it but it's bound to happen. Yaknow?
You got a Best Buy near you? Looks like their stock is better than Walmart's at the moment.
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Guilty as charged I do about a minimum of five hours a day, so yes it has been replaced before and I am sure I will have to replace it again.
Have both near me, it is just going to be a matter what sort of hoops I have to jump through to get in the store. So we shall see ....
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Well, tried to get a jump on a project that no one has bothered to think about for the last two weeks.
Had the guys pick up concrete block for ballast on a free standing sled for an antenna. Supposed to have delivered it yesterday, so when they got back sooner then expected I asked, oh no it looked like rain so we came back here.
:thud: It might have looked like rain here but it wasn't where you were going so WTF
Well, now it is doing all sorts of :rainy: :lightning: this morning so guess they aren't even going to try again.
I find this so annoying. This aspect could have been down weeks ago when they were sitting around doing nothing, but apparently when I am not aroun d "initiative" is a dirty word and heaven forbid we should do anything.
I simply do not understand why those two require to be constantly directed. But neither of them will ask is there anything that needs to be done or even open their eyes and find something to do, .... like take out the empty pallet from when the sub picked up material for the job that requires the concrete block. Nope still sitting there when I came in yesterday along with various other piled up cardboard boxes that should have been in the trash days ago.
Don't know why I still act surprised and get upset by it things haven't changed one tiny iota in what seems like forever.
:ummm: It sounds like there is a break in the weather time to go ...
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Yeh I get that J. 24 years with a caustic boss, then I am out on my butt disabled, and no bennies except that they didn't FIRE me. One month later, one of the guys in the plant called me, said that boss looked up, sweating his dirty greasy ass off and said he didn't realize I got so much done on a daily basis. Precious little satisfaction but it does give one a grin. And sounds like those kinds of bosses are standard equipment, and who the F*CK gives the classes they actually attend to teach them to DO that anyway?!
So they do that to you, piss on em J. They really are not worth your bother. When you CAN retire you can set up shop of your own and work on what YOU like. Heh!
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Indeed I get small satisfaction under the table on occasions already, and I definitely like to poke them in the eye when I make observations like that to them.
Seriously gave one guy a task to pick up unused shelves, two weeks ago and he failed on the first attempt, however he never bothered to try again. Seriously !!!
Choke them both, I will just do what I can, when I can, and continue to be on top of things but no more lifting my fingers to help them out. Will tell ye ole office lady that this and that needs to be done and let her work her magic on them, oh and telling the "quasi" project manager also as to what needs to be done by the "children" and let him schedule it.
I don't get paid to be a shop foreman or field supervisor so :@u:
I am going to try and last till 70 before I retire so I can get maximum SS benefits (if still around) and then laugh my ass off when that shop goes belly up when I retire.
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However we did once again have one of those trying days today. I am so glad it is the weekend, one I can finally replace my Blu Ray player and get the entertainment back to normal.
Two, just got a new lead on another Asian grocery that has a grand selection, my neighbor is a truck driver for a local food distributor and had a delivery there today and was blown away by what he saw ... so time to check it out. :heeheehee:
Third, as it is the weekend that does mean I can at last go out and blow stuff up, I have yet to have had time to break in the new handgun and I have a couple hundred rounds to help blow off the angst generated by this weeks worth of work. I think that sounds like a lovely idea. Yeah :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
Besides, already found out what I have to do on Monday ... go back to the NLECC facility (home of ICE, CBP and so forth) and move equipment around and build more cables :thud: granted they are in town more or less and I do not mind going there, more of the way I got asked, get an email today asking for me on Monday, usually they plan further ahead then that ... :sigh: ... then again I am the only one from the Orlando shop that they ask for every time, and I am the only one badged for the facility at our shop.
Guess this is my 15 minutes of fame and fortune :tearlaugh:
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:whatthe: Friendly Reminder When at the Range do not do this! :rat-atat:
Cause we want people to not think You are :shj: :odd: :crazy: :i-beback: :talkin2me: :no_points: :whacked: :grin:
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Curses foiled again
It is just a small hand gun so wont be capable of getting as crazy as all that so I ought to be safe from disapproving stares.
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Sure All those human shaped target happen to have names and the Maniacal Laughing that goes along with the bullseye! Naw nothing to worry about at all!
Dr. Evil -Maniacal Laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXOIf1YHmo
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If I try not to laugh like that, do you think that will help convince them that I am harmless :iminnocent:
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:whatthe: :whack: :iminnocent:
Dirty Harry - Best Quotes, Lines (Clint Eastwood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1xp9hYDl4
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Hah! Dirty Harry, that was great! :-D
:coffeemaker: :woohoo:
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Well, this blows big, wet, meaty chunks, first off we got rain as in buckets and buckets of it.
This was during the second run of the day, to get a new Blu Ray DVD player, and guess what went to three places, Best Buys being one of them and not a single store had a player in stock at all for sale.
:whatthe: :thud:
* 10 ^ 17256
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Naw You want a Laser Disk Player! :iminnocent:
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:iminnocent:
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I want something to play my Blu ray and DVD's, nothing more, nothing less
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Wow, if the main Stores are out of stock, then its time to hit the Pawn Shops and check for one. Can't hurt, and more likely to find one there than a yard sale. :whack: :coffeemaker:
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:yippee: Tried the last place in town that might possibly have Blu ray player in stock on the shelf for sale. Walmart LG brand came with no cables, just a hard wired power cord, and a remote with the battery.
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
Definitely a barebones one but it does streaming which I never used before, plus it has a wireless available.
In fact I could not even get the tray to open to play a disc until I set up the network, so found the password at last and the wireless is now set up and it liked all the details and spat out all of the rest of the network data so I can tell it is connected properly.
Now for the final test insert a Blu Ray
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
How Clumsy are you Miss Ueno
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Just got back from the range, only fired 100 rounds but I accomplished what I wanted to, finally firing my gun. Hit the target more then missed and managed to not tear a chunk out of my thumb like the last time.
Calling that bit a win.
Now back to watching Blu Rays :hubbahubba:
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Better still a previous DVD that would not play at all is now playing
:yippee:
Knew it would but still nice to get confirmation ...
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Playing my Blu-Ray version of Dracula and all is as it should be ....
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Glad to hear you're finally able to watch again! :happydance:
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So am I ... thank you good sir
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That's great, J! Glad your movies all work now!
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Trust me so am I
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Back to the fun and games of a new week at work. :sigh:
We will see how that works out for me, since I will be over at NLECC (federal) today and possibly a bit tomorrow. Not certain all depends on what sort of work they want me to do and how involved it might be or become, never can tell over there. The only plus side is that they might get my badge fully activated this time. One can hope, mayhaps I should send a text before I leave and see if they can squeeze that concept in while there today.
Anyway with me there and ye ole boss thinking that a customer that has been waiting a year for the install of a BDA (governmental red tape by the truck load) is less important then a job that just came up on Friday of last week. Granted it is public safety but surely a day would not a difference, since no RF line was ordered, none of the equipment has even been staged or programmed and I can tell just by looking at the first box that all of the parts needed to make this work were not delivered.
To make this interesting the one mobile installer that should know how to do this stuff is doing the site walks to determine how much cable is needed and how many connectors. :thud: Not that I don't trust his abilities ... :o_go_on: who am I kidding, I don't trust his judgement.
:shrug: Guess he will have to learn eventually.
Now let us send that text message and finish getting ready to wrestle the day into submission :dominatrix: Gods above I love that word .... submission :pervy:
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Yes, Kianna IS waiting for you!
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It is a real nice feeling of relief when you got it all hooked up, settings made, put the disk in and it just PLAYS! Ahhhhh! Yeah it feels nice :o)
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Anyone surprised that hour eleven that they came to the conclusion that I am needed to return tomorrow.
Well, after finding out that they made no arrangements with the other sites to coordinate the roll over of resources while I am rearranging and adding new switches it became painfully obvious right off the bat that once again the right hand has no idea there is a left hand.
:sigh: Story of my life.
So in other words today was a planning day for how to do the cut over ... and my God in heaven is there a bunch of resources that need to be taken into consideration.
The good news is now all of the details have been worked out on my badge and I can at last come and go as needed without having an escort.
Really going to the bathroom with an escort is rather bothersome. Now I can go by myself :tearlaugh: hope that I am old enough to do so :thud: couldn't resist.
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:iminnocent: :whatthe:
Ghostbusters - Don't Cross The Streams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKQe_i9yyo
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Yuh it might splash! :tearlaugh: :rowrow: :explode: :shock:
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Well, time for another day in the life. Most of yesterday was nothing but planing since apparently nothing of the sort was done to begin with, seriously here you go 12 brand new Aruba switches just go ahead and replace them.
Uh even I know better then that as in aren't you supposed to coordinate with the rest of the centers first before just rolling over resources to another site or were you just going to say get it done and just do it?
The guy I report to said what are they thinking and stopped that nonsense right away especially after the FST looked at the config in the new switch and compared it to the old switch and had a :ummm: moment. Just think the guy on the phone was wanting me to load a config file into a switch and test it for him.
Whoa nellie, that is not happening one that is way above my pay grade and two this is a federal switch for ICE. I may have clearance to be there and wander about doing work, but I damn sure do not have the skill set (technically I do) to work on a system level on an Astro P25 Federal Master site.
Methinks someone was smoking crack yesterday.
At any rate after an all day affair of fact finding and gathering the powers that be think they have it sorted, we shall see when I get started. First thing that needs to be done and I am not certain that this should be on my to do list but all the cabling that is currently plugged in needs to be audited as to accuracy of the label for port number, then is it on and is it active. Before they even start rolling resources to the back up Master site.
Then and only then do I get to start the knuckle dragging remove and replace task. Which apparently the FST is incapable of doing, or why would I always get called back to do those tasks. Can't be my charming personality :tearlaugh: or maybe it is that lack of skill when moving stuff and running new cable that one you can actually get to it and read a label on it and two it is not ran a s a banjo string from switch to switch. Maybe it is because I make up all those lovely cables for them and when handed off they are taped and number on both sides so when installed you have the means to find the other side. :thud:
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Experience. He is a hard but gifted and effective teacher; the pupil almost always learns. And lives!
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Yep wound up doing the cable audit, seriously what the hell was the FST doing .... putzing about on programming the switches. Why do I word it like that, well, since it took him four hours to get the first two switches ready to be installed .... you tell me.
We were supposed to start the cut over at 11:00, I had grounds pulled off and since the devices I was to remove and replace were supported by shelves I had all of the screws removed. Here comes the fun part, someone forgot that since all of these devices are recessed in the cabinet and there were two switches to be removed but four to go back in, what is missing? Yep, additional brackets to recess the extra two switches. Managed to pull two sets out of my :waveass:
Well, as mentioned I was ready to go at 11:00 however the powers that be drugged their feet for another hour, before I could get started. Losers
Finally got the go ahead to go for it at last and started nailing it. By the time I got to the second switch of the first stack and the FST says I need you to join in this conference call to update as to you progress, I said I don't have time to chatter, I have work to do ... he didn't like that as less then two minutes he came back and said they really need you on the call, I said then stand there put it on speaker and let them natter on.
All, I can say is those guys are ever so frelling slow on the uptake and having to repeat myself multiple times is for little children that do not understand English.
Based on how they were acting on the phone and the questions being asked it certainly lends credence to an observation that was made to me a month ago in regards to how long was it going to take to install the new system at the Post office. We said probably three days plus another day or two for clean up and testing. Could have heard a pin drop.
Guess some places have been getting the run around when work is scheduled to be performed. We get in and get it done instead of milking it. By we, I mean all of the guys, although I think that some times I might be a overbearing because of trying to get as much done as possible in a day. Yes, we do take time to eat and stay hydrated all day long. But we do not play around, we get in and get it done.
Must be all that construction experience I have from my past (20 years) enables me to see the finished install in my mind and I know what is the sequence of events to make it complete.
I have a feeling that the other guys still do not have that ability although I have tried to instill that mindset in them.
At any rate I guess I surprised the people on the phone because I was already past the moving and bring back on line of the Border Router. Had the GGSN moved up, along with Gateway Router 1 & 2 moved up also, plus grounded and never unplugged or powered them down. Had the first set of switches installed and grounded and powered up and running, even had the GBIC links installed and showed connectivity.
And yes, had to repeat that just shy of three times before they even understood where I was at ... :sigh:
At any rate once I got rid of those idiots, I could get back to work, and pressed on till done. Oh by the way the FST finally got the second of core lansw ready to be installed ... what the hell, why is it taking him so long?
Got everything moved for the first set of switches and then the second phone call, oh by the way we are not seeing the redundant link ... uh :duh: the second set of switches has not been installed or cabled. (mutters under breath "morons")
But the real fun is that they inform us that of the GBIC's need to be installed in this fashion. Guess what ... not written down in yesterday's outline ... :rat-atat:
"asshats"
I did eventually finish with the worst of the upgrade and installation of the other devices slated for today's migration. Then had to wait on ye ole genius idiots on the phone to say that yes they can see everything and it is ready to be rolled back to our site. The real funny bit was once again they had to do the 20 questions as to what work had been completed and did it get wired in this fashion. :thud: I swear these idiots must be used to dealing with kindergartners doing install work.
I find it insulting to get the 20 question grilling over what work has been completed. I swear, it is written out, how complicated could the work be to finish?
In my mind not one tiny little bit ....
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Sorry about the extra long rant, something to do with only getting a break long enough to eat a sandwich I had packed, and then it was 6:00 PM when driving home so everyone else at the shop has a evening meal at a normal hour and I am driving home still, yes this happens to all of us on more then one occasion but I do not live in the past or the future and it is today that I am dealing with, I was trying to make a phone call and I get ignored and receive a text reply "I'm eating dinner"
Must be nice.
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Did you text back "Thanks for volounteering"?
THen don't respond to them till the morrow.
>8 D
Cheers and take a rest and o-sake break.
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I like two little words.
You're
Fired
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Eat THAT A-H!
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Did you text back "Thanks for volounteering"?
THen don't respond to them till the morrow.
>8 D
Cheers and take a rest and o-sake break.
Better still I said "Driving" which I was and never said another word, then again he didn't bother either so :shrug:
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You work with some jerks, J. Ya figure ways to get on with Life anyway, in spite of them.
:coffeemaker:
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Indeed and during working hours I try my best to work around the shortcomings that are present based on every thing I have scribbled in here previously ... but when off duty and at home :rat-atat:
Don't give two shakes of a dead rats ass, and relax and unwind in such a fashion that the rubbish from the day is buried and suppressed till the following work day.
Which typically gives the subconscious an opportunity to solve for the stupidity.
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careful now. Whatever rubbed off onto you from them might have . . . WORMS . . . in it!
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Which is why I douse my insides with plenty of alcohol to kill the worms.
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The don't die....they just ferment....
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How cute ... not
Today was one of those days from hell. Had to go out and install the cable and antennas for the new ED in Lake Nona. Remind me to kill something, when we get pushed to finish an install that has been delayed by others on multiple occasions and then have to hurry up and get it done ... makes me want to hurt something, trying to avoid hurting others but there are times when it is touch and go.
Well, get there and not a single bushing that I was promised that would be installed not a single one was, they were putting them on after I got there, and barely got them all on by the time I got to the last conduit that I had antenna line to pull up to the roof.
Managed to get all five lines pulled up to the roof. Two were simple for a change, two of the others were line pulls from hell, above ceiling and in cable tray. What I want to know is what the hell were they thinking when they decided the clearance between the ceiling tile and the cable tray. Let me just say it was nasty and since I only have one reel of cable we had to pull each line individually since we had no proper distance markers so we could cut and pull all at once.
Color me irritated.
The real irritating part was the lack of the fourth person until after noon, I swear tying to pull cable when I seem to be the only one who can see the final appearance of the install and can figure out what the order of steps are to get to that point. :sigh:
Which brings me to the last cable, same path as the last two but, have to turn at the end of the hallway and try to get across the last bit of hallway and cable tray go into the staff lunchroom and then feed it up a conduit to the roof that went across two more rooms. Got lucky that it was a 4" and I only had one cable to pull in, however It was through a total of five 90° bends to get to the final destination.
Well, the good news sort of, yes all lines are on the roof, all five antennas are installed and the lines are terminated and weather proofed to the correct antennas. The directional one are pointed in the appropriate direction and when I went downstairs to the comm room and looked at the problem child resource, the county 800 MHz radio, it was working and did not give me the nasty message of being "out of range" ... calling that a win.
Being on the roof was brutal, went through five bottles of water by the time I was done. Didn't get to eat my sandwich till I was driving home though, most annoying. By the time I got home though I was in a state that required an immediate shower, yes even I could smell the sweat off my clothes. Downside my feet are killing me with capital letters. Why, because I was the one doing all of the walking back and forth and climbing the ladder to the roof to pull lines out. Racked up 3-1/2 miles today. It was not until the fourth showed up that every one got on the roof to hang the antennas.
The boring and annoying part is we have to go back out there to one finish the grounding of the masts and all of the lines on the roof. Also have to do some strapping work to clean up the install and get it to my standards ... then check the comm room to make certain all of our trash is removed and disposed of properly. At that point ye ole genius boy gets to run off and do the route update, then go to Orlando to add in the new sites then to Maitland to add the new sites to the WAVE system.
Must be nice to be able to do paper pushing computer work instead of knuckle busting, sweat your ass off work.
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Will be taking two of the radios for the site out there tomorrow and do some coverage testing on their channel and things should be alright methinks, I did test it out at the shop before I deployed the system so it should be just fine.
However it is going to be an early night mainly because I am mostly whipped from the days work.
Although watching "The Helpful Fox Senko Sen" is definitely helping me unwind nicely .... little things amuse little minds what can I say
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:whack: What was that old Saying Those that can't Lead or something? :whatthe:
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I think you might be on to something there .... although his ability to lead leaves a bit (okay a lot) to be desire.
Although I am dragging all of them kicking and screaming into my world of doing the work. Gods above it is annoying that only a couple of people know how to do any install work.
Than again I have been singing this song for a very long time. Whatever, there is going to be positive suggestions from me on how to upgrade things about the place to enable all to be capable of doing install work.
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Here be one for the cuckoo's nest.
... down 3# since yesterday.
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:woohoo: the ED in Lake Nona is complete. Only had grounding and clean up on the roof to do, had to swing by the shop to pick up parts in the morning and met the guys out there and got it knocked out by noon.
Again :woohoo:
The real good news part is that I brought a couple of the pre-programmed portables with me and did some signal level checks (RSSI) I wouldn't say the site is hot or anything but the best signal was -18 dbm the worst was a -45 dbm
In other words the site is hot enough to make toast :tearlaugh:
Case in point, turned on the radio and was checking the signal levels and site access out as I was driving to the site. I could key into the site from 4 miles away. :thud:
SWEET
Went a different way back to the shop and got to about 6 miles before it went totally out of range with a -115 dbm
Got the privilege of finally doing some other work on the system and did not get to finish all of it, but at last doing more then just knuckle dragging work.
One tech went to the master site and added the other two sites, did a radio check on the "wide" network and was able to key in and got a radio check of all loud and clear. Checked the MedCom county a second time and all is still loud and clear. :yippee:
Did have some issues that we had to sort out at the site, network issues and getting one of the diagnostic utilities to report properly, but got them all sorted and we have the proverbial good health rating on the install.
The only fly in the ointment is the DAS that others installed to bring in 7/800 MHz by others is pointing the wrong way.
Why do I say that, the site is actually is in Orange county and the DAS that was installed is pointing at Osceola county so might not work worth a damn.
So the portables for the MedCom system have no signal in the site. The desk sets work because they are connected to an outside antenna.
The good news is that it is not my problem to fix. Did inform the correct person of the deficiency so we shall see what occurs. The real fun is that the folks who installed the line in the first place did so incorrectly and they did get dinged by the inspector :woohoo:
I love it .. heaven forbid that I know what the hell I am talking about ...
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It's soooooo good to see a :woohoo: instead of a :rat-atat:
And it's a good way to end a work week. That way you don't fret all weekend long about what's next on Monday....
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Feels good as well, although a end of day dumb ass email about where is such and such and when I replied he didn't bother to read what I had wrote so "eh"
However still in a good mood as if you recall we got the Blu Ray replaced and now we can once more enjoy any selection from the video library.
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And you got the cleaners also and will add a good cleaning to your monthly schedule.....Right.... :iminnocent:
My theory in life has always been....Ignore the ignorant.... In my 35 years with the Company we had 19 Presidents for the company. I lasted longer then all of them because I ignored the ignorant. Worked well for me. Now cooperate has taken the company over and there is NO President of the company anymore. Cooperate Rules them....
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I do believe it or not, ignore the ignorant, however it gets internalize still, which is why I vent in here in this thread that folks have to look for, so that way I don't bring down the site with the whining and complaining.
One has to look for this thread, so that way no one is bothered by it much unless they looked for it on purpose.
At that point ... all I can say is "hold on to your underwear" :tearlaugh: since I do get a bit out of hand :iminnocent:
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Believe it or not the place where I got the player no longer stock cleaning supplies for the players, I will have to order them on line from Amazon, so thanks for the reminder. I still have the other one but methinks that we should get a couple of new ones and get religious in the usage.
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That's what I told you earlier on about the Cleaners....I went to Walmart looking for a couple and they said they don't carry them anymore.....
So I had to order from Amazon...which was great because they had a good selection.
Walmart on line has them also but I get better deals with Amazon since I'm a Prime Member...
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Here is another one for the cuckoo's nest.
My retirement account is back to pre- :soapy: levels.
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Amazon has a decent blu-ray cleaner, will not be available till the 23rd of the month.
What I found disturbing is they recommend cleaning the heads after eight hours of use.
:thud:
Seriously, I do that on a Saturday or Sunday with the greatest of ease.
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:whatthe: They took your money out of your retirement account?
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I think investors are struggling in these times....more losses then gains of late...Reflects in retirement accounts....
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No money taken out, it is just the current market value is back to pre-bullshit days
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I have continued to add money to my account as per my budget.
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Amazon has a decent blu-ray cleaner, will not be available till the 23rd of the month.
What I found disturbing is they recommend cleaning the heads after eight hours of use.
:thud:
Seriously, I do that on a Saturday or Sunday with the greatest of ease.
You probably misread it the first time you got cleaners and thought the instructions said every eight years...which would explain the abused player dying like it did.... :java:
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The nasty bit is that the company has stopped matching our contributions to our work accounts.
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No money taken out, it is just the current market value is back to pre-bullshit days
Exactly....
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The nasty bit is that the company has stopped matching our contributions to our work accounts.
That too should pass.....and if it doesn't....they will end up loosing folks who will go to the companies that do match....I know there are more then one companies that do your sort of work.....at least that's the theory the "MoneyMongers" (experts) say it will play out. This statement also requires a "we shall see"
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I tend to be one of those "in for the long haul" types so I am not panicking by any stretch of the imagination.
As mentioned several times, I am at last understanding "The Richest man in Babylon" and its application to my daily life is paying me benefits at long last.
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Yup....Our company also had it's up and downs and I stuck around through it all...even when our competition offered me more than I was making at the time.... In the end...that company went downhill and our company remained strong.
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Definitely my strategy, looking at my retirement timeline (if I live that long) and things go up and go down constantly ... a measured response is better then the chicken little panic action.
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The sky isn't falling........ the groung is rising.
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:whatthe:
BSG 1980-Starbuck and Cy: The Ground Came Up And Hit Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBPbLmvsa0
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THanx Jherr, I'd make that my ringtone if I had a phone.
8 )
Cheers
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:iminnocent:
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Close But No Cigar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMU8nvZzOs
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One has to look for this thread, so that way no one is bothered by it much unless they looked for it on purpose.
Um, one must LOOK FOR every thread on this site !!!!
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :cool:
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:o_go_on: It is not that hard just ask :kianna: for assistance and all will be well ... :heeheehee:
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How quaint had an easy day for a change... that doesn't happen often :tearlaugh:
Easy being relative, had to modify eight (8) code plugs to include the new sites that are coming on line shortly. Yes, their incessant push to get it done so they could open this week is now on hold as they do not have enough staff for the facility :tearlaugh:
Nonetheless the ambulances and drivers need all of their radios updated. So I get to work outside in the heat, as I will be going to their site. It will be quicker as all of the vehicles are there unless out on call, which means I get to knock them out in short order, instead of waiting on them to show up at my shop.
Which can be problematic on occasion hopefully I can get to them all in a day ... granted there is a minimum of 98 radios to touch.
So, not really holding my breath on that concept, but if one is to have a fantasy make it a good one ... right ...
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Since having an easy one is so rare, Congrats J !!! :woohoo:
:coffeemaker: :coffeemaker: :coffeemaker:
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Amazon has a decent blu-ray cleaner, will not be available till the 23rd of the month.
What I found disturbing is they recommend cleaning the heads after eight hours of use.
:thud:
Seriously, I do that on a Saturday or Sunday with the greatest of ease.
I forgot to mention this part of the equation. Many folks now are out of jobs due to Corvid and have turned off non essential expenses, like Cable TV and Internet. Which means the DVD players are now being used....A LOT....and need cleaning.
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I wonder if COVID 19 was at play in my motherboard (for ALL Ryzen CPU's) being so hard to get!
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Could have been.... A lot of items not on the shelves in most stores and not online either. I always remind folks that most of the useful things we buy are made overseas.
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MmHmm. Gigabyte, ASUS, made in China. Most things from China are now blocked too, right? Even American companies have their stuff built entirely IN China, then shipped here with their badge on it.Even my RYZEN CPU was made in China, the Ram, same! And it isn't simply cheap labor. They built the factories, the manufacturing processes and perfected that stuff where we didn't. Cost too much to build the factories under federal pollution control restrictions. Or something. :coffeemaker: Anywho, it was a booger finding just ONE motherboard I wanted to use in stock. And it was an Irish based company that Walmart.com sourced that had *A* (as in one) particular motherboard in stock. I pressed the BUY! button and voila! They actually had one in North Carolina in their warehouse. I paid about twice what it would have run before the COVID thing, but honestly it's actually worth it. This is a badass mobo man!I got 12 various type USB ports, mostly full now. EIGHT SATA6 ports! 7 are full too. It has both WiFi and Bluetooth built in as well. Then there is all the usual stuff. Front panel stuff I don't even have holes for on this old case. Oh and it even reads my Power Supply temp and fan speed! So far the only time the machine warms up is playing DEFIANCE on Steam. Heh!
And when I try to really load my RAM up, the video card burps! The Nvidia driver detected a problem with OpenGL and reset it. Close program now? I guess Defiance uses DirectX nn. Cause it can load up the card and cook it too! 212F!
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As far it being the Covid virus any longer I am renaming according to a post I saw on Facebook
Common Core virus "because the numbers just don't add up"
Every day it is a different set of numbers and sometimes it changes within hours.
Don't get me wrong I acknowledge something is not right, but the media representation of this incident is very very "skewed" in my opinion.
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Moving on, I was hesitant to say anything because the moment you say what an easy work load it goes to hell in a handbasket.
It would be like saying "Is it always this quiet" in a 911 call center or an emergency room at a hospital.
You will get the look of death from those working there and sure enough the proverbial SHTF happens, next.
At any rate though up to four days of relative peaceful and non-stressful days.
So what happens, I went to deliver a radio that the customer had been told that it had been sent into depot for repairs, however when I read the notes on it, twas obvious it did not go any where, the only reason it took so long to be repaired was that all of us in the shop were in that abomination of a county up north.
I do not like that the other office lady is lying to our customers. It is just wrong on each and every level. Thank goodness the customer did not read the notes when I dropped it off as that would have been difficult to explain.
Mainly because I will not lie to them.
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I don't even look at the media's talk about this stuff. I do check the CDC stats, the states stats through the medical centers, and through the VA. The media is out for ratings boosts. The hospitals are out for stopping contamination and deaths. And what THEY say DO...i do. Might live a little longer and enjoy it more! So, 6 ft spacing, face mask. Wash hands often during a day. Simple. :)
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Up to a point for me, sorry when I am outside in the sun sweating my ass off the last thing I need to deal with is trying to breathe through a wet paper bag.
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Wow I managed to have a work week that did not turn into a shit storm .. :woohoo:
Even only worked 40 hours for a change. So did not see that coming, as it is rare.
Today did have a chance to go to hell, however I managed to deflect it mainly because despite the fact that I have a badge and key to that abomination of a county, I am not a system tech and yes you might be able to talk me through changing out a PA on a GTR the bottom line is I do not get paid to do tasks of that nature.
You lot are the system techs ... finger it out ... I do not make the same scale as you, so stop asking me to do your work.
Got a boat load of other things completed that I have not had a chance to do and even took the time to complete rubbish that my other workers could not complete properly. Why the frell do I even ask them to do a damn thing ... don't know ... :sigh:
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Well, I shouldn't say this but I am going to anyway ... I just was able to pay all of the month of August's expenses.
Got to love following the advice in "The Richest Man in Babylon" it is finally paying dividends in spades for me.
:thumb_up:
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That guy is simply indebted to no one! ;o)
Congrats on having a not so horrible SHORT week J! :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
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Hm. I did not get paid "scale", as in Union Scale, for the work I did. BUT, I DID get side perks those Union Scale workers didn't get. They got better hourly pay yes. I got better benefits, overall, than even the Chem Plant Union Electricians got. Plus, I got to stay in one shop for 25 years. Made life a bit easier for me. In all, I think it evened out :D
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And NOBODY. EVER. Had to tell ME *HOW* to do my work. I made sure I COULD do it, and DID it, and happily I had a supervisor that agreed with ME in the HOW it needed to be done. Do the very best job possible, so it lasts the longest possible time under the greatest stress of its load. THAT paid dividends too. I slept much better for that. :)
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:yippee: Just received in the mail one each CCW with my name on it :yippee:
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:whatthe: :rat-atat: :i-beback: :seeyou: :explode: :pleeeeez:
Congrats?
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I think so, however I will keep those :rat-atat: tendencies under control ... honest ... just ask Kianna
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When it comes to exercising my second amendment rights I call it a good day.
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Well, yesterday was not one of my more pleasant days, had a pain in the center of my chest that initially was bad, however it did downgrade the bad news is that it did not go away in a timely manner so I bit the bullet and went to the ER department for a second opinion.
Yes, I read to much so was already diagnosing myself ... six hours of my day down the tubes since nothing conclusive was determined.
The ache is gone, still not happy with how it all turned out ... especially the price tag .... my god in heaven .... I understand the better safe then sorry concept. Would have preferred a more conclusive answer instead of well, everything looks good, blood work, EKG and x-rays ... need to keep your primary care doctor in the loop.
:thud: Sorry don't have one, seriously I do not, been fortunate in the medical department for the most part of my life, and except for really crazy shit (collapsed lung, motorcycle accident, microscopic hematuria, brown recluse spider bite) have not needed a regular doctor. Those events took place over a period of 20 years and it has been easily 15 if not 20 years since the spider bite which was the latest medical incident.
Did have one for a bit, for annual physicals, but when he turned to specialty medicine :shrug:
I have been blessed in the health department as in being "low maintenance" :woohoo:
And crossing my fingers that it stays that way as I continue to walk this Earth
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Better find a piece of wood to knock on.....else your luck will run out.
Just think....what you went through is my life it seems LOLOL...
But I knock on wood because I beat the odds each and every time.....
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Been known to beat on wood multiple times so I am with you there
Oh great had issues on Stormbringer trying to render an image so restarted it and of course it wants to be connected to the internet "again" stinking crap nonsense.
Oh to add insult to injury it now wants to update Windows :sigh:
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Been known to beat on wood multiple times so I am with you there
Oh great had issues on Stormbringer trying to render an image so restarted it and of course it wants to be connected to the internet "again" stinking crap nonsense.
Oh to add insult to injury it now wants to update Windows :sigh:
Be careful if it's the new Update 2004 they want to add. I have a computer that did not like that update and so have others in here. Plus Rendo has a whole shitload of trouble with Poser due to that update. Read their news page...
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:ummm: Can't get it to show me what version I just installed.
I seem to remember something about 18. something
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Not even by right click on the button in the left bottom corner of your screen, then choosing System?
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:whatthe: Windows Version 1903 (OS Build 18362.959)
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Found it and yes that is the version that got installed.
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A recent Win 10 update turned on Skype. I'd check your comp.
Cheers
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Version 1903 - OS Build 18362.959
is what got installed.
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I do not use Skype as this is the render engine "Stormbringer" and I could care less about all of the media rubbish, as this was not why I built the system.
I built it for rendering and rendering only
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959 would be the version that does that. Puts Skype in the Startup but doesn't turn it on. Does turn on the annoying Focus Ass on and may reconnect Cortana if you have it turned off like I do. Not noticed any Poser issues but it did wipe out my video card time out. I keep it at at least 60 seconds so long timeouts on my old GTX card don't bring up BSODs
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The only thing I got was skype, cortana sits in a lead box with altered IDs.
First 2 updates turned it on, I made that stop. otherwise, mainly security updates, which is why I was angered with it opening a gaping hole in security. (Skype)
Cheers
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Sounds good then, since once updates are complete it is disconnected from the internet, which hopefully makes life difficult for those abominations that thrive on a connection.
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The update you just got is getting your puter ready for this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004
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When I bought and installed Win 10 Pro 64bits, and got its naming accomplished, this is my PC. Win 10 version 2004 is as installed new.
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BTW - it won't let me uninstall Cortana. I do and its reinstalling its damn self. I DID uninstall Skype. And disable Cortana in startup.
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The update you just got is getting your puter ready for this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004)
Thanks. That explains the TDR reset. I updated my video drivers a week or so ago not realizing this this update was my issue. I cursed nVidia to no end over this trying to figure out how they screwed with something that takes a registry edit. I had to log into my Admin account. (shiver) I haven't been there since 2018. It's always an experience to see what has happened since my last visit there.
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Your more then welcome PDG......I haven't signed into my Admin Account on the bigboy since 2015. But if I can't get things going right on it...I may have to take some drastic actions.....but first I'll see what my friends at How To Geek (https://www.howtogeek.com/t/windows/)
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BTW - it won't let me uninstall Cortana. I do and its reinstalling its damn self. I DID uninstall Skype. And disable Cortana in startup.
You can't remove Cortana. You can just stop it listening.
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Plus since the render machine is not connected to the internet except when Poser has a fit about checking in with the license server. It certainly will not be listening to a damn thing :tearlaugh:
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Well, here is the crazy from my visit to the doctor on Saturday.
The urgent care didn't find anything conclusive, so went to the ER department as suggested. As mentioned earlier once there and dealing with the overly long time I was there, yes we are not a patient person to start with so having to sit there for over six hours is so not my cup of tea.
Anyway the fun part was you need to follow up on this with your primary care doctor ... don't have one as mentioned previously ... well while at work there were multiple phone calls from the Advent Health group trying to set me up with one.
OK fine have an appointment to see one tomorrow, here is the hilarious part, they want you to fill out an intake sheet prior to arrival ... well, it is amusing since one of the questions is who is your primary care doctor. :ummm: don't have one so how do I answer the question :ummm:
I can see that this is going to be ever so much fun :sigh:
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New fun and games, ye ole organizer for the Upgrade Operations (UO) lab showed up today and wanted to start getting things up and running.
Did he have a game plan :thud: NOT
Seriously what the hell is the point then if you do not know how you want it to look then what are you here for, "oh that is right you are looking at each server (DL380 Gen9) trying to figure out which is the best for what you are doing (I am wondering if he truly knows what he wants to do) then he cries about there not being a GB connection via the switch in the shop server room.
Wow, I know that the world is more about Gigabit speeds but if the switch our cheap ass shop bought or repurposed is 100 Mb ... deal with it.
Why art thou crying to me about it.
Just saying
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Jherr:" why art thou crying to me about it?"
Operations ID10T:" I have to justify the high salery I pull"
Jherr:" Here's your sign"
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Yeppers and what they want to get really silly I wonder what they would say if I just grab this and start polishing it
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Makes them more nervous if you start cleaning the bore.
Nice Hawken rep.
Cheers
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Tis a fully functioning black powder firearm, a Cabela .54 caliber good sir.
I would agree though, if someone were to watch me do a cleaning job on it, or worse still if I start measuring powder out and tamping it down and well, you know what happens next ...
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Huh... looks like a hawken half stock design. cap and ball . I have a .45 Hawken replica that'll place the ball in a gators eye at 250 paces. If I'm feeling a bit lazy, just use a mini.as well as a Griswold and Gunnisen .36 revolver replica. both very well made shooters.
Cheers
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Well, the pic is one I got off the internet, haven't got around to taking a picture of the real deal yet, just wanted to blow some peoples mind on the abomination of FB and make them think :heeheehee:
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Hrrrrrmmmmm... I always found running a whetstone along the edge of a bushmasters machete (~3.5ftlong blade) usually deters any conversation.
>8 )
Cheers
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I found dressing up as Batman does the same thing.....but that' just me..... :iminnocent:
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Hrrrrrmmmmm... I always found running a whetstone along the edge of a bushmasters machete (~3.5ftlong blade) usually deters any conversation.
>8 )
Cheers
Darn all I have is a choice between several katana's or a Claymore sword, probably would scare them nonetheless if I were to sharpen any one of them :tearlaugh:
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O.o I think the Safest way to have people avoid me is wear my Nascar hat! :whatthe:
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:tearlaugh: :thumb_up:
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I found dressing up as Batman does the same thing.....but that' just me..... :iminnocent:
Oh my goodness. I cannot bring myself to talk about visions of garden gnomes dressed up like Batman. Nope, can't do it!
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Bet they would be big sellers.....LOLOLOL
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If one is asked to break down boxes and take them to the dumpster .... what would you do?
As asked ... or whatever the heck you wanted to ... ?
As you can tell from how I worded the statement it was answer number two that was done ... seriously what is so hard to understand about the concept of the recycle dumpster gets emptied once a week only and to get maximum space one must break all boxes down. We get some pretty whacked out sized boxes that if you left them intact would fill the dumpster in a handful of minutes.
Which is what happened today I finally got the dumpster emptied and had the other guy that is just sitting there looking pretty to break down all boxes and take them out.
I went out after the fact to add some other boxes and could tell just from walking outside by the way the lids on the dumpster looked that he had not done as requested.
:sigh: :whatthe:
Yep, made him come out there with me to break down the boxes properly and impressed on him that we get to many boxes in here to just be lazy and not break them down.
Tis is so much bullshit and we are tired of their childish behavior.
Even worse is what part of, if you need parts on your truck to have stock on it then you need to order it instead of asking me when you need it right then and there, when you use material you need to replace it as I am not going to ask you if you need anything. You are supposedly adults and are to be responsible. As you can tell that is not the case and they have yet to figure that out still, which makes me as one can tell "cranky" seriously who the hell is in charge of keeping your truck stocked with common items ???
Yes, you the driver of said truck ... not me ... tis so irritating
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O.o :whatthe:
Low hanging Fruit in the Hiring pool it Seems.
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SO they think you are the hired babysitter or something? Fire them and get some new fire-ee's !!! :coffeemaker:
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Waitaminit - being as you are an old hand there, um, what is your working title there anyway? And what other titles are there and what's the "chain of command" ? Like, from janitor/floor sweeper up through Helper (are their different TYPES of "helper"?) then the Skilled Labor, then the CRAFTED (you know, LICENSED TRADES!), then the 'Degreed Professionals', then I guess it has that division....the Office Workers. See I was thinking as you TEACH the very people that you seem to have trouble with, maybe you aren't in the position I was thinking you were. Which is the Crafted/Trades (like apprentice, Journeyman, Licensed Journeyman). I know you earned a doctorate too, right? But that don't apply on your job?!
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RadKres, you seem to always say things nicer than I do. No kidding!
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First off I work two jobs, I teach part time, the apprentice electricians during the school year, the structured cabling portion of the apprenticeship program.
The true day job is with Motorola doing public safety and commercial communication installations. As in from start to finish.
Site walk, write the quote, work up the material list for ordering, stage the equipment once it comes in, rack and stack, cable it up and tune combiners if needed or just check the freq setting. Then break it down and take it to the site, get it installed and then do the final R56 audit on the installation. Final tests, turn it over to the customer in the commercial world, in the public safety world, I turn it over to the system techs for them to finish the integration with the county system.
Basically once it is ready to install that is when the other installers finally get involved and do something constructive, because trust me up to that point they are either fucking off on the computer, claiming that they are training, doing a mobile install or troubleshooting a Fire Rescue vehicle or engine. The good news there is that they be the ones that have to go to Flagler more then I.
As to any initiative to ask hey can I help you stage the next project, or just general clean up around the shop, clean up their work area and make sure they have material on their truck so they can do simple tasks on the fly, take out the trash and recyclable trash or anything that is not radio related ... heaven forbid ... which explains my angst.
As far as a title the official title is "field service technician" what I really do is everything above and beyond as previously mentioned. Since in my mind if I was only a tech, then why am I walking sites, doing quotes, ordering material, and tracking inventory. Wouldn't that be project manager or maybe a job foreman, or is that superintendent considering that it is each and every job that comes in that I wind up getting tasked to manage and track the material to ensure all parts are present before we go to the job site.
Granted if I were to get all snobby, when I sign my name I could include after it "ELJ, CETsr"
Electrical Licensed Journeyman
Certified Electronic Technician, senior (R56 installer)
More later have to go and start the day
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Forgot about the occasional repair on a subscriber radio, preventive maintenance on the fleet of radios they might have and let us not forget about delivering repaired radios back to the customer.
Then there is preventive maintenance on the public safety fleet occasionally, meaning all Police, Fire, Medical and Public works radios and mobiles.
Yes, there be a whole bunch of different hats I wear during a typical day. Changes on a hour by hour basis on a bad day.
Like today I am general office boy taking files from the upstairs down to a gathering point to ready them for shredding, the downside about 170 boxes have to be move and if you guessed there is no one to help, move to the head of the class.
The plus side is that I did rig up a slide for the staircase so I can slide the boxes down instead of having to walk them down one by one.
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:whatthe: I Trained 3 replacements when they seen the scope of work and how little I got paid they left after they got trained. :whack:
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Sounds about right
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Now here is a radio that I can see acquiring :hubbahubba:
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:woohoo:
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Indeed it does make me want to say "take my money" :pweez:
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Yes it does LOLOL
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One thing for sure....you'd never have a favorite Radio Station.....that would take all the fun out of having those knobbers :tearlaugh:
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:woohoo:
https://www.dubscbshop.com/catalog/item/8737856/10330618.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=W1iyp5GqYNI
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Ok, thanks for the lowdown, J.
Love the Dashboard Hula gals! There's a million of em! LOL!
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Oh I almost forgot during the day job I also modify code plugs within reason and program subscriber radios and manage the inventory of subscribers for the one hospital chain
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Well, definitely not happy now. Been doing some research on the findings from my visit to the hospital and the follow up with a new physician.
I know I have a bad habit of self diagnosing myself so will have to make some follow up appointments per the new doctor, one with a cardiologist for a stress test and general exam, and then an actual physical to establish some base line readings.
We are so not happy as it seems I have acquired a lovely case of high blood pressure. :sigh: and based on the blood pressure readings that were taken days apart and the range of readings while sitting in the hospital I am not optimistic about a clean bill of health.
All these years and never had a lick of trouble of this nature ... :sigh: ... how annoying ... well depending on the results of the follow up visits, that is ....
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And to add insult to injury my new DVD/Blu Ray has already gotten fussy with me, as in twice.
The audio goes crazy on me and believe it or not when I use the original cleaning disc on it, since the one I want is not in stock yet, it fixes it and all is right with the world again
I know I use the player a lot but this is frelling crazy, that I have already had to use it twice, since purchasing the player.
Annoying .. as in very.
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:whatthe: Humm Do you get any Stress at work?! :whack:
You might want to think about Taking some Time off or Learning how to Relax a bit more.
They might give you
Amlodipine
or
hydrochlorothiazide
or
Benazepril
O.o then You can get all three and have no pule what so ever! Like they tried on me! :woohoo:
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Got a Can of Compressed air and blow out the system maybe?
Dust or Hair maybe?
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Stress is a common thing at work, as evidenced by my previous posts. Definitely need to learn how to stop internalizing it as it is certainly not doing me any good based on the previous readings.
If any of those meds wind up being prescribed I can see that my current drinking habits will have to change ... significantly ... which means what the hell do I get to drink now.
It is claimed that as a male I should only have two drinks a night, if any and the web site states that 5 oz of wine is considered one drink. Or one 12 oz beer or 1.5 oz of hard liquor.
Seriously 5 oz what the hell is that ... one can barely fill a birds beak that way.
Especially since all of the drugs mentioned can have some interaction with alcohol .... so not surprised.
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Got a Can of Compressed air and blow out the system maybe?
Dust or Hair maybe?
No compressed air in my house will have to get some and see if regular use of that will change anything
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Get one of those Blood Pressure Cuff and write down what you have and the time to see if you can control yourself with out the drugs that way you do not have to Take a drug but as I am saying you are better off venting and learning to let it go before the idiots kill You! :iminnocent:
Or you get 1,300 Dollar a Day pill Like they tried on me. :woohoo:
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Got some shopping to do on the morrow no doubt to see what they have at the local CVS
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Oh now I am really annoyed was sitting here thinking about the chain of events that led to the current medical fun and games. And it has occurred to me that maybe there is a tie in with one of the supplements that I take.
Lo and behold a new supplement that I have been using to relieve the Tinnitus has warning labels on it regarding cardiovascular disorders and high or low blood pressure being present, how lovely and considering that I have been taking it for almost two months and previously have never had an issue, it does make me wonder if there is a relationship between the two.
:sigh: the things that make me go :ummm:
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Well Can you stop them cold Turkey and how long does it take to get out of your system? O.o
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Stopping cold turkey is easy as I typically forget to take them on the weekend. How long will it take to get it out of my system is quite another question.
However we have started the cleansing
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:iminnocent: :woohoo: :whatthe:
Something to help you! :cheer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQWn7gtRbE
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It did and my thanks
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Here's the one I use "J".....
It's been approved by all of my heart doctors...and as you know....I have MANY....and even Olivia Approves it....and they always check their readings against mine....and they are always spot on. I got it at Walmart which is a LOT cheaper then CVS or the other big chain drugstores....
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ReliOn-BP200W-Wrist-Blood-Pressure-Monitor/31956247
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That's nice one, for the wrist! Nice price too.
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My question though is the wrist the best place for that to be used as a testing point. I read that the best spot is the elbow where it is typically tested at so which is right, did look at the one link and surprise they be sold out on line.
Granted it will probably be best to look at the local sites here in the area after work, just didn't feel like going today.
Have been doing "gut checks" on myself since yesterday and I definitely can see the relationship between allowing events to "get to me" and trying to downplay them.
Boy do I have a lot to relearn :sigh:
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Self diagnosis generally does more harm than good. To my experience, anyway. :coffeemaker:
:achoo: :whereizit: :nurse: :EliDriverNurse: :nurse3: :yeeech:
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I agree on the purely physical ailments.
I was gut checking the relationship of how I respond to events on my well being ... there seems to be a correlation twixt the two.
Granted it is just one weekend but by paying attention to the events & things around me and how I react to them, that dull ache seems less noticeable. So do not know if it is from just consciously calming myself and two days of not taking the supplement, (which as mentioned I found out aggravates blood pressure in people) or just wishful thinking but there is a subtle difference.
So am going to keep trying to walk that path and see if it becomes noticeable, once I get a BP monitor. That will be the true benchmark.
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Wow continued bringing crap downstairs from over next door. Seriously, Dell 530 laptops with Win XP on them and several other variations of antediluvian electronics. So freaking comical in my mind.
Even found docking stations no cables for them but the docking stations themselves for the Dell 530 laptops.
Man no one can cut loose with antediluvian electronics, I guess ... :tearlaugh:
I think the thing that really blew my mind is the alarm box I found, it is for the building however it has a 2001 date on the inside cover. So since it is just laying about upstairs and not connected and therefore not in use, why is it still here?
Makes as much sense as that padlock I found last week, that had been cut off with bolt cutters yet there it was just sitting on a desk. Lord knows how long that has been hanging about the place.
The only bonus ... sort of ... was I found six each collapsible 5' tall easels. Not sure how to make that a win but grabbed one I did .... :iminnocent:
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For When you take up that Bob Ross Marathon to recover your Sanity! :whack: :iminnocent:
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Well I still have a Toshiba Satellite here that I use in college it has Windows 3.1 in it, with a docking station. Still working but too slow for internet nowadays. Too bad I did not get games for it, the only thing on it is solitary. Plus some old files and basic programs. It was very expensive back then and the apple compute I had with a monitor, printer and two disk drives cost over $1000.00 back then in 1985. I got rid of the Apple, maybe I should get rid of the Toshiba too.
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For When you take up that Bob Ross Marathon to recover your Sanity! :whack: :iminnocent:
Not even sure where to look to find that elusive trait ... sanity .. sounds dirty if you ask me though
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Latest :ummm: moment. Was told last week on Friday that I had to go back to that abomination of a place, all right Tuesday is when I felt I would be ready to go, yesterday still no addresses, point of contact or door codes. Reminded ye ole ...
I know, I'm working on it.
No response at all the rest of the day and so far nothing this morning.
:tearlaugh:
Guess where I am going to go ... yep the shop. :whatthe: where else should I go since I have no details :tearlaugh:
Can't wait to hear the excuses
Oh, the latest shop project of building out an upgrade lab is so full of holes it is funny.
Technically they are not to move anything over there until the files that I brought down last Friday get shredded. He asked if I could move his rack over there, sorry none of the files have been shredded and you still have glue to scrape off the floor over there, why should we move it since the dust and goo will just get in the equipment. "Oh we will just scrape around it. (Right) Plus, you have no anti-static flooring to go underneath the racks and the final straw I would have to take devices out as it is to wide to fit through any of the doors.
I know why he wants to move it over there and it is all about air conditioning, the current room he is in has a window that faces the rising sun and it gets warm in there, doesn't help that he has a rack of equipment running generating even more heat. But, oh my it is to hot in there, so bring a fan in :duh:
He got in some power supplies for the rack, hey do you have a 20A to 15A converter. In other words all of the receptacles in the office are 15A config the power strip he got is a 20A (sleepy eye) config. :tearlaugh: Sorry no I don't :iminnocent: :whack:
Then has the nerve to say that he really wants twist locks. Sorry about your luck there you are just going to have to get someone else to wire that for you.
And if one wants to get really technical about this, that is considered billable labor, it is bad enough that I assembled the rack for him but to go any further is billable, in the eyes of the office lady and the boss.
At any rate, another is just trying to get something for nothing.
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Yup, and look for him to try and get back at you for not helping him for free!
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Already got the boss up to date on the nonsense he is trying to pull.
Oh and yes the day went to hell in a hand-basket.
At 7:00 AM I get a text message saying I will meet you at Jail admin at 8:00 AM
:ummm: Wow had all night to tell me this and neglected to do so and now you text me, well it is an hour and a half minimum to get there from my house on a good day and today was not one of those days, as I had to get gas while I was at it, and once I got there (8:45 AM) he still did not have any of the door codes or address for the sites.
Seriously ...
Well, it went downhill after that, found out that the equipment is from a different manufacturer and the serial number format is not similar to what I am familiar with, worse then that though is the fact that I have to pull out every single frelling card from the equipment to get a serial number. The insult is each card is held in by two screws that have to be removed first before one can get to the serial number. The only silver lining is that it is a bar code and I have a bar code reader.
The bad news is there are five rows of four racks per row. Jammed packed full, old technology takes up ever so much space and room.
:thud:
Going to be at that for a while despite what anyone says, the claim is that the other sites are not as loaded with equipment ... sure ... if you say so ... not buying into that lie.
The fun was coming home a balmy 80+ mile jaunt and it rained all but maybe five miles of the trip. Sometimes it was so hard it was literally white out conditions. :whatthe: so not on my top ten list of things to voluntarily do.
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Well, day four of not taking the supplement for the tinnitus, and although I could feel a subtle difference after two days, I feel a definitive difference on day four, low level chest pain totally gone and other subtle physical things.
How lovely was hoping to finally be rid of the tinnitus but gave myself blood pressure problems instead. How is that for karma slapping me in the head :tearlaugh:
Go figure, still haven't had a chance to get a blood pressure cuff but it is on the list.
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Time for day two at the place from hell. Hopefully when coming home I will not have to deal with the same type of violent rain I had yesterday.
Also, hope that the idiots that decided I should be on the support staff for an app I know nothing about get me off of it now, as that is not one of my daily tasks ... period.
Support staff indeed ... dummies :whack:
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in the dayz I was employed J, I'd call that a 'backhanded promotion' !!! Now, CUT THE CHECK! :D :coffeemaker:
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:whatthe: For an App? Should not the software company that made it do support for it?
Unless this is a leash App in which case You are going to be pulled through the ringer for every printer etc.. that the nut behind the App forwards to you!
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Tis an app developed by a department within the company, has it worked as intended ... not really.
It is specifically just for reporting and assigning trouble tickets ... been nothing but trouble
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Day two, more craziness, and to my dismay all I get is just a text message from the boss. Not even a phone call to see what was up, just a text message asking if I was going to be ready to go to the next site today, ... NOT
Pretty rude that you can't call and talk to me, but have the time to write out a detailed text message. :whack:
Frelling idiot, I am the only one doing the inventory and you stated that every card had to be pulled and model and serial number had to be entered.
Obviously he did not look at what was in the shelter.
As mention 21 racks of equipment and several of them had several card cages containing more cards then I care to count, still not done and we have already passed the 550 lines in an Excel spreadsheet.
The only good news is that I am down to the last rack ... but ... you knew there was going to be one ... 60 plus individual cards in the damn thing that need to be pulled and inventoried :puah:
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Pull up a chair and enjoy being busy getting paid, J !! :coffeemaker:
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Well, the good news is that I finished up the inventory of the sites today.
The unsettling news is that last site, I am so not looking forward to even trying to get the old equipment out of there and then there was a building next to it that just had me on edge and hoping that I never heard the opening strains of the theme from from "Deliverance"
Seriously it looked that "sketchy"
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This was what greeted me when I got to the last place.
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I'd walk softly and I'd suggest not breathing...me thinks one breath will take it down....
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:whatthe: HOLIDAY INN THE WORLD'S INNKEEPER 1975 Must be an old sign
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Old sign is the understatement judged by the weathering on it
Never knew that was a slogan for Holiday Inn ... small ass world ... and considering that this building is literally "nowhere" as in the middle of ... who knew
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:iminnocent: :whatthe:
"Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI
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Hey now, there are people all over the country that will eagerly come D&R (demolish and remove) that building in a heartbeat. Just to get the old wood planks and that sign. They will even clean up everything and leave the sand looking like nothing had ever been there. "Antiques" covers way more than we are given to think it does! Some dealers will build new furniture with old materials and it sells like hotcakes. My other sis, out in Washington state, does that and 'smalls' for her business. She got into that after seeing hundreds of others doing that. Sooo... J, check the little want-ad notes in the stores and laundromats, they put their cards and tags in places like that. Oh, and online too!
It's American Pickers stuff! :winks: :shock:
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Might want to not do that to this place, since to get there one, you had to know it was there, two it is behind a locked fence at the beginning of the trail, three it states that a hunting club owns the area and four it say enter at your own risk.
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A hunting club huh. That chops my tree down! LOL!
You at least get to get out of the shop and go to some cool places. From rocket launch centers down to Dueling Banjos! That's a pretty cool job man, pretty cool indeed!
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The only downside to some of those field trips is the length of time traveling to them.
However, I do get paid for travel time, there and back. :heeheehee:
So, yes boy howdy do I get to go to some odd and or colorful places
:tearlaugh:
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The year I did Overhead Crane Service I got to see some very interesting industry in and around the Houston area. But that kinda ended with getting married to X #2, I had to settle down with the wife and kids. That was interesting too. But took a job that kept me in the facility, nice pay and great benefits. The health insurance was the main reason I stayed there in the one spot for 24 years.
One thing you haven't tried yet, probably... living and working on a ship. That's a cool and very interesting life on its own. Usually has the benefit of going to different cities. Even a bulk tanker goes to different ports. I did live on a Coast Guard ship 2 years, and still miss that life.
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I get seasick, granted that was on a 16' Hobie Cat with 6' waves, lost my lunch so many times that I lost count.
Granted when I was doing the Disney cruise ship upgrade the only problem I had once under way was being able to walk without bouncing off the walls. Other then that I was okay and truth be told it only took one day to get used to walking on the boat while in motion. Never got sick once, so that was good news in my mind.
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Well, color me impressed, told ye ole boss that I had better start taking PTO or the same problem that we had last year me trying to use my time up will once again be happening .. :tearlaugh:
I already have got two days approved for this month and two more in Sept.
:thud:
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More entertainment the bosses boss twice removed was at the shop today, got to remind him that I still have chargers and batteries from last year hurricane sitting here, surprisingly, or not, he had forgotten that I had shown him those previously.
No, not surprised, I mean in the grand scheme of thing it is pretty low on the totem pole to be recalled by anyone except the one who has to find a place to store it and track the inventory, and remember that it even exists.
Which that was the fun part when he asked me to show them to him and walked out into the bay he asked questions about what was what and for whom, and asked why are we storing it are we getting paid to store stuff for others, Gods above I liked that question since my reply was if I were I would have revenue and then some, especially for stuff like the dead stock that I have been holding for a decade almost with no hope of using it anywhere or getting rid of it in any fashion.
No true comment from him regarding that statement, :shrug:
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Well your company exists for the use of your Customers, yeah? G'nite!
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Technically we exist as a business to provide public safety and commercial communications, not as a You Store It warehouse :tearlaugh:
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Ok. :coffeemaker: So you tick them off and they go to someone else, right? OR is there no one else for them to go to? Y'all could be that lucky!
Wheeling Corrugating Inc. provided steel decking and roofing, job packs cut to order. Even whole metal buildings complete with trim and drain gutters, downspouts, whatever. About 80% of our floor space was filled with customers material, cut, bundled, sorted ready to go. Sometimes for years. And its the sort of thing that gets tolerated along with a bad case of indigestion every time the forming lines STOP because there is no where to put the material being run. THEN !SALES! comes flying out of the offices, all red faced and screaming bloody murder and finds there is actually way less floor space than they thought there was. In a building 400' long with 3 bays 85' wide served by 6 twin girder top running trolley single hoist Overhead Cranes. One end was full of the various rows of coil steel sheet, carefully stacked for optimum use of space. The roll form lines weren't that big. They used less than 200' length 30' width of a bay. The rest was filled with Customers Product. If the customer were told they had to come get their stuff, they just cancelled the order and gave it to another company. !SALES! was stoopid enough to run the orders without being paid first. Might possibly have a little something to do with why the company doesn't even exist now. That and their inability to compete with China, Korea, Russia, Brazil etc.OH and the material had to stay clean and DRY. No storage outdoors. So. Is your company anything like Wheeling Corrugating? If not, well, you're Golden!
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Don't think it is as bad as all that, but it certainly is not all peaches and cream to say the least.
The real fun is that apparently I stirred the pot today and in a true clockwise manner
Was going to help out by getting repairs sorted with parts that had arrived (as in two weeks ago) turns out that the parts had not been entered in the data base to be pulled from and tracked.
Once ye ole boss heard the deficiencies in regards to the parts inventory, I was told to let it wait, why, because he called the other office lady in so she could finish the task she claimed to have done prior to taking three days off for vacation.
She asserted that she had filled enough tickets to keep the repair tech busy while she was out. According to the tech she had only filled ten repairs out, we can do ten in less then half a day ... so that was supposed to keep someone busy for three days ... how????
So she got called in and had to stay until she got the parts request completed and boy howdy one look at her and you could tell she was upset ... but you know what I do not care, those parts have been sitting here at this point for two weeks and the repairs on the shelf have been sitting there for up to five weeks ... total rubbish.
So do not care that she is pissed or not, if she had spent more time doing her tasks instead of what ever nonsense she was doing this would have never happened.
Like I said, think about this, parts came in on a Wednesday two weeks ago, so you tell me just how long would you think it might take to enter the data, then fill parts orders.
Certainly not two weeks of 8 hour days .. just saying.
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:whatthe:
FUTURISTIC MANICURE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyWavv1Lts
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right. seems it is time for a "Do your job or we get someone that WILL do your job." I'd be dead serious about that one too. They get paid to do a thing, they say they did that thing, and that thing was not done. PERIOD. Your management was VERY lenient with that employee methinks! One occurrence of that is one too many!
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:iminnocent:
We Called it Retired In Place.
People who do the Least to keep their job. :whack:
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Yes, I have no idea how she is able to continue on there all things considered. In the beginning the tasks got done and in a timely manner, five years later, good God we are lucky if anything gets done in a week.
And then we hear excuses of that they parts are on back order, :ummm: and why pray tell do we wait till the last minute to order parts that are common and high volume use items?
I do understand that back orders are going to happen, but if waited one or more weeks before you even bothered to order in the first place then that in my mind is rubbish.
But as the video so accurately depicted I am not surprised that is part of what goes on, I could go on in detail but I am going to stop, it is enough that it is a annoying and that I got it off my chest, not that I wont complain in the future about her work ethic but for the time being saying much more would be just whining on my part and that as we all know does no one any good at all ... especially blood pressure.
Oh by the way my numbers were normal when I went for the physical, thought that the supplement was part of the problem and it was, so that was welcomed news. Get to swing by after work today to see what the vampires think of my blood so ...
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Oh found out why I am getting calls from support call center about intrusion alarms in Fagler, seems that our shop is on the hook for taking care of such things.
:ummm:
So why are you calling me?
All I can think of is that I must have pissed someone off and they put my number on the list.
But as I told the person who called yesterday, :ummm: I am an hour and a half drive away. So how do I respond to this?
Later on, when I told the boss that once again they are still calling me that is when I found out that there are system techs working on the system up there, did you close the case.
:thud: Since I didn't know that no I did not, beside aren't system techs supposed to call in when they are on site and doing work?
No, that is different from service work, the procedure is different, they do not have to call in ... sounds bogus to me.
So all one can say is :sigh:
Methinks the checks and balances in place need tweaking, especially if people are working there they should be notifying someone so as to avert unneeded call outs.
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:iminnocent:
We Called it Retired In Place.
People who do the Least to keep their job. :whack:
Kinda funny how that still comes up "RIP", isn't it? ;o)
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:tearlaugh: Didn't notice that until you said something :tearlaugh:
tis exceedingly way to accurate.
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How enchanting, went to another hospital job to try and learn more about the set up of the damn MedCom system. Went there with my senior tech and oh my goodness were they truly ready for us to be there to set the MedCom up ... NOPE ... not one tiny little bit.
Worse still I did my look see as an impartial inspector and sorry no gold stars, for the installers. The guy that is above them I found out later is not able to get out there on a regular basis due to the other tasks that is on his short list of daily. Which is fine, knowing that the deficiencies are due to lack of guidance I can deal with there being items overlooked.
But, as mentioned they wanted us out there today to set up the MedCom remotes and RGU's and they were not ready in the least tiny little bit.
Did get a call from the guy in charge of the install and he apologized profusely as he thought that the install was further along then it actually was ... interesting detail was the DB25 to RJ45 adapter required to make the last connection. The ones the installers had were damaged as in wires were cut, and you lot never checked to ensure you had parts that could be used? :ummm:
They asked if I had one, uh no, I do that when I stage it in the office before bringing it out, so no I do not have any on my truck ... no need as I already have that done before I take the system to the site for installation. Trust me looking at what I saw upon arrival I can tell it was not completely staged before they brought it out.
Nevertheless, the customer did not have all of the ports and IP's available upon arrival and had to wait for the that, which is par for the course by them.
Did get some progress made and by days end we did get the remotes and RGU's programmed. However, when my senior tech tried to get the remotes to talk to the RGU's his computer went cuckoo .. was unable to change the IP address of his computer to be able to log in to the devices
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I shouldn't, but LOLOLOL at him! :(ROFLMAO:
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Well, went to the meeting for the next semester and good grief, the rules and method to do things is completely this side of obscene.
Just getting a cup of coffee in a styrofoam cup, you had to put plastic gloves on, as you are not allowed to touch anything with your bare hands.
:thud:
Here is the fun part when classes start the students will have to get their temperature taken and get a wristband. Which means no wristband you do not get in your classroom. The real fun that entails is that I have so many students that are late on a real basis, apparently there will be a cut off time and the front doors will be locked from the outside, yes you can get out from the building but you will not be able to get in without an instructor or coordinator there to open the door for you.
So not on time and no temp taken, sorry about your luck you will have to go home and do the assignment via the web site.
Oh and the real fun bit, is that so many of our students like to eat during class, usually snacks but the new rule this semester is nope, nada, no eating at all.
The only thing they can have is water, no soda and the mask is to be on the entire time in class. Yes, you can lift the mask to drink from teh water bottle but it has to go back on when done.
If a student wants to get pissy about the mask, they get told to leave and are marked absent. Goes for the instructors also which means I am going to be miserable during class as we all know my views on how effective those things are, and no don't bother to debate me on it, as we will just have to agree to differ and move on to a different subject.
To add insult to injury the length of the class has been cut down to 28 nights, which after I deduct time for review and mid-term and final exams I will have 22 sessions to cover the material.
Definitely going to be an on going cluster-fuck to manage that but one of the things we did when we broke up in groups by subject was see if we could condense the lesson plan and fit it in the time available. Looks like we able to do some condensing and it might work out.
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Looks like you and the school will be dealing with the Bat Stew Flu, I hope this trend dose not last forever. Dose not sound like fun and when I went to college all you had to do is show up for the mid terms and finals. That was over 40 years ago college was quite different back then they made you responsible for your leaning and actions. Nowadays you have to show up for classes and attendance is taken, my how times have changed.
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What about a face shield? o.O
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Wow still waiting on my bill for the emergency room visit, so called and was told they just mailed it out the day before I called, :ummm:
Wow, it has already been two weeks since my visit and it is just now getting processed, I truly have no idea what takes so long, yes I get the fact that I am not the only patient, but even if you have reduced staff and the rest working remotely I still don't get it ... :shrug:
What did I get in the mail from them today, was a survey form :thud: I am waiting on the bill ... silly rabbit.
Now for something totally different ... I get another letter telling me about Medicare and to get ready to enroll, when I first read it I am like wait a moment how do you get the information that I have to enroll within 7 months, :ummm: wait a minute I thought 65 was the age that you had to sign up for Medicare.
Oh whew I finally read the fine print and yes it is 65, they just are sending this out early. Man, did they have me going there for a while.
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What about a face shield? o.O
Thank God ... NO
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Wielding Mask? o.O
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Plague Doctor mask? at least you can put your choices of herbs and flowers to smell....
8 ) Cheers
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Oh that sounds totally hilarious and would be one way to push that envelope :tearlaugh: :ummm: and make a statement but still adhere to their silliness and fear
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:whatthe: :woohoo: A Wide Selection too!
https://www.amazon.com/plague-doctor-mask/s?k=plague+doctor+mask (https://www.amazon.com/plague-doctor-mask/s?k=plague+doctor+mask)
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And reasonably priced also :heeheehee:
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At the VA, we are to wear a face mask while on campus. If no face mask, you are told to leave. The screening station is adamant you answer all the questions and wear the face mask. Effectiveness matters not, you wear it or have to leave. Also cannot arrive for your appointment more than 10 minutes early. Hey, can I even time a 60 mile drive that close? Nope. So, I sit in the Jeep in the parking lot, play Word Search on my phone and wait. My podiatry visit takes up to a full hour to complete. Then, another 60 mile drive home. :)see y'all this evening, have a great day folks!
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I will put the mask on when I approach the doors and comply (unwillingly) during the time in the facility be it a store or the school campus.
Other then that I have a highly inappropriate acronym for the situation.
ESAD
"With razor blades and hand grenades, it off to work I go Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho"
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show em Kianna, that'll fix it quick!
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Such a sweet, innocent, and darling like her would only excite them. :iminnocent:
New topic finally got me one of those digital BP monitors, so much easier to use and read, plus at just under $25 how could you go wrong?
Anyway been tinkering with it since Saturday and I definitely have trends to say the least, first thing in the morning according to the new numbers for BP, it is bad (134/82) however comma, finish my morning drink and shower and get dressed and ready for work and surprise now I am in acceptable ranges (114/76) go figure.
Yesterday was the same high in the morning before work, got home and we be in the "happy" range.
I did some reading on the topic and apparently the numbers were changed in 2017 as far as thresholds go, and one is almost always going to have high BP these days. It dropped from 140/90 as the "high" to 130/80 is the new high.
Which explains why in the past when I was seeing a doctor they were always happy that my readings were low, now I understand why I was good then and am borderline now. Did see that I am also one of those "white coat hypertension" folks too. Had the pump one with me and checked it before I went in for the physical and blood letting, and then they did their thing and I was almost 10 points higher.
Go figure, but as mentioned I found it odd that first thing in the morning I am "high", yet give me two hours and we are good to go. Then once home I am still good to go ... two things that have changed; was one I stopped taking the tinnitus supplement as it directly affects BP and I have manage to begin the concept of "sensible drinking" in other words I am doing just one flask (7oz) a night instead of the previous nonsense I was doing, it is a start and one does have to start somewhere, so I am told.
As far as my diet goes, according to the doc she sees little wrong there, once she started talking about salt and I said nope seldom use it, she went on to say it is almost always in processed and canned good, which is when I floored her by stating that most if not all of my cooking is from scratch using a wok. That blew her away ... :tearlaugh: ... but it is true, yes I do use some canned stuff but it is sparingly and always the low sodium variety. So got the nod on my cooking habits, claims my weight is fine but I think I could stand to lose a few as in my mind we have a belly, yes not as large as some other folks I see that are younger or as old as I am but I still think it couldn't hurt. As much as I dislike the idea I bet that if I completely drop the alcohol I would drop enough pounds to make me happy. Because as we all know alcohol is nothing but empty carbs ... and :sake: is one carb per ounce. :thud:
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You sound so healthy it's disgusting, J! 134/80 is not 'bad'. And for age and weight, diabetes and all, that's kinda my normal. Yeah first thing in the morning, it tends to be higher with me too. Right after walking the parking lot to the clinic and getting checked there it's lower. often in the 115/60 range. But i do take Lisinipril every morning. I have hypertension. And I do watch my fat, sugar and cholesterol.
It helps I stopped cooking with shortening and most oils. i use a little virgin olive oil now and eat way more sensibly than I ever have before. And, BP is down, cholesterol is down, those numbers are all good now. Sodium is good. I am just a couple years older than you right? Believe this, you are in great shape compared to most guys in their 60's! Enjoy it man! :)PS - I am looking for a good medium size wok i can use with a regular gas General Electric cook stove. I use Blue Diamond cookware right now, and I like it. It is NOT scratch proof like that 'Granite Rock' brand, but they are both aluminum or steel coated with ceramic. So the coating matters hugely.But a smallish iron wok seasoned properly should be just as non stick as my old iron cookware, but that's HEAVY stuff. Well, the old round griddle was ok.
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Local Asian store in the household aisle has woks of all shapes and sizes. The even better thing is that they also have a insert that fits on the stove top, yes, I too have a gas range, and it holds the wok steady as it is curved to accommodate the curvature of the wok.
It is a godsend to say the least.
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Did the evening reading about an hour ago and am at 108/79
Oh, we take nothing at the moment and hope that I can keep it that way.
Just turned 63, so yes are close in age, the cholesterol is borderline according to the numbers but it is not dangerous by any stretch. As to the scourge more folks fight then not, diabetes is still not in my future, need to pay attention though because it could happen. But as mentioned I feel like I could lose a couple as that BMI is at a 28 which theoretically is overweight for being 6' tall. However what they do not know when they take my weight is that between the clothes and the steel toe shoe I wear as par for the course they should subtract 10# to be accurate. Probably doesn't change the BMI much but it would be more accurate.
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Well, that storm yesterday certainly got me thinking as to why do not the bench techs have any UPS back up for the high dollar and delicate electronic test equipment.
I have been there nine years and it has yet to dawn on me either, then again, up to this year I have not been at the shop this much, so things are getting noticed by me at long last.
The interesting part is that we just happen to have two each 750VA UPS that were bought by the shop on a verbal from a customer for one of their projects and it proved to be lacking. So it has been sitting here gathering dust, the good news is that when I plugged them in no problems on the health of the battery and the operation of the units.
So part two is that I found me a rack to install them in, added some shelves on the suggestion of the senior tech so they could put gang chargers on them and we are now at the second phase of the upgrade to the techs work bench.
The goal is now to get the filing cabinet they have out, remove the table the chargers are currently sitting on and then place the new rack in its place, move two four drawer filing cabinets out from the unused office place them on either side of the UPS rack, move the files into one of the cabinets and now both techs have a UPS for their equipment and a filing cabinet for any files they think they should hold onto ... sweet as in it will definitely clean up the tech area and provide protection to critical equipment, why this was not done previously is beyond me.
Ah well, I pitched the scenario to the boss and was able to get his blessing, this was after I had already spoke with the senior tech in regards to how to make the upgrade work. So that was when I pitched it to the boss and he was on board with it completely. :woohoo:
However I am in Fagler tomorrow so I will not be able to go any further and then at days end I find out that I am being tasked to do another inventory for the city of "A...." as they are building a new site and for some reason no one knows what they have or where it is at, I have a suspicion that I might have some older files stored that might have those details on it, so it could prove to be a simple confirm and carry on. Sucks to be so CDO that I am ahead of the curve :heeheehee:
Not that I will tell any one of them the truth, let them believe what they will, what I want to know is did no one do these tasks previously?
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Would that be a bit of deflection from the stigma of the acronym OCD, J? Heh! me too, actually.I have to force myself to allow boo boo's to enter the text. Like that uncapitalized 'M' up there.
no diabetes in your future: YAAAAY! man you do not even KNOW how blessed you are! I can show ya pic of what you will be missing, and that might help you lose weight after you lose your appetite!Wanna see? No? Aw shucks!
Good job on the workspace upgrades!
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Naw I got family who did not take care of themselves taking around 300 units a meal and ate anything and everything Still Complained about Being Diabetic till the day they died. :whack:
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Well, I need to be careful about the diabetics thing but so far so good. Yes, I think I will pass on all the lovely photos of such entertainment.
If I recall correctly Mother came down with adult onset diabetes, but was able to control it via diet, however she lost the cancer battle but that has been 21 years now.
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How entertaining, I had to go to that abomination of a site, the other person that was to meet me, was an half hour late :thud: am I surprised, nope ... not one tiny little bit.
Got it done in two hours and since I sort of recalled that there was upgrade work done at the master site, that included new equipment that I know I never documented, went there next, got done and decided might as well have lunch. Didn't do any good, since I left to come back home and what do I get but a jacked up phone call saying I had to turn around and go back because the "project manager" wanted one of the VHF consolettes checked out to see if it was transmitting via carrier squelch and had correct power readings.
Well, insult one the consolette was on version 21 software and I only had version 20 so could not read it to check what band it was transmitting on, ye ole boss wanted me to download it, :thud: you are kidding me, even on a good day at the office it takes better part of a half hour and that is with a hard wired connection. I am at a tower site that has no internet carrier which means I would have had to tether my phone for a connection to download 200+MB file ... not happening
So used the "analog watt meter" to check power out and reflected ... all was good on those fronts even had the dispatch center key it up and still had the same readings as before so sorry can't help you any further.
Some one else can check the freq it is transmitting on, because as far as I am concern I have proper power out and reflected and the dispatch center can key it up so it should be close if not on the proper freq, besides the site has been running for months now, and you are just now thinking a resource is not working ... :whatthe: ... seriously you are a bunch of idiots.
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And the filed trip for the morrow is to do inventory for another site that is getting an upgrade ... which this is the first time I have heard of it ... so much fun ... ass-hats
At least this one is with in my local range of travel
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Wow what sort of BP reading is this
96/66 pulse 85
:tearlaugh:
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Looks Normal to me. :whatthe:
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Normal it might be but I have never had a reading that low since I started to check mine here in the house.
Guess I need to have the 1931 version of Dracula playing when I check mine :tearlaugh:
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So used the "analog watt meter" to check power out and reflected ... all was good on those fronts even had the dispatch center key it up and still had the same readings as before so sorry can't help you any further.
Some one else can check the freq it is transmitting on, because as far as I am concern I have proper power out and reflected and the dispatch center can key it up so it should be close if not on the proper freq, besides the site has been running for months now, and you are just now thinking a resource is not working ... :whatthe: ... seriously you are a bunch of idiots.
Addendum:
Ye ole boss asked me to get out the service monitor and let us look at what freq it is on that way.
Uh, no I do not carry that on my truck just for the hell of it, besides I am not a system tech nor do I get paid like one so why would I carry a $50K service monitor with me on a regular basis ???? :ummm:
Besides I was to just do inventory up here not troubleshoot the system and or do a system techs job.
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the real question IS... can ya DO the System Tech's job? Cause managers being what they are, will do their threatening-blackmailing-demanding-coercive-you-do-it-with-half-pay-and-bennies show *IF* you let them... you ain't the type though, happily! Look the boss stone cold in the eye and tell him to change your title TO System Tech, Installer, Setter Upper and whatever else and pay you four times current. Then come tell us what kind of color changes he goes through in front of you ;o)I spent a quarter century under that kind of shit in the steel industry, and I/WE despised the people that 'turned' on US when they got promoted. I have nothing nice to say at this point, so will shut up now.
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Nope not trained to maintain an Astro P25 system at all, can I do some simple basic stuff like read a radio, yes, as I do PM's and programming on "commercial" accounts.
But, yes I did not cave in and bend over backwards to make what he wanted to happen ... happen.
Besides I have come to the conclusion that all this jumping through hoops is to feed his ego and nothing more, so he can look good in the eyes of other project managers.
Sorry, poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
This is more directed at the project managers, since I heard the rest of the back story, they knew about the problem the night before but waited till the afternoon to say anything.
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Oh so loving the next couple three days of "work" supposed to go out tomorrow and get the hospital DAS at one facility up and running.
Yeah, can't wait to see how that will play out. I did go out there and look at what was provided to see if it will be possible. Might be possible, not holding my breath.
Then next week we are to bail out another customer that had no clue as to how their radio system works. It do need antennas on the roof, and with construction raising the roof line that means that the antennas will be shadowed and will no longer be "as effective" as in the past.
And then there is a site walk scheduled for Wednesday of next week for not one but three hospitals. :whatthe:
Three sites on one day, granted they are all in the same city, but it is on the coast. The only good news is that I have PTO on Thursday and Friday of net week so if it is incomplete, sorry about your luck. Finger it out
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Naw I got family who did not take care of themselves taking around 300 units a meal and ate anything and everything Still Complained about Being Diabetic till the day they died. :whack:
Yeah, me too. Most of Dads siblings were diabetic, two were juvenile onset, three were adult onset, and the three that are left aren't diabetic. Well, Dad passed away (cancer) 10 years ago. I take the same dose of Lantus I did 9 years ago when I was prescribed it. Long half life. For the short half life, I didn't get put on that till 3 years ago. Novalog. Mealtime insulin. I thought I was BAD cause I got up to 22 units for my Base. Thing is, I don't want to grow up to be like that. I ain't complaining about being diabetic. That is useless. It IS part of ME, and that's that. Unless I want to start losing extremities to excess glucose and swelling, I WILL do better at managing myself, my eating, etc. Ain't no magic pill to fix it. Ain't no getting rid of it. It is me, myself and I. Humanity is doing better at fixing cancer than we are Diabetes! (shrugs) I deal with it, best I can. The last A1C was 9.6 and I think THAT really is bad. But even if it is, I still have to do the best I can and keep on living with it!
I just got ordered to stop the "quit eating" idea. That doesn't work either. So. Here I am, stuck in the middle with me! :)
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J, there are clearly things about your job that irritate the crap out of you. Or like you say, this thread wouldn't exist! It's great to see that you also speak to the things about the job you do like. And its also great to see you love doing the best work you can see TO do. That comes across real well with even the pimples that manage the companies that hire y'all to do these jobs. :o)
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And J, do be really REALLY glad you CAN get out and walk those sites man. I can't walk much at all now, not since I had that "blowout" on my right foot, right behind my pinkie toe. It looks like what I called it. With the doc debriding the wound, it looks kinda like a tractor trailer tire that lost a strip or 'alligator' as the truckers call them. Well, got to go lie down and elevate a while now. It's what ya DO, to get swelling down!
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How entertaining at last the doctors office called back a day later. Really, you wanted my BP readings and it took an additional day for you to call back ... well, the good news is that the numbers I gave her (the assistant) were all good according to her and that was with me telling her that the initial first reading according to the device was high, but the ones just before work were in the normal range according to the device.
Once I told her the numbers she was nope those are good.
Well, now how about that then ... indicated that this past week I added more fruit to my daily and that I have started to manage reducing my :sake: intake.
Seemed to be pleased by the news, she was concerned about eating to much fruit as it could change the sugar levels.
Can't win can we ... :thud:
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Boy howdy, fun and games for a Friday, always thought they were to be known as admiration Friday, where you can kick back and admire the work completed during the week.
NOPE .. not this week.
The first part of my fun was that the tools needed to complete the strapping of the ballast in the non-penetrating sled on the roof was not in the shop as it was supposed to be, nor was it on the van that the one installer drives, even though I called him the night before and asked if he had them on his van.
Liar ...
Turns out it was on the other installers van. :whatthe:
So why is a shop tool on your truck instead of being returned when you are done with them?????
The annoying part is this, got to the shop and was trying to get the above in place. The amusing part is that when I asked him for the tools, he claimed that it is supposed to rain .... Dude just get me the tools I asked for, and worry about cleaning up the bay, and moving the car jack back to its storage place and roll up the extension cord you have laying about the place. Don't worry about me getting wet, since the rain had already long stopped I was not understanding the problem.
I am over picking up and cleaning up after these ass-hats.
I so need to get with the one office lady and get her onboard with ensuring that those guys start picking up more often after themselves.
Nevertheless, it was an abomination what I witnessed when I got on site. Seriously the other guys were to get the blocks for ballast up on the roof and close to where the sled was going to be installed. If you guessed they barely got them on the roof and right at the edge go to the head of the class. So had to pick up and move the 32 blocks to where the sled was going to be assembled, only 100 feet away.
Talk about getting things ready for the next stage of the install ... not ... yes this is not the first time I have been let down by this pair. So yes, not surprised ... highly annoyed ... but what else is new
First problem, the instruction sheet for the sled was the wrong one. Once we got the correct instruction sheet we were able to at long last get the sled assembled.
That is when it was found out that the mounting hardware for the antenna was not compatible with the mast pipe. So guess who went back to the shop to find something that would work. Managed it and was back on site in a timely manner.
Once back I was doing some hard pushing to get the crap on the roof done such as installing the piece of pipe to get around the limitations of the hardware for the antenna, and then weather proof it, then ground the antenna line, fortunately the other guys with me, (not the mobile install guys) when I said we need this and then this and that, split up and got all the disparate tasks completed at the same time so we were able to get off the roof after another hour.
Then the fun began for me, our sub decided to bring down two lines instead of installing the power divider in the box, so had to re-terminate those lines and then but of course we needed one of those to be a right angle, thank goodness I had one on the truck. Or life could have really started to suck even more.
The good news well, it sort of kind of works as in it is better. However it is not at optimum levels, and then there is the concept that the alarm points by a second vendor are not working properly so looks like we have a second trip out there next week to sort out the lack of proper connections. Who knows which side it is on but looks like we will be out there to make sure it work at some point :whack:
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Well, as mentioned the crap we went through getting the antenna installed and finally turning on the BDA pretty much burned me completely out. There are so many words I would like to say about the other two workers but supposedly if one has nothing nice to say one should not say anything at all.
Wish all the people that nonstop bash the president on FB would remember that adage.
Anyway this is not a political thread.
All I can say about the other workers is something like "what the hell" , from barely getting the blocks on the roof, to being unable to find the hardware for the sled to build it, in retrospect it would not surprise me if they took it and hid it. Seriously how does one lose a 12" x 12" box of hardware that weighs 40#
Tis a bit beyond my imagination. Because you know the alternatives are quite unkind and just reinforces opinions that should be kept to myself.
Anyway building the sled was three kinds of fun, in the sun and with it being rough cut galvanized, so were all of the holes to run bolts through clean and free of slag ... :iminnocent:
Then as mentioned it was oh how cute ye ole engineer didn't take into consideration that the antenna mounting hardware is rated for a smaller mast pipe then this damn monster 2-3/8" crap. Seriously I need a 8' mast and a sled that is six foot on a side to support a itty bitty "yagi" antenna?
I have heard of wind loading but this is ridiculous, just my wild ass opinion.
32 blocks were strapped into the sled for ballast. One tiny yagi antenna made of aluminum, about two foot in length and with the sled and 8' mast shielded on three sides by other structures on the roof. I am not sold on the overkill.
Think about it if their is a storm that could move that ensemble even with less ballast, you have bigger problem then an antenna flying off the roof.
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O.o They do know that will most likely break the roof right! o.O :whack:
Reminds me of those old stone turrets the outside was stone the inside was wood so all the attacked had to do was light a fire on top and the whole thing went up like a furnace! :whatthe:
What was the old saying Bend and stay strong Resist and Break.
As for "Helpers" Take a deep Breath Let it out slowly Realize Only You can Prevent Stupid from Effecting your Health Cause Digging all those Graves under your house is Very Tiring and could kill You! :iminnocent:
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As for "Helpers" Take a deep Breath Let it out slowly Realize Only You can Prevent Stupid from Effecting your Health Cause Digging all those Graves under your house is Very Tiring and could kill You! :iminnocent:
Oh my I had forgot about that ... thank you
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And now one slamming the damn masks
I am going in and out of a building with air conditioning, then in a comm closet open to the outside and then up on the roof in the direct sun.
And I have to wear this damn thing when in the main part of the building, fine I have no choice there, however guess what by days end going in and out of three different temperature changes, I was soaked and so was that damn mask ... so want to know what it feels like to breathe through a wet mask ... yes folks it is crap and unbearable so how is this protecting me?
:whatthe: :whack:
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I read in one of the constant VA emails that the mask you wear isn't to protect You. It is to protect everyone else FROM you. Same applies to them and their masks, for Your benefit, and everyone elses.
I wear it, even when it gets wet. It's uncomfortable all the time, wet or dry. But I cannot afford to be kicked off campus or prevented from entering for my appointments. I comply.
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Under those conditions I have no choice but to comply and will, grudgingly.
My complaint is I am working, and going through three different temperature changes to get back and forth and after one such trip that thing is useless during the time I walk through the area where I must wear it.
However I will not get into a debate as to whether or not they work or do not work. I have read both sides of the story and I have my opinion.
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Yeah, heh heh! On the premises of all that adhere to the new 'standard', it's THEIR opinion that makes or breaks it. It IS a legit gripe, no two ways about it. FWIW, I think the blasted things do make a difference.
Odd too the folks we NEED to be protected FROM cannot bear the breathing restriction the masks impose. Nope, they wear canulas feeding oxygen to the patients. WHEN they are found, that is.
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As mentioned opinions are had by all ... what ever works for the person.
Moving forward to tomorrow, it should be interesting dependent on when or if it decides to rain and then there is the concept of the new semester starts and I will have no choice but to wear that abomination of a mask during class.
Just kill me now.
The nasty part is that instead of 32 nights it is now cut down to 28 so somehow I have to cram all of the material into a semester that is already four nights less, but when you factor in mid term final exams and review nights it shrinks by another six nights.
How joyous, only 22 nights ... great ... plus don't forget I have to work in hands on training ... this should be fun
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Seemed to be pleased by the news, she was concerned about eating to much fruit as it could change the sugar levels.
Can't win can we ... :thud:
Went looking at the vampire results and apparently I am good, but do need to watch it.
The A1C level is below the threshold of 6.0 (mine is 5.8) but just barely, so this ought to be ever so much fun the next time the vampires bite me.
Fortunately or unfortunately my sugar intake deliberate or otherwise is rather low. Now the concept that pasta and rice is no longer a friend is a problem, as I do eat quite a bit of that but what I do eat is spread out over the week. Last week's lunch was a shrimp and pasta recipe (can be found in the Food thread) that had 2# of shrimp to 1# of pasta and the doc didn't seem to worried about that as it was over the course of the week.
This week which is a short week as in a three day week, :yippee: PTO at last.
And I have a salad with parmesan garlic chicken breast.
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That your system is maintaining glucose over 3 months to less than 6.0 is NON diabetic, and that's GREAT news. My A1C was checked at least once a year from teens up through my 50's. And my entire life, mine was 5.6 to 5.9. Then, suddenly at 57 years, it went to 10.6. That is the Declaration of Being Diabetic. Now I struggle to keep it down to 8.something. Last one was 9.6 and i am not happy with that at all. It had been down to 7.8 for a while. Makes me wanna give up, except that doing that just means even more pain and misery than I am in now. So I ain't gonna give up. It's gonna take me by force dammit!
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:happydance: I just need to keep it that way then is the goal.
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I have found the mask for You J!
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Too right try to talk for three hours on topic with one of them damn things on, unable to do so had to pull it down just to be able to keep breathing whilst talking .... knew it was going to be annoying ... just had no idea how bad it was going to be
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I want a plague mask just to fuck with them ... because I am not politically correct
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sounds good! :thumb_up:
--- apolitically correct. Accurate! :yippee: :shock: :smile:
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Wow 15 out of 18 showed on the first night. A new record.
All the other silliness of the night sucked , but should I expect anything else?
Yep, you would think I would have learned something by now. Guess I want the students to understand the material not just recite from memory, any trained monkey can do that
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Once they spend a month in the field, they'll get it. As apprentices in the Steel Mill, all of us Instrument Repairman Wannabe's GOT it while following our assigned Journeyman around. We worked what we learned in the real world. First, textbooks and classrooms then the hands on in the hot n sweaty real world! :)
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Well, the first four hours of the day were not to bad, as at long last we got the county EMS system working at the one hospital that has had issues for some little time.
The real fun was where the hell is this water coming from and why is it collecting on the polyphasor and leaking inside the NF connector for the system.
Yep that is what greeted us when we dug in deep and did the final checks and set up.
Guess who is not getting a sign off and paid until certain "ehems" are addressed and fixed.
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After that it went to, "why am I in a hand basket and where am I going?"
Got a call from the Lakeland shop asking for of all things subscriber ID's for the portables. Provided that and then I get the "oh by the way I don't have the code plug can you send me a copy of it?"
Seriously, why in the hell do you not have the previously provided details? :whatthe:
:sigh:
Then it got even more annoying, interesting, obnoxious, enchanting, ... rubbish ... some days I need to stop chewing through the leather straps.
Why am I going there, because a email chain from the NLECC place and they decide that oh we need xx number of cables, no quantity or lengths mentioned we just need them.
How quaint
Now here is the interesting part, oh by the way our install team in Arizona say they can not do the rack and stack of new equipment at all, would you be interested in going to Arizona to do this task ... :whatthe:
Uh no, not really, two reasons one I have doctor appointments on the days mentioned, two the class I teach has started back up ...
Sorry about your poor timing, I do have a life, as pitiful as it is, I cherish it and do not take kindly to people treating me like a piece on a chess board.
Just saying;
In retrospect I can read between the lines easily, I did an install in Orlando to rack and stack a WAVE install, the team in Arizona had a similar task. When the UO (upgrade Operations team) arrived in Arizona to do their task, then showed up in Orlando to integrate the install, the difference between the two installs was like night and day apparently.
Then again this is when I got the five "atta-boys" for the install I did in Orlando.
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:iminnocent: :woohoo:
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. Proverbs 22:29 :#1:
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Been a long time since I have read that book in the Bible.
That is a cool statement though, and I do like it. Guess we know what book will be on the nightstand next to the bed for a bit ......
I do try to downplay my abilities though, and keep the green monster "ego" tame and not acting up, it is nice to hear that my work is appreciated.
I just do not want to work myself into a niche with no hope of advancing any further and that is what I fear is happening. They see me as the "installer" something or other and with that mindset from the higher ups it feels as if I am getting pigeon-holed and that is all I am seen as .... it is nice to be acknowledge as being good at something, but I need the next challenge to keep thing interesting and fresh.
Doing just one thing only is the fast trip to the pit of despair and depression ...
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I did that on purpose, J. I had 4 kids to tend and support. And my choosing the kids before work, well that just pissed off the whole WORLD man.
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Remember "Maude", the one panel comic in the papers? One of the best ever; "I am not suffering from insanity. I am enjoying every minute of it!"
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:iminnocent:
Pat Benatar - Invincible (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4xBp2rizQ
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After that it went to, "why am I in a hand basket and where am I going?"
:tearlaugh: I am sooooo using that.....
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Came from one of the many volumes by Piers Anthony in the Xanth series
Don't recall which one but that is where I read those many centuries ... err ... decades or was it years ago
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I think it was Lacuna in "Question Quest". 8 )
Cheers
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I think it was Lacuna in "Question Quest". 8 )
Cheers
Will have to check when I get home. We did do a quick thumb through this morning on the set starting with Demons don't Dream, but did not see anything within the first twenty or so pages that grabbed my attention making me think I was on the right path.
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Came from one of the many volumes by Piers Anthony in the Xanth series
Don't recall which one but that is where I read those many centuries ... err ... decades or was it years ago
Seems so appropriate for many many things these days.... :whatthe:
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I think it was Lacuna in "Question Quest". 8 )
Cheers
It is indeed in "Question Quest" page 20 to be precise
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Seems so appropriate for many many things these days.... :whatthe:
Too right
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How about that, theoretically a day off so we slept in, made it till 7:30 tis a record for me since I am up typically at 4:30
So what greets me, a text message from work, saying the one installer called in sick and they were short one prep tool.
:sigh: This is the second time that the one installer has bailed on us. Perfectly fine and chipper the day before doing an install in the air conditioning, but finds out that he will have to work outside in the sun. "crickets"
:whatthe:
How annoying, said I could drop mine off since I live less then 10 minutes away. Got a "we will let you know" text, so I just did the "eff it" dance, and drove over instead and texted him to meet me in 10 minutes in the parking lot. Later on I get another text asking where are the ground kits for the antenna lines, uh they have not yet been delivered, the other installer that is there should have some on his truck, as they are a common install item and if not, WHY?
Was left alone after that until I got a call updating the progress of the install, that I can deal with, except for the part of it looks like one run is short do we have any LDF at the shop at least 70' ... well, if anyone knows what and where we have stuff it would be me.
Short answer yes, it is located here....
So looks like they will be cutting the antennas over tomorrow which was the goal. Wonder if the sissy ass installer that bailed will show up ....
Would say I can't wait to hear his excuse, but I truly don't give a damn at this point.
Time will tell
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Did You Get Paid for being called in? :whack:
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I wish, then again all I did was drop the tool off and left right away
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O.o Where I Come From that is Travel pay and an hour. :whatthe:
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Just made mention of that and yes I get the hour :woohoo:
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Updated my time card prior to approving it ... yet another check with overtime on it .... not complaining mind you it is just crazy that each pay period except maybe two for the year has all had overtime on them.
Today's phone call was better I guess, it would have been better to not get one, but I did ask for an update. So no one to blame but me, good news is that the job is done, all systems working properly and the demo of the existing is in hand. The funny thing is the "out sick" person showed up, technically wasn't needed to complete the project but at least his presence allowed then to finish before noon.
Still bugs me that this is the second that he has been out sick, right when an outdoor installation is in progress.
:o_go_on: Whatever
Super funny bit is there is another install that needs to be done and a single right angle connector is missing ... :ummm: they should have at least one on their truck just as general stock. They don't ... how odd I do ... don't know about these guys.
And just to wind things up, got another response on the email chain for the cables needed by the Federal job, lengths, quantities and information for labels.
Two minutes later someone else added their two cents to the email chain and I man so glad I decided to let my office lady handle it as I was about to rip into him with sharp, shiny, serrated pointy things and spill his entrails on the altar that is used to sacrifice ID10T people on ... she said let it drop, we all know what you are capable of don't lower yourself to his level.
The insult ... as there were no unit of measurement included he seemed to think that I needed to be told that it was "FEET not inches".
Yes, in caps as you see it above. Okay I don't know of too many people that would request a 6" cable for networking. Hell, you can barely get a cable that short to even reach between two devices stacked on top of each other with the ports lined up. And let us just state that a 6" cable is not recommended by most IT folks that I know.
I seriously cannot believe the idiot had the gall to even say that ... and people wonder why I do the :rat-atat: dance it is inconsiderate to even have stooped to making such a comment in my mind. I just worked with the idiot on the last upgrade to the system.
Ah well, off to grade homework from the children .....
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Maybe he just NEEDED to hear it said, no matter who said it, or how far it echoed.
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Oooooooorrrrr... it was yet another "Hey!, I'm important too!"
Even though these outbursts tend to diminish any validity to the statement.
8 )
Cheers
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Interesting insight we like it very much ... might use that tomorrow when I go back to work at the office and start building said cables.
Lord knows if I will deign to talk or reply to the insignificant one.
See I knew it was good thing to "vent" in here you lot come up with such useful and intriguing insights that I overlook.
Thank you, here have a :tanqueray: or :sake: or :JB: then again you might want the :frau: to attend to the liquid refreshment while you kick back for the :shakeyour: :letusboogie: :cheer: :sassy: :whoops:
Now where is my next test to update for the new semester since they have cut my time and number of days down I need to shorten some of my tests to fit within the allotted time.
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Well, the other "I'm impotent ... important weenie" decided to put in his two cents.
Asked if all was good and did I have any questions about the cable matrix?
:ummm: Yes, I have a question, why can't you lot leave me alone, and let me get on with my work?
However in the interest of not being any more of an ass then I already am, I just replied that I just started them this morning and when complete I will let you know so you can print up a label for shipping.
That ought to put the cat among the pigeons since I said nothing about having taken Thursday and Friday off last week as PTO, technically not their business. Got the request for this work on Tuesday but it took them until Friday to provide the documents for doing the work. They also seemed to think that oh you will be able to ship them out Tuesday (today).
Well, only if that was the only thing I had to contend with as that is not the case on any given day in my world. Although it is and always has been apparent over the decades that those above me think that their problem, request, demand ... whatever ... is the only thing I am to concern myself with ... never remembering that certain tasks are interconnected with others and if one link fails :shrug:
The "to be expected" nonsense when I came in yesterday was present as surmised. More crap in the bay, strewn all over the place. Crap from previous is still laying about the place and the piece dé resistance the recyclable dumpster is overflowing, however if they were to have bothered and broken down all of the boxes from the install at the hospital there would have been no problem. That dumpster is emptied once a week on Thursday only, and I refuse to pick up and break down boxes that they should have done so when they tossed them away in the first place.
It truly sucks that I am the only one that sees and understands the little things like that, but at this point it is wearing very thin that they assume that someone else is going to pick up after them, because I am stopping ... and will just pass it on up the food chain and have someone else deal with it. Since anytime I ask for the others to pitch in and clean up after themselves I get either blank looks or hear the sound of crickets.
:rat-atat:
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Well, now talk about feeling useless, got home and settled in went next door to talk to the neighbor and the next thing we hear hollering and screaming to wake the neighborhood.
My goodness, not what I expected, the neighbor down the way that has been remodeling for about a month, was dragging a person out of the place, that looked way to limp to be in good health. Blood pouring from his head and his mouth had me going crazy, considering that I do not speak Spanish, both me and my neighbor knew something was very wrong.
Three other neighbors came out of the wood work and one was already dialing 911 and speaking to someone getting help.
The thing that bothered me was that I had a radio, bad news was it was not a county radio where I would have been able to break in and report a medical emergency and cut out the middle man. Granted the response time was way under 10 minutes, even going through dispatch.
Still felt helpless, made sure that the friend that was holding the guy was still responsive along with another lady that was driving by to get to the post box had a towel to help staunch the blood.
The good news is that the bleeding was stopped, he started to respond to questions, and was semi-lucid by the time the medical response got there, that made me feel better.
So a group of random neighbors came together to help someone that was injured and stayed with him till professional help arrived and finished stabilizing his condition.
Final diagnosis, he had suffered an epileptic seizure, fell off a ladder and cracked his head, was basically a flesh wound, but the blood in his mouth was from biting his tongue while in distress. And when you come right down to it, bleeding from ones head and being mostly unresponsive does not make me feel positive about your condition. However between three folks tending and two folk coordinating Fire Rescue everything turned out for the best, he was much better when they arrived and had improved even more by the time they were taking him to the hospital.
Not certain what they had done but whatever it was the guy was more stable then when the SHTF, listened to the paramedics asking questions for a while and was able to fill in the blanks since the patient was still a bit out of it.
After that, like I said felt three kinds of useless, since even though I had radio communications, it was on the wrong freq and was unable to request help for the guy.
I did make a call later to my senior to ask if I had been capable of doing so would it have been legal and how would one make such a call.
According to him yes I could have done so, although since some one had already dialed 911 it would not have been proper to "override" the initial call.
Talk about an unusual evening once home from work, but it had a happy ending as the injured person was in stable condition by the time they took him to the hospital.
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:woohoo: He Made it!
And Going to help shows you are the Right kinda person! :viking:
Yea the whole Radio vs Phone thing can get tricky.
Some of the better 911 systems can pinpoint a Cell now!
Back when I was installing they had to have you provide an Address etc.. Most people do not know where they are much less now days. :whatthe:
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An address was requested while the neighbor was on the line with 911, didn't know the house address of the victim, but gave his and since we all have a common parking lot in the townhome community ... it is just get close and you will see a group of people trying to keep an injured person calm.
Have a feeling that the county system is pretty robust, as I said it was not nearly as long as it felt before the first responder showed up. Police mind you, but within another minute the fire truck showed up with a fire rescue, and finally an ambulance that eventually took him to the hospital. By the time it was all over there were three police officers on the scene. Looks like the crew in Winter Garden has got the minimum response time drill down pat.
Oh took the time to say thank you to one of the fire rescue folks, seemed like the right thing to do.
The crazy bit was by the time the dust had settled and minor conversation was going on, it became disturbingly clear that epilepsy is more common then it was in the past.
The victim has it, his grandmother has it and the whole family is disposed to having it. The neighbor who dialed 911, his wife has it, the lady that helped with staunching the blood and keeping him talking has a family member that has it, and when walking back to the house, another random neighbor inquired as to what happened and turns out her grandmother also has it.
Five random people that have family members that have to deal with epilepsy, didn't see that coming at all.
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Interesting insight we like it very much ... might use that tomorrow when I go back to work at the office and start building said cables.
Lord knows if I will deign to talk or reply to the insignificant one.
See I knew it was good thing to "vent" in here you lot come up with such useful and intriguing insights that I overlook.
Thank you, here have a :tanqueray: or :sake: or :JB: then again you might want the :frau: to attend to the liquid refreshment while you kick back for the :shakeyour: :letusboogie: :cheer: :sassy: :whoops:
Now where is my next test to update for the new semester since they have cut my time and number of days down I need to shorten some of my tests to fit within the allotted time.
Brother J, you and me are totally on the same page with ALL of this today!
HIC!
Only I found my way into a quart of Hiram Walkers Blackberry BRANDY dood! Yeah BUDDY! :D I looked for Sake, there wasnt any!
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Yeah I will have some of that Maid to Go pretty please! :D
:haremdance: :rave: Fine li'l song n dance act there!
McG.
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Uh Oh! I got kinfolks in Winter Garden FL! It's where i swam with Bull Shark pups when I was 7 yrs old! The things still foller me around they do!
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Well, yesterday was not to terribly bad. Must have been in a mood, though as I felt like no one gave a damn about anything I was doing, don't even feel like they acknowledged my presence.
Good thing I do not require their approval to feel good about myself.
However finished applying labels to the cables for Arizona and got a shipping label for it from the impotent one, who amazingly did not bother me at all after my last email.
Think he is trying to pull a fast one though, read the fine print on the label and it said "bill sender" in other words me. Let the office lady know about that and it threw her for a loop also, however she has ways to back charge them and they wont even know.
Then to rub the insult in, the guy that requested all of these to be made, said oh I didn't schedule a pick up since "intelliship" didn't allow him to do so, you will need to drop it off or schedule it for me.
:ummm: wow you really are three kinds of incompetent. Did schedule it, technically the office lady did and by the time I left for class it was gone and on its way.
Fast forward to after class. since I do not let the phone rule me, I seldom check it unless I hear a alert tone and even then I ignore them. So it was not till then that I looked at it and what do I see but a "chat message" asking if I the cables sent out.
Why of course not moron, I do not make special trips to cover for your ineptness.
Wanted to say that but refrained :sigh:
What I did say was it is easier to get a hold of me via email and yes they were picked up.
Ass-hat, like I am going to wait with bated breath for someone to send a message or jump because that phone give an alert indicating something new came in, the frelling company installed that crap on my laptop and phone, I do not want, need or desire to use "chat" and could give a *&^%$#&*@ less about it.
Yeah, yeah tell me how you really feel.
The reason I find that app annoying is that it is another freaking step just to get to it, where in email it is a message with the first couple of words and I can scan quickly all mail in a glance and read the important ones. In chat I have to open another window and then scroll to get to the newest and then open it to finally be able to read the damn thing. The reason it is annoying is that he sent that out at 11:00 and I did not know or realize I had anything until 8:00 PM yeah real efficient that chat crap, then there is the concept of I do not work from a computer, I process data and other stuff yes, but as far as my work is done on one, not so very much.
Remember I am making CAT5e cables those still have to be done by hand last time I checked :tearlaugh:
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You do have the crimper right? ;o)
Ok ok I'll go play games in the busy highway....
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:thud:
No wonder it is taking so long :tearlaugh:
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Made by Hand :whatthe:
Maynard G Krebs "Work?!"
You do realize the Maynard G Krebs "Person" who asked you still thinks milk comes from the store right!
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Bot howdy , do I ever live under a rock had to look up this Maynard G. Krebs person as I had never heard of him, once I did I do recall the name of the TV show but I have never watch it.
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The 'Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' has some terrific stuff in it, along with all the college and beach and beatniks daze in it. There are plenty of guest stars, especially musical ones, that will grab ya. Then, there is the counter-culture it is playing to. That alone is worth watching the whole series!Check out this WikiPedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis) article.
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Bob Denver was the only person who could be Maynard. He had the part down perf.
Cheers
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Managed to finished the cables on Friday and got them labeled too, quite nice.
In fact got done early enough to go and do the damn 60000 mile oil change, only thing that was nasty was that oh we no longer do tire rotation here ... what the hell ... good grief I used to get it done here in the past. :sigh:
Ah well, got done what I could and was able to get home in a timely manner still so called that a win for a Friday.
Decided to bring one of the six foot folding tables home with me as I was tired of not knowing what is in my pantry. Just spent the last two hours pulling everything out and checking dates on them and then doing a proper sort and organize ... my goodness what I have in my pantry.
And what expired items wound up in the trash was astonishing. Then the updating of and sorting of the stock was an eye opener
Next up is going to be the cupboards in the kitchen that contain the spices and seasonings. That should be another eye opener knowing what I just found in the pantry.
Got to love a three day weekend, followed by two days of work and then another four day weekend :tearlaugh:
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Naw until you have found an Exploded Can of Tomato Sauce from 20 years ago way in the back of your pantry You have not lived with my Aunt! Goodness she had so much stuff that had gone bad that it took us Weeks to get it all out and Cleaned! The floor Would Give You nightmares! :whack:
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Uh no, I had a can of Bush's Baked Beans do exactly that several years ago. The stain still decorates the back wall, not in a nasty way, but it is still visible, if one knows where to look.
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Whoa! I have yet to do that one guys! Some things will actually ferment over a LONG period. I had a couple of cans of old peas do that, and the cans swelled and rocked, but were still sealed. Whew. But, I realize I have to go through the fridge and toss expired items left and right. Some sauces I use rarely, but enjoy using them all the same. Some things never get a chance to expire. Some do. Toss em! Bottles of chilled water never expire, but taste better the longer they sit, it seems. I drink a LOT of water, learned to love it with the odd meds I take. But I do get the exploded tomato sauce and beans!I found Prego most often uses Roma Tomatoes in making their past sauce. After 10 years I switched straight way To using Prego and dropping all the others for that one thing. DEE-licious! Roma Tomatoes, the BEST! :D
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Well, had one of those mornings.
Went to drive off to NASA to get the badges updated.
Drive by the first traffic light on Hwy 50 and what do I see, but a literal line of fire engines, fire rescue and police cars, a complete cordon on the west bound side with traffic being rerouted.
Doubles yikes what the heck happened?
Got a couple of details once we got to NASA, well not really, just a confirmation that there had been an accident and the west bound side was closed.
Well, continued with the first task, update of the badges at NASA and got shot down, oh we have to wait for the fingerprints to be checked before we can issue you a new badge. :whatthe: What I do not understand is why do I have to give up another set of fingerprints to these losers. So, great four hours of my life I will never get back, why because now, I have to make another trip back there to get the new badge once they are happy with my fingerprints. Like I change my fingerprints like I change my socks ... really people, security is one thing but this borders on ridiculous in my feeble mind.
:thud:
Finally got back to the office and now the big dust up about the NLECC install is now in a state of flux ... why ... right hand ... left hand ... not talking to each other yet again.
And that is all I can say on the topic.
Now once home, finally quite by accident found an update of what had occurred when I had left this morning.
Not pleasant news at all, first clue for me was I saw no auto at the scene of the accident, what I did see that left a pit in the stomach was a crumpled bicycle, plus an upright wheelchair.
News report confirmed a fatality, one person who died at the scene. The news report confirm auto vs pedestrian. Their spin on it was that they were not crossing at a designated crossing point.
I know very few pedestrians that follow the rules so I hardly think that is an excuse to be tossed out there, if anything is to be said is that it was still dark as it was 6:00 AM, but still as a driver one has to be ready for anything, and what do you bet that some "distracted driving" crap is to blame.
The real problem is who was distracted; one or the other, or both?
Probably never going to get the truth of that detail.
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Yea the Finger print game is to find out if you "Now" show up as a wanted Person of interest.
Happened to my Dad his Co worker Called in sick After he had killed his Girlfriends Extra Boy friend.
Did not find out it had happened until they ran his finger prints For Security clearance to Renew his Badge. :iminnocent:
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Then I should be good, no girlfriend in my life ... whatsoever ... and being in the sixth century or is that decade of this time around ... there is not going to be one ... so as it is written they can go pound sand
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Well they are giving you the shrewd beady eyed look cause those "Reality" TV shows have them absolutely convinced that YOU have no girlfriend cause you buried her in the neighbors back yard!
Or something. :OMFG:
But your description of the bike and wheelchair sure does paint a tragic, sad scene. Sorry to hear about that.
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Well, apparently those that are higher up on the food chain have nothing better to do then putz about and send countless emails back and forth on my task for today.
The customer is saying not ready, this needs to be done first at the EOC in Az. and ran over the weekend to check for stability before you do this and the litany of things that could go wrong, might go wrong and so on grew exponentially.
Welcome to law enforcement communications ... I guess ... I understand the need for this and that but my goodness, how they do talk.
Makes me want to find a hole to crawl into and cover up whilst they wrangle back and forth.
Nonetheless the email chain is now up to a meager 10 replies and ended at 6:00 PM last night. How do I know that well, I check my phone this morning, sorry after I am off the clock that is it, there is no need for me to jump when the phone gives a notice signal in my mind. Yes, I want to move up and not always be the knuckle dragger, but until that happens and it is reflected in my pay ... :shrug:
Not caring that much, besides the project manager is the one that set the timetable, not me, I only said what days I was available. It is obvious that the PM did not talk to the customer. Again not my problem.
Granted based on what I have read and what I know about the place, I think it is more a case of the customer might be over estimating the difficulties, so I am showing up and already have a back up plan in mind in case he still is uncomfortable.
The life and times of public safety communications
Anyway, class tonight should be loads of fun it is time for them to terminated a simple piece of coax, yeah that stuff you have going to your TV, RG6 should be simple right?
Well, if last week is anything to go by methinks that the local cable company is in no danger of these guys doing side work and taking business away. About six out of 18 managed it and of those six, well as mentioned :shrug: they need more practice.
Yes, I know first time out and all, but these are electricians and as such should be able to figure out how to terminate cable from an instruction sheet and watching me do it once.
:sigh: Not so very much, so tonight will be exciting, thrilling, interesting or dull, boring, tedious and commonplace.
Flip a coin.
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It is not so much fun as watching them set a cable reel on fire as they try to terminate the ends with a heat gun! :woohoo:
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Better still is watching them try to put the connector on by hand and get the dielectric up to the correct level, you would think these guys have no muscles that work in their arms at all.
Seriously watching some of them was just out right comical, then the Darwin award recipient, brought his up for testing and everything was looking good until I looked at the connector. :ummm: Compression connectors need to be compressed to work ... :thud:
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:whatthe: Are you sure they have not been out to some of your jobs already!?
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Yes, I am certain, as I do radio, they do pure electrical construction.
Now if the building has an electrical fault somewhere ... :tearlaugh:
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For THAT you'd call ME! :oD
WE who are the trades troubleshooters work the plants, do call work. And call THOSE electricians 'plumbers and Romex runners'. Cause all they do is lay conduit and pull wiring. Pshaw! I can work them all day long. But, they can't work ME. Wrong kinda licenses, actually :) I troubleshoot & repair. Plumbing and wire pulling is OK once in a while. But me, I love the complex stuff. That being said, J, I'd be happy to be your helper for a while. Just hope my chair can keep up with ya!
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J, face it man. You are a Communications Technician and Radio Specialist. That too is "in da books" now. But, what you DO is way more than that piddling stuff. You are also a FIBERGLAS installer and repairman! And I don't mean house insulation! Fiber Optics. Amazing stuff, and your quizzes and tests gained me a much more satisfying acquaintanceship with the stuff. I betcha I'd be good at that bit too. The Glass welder and coater. Both are vital in signal propagation. Yeah I missed that set of questions in the quiz! Bet I don't if I took it again. I understood what you told me, and what info you linked me to. Yeh I went and studied it. Mighty interesting stuff. Especially the range ratings AFTER install or repair. You get to troubleshoot that stuff. So, I grok why they vary and what is needed to get them on parr. Fun stuff if you ask me. :)
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Hey hangonasecond! If that ain't a Field Technician, then what the heck IS?!
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You definitely have field tech sewn up being capable of performing those tasks so you have naught to worry about there, now if any of my students had half the ambition and determination of us old farts then I would be less worried about the future .... sadly not seeing it so very much.
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Oh man I remember literally fighting for my place in a line of people in the hundreds! All of us were hoping desperately for just one of the three or four "electrical class" apprenticeships that had opened up. You sorta beat layoffs while being a good apprentice. I was hungry for anything I could learn in the world of "electricity". They had a lot of 'trades' with apprentice/journeymen. I wanted just ONE! LOL! And you made your choice, then the Company Psychologist decided who got which. Truly I am so grateful I got in that time.
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Well, this is most annoying, another one of my Dr. Who DVD's has decided that oh we do not feel like playing the last episode. Locks up, freezes, what ever you want to call it.
Can't even get the disc to eject unless I unplug it and then eject it once I plug it back in.
Well, doesn't matter if I clean it or not meaning the player, wipe the DVD down still no go, decided let us see if it acts the same way in the big computer.
:whatthe: for some reason it only sees one of the two drives I have in it for DVD's. They both function normally by manual controls but put a disc in the one and it does not register that it is even there.
So tried to play the disc via the other drive and get the same results episode four is a no show.
Annoyed that the disc is being a prick but the fact that the system tree does not show both players is even more annoying
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Have you looked to see if anyone else has this problem?
I have had a few discs that where bad from the Start and if you look at the reviews some will say this has a bad section.
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I've never seen someone who works with electronics have so many problems with electronics in their own abode LOLOLOL.
Not sure what to tell you on that one.
The player is new so it wouldn't be that...and your cleaning it as prescribed I assume.
And I'm sure you cleaned the DVD itself....
But yes...the drives not showing won't have anything to do with that.
Like I said...you run into the most oddball problems with your stuff....
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Have you looked to see if anyone else has this problem?
I have had a few discs that where bad from the Start and if you look at the reviews some will say this has a bad section.
I have had this disc for years and have played it multiple times with no problems previously.
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I've never seen someone who works with electronics have so many problems with electronics in their own abode LOLOLOL.
Not sure what to tell you on that one.
The player is new so it wouldn't be that...and your cleaning it as prescribed I assume.
And I'm sure you cleaned the DVD itself....
But yes...the drives not showing won't have anything to do with that.
Like I said...you run into the most oddball problems with your stuff....
I install radio equipment, not repair home electronics
I have been cleaning it about once a day as that seems to give the best results
I have wiped the disc down with the anti static and smudge fabric
And this is a disc I have had for years and it has always played previously for me
The computer not recognizing one of the players is new and I have not yet investigated that quirk.
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Might Be Dvd or Blueray Rot or Disc Delamination :whack:
The Hidden Phenomenon That Could Ruin Your Old Discs
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9pdv/the-hidden-phenomenon-that-could-ruin-your-old-discs
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That is highly annoying and yes it has happened previously and trying to replace those discs can sometimes be problematic.
So the real question is what now?
Go to backing up the entire collection onto computer drives, mechanical, SSD, thumb drives ... what
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I install radio equipment, not repair home electronics
I have been cleaning it about once a day as that seems to give the best results
I have wiped the disc down with the anti static and smudge fabric
And this is a disc I have had for years and it has always played previously for me
The computer not recognizing one of the players is new and I have not yet investigated that quirk.
How old is the DVD? I've had many fail due to constant playing and got replacements for a lot less then I got the original for LOL. Time makes many things cheaper. If it's not that old, then I don't know what to tell you. Try looking HERE (https://itstillworks.com/dvds-incompatible-player-6755161.html)
But then again....if it's that old, then maybe the player doesn't recognize the codexx
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If it didn't recognize the codex I would first think that it would not play at all, however it plays the first three episodes flawlessly as mentioned. It hangs up on episode number four. Yes, it is an older DVD and I have played it multiple times over the years I have owned it.
In retrospect I do not remember the last time I played it so I can not say if I have not already had this problem and had forgotten about it or not, the problem is finding replacements, sometime they are reasonably priced, other time it is "you have got to be kidding me"
This one is still in the reasonable range.
Plus remember I do not watch mainstream or normal for lack of a better word media. This particular one is a Dr. Who episode.
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Yup...if it's older....by a new one LOL.....otherwise you'll spend endless hours trying to figure it out and getting frustrated....
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Some people I know move the data to one of these Verbatim DVD-R 4.7GB 8X UltraLife Gold Archival Grade - Branded Surface & Hard Coat - 50pk Spindle
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My real question is how to preserve them going forward, do I make a back up on a dedicated hard drive, thumb drive in addition to having a separate disc
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Verbatim DVD (https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-R-4-7GB-UltraLife-Archival/dp/B000H3B6EO)
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I still have 5 inch floppy discs with data on them but nothing reads them anymore.
Some say to make everything digital and archive everything to Glass Archive Discs Which are even more expensive! :whatthe:
Will Paper books Will still be around after Everything is digital and will it still be trust worthy with all the Revisionist who hate history or make their own!
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Well, that is going to add up quick, considering the number of discs in the Dr. Who collection. :iminnocent:
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Ha! You guys already offered the same things I would. Especially those Verbatim Archival GOLD DVD's. Years ago I bought two 100 count spindles of Verbatim DVD's and am still using them. They seem to be made of the better materials than the other brands. The BluRay 25 gig disks I bought are also Verbatim, and definitely made of better stuff than any DVD I have ever seen. Since I am using them FOR archival purpose, I didn't mind the cost so much. These should definitely outlast ME!
J, check your DVD. It has the paint or coating on top, right? One ridiculously tiny scratch and you will miss seeing some THING that was recorded there on the bottom of that paint job. Happened to mine all the time, when the kids brought them back. And said "It quit working Dad, dunno why but it just did!" and it'd be covered in scratches, both sides. Sigh. I quit loaning my movies out. Not a single problem since.but as often as you watch your shows man, it COULD happen, yaknow?
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Considering that is all I watch, my DVD's and the Blu-Ray so far I have not had that issue with the Blu-Ray in the collection.
The anime collection is much newer and I have not had any problems so far with those, just my Dr. Who collection and considering that I have been assembling that for decades I guess it is with little wonder now in retrospect that I am having these problems.
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What I want to know is where do these rouge scratches and so forth come from, it is certainly not me.
So :whatthe: is going on
The current disc just decided to give me garbled audio, which is my nudge that it is time to clean it again. When I pulled it out to run the cleaner I saw a scratch on it that I have not seen before.
Here is the rubbish part, I have played four discs only today (cleaned it before I started) and this is number five and already it needs cleaning. Seriously how cheaply made are players these days.
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:whatthe: Humm Most are made by Slaves in China or India.
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:sigh: I am afraid to admit how true that statement is ... as it most certainly is way to accurate.
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Let us see how well they are prepared today for the install and re-rack of equipment at ye ole agency. :whatthe:
Had everything in order I think when I left on Wed, so it should be interesting to see what if anything changed in the last four days.
Looks like I have an interesting phone conference on Wed. and then a follow up site walk on Friday. The real fun is the site walk includes inventory as well, and since memory serves correctly I am going to have to bring back 300+ radios for charging and programming, since they want the radios to be functional when the install is completed. Yep makes sense to me but the last time I did this for the sister facility it was not to bad as there was only 70 radios and that was doable on site in the five days that it took to do the installation. If the time line is similar here trying to run 300 radios through in the same amount of time is "ehem" problematic to say the least.
Hopefully I can have a couple of days to start charging and programming before we start the install, because there are insufficient resources to pull off a charge and program in that short of a time period for 300+ devices.
Programming yes, but charging batteries not so very much, even with all of the gang chargers I have at the office spaced out for circuit loading, I still can only manage about 50 a day. Sounds like it would work and it might just barely, I just remember the last time I did that task on site and they had next to nothing, as in two receptacles, that could be used to charge batteries. At least in our office I can call on several more circuits, plus I have more gang chargers to use.
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Sounds like you're almost looking forward to this job J! Good to hear. :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
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Wouldn't say I am looking forward to it however, got most of the pre-planning outlined there so you might be on to something .. although I am thinking it is more a "what are the challenges that might be encountered" and how can we work around them
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You know those trees we enjoyed working with a bit back? From DinoRaul at Renderosity. He's passed away now. Just learned this tonight.
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:thud: That is very sad news
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We lost a couple others also at Rendo, recently. He stood out for me. Most of my fave vendors I at least speak with them in PM and tell em thanks for doing such great stuff. I will miss seeing him around.
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Sad news indeed....Great products....and like you Mc-G...I always said THANK YOU...
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How much fun I came home tonight and what do I have is a tripped breaker on the A/C and guess what after resetting it, once again it tripped ... so not good.
For me it is to late to mess around trying to trouble shoot it and finger it out.
Although with the breaker tripping methinks that is probably a good place to start ...
Ah well, the bad news is that I will not be able to get serious about troubleshooting until Thursday. Since tomorrow is a class night .... :sigh:
Going to be warm for the next two nights methinks .... :tearlaugh:
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Went back to the Law enforcement master site again today and routed all of my cables, got to meet the idiot that thought he had to specify the lengths of the cables were in feet not inches, informed him (politely) that we have been doing this for over 20 years and we are not that incompetent, turns out he has ran into people that were that "incompetent" :thud:
Wow ... really ... sucks to be them .. as in they are not going to last very long building cables ... just saying.
Anyway to me the fun is this, oh we do not need you to plug anything in, and when we are done with the cut over we will pull all the decommissioned equipment and cables out .... right ... so no believing that for one tiny little minute.
So we shall see what happens ... ought to be fun ... sort of, kind of, maybe, if I don't strain myself.
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Trusting someone who has already shown you he thinks you're an idiot?
I like feeling face and nose bones give under my knuckles!
:haha: :heeheehee: :phfft: :grin:
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:whatthe: Maybe Once Bitten Twice Shy kinda Guy? o.O
Lowest Bidder is not always Qualified to do the work You have to do Research Before You hire Got burned a few times when I let someone else pick the crew.
Seven Nation Army - Vintage New Orleans Dirge White Stripes Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB6HY8r983c
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Well we are ever so fucked ... yep compressor is dead on ye ole A/C system and apparently the new model compressors do not play well with older evaporators ... :thud:
Sucks to be me
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:whatthe: I think the word is Designed Obsolesce! or in the Real World How to make stuff so cheap it fails right after warranty Expires! :whack:
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The current system was actually put in 14 years ago, so not certain the planned obsolescence is a major factor this time, And that would be a switch :thud:
Have only had minor maintenance done over the years
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Great I got home tonight and it is now 90° inside, boy it is getting just miserable.
The :bs: part is that I still have not gotten the final estimate, so texted the guy and he said oh I just now got the details from the vendor, he has been dragging their feet.
:ummm: Why pray tell would a vendor drag their feet don't they want to make a sale?
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Might have been a Government Job You have to wait for 30 days for the bids to Cool before you can award the job. :whatthe: :whack:
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Besides...who wants to work on a Air Conditioner when it's hot out....
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One doesn't get paid if they do not work, whether it is warm out or not, and even though I am somewhat resilient to heat it would be nice to have relief that is more effective then an oscillating fan
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One would think that would make a difference....but then again....you're in Florida...>Broken AC's must be on top of the money market there...
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Swamp cooler might be your only hope! little water and ice can help some.
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Depends on how long it takes for them to get their act together.
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Two or three of the right size window units in the right windows and you won't even need that full central unit. Say, $900 for the 3 or some $12,000 for the central replacement? I dunno man. I won't even look at a central unit for a small home. Seriously! Two 8500 BTU 110v window units cool this entire house. In TEXAS! And no real insulation! Set either timer OR thermostat, and done.
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Well if you want just pull the Radiator out of the Old unit and place a window unit in its place all the ducts will still work. O.o My Uncle did this. But He is a Tiny Bit Crazy but it works. :whack:
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Two or three of the right size window units in the right windows and you won't even need that full central unit. Say, $900 for the 3 or some $12,000 for the central replacement? I dunno man. I won't even look at a central unit for a small home. Seriously! Two 8500 BTU 110v window units cool this entire house. In TEXAS! And no real insulation! Set either timer OR thermostat, and done.
HOA has a fit with window units or I would have been there a long time ago
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https://youtu.be/Ryqv9REMpsg
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Fortunately they leave me alone and have not had any run-ins with them as of yet, although I think if I were to try the window rattler solution I would be dead in their sights
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Just put a picture of you holding your sword and Crossbow...and I'm sure they will leave you alone LOLOL
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Can I also strap the black powder .54 cal rifle over my back :pweez:
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Absolutely...the more the merrier LOLOL
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That has potential as a render now that I give it thought :heeheehee:
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See that....I inspire LOLOLOL
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Now I have to find where I have the hand held crossbow in my collection and then a rifle of normal sorts ... that is going to take a while ... :sigh:
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Sounds like you need a folder in your Library named something like "YeMerryOlde" and plop all the Merry OLDE historical type stuff in there! Heh! But seriously I do that and still have to do a TheLuffias Search n Rescue on things I lost. DAILY. ;o)
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See that....I inspire LOLOLOL
(knees start rattling!) - And that's a GOOD thing?!?!?!! :yeow:
:java:
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(knees start rattling!) - And that's a GOOD thing?!?!?!! :yeow:
:java:
Trust me I am slightly scared as well,
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Well, day seven of no AC tis a balmy 87° this morning once again.
Yet I go outside and it is way cooler :sigh: and I even have windows cracked open and I don't gain any benefit from them.
Oh well, let us see if ye ole :ummm: will have a quote finally today so I can start crying about how much it is going to cost
According to rain gauge in the front yard we had an 1-1/2" of rain yesterday
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:OMFG: It was down to 86° in the house this morning
It's a cold front at last :tearlaugh:
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LOL.... it was 41 degrees when I woke up this morning..... :iminnocent:
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You will be making ice cubes without the fridge pretty soon!
:drinkonus:
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The sad thing is....I now have the air conditioner on after having the heat on all night....right now it's closing in on 80 degrees...and I had the windows open....no good....no breeze at all....so ON with the A/C.....
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Well, I am being ignored again in regards to an answer so how quaint
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Those A/C folks have got you by the balls down there. Our heating folks act like that at times LOLOL
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Turns out the vendor is the real culprit and dick, in fact the repair shop are dropping them as a vendor due to their unprofessionalism.
Granted I am still out conditioned air in my place, but it is getting closer, had to give him so more precise measurements for clearances, mainly due to a different vendor being used, so the clearances are critical.
They claim that the price will not change by much as it is a different vendor and they run cheaper so the fact that I can only get a complete replacement now, but due to them not being at the top of the list of vendors the pricing for a full replacement will be about the same as the piece meal from the other vendor.
The only different bit is that when it is registered one can get a full 10 yr warranty.
But time will tell what the final numbers are going to be as I am still waiting for a reply to the details provided about an hour ago.
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Well, was back at the federal job site again today for something new and took the time to look at the work was done on my cabling for the routers I installed and about had a "full metal breakdown" :rat-atat:
Gods above does no one take pride in their work at all ... and this is after they said that they would take care of it properly.
Liars
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Folks will always tell you what you want to hear.....It's not a lie per se.....it's fabricating the truth.
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Lazy Persons Thought chain.
Lest amount of work needed to Meet the lowest level of Completion. :woohoo:
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That to..... :drinkonus:
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:whack: :ARNOLD: :CLINTE: :mum: :nurse3: :wolvie:
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Lazy Persons Thought chain.
Lest amount of work needed to Meet the lowest level of Completion. :woohoo:
The disgusting part they make more than I do
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It's a very sick and twisted world we live in, J.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8
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I know what that song is about, have for decades. Yet, it's still appropriate, I think. :coffeemaker:
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Indeed :drinkonus:
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I know what that song is about, have for decades. Yet, it's still appropriate, I think. :coffeemaker:
Having never heard of it previously I researched and I am still in the dark, the flow and timbre of the song was very nice but if there is to be a hidden or in plain sight backstory I am so missing it ... :sigh: again :sigh:
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South African Mining Boss was called Master Jack.
The Song is about a Worker who Finally Went off to do something Else Other than Follow Master Jack.
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I did get that much from my research so I guess I can figure a few things out :thumb_up: after all
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Day 11 without and I guess the cold front is gone as it is a balmy 88° this morning.
Sucks to be me but at least the parts are on order with the final piece to arrive on Monday.
So it is certainly going to be warm for some little time to come :sigh:
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Real sleepin weather!
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As mentioned elsewhere we have at last have gotten conditioned air in the place.
It is or was down to 75° for the last day and a half, pulled it back up to 77° last night as it was to cool for me.
Yep, I don't need much, but when I need it I do like to have it. :tearlaugh:
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I heard THAT! If nothing else, it is a great dehumidifier, and that makes it feel much better by itself. :coffeemaker: :drinkonus: (Bad Moon RYZEN!!!!)
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Plus it keeps the air at moisture levels where it won't hurt the books by keeping the moisture low and it won't be so dry that static becomes a problem.
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Good thinking TL! :coffeemaker:
BadMoonRYZEN !!!! (http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/Smileys/default/woohoo.gif)
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My AC does have a dehumidifier setting. And when I mop in here, it dries the floor in no time! :coffeemaker:
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Well, off to the next job.
You will love this one, another Post Office.
Fun part was all of the prep work that I had to get done first, nevertheless I did get all of that done, not in a timely manner, but nothing a touch of overtime couldn't cure, although that did annoy my boss.
Whatever I have one spreadsheet for the radios and attempting to do it on a virtual network so more then just me, updating it could be "problematic"
Could of worked but hey this is "********" no telling, anyway got that part done and then me and the rest of the crew did the site install.
So the guys and myself got it all done and in a timely manner on day one, the outside antenna and cabinet with all radio equipment was completed. Day two saw all of the control stations installed, the indoor antennas for the system and then loose ends. Mainly let me get a watt meter on the system to check forward and reflected power.
That had some interesting problems since it is going through a power divider and with no "informative" documentation it was quite difficult for me to verify that all was in order. Fortunately my senior tech came out that day and we were able to get that detail resolved and sorted out.
The following day (#3) saw the cut over and coverage testing all went swimmingly and there were no coverage problems. So why on day four is someone complaining that the audio quality is crap?
Got the sign off from the plant manager and yet this person who chose not to show up for the cut over orientation now is saying it is crap .... :sigh:
Wish I could bring in one of my swords to address their issue.
Jack leg - didn't show up for the cut over and walk the facility for audio and coverage testing yet you want to complain.
Sorry - not listening.
Why because the rep that was with us walking the site was deaf in one ear (truly) and could hear just fine no matter where we went, plus I was behind him about six to ten feet and I could hear the transmission clearly ... so WTF
The real fun was programming the radios that they wanted to "repurpose" well out of the 12 I received, I could only do six due to the original firmware in them. Of the remaining six radios, four of them had a bad feature set and two were the wrong model :thud:
Sucks to be me ....
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Oops BTW, forgot to mention that I just received another High Five or as I like to call them "atta-boy" for the install.
Made sure that I let the PM know that I was supervising my crew and that they made it happen.
I did pass it forward to the guys that a compliment on the install was tendered to all.
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Way cool man! Er, yes, swords are much more fun with turdskys that do what pea brain did. Did ya ask his boss if the complaintant even turned his radio ON??!!!
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Way to go "J"....glad you got a "Attaboy" and you passed it on to those you worked with. :drinkonus:
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Still working on learning that part of my personality, getting better but still got a way to go I believe ...
Meanwhile went back out there to drop off the reprogrammed radios that presented several problems while doing so, but that is a moot point since I did get them completed.
Turns out the problem with the audio complaint from the one or two folks had all to do with the lack of knowing how to use them. These radios have a lot of noise cancellation features programmed in them, and if you are in a noisy environment and shout into the radio the code plug thinks that your voice is part of the background noise that needs to be filtered out.
The plant manager had already sent out a mass email to all instructing them on how to actually use the radios. Yep, the very managers and supervisors that were complaining were the ones who did not attend the orientation.
Case in point was that I turned one of the radios on that I had brought home so I could just drive straight there in the morning, and was able to key into the system and hear then talking on the system from 4 miles away. So the audio issue in my mind is a non-issues.
:thud:
Finished the clean up over there, programmed one more of the radios to be repurposed and called it done.
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"DONE" is good...... :drinkonus:
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Still have the phone patch to complete but until they, meaning the Post Office, gets the line installed ....
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Got an email asking for the optimization record of turning the system on ... :ummm: really since when was that on my list.
Oh there it is buried at the bottom of the folder, so nice of them to say something out loud.
Problem being although I did some testing and checking while turning it on, however I took no notes on the matter. Now they want documents ... :thud:
Well, I was able to dodge that bullet, as there are certain things that I can remember for more then a day, and numbers are one of the things I am good at, so gathered all of the details off the inventory for part one, popped in numbers from test equipment that would have or was used and then did some math and viola all is well with the world once more.
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Part two of the adventure yesterday, got a call to see if I was busy and if not to go to the hospital and look at their flight VHF radio as dispatch could not hear the pilots talking back to them.
Well took the junior bench tech with me and the old service monitor. Thought about taking mine but since I have not become conversant in its use I did not want to spend the rest of the day trying to figure it out.
Nonetheless, after three phone calls on speaker phone via the junior tech we got the old boat anchor of a service monitor to behave and was able to at last do the test that they wanted me to do, oops the receiver on the repeater was dead ... as in completely ... once plugged into the service monitor and with a signal being generated into it, I got no reaction from the repeater at all .... now that really sucked.
Confirmation was that before I did all of that I asked for a radio check from dispatch and all I saw was activity lights and heard no audio at all. So when I generated a signal into the repeater and got no reaction from it was the final confirmation.
So yanked it out of the rack and brought it back to the shop and did some work on it. Yep, dead as a door knocker, did some reading on it and gave the power output for it to the boss and he is getting the salesman to sell a new repeater to the customer.
Why?
The current one (MTR2000) is no longer supported or repaired.
:thud:
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Today we had even more fun and games ... at long last I was able to get the boss to say make a run to the scrap yard.
:yippee:
At last I can get rid of rubbish that has been in there for months.
Bonus ... is that we also got instruction to go ahead and open the cabinets in the bay and go through them and do the same, that is so welcomed that I am not going to let the guys dilly dally on getting rid of antiquated, antediluvian rubbish that has been sitting there since before I arrived.
The guys made one run and managed to get $158 for the for what they took in, which in my book is better then a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, considering the alternative would have been to toss it in the dumpster and earn naught.
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Did get some good news sort of, kind of, at long last a digital watt meter has been ordered for me.
Kind of difficult to get an accurate reading on power with an analog meter on a digital system, which is all that I have been able to do since they gave me a watt meter about two years ago.
Which is why I had to do fiddly mathematics for my field report as I was using my analog meter not a digital one.
Well, the good news is that it is ordered, the bad news it will be the first or second week of November before it gets here.
:thud:
What I am now pondering is why I am finally starting to get all of these test tools that would be typically system tech level when I am still being paid as an "installer" ... starting to wonder what my true job description actually is ... granted I have been asked to do certain things that can only be done with the tools I am acquiring but ... the question is ... why now?
In other words I am curious as to what my real job title is ... I not only do infrastructure installs or at least supervise them for R56 compliance. But manage all of the inventory for all jobs that cross our threshold. More and more frequently I am being asked for power reading and low level trouble shooting of systems and with the proper test equipment it has been sort of hit or miss and now they are finally ordering it for me and assigning it as the pieces arrive to me specifically, I am wondering what is going on .. just a little bit
There needs to be some more pennies coming my way if this continues.
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:iminnocent: Do not Count on it! :blownaway:
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I certainly do not count on them being in a generous mood .... sad ... but a pragmatist we are
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Uh right, now just convince them to be so pragmatic! LOL!
Great job with those radios too!
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How droll, new task go out to the Animal Kingdom and Contemporary Hotel sites and replace polyphaser's with the correct type and finish connectorizing the lines to the window.
Well, since I was never told which lines they wanted to use at Animal Kingdom please don't get snippy with me. :@u:
Got to Animal Kingdom and was able to work it out and get them exchanged and then connected the new lines to it in a timely manner.
The annoying part was the PM called while there to say, oh sorry I wont be able to make it out there today. Do you have any questions?
:ummm: Seriously, really?
Obviously he does not remember a thing about me and my work habits/skills.
Now here is the fun part. He says I will be able to show up tomorrow around 11:00 .... :ummm: ... excuse me I will be done long before then, as in it is 10:30 now and all I have to do at Animal Kingdom is make up grounds. I had already swapped all the polyphasers and terminated the lines and connected them.
Went to the hotel afterwards and knocked that out just as rapidly ... seriously methinks some people just do not have a clue as to my abilities.
Granted the other two are supposed to be installers also, but their skill level compared to mine are like night and day. Yes, I know I said that out loud, but since it took only me and I got it done in one day. I rest my case, call me arrogant if one likes but truth hurts.
The project is now at a point where it is in the hands of others. I have done all that needs to be done, even though I keep getting details one scrap at a time instead of a full comprehensive outline. I so hate having to make multiple trips, because those higher up on the food chain are idiots.
Case in point the polyphasers that were ordered, technically I only needed six total, three at each site.
What did I get delivered to the shop? A total of ten.
Two of the one type which is good, but then I got eight of the other one and I only needed four total.
:sigh:
Still waiting on connectors to be delivered, however I do have some in my private stock so I was able to go out and get the job done.
When the connectors do come in they just replace my on hand stock, and all is right in my world (for material that is) sort of, kind of, maybe.
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Now if someone is able to explain to me the mindset of these desk jockey's. Why am I getting emails saying please upgrade to at least 1.7.9 of the Pulse Secure app .... been getting the emails for three days now whining about it.
Methinks that some folks don't understand that some of us use a computer occasionally and do not sit in front of it all day long.
Some of us actually do manual labor and complete projects to bring in revenue so you can sit on your ass ... crying about me not having updated my system to the latest version of "whateverthefuck"
Losers
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Now the pièce de résistance received an email asking for serial number information and optimization details on the other Post Office project which was completed over five months ago.
Seriously you only realized now that you did not have those details :thud:
Go away "idiot"
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Tells me your Individual Doesn't Intuit Obvious Thought :iminnocent:
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TRUTH
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How is it they even have a job?
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Ever See the Movie Office Space? :woohoo:
Office Space the Bob's Interview Typical Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ
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Never heard of it
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Now can someone please tell me for the love of all that is holy why one would change something in a dispatch center on a FRIDAY.
Seriously does no one, not remember the golden rule of maintaining a system ... No Changes on Friday
EOS
So what did they do at the hospital, change the location of the remote for the helicopter. Why, because the dispatcher had to get up out of her chair and walk six feet to respond to an incoming call, since the repeater died and they now have to use the back up which is a desk set tied to a control station. Standing up and walking over is a problem.
Tell you what .... why do you not move the main dispatch position next to the remotes ... :thud:
They tried to set up a different desk set which is configured differently and it still did not work.
So guess where I was for almost three hours this afternoon?
Yep you guessed right.
By the time it was all over, it was working once more and boy howdy did I see what they did to mess it up.
Talk about people that know nothing about their system trying to change things ... what a mistake.
Anyway finally with help on the phone, sorted out the details of the problem and normalized the system and poof we got TX and RX from the bird.
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Well the First thing is it is a Dispatch Center Which means they have to be on call at all times and have to respond in Seconds to an Emergency. So walking 6 feet could be a problem in a Disaster. As for the People who know nothing about the system Just think of how messed up the system would be if they knew just enough too really screw stuff up. :woohoo: Had that problem with a Police Sargent who thought he knew what was what and Decided on his own to Move Storage array to another Rack so he could put in a Hot swap Charger for the radio System. Lets just say after Lots of money to Repair the Storage array and the weeks of lost data that will never get back and the Cases that had to be thrown out cause no one could find the Police reports! Yea He was let go!
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I understand what you are saying.
However the remote that was moved was for the helicopters only, and is the bird talking into the hospital saying got someone for repair or that they were moving a patient from one facility to another.
No true "emergency event" so in theory all they had to do was move the dispatch person to a console position closer to the remotes instead of messing with them on a Friday.
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You do know the kinda people they put into Dispatch are the most "Lazy" / "Territorial" Who only Want it how they Want it. Will bitch about anything cause they have no life outside work and are sad little people with the soul of a worm inside a chubby body that just lives to eat and watch youtube videos all day at work. :blownaway:
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quite descriptive. you're in the know huh? Heh heh :gremlin:
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Oh so very true as the individual in question is a touch on the "chubby" side and yes I am being polite.
One does understand why it would be a problem to first get up out of the chair, and then walk over six feet, around another chair, to then push a button.
Now granted if the primary radio had not gone tits up there would be no problem however it did and they do not have a back up spare VHF repeater, all they have as the back up is a VHF mobile in a different location. Which yes, means the antennas are not as high up as the primary and with a 50W mobile compared to a 100W repeater ...have an apple to oranges difference twixt the two in operational capability.
The repeater is tied into the system via WAVE where as the mobile is via a desk top remote, so the primary they can do from their work station. However the back up (mobile) need hands on interaction to make it work.
There is the problem, for them ... however if they were clever they would purchase a back up VHF repeater just for events like this one, as it is they are going to have to work it through the beans counters there to get the replacement approved and purchased. Then wait for it to be delivered and then finally programmed and installed by me.
So the back up (mobile) is doing the task intended however due to desk space availability and location it could be installed in only one spot and the spot is not conducive to the person that is to monitor and use said system.
As mentioned though if they had not messed with it in the first place all would have been fine. Nothing would have broke and there would not be a service call to go out and troubleshoot the issue.
What the network guy did not know was that the desk set was plugged into a wall jack that was a six pin so when he saw that he knew he could not plug an eight pin into the wall and then add a coupler to extend it.
So he used a four pin cable with a coupler and plugged the six pin in it, yeah not going to work nearly as well, :tearlaugh: continuity rule violated :pervy:
Then to add insult to injury he pulled the spare desk set out and tried to use it since it had a longer cable built into it. However what he did not know was that the cable is split in a wall biscuit box and it has four pairs broke out two for one radio and the other two for the other flight radio. If you guessed he plugged it in the wrong jacks on the floor move to the head of the class. Having installed it, I understood what was wrong and moved a few cables around and then got back to testing it with a pilot in the bird and finally it was back to normal, well sorry but either you will have to move over or continue to get up and walk over till the replacement arrives.
Still think if that is going to be a problem then they need to either order a spare VHF repeater or put in a work order for the cables that connects the desk sets to the system to be made long enough to reach the alternate location.
Just saying. And since desk space is at a premium to start with .... :shrug:
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Oh got a text asking what floor the radio equipment for the helicopter is on .... oh great it went tits up again.
WTF
Well, this will be definitely one for the books.
This system has been in there for at least a year if not longer so why is it now acting all crazy .... it makes no sense to me.
Apparently the mobile that I demonstrated to be functional took a nose dive on Saturday .... so like I said :ummm: so not understanding this one tiny little bit.
The on call guy has been rounding up VHF replacements so in theory he has them replaced now and will be dropping of the mobile at the office for me so I can dive deeper into it tomorrow.
So much fun coming my way ... :heeheehee: ... well in theory at any rate
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Look for Water Damage. They Hmm Had an accident and a Whole Pitcher of water fell on it! Or I Tripped and the wire in the Back was pulled-out! :blownaway:
Had a Group that was under Maintenance Do that Stuff Cause we did not move it so it was outside their door. :woohoo:
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Methinks these folks say nothing at all about the little warning signs that occur ... until it actually goes tits up ... and in a big way.
Seriously people you are responsible for the safety of others and rely on the radio system to enable you to take care of that task and you say nothing, until it becomes a crisis
:whatthe:
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Look for Water Damage. They Hmm Had an accident and a Whole Pitcher of water fell on it! Or I Tripped and the wire in the Back was pulled-out! :blownaway:
Had a Group that was under Maintenance Do that Stuff Cause we did not move it so it was outside their door. :woohoo:
Fortunately the back up and even the primary radio is beyond their reach. Takes a security guard to get into the room and they would have to know which room it is in, because I have to show the security guard which room more often the not, to start with, so them being able to get to the radio is slim.
Besides that would mean they left their station unattended ... and that is not allowed as one can well imagine.
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Oh they cover for each other is kinda of a game with them. :blownaway:
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Hadn't thought of that ... how annoying
Just saw an update and it appears the mobile was good, however it was the tone remote adaptor that was failing.
Am wondering how one could have troubleshot that as being the underlaying issue.
Troubleshooting is not my strongest suite to begin with, considering I install systems and seldom have a chance to do much else beyond that once the system is installed.
Would like to know and learn more but getting the powers that be to allow me the time and field experience to learn is the obstacle.
Guess that is what I get for being to good at system installs .... no opportunity to advance ... unless I fight tooth, fang, and claw
I have worked myself into a niche ....
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Oh how much fun is this, my senior bench tech came in today from a week long class in Schaumburg.
And twixt the two of us we hooked the repeater up to my service monitor and ran the same tests.
Surprise it has excellent audio.
:ummm:
Went and hooked up the boat anchor of a service monitor as I was instructed so my senior tech could see what was done and wha -bam ... that will never work you missed three settings
Damn it all, set up the last three parameters and again wha-bam audio across the receive like no ones business.
Okay this is ever not good.
Well, it is now officially a right mess.
Going to be doing some extra tests and so forth tomorrow after a site walk to see where the actual break is at, did find out about one thing that the dispatchers are doing that does cause problems that until it was mentioned to us we had no clue it was going on. Turns out the staff there just blames everything on the network when in fact sometimes it is not the network.
Well, I hope to learn more tomorrow about what is going on with the repeater ... should be educational, if nothing else, especially since I told the fair haired genius boy that he forget to tell me things and now the supposedly dead repeater is actually working.
Although, the "dead repeater" is way out of date and is no longer supported or repaired by Motorola. It now points to something else is going on and who knows what the underlying problem truly turns out to being.
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Possible Software is looking for a newer unit and is dropping packets is why there is a problem?
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Unlikely but anything is possible
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Turns out to be mostly atmospheric, this is one of those edumacated guesses corroborated by one of the other system tech at the master site for the county.
Geomagnetic storm, combined with a decaying sun spot and another city system which is having similar problems being very close freq wise as in mine is xxx.4 MHz and the other is XXX.37 MHz
Because the repeater is still humming merrily along and all the other peripherals that we tied into it also work just fine.
So it is head scratching time, and the only thing not considered was atmospheric, did some digging and sure enough there is some "stuff" going on and with the other agency having a similar problem. Well, that is definitely making us lean in the direction.
So once that calms down we will be able to check it further.
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O.o What about a line noise Filter?
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I read it, and its still soaking in. :coffeemaker: :jacko: :witchcorn:
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Well, dug up an antiquated PC that had a 32 bit version of XP on it since the MTR2000 software to read it can not be used on anything newer then that ... :thud:
Well, got one set up and then got a copy of the software from the senior tech and installed it and then ran the program. Was quite an odd thing to say the least. At any rate ye ole tech had me go through all of the drop down to see what was in the program, once done went and got my service monitor and set it up. Surprise it still retained all of the original settings. Really need to save them out as a preset. Nonetheless, ran through the entire sequence for tuning the radio, and so far so good, technically nothing wrong with it.
So even more curious that it caused so much trouble last week, no clue except for my thin theory of atmospheric trouble.
So worked on the next piece of the system, the tone remote adapter. Well, that posed all sorts of troubles, mainly due to not having the correct cable for the connection between it and the mobile radio. Did finally get it sorted with the techs help, pinned it out and connected it, well, the senior tech must have been having a rough day with vision as he had to move two of the pins in the connector before it finally worked.
So it was sort of working, but not properly so read the mobile with CPS to see if there was a mistake in the code plug. Sorry no such luck. However that is when I noticed the power light was blinking which signifies and error ... :ummm: what the hell, no real reason for this to occur as all was hooked up properly, even had a load on the MTR and the proper antenna on the mobile.
That made no sense so I reset the MTR and the error went away and poof then everything worked as intended ... Now that was messed up. Since there was no real reason for it to have gone in alarm in the first place.
Continued messing about with it, and surprise it went into alarm a second time ... now this is beginning to become "stupid"
So since the PC was still on and connected to the radio, opened up the error log. Surprise it showed the errors this time.
Why do I say that well, when I first looked at the error log there was one entry but it did not explain the reason for the radio to originally be thought it had failed.
So I believe the term is now "curiouser and curiouser"
So cleared the error log and left it running, hope to see something on Monday when I am back in the shop for a few minutes before I am off to my next adventure.
New site to be installed starting on Monday. How droll .... especially since the one rack for the site has a damaged server at the very bottom of it. Well, that was another hour lost that day, as the integration tech was instructed to read it and back up a copy of the image on it.
Why is it an hour wasted, because it took him and hour to figure out that there was nothing on it as it was the redundant VMS server. Well, once that was sorted I finished disconnecting it and pulled it from the rack.
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O.o Possible Heat Gap caused by a Poor Weld that finally gave-way?
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Well if I get any errors over the weekend we shall know more
The error code referred to a failed PA (power amplifier)
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O.o Did they have a No Network Error Before?
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It did but the error recorded had no bearing on the operation on the station.
So trying to replicate the failure ... if one can .... that is
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if the power amplifier circuit is bad you will get Power off when sending Error or No Network Depending on Which part fails.
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Well, not a thing over the weekend, not that I was expecting any errors but there we have it.
Should be interesting as time goes forward, since there is another magnetic storm going on right now.
But, unless we are trying to use it during it I don't see it going crazy.
Interestingly enough, while I was out moving racks for the next install, more later, I heard that the hospital put out another call for the same problem.
Didn't hear about the outcome as as mentioned I was not available.
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Well, all I can say is that knowing I have a stress test today causes stress in me, BP is in the 130/80 range
But, all of Sept when I would check it was in the 120/70 range
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I used to teach with an MD. He insisted on taking my BP before we taught. Always in the high 130's/90's before class. I finally got him to check afterwards. 116/75.
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Apparently I set no alarms off and got through it, although that last minute on high speed plus elevation on the treadmill was pushing my luck as I literally couldn't breath with the mask on, which they did move it, so I could and I was able to finish it.
I mean seriously who the hell runs with a mask on .... some one way fitter then I .... is my guess.
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Someone who doesn't need air. Like, an Alien! GAH!
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Cybermen
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Must be New Cybermen as the old ones needed to Cool themselves with the vent in front is why Glitter guns caused them to melt down inside.
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In the 5th Doctor episode, Earthshock it was surmised by the captain "what if I pump the air out of the hold". To which the Doctor replied "wouldn't do any good they don't need air."
Additionally in "The Wheel in Space (2nd Doctor) the Cybermen are shown doing a spacewalk.
"The Moonbase" the Cybermen are shown on the surface of the moon again with no need for air.
Yet when around the 4th Doctor it was stated clearly that gold was lethal so go figure ... the mechanics must be different in an atmospheric based environment versus an airless one?
:thud:
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Maybe they can Hold their Breath per-say. The Wiki Does not even Say other than Other types of Cybermen Had Plot Armor for Different Episodes! :drinkonus:
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The toxic gold for cyberman was because it coated the circuits in the chest piece and caused catastrophic system failure. I think it was due to shorting out the microcircuitry.
Odd factoid... the tenth planet cyberman weren't affected as badly as they weren't advanced enough.
8 )
Nerds rule..... in their own minds.
Cheers
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Indeed they were affected by radiation if memory serves, which was also mentioned in "The Moonbase" episode by Ben, stating that they can't stand radiation.
Incidentally, I do not recall gold being mentioned as a weapon until the 4th Doctor came on board, which based on your supposition makes sense to me
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YUP! Agreed.
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Well, the truth has finally came out on the repeater for the helicopters.
:thud: The transmitter in the bird was the culprit all along.
Turns out that if I had been told how to correctly set up the service monitor I would have shown good receive characteristics. Which would then point to a problem elsewhere as in the helicopter itself, yep the transmitter was or had failed and that is why they could not hear the bird talk back to dispatch.
How ever I was not so therefore ergo found a problem and assumed we had it in the bag.
NOT
Amazing how that works out, makes me look a fool though and we are not happy about that one tiny little bit. But as mentioned they do not give me much chance to actually learn details like that so I don't look the fool.
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Indeed they were affected by radiation if memory serves, which was also mentioned in "The Moonbase" episode by Ben, stating that they can't stand radiation.
Incidentally, I do not recall gold being mentioned as a weapon until the 4th Doctor came on board, which based on your supposition makes sense to me
Also the next time that the 2nd Doctor faced them in "Tombs of the Cybermen" it was a massive electrical shock that destroyed them.
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The Mondasian cybermen could be stopped by a loaded Bren gun. fired throughout the torso\head. 10th planet cybermen corrected that, but subject to radiation damage. By the time of the fourth Doctor, vunerable points were well protected or elimanated, however the chest unit was vunerable to gold. at the time of the 7th Doctor, that "improved? model of cyberman was wiped out. more or less. by the time of the 10th Doctor, cybermen from an alternate dimension were brought over and the new core cyberman, with greatly advanced protection and a lower need for organic components, made them formidable.
On the other side was the producer saying, " They look silly, design something inexpensive and scary."
Cheers
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Like a Dalek? Heh!
So J, did fixing or replacing the transmitter in the Helo happen, and did it cure the problem?
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Like a Dalek? Heh!
So J, did fixing or replacing the transmitter in the Helo happen, and did it cure the problem?
Yes, indeed it did, that is the only radio that they have a back up replacement on hand at all times. so a quick swap and no problems any more.
Still it does validate my earlier point on the lack of comprehensive training that has not been offered to me over the years and now I am going out to troubleshoot and feel like a fool when stuff like this occurs.
They still see me as an installer, albeit senior or lead or supervisor ... whatever ... but if they want to get me to do other things then how about having the knowledgeable teach so I can feel less lie an idiot.
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Well, got a little training today at last, a minor thing volume levels on the EF remotes was low.
Went out there with the senior tech and brought a spare with us and the one with the complaint was busy so went to the other location in the main hospital, their ER room has three departments. Any way checked it out all seemed fine with it, decent volume when testing. So went back to the first one and dang it did sound low, so senior tech grab the instruction manual out of the box and started digging into it and surprise there was a setting in it that was "off" reset it and lo and behold ... no we are talking.
So once that was corrected and knowing what we knew went back to the other location and the senior tech had us go through the steps on our own and we checked the other two locations, surprisingly the feature was turned "on" in both of them so not understanding how that one was "whacked" but the others were not ... :whatthe:
I think there is a professional gremlin on staff at the hospital :tearlaugh:
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Here is one for the cuckoo's nest.
Typically I pay little attention to these damn company newsletters as most of the time it is the upper management and sale folks patting each other on the back.
I work to install and maintain what you sell, unless you are speaking to where I am coming from it is all smoke and mirrors.
Granted they do acknowledge folks in my position but you hear one set of "praises" they all sound the same after a while. So seldom watch these "town hall meetings" unless there is something significant about them. Found out the one past had some "news" that rated, imagine that, something to speak to the bottom feeders.
Well apparently the growth of the company profits, even though they are buying up other companies and tech still, is looking better.
Looks like starting on Jan 1 we get the 401K match once again :yippee:
The annual bonus is back as well, although it will not be the typical percentage as before, however it is also coming back.
The one thing I am not totally understanding or pleased with, at least until more details are released is the PTO goes away and instead there will be a "Flex PTO" in its place. So instead of accruing hours you just get with the manager and say I need time off, come to an agreement and poof you have time off with no worries about whether or not you have any hours in the pool or not.
My problem is that I have to fight to get time off to start with, and the use it or lose it concept helped me remember and to take and get my time off, and now it is :o_go_on: and take it when you feel like it, however now I have already earned hours for this year and if this is going away the first of next year, what happens I lose the current accrued time ????
:whatthe: :caveman:
Certainly now happy about that considering that currently I have 95 hours, plus the December hours which technically means it would take three weeks to use it all up. Call me a pessimist but I do not see that happening between now and the end of the year. So what is going to happen to the hours that I don't use, because I always rolled 40 hours in the past, and now that is no longer an option. Do I lose them ????? inquiring minds ... guess I will have to wait for them to release fuller details .....
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O.o See if you can get your time off for 3 weeks as you will lose that time if management was like mine. If Not See if they will refund your time as Money Cause I think you can put it into retirement. You might call the HR Department for More info Cause if they like mine you lose it at the end of each year.
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Research is on my list of things to do
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Back to the desktop remote audio complaint.
One would have thought that if the audio is low just use the volume knob, yes.
Apparently they already were and it had no effect which is why we were out there. Twas interesting though that there are two controls for the volume, one the end user can adjust and the other that is hardware/software driven.
The software part being getting into the settings interface on the device as it is all hard coded ... I think that would be the right term ... anyway it was nice to be able to actually touch the buttons and make it work instead of just watching.
For we all know the touchy-feely method is the best way to learn .... :ummm: yep that sounded better in my head.
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Well, I see I have not said much about the new site being built and commissioned and the original site being upgraded.
Trust me you are going to love this tale of two shelters :tearlaugh:
But for now it is time to drive in
:yippee: FRIDAY :yippee:
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And now for the new site, how entertaining this project has been, first part was moving equipment from one site to the new site. The fun part is that at the original site they were in cabinets that happened to have been fastened to the floor by drive anchors. Which means we had to use a chisel to cut them free from the floor.
What a pain.
At the new site it was not to bad, but I do wish the powers that be could get their act together at some point. Why, what else there is never enough cables accounted for and they never agree as to where they need to go, as in from point A to point B.
Yes, :sigh: we are ever so used to this, so surprised I am not, just wonder if they will ever get it together and have all of the details and requests for additional cabling correct the first time.
Not holding my breath.
The fun part is at the original site they need to have an additional power strip hard wired to the rack from the panel. They finally got that sorted out on Thursday of last week. We shall see on the following week, which is when they are shooting for to bring the new site on line.
Should be fun, no testing or burning in has been done as of yet. However, their intention is to turn the new site on this Monday and then are shooting for me to turn the old site off, remove the existing rack out, after detaching the existing OP8 (power supply) from it, then move the new rack in its place and bolt it down to the floor and attach the OP8 back to it and then finish powering everything back up, and cross your fingers till they hurt :tearlaugh:
Doesn't that sound like fun :ummm: sure it does in someone world.
Not mine.
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:iminnocent: Space,Time,Speed and Distance - Awareness of Nothing! :sno7:
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That would be those higher up on the food chain then I ... in a nutshell
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Well, I see I forgot to mention all of the :whatthe: fun that was present the one day I went to the new site for optimization.
First tech showed up had what he needed and got busy sorting out what was what and where ... good start to the day.
Another showed up and my God in heaven you would think this guy has never went to a site before.
First words out of his mouth "do you have a folding table?" Uh, no.
Really .... I am an installer not a department store.
then he asks for an extension cord, seriously. Yes, I have one but that is not the point.
Later on, do you have a display port to HDMI video adapter .... now I know you are on drugs, but wait it gets better. Do you have a HDMI cable as well?
No and no, as mentioned I install and build the system for you to fart around on it not be your rolling parts store. If you have set up systems before then why in the hell do you not carry this stuff with you? You knew what you had come out here to do, so why are you not prepared to do the work? Inquiring minds ...
What is the problem here have you never gone out in the field and stood a system up from scratch?
Later on and this is the fun part, he asks if I have a monitor on my truck and a keyboard ..... seriously ..... please go back to your office and pick up what you need to stand a site up and then come back out.
Because the final straw was ... do you have a service monitor with you.
Well, I do have a service monitor, however I do not carry it with me.
(mainly because the bed of the truck is not climate controlled. I mean it is every bit of $60K for that thing you think I am going to leave it overnight in my truck you are out of your mind. Nor will, I keep it in the front of my truck for you to see and decide wow I might be able to steal and hock that thing.)
Besides as mentioned he is coming out to optimize the system and should have these tools in his possession.
I guess that is what system techs do, they no longer have any tools and you are supposed to wait on them hand and foot and anticipate what they need to do their job.
I have no training, formal or otherwise for these task so therefore until I do and get to the point of being the one being taught there is no reason for me to have any of the afore mentioned items in my possession.
Besides where in the hell would I store them as my truck is jammed packed as it is, got to love the logic.
Beside I do not get paid that rate to begin with, so until proper training and pay rate for a level 1 system tech ... can you say long walk short pier ... knew you could .... I am not at their beck and call.
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The fun was just beginning, as now I am over at the original site and we are now at last doing the cut over and optimization.
First up I get called over after I did the site walk at UCF. Get there and what do I find, not ready .. :thud: not surprised ah well, just once I wish these people would actually have their act together and be ready when they say .... yea as if that is ever going to happen :sigh:
Moving forward at last they finally say go for it and I start to rip and tear the final bits that are in the way of moving the old rack out and the new rack in its place. Well, the first bit of excitement occurred as I am unplugging all of the plugs currently in the OP-8 at the top of the old rack so I can install it on the new rack.
Well, the fun was that there were four cords plugged into it that actually were the comparators for the system and once unplugged they all lost synch with the GPS so the entire site went into "fail-soft".
Yep radios were not working in the city of ... until they got that sorted out. I was still moving forward getting the racks ready to move. I mean there were six system techs there .. think they can handle it while I kept going forward. Which just means that some one did not do all of the homework and final check before they told me to get started.
:shrug:
Well, was ready at last and the others got the synch problem sorted so time for the next step in the process.
Worked on trying to get the original rack out turns out there was a lip still present from the lag shields holding it to the floor. The fact that some idiot from the city of .. decided to put up a piece of kindorf on one of the racks next to the one we were moving and then decided to overlap the two racks. Makes it hard to go both directions, so only got one way to get it out. Managed it and even managed to get the new one in, and then got it bolted to the floor and to each other and at last got the original OP-8 installed back on the rack.
Got everything plugged back in and the new rack was fired up and rolling .... thought that meant I could start ripping out the excess cable ... oh hell no ... ye ole I need five (I mean 50 cables) still made up do Lord knows what, fortunately for me at any rate it was tile to leave to go teach class, (Monday night)
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And now look at ya....you made it to FRIIIII-DAAAYYYY!!!! TGIF! :woohoo:
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Yippee! I got my brand new Defiance Season 1 BluRay set and WestWorld Season 1 BluRay set both in today! Yaaay! :woohoo: Now I can work on getting season 2 of both!
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Yeah, BluRay HD looks WAY better than every DVD I own. Specially thru the new (ish!) BluRay player I got last year (WiFi! no network cables! Just the HDMI!) AND on that neato 40" Sceptre HD television. Yeah, it's great! And I want to enjoy all the visual goodies I can while I still CAN. You feel me?! Think on it!
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Actually I only had to make it to Wednesday as I had Thursday and Friday off, the changes coming up next year for the PTO is changing drastically.
Once again it is a use it or lose it option and I have till Feb. to burn up over 100 hours or it goes bye-bye. Because the first of the year it changes to Flex PTO.
According to some folks, technically you don't lose it since starting in Feb. one can take however much PTO they want when they want providing the manager says it is fine.
My problem is that we all know how hard it is to get time off to start with because apparently ye ole leprechaun seems to think I am the only one qualified to do certain tasks and I can not take any time off till those tasks are complete.
So it is hard enough to get time off to begin with, which is why I prefer the old version since it would have me taking time off or losing it. Now with the change that just means that unless I pay attention I will not take off enough time during the year.
Lord knows I get cranky when I don't take time off to start with, but with this new version of taking time off, I see myself forgetting even more then I already do ....
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Now the real fun, did the follow up to the stress test on Thursday and supposedly I will live and there is nothing wrong with my heart (which is good) but the fly in the ointment was got a phone call from the boss asking about work that was done at the new site. The system tech claimed that he did the punch down work.
Uh NOT, what actually happened is that according to him they were punched down wrong. Oh how quaint been doing it this way for over nine years and now at long last someone actually says something about it. The work that he did was actually moving alarm points over from what is typically known as an "analog" block to a "digital" block.
Although I have never been told there was a difference between them and to just punch them down one for one. Wow
:thud:
Thanks a lot folks.
At any rate ye ole ... called to have move my time over to compensate for the "change"
Well, it is waiting till Monday since I am off and then when Friday evening rolled around I lost all internet connectivity.
Router died
As one can tell it is all better but it was troubling, although I did get school papers graded without being distracted. So calling that a win.
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so how are your "kids" doing in their class J?? Are there ever girls taking it?
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You sure got a right to be cranky about the time off problem. I had that too, and never wangled more than one week off at a time and had to fight to get that. So, in the end, I got 13 weeks per year paid vacation and it too was use it or lose it with the backup rule of no selling vacation time. Period. But the boss tried to demand that I schedule ALL my Vacation time one year in advance. Horse feathers.
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I Lost all my vacation at the end of every year. Could not take time off as I was an essential worker with no back up. o.O I used to have Hair! :woohoo:
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I ended up being the only Electrician-Mechanic employed there. They tried to push that onto me, Rad. Nope. I went down to the Union Hall and instigated a Union sign up there. Oh how the company hated that. Personally, I hated being ripped off.
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so how are your "kids" doing in their class J?? Are there ever girls taking it?
As far as a passing grade for the semester they are doing all right.
As for the journeyman mock exam I gave for extra credit, they are going to need to practice practice and practice before they stand for the journeyman 's exam
As in a lot of practice, best grade was a 54 out of 100
When there are girls wanting to become electricians then I have girls in the class, have had three in the last 11 years but one of them dropped out because she was pregnant.
I have seen two in other classrooms so eventually they will either get to me or the other instructor that teaches structured cabling, but since I see them on the nights I teach most likely they will make it in one of my classes if they stick with it ....
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I Lost all my vacation at the end of every year. Could not take time off as I was an essential worker with no back up. o.O I used to have Hair! :woohoo:
I can relate to that where I am now, I still have hair though, the real question is going to be for how much longer :ummm:
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Well, went back to the new city site and got a refresher as to why I dislike system techs running any cable or messing about with anything at all in the cable tray.
Never knew one could tangle up and interweave two cables as much as this latest person. :thud:
What should have been only an hour to sort out wound up taking five hours.
The bad news is I am not complete as I also had to run three additional alarm points. Nothing new there it happens all the time, and with one device needing two points, a single piece of CAT 5 can handle it easily. Providing I can read, messed up on one them by having it as NO instead of NC. Fixed it and all was right with that device again.
The other device though has no markings of any sort on it to let you know which one is which nor what the sets do, there were enough spots on the terminal strip to accommodate four different alarms. However if not labeled, I am to know what is what how?
Oh that is right look it up on the web, heaven forbid the manual should come with it. So needless to say that by end of day I was not caring a whole lot and although I did find what I was looking for it was time to head out and get to class for the evening.
Did try and look it up in my collection of service manuals but found out that of course I do not have one for the model that was installed, which explains my apathy at the end of the day.
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Back in the day (vacuum tube day!) I would have paid a lot for the brand manuals for the thousands of different vacuum tubes I'd accumulated. Finally, I found a Magnavox consolette Television set at the city dump that was all discrete electronics, with only the CRT tube. I decided it was time to divest myself of that vast collection, and after stripping all those components out of the pc boards, I lugged it back to the dump with cabinet cleaned and polished up, and sat all the boxes of vacuum tubes down beside it, carefully. I was sure there would be someone(s) wanting those things. They might be thinking "Hey thar's $$ in them thar cartons!" And there IS if ya feel like fooling with that mess. I got tired of it. Even took the Multi-Tube Tester and odd tube testing things down with that mess. It was time to get into DIGITAL! LOL!
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Well, surprise surprise ... NOT turns out the new PTO for next year applies only to managers, not us rank and file folk we still accrue time and cannot roll more then 40 hours.
Which just means I still have about 60 hours to use by Feb or I lose it, better then the 110 hours projected but still not happy since getting time off for me is still a nightmare.
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Oh and we are now the new owner of a digital watt meter in addition to the analog one .... wow ... might be able to get some accurate readings on digital systems now.
What a concept.
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Now for the real fun, we found out ... as in yesterday late morning that we are to assist in the PM's of the city of .... (different city then previously) ... on the surface cool no problem.
Oops, by the way did I mention that it is 220 portables and 5 police vehicles plus 20 fire trucks.
Oh and you have till 2 pm on Friday for the three of you to do so, well at least it is all three of us doing it. We all have service monitors and watt meters for checking the antennas on the vehicles.
My problem is who the hell did the math on this project.
Because when I work it out 245 radios is roughly 4 an hour. Which if it is just a portable and you have no hiccups might be possible. I have no idea how long it will take to actually run a PM on my monitor for APX public safety radios. Since I do more commercial MotoTrbo radios.
However the ointment gets muddy when one remembers that you have to set the radio up, first step update the firmware ... oh joy on commercial that is six minutes right there, then set the radio up for tuning, tune it and then normalize it. Then on to the next one, which is fine for portables, however a mobile has a few extra steps to say the least and one of them is to check the antenna, by plugging a watt meter in line and keying the radio, then normalize that before you get to the next step. Providing one can do it without having to pull the radio from the vehicle, if not ... yeah well :shrug:
Oh also have to check serial numbers and update some of them as some still have the old number scheme in them and they need updating to the new number scheme.
Don't forget to keep track of them for submittal back to the customer when complete.
So do I sound confident that it will be done by their requested date :tearlaugh: you funny guy.
Some people are ever so funny ... especially the boss, can't wait to tell him that since the PTO is still the same for me, I have to burn off somewhere between 60 to 80 hours by February. So deal with it ... not allowed to take time off regularly because apparently I am the only one that can do certain things ... time to pay the piper ... deal with it ... yet again.
Oh and to add insult to the whole mess, him and the other bench tech are already taking time off as in all of next week which we already have off for the holiday and Friday, however they are taking the beginning of the week off, then the Christmas week and New Years also ... and what do I get .... we got to have someone at the shop ... yeah well you got the two mobile installers hanging about so what is the problem?
I know I answered my own question did I not? :sigh:
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End of day two for PM's at the city of ... my goodness it is so amusing how the vehicles run went today. Two of us went to do the vehicles, as in me and the senior tech, mainly because, one I have a battery in my system and two it is shall we say, more portable.
:tearlaugh:
The wonderful part was the concept of we went through several trucks and then hit a lull, the PD point of contact came over and suggested bringing over the XTS5000 to work on while waiting for the next truck. Sure whatever ...
Well, the senior tech ordered lunch for himself (it is okay, I pack my lunch, always have) when his lunch arrived I went to my truck to get mine .... and what do you think happened ...
If you guessed that seven or so trucks all pulled up at the same time .... move to the head of the class.
Oh and by the way the other tech who was still in the PD building doing portables came over with six of them that for unknown reason his monitor would not do, tried it on mine since I had just finished a truck and :whatthe: mine would not recognize it either ... the senior techs monitor did so he worked on them and I kept working on the trucks in the interim.
I see that I need to have surgery ... why .... because I need to have all the joints in one hand and fingers replaced with ball joints that swivel in three dimensions.
Why because whoever installed the radios in some of these vehicles made it next to impossible to remove the antenna from the back of the radio. Granted, I got them off so I could check the forward and reflected power with the new watt meter that I just received on Tuesday. But, my goodness I am not certain that my fingers are going to go back to normal configuration, they are a bit on the cramped side at the moment. :tearlaugh:
However comma, we did get all of the trucks that came in completed however there are a couple three that have some serious antenna issues, which will need to be sorted out, but fortunately that is not for me to solve for, our lovely sitting at the shop doing naught installers can work that out.
That still annoys me .. but :o_go_on: no use whining further on the topic since it is not going to change anytime soon
Supposedly there are still a couple vehicles left to do and since mine is the only one that has a battery for secondary power I get to finish them up tomorrow then assist with the balance of the portables. So we shall knock them out and see what progress can be made on the rest of the portables.
Still not holding my breath that all will be done by tomorrow ... :iminnocent:
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Soak your hands in Hot to warm water with Epsom Salt to Ease the stiffness.
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I really wasn't hurting that bad I was being mostly facetious
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SO your fingers are starting to look like some kind of Snake Girl or something? Heh!Mebbee somepin like this?
https://youtu.be/yjT7bSdwUMg
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:thud: Fortunately nothing as bad as that ... my God just looking at what they were doing was enough to make me think I needed to go to the hospital
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I KNOW, right! Hey I am in ever worse shape than you man, I almost did go to hospital! LOL Yet, there they are, and they do it all with a bright pretty smile! HA!
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Well, a two day work week courtesy of the holiday schedule plus one extra day of PTO as a "thank you" from ye ole company .. and to make it better the school board takes the entire week off as well, so no class this week as a bonus.
Now if they didn't want three days or three men's worth of work in two I would be less stressed ... maybe ... Lords know as high strung as I typically am I find something to get stressed about ... like finding my HOA fees check that I had wrote out for the quarter still lying on my desk buried under paperwork that I put away yesterday ... that was embarrassing
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HOA? I have felt that they ought to be paying YOU for the privilege of tending the homes! Um, except that I refuse to live anyplace that puts "stuff" on the homeowner like that.
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We have a Neighborhood Association is Voluntary. o.O
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The only thing I can say about the fees is that they are not to onerous. (approx $49.00 a month)
Granted I cannot tell what the hell I am getting for those dollars paid ... which is :bs: obviously.
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Nonetheless today's adventure just leaves ever so much to be desired.
Yep the lines at the Hotel were not connected which I mentioned to the people that are at the top of the food chain ... in one ear and out the other folks ... :sigh: and no I am not surprised.
What is disturbing to me is that fact that a device that was spec'd out for the install was not installed which means my presence was a bust a the hotel this morning.
:sigh:
Then it got real interesting as I was hoping to install the alarm points for monitoring the UPS, if you guessed the "relay card" was missing move to the head of the class.
Ah well, pulled in two cables for the alarm points landed them on the punch block and installed all of the flat satin cable between the blocks and the equipment.
Regrettably I will have to return to complete :sigh:
Then went to the other site and what do we find but the relay card I was looking for, first problem it takes a DB9 on one side .. so this is going to work out how?
Great
Went on to install the cables needed between the two devices however as mentioned before one side is regular punch down the other side is a DB9 ... wonderful as I have nothing that resembles the connection sequence nor do I have any DB9 that I can wire up from scratch.
Looks like life is getting more interesting by the day :sigh:
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DB9 Connector and wire Diagram Might be fun to ask Manufacturer if they supply ether the Cable or the Info. :sno7:
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Did find some info however the alarm points that they want me to hit "names", are not even close to the "names" the manufacturer gives them.
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DB9 simple enough. Isn't that what the first joystick ports were?
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Went back to the other city of site to finish up the last bit of work to be done there, now that the key is back out there that is ... anyway get there and take care of the last alarm point on the MOSCAD.
Started to take notes for all the labels that I need to make up out there and lo and behold I am looking at cable that is draped across the racks and am wondering :whatthe: why in the hell did we make additional cable for there if they are just going to throw in store bought patch cables and not say a word to anyone as to why ....
Well, questioned it and "no surprise" oh they are temporary until you re-route the cables made previously to that location.
:ummm: And you were going to tell us about that when :ummm:
Yep, when I ask ... obviously.
The part that is rubbish is that we had cable routed to go there to start with and they wanted them moved to over here.
So have to route cable back to where it is in the first place and then make u p two new cables that were never provided. :sigh:
Then it is data entry for the labels, at least I wrote all of that info down before I left, so at least when I go back it is take care of the cable, apply labels and call it complete.
:yippee:
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Well, today the adventure went to hell in a handbasket so fast I had to blink twice to figure out what happened and then the next thing I know it is back to what it should have been to start with ....
:whatthe:
There are times that I wonder what the hell is going on, today was one of them. Was to go to the under construction forever college campus PD depart to pull in cable for two stations that are going to be temporarily moved when they get new furniture installed at some point next year.
Got there and the first words out of the dispatchers lips were "oh, you are moving the station today." Uh, no we are just pulling cable to get ready for when it needs to be moved.
Got started and when the system tech finally got around to showing up ... now he is wanting to move a station in there for testing and get it set up 100% ... uh no dude I was told cable only to be pulled and made ready ... went in one ear and out the other, so went back to closing ceiling tiles up and dressing the cable into the rack for final termination. By the time I was done with that and the other guy was done dressing the cable down in the room. Apparently a phone call was made and someone came over and by the time he was done talking we were back on only pulling cable in and not moving anything.
Turns out there is additional work to be done in the room first such as removing a stand alone A/C in there so moving radio equipment would not be a good idea. Then there was a change in how they wanted it to be terminated in the room, they now want a junction box with a patch cable for it out to the equipment.
:sigh:
Well, that is not happening today so when we get back from Thanksgiving we shall see about it then, granted we also have to wait on another answer for the man in charge of the department, regarding grounding so might have a day or three respite before going back to finish.
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And now the crowning touch, didn't even get back to the shop so I could "slum around" ... eh ... I mean get more work done. :iminnocent: I mean this is Friday to me and I will be off till Monday.
Apparently the one hospital in my neck of the woods from the chain we do work for called in and said there is nothing out of the site on the "wide" channel.
Well, two hours later after multiple tests and checks we got to the point that nope they still can't talk out from that site.
Strangest thing ever seen, no clue what is going on .. did find one thing going on there that was just totally "effing" wrong. Some idiot from their IT department decided to run a cable from our switch to their network and reprogrammed our switch.
Grounds for :rat-atat: times an impossibly high number.
No clue what or why that was done but the problem was that it totally hosed the whole thing, well finally got it back to our "default" setting and viola ... :thud: still no radio traffic. :sigh: WTF
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Might have to Check the port settings as they might have set up some kind of port sharing and that is not releasing the settings for your system as another system is using that gatway or Ip address was changed some where might need to go factory reseat to clear the problem.
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Yep and the good news is that is on the hospital since it is network related and we do not repair their network.
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Oh this happened to me did you make sure the Radio cable is Plugged into the right System I Had a guy move stuff with out telling anyone cause he was Really Lazy and would move cables to sate his need and never remember where he moved it too!
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Checked all of that and nothing is not where it is supposed to be ... except that one cable to our switch which was removed.
Then not only did the switch get reprogrammed to our standard defaults but password protected it as well, since apparently it was not, no one but us will be getting back into that anytime soon.
:heeheehee:
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yuk yuk yuk !
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Well, got a text today after I created a service order number for logging our time spent on the troubleshooting and got a definitive answer as to what happened on the network.
Yep their IT department once again decided to do a security update on their switch, which blocked our site's UDP traffic causing it to go deaf.
They sorted it out on later that night (Tuesday) they still haven't found the idiot that plugged into our switch and reprogrammed it.
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You'd think they'd have learned by now. NAAAH! Not in a million!
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Ooops! IS this thread even supposed to be working?!
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Sssssshhhhhhhh..... don't make it aware.....
8 )
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:fall: :shh2: :sno3: :shiv: :danceelf:
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:pervy: :gremlin: :OMFG: :thumb_up: :dancingknight: :coffeemaker: :iminnocent: RIGHT!
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Theoretically it is alive but I am kind of skeptical especially since I have not received any updates on the progress of the move
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Oh great my avatar disappeared how quaint
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Maybe it's time for a change with your avatar :iminnocent:
You aren't alone in that case, I saw at least the Radkres' avatar is missing too.
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EDIT: The TL's avatar is missing too. Maybe in holidays in the same place than yours? :tearlaugh:
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Well, I was able to find the dust bunny only, it seems Kianna and Luffies avatars are "ehem" otherwise engaged. :tearlaugh:
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Guess I will start back up with todays adventure.
The flight VHF radio for the hospital has been plagued by gremlins and we have been working with the senior tech squashing them one by one.
At last today we got the last bug smashed ... in theory at any rate.
If nothing else rears it ugly head I will be calling it a win.
The list of problems began with no receive audio on the primary.
Went out and based on bad information diagnosed the base station as having failed.
Ordered a new one.
Tested the old one with the senior tech watching what I was doing and found out I had set the test up wrong.
:sigh:
So did a full service suite on it and brought it up to speed.
Meanwhile with both the primary and the secondary not working properly obtained a loaner set of VHF radios to get them by ...
They still could not hear on the helicopter.
Turns out it was the bird itself that had the problem not the base station.
:thud:
Well the new base station came in and we went out to swap it out and at the same time took the previous base station with us and swapped it out with the mobile currently being used as the back up radio. This way they now how two full power stations for the helicopter.
Part one the replacement of the primary went without a hitch.
The replacement of the back up not so very much ....
Got the base station installed, however audio was not passing properly.
Turns out the backplane was wonky in regards to not having a solid connection
Got a spare backplane from the shop from one of the spares we have for the customer.
Went and replaced it and surprise :whatthe: no audio still
Got back out there today and what do we find the info that I had for landing the wires on the wireline board were reversed.
Switched them to the correct config and at last everything works
:yippee:
And you lot thought my job was paralyzingly dull, boring, tedious and commonplace ...
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:lostme: all I did today was crawl around the roof putting in Oil for the Ceiling fan.
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Ah well, here we go again a day off and once more I get phone calls while off asking questions about shipments and oh by the way we need you to go to the local university and move previously pulled cable to a new location, fortunately they are long enough to be relocated instead of being re-pulled.
Got to love that since it is so rare for events of that nature to occur.
What would be even more rare is to not be disturbed on a day off :tearlaugh:
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Then got the disturbing email that I just got volun-told that I will be doing a site walk regarding relocation of a GPS antenna for ... well a commercial customer.
How fun, because there was also another request in a different email about another site walk but this one is for a different hospital customer.
:sigh: It gets better though, as it is the end time for "use it or lose it" paid time off so the coming week with the holiday included I am only working two days ... ought to be interesting ... yep ... probably wont .... but who can tell.
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Your job boring? HA! I know WAY better than that J !!! My own job as an Electrician-Mechanic was very interesting. I was quite happy with the work. Not so much with the management though.
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And it is back to work today after having five days in a row not sure I remember how to do so, :thud: at any rate sent a text message last night to the PD chief about swinging by the university to relocate cables and he had no idea who the heck I was ... must not left much of an impression during the site walk. :shrug: whatever.
In theory I am just to pull cable back and maybe move a computer or two.
We shall see how that works out for me. Plus according to the boss I am to go straight to the computer not a box on the wall and then make a patch cable. Which for me makes the best of sense as it eliminate another point of failure. If I recall the Chief is on board with that but let us see if their IT department has got the memo. :tearlaugh:
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Well, it was ever more entertaining than I thought it could be, get to the university and once I finally get inside, lobby was locked down, something about some thief being inaugurated sometime in the next day or so.
Well, first up was a surprise the cable had already been pulled back in the room.
:thud:
Cool running, calling that a win. So guess we need to break down the dispatch stations and get them out of the way so they could move the desks at their convenience :tearlaugh: I no sooner got the first station broke down then they were breaking the desk down and moving it.
Well, guess this means I will be staying until I rebuild the dispatch station on the desks.
Didn't expect them to be moving them so rapidly, I mean nothing else goes quickly over there so why now? The fun did get started earlier because when I took the first station down I get a call asking what the hell are you doing.
What I am supposed to, I was told that all parties involved had been notified. So once again right hand meet left hand or is it the other way around.
At any rate not my problem kept working and getting the project done. Once I got all of the dispatch equipment in the new room, they had the first desk already in there, damn oh well, worked on sorting my cables out and dressing them in above the ceiling. Cut ceiling tiles so it would look nice and semi-professional. Go that part sorted and then got started laying out the first station and remembered half way through ... oops ... you need a building ground ... silly ... :sigh:
Well, went to the truck to see if I had what I wanted, didn't but had something I could make work so called it a win and carried on.
Well, to make a long story short got the first one set up and ready to go except for the data lines. Called ye ole system tech and asked if they wanted me to plug them in and turn them on or not, got the comical response of they aren't ready to move anything yet so you can not turn anything on, :ummm: someone did not get the memo.
Once I got him on the same page continued to move forward, with cabling and turning the station on. Turned it on and texted them it was his turn to do their thing ... :sigh: ...
Got started on the other station while they farted around with it. I was moving right along at a good clip and then got a text saying hey don't turn the station you just finished over to the users, the database is not synching ... whatever ... dummy this is a back up location no one is using them, do whatever you want to silly rabbit.
Went back working on the station and finally got that one complete and cabled up, texted again and said yo the next one is done, except for the logging cable. Went and got my toner found where the original cables were landed and then swapped them out so they went to where I relocated the stations.
Poof done at last called the Police chief and gave him the update and said it was all done on my part and that the system guys were putting the last things in place and the stations were operational once more.
Then for the piece de resistance went out to leave after loading the truck and the truck would not start :whatthe: got a jump start and once I opened the hood I saw the problem. Such as major corrosion on the negative terminal so much that it looked like a snowman. Got it all scrubbed off and then got a jump start and made it home at last,
Guess who is going to have words with the fleet service mechanics when he goes in for his 65K service appointment, which by the way I hit that number today. So in my mind there is no way in hell that you can convince me, that much corrosion developed in the 5K miles since my last service appointment. You can try but I find that hard to believe.
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Wow Sounds like Your So called Management is still Dropping or never had it to begin with Ball
So basically No Real Change. o.O
As for the other Thing I Really do not see us coming out of lock down till Hell Freezes over as this is how you manage a Dictatorship as you separate the people from those in power as they Fear The People But Ever So much Want the Power No matter How They Acquire it.
If You Really want to know what happened Read this.
https://www.scribd.com/document/491038048/Ratcliffe-Views-on-Intelligence-Community-Election-Security-Analysis#from_embed
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Yep it is all about control
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And we are off once more. Day off and five phone calls from various people in the office. I swear what was the point of putting up a wide screen TV with details of who is where doing what (it is accessible from your smart phone too) if no one is going to bother to read the damn thing.
The last call was the best one because it was just now 6:00 PM well after the work day is over. Looking back I had fore knowledge that the illustrious DAS team had fucked up and did not have connectors to complete a job that they are working on.
Well now, not my problem as that team is separate from the shops. And this is another case of being "Gallowayed" making major mistakes on parts needed and ordered versus actually arriving, so the job can be completed. Instead of saying oh yes, it will be done by such and such a date with no confirmation that that it can actually be done ... then acting superior and expecting others to pull it our collective *** and all it does is make him look good.
So tired of picking up the ball for his mistakes and oversights. Don't care any longer since the last job I just completed was a collection of the same crap. So even if I have the connectors that he needs to complete his project it will have to wait till I get back to work on Monday.
:@u:
Now the back story is that it is unknown if I have any of the connectors requested, I might but however they are locked up in a cabinet that I manage, the only other person that has a key is the shop manager, and he too is on PTO till Monday.
This is called "burning the bridge" which is what the "gallowayed" person has been doing for some little time now. Karma has now made an appearance .... long overdue ... :shrug:
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Well, had me some little fun tis morning I got back to the inventory of ye ole library ...
Mien Gott in Himmel
Well, got it on back on track in regards to the upstairs bedroom book cases.
The disturbing part is I found two more volumes that are duplicated both by Michio Kaku :whatthe:
Didn't see that coming, well maybe, I do tend to buy books of interest with no check and balance to verify that I already own a certain volume. Sucks to be me...
Well, if I ever finish the inventory and get it uploaded to Drive I will be able to access it then while shopping but I have a way to go, as in another 1000 to catalog before it is up to date.
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I think yesterday was a Monday, just saying.
Site walk first thing at the other major hospital chain, they want to upgrade their MedCom system. No real big deal, as most of the existing can be reused, so it is a matter of swap out all of the radios and then install new and optimize it.
Going to cross my fingers that it will be as simple as that by the time it is all done.
Got ye ole bench tech to show me again, took notes this time on the checking the freqs out on the new combiner cavities that were ordered for the university. Going to check out my notes later today and see if I can make it work on the plethora of UHF duplexers I have from the other hospital chain. Practice, practice, practice
The funny thing about that hospital chain is supposedly we are to have weekly planning meeting with them concerning their system. If you guessed that this weeks just like the last three weeks was just cancelled ... I am asking why did you set them up to begin with if you just want to always cancel them.
:ummm:
Today is survey of the fun and games to install said new combiner cavity at the university. The fun is that in theory one should have the lower freqs at the top of the string. Okay in the original project this works out just fine and dandy .... however the freqs in the new cavity happen to one high and one low. :thud:
Which means that is not going to work very well since the transmit connection is on the first can. And the two new freqs are on either side of what is in the first can. Not going to be very optimal at all according to factory specs.
And no there was no time or money put in the quote to redo the entire string.
Remember this was the project that everyone in corporate was pushing to have completed so they could hit their magic sales numbers.
:tearlaugh: If you had let me do it right instead of jack legging it all would have been fine but nooooooooooooooooooo
oh by the way now for me to do the job right I have to schedule an outage and do it after 5:00 PM which was not in the quote either. Oh and the project manager who claimed he was going to talk to the shop manager never did and now I am in the middle being painted as the bad guy :sigh:
Ah well, that is what you get when you don't have a true site walk and planning meeting for said project.
Then again this is one of those "gallowayed" projects where ... just throw some money at it for odds and ends and it will be all right ... NOT ...
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And went out to do the upgrade of adding the additional combiner cavity.
Anything that could go wrong did, twas about a 50/50 split but still it was frustrating.
Oh and by the way they have been having some problems as the system goes out of range, well found it out while adding the extra combiner can as it did it while I was checking power output.
Had two of the new repeaters cause the problem every time they became the rest channel. I so love the concept of someone else being responsible for fixing the deficiency since this is a code plug problem not a mechanical problem.
Continued to go downhill as the reason I was out there was for adding legacy repeaters and in the meantime they realized they screwed up by missing an IP site connect repeater and guess what not considered at all in the project.
The original plan was to bring over both legacy repeaters, what did I get when I arrived ????? yep one of the legacy and the IP site connect one ... well, this is going to be fun and once more it is someone else's job to make it work after I cable it up correctly.
The other oversight which is on me was the thought that I could repurpose cables from my original install to cover the legacy equipment ... I lost that bet ... big time. Well I was able to banjo string one set for the legacy channel and got it back on line. So good deal on that part of the night. The IP site connect was an after thought on their part so all is fine that it is not working at the moment.
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Either you are being set up for a Pratt fall or your bosses have really been screwing the pooch big time lately.Everyone has some form of a "Galloway'ed!" in their work life. We/I had/have !!SALES!! in charge of the company! See Renderosity and/or DAZ3D for reference samples. :o\ Every company that has done that I have worked for, has folded. Died, dead n buried, no more.
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I didn't sell the system, nor had a hand in writing the code plug for the new repeaters.
It is all on the university radio staff. They never contracted us to do any of that work. Worse still they never or only had one or two meeting with the company for the implementation of the project, all other meeting we internal to them.
So they are the ones that fell on their face in my opinion
Now they are crying about this and that not working, oh to add insult to injury they need to send us the IP site connect code plug so an intermodulation study can be done to see if that freq will play nice with the others. Which they have not done yet :iminnocent:
Bottom line, although getting it up and running properly was on my to do list, if the system still had a bug in it that only came out while I was upgrading it.
:shrug: Don't know what to tell you ... I was in charge of installing the system and doing a forward and reflected power test on the antennas, not optimizing the system.
Not trained for it nor am I being paid to become one. Granted I would not mind being more knowledgeable and capable, but I would like to hear it in black and white with a pay incentive and then an actual detailed plan to train to that level of competence.
So try and throw me under the bus, however the problem does not fall under my purview or on my list of things to do as the customer did not involve the company in the planning and development of the upgrade.
And ye ole boss is all about getting paid for the work done, which considering we have been screwed by others, I am not surprised why they are not going out of their way to help fix the deficiencies.
It should be entertaining to say the least going forward,
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Todays install was even more entertaining. A job I had walked and quoted a year ago .... seriously last year in January.
Now they have at last decided to go forward and install the radio.
The problem for me is I was told a consolette was being installed, what I got was a control station. Told in the beginning it was to point to another office, turns out the truth is it needs to be pointed at the county system.
Which that was a teeth pulling point, where do I point it, give me a compass reference ... no one could give me one ... :thud: ... WTF ... and since I use my phone to make calls and take pictures of my installs only, just how am I to manage that trick?
At any rate my other installer and myself got the install completed all today, except for some strapping on the roof. Could have finished it but the customer said sorry you got to be picked up and gone by 3:00 as that is when we go home.
:thud:
So have to go back to install four straps and do the forward and reflected check :sigh:
However there was one other issue that the helper pointed out. The base that I could not get to attach properly was due to it being the wrong one, sale rep problem not mine. :tearlaugh:
The good news is that the install which I had quoted for two guys for two days was done in one day. Well, minus the details mentioned above which can be completed by me in half a day. So calling that a win.
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I'm back in the house.. And after reading for just a few minutes here, makes me sooooooo glad I'm retired and don't have to deal with all that work nonsense.
I retired in September of 2017, and haven't looked back. No money, but damn, it's nice to stay up 'till 3 AM and sleep 'till noon! :java: Please don't throw hard things at me.... My vines have tender grapes! :tearlaugh:
Seriously - it's good to be back!
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Hey great seeing you RodS!
Work. I miss the actual work. It was good, enjoyable, fulfilling. That feeling of accomplishment with every job done was nice. Plus, I really miss the old work bench and shop, with general maintenance machines and parts storage all around it. Never had time to sit down in a chair. Never really thought about that part. Loved having to think it all through and have my hands ON the work. That feels good, yaknow? Guess its why I always keep a carry bag of small tools and a box of medium ones with me in the house. And a bunch of computer type parts, a couple old cases. Fun stuff!
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I don't so much mind the work or stupidity that is raised to new levels, on a regular basis as this thread is my vent and gets me through it with little to no difficulty.
Beside the fact that what I do does pay it back to the community in spades as it affect "public safety" getting assistance to those in need ... calling that my payback.
Damn I have to turn the anime on early as the neighbors are playing something I guess is considered music where they come from, all it does for me is annoy. Fortunately we have plenty to choose from :tearlaugh: "Lucky Star" was this morning's winner.
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Oh, you get to listen to that s##t too... :whack: Whether you want to or not.. Let me guess.. It's base-heavy, and the "lyrics" are repetitive and carry all the writing skills of a baboon ingesting fermented bananas. Am I close?
We have a tribe of those a few houses east of us. You have no idea how many times I've asked the Universal Power to drop a small meteorite directly on their heads. Morons...
But yes - you are one of those unsung heroes keeping our public safety infrastructure intact. Thank you, good sir! :grenade:
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Hey great seeing you RodS!
Work. I miss the actual work. It was good, enjoyable, fulfilling. That feeling of accomplishment with every job done was nice. Plus, I really miss the old work bench and shop, with general maintenance machines and parts storage all around it. Never had time to sit down in a chair. Never really thought about that part. Loved having to think it all through and have my hands ON the work. That feels good, yaknow? Guess its why I always keep a carry bag of small tools and a box of medium ones with me in the house. And a bunch of computer type parts, a couple old cases. Fun stuff!
Hey, McG! Good to be able to hang out again!
In some ways I miss it - the last assignment I had was pretty sweet - working at a children's' hospital system wit a couple good guys. Like J said, it was rewarding being able to do something to benefit the community. Not sure I'd want to be working in a hospital environment currently, but they do have some pretty stringent safeguards in place. Just had lunch with my old work buddies a couple weeks ago, and they are doing fine.
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Oh, you get to listen to that s##t too... :whack: Whether you want to or not.. Let me guess.. It's base-heavy, and the "lyrics" are repetitive and carry all the writing skills of a baboon ingesting fermented bananas. Am I close?
We have a tribe of those a few houses east of us. You have no idea how many times I've asked the Universal Power to drop a small meteorite directly on their heads. Morons...
But yes - you are one of those unsung heroes keeping our public safety infrastructure intact. Thank you, good sir! :grenade:
Fortunately there were no lyrics
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Weekends are never long enough to get over the week. Guess the real rude part was that the past week was the first week I have worked five days. How annoying ... but at least I will not lose any PTO now, as my total accumulated is under the threshold.
Looked around the ole email box from work and see I still have received the IP Site connect code plug for checking, however I think I might have found it in some of the old files sent previously will have to wait for confirmation but if what I am seeing is right then there might be a problem.
They meaning the customer had the window filter notched, as in pretty tight. So tight that if memory serves as to the range of the notch, they are off by one MHz.
This ought to be a real hoot ... just saying.
Ah well, not on my list to be worried about. Got other projects that are in similar states of disarray.
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The original hospital chain is now at a point in their remodeling that they are now looking for cable and the remotes that were not installed the last time. Yep, the big push to get the BDA up and working two years ago was put on hold once we got to the point where they were ripping floors down and out while we were trying to install the system.
:ummm:
What sort of rocket science is this nonsense ... well, the problem that I am having with this request is that the remotes that is being referenced is not at my shop. So what happened to it, good question.
I have no answers since I do not remember removing it from the wall to begin with, and to make it more interesting at least in my mind is the concept that the one I was told I had removed is not the one I remember needing removal. And while I am at it, there were three on the second floor and if the whole floor was remodeled then what happened to the other remotes?
Sounds like another site walk is on the books for this project.
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And for the icing ... :ummm: ... where is the cake?
One of the other hospitals in the chain is now getting to the point in its remodeling project where it wants the radio system moved as they are getting ready to renovate the section where it currently is located.
The problem is that moving it temporarily is going to mean that it will have to move again once the rest of the addition is completed.
Well, first temporary spot was no good as they was not enough room in it to add the rack of equipment let alone turn without bumping your ass.
Second spot was better as one could get a rack of equipment in there and by the time the additions and remodel is completed they would have stacked comm rooms, with egress to the roof. Small detail that prevents this being completely viable is that even though the floors are there it is only a shell with no complete path to the roof.
Plus, the existing antennas would have to stay where they are, so it would require a jumper of 275' to connect it up and make it work.
Problem would be, how much more loss would be introduced into the system?
Already did the math the total loss on the cable from point A to B is 6dB. So when we get to our meeting next week and get all of the other losses figured out we will have a yes or no plan ready to be quoted and submitted.
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FUN! So who is gonna get blamed for all the missing hardware? Expensivest hardware at that!Honestly J, if a job ever went 100% right, you'd probably freak out!
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I do get teases and such of things going right for me and you are correct it does give me a bit of a shock. Makes me look about to see what the hell I forgot as that isn't supposed to happen.
The PD dispatch moving of two console definitely fits that scenario, although I was under the impression I was only to get my stuff out the way so they could move the desks, turned out they moved the desks right away.
Didn't see that coming to say the least.
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Yee and oh Haw !!!!
With help found the problem with the university system. Took long enough, but then again technically it was not on my list to do, however after digging even further into the code plug for the subscribers it was found that the new repeaters were not in the voice list, which in essence means that when the rest channel rolls, if that resource is not in the list of "available" it will not see it and therefore ... ergo ... go ... "out of range"
The fun part is that the customer is the one who will have to reprogram his subscriber radios not me :tearlaugh: apparently he only has a 1000 to reprogram ... :shrug: not contracted or being paid to do so ... :iminnocent: ... granted I do like the guy but at this point it is all politics so ... not getting in the middle of that mud or is that a blood bath.
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Got a better solution for the one hospital to move their system, so brought the TDR home to charge it, and am going out there in the morning to shoot the lines for some decommissioned equipment and see what I can repurpose.
I am confident that I will be able to find two ... but until verified I am not holding my breath.
The good news is that I have enough equipment from their other sites that have been upgraded that I can build a temporary system, configure it and take it out there, connect it up and when ready, turn the old off and the new on and next to nothing for down time.
:tearlaugh:
What a concept
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Oh joy the federal level communications customer is asking for my services again ... surprised ... not really ... disturbed ... always.
What can I say, this is the place that the so called "project manager" spends most of his time instead of focusing on jobs he has outstanding on the commercial side. Granted there is some politics going on that I am not fully aware, of but still it is rubbish.
However they requested me once again, this time for three days to do the rack and stack, cable and label "stuff" for them
:thud: :tearlaugh:
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sounds right up your alley, J! :woohoo:
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Indeed it is most amusing or is that amazing how this happens.
:shrug:
Moving on to more fun and games, the one site of the hospital that is doing extensive remodeling and put a halt to the final installation of the previous DAS equipment is now supposedly ready for us to start back up and getting things installed.
Walked the job site today and I have no idea who came up with that assessment but :tearlaugh: in a pig's eye the place is ready ...
And the other site that wants a temporary move of their equipment is even more amusing, well, yes I have at least two lines that are usable existing. No idea what antenna is on them will have to sort that out later, however comma, back at the shop been working on trying to tune a couple of duplexers for the repeaters and man talk about tooth, fang, and claw it has been two days working on it trying to get it to an acceptable band-pass state and it is still not there, ye ole senior tech came over to watch and make sure I was going in the right direction and he got it closer but he is still not happy with the readings.
Guess we will continue to try later today after I get done with a PD dispatch removal
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Well, the work at the PD Dispatch went down with little to no problems :yippee:
Went over to the tower to make some new cables for the new stations that were an after thought on their part and if I didn't give the proverbial pint of blood and pound of flesh, I came damn close ... yes I am that much of a klutz .... I swear I hit my head of the fiber switch, cable tray and supports more times then I want to count ... did finally get done what my goal was so called that a win and returned to the shop.
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Well, the real fun about the PD dispatch move is that the shop manager seems to think he told me that I am to be moving the main position on Monday.
Really ... :thud: news to me is all I can say ... very annoying.
The real annoyance came last night when I took a shower, dried and caked blood on ye ole hard head from where I had banged it on the cable tray, fiber box and anything hard and sharp. Still tender today ... :sigh:
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Still tender on ye ole skull, can tell it is scarring up nicely. Still hurts, though.
The true test though was taking my hospital portable and putting it on the Kissimmee channel and see if I can key it up and talk on it ... :yippee: it works and on both channels
Loving life yes I am, mainly because I have been the one doing all of the staging and retuning, had it all checked and verified by ye ole senior tech, but I was the one driving it forward.
So calling that a win for me.
Then what happens I get more equipment in, this time for a different location :sigh: Just when I thought I was going to have a moment of smooth sailing.
Only drawback is that I was hoping to get this installed this week, however one installer is out due to his new "meds" are messing with him. The other is out because he has cold chills" ???? :whatthe: heck is that
The junior bench tech is out for training for the next two weeks .... :thud:
But let us not forget that I have a third location that requires attention and follow up on in conjunction with the other two projects.
Guess the old age and treachery (OAT) team (senior bench tech and me) will have to pull this out of the fire on our own .... yet again.
Yea, sorry I don't rely on the fair haired genius boy to assist doing anything resembling manual labor. Hell, it took two days just to get the location of the files needed for the router and switch I still need to configure for the Kissimmee system. Oh have tried to call the last two days with no answer and no call him back so yep, not impressed.
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Oh and how lovely this Sunday is the day from hell, the bane of my life ... the holiday that keeps ripping my still beating heart from my chest and stomps on it with stiletto heels ..... followed up by three days at the Federal communications center.
Would say "how much fun will it be" but I would be lying. :iminnocent:
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:lostme: Some how I feel this is Relevant to Your Job!
Going back in Snake History - Rick and Morty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMdIN_gmlo
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:tearlaugh: Have never watched that particular show before thank you
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Well, at long last we got the opportunity to get to the next stage of the temp system for the Kissimmee.
Got the installer with cold chills to assist and ye ole senior tech.
Went rather well, as the antennas lines to re-use were the ones for the paging system, which happen to be 800MHz and were easy to identify, so set the installer on swapping them out while I worked with the senior tech stripping the rack of the paging equipment and replacing it with the Trbo system that I had been working on in my spare time.
Got there at the ass crack of dawn and got started and between the divide and conquer plan we got it all wrapped up by noon.
Even took the time to do the standard forward and reflected power test and :yippee: no problems at all.
The fly in the ointment is that now we have to wait on the IT department get the IP addresses swung over to the port where the equipment is at and then after a quick connectivity test for the network, we can turn the existing off and the new on, and then remove all of the old equipment so the construction folks can start the remodel of that portion of the facility.
So in essence I am in the best spot possible ... waiting on others ... some days I do love my life with feeling ... other days I have to work at it. :tearlaugh:
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Coolness J! Welcome to the "One Of US!" chorus! :yippee: :shock: :grpwave: :explode:
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Well, Friday was painfully ... in a good way ... dull, boring, tedious and commonplace ... tis so rare for that to occur on the job that it is always welcomed.
Started the PM's at the Winter Park location of the hospital chain. Got with the Engineering department for my starting point ... damn she still is looking grand ... :hubbahubba: yes I still look, but that is all.
Anyway on to the work part, yep had some weird results on a couple of radios which I finally tracked down to a slightly bogus "micro USB" cable. I only have two of them and the one kept messing with me and the other did what it was supposed to do ... :ummm: used to work in the past so not sure how it went belly up. Except I am aware that it was a cheap (in my mind) knock off cable picked up by the "cold chills" guy.
The good news is that out of the 22 radios in the engineering department only one of them failed on multiple tests, all of them power related.
So took it with and not only did I drop it off for repairs, (something to piss the lazy OL off first thing on a Monday morning) but got my book run and Asian market pick up completed as well, all before I got home.
So the engineering group is done and I even managed to get the Incident Command radios completed, there was only 5 of them so it was easy to finish them by days end.
The new service monitor I have, seems to go through these quite quickly too, which is a good thing, average was about 20 minutes per radio. The part that took the longest was doing the firmware updates. Turns out some of them were so far out of date that I had to do the update in two steps. First to get to 10.00.0001 then again to get them all to 10.10.0001
Well, back there tomorrow for the security, imaging and emergency department and I get help to sweeten the pot. And the best news is that it is a holiday for the school kiddies so no Monday night class :woohoo:
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Then Tuesday thru Thursday at the Federal radio place :thud:
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That is right tomorrow is presidents day ... damn I wish we had a president at the moment
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Right. Sounds like a positively warm evening for you! Heh!
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Possible need for bail money this morning.
Two phones from ye ole leprechaun first saying something about working on the engineering radios at the hospital. :ummm: Those were done on Friday and today I am to get the imaging, security and ER department worked on, ...
oh .... senior tech was with you?
Uh, no he was off on Friday, it was on the work calendar. (that I spent half a day wiring, configuring and setting up that no one but me seems to read and use)
Oh I forgot (says the person who claims he never forgets anything)
Called back the second time and now says that he read the email again and
it states that today is not a good day for you to come out.
It would be better for you to come out on Tuesday
Can't I will be at the Federal center
For how long (reference above statement about memory)
Oh, then it will be either Friday or next Monday
Um, depending on senior tech's schedule he will be able to work on them
Better tell senior tech as he is to meet me there this morning
No confirmation
:sigh:
I better call the hospital rep and confirm,
:duh: That would be best, just go to the shop instead unless I call you back. :thud:
Guess I will be making a phone call
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Well, the good news is no need for bail money.
Other news was at the shop today instead, received more equipment for the one hospital chain MedCom system, got it all documented in more places then I keep socks and installed in my staging rack, not cabled up yet for the final programming and testing but it is ready for that when I get back from the Federal job.
Then there is another visit to the hospital chain to get the PM's that I started under control.
Even heard nonsense about the Disney project which I had already documented earlier ... as in November of last year ... love how timely these people are ... cry about loose ends that I already brought to their attention previously asking for a resolution, yet ignored till now.
:ummm: Maybe I will still need some bail money
Anyone need some public safety antennas in the 800 MHz range with a D pattern and a .75° down tilt ... have five (5) in stock about 12 foot in length with mounting bracket.
Come on you know you want to :tearlaugh:
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Heh Heh Heh !
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Can you say not surprised by how quickly the rack and stack at the Federal place went belly up?
I can ...
I have no idea who does the inventory control of shipments received but boy howdy were they ever off base so very much ... equipment that didn't arrive, equipment that did arrive that should have never been shipped to Orlando to start with and general all around confusion as to what space was available to do the install.
Did I miss anything ... didn't think so
Well, managed to sort out about 60% of the :bs: and got one rack repopulated with the new equipment. Not according to the drawing mainly because whoever drew it obviously has not spent any time here and did a proper documentation of the facility.
Sucks for me to be detail orientated ... only because it seems that others are not capable of doing the same. My point of contact at the facility is, but the project managers form the company I work for ... not so very much ... and they make more money then I ever will :thud: yet they are asking me and my POC what is what and oh by the way could you send those misdelivered item by FedX overnight to Arizona ... seriously ... the POC got it all done up and dropped them off after I had left but still kept me in on the email chain for status updates.
Here is the fun part FedX is not going to the Memphis hub tonight .... obviously weather related, I have not seen so many red "x" on the consoles for the system and all were weather related, how do I know because the console are named by where they are located and I understand the naming convention.
Just saying Dallas Tx was slammed today
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The rest of the week is already looking interesting. Why? Well, it seems that although I am only scheduled till Thursday evening, it is now Wednesday morn and I have yet to see a cable matrix for the project, so this gets cabled up how?
Next apparently someone at the hospital IT department must have got lit up as they are now ready for the system to be cut over, imagine that, however when I asked if the port had been physically tested for connectivity I was told no, the port numbers match and line up in the comm closet, it will be a simple unplug and plug back in and all will work ... so you say ...
Looks like they are going to try and go for Thursday or Friday, sorry can't do Thursday but then again in retrospect I am wondering why senior tech couldn't go out there and take the other two with him to rip the old out, once the new is cut over. Will have to ask why does it need to be me or fair hair genius boy and I can already tell that he wont be going just by his "oh I have this and that to do still this week because of ... this and that"
Nevermind
Friday would be my only day since I am to be done at the Federal place, but I am also to go back to the other hospital site with the senior tech to carry on with the PM's for that place.
Not entirely certain how I get tangled up in crap like this, oh that is right the junior tech is in Sarasota for the rest of Feb for training, and the other two shop people, although good at what they do, have yet to manage to show any imitative to jump in and learn or do anything outside their scope.
Then again those two can barely manage to do any straighten up around the shop .. well anything noticeable that is ... I was hard pressed to tell what changed when asked by the boss. Have already told fair haired genius boy that he will need to send them out to remove the old equipment so the construction folks can carry on and oh by the way why not have them go to the other site and remove the paging equipment from there and while they are at it swing by the last place and install the place marker foe the cabling company to mark where to pull the cable to ... ? Would at least get a full day of billable labor out of them, since all I saw on Monday while at the shop was the pair of them sitting in front of the computer or monkeying around on their phones
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I really need to stop pulling rabbits out of my hat or wherever it is that I am pulling them from, why ?
Despite all of the setbacks, lack of accurate information and still missing equipment I have got everything that can be or could be done on the Federal job completed. Well, minor detail of documentation and labels still left to do but the main thrust is complete and am calling that a win. Why? received a verbal compliment from my POC thanking me for my attention to detail as I brought to his attention that the cable matrix provided had no connections for five devices, two of which were still not delivered as of this afternoon at quitting time.
Made the "engineers" get off their collective asses and do their job ... losers ... wish my pride in doing a good job would take a back seat and let those jacklegs take a fall .... regrettably my work ethics only allows me to do the best I can all the time.
What I dislike is that I got no updates on the other project that I was able to set the senior tech up with since it is a cardinal rule to not do any major system work on a Friday. He went to the Kissimmee hospital site and cut over to the temporary system today supposedly, couldn't get an update from anyone though, no picking up when I tried to call either of them, guess me going home at 5:30 must be supper time for everyone .. well, except me that is :tearlaugh: .. nonetheless you would think that I would get a return call or at least a text ... nope, nada ... :sigh:
Well, tomorrow time to go back to the other facility and continue with PM's, that is after I swing by the shop to pick up the service monitor, could have picked it up on the way home but it is on the way in tomorrow morning anyway and I was tired and over the day anyway.
Still need to work in a time to input label info and then print and apply them ... :ummm:
Oui my head hurts again
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Oh by the way it was install 11 devices and make then run under the floor that is 30 each CAT cables.
And for those of you that might think I had all the room in the world to do these tasks ... NOT
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:lostme: are you telling me that thou has learned the ability to occupy a Space Physically Imposable through the ability to dematerialize! :ifonly:
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Maybe ... shuffles feet innocently
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Well, this has been a weird weekend someone must of lit a cleaning bug in me, granted I do clean and on a regular basis but usually it is a one at a time per day thing. Yesterday did them all at once and didn't stop till all were done.
So unlike me, then to add insult to injury I charged up ye ole weed whacker and did the back yard, at only 250 sq. ft. it is certainly not worth a lawn mowers attention.
And now for the wonderful :whatthe: moment, come home to a notice on the door stating that new mail boxes have been installed and you get a free key .... what the hell do you mean I get a free key, I damn well better get one.
The rude part is that now the mailboxes are up by the office and that is a pain since it is no where near the street I live on, they say it is to cut down on the vandalism of the mailboxes. :ummm: Excuse me, how is that going to help since you lot are seldom there and keep very stupid hours, that people like me are at work to start with, so the question is how do I get my key if you lot are only open while I am at work?
And no they are not open on Saturday or Sunday, might be able to get off in time to swing by on Thursday as that seems to be the only day they are open later ... so a week after they post the notice is the earliest I can get a new key. Wow they really went out of their way to get new keys to the residents.
That was sarcasm BTW
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But, think how safe your mail will be. No-one will be able to get to it.... not even you.
Just inform the people who came up with the high security plan, they're responsible for any financial loss suffered whilst this is in effect. Like... unpaid bills, missed sales, etc...
With toungue firmly in cheek, and being chewed on. 8 )
Good luck Jherr
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:tearlaugh: You got that right
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:thud: They will mail you Your Key! :ifonly: :peek:
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Oh, just remembered, if it designed to restrict access to your mail...
That's a federal crime.
There was a hotel in NY that moved all the post boxes into a "Mail Room", that had set houres of access, the hotel was fined. per day, until it was opened 24\7.
Thoughts to grin by 8 )
Cheers
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The boxes are in the open so that part is good, and the mail is still being delivered to my old mail box so apparently there is some sort of time line for this to be completed.
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So explain to me how someone can look at an install I just finished and see that the two new devices that just showed up, and that they are identical to the previously installed...
And then ask if I have two hole ground lugs for the devices and do you need me to measure the spacing of the holes.
:ummm:
Who the hell do you think installed the other boxes to start with and made all of the ground cables?
Seriously :duh: are these system techs that frelling stupid?
Yea that was a rhetorical question
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Oh just found out the university job which was quoted two years ago and based on reusing the cables as the "equipment was going to be in the same spot" now is 100% false
Someone is getting a adjustment to their final price tag. Oh they want to keep the two that I moved for the temporary install as permanent in that room now :thud:
Making decisions seems to be ever so problematic these days
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:lostme: I Think the Answer is in the Name University They want it all and do not want to pay for it! :ifonly:
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Indeed, someone always want something for nothing. Today was no exception, Spent the first two hours of the morning, making labels for the Federal communications job, go out there and start to apply the labels and :whatthe: is this, they took my cables and plugged them in different ports then what I had been told and when I called them out on it ... all I got was the shrug of the shoulders and oh you got wrong information.
Seriously?
I got it from the PM on Thursday of last week and now on Tuesday this week you claim it is not accurate
:rat-atat:
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Well, have seen a meme more then once about, "I am only responsible for what I say, not what you understood."
Boy howdy was on the receiving end of that today. Not certain on the exact wording of what was said but I am certain that I understood something entirely different.
In essence I heard you need to extend a cable for the record audio, what he must of said was you need to move an entire console position and might have to extend the cable for record audio.
What a nightmare it turned out to be for me, yes we had to relocate a console position. What I found out was that when we remodeled and updated the dispatch center over four years ago, that we got carried away with securing all cables in the cable tray.
Only took seven hours to do the move and boy was I ever cranky by the end of it.
Granted it was mostly minor things that kept popping up on a regular basis but methinks it was the lack of understanding as to what was to be done that was my underlying irritant ... and regrettably I have no one to blame on that since I was the one who totally misunderstood the scope of work.
Sure would have been nice to review the quote for the work instead of just hearing it second hand, because ye ole leprechaun tends to leave out details.
And I wound up paying the price.
Granted I completed it despite the system tech acting like the whiner that he is, I have no mouse, is it plugged in, no video I can't see anything and the list goes on ... damn he is worse then me ... and I know I gripe a lot.
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:ifonly: Are You sure to do not live like this! :lostme:
Rick and morty 3x06 Rest and Ricklaxation comic con Car scene Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvbJT_WY9U
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Uhm, guys, that WAS the 'vacation'! LOL! :woohoo:
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How lovely go in for a doctors visit because this damn mask crap is making my life hell, trying to breath, and we are now the proud owner of a breathalyzer ... I mean inhaler ... as a temporary kind of relief. Have 17,256 other tests to do before it gets nailed down to what exactly is causing grief for me.
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Boy I tell you the medical system is definitely quite convoluted and nonsensical to say the least. Went to get the x-ray done first and after getting the wrong address which the GPS interpreted as correctly as it could and two more phone calls to finally track the place down and arrive late but still all would have been okay if the power had not went down right before I arrived.
:thud:
Finally did get the x-ray now, scheduling the other test has been nothing but an exercise in futility. First time I got a real person they said they couldn't schedule it because the work order had not come in yet. Really, I can read all the details right here and you can locate it that way ... oh no I have to be able to see the work order.
:thud:
God grief, so gave them the 24 hours they claimed was needed and tried to call again lo and behold got caught up in the dread all reps are busy helping others loop wait time is longer then five minutes if you , ... blah, blah, blah ...
Still on hold thirty minutes later and then it goes dead ... :ummm: turns out that when 5:00 PM rolls around everything goes dead period :sigh:
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That is SO like The Government sites!!!!
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You would think that Medical Facilities would at lest have battery back ups in place if not the Server and Back up Tape drives.
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I think you misunderstood. I was on hold to schedule an appointment, end of their day arrived and I was disconnected.
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:woohoo: So a Union Job! Got it! :ifonly:
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Now you can color me :ummm: I just got a call from my doctor, yes today on a Sunday, asking about how the breath analyzer was acting on me, gave her the 411 on all that I have been experiencing since using it. Then she said that she had seen the x-rays of the chest and all looks good there, then asked asked about the pulmonary appointment I was to schedule, and I told her all of the trouble I was having with trying to schedule it.
She was not well pleased with the run around I was getting there and more or less said to let her know if I got no satisfaction by Wednesday.
Oh goody :heeheehee: One can claim they are busy all they want but according to my doctor the first statement they made about the work order not being in the system was false. So we shall see what tomorrow brings in respect to getting the next appointment set up.
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:woohoo: So a Union Job! Got it! :ifonly:
Apparently, if you work reception and schedule appointments ... plus since I did not press the button to put me on call back instead of staying on hold ... who knows how much longer I would have been on ignore ... I mean hold.
Still think I would have been dropped regardless ... but who knows :shrug:
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My doc tink he a geek . . . he compared the bacteria that have eaten my foot bones away to Pac Mans! just munchin away till there is a big gap between the ends of the two bones that used to be connected. Yep, he be GEEK! (grumble rumble saga wuga ARRRRGH!) (da little bastige!)
NOT a work rant in any way. I am Disabled/UNemployed!
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Yes Sir J, you would have been dropped. It Is The Gooberment WAY!
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Tried calling ye ole hospital again to get the appointment set and got the same run around, at this point I am over it. At this point said call the doctor here is the number let us get this sorted.
At last satisfaction. Gods above no wonder the medical system is such a wreck not one arm of the system talks to the other and none of the reference numbers on my paper are used in their system and the list of other complaints I have about it is now longer then my arm, so we will stop for the moment.
Anyway finally get through the all of the red tape and got one scheduled, oh by the way I have to bring the chest x-ray recently taken with me. I just had it last week at one of your facilities. Oh we have no access to those records ... :thud:
Really how frelling difficult do you lot have to make this ....?
Yep, that was a rhetorical question ...
Oh cute I just remembered something that the first person said but was not mentioned today. The first person was crying about a COVID test prior to the appointment, when I scheduled the appointment today nothing was said ... WTF ... roll over.
I should let them figure it out on their own since they want to make life miserable considering that I asked multiple times as to what I need to do, bring and where, not my problem any longer.
Tis so irritating, so far the only silver lining is that the boss now understands that I do have a problem with breathing with a mask for extended time. Arrangements have been made for another to cover for me doing the install for the boat. Would have bit the bullet if and when I got a proper diagnosis on my breathing but it looks like it is being accepted that I do have a legitimate problem.
So I definitely will provide as much back up as I can, since regrettably I am currently the only one who knows the Five W's of the project.
Ah well, :shrug:
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It sucks that I am that conversant on all of the details for all of the multiple jobs pending and upcoming.
Guess that is my job description :thud:
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Well, having all sorts of fun setting up another rack for a third staging project for the folks.
Trbo Nitro
Look it up as I do not know all the details all I know is I have currently a total of 14 firewalls to rack and stack and later on someone is programming them.
Guess who got tasked with inventory, rack and stack of the firewalls, grounding, and building of data cables to enable said programming.
Yep, speaking ....
:sigh:
The follow up news is that this is just the beginning and there will be a significant number more in the future ....
And guess what had to be updated to bring this up to speed for "compliance" yep .. grounding is the word you are avoiding ... However, it is now complete and boy howdy it do look good.
Yes, I know not many people would get excited or have a warm and fuzzy feeling about how an install is grounded.
Well, except me, .... yes ... I have no life ...
The real fun while I was working on this task was we had a dog and pony show at the shop, in other words my bosses boss came by today ... so much fun.
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MOTOTRBO NITRO o.O Radio based VOIP Service?
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Sort of, kind of, on the consumer side, what I am setting up on the back side of the network seems to be more "in depth" for lack of a better word.
But ought to be entertaining to say the least
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Well, not sure about the full sequence of events that caused me to investigate the RAID on Stormbringer but investigate that I did and oh great we have issues.
Such as one of the drives is not recognized and needs "repair"
How lovely ...
The good news is that I use a RAID 10, so it is striped along with being mirrored which "implies" it should repair itself with not to much fuss, case in point it is at 38% already and I am now on a second episode of "The Abominable Snowmen" with Patrick Troughton.
Oops starting a third episode currently at 40% now, so it seems to be going "smoothly" so far ... the truth will be seen in the morning though as it is bedtime for this old timer.
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You have / had spares, right? It just switched to the spare and started the rebuild?
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Apparently as it was complete when I awoke and none the worse for wear
:woohoo:
So not knowing exactly what and where to check for further details I am thinking that ye ole RAID array is back to being healthy
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You can ask the RAID controller when the machine is booting. You need to replace the drive that failed so that it can become a new spare for the NEXT failure.
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Tis a RAID 10, a stripe/mirror config using four drive and based on what I am seeing it is all back to normal. There is no drive listed as a spare so not understanding your remarks at the moment.
Since the controller shows all drives as healthy and functioning normally.
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Well had some fun today with a learning curve. Had ye ole senior tech show me how to program the RGU and deskset remotes for MedCom.
My God in heaven, I sure do understand why he also seems to pull his hair out every time we have to set one of these up for a FSED (free standing emergency department) or hospital.
The good news is I took notes on this config, that I will be able to transcribe into something of use to me so I can assist if needed in the future. Since I certainly do not see myself doing this by myself every time.
Although I sort of, kind of, maybe, can get those parts to talk to each other there is still the matter of the portable radio, repeater and which is the parent hospital to get sorted out as well, and he has those details.
But at least I would be able to assist in the future when needed as long as he vets and checks the works it should be okay going forward.
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Had a different sort of fun today as well, called configuring one of those new fangled label making devices. Three hours later I think I got things up to a starting point, multiple downloads of software pieces and then the same for the phone since this new label maker can be accessed from the smartphone too, although as mentioned I am only about half way to what I desire them to look like, so once I get the computer nailed down then I can focus on the phone concept.
For someone that has to deal with tech these little pieces sure do make things miserable. Big concepts and infrastructure, I can deal with .... :tearlaugh:
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Tis a RAID 10, a stripe/mirror config using four drive and based on what I am seeing it is all back to normal. There is no drive listed as a spare so not understanding your remarks at the moment.
Since the controller shows all drives as healthy and functioning normally.
If I've understood what you were being told by the system, there was a drive failure. That drive will fail again almost certainly. The rebuild will mask it because you have redundancy in your setup. If a drive didn't fail, why was it rebuilding?
This has some comments on RAID 10 and drive failures:
https://superuser.com/questions/1037605/how-many-drives-can-i-safely-lose-in-a-raid-10-array (https://superuser.com/questions/1037605/how-many-drives-can-i-safely-lose-in-a-raid-10-array)
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:ummm: Will have to dig further I see ... however I told it to rebuild, it did not do it on its own.
I had restarted the system and during boot up it gave me the BIOS screen and showed a critical error in the array. So I looked deeper and that is how I found the failure. However the drive showed that it was available to be repaired and that is why I chose that option. It completed it successfully so that is why I assume all is good.
However, there is not to much risk since I have two standard drive of the correct size laying about, plus I have an "enterprise rated" drive of the correct size also laying about the place, damn pack rat nature of mine.
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SIr Knight that is great stuff for SOP man. Troubleshooting At Large! Good stuff. J ya axed the roight question yu did! THAT the drive WAS rebuilding, this says there IS a Problem with it. Mark it and replace it with a new one, the Raid 10 system controller will build it into the array.
Funny, I have repaired many systems with Raid nn in use on them. Every one has had at least one drive failure every time I worked on them too. Gave me the thought, perhaps get my redundancy in a different way. One less costly in the short run. One that uses ALL the assorted drives space for specific data sets but not in any Raid configuration. The results have me using 7 SSD drives internally on SATA3 (6GBps) and backups to BluRay 25 gig disks. Hey, it works! As long as I remember to back up said STuff! LOL!
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Ah, so it is not so much a concept of having to replace it right this second, but be prepared to replace it as the odds of it failing again, have risen.
Next question, since I have not open it up recently just how do you determine which drive is which, on the RAID controller it named it as disk 4 was the ailing one, so is there a spot somewhere on the motherboard that names which one is which?
I really didn't pay attention much back then and it has been a while since it was completed. Wow just checked the email chain from way back, and it has been up and running since late 2015 or early 2016 and this be the first hiccup of major significance
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Oh how boring I just remembered that it is that time of the year again .... it is time for mid term report cards.
:puah:
Came early again for me, I never seem to be able to wrap my head around the concept that I lose days due to school holidays which screws with me getting to the mid term exam prior to having to write these damnable report cards.
Didn't help much that I also have a new textbook this semester and that too was a challenge, trying to present the material since it was the first time giving class discussions on the material. Doesn't help that none still bother to read the chapter let alone thumb the pages.
Well, maybe one does based on his grade, scored 100% on every single exam.
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My colleagues are always surprised by the arrival of Spring Break ("how come there are fewer tickets this week?") and the onset of Finals Week ("where did all these students come from?").
As far as the RAID drive numbers, the cables from the RAID controller usually have numbers on them or on the RAID card cable connectors. Since McG has done a number of RAID system repairs, perhaps if you tell us the card's vendor and model he'll be able to tell you.
RAID 10 has the advantage of fast and safe as long as the drives are OK. With one drive "sick" the likelihood of a second drive failing in the other half of the mirror wiping your setup out is now higher. Not 100% even with a second failure but no longer nearly the same as when all four were OK. I think that superuser web page has some info on that.
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Indeed the school nonsense just floors me every time it rears its ugly head. The only "tin" lining to the whole thing is I do not have to turn the report cards in until the Monday after spring break.
Seems like I did understand your caution on the drives in the array. I did place a phone call to the person that helped with the build and he stated the same thing that the MB is numbered so finding the recalcitrant drive will not be "too" difficult.
As mentioned I do have a total of three drives of the correct size, one of which is an enterprise rated drive.
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I apologize for being persistent in my chicken little imitation but ... The mirroring provides the redundancy. The striping provides the speed. If there is damage on both sides of the mirror, you will lose data.
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Not to worry, it is all good, as I am less savvy on topics of this nature as my knowledge and skill is rudimentary at best
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Granted I do quite well using computers with LAN switches and routers plus firewalls in radio applications. Along with repeaters, base stations, portables and remote desk sets.
Home computers not nearly as savvy :thud: :tearlaugh:
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Never worked on RAID rack mount systems. All were inside rolling full tower PC servers, and no mobo made has RAID markings that I am aware of. Controller Sir Knight? You mean the motherboard, yeah? As in; like my own with built in RAID in the BIOS? I dunno which mobo J is using for StormBringer, but either ASUS or Gigabyte, they have that built in. Even my 13 year old GIgabyte I just pulled out and replaced with the new [ASUS TUF Gaming X570 AM4 Plus WiFi] mobo. That is a mouthful, they ought to work on that.
In a Business, RAID arrays make good sense, but (IMHO) not so much in an individuals home setting.
Unless the individual are maybe hosting a site such as Fantasy Attic or something? :iminnocent:
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Oh Gods above it is quite annoying to write these report cards. Finally got started and did the easy bit, putting the current number grade in and is all work complete and so forth. Finally started to write comments and have two done at this point and "ta-da" writers block :sigh:
Ah well, maybe the anime; Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn, will help
Plus a cup of hot Earl Grey ... what ... no :sake: .... tis weird tried a shot prior to dinner and for some reason it didn't feel "right" it is going to really suck if the meds in the breath analyzer .. I mean inhaler ... do not mix well or at all with me after hours beverage.
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Never worked on RAID rack mount systems. All were inside rolling full tower PC servers, and no mobo made has RAID markings that I am aware of. Controller Sir Knight? You mean the motherboard, yeah? As in; like my own with built in RAID in the BIOS? I dunno which mobo J is using for StormBringer, but either ASUS or Gigabyte, they have that built in. Even my 13 year old GIgabyte I just pulled out and replaced with the new [ASUS TUF Gaming X570 AM4 Plus WiFi] mobo. That is a mouthful, they ought to work on that.
In a Business, RAID arrays make good sense, but (IMHO) not so much in an individuals home setting.
Unless the individual are maybe hosting a site such as Fantasy Attic or something? :iminnocent:
Stormbringer is just a regular tower computer, although it has a bit more muscle then the store bought stuff.
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Raids are for on demand Large Data File storage that must be kept live Tape storage is for large Data File storage for off line or archive. Problem I find is most do not back up any thing and have large fragmentary tape storage that is not been properly stored. Then they call for a forensic Audit. o.O :thud:
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I don't know what pushed your buttons, McG, but I am only trying to help J with disk troubles. Talk to me or not as you like.
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:lostme: Well I do not know what to say except I Say things that Others take Poorly Or as I have been told as I am getting Let Go from a Job. Going What the .... as I am escorted from the building with my Desk stuff put into a Trash bag this is after I had just fixed the Emergency Call From the Department head! To find out latter I was let go so someone's Family member could do my job. Then have the whole system crash and then get Court Papers served on me to Repair or Pay for the Down time of the system that I had not been around for a Year as I was flipping Burgers at Dairy Queen as No one Would Touch me to do what I was trained to do! I Do understand getting Chewed out for something I had no hand in and can feel your pain. as for the whole Drive going bad I am suspired it has been up for as long as it has been with all the horrible storms you got over there in Florida! :thud:
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Sorry about that J, I just deleted it. You have the umpfh and Ooohh! and Space TO do the site. But I doubt you'd have the bandwidth needed to handle a pile of Users simultaneously. Meanwhile, back at the RAID... I'd have to figure out which drive it is same way you'll have to, most likely.
Ideally, you would have racks with drive trays and nice neat cabling all around. And YOU would definitely label the stuff with Ability To Easily Identify Later in mind while doing it. I wonder at the times I have had to replace my own labels on the drives installed in MY crate. Cause WinDoze has its own ideas what to label which. And now, sheesh I got 8 going in. Brand and drive size are sometimes a help. But with RAID 10 you have like 5 drives, all the same, but numbered how? The damn programs usually do what the coder wanted years ago in another state or country, and not at all what WE need em to. Grrr.
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Sorry Sir Knight, I am usually more resilient than I showed everyone a while ago. I find out tomorrow morning what my scalpel happy podiatrist wants to do to me. And whether I get up and walk out of and away from the VA Medical care or not.
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Don't know what was said, am glad to hear it was deleted ... however, no squabbling in here ... all can have opinions just don't get riled up about them, as no one is right about everything.
Explain why you think your comment is correct and let us all listen and decide for ourselves as to whether or not it works for the situation being described.
That is the basis for constructive conversation .... yes ....
Made no further progress writing progress reports last night ... :thud: ... thank goodness I have until the 22nd to get them completed.
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I don't want to pressure you J, but 22 is next Monday :lostme:
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I know, I have this week off from school due to spring break and class reconvenes on the 22nd so therefore I have till then to complete them. So technically seven days to write 16 more progress reports.
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I see you got Quill and Well right there!
:whereizit: :(DEVILISH): :dominatrix: :sexy3: :gremlin: :yippee: :viking:
Don't be a SLACKER J-man! Git bizzy! ;o)
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Careful I actually do own quill pens and an inkwell.
:tearlaugh:
and yes I can use them skillfully .... been a couple of decades since the last time but like the proverbial bicycle one ne'er forgets
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imagine the expressions of the students recieveing Caligraphic reports.
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Well, learned something new about computer maintenance.
Been having random programs go into the "not responding" mode and raising the irritation levels of me. Was shown a command prompt that actually fixed the issue.
sfc /scannow
That prompt found several on the work laptop and it finally stopped being a severe pain in my gluteus maximus
Was so pleased by it I did the same thing to my home systems.
Well, first thing I had to do was go in administrator mode and then reboot as there was apparently an unapplied update that had to be completed first.
Bottom line once I got past all of that and ran the command line, no problems were found, so the reboot that I was unaware of fixed a multitude of hidden problems.
:yippee:
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That would blow them all away to say the least, along with the coordinator and the employers who also get a copy of the progress report :heeheehee:
I love calligraphy
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Well, had one of those days that makes one think we should have stayed home and read books instead ... although if I had done that I guess what happened today would not have been averted ... just delayed.
Got to work this morning and thought naught of it, till later the OL (office lady) said my truck was leaking all over the bay floor.
Again thought naught of it, just said that it was marking its spot. :tearlaugh:
Went out and looked and ... oops ... at least it looked like water or maybe antifreeze.
So drove it to ye ole repair shoppe and yep the verdict was returned, no it wasn't a broken hose or fitting ... of course not it never is anything simple, easy or inexpensive, it was the water pump.
:sigh:
Thank goodness it is a company vehicle and covered. Although I am thinking the people that approve repairs might want to get some basic automotive concepts under their belt.
The mechanic told me later when I picked up my truck said they called back twice, not once but twice and asked the same question "Was the repair/replacement of the water pump necessary?"
:thud: Seriously :thud:
What did you think I just wanted it replaced because ... oh I don't know, I didn't like the color ... :whatthe: ... morons
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Had a Water Pump Snap off and was hanging from the hose But the engine never got hot o.O
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I am never that fortunate
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Well, this should be cute, got a drawing yesterday of how they want to configure the testing rack that I am building.
Pretty much all that I have already done is wrong.
Well, truth be told I wasn't told anything when I started so I did suspect it was not going to be even close, but I didn't expect to see what I am seeing on the detail ... :shrug: ... no big deal it is not like I had anything cabled up so no foul there, my grounding solution is useless going forward though ... whatever :sigh: darn and I thought I had a pretty good trick going on there.
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imagine the expressions of the students recieveing Caligraphic reports.
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Imagine the expression at the secretariat, and the one by the director and his first hand when we received a full calligraphied letter at the beginning of 2020. Three pages! And the guy had even written the same letter to 2 other branches of the administration. Not just copies, he wrote them a second and third time, we could see little difference between letters.
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Imagine the expression at the secretariat, and the one by the director and his first hand when we received a full calligraphied letter at the beginning of 2020. Three pages! And the guy had even written the same letter to 2 other branches of the administration. Not just copies, he wrote them a second and third time, we could see little difference between letters.
Awesome :thumb_up:
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Sorry Sir Knight, I am usually more resilient than I showed everyone a while ago. I find out tomorrow morning what my scalpel happy podiatrist wants to do to me. And whether I get up and walk out of and away from the VA Medical care or not.
It's not a problem for me at all. I want you to know that you are in my prayers every day for improved health, particularly your feet.
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Got the copy of the x-rays of ye ole lungs and opened them up on the computer and about had to be resuscitated.
Looking at it and seeing about 15% of the left lung is not visible when compared to the right side.
What the unholy hell is this and why is my doctor and the report saying all is good . :ummm:
So had to educate myself on how to read and interpret a chest x-ray.
Turns out the "missing portion" on the left side is actually my heart. :duh:
Yes, folks I have a heart ... I know it is a surprise to me too, since I tested negative for emotions but there it is, properly situated and with no abnormalities ... so there ... :@u:
Couldn't resist :tearlaugh:
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We all know you have a heart... for Kianna :ifonly:
Yep, chest is full of things "crossing" together under some angles.
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Only problem with that is that Kianna has her heart set on Luffie.
So :shrug: we are not in the running at all
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Oh how wonderful my hands and fingers have just gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs
Why ..
The project manager for the Nitro project showed up and brought a cable matrix with him ... :sigh:
For the first time ever in all the years I have made cable I have now had my first severe cramp in my hand, severe in the respect that fingers that are only supposed to move and bend so far ... well, let me say this .... :soapy: was the best I could do for words for some little time.
Don't think I have had my little finger decided to relocate to the second joint of the first finger. The rest of the fingers decided to try and do equally unpleasant contortions, then the palm of the hand joined in on the fun. Still feeling the twinges and cramps in me hands and this is now five hours since ...
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Goodness! That sounds incredibly painful. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Have you changed what you eat or drink?
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How to relieve hand cramps?
These include:
stopping any activity which is causing the hands to cramp.
stretching muscles.
massaging or rubbing the muscles.
applying heat or cold.
taking certain vitamins and supplements may be helpful, although this will depend on the cause and a person's medical history.
increasing fluid intake.
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No changes in the normal day to day eat and drink.
Trust me it was a one shot deal today, more then likely :pweez: ... granted I did all of the above palliatives to ease the pain and things were better afterwards.
It was mainly the surprise of ... knock, knock ... here let me twist your fingers and palm into new and interesting shapes not fit to describe in any detail
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Ummm....It's a Age Thing..... :ifonly:
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Says the ancient one to the youngster :tearlaugh:
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It's not a problem for me at all. I want you to know that you are in my prayers every day for improved health, particularly your feet.
I appreciate and thank you for that, Sir Knight.
That doctor visit went surprisingly well and brief today. No surgery under general anesthesia, anyway. Just the usual 'trimming' of the wound, then wrapping the feet and legs and send me home. After all the stuff going on the last full year and a half with just the one wound on rt foot, I was elated. Will be SURE to keep working the blood sugars down. Magic number is 100. It's alright if I bracket that, 24 on either side.
High Sugar = greater swelling = ulcers. Which = Doc talking chop chop da foot/leg. I got the message.
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Heh! OR Apply One (01) Nurse named Kianna! :D Improved oxygen intake (from Running!) will also alleviate said cramps!
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Well, thank goodness that is not one of the line items (diabetes) I have to be worried about ... at this time.
Since I know ye ole bipedal organism can go cuckoo at any given time or reason ....
Glad to hear you have it figured out and know what is needed to stay that way.
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Heh! OR Apply One (01) Nurse named Kianna! :D Improved oxygen intake (from Running!) will also alleviate said cramps!
That is my whole problem, I have difficulty breathing under exertion and from wearing that damn face diaper. Put them both together you might as well make a call for an :ambulance:
Even just sitting still or standing up after about 15 minutes 20 tops I am short of breath period.
So hope to find out where the deficiencies lies on Thursday at some point, as all the other x-rays and cardio tests say I am good to go, Yet when teaching class and giving a non stop lecture for two hours plus .... with a mask, nope can't do it .... working on a system ... with a mask, nope can't do it.
Can not wear those damn things and quite frankly will not unless forced due to the above reasons. Besides I am not sheep ....
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I know, I have this week off from school due to spring break and class reconvenes on the 22nd so therefore I have till then to complete them. So technically seven days to write 16 more progress reports.
Progress wrote another four last night brings me up to 6 out of 18 ... I am on a roll ... :tearlaugh:
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Things are getting interesting around the ranch now. Getting pressure to get alarm points landed at the resort, hmm not sure how to make that happen since the parts haven't arrived yet. Then apparently there are other tweaks and so forth that need to be done while there that yesterday was the first time I heard of them. Got to love the ever changing target and list of things to do. NOT
Then there is parts coming in for the two MedCom installs do not have enough to do either one in its entirety. Getting questioned as to when it will be done though , :sigh: hey talk to the vendors ... I have done all I can do and am waiting on others. Best place to be in my opinion ....
Then we got a new mobile for the EMS department, what is the truck number, still waiting on that answer, plus the side question, when I asked for a truck number he was surprised that I already had it since it was not scheduled for delivery till May and there will be another dozen by years end. Well, if you want to save a couple of dollars you might want to tell that info now so I update the code plug once instead of doing it every single time you get a new truck and then have to reprogram the whole fleet again and again and again.
That becomes expensive very quick if I have to charge you 12 times to update the code plug and then program the whole fleet so all of them are in the channel pool.
Although if I was a disreputable person I would have just kept my mouth shut ... but I didn't ... guess there is hope for me after all.
Then there is this Nitro demo rack that I mentioned that looks like it will be a whole new ball game for me. The bracket for the UPS was not made properly at the factory, the cable to connect to the battery pack is either wrong or the connection on the back of the UPS is wrong ... flip a coin ... it is one or the other. They are still farting around doing the programming of the switch and such, not my concern at the moment, if at all, however it does hold me up from getting it set up, configured from an installation point of view to turn it into an assembly line for cranking these devices out.
And to make it real interesting I am receiving material for three other jobs that just magically appeared out of the blue. Neither the boss or the OL knows anything about them ... :thud: ... which in a nutshell means no site walk has been done so no installation hardware has been ordered. Oh and let me not forget about the boat install next month, supposedly that is still happening.
Here I though I was going to have a peaceful month for a change of pace. :tearlaugh:
NOT
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Does receiving look something like this?
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That looks a bit thin, Sir Knight. That room might oughta be half full! J's missing stuff might make up that much by itself though.
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Pretty darn close although the row of boxes should be three deep all the way down. Plus I don't see the three rolls of 1/2" heliax cable that I am missing.
Where are the 10' 1.9" galvanized mast pipes :tearlaugh:
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Truth be told it only looks as bad as this ... today.
The parts room is just one side of the room and only has eight (8) projects sorted.
The antenna pic was just a demo that we set up for testing a RLB on my Viavi service monitor.
The last one is two racks with two different hospital MedCom build outs and the other with all the lovely Juniper firewalls is my latest staging project.
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Heeyyy! Looks like fun to me! :D
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Could be all sorts of fun once the project managers get their act together as in the how and why parts. They are still debating that concept :sigh:
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How lovely, got back from the doctors appointment for further digging into my breathing issue
Tentative diagnosis of dyspnea is now upgraded to bronchial asthma
Tentative med is now upgraded from a two drug breathalyzer to a three drug breathalyzer .... I mean inhaler.
Oh joy ... just what I always wanted ... NOT
Have to get a full set of pulmonary tests ran and here is the fun part it is scheduled for April 1st ... yep ... April Fools Day ... :thud: :duh:
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They ran some sort of asthma check on me while there and let me tell you that was the most obnoxious test ever, inhale until all the lights are lit up and then exhale slowly but keep it in the green zone of the tester ... what the unholy hell is that all about ... All I have to say is that it just about set me in a tizzy.
The breathing in part was fine but trying to exhale in a slow steady and keep it between the lines :rat-atat: it had a number score after the test was over and apparently my score puts me right in the "danger zone" the low side in theory.
However just trying to get through that test definitely is giving me grief at the moment.
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I had a cardio stress test treadmill once. Had to go at a dead run for some 11 minutes. I made it 9.5 and felt my heart do a 'flomp!', and the head cardiologist hollered "STOP!" and I did. He asked me if I felt that. I said it was one of those things you cannot miss. I mean we only got the one heart, yeah?! When it does something different, you notice that. But never did one of those pulmonary function level tests. Nor do I plan to. J, you have been exposed to lots of dusts, right? I figure that is the cause of your problem. The material(s) the damned face masks are made of are close to non-porous. But but but BUTT we can't have droplets escaping into the general environment! Bullshitters. I bought a bunch of them, and use the ones easiest to get on. They ALL severely restrict flow of air.
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And that is the problem in a nutshell, the face diaper restrict airflow to the point of making it nigh impossible for me to breath, and if you expect me to either talk or work, it is now to the point of just call the :ambulance: now and get them on the way.
Did a cardio test last year and had to try and do it with the mask on, got to the last minute and made the nurse pull the mask down so I could breath or I would not have been able to complete it.
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Of course no-one told you there was NO Backpressure on the exhaust breath. they're going slow and steady, I'm going... Lungs empty. still measured 120% cap. that was 20 years ago, now? heh its get that tube out of my face or get a larger one.
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Indeed no telling what those people are or were thinking. At any rate normal I am not and trying to comply with the test parameters yesterday was "ahem" challenging to say the least.
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Oh and for a little clarity those pictures of my parts room. That is just the hardware parts for a project none of the actual radio or electronics.
I do store electronics in there some of the time but not always as those items are typical racked and staged and tested for the project before taking them out for installation.
Just add some fun to my Friday, there has been no less then three deliveries over the last three hours that now have the parts room a bit more "stuffed"
And oh joy just got the shelves for the Nitro project and they are the biggest abomination of a shelf unit I have had the misfortune to :soapy: with, yes I have used them before. Didn't like them then and still don't ...
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And to add insult to injury they are to narrow to accommodate the SRX-345
Called ye ole project manager and told him "oops"
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Rack Expanders or New Rack?
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Not certain I understood the remark.
They shipped shelves that bolt inside of the rack (we have a two post config) and due to that it loses interior width which now means the SRX Junipers will not lay in the shelf at all.
Which is not what they were hoping to have going forward on this project.
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oh I see I was wondering how Self mounting units needed a shelf. :lostme:
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They do not want me to put the rack ears on them and bolt them in the rack.
They seem to think that they will be pushing these out in a rapid manner, so why go through the extra effort of putting rack ears on them if I just have to take them off again.
And if on a shelf they can push the program out remotely and then all I have to do is box it back up again and ship it.
Sure, right, whatever you say :thud:
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will they fit on the shelf if you put them in side ways?
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Oh can you flip the shelf up side down and place the unit on it that way?
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Turning sideways would be no good, as then the plugging in of them for power and data connectivity is compromised to the point of nigh impossible. The grounds would be okay but that is just incidental in the long run.
As for turning it upside down that had not occurred to me and since the firewalls are just sitting there and not to be secured that might work, will have to test fit one on Monday and see if that would work. Based on what I can see in my head it should work, as I am not dealing with the thickness of the sides of the shelf any longer.
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Well, thought I would put out an update on the new breathalyzer that now has three drugs in it instead of the original two.
I can say one thing it has a distinctive taste ... can't describe it or compare it to anything since I have no reference, the only thing in its favor is that at least it is not totally unpleasant ... definitely feels different too, originally I would have said I had some tightness in the chest ... however now it is more like I am tender instead, as if muscles that were once tight are now relaxed.
Poor description but it is the best I can come up with ... which just makes me think that I have been ailing a lot longer then I am aware of ... which begs the point as to how have I been able to traipse about with an "asthma" condition for as long as it has been (unknown length of time) and never been hampered or hindered to such a degree that I would have sought medical attention.
Granted I am not that active of a person in regards to lots of running, jumping (for Joy) and exercise beyond the typical jumping to conclusions yet there are memories of me exerting myself and yes, I do recall becoming short of breath and sweating profusely. So :ummm: methinks I have been running at half revs for some little time and was never aware of it.
Leave it to me to be different or is that difficult guess the next two doctor visits are going to be all sorts of fun to say the least.
First one is they want a "sheep" test for that flu variant and also blood work to see if there is some sort of allergen triggering things. Yes, there is an allergen it is called a "face diaper" mainly because prior to having to wear that abomination I could breath, although I am beginning to see that I was not breathing properly to start with, the "face diaper" just brought it to a head and made me realize I have been having problems for several years if not longer.
Disturbing thought
The second is a full pulmonary function test, that ought to be ever so much fun .... that was sarcasm ... granted I have no ide what one of those tests is like, but it will certainly be most likely enlightening ... I hope ... granted I have only been using the new inhaler for two days but there are subtle changes when I first used it so :shrug: it should show up in the exam ... one would think.
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I am more to think that you came into contact with something or other and you over time became more sensitive to the material also the mask maybe made with some kind of chemical that you normally do not come into contact with as most masks are made in China who knows what kind of junk they used on those masks! Might ask the Doctor to do a allergy test.
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Well there is a allergy test scheduled although it is via a blood test so not certain how in depth or thorough it will be, so there is that for a start.
I do recall whilst younger that we did have reactions during the "hay fever" time of the year, though that was not very often, but when I did have one, oh my giddy aunt they were quite an event. Haven't had one of those in centuries though, as to any other allergy producing items :shrug: guess we will find out after Monday's test.
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Another point against me is in my younger days I was working in construction as an electrician, well that was all mostly new construction which means lots of lovely dirt in the air from site prep to dry wall dust and other lovely items during construction down to spray painting of rooms and the exterior and let us not forget paving of parking lots.
So after 21 years in commercial construction and having been a smoker during most of that time, yeah definitely got a couple of strikes against me. The last 10 years I have been in radio and that at least is slightly less filthy in the air quality department.
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Two school related tasks done.
All report cards are written out, printed and signed.
A reference for the midterm exam has been created just in case there are students that whine about just where is the material located.
Got a reply to the text saying "hey what if I flip the shelves upside down", said that he awaits the outcome of the experiment.
Have the standard task now to make a couple days worth of lunch and start prepaying bills for the month of April. :tearlaugh:
Guess I should work in doing my taxes soon ... or is that next. :shrug: decisions, decisions
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I think they moved the Federal Tax Day forward. I'm not sure about Florida.
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Yup...Nationwide....changed to May 17, 2021....
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As long as ye ole embarrassment in charge doesn't try to foul things up
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How about that ye ole TurboTax site just sent out an email stating the same thing
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Political commentary from TurboTax? :pervy: :nopanic;
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No just trying to get me to use their service. I had ran my numbers once on their site as a check on my competence and now I get pestered by them every year.
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Have fun....got to get mine done soon also. I use Turbo Tax.
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? Fun ? .... I am assuming that is a definition I am unfamiliar with for that particular word
:puah: I would rather try to trim Watanuki's claws instead ... without having any catnip stuffed in his face to mellow him out.
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LOLOL.....Thankfully Lorna takes care of Oz's claws and she does the SAME THING. She call it getting him into a Catnip High :tearlaugh:
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Now for something different
Cable gore
... with capital letters
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What nicely bundled rats nests.... [sarcasm implied]. and you had to clean those up?
I truly feel for ye Jherr
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Fortunately, no I did not have to go anywhere near those beautiful installations :puah:
Those pics are from the magazine I get for teaching how to install cable ... correctly ... :iminnocent:
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:lostme: as the coastguard says if you got the extra cable you will need more! o.O
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Did you already find on your way such mess? If so, you would take that in photo and sent it to the magazine :panic:
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True oh so very true.
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Did you already find on your way such mess? If so, you would take that in photo and sent it to the magazine :panic:
Fortunately those are from the magazine and not something encountered in real life.
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How cute the blood allergen test came back and I am apparently highly allergic to cat dander and dust mites.
I am also sending the nurse aide that took my blood back to school, it's been two days and that spot is black and blue and she only jabbed it once but my goodness I have never had one bruise up on me like this one did ... amateurs :sigh:
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If you are as allergic to cats than my Mom, or even a girl who was at the High School with me, don't worry. None of them is really allergic in fact, but the docs need years to understand that in the second case.
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I can see the dust mite but the cat is Fishy as you have had cats before. o.O
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Unless it was always there and has only now decided to get more pronounced but yes methinks it is fishy sounding.
I know that I am not the worlds best housekeeper also so I certainly can buy into the dust thing easily. I do vacuum once a week with a HEPA filter vacuum and although I have carpet upstairs I am mostly downstairs and the only carpet here is the living/dining room area.
However since I was also to take a test for the latest scare version, which I did at the same time as the blood work, they have rescheduled my pulmonary test for a third time and it is now on Monday of next week, instead of two weeks from now.
oh BTW yes I came back negative, I knew I would, it is just the principal that I object to regarding that test.
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:ifonly: Lucky You do not have to go to China As they take theirs up the ass! :thud:
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Indeed that would be a guaranteed fight starter there and yes I see a body count in the works if they tried that crap here.
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Or like the song says "let the bodies hit the floor"
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Any way moving on had a bit of a flap over the new breathalyzer, was talking yesterday at work and it got to the point of wow I am short of breath again ... not a good feeling whatsoever, took a while for me to get back to "normal" put a call in to the doctors office, first mistake was trying to talk to the receptionist. "Please leave a message, as they are away from the desk"
Seriously
So left a message and after an hour with no call back. Tried again, same drill, hung up and tried option two, aha got someone, explained the deal and they were surprised because apparently 'trellegy' is supposed to improve ones breathing.
Told you I wasn't normal
After another hour or longer wait for a call back we finally got one this time. Told to stop using it, sort of figured that but it was the next statement that was funny, "keep using the Albuterol though ... :thud: I don't have or use that to begin with .... silence on the other side.
I show such and such pharmacy as your preferred, ... correct .... you need to stop by and pick this scrip up tonight.
Well, now so this is now interesting as the mechanics for using this is different from the other. I think I managed it last night since I was still not 100% when I got home but can see this is going to require some little practice to get used to it. Considering it is supposed to be two puffs every four hours or as needed :thud:
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Surprise, surprise apparently my students are getting it, gave the mid term exam on Wednesday and the lowest score was a 91%
That was quite nice to witness, since it did appear as if they were having trouble previously. So liking that we are indeed.
The only problem I see is that it took a couple of folks the better part of two hours to do a 100 question multiple guess exam.
What is going to happen to them when they take the journeyman's for the license.
That is 80 questions and they get three hours to do it, however it is all code questions, granted they do not have to state where in the code book they found the answer but still if you do not know it or how to find it you are going to eat up a lot of time.
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Surprise, surprise apparently my students are getting it, gave the mid term exam on Wednesday and the lowest score was a 91%
That was quite nice to witness, since it did appear as if they were having trouble previously. So liking that we are indeed.
...
A clear testimony to the quality of the teacher. Well done!
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Surprise, surprise apparently my students are getting it, gave the mid term exam on Wednesday and the lowest score was a 91%
That's pretty cool compared to past classes you've graded.....Now give them all a "Pat on the Back"
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You sure you don't mean a kick in the pants?
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Well, me theory was born out once more, Motorola has more pin out configs then a dog has fleas.
It never ends with those guys, turns out it was the third time that was a charm for getting things to finally work. Truly annoying how crazy some of their projects can get, they were trying to remote into the switch and terminal server and boy howdy as mentioned, it was one of those tooth, fang and claw days for them and in between each time of testing, I made another version of the cable.
Well, as mentioned by the end of the day the third time worked across the board. During all of the fun and games there, we received the shelves for the SRX's and I started to put those in the rack and rebuild the config of the rack now according to the drawings.
It is starting to look like something now except I keep finding other shall we say wrinkles, such as the shelves are a two parter and with limited rack space I have to put them in precisely ... no big deal in normal circumstances, however one does also have to take the ground cage into consideration ... and boy is that putting a spanner in the works.
Well, did get the top four shelves in place and moved the SRX's to their final spot, pulled the rack ears off and made it how it was to be in the first place. So getting there at long last.
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:lostme: how did the shelf thing work out?
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They are working out fine I just have to relocate the cable/ground brackets on the back of the rack to allow the shelves to be installed.
So far they are working out fine, so once I get them in, I can reinstall the ground cage.
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Are they upside down or right side up? o.O
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Right side up and now my SRX's slide in as intended
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:woohoo: That is good to hear was wondering if it was going to be a nightmare.
Congrats on getting Students to Learn to put their names on other peoples work must be aiming for government work! :ifonly:
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Could be you know how this generation is being raised and steered.
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Well, the one positive thing about these breathalyzers is that it has certainly slowed my imbibing of ye ole fermented beverages down ... a lot ...
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Went in for ye ole breathing tests and oh my giddy aunt not what I was expecting, not that I had any idea of what to expect but man oh man did I have to take several breaks in between. Took the first one multiple times before I got two that were the same, also found out that the new inhaler was actually only to be used as needed not ever four hours just because, fortunately when I was using it during the day it was needed so calling that serendipity.
However I did use before going in so that had to be notated, since the effects of it will skew the results.
In the meantime the many different ways to breath in and out and so on were quite crazy for lack of a better term. The fun one "sarcasm" was normal breathing to start with and then start panting .... :tearlaugh: have not done any of that since the last time I was :pervy: ... the nasty bit was while panting they block off the mouthpiece to prevent ability to expel the air in a normal fashion. I understood the why's and wherefore of the explanation for the test before she began so there is that, but when that thing slammed shut .... oh my giddy aunt.
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:ifonly: Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Indeed and since they call medicine a "practice" ... not overly confident one tiny little bit
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Well, not confident about tomorrow, first off supposed to go to the Disney hotel, see an email saying that the point of contact is in meetings all week. I relayed that message since we were to go out tomorrow with other to finish it up.
Knot heads response is that security can let you in ... umm I need someone to let me know which lines are usable for the extra antennas that need to be installed, since I haven't been there in forever and not having any idea which ones might be earmarked for other projects. So a security guard is going to be able to tell me that or even get me up to the antenna array on the roof.
Yes, the system tech can shoot the lines and pick the best one and all but is the new antenna up there and where is the GPS antenna at?
Not holding my breath ... sorry
Ah well, not my problem, it is so frustrating to point out logistics that is then ignored and then get flack because it is not complete. :soapy: :rat-atat:
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Again with the "sorry we have to reschedule your follow up appointment" ... seriously do these folks have any clue as to whom is where and when they are available.
The real amusing part is that oh we can schedule a virtual visit ... sure, right, let us think about this I would need a connection and then something to do the visit with, and please do not tell me to use my phone I have note pads that have bigger screen area.
Well, have an in person one scheduled now.
Then we get more fun and games ... we need to schedule your cardio visit .... :ummm: ... next thing I know there is like three follow up calls and texts from them trying to schedule one. Well, spoke and found out that yes, one was to be scheduled ... imagine that ... well if you say so what time do you want to shoot for .... got that sorted.
Then I got a text message stating that my scrip was ready to be picked up ???? How odd since I haven't had my follow up as to their idea of a treatment plan .... so how are they filling a scrip if even I do not know what the new treatment plan is going to be ... and I thought my life was paralyzingly dull, boring, tedious and commonplace.
:thud:
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:ifonly:
Meade's Maxim:
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. just like everyone else.
Keith's Observation:
The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
Chisholm's Second Law:
Proposals, as understood by the proposer, will be judged otherwise by others.
Corollary 1: If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet with everyone's approval, somebody won't like it.
Corollary 3: Procedures devised to implement the purpose won't quite work.
Corollary 4: No matter how long or how many times you explain, no one is listening.
T. H. White's Conclusion:
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
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I certainly need to practice on being less of a "verbal" squeaky wheel during working hours. Which truth be told I am getting better, a long way to go mind you but ... baby steps get you where you want to go ... eventually ...
And keep it in this forum where those in charge can't read how I really feel.
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Well, it is official we have the wonderful "bronchial asthma" condition
The results are official from the allergy tests as well, yep allergy panel came back with some truly horrific numbers overall score is supposed to be between 0 to 25 .... I scored a 777
:thud:
And the top two culprits coming in at number one is two versions of the perennial "dust mists" (26.xx) followed by "cat dander" (9.xx)
So although I am allergic to my cat it is certainly not as bad as the ever present dust mites.
Don't quite know how to clean that well, since I one of those people that clean only when it gets past the point of "mind over matter" ... if I don't mind it doesn't matter
So guess I am going to have to clean better ... :thud: sure me whatever ... well it is either that or the doctor is going to recommend a series of immunotherapy shots to try to get my body to develop a better response to the allergy triggers.
The downside to something like that is that there is no guarantee that it will be effective and/or lasting in effect.
So back using the Breo and have a "rescue inhaler" for when it becomes bad, so we shall see what occurs in the next three months,
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:lostme: How often to you clean your Ac Unit and change the filters?
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Yep, top on the list according to the filters I bought they can last three months which is fine, however if one never write down when they were changed :shrug:
So changed it and yes it did need it so wrote it on the calendar and will probably do it monthly instead of every three since I have issues.
Same way with the HEPA filter in the vacuum going to have to become more religious on changing it
Which is not much of a start but a start it is
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My cats veterinary doctor explained Humans allergies to cats thusly: we generally ARE allergic to certain enzymes contained in feline saliva. And guess what is left all throughout their coats from self cleaning? Dried saliva. ergo - DANDER. [gives gracious bow, exits stage left!]
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Oh how lovely NOT
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How annoying redid the tax estimate after I had contributed to my 401K hoping it would bring the amount I have to pay in by a decent margin
NOT
Put in $250 and the change is slightly more then $50 .... really ... what a crock. Granted I did add to my retirement account, but to see only a puny adjustment to what I have for this years tax burden is a big disappointment.
:shrug:
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So TRUE! The company I had a 401K with added language AFTER we signed that they could appropriate our saved funds to help the Company out if they were in dire straits (basically). Which they DID. And also tried to force us to accept our remaining funds in annuity. DECLINED. So I took my 401K and vested Defined Benefit Pension (which they could not touch) in lump sum payments. One Each. The bankruptcy judge (theirs not mine) approved the Employees claims and ordered all paid as court declared. The Company even had a salaried individual doing his best to 'guilt' us into GIVING our monies up to the company to help them survive. At that point it was to help the salaried individuals to survive. Nope. I still have not got over their stealing $100,000.00 from my 401K account. It left me $26,000.00 for ME. SO. Our IRS also said plainly we were not able to claim the money the company (mis)appropriated. Only a judge in courts could get that done. I ended up having to pay the IRS some money that year. No refund. Sigh.Jherrith all this text is simply in commiserating with you bud!
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Wow don't quite have that situation going on here, most thankful.
At least do not think it is happening.
But haven't seen that type of clause before but now you are making me want to check out the company 401K. The other that I have is a personal one, both a 401K and a ROTH and is just managed by a financial institute. Hope they do not have any such nonsense hidden in the fine print.
More legalese to check into ... now my head is starting to hurt ... again ... dammit
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New one for the cuckoo nest been hearing rubbish about home values at work. Ye ole senior office lady, that actually has more of a clue in my opinion (then the junior), mentioned that housing prices are going up and that places like mine are becoming more attractive.
Really, wonder if this means my mortgage is no longer upside down.
Well, according to "Zillow" which I have been told low balls the price of real estate, indicates that my place is no longer under water compared to what I owe.
:yippee:
And since ye ole senior bench tech was able to sell his place and in three days, granted it is a true house with a pool. Whereas I live in a community, however it was still nice to see that the estimated value above what I owe and by more then a couple of dollars.
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Disturbing email was just read, apparently the folks in Canada are plagued by masks that have a certain chemical in them, which guess what, makes your life even more miserable trying to breath, then without the mask.[/font]
Health Canada issued an advisory and asked distributors to recall face masks that contain graphene or biographene, citing potential inhalation risks.
As in short of breath, wheezing, and all the other symptoms of dyspnea ... which I did not have prior to wearing those damn things.
Trying to find out if the ones I use are in that category and cannot confirm or deny the statement, although the fact that they are made in China doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
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Wow just ran into the most intolerant bunch on Facebook while replying to a post on a Dr. Who related page. Said to hell with wearing masks and that they are not effective and my God in heaven the gates of Midian must have opened wide ... never have received so much hate and vituperative responses and it was still going on today.
So sad having to block a page just because of the hate being spewed from the other followers of the group.
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Even the made in France, by Dim, are a mess. I don't remember the product used, but it was found... only once our dictator almost strangled alone with one of their masks. Many of those masks were given to the administration people.
I'm just glad when I have to wear one I take those made by my grandma.
Even the chirurgical ones aren't efficient against viruses, so :shrug:
Concerning fb, there are a lot of stupid people there. And they eat what they see in the news :shrug:
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To right, and as proven by science, the holes in the mask are larger then the virus, so in essence it is as effective as a chain link fence against mosquitos.
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:shh2: :odd: FB :thud: If People Read the Box the mask comes in it would say on the side that the masks inside do not protect against Covid 19 but are used to give the Feebler minded a Pacifier to ease their sheep mind. This was true Before Covid and even now These are the same People Who would send anyone who "Wrong Thinks" to the Reeducation Camps in Siberia. Aka Gulag
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You got that right and to add insult to injury the freaking masks are made in China, right where the virus came from to begin with ... plus the fun part was the disclaimer on that page stating about no denigrating, hate speech and so on and so forth ... yep guess that only applies to sheep that agree with everything being scribbled.
At any rate choke them and just to be official I have a "hand unicorn" :upurs2: just for each one of them
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Well, lookee' there went to see if any new crap was written back in regards to the original comment I made about masks not being cool and so forth and the entire thread was purged, erased, deleted ... whatever
guess that admins of pages do follow the rules of the page took them long enough ... but as it is written don't care since I unfollowed and blocked the page as I do not have time in my day for the rubbish I saw being displayed.
Yes, every one has an opinion but no one has the right to slam you for yours.
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The VA says and still maintains that the masks are required to protect other people from the wearers 'droplets' while coughing, sneezing, talking. That they do stop the wearers airborne fluids is why they are still required on all Federal campuses. Especially the VA Med Centers campuses. THAT said, I wear what I can breathe through, as just about anything stops the moisture. A note here: stop the moisture, stop the diseases spread WITH the moisture.
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So in essence it has only been since this virus came around that airborne droplets and fluids were discovered and shown to exist?
And if these airborne droplets are so dangerous then why are we wearing a mask to trap them, so we can breathe them back in our lungs again and keep the so called "contaminates" cycling in and out of our own bodies?
Who is being protected, and how does that work ...?
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So had half of the day being asked as to the why and wherefores on multiple projects. Amazing, yes it is how quickly these people forget the answers given previously.
Case in point is the four projects that I have answered on at least three times in the past two weeks.
Don't know what to tell you guys the missing items are on back order and I can not and do not know how to make 2-3/8" mast pipe out of thin air.
Even if I did I would not share that secret, as it most likely would hurt and or violate at least 17,256 laws and or ordinances in six states :tearlaugh:
Then I get the one sales person asking questions about other topics later in the day and learn that there is some crazy stuff going down with a set of radios at the one hospital chain. Can't wait to see one of those radios and determine the truth about them. I have a feeling that someone "found them" and decide oh let us use them for this department ... and for some reason :duh: they don't work as intended ... imagine that ... ought to be interesting to figure those details out.
Then again maybe not as I have suspicions already, wonder which one is correct?
Received more material for other jobs that I have no clue or inkling about so this should be fun. Found out that one of them shipped to us doesn't even belong here and should go to the Lakeland shop. So can't wait to get rid of that crap, :ummm: maybe I can get them to take the parts for the other hospital that is within their scope of work.
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The discovery of droplets spreading diseases isn't new. One reason masks are issued to ill people in asia. it's to protect others that one wears a mask. Now if you're a mysanthropist, no worries, if you consider humanity worth saving? take steps to prevent spreading disease.
Personally I prefer isolation, but when in public... mask, face shield, really big hanky. just keep it to yourself. You're not sick? oddly enough the above measures will help prevent infection. but only help, not completely prevent. since the end of the blackplague in the 14th century, chirurgens have been trying to slow the spread of airborne diseases.
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And since the 1940's humans have been trying to create super viruses that resist preventative measures.
Cheers
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Yep we know; most of my previous statement was tongue in cheek and sarcasm, damn that piping hot :java: works wonders :tearlaugh:
I object to the fear-mongering that is going on with the daily
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:lostme: What Worries You, Masters You. John Locke :thud:
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Don't let it worry me because I talk it out of my system in this lovely little forum. Might sound like it but I do not take it home as luggage nor does it affect my sleep habits.
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* semi-homourously* I'm waiting for the CDC to authourize shooting people that cough\sneeze in your face.
Heh... now watch.... some "Karen" will loudly advocate such nonsense.
*sigh*
Cheers
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Oh please ... that is something I would not want to contemplate ...
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Yeah, I realized the nightmare fuel I posted. "They" don't need any more fuel.
Take comfort Darwins Theorum negates that possibility/
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Cheers
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:lostme: My Mom was in Sams and had a coughing fit and People Fled as fast as posable.
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Amazing how much damage the media has done to the population ... even more disturbing is how gullible the vast majority of the population is ...
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DUE TO THE FEAR MONGRELING: I spelled that right too dammit! Anyway. People have gotten so depressed over this mess they suicided. Many lost their jobs, their income, their insurance. Some really did lose family, friends. I lost some old acquaintances. Old guys I liked a lot. Some were volunteers up at the VA. Good people. Three contracted Corona-19, one is still with us. The two that passed were in their 80's, one had just lost his wife, bless her heart. Her passing was to old age. His was giving up when he learned he had the virus, a while after losing his wife. The other was in 80's, diabetic and a few other problems. I will truly miss them all.
So True J, about the flying moisture thing. So let's just sum that bit up with "We now wear the masks to stop the DEADLY effects of airborne moisture!"
Wizzard I am certain there will be people who will be delighted to be twisting any of our well intended words to suit their own ill purposes!
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I think we all knew for ages about the majority of our populace. Just remember the term "Sheeple" and you will see clearly.
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Well, not really feeling any love at the moment at work ... and was not really sure as to the why of the "depression" but methinks I just fingered it out ... 22 years ago this month our Mother passed away due to pancreatic cancer.
One would have thought that my bouts of depression would have lessened in intensity. But here it is, in full force this year ... damn this sucks as it has not been this noticeable (bad) for a while.
Surprising for it to hit as hard as it did this year. Too complicated for me to finger out ...
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:peek: Big Hug! Sorry for Your Loss Have Wrote your Mother a Letter and told her about what is going on in your life. Some People Feel better Talking it out With a letter.
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Well, it is official I would have never survived the cruise ship install. Even though some of the restrictions were lifted once they were in the designated work area which was blocked from all other personal. Turns out the mask they were required to wear would have me in "distress" in nothing flat.
Granted once in the work space, they got take the hazmat suit and gloves off, yes a full blown hazmat suit. The only change was no face shield :tearlaugh: wow how about that, like I give a damn about that detail. It is nice that it was not required.
However I just now find out that the folks higher up on the food chain paid no attention and made a serious error.
Apparently someone forgot that those who work in the Fire Watch department should have radios that are "intrinsically safe" how nice that folks can figure this out in advance ... yep ... sarcasm ... :iminnocent:
The bad news is that they have to come up with 35 radios that meet the requirement and fair haired genius boy has to write a new code plug for them .. now hopefully the zoom meeting will work as the internet connection was "spotty" and the details and instructions might not get relayed properly or at all.
Which means plan B .... I will have to go out there and program the repurposed radios. Well, we shall see how things go on the morrow. The fun part is that means all of the Fire Watch radios on Dream are also not compliant and must be replaced. So another 35 radios that the sales and account manager folks will have to come up with for programming and eventual replacing.
Wow, is all I can say since Dream was done about this time last year .. I think ... and it was not until the team installed the new system on Fantasy today that the oversight was detected.
How about that ....
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Well, plan B had to be put in motion and we had to go out to the Port to receive radios for reprogramming. However it did not go that smooth at all, yep not surprised one tiny little bit.
First bit of fun was getting a code plug to work well enough for the fair haired genius boy to modify it.
That took multiple attempts ... all the while I am sitting in my truck in the parking lot using my phone as an internet connection, with the computer on battery power only.
Yes, does that sound like a recipe for fun and games ... not to me ... just saying.
Well, it did go to the place in a handbasket. Wound up going home due to the power issue and the news that for the new code plug requiring the radios to all be a minimum of 2.10.00.01 firmware, yes did one in the parking lot to test the first code plug revision ... took 12 minutes to update it. Now multiply that by 35 radios, guess what would have never had enough battery life to do all of them. Let alone blow in the modified code plug.
Came home for proper power, food and so forth so in a nutshell my first trip out there began at 10:00 AM and when I got done updating and reprogramming it was 9:30 PM
:thud: :thud: :thud: :thud: :thud: :thud:
Well, got up this morning and loaded up and drove back out to deliver the radios, the good news is that when I arrived, the Captain of the Sea Tow boat (sea taxi) was going to go out and deliver them. Well, that is good however I live alone and no one does my laundry, shopping and cooking except me. So I left so I could get those tasks done and received a text message later stating that all is good and the radios work with the modified code plug just fine.
Well, definitely good news to hear, even got a "thank you" from the powers that be on the boat, sale staff and some other person whose role I forget, third hand mind you but I got one nonetheless.
The pain in the bottom is that I can not get to my "time card" to update my hours.
Pissing me off at the moment to say the least.
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I can hear the bosses now "aw such a piddling detail, J !"
Right.
No wonder it's burning yer buns!
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Indeed :o_go_on: it is only 11 hours of overtime you don't need it on this pay period :rat-atat:
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How cute the payroll link is still down and it is affecting most of the southeast on top of everything else
So excited.
Lovely bright shining light yesterday, in my face, when I got back from the Port, had a real rainstorm as in downpour you aren't going to run and dodge rain drops in this storm.
Well, it turned out to be a trigger for my asthma, had gone grocery shopping between the spats of rain and by the time I got home and tried to unload, barely got started before I was wheezing and gasping for air.
:whatthe:
Took a shot off the rescue inhaler when I got to a stopping point and "wow" what a relief that was, never thought that rain as in heavy rain could have been a trigger but turns out "yeppers"
Which explains why the day before I was feeling a tightness in the chest, barometer pressure was changing ... great ... now I can change careers and become a weather forecaster for rain :tearlaugh:
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Give Aelin's hamster a run for it's kibble. 8 )
Cheers
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:thumb_up:
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:ifonly: He got a Super power! His arch Nemesis Rain! Mine are Stairs! o.O
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Oh yikes! Me two... ME THREE! :0[]
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:tearlaugh: @ the pair of thee
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PRAY you never wander into The Olde Zone, J. Inadvertently or otherwise!
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We are trying to avoid the debilitating effects of "The Olde Zone" hopefully I can continue to dodge it.
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:ifonly:
Did you know, Senior Citizens are the nation's leading carriers of AIDS!!
HEARING AIDS
BAND AIDS
ROLL AIDS
WALKING AIDS
MEDICAL AIDS
GOVERNMENT AIDS
Most of all, MONETARY AIDS for their kids!
And Not forgetting HIV! (Hair is Vanishing!) :thud:
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So much to look forward to ... NOT ... :tearlaugh:
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:puah: I am sort of an amateur coin collector, and get regular mailings about different offers and such, however I received over the last two day offers that literally made me sick and gag like nobodies business.
Yep, an offer for the next in the presidential proof commemoratives.
Let me show you how to steal an election; :puah: Joe Dementia Biden :puah:
then also received one for that other person, the vice-president
(C)amel-toe Harris :puah: :puah:
Not sorry about how I am butchering their names
All for the amazing low price of $39.95 each plus the usual fees.
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Sometimes there are things you prefer not to take in a collection, and that's totally understandable.
We have here our own jokes with names in the government, which make them unhappy and nobody cares :ifonly:
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As Jherr set this up to be a "venting place",
Here's my rant:
Traveling about the net, enjoying the content, had to an "edge thing". Firefox is set up very strict for security, edge, well that's why there's a flush and delete.Closed edge, it hesitated, clicked to close again, as it dropped, accifdentilly started Studio.
Studio connected for about a second, no more. Thought I prevented any unwanted updates or alterations. Accepted a test from a friend, logged off. started Studio......
My interface was gone.... just a cloud based query...... not even my libraries or settings..... the interface I spent over 4 houres to set up for my workflow was wiped, the intergface that I've had since Studio 3.1, which survived all the upgrades to 4,15. was summarily executed.
One Second....
Thank the powers Poser is locked behind a firewall. if bondware did simular ( which seems likely considering they don't sell Poser, but lease it)
* indecypherable screams, rants, and sounds of breaking electronics *
Thanx for the space, Cheers
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:lostme: Not sure if this will help.
How to completely reset DAZ Studio and Install Manager
https://www.versluis.com/2020/04/how-to-completely-reset-daz-studio-and-install-manager/
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Thanks Rad, but I prefer to run my high memory programmes offline. That might work if I wanted to throw my laptop through the nearest wall. Resetting would remove, now, 9.5 houres of configuring the interface. which would result in a psychotic break that would destroy any electronics within 25 ft.
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Bad tempered? Me? naahhh.... just excitable. 8 )
Cheers
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:lostme: I would look into making a Backup of the files this link points to is what I was thinking you might find useful.
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From what I read, this would be viable if I had install manager. never installed it as I prefer manual installs. I'm certain it may help someone else though.. so on their behalf..... Thank You Rad. 8 )
Cheers
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Manual Install is the only way to go, "die hard Poser only user" I need no help installing content EOS (end of subject) :tearlaugh:
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But of course Jherr, though I do like to dabble in other progs.Poser's great for setup render of scenes and animation. but errrmmm... not so much for creating meshes.
Poser is my prefferred, made obvious when I say to the screen "This is much easier in Poser"
Cheers
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Manual Install is the only way to go, "die hard Poser only user" I need no help installing content EOS (end of subject) :tearlaugh:
A - absolutely - MEN !!!!!!!!
Funny thing happened at the End of June 2020, just as I was installing all my 'art' programs. I had been given a choice of operating systems....that being....install Windows 10 Professional - OR - use a different motherboard and CPU. HM. Not so Possible at this point in the $1,300.00 game! Bought DL'd and installed ye olde Win 10 Pro 64. Ah right that one only comes in 64 bit amounts! Ok, July 01, 2020 pushed the START button on the ol desktop mid tower case. Ureka, it runs! First Time Too! Yippee! Joy, spend a couple hours chasing down and installing all driver updates and the ONE major Win 10 update...then into registry to hack two bytes preventing all forced windows automatic updates. Ptttthhhhh! M$! THEN install my olde DS 3.10 Advanced ($271.95 for that one dammit!) Which can read Poser content just fine up TO PP 11. Made sure to install PP 2014 next, complete with latest updates. Then PP 11.1, THEN installed DS 4.10 (newest). Oh CRAP! It refuses to even open up fully as it cannot LOG IN TO The dASS Content Management System! And THAT won't even install unless the dASS Install Mangler is RUNNING AND logged into DAZ3D! This is NOT a joke, a bad joke, a RUDE joke or any sort of pulling anyone's leg(s). THAT HAPPENED. THREE TIMES! And it showed me that dASS rewrote ALL the dASS owned sodware to cause Carrara, DS 4.0 and higher to behave in same way. Don't know about Hexagon or Bryce 7.1 yet. Haven't bothered with them at this point. But can you see what dASS is doing? That they actually DID that is alarming to say the least. I have uninstalled everything that required their CMS/DIM to operate. So far that be just DS 4.0 and up and Carrara 8 and up.
Despite their being everyone's biggest sponsor, they are also something....else.
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But of course Jherr, though I do like to dabble in other progs.Poser's great for setup render of scenes and animation. but errrmmm... not so much for creating meshes.
Poser is my prefferred, made obvious when I say to the screen "This is much easier in Poser"
Cheers
I agree, Wizz! That is why I usually have PSP X and PP 2014 running when I start the rig up. Mesh mangling? Either one of the many tiny ones, MilkShape3D, Hexagon, Pegasus, Wings for instance OR ZBrush or Modo 401 for the biggie. Unfortunately I am no expert mesh wrangler by any means. But I do love to play at it. To date, ZBrush is definitely the most fun one to play in!
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Jherrith, Wizzard . . . if I install no new hardware or even new software after installing the latest driver and OS updates, WHY the HELL would any sane person even chance wreaking havoc on their system by updating the OS after that point ??? OK I know there are people with OCD's that simply MUST do so OR they itch all over constantly or some such. But really, why, if all is working sweetly, would one?
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EH! OK, so I do (did) update Poser to the latest versions, and still do update ZBrush to the latest version. But that's it. I got rid of Firefox because it started FORCED updates whether you wanted it or not! Now Waterfox is trying to do the same damn thing. Hey is Nutscrape still around? ewwww!
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oh MAN these new Ruffles Lime Jalapeno chips are AMAZING! Wow they sure got the zing! It was THEM, they made me do it guv'nah! Honest! :D
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If DS4 is doing what you said, I think I'll forever stay to the version I have. Must be 4.7 or 4.8.
But always playing with DS3 :iminnocent:
EH! OK, so I do (did) update Poser to the latest versions, and still do update ZBrush to the latest version. But that's it. I got rid of Firefox because it started FORCED updates whether you wanted it or not! Now Waterfox is trying to do the same damn thing. Hey is Nutscrape still around? ewwww!
Waterfox never forced the update on me; it's asking each time there is a new update available, like those last days.
Go in Options => Advanced => tab Update. I have choosen "check for updates, but let you choose whether to install them"
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Oh this is real cute, decided to have a bit of Earl Grey this morning and can feel ye ole throat tightening up, wonderful another trigger to get my asthma to react.
Tis bad enough that rain was the first trigger I discovered.
Which is tied to barometric pressure, checked the barometer I have and found the correlation between my breathing problem and the changing weather to be valid.
Well, checked it this morning and found that although it is no longer a full blown low pressure system it is still not good, all things considered.
So wonderful to have so much fun in my life, and in retrospect it is starting to jog some random memories from the week just past in regards to my throat feeling tight, granted I did not check the barometer each day to verify what was going on, it was such a minor change that it didn't register at the time.
Guess I get to check that daily now to see how much of a correlation exists.
Such fun :thud:
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Well, ye ole barometer was or is definitely on point in regards to the level of discomfort I feel when it is reading a low pressure system.
Didn't have any rain but my goodness I was not liking any of the "weather conditions" I was 'enjoying' yep that was a touch of me being "sarchotic" part sarcasm, part psychotic
Sort of sucks to say the least, hopefully the barometer just is a pointer on whether or not, or better still to what degree, I might be uncomfortable.
Got to be positive so "I might be uncomfortable" sounds more positive then "I am going to be uncomfortable".
Nonetheless there is still a low pressure system present and as long as I am not to active I can manage, sort of, kind of, maybe ....
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My goodness we are in the wrong trade ... although one would have to run the business and get past all of the overhead and other costs.
Plumbers
Yes, my curse, for every leak I have repaired in the past a new one rears its head. Just got the bathtub faucet repaired today. Although I have a feeling that Saturday and in the late afternoon, probably added to my overall cost.
A simple bathtub fixture being replaced should not be in the $400+ dollar range. Yes, $400 plus that is crazy talk.
Then again maybe I live in a fantasy world of my own devising and think things are not, or should not be as expensive as all that
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Well, had ever so much fun Thursday and Friday brought to all ... once again ... you need to get this completed and right now.
Bite me ...
Well, the back story is that they want a DAS system installed and we at the Orlando shop no longer does this type of work. Which is why the "DAS" team was created, in the first place, the big problem with those guys is the "decided lack of experience" and boy did they prove it beyond all reasonable doubt.
However, we were told by our boss that we were there in an advisory role not to do all the work. Had one of the them tried to tell me to go pull the cable in as it was ready, and I just looked at him and said "get over there and get started" sorry no paper pusher is going to tell me to pull cable in, since I am there to "help them" not do their work for them.
I focused on the other two portions of the installation. The MedCom and the Trbo and Lord knows there is difficulties enough making that come together mainly due to delays on the vendors part in delivering material. Then there is the concept of lack of support for the code plugs, entitlement ID's for features to be installed and so forth ... :sigh: it is always something missing these days.
Nonetheless between the other two guys from my shop plus myself, not only was a significant dent put in the DAS project, but the MedCom project is complete to the point of requiring the line to the roof and antenna installation. Then the jumper from the surge suppression to the radio resource. So two systems pretty much complete, the DAS install is missing a few items as well, mainly due to be being "gallowayed" yet again.
They were, not our shop, as mentioned we do not do DAS installs any longer.
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The real fun is the upcoming week the work load requires all of the ambulances from the other hospital chain to come in for a PM an update to their code plug for the new trucks that will be added this year.
Oh and as of Friday there was an email notice of 120 radios for the school board to be programmed. New buses to be precise ... :thud:
Plus we received material that is for a new project at Disney ... :thud:
Received material for a new upgrade to an MedCom at an existing location. Plus heard that there will be more of the same for a second location.
What the double :thud: oh that reminds me, finally received the replacement desktop remote (only took two months) for the other new ED also slated to open with in the next month or so ....
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Well, we can certainly tell when the weather changes even without looking at the barometer.
Middle of the night I woke up to the now acknowledged tightness in the chest area and what do I hear in the background "thunder"
Oh great, just what I wanted, and what do we now hear at the desk ... :rainy: already twice this morn and why is this an issue?
We have the ambulances from the hospital chain coming in for the annual PM and code plug update for the new vehicles they are slated to add this year.
Which just means I will be in and out of the bay all day. Not wanting to be a pessimist but :shrug: not looking promising.
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Well, my fears as to how lovely work was going to be have proven true.
Damn this breathing thing is downright troublesome to say the least.
So in the interest of taking my mind off of it here is a piece of cable porn
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How lovely ... naught but ... :rainy: ... and ... :rowrow: all day long at work
Yep, more of the new persona I have adopted "sarchotic" part sarcasm, part psychotic
Was not one of my better days, low pressure system and lots of rain, aggravated me ole asthma with capital letters.
Then had the other installer (technically mobiles) call and bitch about not being where I said I was going to be, only problem was I never said I was going to be there and considering that he hung up on me, and then did not answer the phone for several minutes afterwards.
:thud:
I was at that point of "I am only responsible for what I said, not for what you understood. Not something I have to put up with from someone that requires as much instruction as he does to complete a simple install.
Some days I am just up on the wrong side of the bed.
Meanwhile ... I called back later in the day to see what the plans were for tomorrow. I still have more PM's to do on the ambulances for the other hospital chain. Then a meeting to discuss the upgrade of the next MedCom at the main campus, plus check in and inventory the equipment for said main campus, plus check in material for two other projects that I have been waiting on to arrive. "frelling vendor delays" yes things that he never does or steps up to the plate to complete. I seem to be the only one that tracks inventory, stages and programs systems.
However he whines because he has no material on his van to do an install. :ummm: why in the **** do you not say something so I can get stock on your truck to tie you over till any delayed material arrives. Oops that must be to much like commonsense and I am sorry it is beyond his skill set.
Oh to make this interesting I had to deal with this while I am short of breath and wheezing due to the new baggage I get to become accustomed to "asthma" I swear it truly sucks not being able to breathe normally and like I used to be able to without thinking.
I swear ... children
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Not to change the subject. I would see a doctor about having shortness of breath, that was the 1st symptom before I had a heart attack. If you entire body swell up then you better go ASAP. I didn't do that a got a very expensive ride to the hospital. Hopefully there is nothing wrong but it wouldn't hurt to have it checked out.
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This was all diagnosed when I first complained about having difficulty breathing, been through a stress test and a lung function test and I have full blown asthma according to them.
I just found the correlation between the weather and breathing in the last three weeks as we are having rain in greater abundance, well I do live in Florida so that is not a surprise about having rain mind you, just was surprised to realize that it now affects me.
No swelling up or other unusual symptoms, but I have been more mindful of what is going on with my body. So I do appreciate the insight.
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I am glad you did that. Hopefully you will have a long life to enjoy, outside of the workplace.
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That is my wish as well.
Was continuing to do maintenance on the ambulances radios today and mentioned the new baggage I have, of asthma and one of them actually deals with as well, learned a few tricks to help manage it. One of them, I had realized in an off handed manner, but she confirmed it.
Staying hydrated is essential, did some web research and it was most informative. The other thing mentioned was taking a supplement, apparently magnesium is important to ones overall health and those that deal with asthma are a bit low on it.
Not a whole lot of normal food that I eat that has it in to start with, there are a couple that I can work into my diet so will have to work on that and most likely take a supplement to make certain that I get more of it in my diet.
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how about DRY air? As in air conditioning, dehumidifier, somesuch? Dry air really helped me, and I don't have asthma or COPD. YET. Middle sixties and was a heavy smoker till 12 years ago. Then QUIT. After my cancer I am twice as quit! Sheesh. Even though we are at over half a mile elevation here, the drier air really is a help for me. I do have a odd disorder. At irregular times I stop breathing in my sleep. Not for long, but sometimes I do wake gasping suddenly for air. No idea why that happens. Haven't had any 'sleep studies' done.
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That is known as sleep apnea
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Don't know that dry air is good, I react well to my hot showers when the steam level gets up there and plus as mentioned drinking more water seems to help too.
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Yee haw managed to get through my Friday without needing bail money.
:yippee:
Although it was touch and go, realized I did not have my portable power supply for mobile radios with me, so stopped by the shop to pick it up, and if anyone could get behind every slow driving person and drive through one accident zone, it would be me.
Yes, we did and frustrated soon became my mood. I seem to be easy to influenced, another thing that I am finally realizing I need to work on, yep I am slow.
To add insult to injury it turns out I did not need it, as there was one already available. :sigh:
At any rate I managed to get through the bus radio programming. Although, I certainly do miss the former head of that department. Yep, he retired and the guys that moved up are ever so not up to his standards.
Case in point, formerly all radios were in order as to serial number and the ID numbers were sequential as well, not this time. Had to access each serial number and then cross check the ID prior to programming ... took over three hours for the two of us to do 120 radios.
Yes, believe it or not this took longer then previously.
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Friday afternoon went swimmingly as well ....
Yep got to the hospital that they want to open up as in June 1st.
They have the ACHA next week, so part of the tasks last week that the other installers were in charge of while I was doing preventive maintenance on ambulances, was to get the place ready for that inspection. So the MedCom install that they worked on was more important to my mind then the BDA install that the other team was trying to complete, and since we were there to assist them from the beginning, not on my list to get personally involved.
My concern was MedCom, so when I got out there, yes before the senior tech, I laid out the remotes and got them powered up and plugged in on the patch panel. Tried to get them to connect and they decided to fight me
:rat-atat:
Senior tech showed up and that was when I had the thought that maybe I had the patch panel ports reversed ... So while I was walking in with the senior tech I mentioned it and the first thing I did was reverse them and when I tried to get the desksets to connect this time.
:woohoo:
They connected
For a bit more back story, these are the first set of desktops that I programmed under his guidance and they worked with no blood sacrifice required.
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Very cool! You even sound happy, Jherrith! :)
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:tearlaugh: Indeed and that doesn't happen often does it?
Monday will be entertaining, as we still have ambulances to do maintenance and programming. Still need to complete an inventory for two other projects. Still waiting on config files for a third project. Plus, the other prodigal project is still waiting on the vendor to deliver missing parts.
And just to make it interesting we have another one of those abomination "dog and pony shows" happening .... you know the ones where the bosses boss shows up to talk smack or something ...
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Not been a stellar day, woke up to a falling barometer and ugly skies and although it never did actually rain it has certainly been a miserable for me and the concept of being a bipedal humanoid that breaths oxygen.
Tried to keep my activities down to a small roar so as to shall we say not have to rely upon the rescue inhaler and have managed to get through the day so far but man oh man it has been a suck ass day.
May wind up using it anyway since I do feel so miserable
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Yeah a truly entertaining Monday. 930am Dominoes aint open yet. I ordered a delivery anyway. Bleah! Totally beautiful day and chock full of POLLEN! So at least I will have an enjoyable brunch!
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I DID! :D
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Very cool! You even sound happy, Jherrith! :)
Which is a rarity in itself :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
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Which is a rarity in itself :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
It could happen
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Well, got some serious couple of days worth of entertainment in the past two days.
Will have to do a RDCV (Readers Digest Condensed Version) in a few, but since it is bedtime for those of us that still get up for work before the sun rises, you will have to wait.
You might enjoy the tale about the replacing of 40 circuits that powers up the County side of the public safety communications system for the Courthouse and others.
Then we have the ever so paralyzing, dull, boring, tedious and commonplace of more ambulances for maintenance and upgrades, shipping out of a Nitro system, finally receiving the EID's for the radio equipment at a new FSED (Free Standing Emergency Department), new radios to program for an existing hospital department, PM's on the local university PD radios and having to wipe all user info from the radios back from the cruise ship ... oh don't forget to inventory them while you are at it.
I swear, (a lot) step out of the office for one day and the hosts of Midian come forth ... :tearlaugh: ... in multitudes
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Oh great just got the new phone today and the hoops one has to jump through to activate it :rat-atat:
Haven't even got to the part of trying to get the apps, contacts and the rest of that rubbish transferred ... all I know is that the battery was to low to allow me to start ... :sigh:
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... I am so not looking forward to this
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My God above... I think I might have succeeded in retrieving all my contacts, pics and apps.
Although it seems that they are in some sort of order that I do not recognize and Lord knows I am familiar with several versions.
At any rate it appears that I got the contacts and apps, plus the pictures ... downside it looks like the phone now has two accounts a personal and a work profile on it. Definitely confusing .... but then again when am I not confused by new tech ...
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What phone did ya get, J? I'd guess an Android 10 phone, but which one? Dozens to choose from. At a TMobile walk in store I got a LG Stylo 6 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Boost-Mobile-LG-Stylo-6/408216338 (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Boost-Mobile-LG-Stylo-6/408216338)
The new Stylo accepted my 128 gig micro SD card, formatted it, and I put everything back on it via USB cable plugged into BadMoonRYZEN.
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Samsung Galaxy S21 and this was the one that Motorola said was approved for my upgrade.
The saga gets more interesting, one would think that getting it to sync with the truck would have been easy ... NOT ... first I had no sync button to select, so once I found that tried again ... then the phone kept bitching about the Bluetooth turning off and on :sigh: what the "frell" at any rate after 20 minutes of doing the same thing over and over it finally got its act together and accepted it and finally work.
Granted doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the first sign of insanity ... however it is possible I was not doing the steps in the same order because at the end I started to get different message and at last it paired.
:thud:
Technology on occasions just outright ... sucks ... and not in a good way.
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As TheLufias is known to say, from time to time . . . You have to get the hammer out and beat it into submission!
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And we do have a decent sized one that only requires one hand to use it. :heeheehee:
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Just don't hit the phone with the hammer while the phone is still in your hand.... :iminnocent:
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:o_go_on: I am clumsy occasionally but that one is a basic skill for me :tearlaugh:
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I keep getting calls from my local US Cellular store asking me to upgrade my phone. I tell them....it works fine....no need to fix something that's not broke....
And that's the end of the discussion.
Your Cell phone is a company phone...right?
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Yes, it is and no I do not get any calls of that nature as it is ran through the company. We only qualify for an upgrade once every two years, and even then they said naught to me about "hey you can upgrade"
I was eligible and went with it because the camera on my phone had the protective glass over them broken if it had not been for that I would have left well enough alone since I am not a "tech whore" that has to have the latest product on the market.
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Yup...Industrial did the same thing. And yup...take advantage of it. You use your phone more then I do....which is why it's a good thing for you. My phone is just a annoyance anymore LOLOLOL
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It gets used only because it is a work phone if I was not working ... retired ... it would be more of annoyance then needful.
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Well, this was interesting I heard a "statement" from the senior bench tech's wife, that eating Kraft macaroni and cheese was shall we say not "asthma" friendly.
Well, I decided to have some today and well, I have to report that for me it is certainly a true statement. Didn't think I would have any food triggers. But, it does seem that there might be some truth to it. As ever since I ate it, the throat has been tight and I have been uncomfortable since then, it is starting to get better but I was certainly surprised by the occurrence.
I noticed the same feelings when the barometer goes low, even without any rain. Although the rain makes it worse. Weird thing though is that some times I get the same sensation at random moments in the day but if I drink some of my water it lessens the discomfort and things swing back to normal. Which is what one of the ambulance drivers said staying hydrated is essential. That does seem to work for me, even caffeine works in a pinch. Granted I have my morning cup of, but during the day, we have a Mountain Dew in the afternoon during lunch. But, water is definitely a win for me.
Gods above I am weird ... well, my body at any rate is a bit strange. Have noticed that it has changed my drinking habits, as in my alcohol intake. It has gone down significantly, used to empty just shy of three bottles of saké in seven days. Now it is barely one, and if I drink any bourbon I lose interest after two drinks.
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The reduced petrohol intake will probably do ya good. Liquid grain, right? The symptoms you describe are what I get when eating onions and garlic. Love the garlic though. And the barometer dropping does me the same, wet or dry. But like you, wet is even worse. Heavy thunderstorms roll through and a dip in barometer makes for some miserable bones too.
I note that two things you have given me referral pages for that I have yet to find HERE in this town. Chopsticks and Sake. :thud:
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:lostme: Found something for You J to think about!
MASKS ARE TOXIC. WANT TO LEARN WHY? WATCH THIS.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vbtsEWj6vQZ5/
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Yep agree on all points raised .....
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I note that two things you have given me referral pages for that I have yet to find HERE in this town. Chopsticks and Sake. :thud:
What no Oriental grocery store or restaurants?
That is very disturbing, damn I sure am not moving there any time soon.
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No oriental grocery stores, nor apothecary, and the two Asian Restaurants keep opening, then closing, repeat ad nauseum. And Walmart don't stock chopsticks!
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Yep not even mine does.
There is a place called World Market that has them, which is where I got my first set at, but once I found the Oriental shops I picked them up from there and now have several sets. Some are just there as I have never used them to this day.
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I hope to be looking for them more now. I learned there is an Asian 'quarter' in Amarillo. I drive right through it on The Boulevard every time I go to the VA in fact. My shakiness is worsening. It may well be due to my keeping my glucose down a lot more, now. The doctors all say that SUGAR KILLS. I believe it! Even if it is in bits and pieces, dead is dead. Sugar down, swelling down. Wounds gone. I want chopsticks and sake to celebrate. A LITTLE bit :)
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Well, we just got the best ever scam phone call, these people are sinking to new lows to say the least.
Hello, this is the CBP and we intercepted a suspicious package at the border with your name on it, please dial 1 to speak with an agent
:tearlaugh: really seriously ... what will they think of next.
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Long suspected that I had a class full of snowflakes but last night removed any and all doubt that I had. Even removed the I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Going over the material on the final and come to a couple of questions that would be considered common electrical knowledge and the wailing and gnashing of teeth, that wasn't on a previous test. Um, yes that is correct do you not know the answer, you are electricians ... right?
You don't have to say it like that ...
... really?
But wait it gets better, one had the nerve to ask will we be reviewing this on Monday before the tests.
:thud: You were here on the previous class what part of the tests are next week did you not understand?
Well, you don't have to say it like that ...
:sigh:
But the best part was if I come in early and start on the boards and finish early can I take the written that same night.
Um, no. Reason being most of the previous classes have never finished the hands on board in less then 2-1/2 hours. And I have been watching your progress on the boards and there is no way that I see that coming to pass.
Second reason which I did not say out loud, dude you can barely finish a 25 question exam in an hour and a half, the final is 100 questions. So please tell me in what universe would be able to complete both in three hours ????
Inquiring minds want to know ...
Now to add icing to the cake the amount of attention and note taking he was applying to the review of the exam just said "not putting forth any effort, you just need to pass me so I can move on"
Lots of luck with that ....
I swear I almost but not quite pulled out a spoon that I have, granted it was in my lunch box outside but I would have got it to prove the point and ask, "what do you want me to do, spoon feed you all."
Back when I was in school, you were told we are having a test on the material covered, and that was it. No review of the test prior to taking it. Just here it is ... and begin.
Times up, pencils down.
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Maybe Pre Test Take all of the past tests and make them take them again and see if they really learned anything?
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Pretesting would re-inforce the "I'm privileged" mindset. In the field there's no "give me a few hours", only a breach of contract and possible fraud charge.
Common electrical knowledge, they don't know it....
How the hades did you get into the advanced class here?!?
If I were you I'd talk with my previous teacher and find out what happened. If "pity-passed" find another vocation, like the service industry......
And that's why I don't teach, I'll show you how to teach yourself, then all fault falls on the student for failure.
Cheers
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And considering that I teach vocational school and just one piece of the curriculum .... but you are right ... how did they get this far in the program and still be this incapable of having any confidence in their knowledge base.
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Question, can some one tell me what the unholy hell this is supposed to be ... :tearlaugh:
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Oh... that's a TEMPORARY, cant find the soldering iron, but should work for quick testing, splice and phoneplug connection.
Usually one would disassamble and do a proper solder and shrinkwrap once done slapping the 1d10t that "borrowed" the iron and solder.
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[shakes shaggy old head in tired dismay] there's some nice parts in that. Not a one appear to go to anything they actually belong to. That 'antenna' lead, the solid wire core isn't actually touching anything. Barely sticking out the silicone insulation. I can say if someone actually sends a decently strong signal thru that quad shield co-ax, there's gonna be a purty blue spark arc there! :woohoo:
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:lostme: Hum one of your Students attempts to Connect their Phone to the Antenna to get Free WiFi?
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Actually no that there was apparently found in a comm room, and is used to feed a repeater that is used to dispatch calls for a PD department.
The full details were not posted on this "gem"
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Well..... it's not like reliability's really required... right?
My dad would have smacked me one if I did that.
Although that might explain some of the late responses......
Cheers
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You mean that thing actually WORKED?!?! :OMFG: :o_go_on: Naaaaah no way!
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That was the assertion ... do I believe it ... not so very much
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Don't underestimate the functionality of kludgeing. Although..... usually the longer it works the greater the catastrophe that awaits. when it fails, "It will be spectacular".
Cheers
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Wizz, I'd read somewhere that "Kludge" is the name of the guy that kept DOING the...thing... and for lack of a nicer word, using his name for the act stuck. We had similar for every place I'd worked the trade man. Was an OLD man named Willie, and he couldn't read. He was also born in 1900. And he'd married a young woman. In her 20's. When we found old slate relay boards that had screws removed and wire shoved through, we immediately knew it had been 'Willied'! Old GE/Westinghouse motor panels built about the same time Willie was. On old overhead cab cranes. Like you say, the longer it lasts, the more spectacular the failure! Those old systems could have 250vdc, 500 vdc, 880 AC 3phase all present on one board. Well, they are RELAY boards, ok? Good for around 1000 amps. Sometimes I got to thinking the old man was actually booby trapping those things just to surprise us younguns!
EDIT: I just looked it up, it isn't from someone's name but an old foreign (NOT U.S.!!) word. Oh well, it's a cool term!
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I think it's german, but not sure. Like Murphy's law based on prof Murphy who could influence disasterous events with his presence. An attempt was made to disprove the theory, but even though he wasn't in the building during a catastrophic disaster, it was found he was about a mile away passing on a train at the moment of the "accident".
Sometimes whilst working on something, upper level pressure to "get it done quick, don't worry about neatness", results in some interesting innovation ( for disaster ).
Cheers
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Have heard the "get it done now" rubbish a few times to say the least always comes back to bite me in the ass
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:thud: If you want a very low cost build, then you will have to sacrifice quality and the length of time to get it done. :woohoo:
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True statement
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Truer words never spoken. WORD!
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Thanks for that coffee this morning, Fafnir. I really needed that!
:coffeemaker: :ty2:
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Should be interesting tomorrow as I am to meet the electrical inspector at the new FSED (free standing ED) yes the same place that has been whining and crying about permits that have never been needed in the past as we were always under the standard low voltage permit.
But as mentioned previously someone did something unmentionable in someone's cornflakes.
Been here 10 years now and there has never been such a dustup over a required county system.
Ah well :shrug: I am here to answer low level questions about the MedCom and Trbo ... ONLY ... install.
They throw any questions about the DAS and I am saying ... sorry about your luck, I am only here for the afore mentioned systems.
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Fun and games abound now ... why .... final exams for my class.
Yep and boy howdy the first batch of hands on results from my class makes me shudder ... as in a lot.
Which that being said guess what comes next .... yep ... time to write report cards :puah:
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:lostme: Reminder You can lead a Student to knowledge but you can't make them think! :thud:
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A fundamental concept that I forget each semester .. I so need to write it down and challenge the students.
Thanks
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Wow not even out the door and have got the first wrinkle for the inspection.
Boss calls and says you remember the drawings yo sent me of the install print a copy of them out and take them with just in case they ask.
Well, will have to do some jiggery-pokery to do it since that is on the work computer not the home computer.
So forward the email to the house, then unzip the file and finally print the drawings out. I swear this crap over this frelling FSED is a load of crap and we are getting tired of the number of hoops we are being put through, we are not a circus seal.
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Here is one for the cuckoo's nest. Confirmed a new friend on F-book last night. That is after I asked why, sorry if you are just looking to see how many friend you can have I am not the one to pick, or if you are trying to get me to buy your naked pics, again not the one.
However the :whatthe: part was this, they asked if I had "whatsapp" now I know I am incredibly dim when it comes to rubbish like this but to tell me that is the only way you will talk to people because you are not on F-book that much then why did you even get online to start with?
Besides I am only there just to scroll for a few minutes and then I am out and since that sounds like an app that would be on the phone and it technically is a work phone. Plus, I do not have the luxury to fart around on the phone talking inconsequential rubbish because I have no life. We have to work for our daily shot of :thud:
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Aw don't worry about them none, J. They are just leading you on the merry primrose and all that gar-BAHGE. WhatsApp is a bad thing man. Do Not Install That Damned Thing!
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Have no intention of doing so, thought it was note worthy that there are people out there that say, oh this the only app I use to converse with and "I am just looking for a few good friends"
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What is even more amusing is that when I got home last night... after two days of coddling a frelling inspector because oh your polyphasers (surge suppression) don't have the UL label on them you can't use them in this install.
:whatthe: I have been using these thing for over ten years and have never had an issue or question raised.
I figured out why, but it is a very long story and at the end of the day it is a moot point.
At any rate because of having to wait on him to arrive on site, because just like every other service the inspectors only give you a morning or afternoon arrival. So in essence, you have to sit there and wait on them to grace you with their presence. ... yes, being sarc-hotic ... we are indeed. I haven't been on line for the last two days.
Got online and was looking at all the other places I go and this person who cried about me not having "whatsapp" sent a message, two days ago "Good evening, I had dinner"
:thud: wow such stimulating conversation
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shakes head, makes Lurch groan. Loads belt fed auto-shotty...and waits for assimilated moron to pop up...
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:lostme: I think you need to Rethink Friend sounds more like Parasite of Attention! :thud:
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The pair of thee have got the right of it no doubt ... time to break out the :rat-atat:
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Well, did get involved in a new install at the other hospital chain. Turns out that with all of the delays that the vendors graced us with throughout the project so by the time we get out to the site it turns out that other vendors used the pipe that was originally allocated for our install.
:thud:
What else is new, this rubbish seems to happen more and more often.
To add insult to injury it turns out that the conveyance provided by the customer did not require the material that I had been waiting on for the last two months. So basically we have been waiting for no reason, but since no one had been out there since the site walk while it was under construction, this detail was lost in the mix.
However went to install the deskset remotes and at first they said they are to be installed here, well great the ports under the desk do not go to the comm room where they want the equipment installed. Turns out there was a second set that was installed in the comm room, that once we found them in the nurses station, things started to look up.
The rude part is as mentioned the other vendor used the one pipe that went straight to the comm room now we have to get our sub involved to do above ceiling work in a hospital that is already open. Requires the damn ICRA cabinets. Nevertheless, we did install the antennas on the roof so once the sub gets the lines pulled in for us all we have to do is terminate them. Could have them do it but after repairing so many on one project then them losing so many on a different project, .... never mind we will do them ourselves.
The other side of the coin though is that we got everything else done in the room and out on the floor. The bonus is that for the first time this hospital chain allowed us to set up a MedCom system without having to go through their switch. I was able to go straight to the desksets via the patch panel ... sweet ... so all the programming I did under the guidance of the senior tech in the office did not have to get done over and so the blood sacrifice of two goats and a chicken was cancelled.
:woohoo:
And they all (3 each) worked the first time, broke out a 800 MHz mag mount antenna since we did not have a line to the antenna on the roof and plugged that into the county consolette and it is completely operational ... loving every minute of it.
Granted it is not permanent but the point is it is working as intended.
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Well, it is that time of the year again ... report cards ... to be written .. :puah:
And since as mentioned before I have never had such a group of snowflakes and the powers that be seem to think that I can write a "constructive" comment for them.
:thud: :psycho:
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I suppose "Seek another vocation" is out of the question? Or even. "Read!, absorb the knowledge and use it!"
No, snoflakes have to be handled with chilled gloves before they melt in anguish that they spent too much time socialmediating.
Thanx for the rant space Jherr, I feel less angry 8 )
Cheers
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Oh believe me I intend to mention the concept in as "politically correct" fashion that I am capable, which considering that I have no clue on how to act like that ... :heeheehee:
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This persons Electricians License should be REVOKED permanently!
That seemed quite correct, no matter the political inclination!
Seriously J, do you have even ONE student that is worth having in class?
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The first one is an inspector and I so wish someone who acts on spite and feelings could be censured, demoted or suspended.
As to the students I have had several over the years that were not "candy-ass snowflakes" this is the first class that has had such an imbalance in the ratio
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Just love the sheep on F-Book
The statement is "If your shot works, why do I need one? If your shot doesn't work, why do I need one?"
The reply, "My shot prevents me from developing bad symptoms, it does not stop the virus. That is why"
So why take it ????
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It does a body good to see work done right
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Now... that's a clean install. If labeled? near perfect. 8 )
Cheers
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:lostme: Labeled? I Like the ones that have Port 1 but are plugged into Port 8 Etc.. :ifonly:
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:lostme: Labeled? I Like the ones that have Port 1 but are plugged into Port 8 Etc.. :ifonly:
Indeed those are my favorites, as in not so very much ... :tearlaugh:
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I see two varieties of seriously high traffic Fiber Optic cable, and many bundles of very well managed CAT5/6 cable. I see a job I'd admit to having done! :D Rare sight indeed!Those two cabinets that the Fiber enters; those must be full of media converters and interface junctions? You realize that pic is Pinup Quality in here don't ya? ;o)
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Indeed it is and here is a couple more from the magazine I subscribe to ....
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another
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Wow! NICE! Love the Pinups J! :woohoo: They're just gorgeous man! :peek:
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New install at the shop. I now have a KVM in my staging racks for ease of programming.
Not complete for cabling and beautifying yet but I am about half way there, even got my OTAP radio in the top of the rack up and running.
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I like it! Did you realize the top shelf in the left side, left bracket is one hole too high? The one the mag base antenna is on. I like your use of the Channel man. Ground out along it to wall. Neat! Nice way to repurpose used gear, excellent! Nice little radio up there too. That pc, is it one of your own?
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Will have to check the spacing as I could swear I counted right, else they wouldn't have lined up per RU ... or I might have been using my out of plumb eye that day :tearlaugh:
The radio is what we use to do OTAP for the Rosen hotel chain as it has an outside antenna that enable us to hit the sites and push updates out.
The PC is just a random one that was laying about the shop, that has Win 10 on it and we just did all the needed updates on it for the OS and anti-virus. It is where the radio management (RM server) lives along with some of the other software needed. My goal is to have all the software on it needed to program a Trbo or MedCom system so we can just plug into it from the KVM instead of having to drag the laptop over there to do anything. Since all of the programming files are on Drive we can program it there and then retrieve them from Drive when needed for instance out in the field doing final set up and configs ...
However we did not get to any of that today as I was out at Disney, this time at their warehouses and was moving a site from the warehouse proper to an actual tower shelter.
Yeah that went well :thud:
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about that shelf spacing, forget what I said. I just counted the holes on both sides and they are the same. Should have realized it was the camera that has the crooked eye!
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:tearlaugh: that would be me with the crooked eye :tearlaugh: Trust me it has gotten me in more trouble than I care to recall.
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Time for a classic movie night
First up King Kong the 1933 version thank you
After that :heeheehee:
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Real amusing how certain things in the movie go against what has been deduced since then, a Stegosaurus being "vicious"
The real fun part was the initial offering to Kong, was on par with what happened in "The Power of Kroll" part five of Dr. Who and The Key to Time season.
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Moving on to the original version of "The Mummy"
What is amusing is this detail, the scroll of Thoth that was unearthed after having been buried for 3700 years (movie dialog) yet it is handle by multiple people on multiple occasions and all without any damage being done to it despite its age and fragility.
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Because Thoth was god of magic maybe?
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Valid conjecture as he did cover many aspects of their life. Which I guess that leap of faith required would be that by writing that text on the papyrus imbued it with the properties of Thoth and allowed it to survive intact despite being handled multiple times in a manner not known to be the best method to preserving ancient scripts.
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Ah a most entertaining piece of spam email crossed my folder this morning
We noticed an unknown sign in on your Twitter account.
:ummm: I don't have a Twitter account :@u:
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Hrrmmm......embalmed papyrus. impregnated with resin. Might make sense for a page from the "boocke of the dead". shame that wasn't done with the dead sea scrolls, might be easier to read then. heh touch the corner of a page and the whole book turns to dust.
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Hrrmmm......embalmed papyrus. impregnated with resin. Might make sense for a page from the "boocke of the dead". shame that wasn't done with the dead sea scrolls, might be easier to read then. heh touch the corner of a page and the whole book turns to dust.
Those last years, they scanned a lot of Dead Sea scrolls and few more letters are seeing by computers than by human eyes.
Also, I think it was in 2019, I heard for a machine able to read the even still rolled scrolls, those which have the risk to turn in dust if opened. But I have no idea where archaeologists are with that.
I think it's the same technology they are using on egyptian mummies to replace the x-rays. Which allowed to discover that a pharaoh was maybe killed during a war, like a prisonner, like suspected. But I forgot too which one between pharaohs. :thud:
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There are a LOT of science type shows on DISH, that for over a year now, have covered many of the Egyptian mysteries. AND several segments on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The latest one states that they are from a sect of scholarly types that dedicated their lives to the preservation of Knowledge. In particular, all that pertains to the Jews and Christians. They had to contend with the Romans destroying everything they didn't like. Including their work. SO they hid their scrolls in amphorae and such, sealed them and ended up getting killed off to boot. Pretty cool info, IMO! OH yes, and as Aelin said, they have scanned the incredibly fragile papyrus many different ways, even into multi spectrum light. This shows the print up in great contrast, even when we can't see it well with our naked eyes. Same applied to burned scrolls from Pompeii and Herculaneum. What was really cool was the way the computer program "unrolls" the parchment, even the burned scrolls, and shows the print clearly. I mean they showed an animation of the computer actually unrolling a totally blackened scroll, making it flat on screen, with all the characters visible! How cool is THAT! Well, time for a nap y'all, g'nite! :)
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Aelin, they been talking about Tutmosis, Ramses II, Tutenkamen, Hathsepsut, Nefertiti and finally Cleopatra. Lots of neat stuff going on with that. A new tomb in the Valley of Kings where they found Nefertiti's mummy and matched it to the young King Tutenkamen and found she IS his mother. Wow!
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Leave it to my senior bench tech to pull out the proverbial "hail Mary"
Yep, the radio for Fire Dispatch back up had a hosed up control board, which means that the code plug was unreadable. Oh great ....
Well, after three hours of searching, hunting and Frankensteining things he finally got details on the radio. It is legit and the nice thing is that since he found those details he told me that the code plug can be rebuilt without nearly the amount of trouble as originally feared.
Darn no blood sacrifice of three chickens, one goat and a weasel.... rats .... technically
:yippee:
So looking forward to pushing the buttons and pounding the keyboard into submission to get it programed. Then the fun part a full PM on it and then time to check the tuning on the duplexer and made sure it is still on point.
Which means at some point in the near future it can go out to the Contemporary hotel and get installed. Small detail of not knowing what line is available for a new antenna and is there a mast to mount the new antenna on?
I have questions again and but of course no answers.
At least it is not no obscene 14' antenna to install with it so I guess that is a win ... sort of, kind of, maybe
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:lostme: Missing a surge protector for the Radio? :thud:
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More along the concept of it has been running without being restarted for any reason for say maybe 15 years or longer. For something running that long without any power cycle "to my knowledge" since it predates my employment. It is a small wonder that was the only thing that went belly up after being power cycled. According to senior bench tech it could have been a lot worse...
Oh the outlet it was plugged into is surge protected and there is both UPS and generator back up power available for all components of the site.
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:woohoo: R.T.F (Run Till Fail) Seen that with some Radios that never got to turn off. :thud:
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Seems to be standard operating procedure in public safety sites. The disturbing part is as mentioned that one is the back up radio. :ummm: makes one wonder about the primary and where it is located, well probably at dispatch but still bet that also has the RTF protocols going on.
Technically not on my list to worry about since I am not assigned as system tech to any one specific site.
Let those who get paid more then me worry about it. I just install, move, and upgrade the equipment at each site when it is their turn.
Like my other project that is running concurrently, upgrade of the MedCom radios at the local hospital. The funny part about that one is that I was told that the balance of the equipment was to be delivered last Friday, so can you guess that as of Monday end of business still no electronics. Knew you could ...
Have a site walk this morning for said project to see what is there and what is going to change, about time I get to go on one of these since no one looks at a job from the installers viewpoint. So we shall see what sort of hair brained nonsense was running through their collective two grey cells.
Oh, and got the first bit of equipment for another Federal job yesterday, one each 7' folded dipole antenna, supposedly will be getting a cabinet later today ... hold your breath ... nope not going to.
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Surprise surprise no cabinet for the upcoming Federal job showed up yesterday and know I am not surprised at all.
It seems that any deliveries are either a day late or sent to the wrong place.
Case in point the rest of the electronics that I was waiting for to continue staging the MedCom upgrade that was supposed to be delivered to the shop last Friday actually got sent to the hospital itself instead. :thud:
I am so going to stop chewing through the leather straps it is not worth the dental bills.
Here is one for the cuckoo's nest, I buy some anime and stuff, ... okay a lot of anime ... :o_go_on: nevertheless the shipping confirmation said USPS clicked on the tracking number and it is UPS ... :ummm: :whatthe: and since it is going to my residence I am like wonderful, guess it is going to be dropped kicked to the doorstep and it might be there when I get home. Fortunately we have not had the thieving problem with packages in the neighborhood ... knock on wood ... ow that hurts
Saw the delivery notice and it states "delivered to locker" what locker, where, there are no UPS lockers in my complex. So now I am up in arms, so used that abomination of a virtual assistant on the site and asked that question ... :sigh: I could get a more coherent answer from my cat then that damn thing.
Anyway, got home and what is this, it is in my parcel locker that I thought only the Post Office could get into, well turns out that it is some new fangled version of UPS called "sure post" so apparently it is delivered by UPS but it gets to the Post Office first and then it is delivered with the rest of my mail.
Wish it would have said something about that in the whole mix, my anime supplier did not clarify that detail, the tracking web site did not indicate such a thing and of course being the sheltered live in a cave person that I am the concept was totally unknown to me.
At least I got my anime and manga in one piece so all is right with the world again
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I don't really understand how all this works but I sometimes get a UPS, or DHL tracking number but it get to the USPS for deliveries out here and winds up at my mail box, or get a key for locker too.
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Indeed it was a new one on me and quite annoying since no one could answer the simple question as to where the package was located.
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Oh joy I can feel the weather changing there is a low pressure zone moving in and we are able to notice it.
:sigh:
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H ey guys, re: USPS horning in where it USED to be DHL, FedEX or UPS doing the deliveries themselves. Yeah seems the United States Postal Service was definitely NOT being used per their own expectations. SO. THEY put their governmental foot down and squeaked "I AM NOT *LITTLE*" again. So NOT I see aforesaid prompt delivery services are now tendering their parcels to some city postal hub some 60 miles away. AND what WAS prompt and sure is now a WEEK or TWO 'delayed', sitting in that USPS hub, awaiting acceptance of item already in their possession. I now feel like making complaint of USPS misappropriating my *PAID* delivery and willfully forcing delays that never happened until they 'intervened'.
Do I begin to sound pissed off? It took me threatening them with a trip to the police station to do that, just to get them to deliver my latest 2TB WD 3D NAND SSD. 10 daze late. DAMMIT!
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Well, today sucked balls ... with capital letters.
Why, because the barometer was showing a low pressure system nearby this morning and how I felt just kept going downhill all day and when I got home and looked at the barometer again and oh my God it is continuing to suck balls and I am afeared it will get worse this evening.
Low pressure systems are the worst
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Yup. Just turn the AC down to 60, take an Aspirin, or a Benadryl, or one each. Lie down. Feel much better in a couple hours! Gives your system the way, means and time to 'decompress' to balance that low barometer. Honest. The AC dehumidifies your space. It's a help.
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I turn my AC down to 60° and I would be an ice cube in nothing flat or hibernating, which ever comes first.
Don't have any aspirin or Benadryl in the house at all, I have not ever had to take any meds for any reason for so long that I keep nothing at the house.
Well, I now have the inhaler and a rescue inhaler but prior to that ... nothing
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Count your continued health a major blessing J! An Aspirin dilates blood vessels a bit. I think that allows for quicker equalization of the pressure differential in the body WHEN those barometric 'inversions' occur. Benadryl seems to assist that and also makes me drowsy enough to go right to sleep. I wake a few hours later feeling much refreshed! :) I doubt it would work if I did it on a frequent basis. Two or three times in a year are my pattern for this one.
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Setting the AC thermostat to 60 and pulling on both the top sheet and quilt just make me, well, comfortable!
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I would need that much coverings just to prevent the ice cube outcome of 60° temps.
I have heard that about aspirin being given to those with heart condition while in transport didn't know the underlying reason. Makes sense now, though, still do not have any in the house.
Yes, even though the last couple of days I have been uncomfortable or in distress I can still manage and not curl up into a ball in the corner. This morning is about the same still have a low pressure system somewhere nearby according to the barometer. Plus I do feel tight in the chest still, weird thing though is today that I must be sensing some rubbish in the lung area as sometimes it feels as if I am swallowing goo, phlegm or ... whatever .... nasty and sticky sensation to say the least and not being used to this it takes me three times as long to understand what is going on or wrong in this case.
For a change and I guess I have noticed this in the past ye ole cup of the morning herbal tea seems to be more effective then usual. Seems like the Lemon and Peppermint version works pretty well, wonder if there are others that will do the same, where is my coin so I give it a flip or three ... maybe a bit of I Ching will show a path ... :thud: talk about a stretch.
What the hell did Watanuki put in my tea .... damn meddling cat. Oh wait he doesn't have opposable thumbs.
:ummm:
Now I am confused
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It is most weird in a way, it would be almost more effective if when I see a doctor that they work as if I was mute and can not say what the problem is but can only nod yes or no.
The main reason I say that is as you mentioned I have been in good health up till now and truth be told I do not know if anything is wrong as I have never been told that it was not standard.
So how can I say this or that is wrong to a doctor so I get the correct treatment. I do not know what is wrong and most of the feelings of unease at the moment are very vague and random.
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Make me think of Pack Rats. Out where I live we do have them, they like to take things and bring them to there little home. Maybe the cat was either sleeping or amazed that the rat wanted some herbal tea to take home.
Hope you feel better.
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Which is why I love our Monroe Clinic and Hospital. It's just like Cheers....everyone knows your name....and have no problems telling you what is what and passing the info along to the other Doctors you see......
But since all of this is new to you....you just have to find the best way you can to adapt to the changes or ask questions....When it comes to your health...there is no such thing as a stupid question...
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The trick that I use after I've asked a question and am not getting an answer is to just sit there silent. People hate silence. If you're patient they won't be able to take it.
My other effective tactic when I get an "I don't know" is "If you had to guess, what would you say?"
:heeheehee:
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LOLOL....Those approaches work also.
I'm a very talkative person so I give them NO CHANCE to shut up.....
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I get that, and you can bet when I see them again in July there is going to be the proverbial "methinks this treatment plan is a bit off" conversation.
Fortunately there are no rats or mice around where I live... well, observed and there be none in my house we can be certain of that although Watanuki is very lax about a lot of things if it moves about erratically or with purpose he is on it. Other cats and once a mutt was in my backyard ( :tearlaugh: ) and he went ballistic
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Definitely will have to try both of those tactics Sir Knight and Luffie as this past week has been 'erm" most bothersome
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Well, ye ole computer must be possessed I got a complete black screen while stirring the pot on FB ... :whatthe: .... first thought was maybe the monitor had gave up the ghost since I had no other warnings.
Well have a spare upstair and brought it down then had to go back upstairs to get the VGA cable since I had a DVI cable on the previous monitor
:thud:
Anyway hooked it up and wha - bam ... nothing still a dark screen. Guess I should have followed the first rule of troubleshooting "restart it"
Well, amazing it started back up and then went into update mode :shrug: not sure why that happened. However an hour later it got finished with updating and restarting and then updating and restarting again ... and I am back once more ... did you miss me ... yet ... :tearlaugh:
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Tis getting better here in my state of confusion known as Florida.
Went to do the shopping thing and since I know that the governor has rescinded all mask mandates I pushed the envelope and had no push back at all.
Yes, walked into my local Sam's, ABC and continued my shopping in Publix all without dealing with the air choking mask rubbish.
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:happydance: :thumb_up:
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You got that right
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This was ever so much rubbish for me today. Went to Barnes and Nobles no problem on the no need for a mask concept the problem was when I got inside and was browsing in my usual nooks and crannies, next thing I know I am choking and coughing and having great difficultly breathing ...thank goodness I had the inhaler in my pocket.
My oh my that was a nasty double handful of minutes. Fortunately the inhaler brought me back to normal in short order ... but it sure did sucks balls to say the least until it took effect and thankfully it did in short order.
As in immediately it did
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Did you have any warning that it was coming? Do you think it was a reaction to something specifically in B & N?
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The only advance warning was I started to cough for no particular reason. The coughing although I was able to suppress some of it, that just made it worse as then the wheezing kicked in ... so I can not really define anything specific, more then likely dust. I mean I am in a book store, although they be a trifle cleaner then say my library at the house
:tearlaugh:
3526 and counting
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I react to certain things that I can't smell at all. Dust and some dish soaps, for example.
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3526 and counting
:luvbooks: :thumb_up: :deal:
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Only use the dishwasher so haven't ran into that before or is that yet?
Was looking at the barometer and it is looking bad for the evening hours for me. But at least I am inside so it will not be to bad thankfully
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To clarify I use soap tablets so not noticing anything due to how it is packaged which I guess is a good thing
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The Benadryl is good for those inward snotty symptoms, as it were. Allergy sufferers know the aspirin/benadryl quite well. My doctor said to USE Benadryl for both my allergies when they act up and for an occasional sleep aid. Hey, it works! I use it. ONE caplet cozy and drowsy. Two knocks me out. BUT, you do what your doctor said to do brah! NOT what MY doc tells ME to do! ;) Duh!
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I guess a person could be allergic to just about anything. Even soap? :lostme:
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I am indeed allergic to soap as well as some kinds of dish washer detergent.
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I was allergic to work once then found out books, anime, ammo, saké cost money :tearlaugh:
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BUT, you do what your doctor said to do brah! NOT what MY doc tells ME to do! ;) Duh!
My doctor has yet to tell me anything .... directly or indirectly as of yet :thud:
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Well, J . . . nudge him or her! Be insistent about it, but not TOO insistent, hear?
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Sir Knight, there we go! Yeah, ok. I began reacting to Dial Gold bar soap many years ago. Spent a couple years drifting from bar to bar (of SOAP!) till I found Lever 2000. It cleans, and I don't have that prickly bumpy reaction to it. So, 20+ years later I still use it. I did forget my own reaction to the Dial soap. Then, my hair was falling out leaving a large pink spot where my crown was. My barber noticed it of course. Asked me if I used [insert list of dandruff shampoos]. Then said I should stop using all of that, and just use good old Baby Shampoo, as in Johnson & Johnsons. He further said after about three months I will likely notice the lack of that pink spot back there. That happened. The hair returned. Reason is that the scalp/follicles were being helped, not hurt. So, Baby Shampoo is all I use now. Though I am thinking I need to add some sort of conditioner to that. Makes the hair easier to brush out after washing, yaknow?
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:ifonly: I owe, I owe, so it’s off to work I go! :thud:
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'with razor blades and hand grenade, hiegh-ho, hiegh-ho, hiegh-ho, hiegh-ho, hiegh-ho, hiegh-ho
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I guess a person could be allergic to just about anything. Even soap? :lostme:
As a kid I used to be allergic to certain types of pillows. Don't know if I still am or what type it was back in the day. I do know that I had to replace two of mine after I washed them as the dryer sort of destroyed the shape of them. Bought a couple of new ones supposedly "good", at this point the jury is still out on the veracity of the statement.
They can't be to bad as I can sleep all, well as much of all night at a time, as I do currently. So more observation required.
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Pretty sure you'd have noticed by now if you were reacting to the pillows. Wait, wot?! You ARE reacting to some THING during the day yeah? Hmm.
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Not to terribly much when out of the house, I did as mentioned react in Barnes and Nobles over the weekend.
Apparently there is a dust issue mainly in the house that I react too, but trying to get the place down to being dust free not happening ... getting it cleaner doable, currently still upping the game on that part as before I was not that CDO on the task.
As mentioned a straight up low pressure system does it to me, if there is rain, just get me a stretcher. Certain foods, so far just Kraft Mac & Cheese. Those be the main things so far, I think the random dust crap is going to be the hardest to nail down.
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Surprise I got the air purifiers two days early so instantly plugged them in once I got home and we will monitor how conditions change (if at all) although I do believe there will be a change, just a matter of how significant.
Granted I know it doesn't mean I can be lax in the cleaning of the place but at least this is supposed to improve conditions. Then there is the fact that although the label on the air filters for the A/C say they are good for three month, I am replacing them every month now instead.
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Yippee - ki - ya
The new LED fixtures for the office came in today
All I can say is hell yes, proper lighting in my office :thumb_up: times two
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:lostme: You get an Ac Brush for your Conduit Cleaning?
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:lostme: Yes you did
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I Use a Dryer Vent Cleaner Takes a bit of time to clean also does not help when I poke holes in the Ducting when I push too hard! :thud:
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Ah, nope did not get one of those but I guess at some point it might be on the list since I am certain that thing has never been cleaned.
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Ah wonderful, finally got the new LED light fixtures for the shop and spent the day replacing them in the office. I can now see in my office like gang busters. Replaced the ones in the server/parts room as well and damn you can certainly see in there now.
I so do not want to hear anyone complain that they can't see the labels on the parts and by the way junior office lady how about getting off thy ass and put parts away and start filling parts request on the back logged radio repairs.
The downside man the ceiling over here is the absolute pigs crap it is the nastiest place I have seen and have had to do work. It is so bad that I put my jacket on to keep the amount of insulation off me to a small roar and kept my hat on so as to not get it in my hair. And lo and behold the only time you saw me wear a mask voluntarily was when I was above the ceiling. I can only imagine the fit I would have had if I had not done so, and oh by the way it is raining now ... great ... not .... as it is almost time to go home.
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Well you should be well rinsed and ready to dry when you get home! :woohoo:
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Technically once I got home I pulled the clothes off and grabbed the jacket and tossed all in the washer and threw myself in the shower for a top to bottom scrub. That is after I took a couple of hits off of the inhaler as it was definitely overdue
No telling how much crap had settled on me and the clothes and instead of getting everything else in the mix I washed just them only.
Can't hurt to do them alone, so hoping that will keep the silliness to a minimum
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Okay I am now truly PO'ed I take a couple of days off and I will still answer my phone or email .... yet my boss is taking the next 8 days off and is just saying "oh I am on vacation and if it is important just call the shop".
Well, you know what, if it is that easy then what the hell are you needed for to begin with if that is the attitude you are going to take.
I am certain he probably gets 10x the number of emails and calls that I do but there are questions and emails that I am copied on and am either not privy to the answer or not high enough on the food chain to make that type of decision.
Yet, he appends that flippant answer to email and God only knows what the phone will be like ... I gave up calling him since every time I turn around I get the "mailbox is full, goodbye" message more times then I can count.
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Typical!
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Hey J, check out No Man's Sky.... heh heh!
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Well, kept myself busy after replacing all of the lights in the parts room. What do I hear a thank you .... NOT ... now they are complaining it is too bright and we can't turn the lights off in the room without turning them off out in the office ladies area.
Sorry can't help you, the reason is that all of those lights in question are controlled by a set of three ways, and quite possibly there was a four way thrown in back in the day.
All I got was lip about it and :rat-atat: is how I responded, it has been like this since I started here so get over it. Besides now you can see in the parts room so parts can be put up and all the repairs that are waiting on parts can get filled. Wow, ye ole junior office lady didn't like that one bit and got all hoity toity and told me to mind my own business .... guess I hit a nerve, since I knew there were parts in the room that had been received previously but had still not been processed or used to fill the repair backlog on the repair shelf.
Truth hurts as they say .... don't care there are repairs that are still waiting on parts since March and based on what I saw there are more then enough of the correct parts to fill them all.
Anyway decided not to waste my time and found other things to do, Went to Disney to work on alarm points and well, that was a can of worms that needs some pesticide to get it under control, why ... simple landed new alarm points and installed bridge clips on the 66 block to activate the points and wha-bam ... nothing ... no light on the device, just an alarm on the event monitor. changed polarity on the wires, no change. :ummm: methinks some poor soul is going to have to go back to the drawing board.
This morning I went back to my favorite branch of the one hospital chain (my point of contact is quite the looker :pervy: ) to get ahead of the people pulling the cable for the DAS in their new ED.
Learned that the rumor was to also install the MedCom upgrade in that room so while I was there went on the roof to check out the appearance. First things first, my contact had no idea how to get to this section of the roof. Turns out that you can only access it from the original portion of the hospital on the second floor. Boy, that is going to suck ass in regards to getting material up there to do the antenna work. Second part of the suck ass is the concept of how to make it clean and neat and so forth .... no good solution is available. Provided three choices to the fair haired genius boy ... I mean PM .... he can explain it to the facility manager.
Got back to the shop and imagine this, repairs that needed parts and supposedly according to the junior OL would require her to swim to Malaysia to get them have miraculously showed up and started to be put out. :ummm: Gods above I wish I could push that envelope but with my luck it would get me fired although there is a problem trying to get someone to do what I do and/or up to my level of skill in a timely manner ... which means ... lots of luck (technically not happening) ... but no sense in fighting a losing battle with people that do not have the same work ethic as I. Because in a nutshell that is the difficulty. Plus, why lower myself to their level of incompetence. Time to walk away from it.
My work ethic is way different from hers. She is from Jamaica and barely half my age and that is all I will say ..... children these days. :sigh:
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My seconded bit of fun occurred when I was getting ready to leave for the day, just happened to see a screw in the tread of my tire on the passenger front.
Oh great not what I want to see at the end of the day, so drive home and hope for the best and get it looked at in the morning, yea that sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
Or go over to Tires Plus (preferred vendor) and get it looked at before going home.
Well, after an hour of waiting to get in and have it checked ... oh let us not forget that we did have a new book to read while reading and went through 149 pages, while waiting. Turns out I got lucky and the screw did not penetrate the tread and I had no leak or problem :woohoo:
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Got even more lucky as one of the system techs came by to drop off TV's to be installed at a new Fire Station. Just so happens he is the one who covers the Disney sites as mentioned before, so cool running I got to have him take back with him the extra electronics from the move back to the prime site at Disney.
Excellent, a trip I do not have to make .... loving it.
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Time for some cable fail pics
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The grounding fail scene really gets me. Sigh. The very first idea they had was just so WRONG! Oh well. Rip it down and do it over. One serious surge load on those #4's and that thin bar vaporizes.
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I like the WTF picture mainly because it reminds me of the power poles in the Philippines when I visited back in 2007
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Well, this is not good for unknown reasons I am s bit on the depressed side.
And here I thought that since I tested negative for emotions that depression was no longer going to visit me. Seems someone is deluded on how that works
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Could be physical as opposed to emotional Jherr. low blood sugar, elevated histamines, low seratonin, even just a rough night's sleep. Balance is more than not falling down when you stand upright. Keytones sugars and protiens need be balanced as well.
How to verify or do this? I've no clue, just passing on datum provided to me about 2 decades ago. Maybe one of the yummy meals you've listed?
Cheers
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I discovered the last months that if I eat apples for the dinner, I become depressed for the rest of the evening. Once, with dark ideas.
No matter the apples are in a pie, a cake, marmelade, or just themselves.
The rest of the day, no problem with apples :shrug:
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ahhh soooo! OK. Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake does NOT do that to me! :ifonly: :grenade:
Aelin, you might try Apple Pie a la mode? Heh! Always did fine as a lunch dessert.
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Could be physical as opposed to emotional Jherr. low blood sugar, elevated histamines, low seratonin, even just a rough night's sleep. Balance is more than not falling down when you stand upright. Keytones sugars and protiens need be balanced as well.
How to verify or do this? I've no clue, just passing on datum provided to me about 2 decades ago. Maybe one of the yummy meals you've listed?
Cheers
Yea no clue as to how to track that between doctor visits and those knotheads are not impressing me at the moment so just wait till my next visit. :heeheehee:
Nevertheless all those lovely menu items I post do get sorted and printed by me and go in the rotation for being prepared and devoured. :iminnocent:
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ahhh soooo! OK. Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake does NOT do that to me! :ifonly: :grenade:
Aelin, you might try Apple Pie a la mode? Heh! Always did fine as a lunch dessert.
I know better then to keep stuff like that around the house as it would be gone in short order. Although I guess if I were to find me a recipe that I could scale, that might be allowable :tearlaugh:
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Yeah I don't usually keep that kind of thing around the house either. I would definitely eat it all in just a couple of days. Love Cheesecakes! All kinds. Love Apple Pie a la mode too. Such a simple thing. Big ol slice of hot apple pie with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. What a treat. As long as it is the rare treat, not a regular thing, it ok! OH how about Strawberry Shortcake! OR Orange Sherbert Push pop! OR I could keep on going but better not.
Ha! :woohoo: :thud:
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J if you have good direct questions for your doctor, he/she should give you good solid answers to them!
We get checked in by the clinics nurse, they get vitals, ask the usual questions, and you should ask thatnurse your questions, and nurse will relay them to doc who comes in with answers. Dunno how world wideclinics do things now, but that is how they do at the VA.
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They need to ask the questions, I read the last medical report and what does it state, "denies xxxxxxxxx" how can I deny anything if you never asked me the question.
This is the first time I have had a condition that requires treatment so I have no idea what is relevant or not ... and if you do not ask me all of the questions ... well that brings us to where we are today.
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:ifonly: Megalomania! Why just go Crazy When you Can Enjoy all of it Now! :thud:
The Best of the Tick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmzTIimu9s
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That is weird. Try a different doctor if you can't trust that one. Got a good primary care doctor? OR is that what this one is s'posed to be?
Just had a visit with my endocrinologist/diabetes specialist. Him I do trust. HE answers my questions. Any I have. He looks at my whole metabolic panel. All 5 pages of it. Since most of what he has to work from is the bloodwork, it makes sense. He gives me good advice on how to get my glucose where I need it. He also helps me fight the neuropathy and swelling. That last is what landed me in the Podiatrists chair. But you really have to trust these people. They are the wielders of Medicine. And very sharp little tools!
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The Tick. Doncha just love him! If he wuz any brighter he'd be plumb dangerous!
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How interesting, ye ole leprechaun came back from PTO, he was going to a meeting and never made it as the gearbox went out on his company vehicle.
Great ... not
Yep guess who got the privilege or pleasure to be the "uber driver" to get him sorted.
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Today was sort of, kind of, interesting ... technically dull, boring, tedious and commonplace is more accurate.
Nonetheless, I have one bench tech out on PTO still, the other tech is in training all week and the two mobile installers was working on an install at a new Fire Station.
Finally got to start getting the new install ready for a Federal job. Got to a stopping point and then was asked to pick up radios for repairs, umm that is fine I have time to take care of the customers. Just how I feel it should be, nonetheless it was definitely a :whatthe: moment .. why ... traffic good sir ... traffic ... it sucked "balls" as in big, bouncy and other adjectives I should not use in mixed company.
Only had a handful of miles to drive, literally five miles, and it took every bit of 30 minutes to do so ... boring.
The fun part was the volume of radios that I brought back from the three sites. Ye ole junior office lady was crying loudly :tearlaugh: Yes, I enjoyed that a lot. Made the second round of trips to the other side of the county and only came back with one radio ... darn.
So now guess what is happening ... yes, all of those repairs that needed parts that supposedly were not available are now getting filled :ummm: really how amusing.
The next interesting part, I was forwarded an email stating that newly programmed radios were keying up the wrong resource ... :ummm: that is most odd, so once again off on a pick up run, although this one I timed to coincide with going home. Traffic still sucked though ... just saying.
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The good news is that although I am still having breathing issues I got a surprise call from the doctors, saying that they need to reschedule the next appointment.
Good I am having trouble breathing so my appointment which was to be in two weeks is now set for tomorrow .. :woohoo:
Lord knows I need a reassessment of my treatment plan
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:lostme: Well it could be worse!
Jimmy Three Balls - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrpDVDK3jTk
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You have a point there
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Well, surprise and colour me "something" got the hospital radios back to the office this morn and according to the template it is right, however we talked to the senior tech and :whatthe: somehow the talk group ID got hosed in the template. Once I changed it to the correct one :woohoo: it worked as intended and after a radio check with the hospital in question ... yep all good. Time to take those back and call it a win.
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Imagine that all these repairs that have been sitting and waiting on parts since as far back as Feb. they are getting all laid out. :ummm: How peculiar since I never saw any boxes come in on Monday according to her story.
I did see boxes of parts three weeks ago ... though .... :shrug: whatever helps her sleep at night.
Don't give a damn, because there is no way you can convince me that she went through and did all of the convoluted paperwork and cross checking and then pulled parts all in one day
:bs:
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Well, been trying to find out if I have a certain product by designer name and in my archives, it is difficult to say the least.
I mentioned my problem previously in a different thread but however let me say this, my ability to shall we say be organized and only have no more then two copies of the same file under the same category heading ... yep so is not the state of affairs.
The further I dig the worse it gets .... :sigh:
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:lostme: have you been here? https://www.booknizer.com/
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Not certain how that would work on my Poser library as that is my "mess from hell" at the moment.
I have considered using it for the reading library but haven't committed to that idea yet.
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For some reason ye ole knothead doctor does not seem to want to listen to what I have to say, acts like he is always in a hurry and tries (unsuccessfully) to cut me off or talk around me. Talking into his dicta-whatever the fuck and not listening, because I will stop talking since he is nattering on and then start back up and he is acting "pick an adjective" and trying to not pay attention to what I am saying.
Last time I checked I am paying him for services not the other way around. And quite frankly I do not care if it is only a 15 minute consult, that means 15 minutes from you not the total time I am in the office.
Just saying.
Anyway he now wants me back on the other med I was initially given but at twice the strength, :ummm: don't you remember that I had an adverse reaction after about three weeks?
Yes, but this time I want you to take it a nighttime instead of in the morning ... really ... and this is going to make what sort of difference?
All I got to say is that this ought to be interesting. I wonder when or where he got his medical license .... hope it wasn't from Lister in 1788
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was a Cracker Jack prize.
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Well, it got interesting yesterday to say the least, sent ye ole "dumb and dumber" or "Frick and Frack" or well any other names for a pair of incompetent's that you care to think of to do the final connections at the latest ED for the hospital chain.
Yeah :thud: first thing I want to know is why it took three hours to make up three connectors, with grounding and weatherproofing. Granted they did have to get an extension ladder up on the roof but once you are up there that is the last time you have to mess with a ladder, till you are ready to clean up. We know for a fact that these guys do not clean as they go so still three hours to do three connectors .... seriously
Now here is where it gets amusing ... I get a phone call from the guy asking which antenna was the 400MHz and the 800MHz yagi. Told him although if you have been in the shop and helping with infrastructure install you would know the longer yagi is the 400MHz and the shorter is the 800MHz so told him once. Phone call number two why can I not get a radio check from the county, uh it is not a channel that is monitored by the county it is for the ambulances to call in on not the other way around. Third phone call which antenna is for the 800MHz and should I not be able to use the portable instead to check with the ambulance? Again the 800MHz is the shorter of the two antennas :thud: Yes, you can use the portable to key up the radio and should hear it through the desk set. Hey, it is not working when the nurse tries it ... :sigh: .... what channel does she have it on ... the county channel ... :thud: nope she needs to have it on the Palm Pkwy channel for it to work.
Wow now it works, imagine that ... Fourth call which antenna is for the local and the state resources? Seriously, these are the guys that can do an install of a radio in a vehicle and make it look like it came from the factory that way. But now I have got four phone calls in less then a half hour basically asking the same question each time. :thud: :thud: :thud:
Then the real boring part came out, I wanted to make sure the 800Mhz worked before I got started on the other two. What ??? Literally been there for three hours and you only have one resource working. :sigh:
Fast forward to today, myself and the senior tech went out there to do final power checks and line sweeps. The state radio no problem at all. Went to the county radio and wow that is a pretty high VSWR reading, over 4.x ... :ummm: that don't seem right at all. So check the local radio and lo and behold again excessively high VSWR reading.
:ummm:
Senior tech said I wonder ... so disconnected the antenna line from the polyphaser and then went directly to the antenna and bypassed the jumper to the radios. Well, imagine that after some additional testing and so on it turns out that ye ole Bobbsey Twins reversed the 400MHz and 800MHz lines. You have got to be kidding me, the lines are marked with numbers and yet some how between the roof and the radio room they managed to "f*ck" them up when attaching them.
By the time we got done with the checks and corrections needed another three hours had past, although that does include drive time there and back. The amusing comment by the charge nurse was when we told then that we had everything normalized and fixed up, she asked if we had got rid of the static on the line. Well, now I would have to say yes, although we did not say that now that the correct antenna is hooked up to the correct radio yes we did, correct that issue. Not that we even knew she had a problem, but the troubleshooting and corrections that were made said that yes, problems were fixed even if no one told us that they had problems.
Old age and treachery comes through again ... :tearlaugh:
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I think what is also amazing is that I gave the ticket number to one of the Bobbsey twins and said "need you to get your time on the ticket so we can bill it."
"sure no problem."
By end of day, and mind you he is just sitting in the office not doing a damn thing, well maybe picking his nose, surfing F-book and talking a mile a minute in Spanish to his wife on the phone .... still not done.
Mind you I did give him the ticket number at 1:00 in the afternoon and he had till 4:00 to get it done. Guess that wasn't enough time :thud:
And we are still waiting for them to return my 800MHz mag mount antenna that I used to get the system up and working temporarily.
:sigh:
I guess I was raised wrong because not only did I get my time entered but also ran auto tune on three repaired radios. Replaced parts on two more plus downloaded and sorted all of the test results from the trip to the ED.
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My whole life I have asked why people like that can keep a job but I got laid off many times. ROF. And the slackers keep drawing pay checks.
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Probably because when we see something wrong we say something and none can handle it
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Been a bad week, having one of those times where "you only need me when you want something" and it really sucks as there is no definitive reason or source as to why I am in such a funk.
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Well, not a nice day, thought I had things planned out for all of my shopping and boy howdy did I miss the window ... when I did finally go outside we had all of the dark skies and thunder one could have wished for, and yes we did react to it and not in a favorable way. So back inside we went ... it did its rain thing and eventually I did go do the grocery shopping, didn't think I could get the book store one done without having issues so we are at the one down and one to go ....
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Ever see the Brendon Fraser movie, "Inkheart"? It's a heartwarming tale, and a kids oriented movie, suitable for grownups too. Interesting story. Paul Bettany, Sienna Guillory and Andy Sirkis are more stars in this one. They are all good, great direction. Great sets, score etc. Ok perhaps I found it a bit TOO kid oriented. But it's still a great story. The secret is, it's all about *BOOKS*. As in real, paper, with ink on them, turn the pages BOOKS. Musty dusty even smells old - BOOKS. Pretty cool, eh? I recalled having to explain it all to my kids. Those I could lasso down long enough to MAKE watch it! But all 4 enjoyed it at least once. I had to buy the movie 3 times so I KNOW two units left with kids. I still have a DVD of it! INKHEART. I bet it would have been a good (wait for it!) BOOK!
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It is a book and part one of a trilogy by Cornelia Funke
In fact the title was recommended to me a week ago and I located volume one, abducted it and carried it away and have started reading it. Have a lead on volume two so might just pick that one up today before we get into the rainy portion of the day.
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Another one along similar lines is by Jim C. Hines called Libriomancer
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I like the series better than the movie. From this morning's (London) Financial Times:
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Just to be absolutely clear on my reaction to that:
:rat-atat:
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Seconded
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Well, it is really becoming a pain here, going to the bookstore and thought I had found a new one on quantum mechanics and what do I find when I get home ... :thud: .... I already have it in the library.
:sadder:
Guess that is what you get when you have 3534 volumes not all of them are on the inventory list.
Sucks to be me ..... imagine that as a problem.
Wow such a problem "right" :tearlaugh:
The other part of my dilemma is that while in the bookstore, finding what I am looking for, I have never seen such an abomination of how they do their version of the alphabet for sorting the books. One is from top to bottom in one bookcase, then the next time it is across all cases in that section.
:whatthe: I was fairly conversant at one point in being able to write in three different alphabets, did crossword puzzles in them back in my youth. But how they sort them in the bookstore defies all rational thought ... literally.
Simple task was to pick up Inkspell, found it finally in the children's section. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, finally located in the fiction section, :ummm: always thought it was a classic. The Neverending Story, according to the web search I did prior to going shopping was supposedly in the children section finally found in the Young Adult Sci-fi and Fantasy section. :whatthe: and oh by the way one corner of the section is more of the sci-fi but in this direction is the fantasy volumes.
I am so confused
Good news is that I did succeed in finally finding what I was looking for but man why did it take including drive time, almost two hours :thud:
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Oops had another one of those "I only exist when you need something" days ... :sigh:
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So ol Silvertongue started out in the pages of a BOOK! Kewlness! I'll have to find a copy out here in the high plains now :)
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So ol Silvertongue started out in the pages of a BOOK! Kewlness! I'll have to find a copy out here in the high plains now :)
Yes and it is a trilogy to boot
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Day two of the rubbish feeling.
Ah well, guess it will pass eventually. I hope.
Anyway did do some busy work to help soothe the feeling of not being useful or treated as a third wheel.
The repairs have finally been coming back from depot in a timely manner and at last ye ole junior office lady is finally putting parts out that have been here for some little time now and even more parts have been coming in so repairs are finally getting done and now ready for delivery to the customer.
So ran out repairs to four different customers. Then finally got out to ye ole tourist attraction hotel and did some background work on my own. Installed a repeater, with duplexer. Then ran a line from there to the window and made it long enough to go to any one of the available lines over there, since I had no key assist to get to the roof and it was quite audible outside in regards thunder and lightning that was as far as I got with that install.
So waiting on a key assist on whatever day the point of contact decides to reply to the request. The cool part is that the antenna is small enough that I could hang it myself since there is already masts and open lines on the roof. So a little jiggery-pokery to attach it and then make a jumper from it to the proper spare line. Swap the polyphaser downstairs and wha-bam it is all done except for the system tech to do his part which he has done no preliminary programming work.
Can't wait to finish this one off and then sit back and say, whatever it is you say when you have been waiting and waiting for others to do their work so you can do yours.
Yes, that statement.
So looking forward to it.
Because I am getting ready to do it on another project and push that project forward and make the IT department at the facility look bad. Only been asking for network ports for the past month.
Oh and by the way that other hospital project that I have been trying to get out of our shop for two years, is now at last sorted for freqs and now all I have to do it get the Lakeland shop to get off its ass and pick up the material and get it done. :thud:
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How droll, major rain storm at the moment well, at least I am inside and somewhat shielded from the effects.
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Oops, and still raining, I am so excited .... NOT
I guess the good news is that it simmered down and is just a steady medium heavy rain instead of the frog strangling version :thud:
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Well, it is still at it but tis only a determined drizzle at the moment. :tearlaugh:
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Well, did some background work to get on the roof over at the local tourist trap hotel.
First interesting bit, he claims he never got a request for access.
:thud:
He says he can get me on the roof today or tomorrow to give me the 411 so guess we will be on some sort of a mission today.
Next, we are going to want that antenna in this location ....
Next, we don't have a line allocated for it you will have to find one.
Well, now as mentioned this ought to be fun you want the antenna "wherever" yet you do not know if you have a line that is good anywhere in the vicinity.
Originally the project only cared about the need of lines for the P25 system, one transmit, receive and test line.
Now the decision has been made in someone's infinite wisdom that we want the Fire back up radio here also, but they didn't consider whether there were any lines that are unused, yes there are, however do they work?
Somedays this job reminds me of the old slogan of "poor planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on mine"
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Amen to that LOL!
J I think it might be that your body/brain is so used to getting a certain thing that when it is absent, your brain misses it and supplants it with that feeling. Fills the gap. Like the brain does with tinnitis!
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Well, got out to he hotel and found what I thought was a passable line and when it was all done and I saved all of the tests I ran. Went back to the shop and oh my they were not pleased about the traces I saved. Granted I was not expecting much, since it started with 1-5/8" dropped down to 7/8" followed up with a 1/2" LMR400 jumper to the antenna.
Well, in truth I wasn't pleased much either but it was the only one available. So hopefully we will be going back out next week, I hope, with some additional test equipment and toys.
At any rate all I can say is that if all of the new tests and measurements still come up nasty, it is then on the hotel to provide a line that is usable, since it is their facility, and they indicated that here are the lines available for use.
So if after all of my test they come up lacking ... :shrug:
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Well, tis day two since I last used the breathalyzer, woke up three last night however the first was about three hours after lights out, 11:00. The next time was 1:30 in the morning and then finally 5:30 so not liking the timing of those hours.
Still doing well with the coffee and or tea, and the voice is still sounding normal going to keep monitoring my state of affairs
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well, this is not looking good, getting some of those nasty sensations from before
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Took a hit of the milder med so as to work back up to it. Amazing two days off and got the sucks to be me headache.
Was able to drink the coffee this morning but got the tight throat sensation this afternoon. Well, guess we do need to be taking this stuff still but I am still not convinced that the treatment plan is legit.
I mean how does one wind up with asthma after perambulating in a semi-wholesome manner for the last 60 centuries out of nowhere.
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Well, what a bust on the so called hurricane.
I swear I have more water pressure coming out my shower head.
Anyway went in to work because it was such a bust, and I know I get there early but no one else showed up till 8:00 plus ... :thud:
Oh well, at least others showed up as in three people.
And who was missing of course the junior OL person that is to process incoming repairs and deliveries .... so much for that idea.
The senior OL said go ahead and do the ones from the hotel chain. Then she poked around under the juniors desk and about had a heart attack, as did I ... there is about a total of four box of repairs from the theme park that are still waiting to get processed ... :OMFG:
What the **** does she do all day ... I see no reason for that many to still be waiting to be processed. Case in point the ones from the hotel although there were only 21 to process I still knocked them all out in about two hours and then even repaired and processed another 10 radios. This included doing a align and test on the service monitor for returns from the depot.
I am baffled ... I do understand that the damn software we are forced to use to process the repairs is absolute :rat-atat: crap but still me an amateur can manage more in half a day then she does in ... never mind
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"..under the desk.." "..junior.." "..such a bust.."
Now i'm taking statements out of context but.....
*Laughing encouraged*
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Laughing is encouraged ... :tearlaugh:
After I did the grammar cop thing on myself ... and here I thought I had a grip
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And oh look here is the :rainy: that we were promised yesterday. :thud: Talk about a day late and a dollar short.
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Oh look another Monday of a work week, how fun ... not really since in theory got thrown under the bus on Friday past to account for this mornings task.
Wonder how well this is going to go, supposedly the fiber is ready for the last remote and it to be plugged in this morning and then powered on so it can be commissioned by us .... sorry about the lack of confidence but this particular rework of the existing system that was rendered useless due to the customer remodeling right where the last leg of the original install was to be located after we had it installed. Then wondering why it doesn't provide the coverage promised, does not give me warm and fuzzy feelings, and remember I tested negative for feelings :tearlaugh:
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Well, how about that the no expectations, no disappointments ... came through for me.
Why do I word it in such a manner, well because everything came together and worked properly the first time with no qualifiers to its operation.
Gods above I love it.
Then the bus came through and about ran us over, ye ole leprechaun called and decided that me and the fair haired genius boy (FHGB) should go out to the hotel and finish up the install out there, one problem getting the hotel to grant access in a timely manner is like getting Luffie to admit he loves Kianna.
Yeah right :o_go_on:
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Well, have I seen any action on the hotel access today .. nope not one tiny little dust speck :tearlaugh:
Ah well, didn't expect any ... made some cables for the helpless system techs and was provided with inaccurate info so wound up not making them correctly "according to them" it was an easy fix to just cut one end off and re-terminate it leaving only, pair one to be terminated on pins 4 & 5
In fact it is so easy for me that while I was driving to drop off my deliveries I was in and out of traffic so had free time at them and guess what I was doing instead of what the rest of the mindless sheep do at traffic lights ... yep re-terminating the cables. Even saw out the corner of my eye people looking at what I was doing at the traffic light stops ... quite certain they had no idea truly what I was doing but it must have been quite the sight ... seriously how many of you have terminated CAT5 in a vehicle while stopped at a traffic light.
:tearlaugh:
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:lostme: They where just shocked you where not texting like the rest of them! :thud:
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Undoubtedly
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Like I said they be mindless sheep
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Well got a big surprise during my delivery of repaired radios one of the customers, another hotel chain this time, said that recently repaired radios still cannot transmit and receive.
Turns out that after I put an antenna and battery on it and powered it up that yes indeed we had a no joy scenario.
Well, did some digging and surprise I do believe it is one of those damn firmware updates. It had to go to depot for a repair beyond board level and what happens when they come back to me, well they the latest firmware and I have to reload the code plug. This is where the problem comes into play, the subscriber radio is sending out a request for a handshake due to the new firmware, however the repeaters are to far behind and are saying "what handshake" the reason the repeaters are behind is more of a software issue as they use a third party dispatch solution and there is no assurance that the new versions play nice together when first released.
Thought I might have had an out by rolling the firmware back but ... nope since it came from depot with it in there, no rolling it back. :sigh:
So guess the sales people that sold the system are going to have their work cut out for them as due to upgrades that were done by Motorola to the firmware there is going to be some serious work on our part to get the rest of the system up to the latest and then we will have to go and do all of the subscribers ... granted there is only 1200 of them. Then we have the seven sites with a minium of three repeaters at each one.
The nasty part is that it will take two rounds to get the repeaters up to speed and then another two updates to get the subscribers to the same point.
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And no forward motion with the request for access, called the person in charge and what do I get but "resubmit it and I will push it through" :thud:
I wonder if these people realize or even care that this radio is for their Fire Department :ummm: :shrug:
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Well that is government for you. And you should chalk it up the Great 'Oh Well'.
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:shh2: Thinking outside the Box is Forbidden! :thud:
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Indeed we so need to stop that kind of thinking
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:peek: found this today and thought of You!
#1 A WEEK OF HUSBAND LUNCH BOX 🍱 by wife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkPMzZzoXk
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eek! but but but what would you do with your Doctorate ?!?!
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UH. Oh. Did we just hear tires screeching and metal and plastic crunching right here? :lostme:
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Someone is a REALLY good cook! And that knife she uses at 3:09? I LOVE my solid stainless steel version of that !!! Surprised she doesn't also cut the veggies with hashi! Sheesh! She makes those meals look SO GOOD! I want some! And to US, their "pork belly" = BACON! :D
Thanks Rad!
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So what does HUSBAND get for the other 51 weeks of the year? Hmmm?
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:lostme: Last one I seen was 7 hours ago was week 21 :thud:
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Are ALL Japanese wives like this? Somehow I kinda doubt that. It's like the thinking that all Japanese women look like Anime Dolls I guess. Ain't happening! :D
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Well, imagine that, they came through with the go ahead for doing the work on the roof, and even got high level contact details to facilitate any further work in the future ... Indeed color me shocked and pass the alcohol ... :sake:
Well, the whole purpose today was to confirm whether any of the lines I could choose from were any good. Started with the one I had connected the antenna too the last time I was out there, well got some pretty decent readings. As in 80 watts forward with milliwatts reflected :woohoo:
And this was on the line that when I showed the office people the trace from the TDR they were saying "not good at all"
Tested the other two lines and one was passable, not great but it would work in a pinch. Had 80 watts forward but was at 3 watts reflected. The last one though :rat-atat: not in this life time or the next ... :tearlaugh: yep that bad, as in 10 watts forward with 6 watts reflected :OMFG:
You would have better luck with two tin cans and a string
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:ifonly: But the two tin cans and a string System is still in use today and will remain the Default Government installation as it was paid for and Was put in place to Remain in place so You can't move or Modify with out Government approval. :thud: Or that is what I was told when I asked! :peek:
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Well, had another follow up with the lung doctor ... yes, not happy with any bit of it and again got no satisfactory answers ... well at least to me they were lacking. Claims that he is giving me the best meds possible for asthma, which makes me wonder what all of the other products that you can find with a simple web search are then ... cat food?
He now says that since nothing has worked, I need to get with an immunologist, yet when I challenged him on the why and wherefore as to how I could have spent the last 60 centuries ... oops, year perambulating in a manner not suitable to describe, can all of a sudden now be diagnosed with asthma. He had an answer, but in my mind it sounded more like double talk then anything else. Will have to get the notes from this visit and see just exactly what :puah: he is spewing. But it sure sounded like some sort of "when Mars is in the seventh house and the moon is full grown" what is signified by it.
:whatthe:
And somehow he thinks an immunologist will fix the issue now ... Well, we shall be seeing the primary care before I submit to that crap. Since it is supposedly infusions of whatever it is that I am allergic to to build up immunity to it. Every two weeks for an undetermined length of time
Right ... I am not your lab rat ...
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:ifonly: But the two tin cans and a string System is still in use today and will remain the Default Government installation as it was paid for and Was put in place to Remain in place so You can't move or Modify with out Government approval. :thud: Or that is what I was told when I asked! :peek:
That might be true but at least I was not forced to connect the radio to it and I could just leave it flopping about on the rooftop.
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ahh soo, now we know the origin of the term "flip flop"! ;)\ :thud:
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:shhhh:
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:ifonly: J found you a Girl Friend! :peek:
Just Me Surprising Restaurant Owners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7MkmyHrkKQ
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I get the sneeky impression that Kianna actually looks like her in real life! ;o) :woohoo: :beer: :yes: :viking: :shock: :explode: :yippee:
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:iminnocent:
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In His Dreams maybe LOLOL
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Seeing as Kianna is a 2D character and is a figment of the imagination I have no idea of what dreams you are referring to ... then again I can not remember any dreams if I do have any to start with .... granted she would probably be more honest then half of the bipedal humanoid females currently wandering about the planet, at least the ones I have been unfortunate to meet and interact with for any length of time.
I am sure there are a couple three that are honest, we just haven't met them in the 60+ centuries that I have been perambulating about on this planetary sphere.
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One in a million eh? That'd guarantee at least 3 or 4 women! But truth is it's more like one in BILLIONS! For me that is. Ain't heppened!
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Hell is a real place
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:ifonly: how about this one!
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Oh hell yes, that is the poster child for hell is a real place
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For Sure. I felt my gut rumbling the moment I saw that one! GAAAH!
J, that top one you posted looked pretty ok till my eye got stuck in the poopy doo! Who the hell even does that?!
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J, that top one you posted looked pretty ok till my eye got stuck in the poopy doo! Who the hell even does that?!
Lowest bidder
amateurs
:o_go_on: I can't see it from house
Are the folks that come to mind at first.
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Ah well, what a suck ass day it was for me.
Definitely one of those "I only exist when you need something"
Started off with a snide remark to the mobile installer from the office lady that you are going to have to drive the Fire Rescue around since "my truck" was behind it in the bay.
Wow did it ever occur to come and ask me to move it instead of being a "insert favorite descriptive term" and saying it just barely loud enough for me to hear it but not come directly to me. You know what ... long walk, short pier ...
Then not more then 20 minutes later she finally deigns to talk to me and makes the comment that you need to move your truck we have two vehicles coming in ... "with a double helping of attitude" ... wow all you need do is just ask politely and all would have been fine.
But Noooooooooooo ... couldn't do that ... whatever ....
Well, if that is how the office ladies are going to be that way no sense in sticking around and since I did have some work that could be done by myself, would take twice as long for one to do it but who cares .... didn't feel the need to be about if the place was going to be made that toxic by the office lady.
And people wonder why I am single. We don't do drama or undeserved attitude. If I had done something that would be one thing, but no explanation, you can take that long road.
So off we go to the job I could work on by myself. As mentioned it will take twice or three times as long, then if there were others around ... whatever ... loaded the truck and left to take care of the task and kept occupied for most of the day. That is until I got an email requesting work on the other project I run, fortunately I was at a stopping point so I packed up and went back to the shop and got things set up and rolling on it.
And, just to rub it in the office lady came by and asked where I went as it was not on the board. :tearlaugh: .... Figured that you all didn't want anything to do with me so I took care of business elsewhere.
Got the blank look until I explained it .. then get the "gee you really are a Gemini ... "
Didn't bother to pursue it and went about my business. I got nothing to say to anyone that wants drama in their life .... except maybe leave me out of it.
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Well, it seems we are now on to the next phase with ye ole knothead doctors. The "new referral" called today to schedule an appointment, asked a few question about what was going on, very general question since it was one of the office ladies, however I did make it quite clear that I am not satisfied with the treatment that I have received so far as there has been no improvement nor has a good answer been provided as to how one gets "asthma" after living half a lifetime .... so we shall see what happens now ... oh by the way it will be literally a month before the appointment ... seriously .... August 16th is the earliest I can get in ... :thud:
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:woohoo: :lostme: The VA keeps Moving My Dads Appointment is now on its 6th move! o.O
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Wow, I don't feel so bad now, that is every so rude on their part. Hope it gets sorted for him.
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Been over a year since I saw my primary care doc at the VA. My expired meds are not renewed and running out. And still no new appointment, and no one calls to make an appointment for me. There IS this one little chimpunk sounding female that calls and rattles off some speak that I cannot make out no matter how many times I listen to it. And the Tele-Caption fails to work with it too. So, seems this is what the VA does when they just want to dump a patient.
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Yes, I am thinking that I need to see my primary, I am thinking that the ye ole lung doctor was or is a knot head and I do not feel that he truly diagnosed me properly and was only treating symptom and not looking for the cause so that could be treated instead of the namby-pamby crap that he has subjected me to these past eight months.
Been able to wrap my head around a few symptoms, over the last two days , the throat has tightened up again, that seems to come and go, granted I currently have a crazy ass weather system in the neighborhood. So that might be the explanation for that, then there is the feeling of being fat today which is new one.
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McG...that is another reason I don't go to the VA Hospital in Madison. From what I hear from those that DO go to the VA in Madison...they are notorious when it comes to setting up appointments. Either they schedule you a year out...when you tell them it's a emergency...or they don't set up appointments to see if their meds are working as prescribed, or they don't contact you when they say they will "get ahold of you" for your next appointment.... My brother in RI goes through that a lot also...
I love my Clinic and Hospital here in Monroe and the Main Hospital and clinic in Madison.
As for primary Doctors...Mine is still Olivia...and I see her every 3 months or sooner if need be.... (of late it's been sooner than later LOL)
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Definitely going to make an appointment for the upcoming week as some of the symptoms I seem to be experiencing point to other things instead of asthma. Sucks to read as much as I do and keep wording the question differently to weed out vague and ambiguous answers.
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I have a mild food allergy that causes the throat tightening/swelling, the itchy feeling in the back of my sinuses/throat, and some difficulty breathing. When I eat onions a lot. Occasional fare means some discomfort, not a lot. But downing a couple big burgers with LOTS of raw onion slices in them sometimes gets me that bad reaction. Lots of garlic with those onions add to it. So, could a food allergy be affecting you similarly?BTW, I happen to love onion and garlic. Lots! But, seeing what the body does reacting to them sometimes, hey I can avoid that easily!
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I love onions also...but I can't eat Raw Onions for some odd reason....So I'm one of those that piss off folks waiting in line at fast food places (which I very rarely visit) and tell them to hold the onions...but on a good not..I get a fresh sandwich and not one that has been wrapped and sitting for a while LOL...
I use both onions and garlic in all of my Italian cooking...that's a MUST LOLOL
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The problem I have with that is that this has only just started.
We have problems accepting the concept of developing an allergy after half a lifetime.
Maybe I am just being hidebound but I seek rational answers from these medical "experts" not the guesswork that I have been receiving.
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I love onions also...but I can't eat Raw Onions for some odd reason....So I'm one of those that piss off folks waiting in line at fast food places (which I very rarely visit) and tell them to hold the onions...but on a good not..I get a fresh sandwich and not one that has been wrapped and sitting for a while LOL...
I use both onions and garlic in all of my Italian cooking...that's a MUST LOLOL
Onions and garlic are a must in all of my cooking too. However I do not think that onion and garlic is the culprit since I have not had either in my meals this past week.
Unless maybe I am having a reaction because I am not getting either in my diet :tearlaugh:
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Unfortunately there is sometimes no "Cause" for a allergy to come up. I've never had allergies but as I got older....they started coming one by one. Onions was the first problem I had...though as mentioned..I can eat them cooked...
Two years ago I started getting the watery eyes, runny nose and constant coughs....and now I'm on allergy meds due to grass, weed, mold and whatever other thing there is outside that does that to you...
And, nope....no explanation why one develops them late in age....
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Well, be that as it may then that means the knothead doc is treating me for something I do not have and that would explain why I have not gotten any better and other weird symptom are now manifesting and causing "difficulties"
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Sometimes allergies can produce symptoms similar to asthma, J. And Luffie that's just weird cause if I have cooked onion and garlic it seems to take a whole lot more of it to affect me. Now where's them batter fried onion rings?! :woohoo: :grenade:
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Sometimes allergies can produce symptoms similar to asthma, J. And Luffie that's just weird cause if I have cooked onion and garlic it seems to take a whole lot more of it to affect me. Now where's them batter fried onion rings?! :woohoo: :grenade:
You are correct on that point about "symptoms similar to asthma"... Hope they figure out what is what "J".
As for Cooked Garlic and Onions "DON'T" bother me at all. Raw Onions do though. LOL And yes...pass the Onion Rings....one of my favorites....
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And this is what I think is occurring "similar" symptoms. Although I do believe there might be other things going on as well, but until I get a doctor that will listen and is not looking to inflate their patient numbers or push unneeded drugs. I will be uncomfortable for a while longer.
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Well, a step in the right direction. I asked for the next three days off and we got them :yippee: :woohoo:
Called in for a visit to the primary care doctor will see her on Friday and perhaps I can get some clarification on what is what .. hopefully
And on top of that I once more decided to run without the breathalyzer thing, mainly because the last hit I took tasted like metal and the back of my throat was feeling a bit scratchy. It has been three days now and no adverse reactions. The scratchy has gone down in the throat, and I "sound" closer to normal then previously and when I asked others in the shop how I sounded they stated that I did sound better.
Imagine that ... methinks ye ole knot head specialist has some explaining to do, but I am not wasting my time on someone that talks to his laptop instead of listening to what the patient has to say and just pushes drugs on you without in depth research. Just looking at the surface and seeing x-y-z and prescribing for that is not doing any patient good.
But what do I know ....
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Sounds like my podiatrist. I used to like this guy, but not now. Not after he made THE opening cuts on my right foot. So he keeps on cutting, and cutting, and cutting. Hey where does this stop?! Well I gotta blah blah blah and there was that bone infection. I am thinking now he PUT that infection in my foot. And he expects now I will HAVE to go back to him. Uh, nope. C'mon now, just hold yer breath please!
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Well, it is now a week since I stopped taking the breathalyzer and lo and behold I got six hours of straight continuous sleep last night. The back of the throat is not completely on fire either. Still feels a bit tender or slightly swollen and told the primary doctor that this morning more like the assistant. Wound up repeating a lot of what I told her to the doctor when she came in , but :shrug: at least they listen to me talk instead of talking into their computer and not listen, so bonus there
The weird thing I am not liking is the blood pressure thing I get something relatively normal 126/81 albeit a bit on the elevated side but not truly ugly. However the doctors office says I am 148/92
:OMFG:
Ah well, guess I will monitor my blood pressure for the next two weeks and take that with me when I go see her again. Will have to write a note to remind me to bring the device and the readings so they can see that I am not talking rubbish.
She is still wanting me to get on high blood pressure meds, granted I am not against them, I just do not like taking something that can not be proven to be a necessity. My readings at the house versus theirs at the office, being that far out from each other makes me wonder and it is not like this is that old as I bought it last year as in maybe August or September.
So I still truly believe it is white coat syndrome, but the good news is that she actually listened and asked some other questions that made me feel as if I was being listened to this time. Supposed to go back in two weeks for the physical and while there she sic'ced the vampire on me and took blood looking at the notes I see that she did specify certain tests to look for statements I had made while speaking.
So feel a little better since at todays visit someone listened
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How soon do they take your blood pressure when you get INTO the doctors office. If it's right away...then as my Doctor tells me....it will be a higher reading then what is taken at home due to "The Doctors Visit". The drive in, the parking, the walk, the sitting and waiting, and finally the office visit....all are stressful.
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There is quite a bit of time lapse from the time I took it at the house to the time they took it.
From driving there and waiting until the intake nurse started the Q & A I am guessing at least 45 minutes. Then all of the back and forth discussion before we even got to the taking of the vitals was most likely another 15 minutes.
Then once we got past that and the doctor came in and did her spiel, you can add in another 15-20 before she took a second reading.
Then factor in the drive home and getting settled back in and when I check it now it is down from 148/92 to 126/81
I bet that she is still going to try and get me on blood pressure meds though, mainly because of the consistency between home and office.
And to be honest I would think the longer I wait the worse my stress levels would get due to the "waiting" ... remember I have not had the occasion to see a doctor for pretty much anything my entire life.
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I have had home care nurses for several years now. And every one of them use a "manual" cuff and gauge, not the automatic digital machines. And I also take my reading with my digital. Plus they use digitals at the hospital. Guess what? EVERY READING IS DIFFERENT! And the differences between the manual gauge readings is the biggest! So I suggest the DOCTOR take this into account and rather than chomp on the patient so damn much, chomp on all her co-professionals in getting their crap together and more consistent readings between THEM!I have asked every nurse why they prefer the manual cuff over digital. The answer is unanimous as rote: "I hear the pulse through my stethoscope and see it on the gauge at the same time, I trust that." And THIS is the group that yields the greatest differences in readings. NO consistency but their reason for using the device type. THAT makes me angry. And THAT should be the FAIL point of their graduating grade!You mention a 20+ point difference. I see a 30 point difference between THEIR readings, exclusive of ALL digital readings. Bothers me it does.
A new young nurse is being qualified, and I am her qualifier. She reads a perfect 120/72. I think she might be deaf. My 'norm' for the conditions is 132/80. Which is MY digital tester and a long running nurse. She and I talked this over and she checked me again before leaving, doing it very carefully, and coming up with the same thing I do. but now I am 'discharged'. No wounds to tend, completely healed. And I think I will make an appointment with podiatry WHEN I am needing them. But, this thing with the blood pressure reading differences. Mention that carefully with your new doctor, let her know you are concerned about the very definite lack of consistency, and are loathe to take medicines that may not be needed at all.
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Sorry man. I am not a doctor or counselor, but rather, a concerned neighbor and outpatient!
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Oh trust me I have the same concerns. The disturbing part is the assistants use the big fancy digital the doctor used the cuff
Even more disturbing is the concept that it is not just at the one place. It is at the two hospitals that I went to for the specialist crap. They used the digital and all gave a high reading. I get home and I have normal readings
I do not know how that is going on unless my machine is the one that is out, which although possible I still find it to be very odd especially to be out that much.
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:lostme: You might have this I know I have it.
White Coat Hypertension in Medical Settings
https://www.verywellhealth.com/high-blood-pressure-at-the-doctors-office-1764104
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Indeed that is what I keep telling her, for some reason she chooses to not fully believe me. :sigh:
Well, when I see her again in two weeks for the blood test results, which she marked up with some specific tests that all were mentioned on the pages you linked to, maybe we can get some definitive treatment. Plus, there is also the yearly physical so time will tell.
However I followed your link, and read all of the rabbit hole links provided and found it to be even more informative then hoped, a large percentage of it is directly relatable as I already practice some of it and the rest can be gradually incorporated in my daily routine.
The losing weight part is what is going to be difficult but I do need to do so, as technically I am overweight. Fortunately it is only 20# but that is still going to require work and dedication to get there, but it is one step that can be taken.
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Uhhhh just 20 pounds? For some of us, we can dump 20 in a week. 3 to 5 pounds a day. I am ten cents shy a three dollar bill man. 290. I look in the mirror and see instantly I need to leave 50 somewhere besides on me. The doctors would all be happy to see me come down to 240! So I need to turn this eating disorder around. When I do get out and walk around a bit, clean out my Jeep, do some chores, the glucose drops right to 100 or lower, and I can feel the warmth, which means burning calories. If I can get up and do that every day with a easy going diet, I do lose weight. My problem is the "Rebound Effect". I don't notice it, but the body wants those two or three bites more. And ya go and do that without even thinking about it. I got to make me think about it. Simple! But hard!
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I hope you like coffee with no cream/sugar in it. No donuts, go easy on the rice, and easier on the sake. Sake = alcohol = hydrocarbon = a ton of calories. I have a bottle of wine or brandy once every year or two. They don't have a problem with that. It's all the BREADS I eat. PASTA is bread! Tortillas is bread! Sliced bread is bread too! Then there is cornbread. Potato bread. Mmm! I have a love affair with BREAD! Did ya ever notice Brea(d) and Brea(st) are very similar! ;)
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Wish it was easy for me. Then again I do not have a plan and that is most likely the problem.
Now for something different, went to ye ole liquor store to restock, paying attention and not being stupid when I drink a 1.75 last an entire month. Works out to two drinks a night. Granted some nights I drink my sake, and no I do not drink any liquor when I drink sake. So we do keep rein on it.
However the real reason I mentioned it is that the lady cashier asked how I was, gave my standard reply of "I am upright, vertical and have clothes on" she replied and "how about underclothes?" (didn't see that coming) However I replied "no, it is the weekend" Now for the real :tearlaugh: part she replied "Neither do I"
:thud: so did not see that coming
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Your liquor store is considerably more fun than mine. :yes:
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I hope you like coffee with no cream/sugar in it. No donuts, go easy on the rice, and easier on the sake. Sake = alcohol = hydrocarbon = a ton of calories. I have a bottle of wine or brandy once every year or two. They don't have a problem with that. It's all the BREADS I eat. PASTA is bread! Tortillas is bread! Sliced bread is bread too! Then there is cornbread. Potato bread. Mmm! I have a love affair with BREAD! Did ya ever notice Brea(d) and Brea(st) are very similar! ;)
For as much that I claim to drink :java: like the rest of you folks here. I actually drink far more tea, than :java: at any rate though I take no cream with my coffee when I do drink it, only minimal sugar. When I drink my tea no cream or sugar ever.
As far as pasta, rice, bread and so forth goes, yep guilty as charged, definitely is almost a daily part of my menu.
According to the doctor alcohol in moderation as in no more then two drinks per day as a male is permissible.
Either two drinks @ 1-1/4 oz of hard liquor
two five oz glasses of wine
two 12 oz bottles of beer.
I have for the last six months been fairly damn close, have had some weekends that were not good, but by and large I have been much better then in my past. Used to empty three 1.8 liter bottles in a week, almost 6 liters and now I have it down to only one bottle (still two liters in volume) in a week, so I call that an improvement. A small one but it is an improvement.
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Your liquor store is considerably more fun than mine. :yes:
Occasionally we have some bright moments :tearlaugh:
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Ok so did you not find her attractive??? She clearly did YOU bud! :ifonly: And those two weird brain cells below the hippocampus and well behind the pineal and nudging into the neo cortex SHOULD have been hollering in unison "Hubba hubba! Hubba hubba!" and thrusting their miniscule hip sections forward! Arrrrrrrrr! :D Ya coulda had a dash of Intimacy to go with that lovely wine!
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I know I know I KNOW! I am plumb hopeless! (arrrrrrrr! ;oD)
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You get well J . . . quick! :fixed:
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Working on it and with the help of a couple of competent nurse' and sort of good looking I might make it out alive.
The one that I thought was really nice, was a temp from Tennessee but she did not seem to be very confident in her duties there so that kind of gave here a low score. The other ancillary nurses were competent but not could have used some help in the overall appearance, it is not that it was bad or anything, just not my cup of tea, however since I don't go out and seldom get to talk to any women I made sure to harass, regale, and terrorize with my vocabulary on numerous topics and judging by the number of them that came into my room today that were not on the board someone must have talked and they decided to hear for themselves I guess. Damn who would have thought knowing a little about a lot of things would finally come in handy at last.
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Now remember I have not had many hospital stay to start with, in fact they can be count on one hand including this visit, so I am a bit unaware of a lot of things.
So, liquid diet notwithstanding the last time I had oatmeal it certainly did not look like gruel ... :tearlaugh: ... granted it was a hot breakfast so I called it a win and ate it in short order. Finally got to the point where I was allowed coffee and for hospital coffee when one has not had a hot beverage in five days it was ever so welcomed, and for being hospital coffee it tasted ... well ... like hospital coffee. :tearlaugh:
Almost humorous when they called last night asking what I wanted for breakfast and when they said coffee I said hell yes, then she had the gall to ask if I wanted decaf .... :thud: what the hell you talking about that isn't coffee, that is colored water. That got a giggle out of her. Then she asked how many sugars and cream. Once I could figure out what size cup it was I was able to tell her how much sugar, but she still asked about creamer ... unless the creamer is Bailey's Irish creme that would be a no .. silence on the other end for a moment ... I so love stirring the pot.
Ye ole nurse almost lost her hand when she tried to take the cup to mix up that vile potion to induce me to go to the bathroom and do more bowel movements, I swear I have never been cajoled and begged to make as many trips as they are requesting. Yes, I know it needs to happen and why it needs to happen but this two to three times a day take these pills, drink this vile mixture and shove this up your bottom is for the proverbial birds.
Getting a bit of humanity restored today at last I can finally get a shower and wash my hair, that will certainly go a long way to making me feel better since it has been just at five days and my hair for openers is nasty; Gods above and below it is nasty and oily.
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Gotta start drinking your coffee BLACK my friend....No Cream (which you already do) and NO Sugar.....
So I take it one more day in there and then perhaps some freedom soon?
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I have it esy, I just tell them to avoid looking at creamer and sugar as they pour the coffee. To avoid contamination.. as for decaf? that's grounds for a maniacal laugh followed by unsocial behaviour. usually resulting in messes and occasionally injuries.
Cheers good to have most of ye back Jherr
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Boy howdy folks let me give thee a bit of advice, do not get your appendix taken out because it has to go, if you even suspect something is up get it gone.
They had to put a drain in me to get the infection out of the belly ... for us guys looks like you have an extra sack down there quite a view to say the least.
Well, the real issue with that damn thing is when they decide that they can pull the tube out ... holy mother of God .... for being such a short piece of tubing and thin the pain was this side of hell incarnate :rat-atat: :puah: :shiv3: :rat-atat: :yeeech:
The only good thing is that I did not use any of my 17.256 expletives, why because when he pulled it out it literally takes your breathe away and all you can do is scream incoherently.
Now I am not a real big sissie by any stretch since I had a collapsed lung in my youth and for that they shoved 8" of tubing down my lung and when all was done they yanked it out all at once also, about put my foot through the doctors face but hey no real cursing or screaming. Even had the handle bars of my Harley go through my nutsack and popped one out, blacked out obviously at the scene of the accident, but was conscious by the time the ambulance got there and the doctor was sewing everything up while I was still conscious and with no pain killer.
This however is a very short tube and when he pulled it out it felt like he was pulling the asshole (rectum) out with it ... as I said before Holy Mother of God ... I do not want to go through that ever again.
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Well, wasn't allowed to take a shower while there because the drain was still in and they were considering letting me go home.
Well, the bottom line is when I got home just taking a shower and rolling the trash bins out for the morning took it out of me in nothing flat.
:OMFG:
Man I can see that this is going to be a long recovery
By the way I gained weight while in there somehow ... :thud: and since my gut is swollen and in pain guess who now has to buy new pants to tie himself over till we get back to normal.
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They make wound Tape for taking a shower.
Dad used this for his Liver Surgery.
https://www.amazon.com/LotFancy-Silicone-Water-Proof-Pain-Free-Sensitive/dp/B08FDP8MYZ/ref=sr_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=Shower+patch+for+wounds&qid=1628212762&s=industrial&sr=1-17
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RIght but make sure it's perforated. I keep half a dozen rolls of it around, and it is handy. I also discovered Medi-Pore 4" x 2" perf-tearoff. Great stuff for my 'devices'. But for your tender things, use that silicone medical tape, it's much nicer to take off. The Medi-Pore is a cloth tape, and has stronger adhesive. Probably not gonna work for you, methinks. That other stuff, absolutely.
Great to see ya home now J! :woohoo:
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We are in good shape as there was nothing left of the incision that a simple band-aid can't protect. So got lucky on that front. Does feel good to take a "hot" shower once again.
I got nothing of that nature in the hospital not even a sponge bath :sad:
Crazy thing that I just read last night was from the father figure making noise about "well hope they got you your shot to warrant a week in the hospital"
Excuse me I had a perforated appendix, that in and of its own self is a week or more depending on the circumstances.
:whatthe: I swear somedays my family just leave common sense and intelligence at the door when they enter a room.
Plus, last I checked if you have another condition in progress they do not give or recommend the shot. Number two I am not anybody's lab rat. Number three until they do proper and thorough testing on it, not happening.
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I guess on a side note what good would that vaccine do for a perforated appendix?
The only reason I say this is that he came back and said just get it ...
Because based on how he writes that is where he was going with it ...
:ummm: Nope
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I did get my vaccination shot over a month ago now. At 14 days you are considered "fully vaccinated" with this single shot vaccine. I opted for it cause there wasn't any way I was gonna make a 120 mile round trip just for the follow up shot. GAH! But, being as we are our age now J, I'd say it's an important thing to do. Both of us have some degree of breathing difficulty at times, every covid 19 victim develops BIG breathing difficulty. That Benadryl don't help even one little bit. THAT is scary. With my allergy issues, I use that to clear up the breathing passages, from nose to lungs. And it really helps, when I have to use it. That said, it is just an anti-histamine. Doesn't help with everything under the sun, obviously. But for those occasions I feel the head clog thing from 'hay fever', I keep some on hand. What I've seen COVID do to friends up at the VA Hospital drove me to get that shot J. Everyones body deals with that virus in various ways. I didn't want to chance going through THAT nastiness. Just saying.
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In GRADESCHOOL, I was taught that there were differences in pluralization and possessive qualities of the 's' suffixing a word. AND that an apostrophe separated 's' only designates a contracted word. SO. the Possessive case is NOT apostrophied! Nor is the PLURAL! So why on Earth do EVERY damn spliel chucker just up and DEMAND an apostrophe twixt the word and 's' for EVERY damn case?!?!?!
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Not liking this one tiny little bit, for some reason the air in my place is giving me a tingling in the brow. Began noticing it a day or so after I got home from the hospital. It varies but there seems to be nothing in the house that I can point to as the cause of it all, I am having some uneasy feelings though is all I can say ....
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:lostme: Have You tried a Warm towel over your face and see if that causes the feeling to go away?
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Not yet as I was not sure where to start .... time to heat up a towel and see what occurs ... thank you
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You know now that I think about it when I take a shower I do feel the benefits of the hot steam while washing up
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:lostme: is Your House too Dry? Might need to boil some water and see if that helps?
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Well, the towel did not help as much as I would have hoped :sigh:
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Probably another place to start, bet what I might need in the long run is going to be an air quality assessment to truly nail it down. Seems to be worse in the living/kitchen/dining room
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How despicable I put one of those damn masks on and the tension in my brow is receding
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:thud:
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Doesn't seem to be consistent though ... this rubbish is starting to suck hard
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:lostme: When was the last time you cleaned your AC unit and changed the filter?
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Beginning of the month, have been regular since the start of my breathing issues in January. The unit itself is new as of last year sometime don't recall actual date, in retrospect I guess the only thing that has not been cleaned would be all of the ductwork.
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:lostme: Have you thought about Air Vent Filters Maybe if you can not get the ducts clean might add a layer to the Vent to slow what ever it is.
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Hadn't thought of that , it has possibilities
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How freaking weird I am now starting to feel like a normal :ummm: human being. No breathing problems for openers and several other symptoms are less noticeable if at all today ... no understanding unless my body was bitching at me and it took this long for it to totally rebel and now that the underlying in-fuck-tion has been cleared my body is returning slowly to default values ... wouldn't that be a :rat-atat: hoot
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Well, back to work I went and my oh my not much seems to have changed. I called the FHGB to see if he had followed up on the service request from when I was in the hospital.
If you guessed no, then move to the head of the class.
:sigh:
What the hell is the point of you being here if you can't follow up on a simple task.
:rat-atat:
So I went out there myself and got to the bottom of the problem, had to take the radios with me since none of them had been serviced to start with and yes the programming was hosed.
The real treat was one of the radios had default programming from way back before we took over the account. The code plug in there was so out of date that I had to re-write the damn thing just to get it up to usable levels. Then to add insult to injury it became apparent that my base template was also out of date as in missing site information for four sites. Still working on adding the details to the channel pool and update the talk groups with the new site details. Only half way through it when end of day arrived.
Why only that far well, the radio I worked on before this one was as bad. Wrong template and when I opened the correct one to use it too was missing the four newest site. So had to rebuild that template for that department and then was able to finish it.
Crazy stuff at least this one only had three talk groups in it, instead of the eight that are in the one I am modifying now. So at least that one went "quicker" only took 2 hours :thud:
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:lostme: Maybe you have been Slowly poisoned and now that it is gone your body is fixing itself?
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That is what I am wondering and it is not that far fetched either, ate lightly last night but I did have more of an appetite then previously noted.
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"Normal" is a relative term. And besides, that Normal is in Pennsylvania, it is totally overrated!
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Radkres is probably right (as usual). And now that your body has had some space of time to detoxify a bit, it is simply getting to a happier state. Yeah! :woohoo:
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I look forward to it continuing to get better :pweez:
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Seem a touch better again this morning.
Well, now for something totally different and no it is not a man with three buttocks. :tearlaugh:
Got called into to talk to the boss, said he wanted to add me to the call out roster for commercial systems. :thud: Didn't see that coming, but it sure beats being shuffled to the side and forgotten which is what I have been feeling like for some little time.
So going on the call out roster for service after hours. Cool part is it is four hours overtime minimum whether or not I get a call that I actually go out on. Anything up to four hours is four hours. Anything over is however long it took, so it could be some easy money. And I don't feel like I am being ignored and shoved in a corner and forgotten.
Will be going with the senior tech on any calls before I get added to the roster, since the doctors have not released me back to full duty and I do not see that happening till September at the earliest, and considering I do not feel comfortable trying to open or close the bay doors or pull my bed slide out ... yeah not ready ....
Some other interesting points were brought up in the conversation, at last was asked about bench repairs, I know you processed some yesterday how long did it take, I lowered my voice and said far less then you think. Gave him a number and I guess he just filed that away for reference. Quite amusing to say the least especially when I gave him other details regarding checking in other repairs.
It got even more entertaining when the next thing I know the slacker office lady ... I mean junior ... brings in a milk crate of repairs from the hotel. So the real question is how was I able to process all 32 of them in two and half hours time roughly about 5 minutes a piece. Yet all I saw completed on her side was 10 returns from Depot and 6 ready to take back to the customer. :whatthe: :ummm:
So color me baffled in capital letters, underlined, and in bright shining lights.
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Almost forgot FHGB has now been moved up to being on system call outs which means all of the excuses and getting the senior tech to handle a commercial call out days are over as the system boys don't play that game one tiny little bit :woohoo:
Personally I really don't care if you have zero kids or five kids, unless you are lying on your back in a hospital ..... your an employee figure it out.
You have duties to perform.
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I see it as sad you only now start getting call out pay. Your company is gruesome man. And about the kids thing. I am gonna let that one slide as you got no experience in the subject! I spent years having to bring two kids to work in the evenings (on CALLOUT, ok?) then after fixing whatever broke and ensuring they kept running, I washed up and most often took the kids out for a treat. THEY didn't mind me being called out! :o) At say 730 pm where do ya find daycare or a babysitter?
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He has a wife that is still with him ... so if she can't handle them when he is at work during the day then why have that many kids (they have 5) Plus call out for us is not a nightly occurrence to start with and most of the time not all of the time it can be deferred till morning.
As to just now getting call out duty I am more comfortable building system and doing the initial set up, not going out and trying to figure out what some "I know what I am doing schmuck" did to hose the system.
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:yippee: :luvbooks: 3,600 :luvbooks: :yippee:
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Awesome! :grenade:
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Wow, terrific J! Dang, I guestimate I might have read that many total through the last 62 years!
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For S & G here is # 3,600 (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/osiris-and-the-egyptian-resurrection-vol-1-e-a-wallis-budge/1120585321) in the library
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My goodness they gave me the paperwork on the upcoming students all I can say is there is at least two that look like they either skipped bail or violated parole. ... shudder ...
The unpleasant fun is now we have to do school time on the school system web site. What the frell every time one turns around they want you to do rubbish on either your phone or the computer.
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Oh just remembered the most hilarious bit of news given at the teacher meeting.
The school board will pay you $200 if you are vaccinated, they will cross check it for truth but still in the long run, in my opinion, "if you have to bribe me to take the vaccine" I wonder just how safe it truly is, or more to the point effective.
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The brother-in-law from a friend in Oklahoma is a truck driver. He drives in USA, and Canada, and Mexico. So, to be in peace at the borders, he made the vaccin.
Note the vaccin is supposed to be same in all countries.
Now, each time he goes in Canada or Mexico, at the border they made him a test. Each time he prooves he has the vaccin, it's answered to him "we don't care".
From the other side of the sea, the example of the France now. Tourists with vaccin are welcome. But if you are for example an English people living a part of the year in France and you made your vaccin in England, the french governemet says "sorry, your vaccin doesn't count. You live here, you have to take vaccin in France".
And those are few examples of the useless from the so-called same vaccins from a country to another :shrug:
And like you, I don't see the point to pay people, or make lotteries...
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Right first time
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"SCREW YOUR FREEDOM" SAYS CLUELESS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, RANTING INCOHERENTLY ABOUT MASKS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/W5M_zOEOcdk/
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Proves my point ... have never needed an actor or celebrity for a DAMN THING
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Go figure ye ole appetite improved and has stayed at the same level and we have managed to kick four pounds off the ole body and out to the curb, liking it.
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Wellllll.... mindless entertainment, As long as they stick to film etc, and stay out of politics, tis good.
Problem is, the proles listen to celebs over Scientists.
Lemmings are contageous?
Good on your rapid recovery Jherr
cheers
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My thanks
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Oops. Sorry J, felt embarrassed posting MY crap in your thread. Self removed it.
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Great news, you're recovering nicely it seems J!
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Sheeples. Bah bah! I got my vaccine cause it was free, right there where I had to wait for my doctor to arrive and labs to complete....and in self defense from all the PEOPLES that are coughing sneezing wheezing hacking and otherwise blowing their gross snot and spit all over every one cause they ain't gonna wear no schtinking *MASK*. There THAT is. I wear my mask in respect to others needs. I damn well expect others to respect ME in response OR get the hell away from me. It may not be effective in stopping the spread of the virus, but it damn well DOES stop the spread of snot and spit!
And that is all well and good, there are two sides to this ongoing saga and the truth of the matter might or will be never known.
I have made my choice and will live with it. I will be polite to those who have made a different choice but I also expect the same courtesy to be extended back to me.
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Great news, you're recovering nicely it seems J!
Indeed it is getting better, even the super glue or derma bond or whatever the glue was that they used as a bandage is stating to peel and flake off :thud:
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You're so lucky it was just glued, I had 18 stainless steel staples! And they had the biggest burliest male nurse with the staple remover GUN use it on me. Heh heh heh! :D He he he he! I scared the cheezy little biddy surgeon away!
:ifonly: He he he he he he!
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Eeeeek! You CAUGHT it! GAAAAAHHHHH! :duh: :overthefence: :whacked: :seeyou: what was/is the code for that big gray blobby "GAH!" emojie?!
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Not certain which one you mean :puah:
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:lostme: :ifonly:
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:lostme:
Off The Wall: I’m Not Inclined to Dispense Medical Advice
https://mikerowe.com/2021/08/off-the-wall-im-not-inclined-to-dispense-medical-advice/
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J it was the one you caught the text in your quoting! Isn't that just awful of me? I gotta keep a leash on my impulsiveness!
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Good one on Mike Rowe, Radkres!
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@McG as long as you do not denigrate my decision all is good.
Now the fun begins the first night of the new semester begins :tearlaugh:
Have 16 new craniums full of oatmeal to squeeze out ... clean up on aisle three ... seriously feel that coming on ... again
I will say this though, once more I have a group of students that once again, several look like they are still on parole and a few look like they might have skipped bail.
:sigh:
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I don't like doing that to anyone. It feels really bad when done to me, so I taught myself to not do that at all.
I DO come at some people hard, I own that. It is "offensively defensive", and I usually see that bit after being angry. I work on it.
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any of em look like they may actually be interested in the class? :lostme:
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Hey J, where's yer Vampirella(s) at?
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any of em look like they may actually be interested in the class? :lostme:
Not yet although a couple did seem to like the idea of trading in the 75# tool belt they wear for what the itsy bitsy one I use.
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Hey J, where's yer Vampirella(s) at?
Still being "ehem" massaged :pervy:
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How boring, this new task of having to report our own time to the school board, most troubling since it is a web site that I do not visit often if ever. Case in point my mail box there :tearlaugh: it was most "ehem" entertaining.
The only good thing was I did not have to make a blood sacrifice to get into it and can at least make the needed entries so I get paid.
The real weird thing is this "remind" app that the apprenticeship program uses to connect with the students for :shrug: whatever the hell.
Could not finger it out on the phone at class last night ... all these damn passwords I have to remember :thud: Did have it on the tower at the house and viola I got in .... for what it is worth it is not something that I use often so not really losing sleep over it.
The boring bit is that the other teacher for the Tues. & Thurs class has called out for the first two weeks. Most odd, probably work related I would guess, nonetheless
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So you get to sub his class too?
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Yep, and boy howdy does he ever have a bunch of towering intellects. :thud: The only good thing is out of the seven of twelve, that did show for first night, three are "interested" in the class.
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do y'all get to do any of the actual FUN stuff? Like weld fiber and such? We all had tons of fun in the classroom in the apprenticeship. Like build relay boards! And later that included RRL, or Relay-Relay-Logic. That got interesting. And lots of fun. Using the relays 'main contacts' (usually 4 sets) and two aux contacts (NO and NC) we can get a number of real cool options going. Like self starting starters, string starts and so forth. Heh! Michael Flatley's Irish dance troupe line stamping the tap shoes down in sequence reminded me of a looong version of string-start! Heh! :D
I got to actually build that one time, in an enunciator panel for a timed sequence multi stage starter panel for a 2,300 vac 12 pole 4,800 HP hammermill motor. Direct drive, which is why all the timers twixt the relays pulling in...to bridge out the soft start resistors....sequentially. You could hear it starting up half a mile away. Those hammers were big. About 700 lbs each! With a hole each end for its hinge pin. Wear one end out, swap it round. Anyways, it was fun! KLANG KLUNK KLANG KLINK KLANG ! ! ! When the motor/hammer armateur reached full speed (about 1800 rpm?) Then the operator made sure the feed conveyor was full of old cars....and he pushed da big green button. The first car lurched into The Maw. And it sounded like the biggest loudest wood chipper you never imagined! And little fist size smoking balls of metal went out the (don't laugh too hard folks!) went out da Poop Chute! onto the metals conveyor for the sorting stations to manage. Yeah. Whole lots of cars went down that Maw. Whew!
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I finished that last post, remembering the scenery in the memories of it and subconsciously reached for a damned cigarette. There aren't any and haven't been for eleven years now. But I still got the damnable addiction! :thud:
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No welding of fiber, which I assume you meant fusion splicing, however, they all do get to terminate fiber before class is done. Due to their budget they get four "hot melt" connectors to work with, my concern is more can you work with it safely then proficiency. That comes with time and since most are hardcore electricians only, working with material barely bigger then the hair on their head doesn't appeal to all of them.
But we do have some sleepers in the class that take to doing terminations like Kianna takes to Luffie.
:tearlaugh:
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I finished that last post, remembering the scenery in the memories of it and subconsciously reached for a damned cigarette. There aren't any and haven't been for eleven years now. But I still got the damnable addiction! :thud:
Been 13 years for me but I was more a pipe smoker then cigarettes. Still have my pipes and have only chewed on one of them maybe three times during that length of time. So that addiction is relatively under control. The alcohol is more the problem for me, but since surgery I haven't really felt like drinking. I am craving something to drink, but water, tea even coffee is like not what I want, however I tried to drink some JD (wanted something with some real kick) and could barely finish it. That was on Sunday, made another last night the same thing. Kind of am getting the notion that things are changing and I am going to have to find an alternative beverage. Haven't done any sake yet but if normal alcohol doesn't appeal to me am guessing the acquired taste stuff is going to be of little interest.
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I am thinking that both of us are glad we quit tobacco, and wish we'd never even started it. What a filthy habit! As a former heavy smoker (cigarettes) I KNOW that is simple truth!
Fiber Optics. Glass of a very high optical purity. Amazing how they make it. Lessee, back in like 2000-2006 we had to call in an Electronics Technician to troubleshoot and fix up our new solid state motor controllers. The bigger DC type, 250-500VDC, former traction motors, Westinghouse brand. Amazing motors those. QUIET! Smooth, infinitely variable speed. Blew their controllers pretty regularly. Same Elec Tech came out to set up and terminate out new fiber optics cables. And he did do a couple days solid the terminations at the media converter boards. I watched him a few minutes, he was using a 'gas soldering tool', special goggles, magnifying glass and 'fill rod' as he called it of the same kind of glass as the fiber. It was already fluxed. When he got done, we had COMMS with each machine in the place! And it was amazing fast comms too. Uh, had something like DSL OUT over copper pair, 115,128 bps or somesuch. Compared to the fiber it was slow as molasses. But its all that was needed for connecting to the company main control console back East. Meanwhile, I was tickled that we had finally gotten at least SOME modern tech for controllers in the shop. Now insteads of dozens of little barrier strips to check, I had one LONG one in each operator console. These were for 110vac control, and a single barrier strip about 5' long. Some 100+ terminations. I had fun, honest I did! LOL!
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Well some of those changes after this latest bout may just be to the good! That's cool. Happened to me after getting a hernia fixed in 2005. Didn't care for alcohol much at all after that. A 1 liter bottle of Hiram Walkers Blackberry Brandy, or a fifth of Captain Morgans Special Dark Spiced Rum lasted me a year or two, each. And the last was a simple bottle of Mogan David Blackberry Wine, table style. And all of those were taste treats for me.
I know I dislike greasy stuff now. And you can't pay me to eat a baloney with mayonnaise on any bread. Or an Apple. OR any flavor or brand of those little box fruit drinks. That was the day, during chemotherapy, I began getting sick. Had a little bag lunch, that was the stuff in it. (averts eyes) oh the shame of it all!
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Tried my sake a couple of times over the last two days and all I felt like drinking was two shots out of the flask. Just not as appealing as before for unknown reasons.
Although if this change results in drinking even less then before, I am certain the doctor will be pleased.
Going to try another Jack and see if that is drinkable.
Next up I will say there have been other changes in my day to day. Like the abs are still tender, case in point was this morning when getting up, Watanuki decided he wanted to use my belly to stretch against .... scared the fuck out of him with my screech of pain ... :thud:
Plus, been tired from all the walking during the day and then the extra days of teaching class, keeping me up later so I am not getting enough sleep. The good news is that the sleep I am getting is at least contiguous sleep and I am not waking up as often. Now that is definitely a win.
Bonus points, been tracking my weight since I have been out, down by 5# so far, definitely calling that a win, as it looks like more is wanting to go bye-bye I will be ever so willing for it to go away.
The really odd things is that although my breathing seems to still be off it has improved immensely. I am thinking one because I am no longer doing all the drugs the knot head lung doctor had me on since and I quote, "I am giving you the best there is and you are not getting better. I am referring you to an immunologist." So based on that why bother to take them, and viola no adverse reaction due to dropping them.
Oh by the way my voice is sounding normal again and as I said my breathing is better, might not be up to 100% but it is certainly better then previously, not knowing if that is due to me not taking crap that is not needed or if my body is doing a reset since the semi dead organ is gone and no longer poisoning my system.
Or maybe it is a combination of both :ummm: No clue
If you have coin please flip it for me ... I call heads
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:waveass: :psycho: :icu: I flip it again! :waveass: :woohoo:
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I had a "ventral hernia". Busted belly button. Got the fix done in 2005, and one year later was so messed up I couldn't work. So, well that's when a doctor got round tu telling me that the hernia op totally messed with my core, which with being very physical on the job, totally messed up my back. But it being your CORE they delved into, I can see it still being so tender!
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Interesting detail was not at all aware of this tidbit.
Oh and by the way he (surgeon) said I have a minor umbilical hernia, says it is not needing any surgery but be aware of it ... :thud:
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That's what I had. From birth I think. But then, something went PING! POP! STIIIIINGS like the dickens and I put off getting anything done for around 5 years. When the bowel would no longer stay IN, I went IN and got the process going to get the thing repaired. Was a sport clinic day surgery. Done in the morning at 0530, home by 11am. Serious! Had 10 days off to recover, the "stitches" took themselves out. Had one follow up visit to doc then back to work full blessings. No more "outie" at all. I was happy with that. Would have been MUCH happier had I been warned about overdoing the physical stuff for the next month or so. Anyway, all done and over with now. The cancer op incision in 2013 went right up through the repair to just above where the navel used to be. The urology surgeon did remove the old mesh. did not use any mesh after their work. Just 18 staples. :thud:
I knew why my 'navel ring' popped. IT was a defective one to begin with. Now it isn't even there, so, no biggie dah, right? Gee, seems I am now short quite a few bits and bobs.
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Well, we definitely do feel the pain from the above mentioned concept. I do feel worn out from walking to much, or worse just from standing up for to long. No wonder just my regular shopping trip to the bookstore and groceries turned me ... useless ... so to speak.
The neighbor called me as he had an electrical problem, I went over but man was I ever so much a feeble excuse of a human. Nonetheless we did solve his problem and once back home I sat down and vegetated for the rest of the night. Barely made dinner, even though I was hungry, did make some and ate it all and felt better due to eating which in retrospect does make sense.
Wierd thing was the same thing this morning, ate some left overs and once again starting to feel better. :ummm: I would say "how very odd" but methinks my body is telling me otherwise .... oh BTW we are down 7# now :tearlaugh:
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Well, the rest of the day was not bad, kept the walking and standing up to a bare minimum and we are not in distress mode, so calling this a win.
Guess we truly need to take thing much easier then I did last week. Went out to a job site twice last week and just the walking from parking on the roof and back more then once for material that the other guys are not smart enough to have on their trucks or even look for in the material that was taken up to the roof and then ask do you have any on your truck. :sigh:
Then again, of course I do because I think about what is needed for an install and make certain I have back up in case none was ordered. Yeah ye ole FHGB has been making mistakes on the parts orders left right and center, been correcting him each time, but tis an uphill battle.
Plus, teaching four nights last week which kept me from getting the sleep I apparently require for healing ... good grief I sound like an old geezer, I hope this eventually passes.
At any rate it is apparent that I need to do less walking and standing then last week. According to my step counter app, those days that pushed me over the edge were days where I logged two miles. Yeah, only two miles :thud: ..... Thinking that will have to come to an end till I get stronger.
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After my "Big Op" I finally came to realize that problem does get worse J. "Old Geezer" Never passes, just gets worse. Ugh.
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Not exactly encouraging there :thud:
Oh well did reduce the walking yesterday at work and did fine in the morning. Then by afternoon here we go "hell meet handbasket"
There was finally a call out for commercial and since I will be helping out in that department in September I need exposure to the going ons. So went with ye ole senior tech and got an eyeful.
Certainly want to know what rocket scientist decided that mounting the radio right up to the engine cover was a good idea.
Wasn't aware that my arm could bend in the many locations nor that I am supposed to be able to see around corners :thud:
And that was just to hook up a watt meter to actually determine what the extent of the problem was, yep no power out. No forward, no reflected. Now I have to remove the dead and insert a working one. Checked that one for power just to be on the safe side and yippee all is right in the world of Engine 44 once more.
Now that my body only bends and folds where nature intended I am sort of back to what now passes as normal for me.
The next adventure was all of the stupid paperwork they want to go with it, my God in heaven no wonder you can barely get anything done about the place the paper trail and documentation they want baffles all "rational thought" yep sarcasm was intended.
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slathered with and dripping sarcasm all over the house or not, your statement is true! :thud:
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Oh lookee' here I got a 24 hour ban from posting on FB because I said something that went against their standards
I am so :sad: NOT
Poor babies
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DAMN. J, I am impressed. Not by FB, but that YOU dood it! LOL!
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I find it most comical, then again I guess saying that the "so called" president should be tried for treason and hanged if or when convicted.
They seemed to be upset by that ...
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Well, here is another one for the cuckoo's nest.
Most if not all of my breathing problems have disappeared and or lessened in severity.
Rain, low pressure systems and so forth no longer affects me.
Which makes me think that my quaint little half dead appendix created a host of problems that are now clearing since it has been removed. I am feeling better and even more crazy is the concept of having dropped 7# granted it has leveled out and I am not losing any more which makes me :sad:
Would love to see more go away, but it is a start.
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I'm very glad to hear that you're better, J.
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Well, it looks like the other instructor will be back at it next week. I provided him with an update of attendance, grades and so forth and got a reply asking what was this weeks intention and a big thank you for taking care of the class for him.
Calling that a win ...
New wrinkle at work, went with my senior tech and the intention was to get the volume for the tone alerts fixed at Station #12 however after swapping out the amp and tweaking the settings it was no better then before which means :OMFG: deeper problems, possibly a short or open in one of the lines to a speaker or twixt a speaker and volume control ... :sigh: that is going to take quite some time to track down to say the least.
And since me and the tech have to go out to Reedy Creek and inventory, auto tune and program all their radios for the next two weeks. Looks like the mobile techs at some point are going to have some little fun .... in theory ... we will see if they go out or not. Granted they just had a whole week of installs but I do not know what their upcoming week has on tap.
So much fun on the boards ...
Why is that, well just found out that the FHGB is getting a kick ... in other words since he pays more attention to the damn Federal contract then to his commercial customers. He is getting transferred to being a Federal ST which means no more interaction with us in the shop.
:ummm: Sort of interesting because that leaves us short a PM for commercial projects and it is also surmised that the other bench tech that got training for public safety systems and has been following the system techs for the last two weeks, might be transferred to the county system.
Why, because we are soon going to be responsible for two other Federal sites that the shop in Lakeland will no longer be taking care of ... :thud: Which means one of the county techs will be moved to doing that only and since we are under contract to have three tech on board minimum ....
Makes one think that we are going to be short another person in the shop. Which means that I too am also baffled by what the hell is up ... because let us think for a couple three moments, a senior bench tech, two mobile installers that can barely do a commercial infrastructure installs and me.
Granted I am sort of trained to repair radios and can tweak templates and code plugs, plus can sort of do quotes for review. Then there is the concept that I will be on the call out roster for commercial systems and there is all sort of support work that is mostly the dull and boring crap of mostly numbers .... I have an affinity for that type of work and numbers do not phase me.
Just found out that I no longer have to look up model number for the radios .. familiarity :iminnocent: ... I can remember a 13 digit sequence for multiple models of radios :sigh:
Good grief what is wrong with me
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I'm very glad to hear that you're better, J.
Thank you good sir
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Oh forgot to reiterate the ability to do commercial installs with little to no thought or effort on my part. Guess my earlier 20 years of electrical installation experience might be responsible. Then once you add in another 10 doing radio installs it does become quite simple. :iminnocent: :shrug: What can one say each of us here has mad crazy abilities at something, this is mine.
At any rate this is making my head hurt .... ye ole leprechaun is on vacation in Scotland until the middle of September and there seems to be at least two or more changes in duties for us and yet no new staff .... than again any new staff although needed makes one nervous regarding job security. Especially considering my age group.
One would think or hope, that one would not throw people to the curb just because retirement is a factor.
Oh, just found out that the Nitro test and development racks that I have in the shop are now being moved from our shop back to Elgin. :thud: Good grief, got it up and running smoothly plus looking good and now they are pulling it out. Oh, the random excuse is that it is going to be too big for our shop to handle it. :thud: Apparently the Nitro brand is going to be growing rather rapidly and will be more then we can handle .... doubt it
Methinks that they are unaware of our abilities and what our shop can do ... ah well, their loss.
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Oops, forgot the most entertaining part coming up, the reprogramming push that is to start tomorrow is pushed out a day ... yep they still don't have the template sorted out :tearlaugh:
Why am I laughing well, they have been working on this template for at least the last two months that I am aware of ... :thud: ... then again what do I know about writing templates. I do well with commercial templates, so I have naught to say when compared to public safety templates. Since I have never done one of them, I do know they are quite a bit more complicated but that is about all. Only know how to program with an existing template not modify them or write one from scratch.
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:tearlaugh: There might be hope for me after all. Ye ole grandfathers clock stopped chiming and striking the hours.
First clue was obviously the outside weights were not dropping, well got a chance to do research and found out several things and although I do believe that I will be buying some proper clock oil to give it a proper oiling since in theory they are to get oiled about every three to five years.
Oh by the way we have a true grandfathers clock that works with weights and a pendulum, not batteries :puah:
I was able to find out a couple of things such as I overwound the darn thing. Well, learned how to release the chain and get the weight to drop, past the overwound point. Moved the hands on the clock and after a couple of false starts it now chimes on the 1/4 hour as intended and strikes on the hour.
Granted not certain if it will continue to play nice, but I got something fingered out on my own .... calling that a win :woohoo:
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1- True Grand Fathers Clock = the OLD Worlds *OLD* adage of "Yanking your chain" or I bet ya already knew that one! LOL! And here I wuz thinking it was yanking the DOGS chain. Heh!
2- l am very glad you're doing so much better man! And just flip em off when they (orrifice) try to force you to do that which you are not supposed to do!
3- the whateveritwas did not *FAZE* you. You are never IN phase bro! LOL!
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Yep, being in PHASE is ever so paralyzing dull, boring, tedious and commonplace, :tearlaugh:
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Day one of the programming push for Reedy Creek and it turned out half way decent between the two of us we knocked out 40 radios by end of day.
Not bad for not getting started till 9:00
The good or bad news depending on your point of view they decide to do the programming and other details, all we had to do was the auto tune and PM. I call that a win :yippee:
The confirmation news of how many total .... 400 total radios. :thud:
Yikes
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Not overly inspired at the moment only managed another 50 radios today, apparently getting them from all the personnel and departments is analogous to trying to herd kittens
So 90 out of 400 in two days.
:sigh: Not a promising start in my mind but we shall see what transpires ....
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Well order 310 new radios and program and bill them for the new radios and recycle the old radios. If this was a government job that is what you would see. :ifonly:
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Well, apparently most of the radios on day one were spares and since they are done their plan was to swap the out as we work our way through the fleet of radios.
However, best laid plans of mice and men
Although I think I see the underlying problem, remember this is an active fire department and it seems that in the Disney area which is what they cover there be no lack of stupid behaviour on peoples part, so they are in and out on calls and it is a crap shoot to be in the right place at the right time.
Case in point would be the call out the my senior tech and I went on to fix a reported loss of tones at an Orlando station. Got lucky when we first went there , but the next two times ... nothing ... finally got smart and the senior tech called the dispatch number to find out when they were going to be back and we just barely managed to get there before they left on yet another call.
Man, I hope people aren't in practice mode for the Labor Day weekend. They certainly get ran ragged no doubt.
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Managed another 50 radios today, barely, only reason I say that is because of the time we left it was an hour earlier then the day before, still getting good hours for the day but sure would like to get further along then we are at the moment. :shrug:
Got some mobiles done today and man are those things a far cry from the puny Trbo ones that I am accustomed to, dual band and weigh twice as much as normal.
Tuning them were a bit more of a challenge as had to move the antenna connection from one antenna (band) to the other antenna (band) port on the radio. On the portables it just runs it all off the one connection.
Took a bit to do the first one due to figuring it out but after that one they went like clockwork.
In theory when we left the other techs said they were going to collect radios for the morning so hoping to walk in tomorrow to a table full of work.
:heeheehee: That would make me happy ... I like to stay busy as we well know ....
Beside I don't know how to sit there and look pretty :tearlaugh:
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Ended the first week of PM's on a decent note, as in 201 portables and 5 mobiles completed.
So basically half way there, now if they can manage to collect the rest of the radios in the same fashion as they did on Friday that would be way cool.
Had a proverbial fly in the ointment rear its ugly head, another customer dropped off radios for programming on Tuesday and was bitching on Thursday night as to whether or not they were ready ... :ummm: ... there is a whole other back story to this nonsense that I will not bore you with the details however suffice it to say the other guy helping me had to go back to the shop to program those radios, as in two of them ... only.
Wow seriously you are making a fuss about two radios. But wait it gets better, first off our shop or basically me, did the ordinal inventory and assignment of the ID's to the radios and those details along with the code plug are only in our shop. And no we do not allow others to mess about with our inventory or code plugs files. To many people "frell" things up period.
Besides this other vendor or channel partner is known by all as being the master of "hosing things up" at 10 paces.
So no you are not allowed .. good thing we put in a RAS key in the code plug which means that unless you have it you are not doing anything to those radios ... EOS
So now they are whining and making wild statements that oh we could have got that task done in a day. Well, maybe you can but guess what you have more staff sitting around doing nothing then we have in our office. But it doesn't change the fact that the sales rep told you all that up front and that you said whatever and still decided to take on the selling of radios to this customer.
Which by the way the customer has forbidden them to do any work, whatsoever on their system. Very long story ....
So they read a radio and found radios in their inventory and sold them to them and then shipped them to us to program, so far so good. The whining part about why aren't they done is the rubbish part.
Now this is when it gets good, we went to program them and :thud: feature set does not match please buy and activate required features before programming.
Yep, they only got half of the homework done and only provided a Wi-Fi capable radio not a Wi-Fi enabled radio. Yes it makes a difference :tearlaugh:
So they had to provide us with an entitlement ID that we then had to enable and then activate before they could be programmed.
Got to love it when others step into the mud (define mud) puddle up to their nose. The real fun is that they threatened our shop by saying that they were going to write to the sales rep and tell them about our lack of response but with this "detail" now in the mix which our office people already communicated to the sales rep and copied the vendor on tells the whole story, not the cherry picked parts, and we already know what the sales rep is going to do and that is :tearlaugh: at them.
Bottom line a total of three hours were lost due to them being :sadder: babies
The good news sort of, was that I was still able to run both service monitors and keep the radios going in and out and track the inventory and keep count of damaged radios until he returned.
And all of the radios brought in for the day were completed by end of day.
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Was turned on to an app called PulsePoint and if the Fire agency is on/in their service area you can listen to the traffic on the system.
Been listening to it on and off since I was told about it because one I am nosy ... :tearlaugh:
Anyway all I got to say is there are some clumsy ass folks running about on this planet. Currently there are 15 active calls in the county and 100 (completed) since midnight.
Now if that doesn't give a person a greater appreciation of what they do to protect and help I don't know what would .... they are slammed with calls with nary a break to breath, yes there are multiple locations and people to respond to each incident but until I started listening I was unaware as to exactly how busy they are, and this is only one agency I am listening to at the moment.
My only concern is whether or not this volume is normal or if the public is practicing for Labor Day, oh wait it is officially Labor Day weekend.
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Pre-determined holidays do tend to be signs for the shut down of rational thought and the repeated entries for The Darwin Award. Or as a friend once said it's just another sign of the apocolypse.
Rejoice rebooting isn't neccessary. Hard to get the wetware restarted sometimes..... Coffee helps... Oh look a door.........
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:tearlaugh: Valid point
Found this gem on the LinkedIn site this afternoon and thought it useful for all.
Some of it I am good at some of it I still need practice.
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Not bad, not bad at all. I seem mostly in the orange. But there is still some gray area to sort out. Oh did that ever come out weird! LOL!
Sounds to me like you are actually having a little bit of fun working this batch of radios up!
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As well for me, mostly orange but there is still some grey to deal with ... that would be how I would say because any other way definitely sounds better in my head :tearlaugh:
Definitely do enjoy the current batch of radios, mainly because they are one in need of attention, according to their radio guy they have never been serviced. The details is that they have been in service for over ten years and have not been touched in that time. Granted radios do not drop out of factory specs easily or rapidly, especially considering that these are public safety radios and those are supposed to be tough
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:lostme: Might want your doctor to read this!
A Look At Scientific Evidence Suggesting Face Masks Damage Your Health
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/02/a-look-at-scientific-evidence-suggesting-face-masks-damage-your-health/
Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/
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Absolutely
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The article I just finished reading was talking about natural immunity being better then the jab and that those who developed natural immunity saw a decline in protection if they took the jab
https://www.madpatriotnews.com/vaccine-passports-must-give-credit-for-natural-immunity/
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Oh joy I have tomorrow off as a paid holiday and there is no school as well I wonder if I can get away with ....
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Natural immunity is still the best.
My Mom had during her teenage time, or at the beginning of the adult age (I don't remember exactly) a big flu. Since, she never had the flu again, despite she was in contact with people who had. And she never took the yearly shoot.
That flu was more than 40 years ago.
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My point exactly, I was misdiagnosed as in having the cold or flu in my teen age years, it was actually an allergic reaction "hay fever" as it was found out much later. Was given so many different over the counter meds with not one in particular being effective at any given time. Probably why I do not react to anything over the counter nowadays.
The point is that now I do not get sick or have any sort of reaction to either the common cold, flu and certain pollens.
Have a immunology test coming up for a final determination as to what is up with me.
But I have been around folks like you described that were ill and never reacted to it, and no flu shot for me .... as in never had one.
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Granted having ones appendix decide to go belly up and clamor for attention by making all other biological systems go crazy is another story entirely
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Not bad, not bad at all. I seem mostly in the orange. But there is still some gray area to sort out. Oh did that ever come out weird! LOL!
Sounds to me like you are actually having a little bit of fun working this batch of radios up!
Decided to do a count:
11 orange
5 grey
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Ha! I think me and you may have the same OCD, J! *counting* is the name of it!
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what the bloody heck is wrong with this infernal message editor all of a blazing sudden! Keeps jiumping up to the URL bar every few keystrokes!
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Not certain on the sketchy mouse behavior but there has been other unnerving behavior at other places today that irritate.
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Maybe relocate the kitty?
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Well, now into week number two of doing the PM's and programming push for Reedy Creek FD. Still have the same problem as last week, getting radios rounded up, ever try to herd kittens yep about as easy to do with radios.
:tearlaugh:
Today was a good example they were only able to gather 23 radios. :sigh:
Meanwhile we have been tracking radios that need to go into depot for service as they failed all of the P25 tests. Well, they asked if we would take them in for them, sure why not they are a customer so why not ... boy howdy ye ole junior lady had a hissy fit about that as in oh my that just creates more work for me in regards to tracking and billing and so forth ... :ummm: they are a customer what is the problem ... besides who is it that is checking in repairs for you so how much extra work are having to do ????
Nonetheless, apparently I opened a can of worms by bringing them in to send them off to depot. So I just threw it back in their faces because at this point the senior office lady was talking billing issues as well, and said well what do you want me to do take them back .... since there was only eight they said go ahead and get them entered in the system ... but don't bring any more back to ship to depot .... gee and here I thought we were supposed to make certain all of our customers radio issues were dealt with in a timely manner.
:shrug: Shows you what I know ... because as sure as cats have kittens I bet those eight radios will still be waiting to be shipped out when we get done.
Proof of my statement, I processed seven of the eight in the length of time it took for her to do one from Universal. Granted I have no idea what else she might, emphasis on "might", have been doing but still one radio compared to seven :OMFG:
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this is a M$ thing...Win10Pro...and nope it ain't allowed to auto update at ALL.
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The reason for my flippant and harsh assessment of the junior lady is more often then not when I go by her desk I certainly do not see anything work related on the computer screes.
Web site concerning shopping for clothes to me just doesn't quite fit the bill in my opinion.
So how much work was created for you? Methinks none since you are not doing company work to start with, granted one can goof off to a certain extent while on the clock but if work is to be done ... then get on with it and then goof off.
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FHGB finally admitted that he is being transferred to a Federal ST position which means no more deferring cases and trying to get out of going out on call.
I mean how are you even earning those extra hours if you never do anything or worse when something is to be done you beg off of it. Can't wait to see how well that is going to work on a Federal call out :tearlaugh:
Case in point was this week end, last Friday before the holiday I see a service call come out on the app we have to have on our phones. Well, since senior tech was out and I am not on the call out roster, he is the one to go take care of things.
What does he do puts it on "deferred" seriously this is a Fire Station one would think they get some sort of priority attention. Because like I said that was Friday, it was Tuesday, yesterday before anything was done and that happened to be the mobile installer going out there since both me and the senior tech are still to give Reedy Creek our full attention.
I hate to be rude (well, technically I don't but in the interest of pretending to be nice) but I can almost say he will not be missed from our roster since he appears to be giving the junior office lady a run for the money in dodging tasks.
To me it is so annoying to act like that, because if the senior tech had been available he would have went out there, found the problem and had it fixed.
Which is what happened when the mobile installer went out. Turns out there are two volume controls one as a master for all speakers and one for the voice alerts. The voice alert volume was turned off. The real question now is who turned it off and why, because the other one was jacked up to max, which means someone who has no business messing with the amp was messing with the amp.
By the way according to the senior tech that is 3/4's of the problems that he gets, someone messed about with something they sound not have messed with and created a proble.
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Mornin to you all coffee cocoa and tea are ready the girls made biscuits and bacon for this morning and for later on there will be prime rib with all the trimmings and tater wedges
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:peek: is why a Settings sheet is made for each Item in service at that location so when your guy gets there he can look at the sheet and tell if someone has moved anything. :ifonly:
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Don't know that anything like that is currently is being done. Guess I will have to start seeing how as I will be the greenhorn and uncertain as to how things should look and be configured.
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Well, we finally got up to the 300 mark as of end of day. :yippee:
What a concept, they brought in some really antiquated radios, as in no longer supported or repaired. Almost had a moment there while trying to tune the first one as it kept hanging up on the power tests. Well, not having any indication on the screen of the battery strength and we had no battery eliminator pack for the model. Well, the senior tech has one but it is back at the shop :thud:
Well, we did have the presence of mind to have brought some fully charged batteries that we had the shop just because, I was not certain what type of radios they had, so the old Boy Scouts motto worked out quite fine.
Once I swapped out the battery everything started behaving and got that batch of radios completed and back to spec. Calling that a win.
So quite pleased by that outcome.
Wonder what excitement we shall have today, or what other models we might run into, we are up to seven distinct models of portables and one model of mobile.
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Well, it has gotten to the fun part apparently all of the portables are complete and it is time for the mobiles.
Talk about some craziness trying to get to the radios at least for me since I have to get to the antenna ports on them.
Oh to make it fun these are multiband, as in UHF and 7/800 MHz. Ever so much fun getting at the connections. It gets better as the radios are in a slightly awkward place and then bolted down with the antenna ports facing into the bottom of the compartment. Definitely a challenge to get to them. Oh and to make this really fun these are all control head capable, which means they have a remote head to complete the connection. Well that means the main radio is quite a distance away from the control head and guess who needs to connect to both sides of it.
Yep, pick me. :thud:
In my favor though was I did have an USB extension cable which made that part easier, getting to the antenna at that part was the only challenge which we did manage.
So we got one of them done today and according to their radio man it is the worst of the lot. So at least that means the worst is out of the way ???? :ummm:
One can hope but I guess we shall see on Monday because it seems that they be quite busy over there and even though they had three others lined up they were called out while we were messing with the first truck and were still out on the call when we got done with it, so new game plan is being sorted out for Monday when we come back.
Oh and just for fun here is a view of the truck ...
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No wonder it was so difficult, the truck's a-grav and upside down!
8 )
Good luck Jherr
Cheers
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Look like you had to dig your way from the other side of the earth to take that picture. :icu:
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Indeed never understood why this place loads pictures at whatever angle it choose yet when you click o nit for details it comes out right side up.
But yes, that anti-grav device is certainly on the blink, you should have seen what I had to go through inside the cab.
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Mainly it's doing that on forum because photos are taken from a phone.
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Be that as maybe, I downloaded it from my phone to my computer and it is right side up and then uploaded from the computer to the forum.
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Still...phone pic...every time!
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Must be the NEW version of 'Ladder Truck' ???
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indeed it is all hydraulic and was told it is in the 170+ feet mark fully extended
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Now on to the fun, all engines, rescue and one of their big squad trucks today, and that sucker was huge compared to the regular engines. However that was the drill all day long and all I can say is that any installer who does this work needs to do maintenance and PM's on them just once to show them the error of their ways when it comes to their concept of how to install a radio system in the truck.
There was one where they actually put some thought into and it was the easiest of the lot. Only problem the 800MHz antenna connector fell apart in my hands when I took it off the radio. :sigh: Oh by the way we ran into a second truck with the same problem at the end of day, right in the middle of a torrential rainstorm. :rainy: :thud:
It was a truly suck ass day in regards to doing the mobiles today, but my fingers definitely do not bend in the manner required by some of those installs.
Nonetheless we did mange to get through 13 vehicles so going to call that a win. Not certain how many are left but so far I know of four minimum. So we shall see what tomorrow has to offer.
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Honestly, J, sounds to me like you're getting all the GOOD done man!
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170 feet eh. Oh wow, I just realized that the pretty blue Genie the boss rented for us to use replacing all our high bay mercury vapor 1000W light fixtures with 1000W metal halide 3 phase fixtures. We also ran all new conduit, wiring plus relocated the runs for better coverage. In one weekend. Heh! The Genie was nicknamed The Brontosaur, cause it could run the basket out 110 feet. Wild bouncy ride even with outriggers firmly down! Me I'm scared of heights, so was super careful operating that thing!
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Me and heights do not see eye to eye as well ... never have .... so we do not do things like that, hell I start freaking out when I get to 20'
Thank goodness I am not a fire fighter I would not last through basic training.
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If I got something to hold onto that feels solid, like a good handrail, I'm fine. Even 100' up, swaying in the wind. No solid hold, I freak plumb out!
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I would feel better too, however most of the times I have been exposed to heights that was not the case, and after having an extension ladder collapse forcing me to ride it down like they do in the movies that was all for me.
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Well, not a bad day, although there was shall we say some significant down time waiting on the next vehicle however the last seven got done.
:yippee:
Although one admin vehicle had two radios, for unknown reasons the second would not turn on regardless of how many or different kinds of blood sacrifices were made, definitely dead in my opinion and since we did run across three others earlier that behaved the same way and were the same model it is possible that they are now suitable as boat anchors.
:tearlaugh: And no it would not help to send them in for service since they are no longer supported (XTL2500)
Nevertheless new adventure today starting with a doctors appointment, followed by a couple of personal meetings, so taking the whole day off instead of trying to go back and forth twixt the personal and then work and since it is a school night way to much driving back and forth.
Hope the book I started yesterday will last through all of the down time I might have twixt each appointment. Considering how quickly I can read on occasions and since I stayed up reading a bit last night ... and I have only 300 pages left ... well it should last :ummm: maybe :iminnocent:
Oops forget about tomorrows fun and games I get to go back to NASA to renew my credentials. :thud:
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Yup and that seems to be something different every time you visit.
Side note: Thought I had got a virus in BadMoonRYZEN. Was getting all sorts of glitchy characters and stuff while typing. tried new drivers, all the AV scans. So several days and tons of frustrations later, only when I had exhausted the other options did I bother trying the most obvious. I unplugged thisfine new fancy LogiTech keyboard and plugged in a different one. The problem evaporated just that fast. Folks, being as it is so fast and easy to do, always check the hardware FIRST! Evidently the new K740 didn't like having a tumbler full of H2O dumped right into its entire nest of keys! Well at least being just water with no sugar or such, that keyboard should survive in the end!
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Did the drive to NASA and boy was that ever a test of ones patience considering the multiple levels of red tape that I was subjected to before I got it renewed and was able to move on.
:thud:
New level of red tape, apparently I now have to get a COVID test prior to doing any work at the NLECC facility or prove I have had the jab and sorry not taking the jab "EVER" ... so do not waste thy time trying to convince me to do otherwise.
Moving forward one can get a test done for free although it takes two days for results which is fine. However I will tell you this much, I have had this test already done multiple times and each time it feels like they are shoving a two by four up your nose and twisting it around.
Guess what, the drive through test is just as bad ... why ... because you are now the one shoving that two by four up your nose and twisting it around for 15 seconds in each nostril.
Hurts just as bad as when others are doing it to you.
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Well, how cute today marks the third time that the job for the Federal customer has been pushed back yet again. I swear some days it just makes me wonder if those that do the ordering and planning for these projects are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Ah well, it is definitely not something for me to be overly worried about, I just find it comical. They started to cry for me by name to do the rack and stack two weeks ago in earnest, they actually started the request back while I was flat on my back in the hospital. Guess I am either good at something or I just know how to baffle them with bullshit or is that dazzle them with brilliance .... :ummm: ... I get those two confused, often :tearlaugh:
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Well, today was a first for me in the repair aspect. Since I have not been typically doing repairs on a daily I only did the easy stuff as in "no soldering" well, today we got thrown head first into doing soldering.
Holy :soapy: removing the defective part was not to bad. The clean up of the solder pads and excess around the alignment pins wasn't to bad definitely is going to require extra practice to feel comfortable performing it.
First exposure to using solder wick and a solder sucker :thud: crazy stuff to say the least.
However solder a new switch back on .... :OMFG: .... oh my giddy aunt watched it the first time. So far so good, tried it myself on the second one ... :thud: not so very good. Twas a bit on the sloppy side to the point of creating a short. Had to undo all of the previous work to get back to square one. Senior tech did the solder of the switch to the pads since doing something like that more then once would probably screw the pooch. I did finish the soldering of the alignment pins and got the approval from the senior tech.
All I can say is this .... this is going to take a lot as in a lot more practice to even get comfortable doing it, let alone any good at it.
Then again it is nothing more then "learning a new skill" so practice, practice and go forth and continue to practice the skill.
Got to look at it from that angle and accept the challenge
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Had a crazy stupid repair later in the day, a simple easy install replacement parts .... :thud: ... yeah right.
I have yet to run into one that failed after repair.
In other words replaced all of the parts and nothing, no boot screen, although CPS saw the radio and the radio recognized CPS
(CPS = customer programming software)
However comma absolutely no playing nice on its part and trust me between my limited knowledge and then the senior techs take on what to check it came up still a big fat zero.
:thud:
As said a first for me ... what a crazy day ... oh it gets better as tomorrow I go to that Federal place for the next three days. :sigh:
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Whilst still a budding young Electrician, I took on Digital Electronics as a hobby man. That one thing made sure I was gonna get good at de-soldering scrap PC boards, all kinds. Just depended on what the Electronics Depots had in stock at the time. I had lots of practice DE-soldering the chips and discrete components man! LOL! Solder suckers, solder wick, kept 60-40 Lead/Tin solder around plus 50-50 for the tough bits. I didn't get to Silver Solder though. That required use of a little propane torch. And the now EX wifey was having a fit over my diving in to the books the moment I walked in the door. It DID help me in making our living. I miss the fun of it but not the blasted mess!
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Well, DOCTOR Jherrith, sounds like you are going to have great FUN the next 3 days then! :D
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Don't know about that, got up this morning and turned the alarm off on the phone and what is the first email notice that pops up "oh the equipment is not scheduled to show up till 1:00 PM ..."
So you can show up then or first thing and go over "scope of work" details your call.
Wow, they have been talking about this project since March (dug into the full email chain) and they still can not get the equipment to be delivered as promised.
Makes me wonder .... I mean how complicated is it to pack ordered equipment and get it on a truck and delivered to a customer?
Apparently very ... must be the answer :tearlaugh:
Case in point I received another package of "items" for the boats, :ummm: Okay why is it being shipped here and who does it truly belong to .... talk about opening a can of worms.
Sent off an email with all of the details and the first reply came back as "they were supposed to be shipped to such and such were they not shipped there"
Wow! since I just said I have them and want to know who gets them where do you think they got shipped :thud: the level of intelligence that some of these people show is absolutely staggering.
My bottom line is send me a shipping label so I can send them on, what do I get instead another 8 emails and three more people added to the email chain all asking but, but, but, why do you have it, and what is the tracking number and so on and so forth ... no wonder we can't get a raise and nice things. Got to many idiots higher up on the food chain wasting it.
Almost forgot to make this even more interesting the customer is stating that the order is for this boat, however my packing slip says it is for a different one ... they still be debating that detail as of close of business yesterday. :sigh:
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Even more stupidity was demonstrated yesterday. Why, went over first thing to the Federal and yep not ready and then there were changes that the customer wanted to implement while there, once he got permission. Well, no reason to stay until the material got there and he got permission.
Went back to the shop and then got involved in part two of stupidity. A site walk was scheduled for Thursday, next thing I know I have to go on the site walk now (Wednesday) because the customer :soapy: the date for access to the site.
So hurried up to get there and then try to find the point of contact .... I ran out of :soapy: words.
Finished it and then part three started when I went back to the Federal site. The material finally arrived and please tell me you would not be surprised if there was an error in the order.
:thumb_up:
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Maybe all your parts are coming from the Far East and on a very very slow boat. Also translation of English maybe slowing things down and of course, a lack of workers, but we can always blame COVID on everything. :icu:
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Indeed, we all know we can't hold accountable "people" for the lack of planning, foresight and critical thinking :tearlaugh: for upgrades to public safety communications systems.
That would be just silly ... right ... :tearlaugh:
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Oh my, what an antiquated idea, holding people responsible for their actions in this era. :whatthe: Sake alive that would like living in the twentieth century where most things made sense along with the changes for the good of the people. We could not have that now, it is not politically correct and not totally insane. :lostme: :thud:
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Uh that's like "COVID ate the motherboard I ordered!" unfortunately, true. Sigh. :cutting: :ima-getcha:
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ahhh it is now well over a year later, and I got no business going on about that parts ordering fiasco. Still burns me up though. BUT, we all named the thing BadMoonRYZEN and he's zipping right along these days! Yaaay! :D
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When I build a computer, I usually get used parts that are in the United States from shops that rebuild or refurbish computers not only that it cost less, most time I get the part within three days to a week and usually come with a 30 to 90 day guarantee. Most of the time I want computers that has plenty of memory with either 32 or 64 gigs of memory, for me speed is not important but the quality of the render is even though I am still learning more things about rendering.
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Normally that is generally what I do, Mike. There are just those rare times when *MORE!* is desired!
I am in a great mood and feel up to sharing a little bit. You game for a minute or two? ;o)
13 years ago I got That Urge and built "King George XVI". Affectionately named after a character in a good book I read long ago. "Of Mice And Men". The two central characters being George, a small guy that was also the brain of the duo, and Lenny, a big lumbering guy of slow mind. This all got started when my son got home from the Marines. My son and I had sat down together, with him now as a young adult, and we built a pair of PC's together to celebrate, like some rite of passage. Did it all on my coffee table. It was fun, and it gave him needed experience that built his confidence in his own abilities. Plus, it was great Father and Son time, yaknow? Since I footed the bill for ALL the stuff, I gave ME a higher end machine. Skip a decade or so, the old machine I'd built in 2007 was the 16th iteration of "George". So last year, I felt this new system needed its own name, brand new. I also wanted decent hardware, decently matched. I chose AMD this time, and was forced to use ASUS for the motherboard. And yeah I did go 12 full years using the same old system. It had been upgraded to the limits of the Main 3. Motherboard, CPU and RAM. Topped out, wore out!
The Gigabyte main boards I really wanted were unavailable. I found ONE, I ordered, and it was not actually available. BUT they actually had the audacity to sell me outright a product they did not have. No no no NO! You do NOT DO that, it is ILLEGAL!!!! That is STEALING people! They refunded my money about the time I walked into my bank and had them rescind that transaction, explaining what they had done. I finally ordered from ASUS, as they had outlets here in the US that did have a few main boards I could use with the AMD RYZEN 7 3700X I now had right in front of me. I picked a good one, loaded to the gills! Mainly because it has 8 SATA3 ports on it, 11 USB ports and both WiFi and Bluetooth. I found later it has a lot more cool stuff too. Man, what a JUMP! From an old Intel Q9550 quadcore with no hyperthreading to the RYZEN7 8 core with 16 HyperThreads is great, then the old one had 8 gigs of DDR2 SDRam, this one 64 gigs DDR4 SDRam, expandable to 128 gigs. I wanted to keep using Win 7 Pro 64 bits, but the mobo and CPU required Win 10, so I bought Win 10 Pro 64 bits. Thankfully, it does obey the CHOP CHOP hacks to kill forced auto update and a few other nasty things. I'm happy! ALL my software I love to use works great on it! Yessir, I am happy. I added other stuff afterwards, sure. I always do. Don't we all though? More 2TB SSD's, a new video card, new keyboard...new 32" Monitor! Yeah! Ha ha ha! I am tickled pink, Mike!
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You know, some folks refer to the current generation as the Age of Irresponsibility. I think that fits, sadly.
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Well, the screw up in the material for the Federal job was or is epic in proportions.
First and foremost was the cabinet for the equipment was to be deep enough for Gen10 servers. Didn't happen, yep got standard 22" deep cabinets instead of a minimum of 30+ inches, need room for the servers and the PDU at the back of it.
Which by the way no servers were delivered and neither were the PDU's.
So part one of the nonsense, followed rapidly by part two, one of the other people involved in the project questioned why the new equipment was being routed through the original core instead of having its own routers and transport all of the data within its own network instead of coming across the core.
So now in addition to no servers, they have now changed the layout of the install and now it requires four more routers on top of the ones already on hand. Well, talk about a major spanner in the works :soapy: times 10 ^ 17,256
So that project has now come to a screeching halt. It was funny though as the project manager was trying to get me to still rack everything in the wrong cabinets and then when the new ones come into transfer them over and finish the cabling then. Fortunately the customer and my point of contact put a halt to that stupidity rapidly as well, stating "basically why do it twice and waste both his (my) time and effort".
Thank the stars at last a customer that appreciates not only my work but does not desire to have me waste time doing things twice. :thud: Thought the day would never come when I would see such a thing.
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Well, since I am no longer doing any work at the Federal site, I wound up doing the work of the junior office lady who has decided to go on vacation.
Must be nice to take a week off at a time.
Well, it started off awkward as I had tasks that are part of my job description that had to be completed first. Not that I am complaining as we all know just exactly what I think of her work ethic.
However the interesting part is that once I was done with my normal duties, and then started on her tasks things got really crazy. Why, well let us say that not only did I get all of the radios brought in for repair processed and on the shelf, but I also posted parts to repair tickets and pulled said parts for them and put them back on the shelf to be completed. Then did the same for returns from depot so they could get the final checks prior to delivery. And to really rub it in I processed all of the repairs ready for delivery back to the customer by end of day.
Oh by the way delivered to one of the city Fire Departments on the way home Friday.
Now the real crazy bit was the senior office lady telling me to slow down and save something for next week. :ummm:
Seriously ... why ... there will be more coming in so why wait till the number gets to an unmanageable amount. Besides I have at least one install to do next week and then there is still another that is still "pending"
To make things interesting both myself and the senior tech are to learn about a new recording solution for another commercial customer.
How cute :sigh:
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Oh and the other interesting bits are that yes, the junior bench tech has been moved to the county system tech level and is now on call and no longer working in the office but is at the county shop.
Oh and yes my first week of being on call just ended also had only one call and that was on Friday morning, turned out to be a Captains Fire truck was in maintenance mode and since it was during business hours. I was able to get the actual installer of the radio in the Captains truck to check out the problem. Easily solved by him, apparently the circuit breaker was tripped.
I would have probably been there for hours ... :thud:
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Hi Mc G,
That was pretty cool in your post with building your computers with your son. I always preferred AMD over intel for computer processor and work station I do like Xeons. My first 4 core was an AMD however, I use a regular computer to surf the web with and light work. Mostly I get used because it is affordable for me. I use the workstation to do rendering and programing with, since it is built to do heavy work. This Z400 has been going strong over 10 years now. I have two backup workstations that are older ones an hp 8400 with Windows 7 Pro and I just upgraded a Dell 755 bios to UFEI and will upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. It had Window Vista Pro in it.
I am starting to look at the 1st generation AMD Threadrippers they are getting very affordable now. These processors may not have as much as the current ones but at the price new I think the 1st generation would make an interesting computer that I can afford. Hopefully the inflation rate will not jump too high, that is why I am waiting to do another build to see where the inflation will level out at since I take my time and get all the parts at the best price I can. Hopefully I can start this in 2022 or 23.
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So basically survived the first week of being on call and only had one call and it was at the end of the week and it was a mobile which as mentioned it was during the day and I was able to have the actual mobile installer look it over.
Finally got the last of the equipment shipped out on Friday for the Nitro project at last, took a frelling week to get FedEx to figure out what Express delivery means.
Man I tell you sometimes it really is crazy as to how our days play out ... and the part I despise the most is the bending over backwards of the boss whenever the customer is the one who :soapy: ups.
Yet according to the boss we are to be "flexible" and ready to shift gears at a moments notice .. all I keep feeling is a desire to rearrange his body parts in patterns that typically do not work for a bipedal humanoid
I guess it would not be to bad if it was work that was in the shop that I shifted between, however a large portion of my work is in the field which requires loading up, driving to, parking, unloading, doing the actual install and optimization, hauling off the excess and so forth and once one is in the middle of any of those steps shifting gears is or rather becomes annoying as in :rat-atat: level.
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Oh and the other interesting bits are that yes, the junior bench tech has been moved to the county system tech level and is now on call and no longer working in the office but is at the county shop.
Oh and yes my first week of being on call just ended also had only one call and that was on Friday morning, turned out to be a Captains Fire truck was in maintenance mode and since it was during business hours. I was able to get the actual installer of the radio in the Captains truck to check out the problem. Easily solved by him, apparently the circuit breaker was tripped.
I would have probably been there for hours ... :thud:
Looks like that was a very smart move on your part to get the original installer.
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I was in maintenance for years. You had to be flexible there too. It was a pain since you can consider work is a four letter word.
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Work I do not mind .... it is the hey you need to stop what you are doing and go here instead ... and then 30 minutes later it is oh wait a minute you really need to go here instead.....
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Ha! I ran into that all the time at our ONE facility J! LOL! We had 4 roll forming lines, the 4th being for pre-cut length accessories for the metal prefab buildings. But the 3 actual roll form lines for steel deck, siding and roofing were the real workhorses. In the end, we gutted the MCC panels and installed ONE relatively tiny wall mount 'Motor Controller'. I was impressed with its simplicity in the installs, and totally in love with its top-down coding WE could do. Just type it up in a text editor, save it to the weird extension and literally email it to the controller via the infra-fiber optics. The last three years I spent there were my most enjoyable, tech wise!
We all have those interoffice personnel issues, J. What it is, is those folks not knowing what they are actually doing. And you end up showing them how. Duh.
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I did enjoy those times, M-C. He is in his mid 40s now, got a family of his own to tend. And those kids got him wrapped around their little fingers!
Yep, he did learn a lot that first build. And I kept a full box of variety sized band aids on the coffee table for him. Back then, they didn't de-burr and roll the edges like now!
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Well the morons are at it again. I am fairly certain the world has enough problems dealing with one of me, you clone me and there is no telling what will happen.
They have me scheduled to be in no less then three places next week.
First the preventive maintenance done at the Fire Station although my part went well, those programming them with the new code plug :soapy: it up. Yet now I am to go back out and make it right because they have to have them fixed right away. Guess what folks there is only 350 radios ... I am sure you can handle it just as easily. Seriously programming is less then 5 minutes a radio give me a break. Because I also am to be at the downtown hospital to finish the MedCom install, and also I have to go back to the Federal place to rack and stack on a different project for them.
Oh and by the way we have the FPS install tomorrow. Then there is the original install at the Federal place which got stopped as I related earlier in this thread.
Plus, mid terms for my class and report cards to scribble. :tearlaugh:
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Gosh If you were not so busy constantly, what WOULD you do with all that time? Go to the beach and :waveass: for a bit? Heh!
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You know it, and it has been ever so long since I have ... that we are antsy to say the least.
:waveass: :waveass: :waveass: :waveass: :waveass: :waveass: :waveass:
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Well, it has been a interesting week, the junior office lady has been on vacation. Boy howdy does that "ehem" person slack off ... It so crazy how much I can complete in addition to my regular tasks that she can barely manage.
:whatthe:
Here is the deal, I managed to check in, post parts and then ready for delivery back to the customer. Also there was a call from a customer asking about repairs that they had not got back yet. Here is where it gets ugly, the service order says that parts had been pulled and placed out for repair ... NOT ... now to up the ante on the ugly it was not one repair that this affected ... a total of four repairs all sitting on the shelf waiting for parts that according to the service order had already been pulled but as I am known to say "were conspicuous by their absence" .... damn slacker .... as in very .... granted it is my opinion only, but when I can do that portion of her job in addition to mine and all is still completed by the weeks end. :shrug:
So finding four repairs that were missing parts, and the service order paperwork, that have been sitting in limbo for three months. :sigh: Completed
However the real nail that she drove in her coffin was finding one other repair that has been on hold since March, with no paperwork, so researched it and what do we find, a ticket saying that it had been sent to depot for repairs, no proof of it being returned. Considering that one could look at the radio and tell that it had never been to depot since it was certainly not repaired. Well, the senior lady did the deeper research and what does she find, yes something was sent out but it was not that radio. :thud:
Shop manager was standing there and was listening to the entire exchange and at that point I just said "I turn this over to you" Which he did say that yes it is something he will have to handle.
Good because that sort of thing is not one of my duties and considering that I am a ham fisted idiot or moron I would definitely be bad at reprimanding someone, provided he actually does something about it.
Oh and to add icing to the cake, there has been a boat load of parts still in bags, that were never put away, or a new parts bin labeled and filled with said parts. The thing that really is irritating is that there are parts in there that were needed for repairs but she claimed that we do not have any .... at any rate each shelf that I filled with parts holds about 15 parts bins and I filled four shelves ... :thud: What the double :soapy: hell.
Oh by the way yes, it was done correctly, new labels made for each one, and placed in numerical order on the shelf. Didn't put them in with the rest of the parts because ye ole junior lady is going to have to add all of them to inventory, :tearlaugh:
Can't wait to see how pissed she is going to be when she gets back. Because one, the stack of repair receipts from the customer all need to be closed and posted and boy is the stack of papers quite large. Plus, there are two tickets that have parts on them that the system would not allow me to post yet they are in stock. Yep, she gets to fix that along with all the other stuff mentioned above.
And as mentioned did my normal tasks in addition to all of the above. Such as a site walk and quote and then did the install two days ago. Wrapped up all of the paperwork and documentation on it this morning, VSWR, forward and reflected power, line sweep. Even got back to the hospital to get the last of my loose ends on the upgrade to the MedCom completed so that at this point the next time I go there it is to lay out the remotes and have the IT department provide me the needed IP addresses so the final programming can be completed.
The bonus to my day was this though .... ye ole boss called me in his office and said I have been trying to get you a raise for a while and it is official now. "I was surprised by the amount of the raise, it was quite more then I expected"
Well, this sounds interesting, he gave me numbers and if they are accurate I am going to be pleased. How much, will depend on the accuracy of his numbers. Not saying I don't believe him as the previous raise was spot on but this one is much larger.
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:lostme: :nurse3: :student: :seeyou: :fixed:
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Yeah what he said!!! LOL!
J, seems you have been overdue for a raise a LONG time dude, congratz man!
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Thank you, and if indeed it is as substantial as indicated, one will be pleased.
Then again on a sad note, I just got news that one of the uncles just passed away. :thud: Goes with an aunt that passed away previously ... :sigh: both had been ill for some little time and were not doing well at all, so my hope is that there was no additional pain as they both had suffered much.
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Well, the excitement begins this week. Back to the Federal customer and this time it is for staging equipment. Finally saw the drawing for what they expect, there is a total of seven racks being used and after looking the drawings over I count a total of 29 individual sites being staged.
:thud:
By the way each of the racks is filled to the brim, all 42 RU's in each rack.
The real fun is that once it is all racked and stacked, cabled, inventoried and grounded and then programmed by those lazy ass "system techs" then we get to come back and then take everything out of the racks and box it all up for delivery to each of the sites.
So for the next two week me and one other are to make it all ready, then the "ehem" have it for a month to program and vet operation. Then we come back to prepare all equipment for each site for shipping.
How cute.
The fun is that previously I was told to order parts for the project, such as there were no equipment and grounding screws for any of the gear. Umm, how do you forget to order enough hardware to install 160 pieces? :whatthe:
Oh by the way they also neglected to order cable brackets for each rack, the ground bus bar and the ground lugs for each rack. Also, I am going to assume that they never considered ground wire for each device, this ought to be fun :heeheehee:
Enough wire to ground 160 pieces of equipment and then 7 racks and do not forget "irreversible" crimp lugs on both sides.
Oh, supposedly some one else has made the cable for the project ... my questions ... is it on site? is it on the way? when do you think it will arrive?
:tearlaugh:
Oh, and let us not forget I had to go shove the two by four up my nose again to prove that I am healthy ... they are going to love the fact that I have charged the project for the trip. Just like the test I had to do last month, they will not accept a test less then three days old ... the real kick in the ass is that I was not even asked to prove it last month. Then again the project was put on hold due to incompetence or is that mistakes on the project managers part when deciding what to order. :shrug: who knows, who cares ... still above my pay grade :tearlaugh:
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Well, surprised by the days work ... nope not at all ... if you guessed that there was no equipment at the site and that the racks were not complete.
Move to the head of the class.
Well, let us break it down all of the equipment is still at the Federal warehouse ... when will it get delivered .... Thursday morning :thud:
We did at least get the material to finish the grounding of the racks :tearlaugh: I guess that is a win :shrug:
Ay any rate we did get grounds ran under the floor and connected to the existing bus got them above the floor however only three racks had a ground bus to start with so only three racks are grounded completely. So since we have the rest of the parts I am sure you can guess what tomorrow mornings work load will consist of. The other bit of fun is that they had already installed 6' power strips in the inside of the rack. Small problem there as that eats up rack depth space to the point that I would not be able to install any equipment.
How droll ...
So the next task was to move all of the power strips to the outside of the racks ... first task finding hardware at the site that will enable one to make the move from in the rack to out of the rack. Reason being as to why we could not use what they had was because they stripped or crossed threaded each set of hardware. That is what happens when you try to thread SAE thread on metric thread. At any rate got it sorted with a bit of luck and stubbornness.
The only part of the move that really sucked ass was while moving the power strip around the helper dropped one on my fingertips while it was getting situated. I am ever so impressed that I did not :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: loudly and with feeling although I did yell at a very high volume. Fingertips are black and blue due to the that bit of fun. I hope you caught that tidbit was sarcasm ...
So we got the grounding sorted out, have power sorted out, now all we need is equipment to installed :thud: :tearlaugh:
Starting on Thursday ... and here is a bit of more fun, he has us scheduled only for two weeks starting today and we are basically loosing two days of labor. Oh and we just found out that the Federal facility is closed on Columbus day, so yet another day lost. :thud:
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Almost forgot the best part, remember all of the fuss they were making about your status health wise, well, if you guessed that no one asked about it
Move to the Head of the Class!!!!!!
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Here is one for the cuckoo's nest, heard this on the Orange County Fire Rescue radio yesterday.
First responder report: patient acting erratically, talking to himself, admits to having taken cocaine and meth was just released from the hospital after recovering from COVID
Sounds like the gene pool still needs a bit more chlorine, don't you think? :ummm:
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:jacko: My problem is obvious. I have lost my sense of humor. :ima-getcha:
I spend $60+ on a beautiful NEW (of course) keyboard. Use it for a couple of months, splash a dollop of water on the upper left corner of it for like the nth time, and it suddenly started making weird keystrokes. Pressing "A" for instance jumped the cursor to the nearest URL bar. R gets R+, L gets LK, and a few other not so fun ones. So me, I get out compressed air, blow and blow and blow. Same badness. Unplug, use an old standby to witt being a packrat does have this advantage! Wrap USB cord around it, stand on end in a corner for a while. The DUNCE corner as it were. Try it out after a month of using a crappy wireless keyboard, same insane keystrokes. Sigh. Last night I ordered another LogiTech K740 wired USB illuminated keyboard. Love everything about it except it ain't splash resistant! I guess I will just have to put cup holders on the front left of this desk thingie. Got to be darn careful about my WATER! For ol Just-In Case maybe visiting, I also ordered two more different keyboards. Neither are LogiTech. One is illuminated and splash resistant! Ha! Anyone know how to pass a recommendation to LogiTech?
That comes NOWHERE near to trumping your work life woes, J! I was just reading it, enjoying building the scene out in my head, and it dawned on me to mention that Keyboard Woes Thingie. There t'is!
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And you betcha, chlorine being added daily bro!!! :batty: :ima-getcha: :cutting:
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Wow, the stupid is strong with the PM for this project at the Federal place.
Almost have no idea where to start first :tearlaugh:
But, you know I will try anyway :iminnocent:
First was getting the racks ready for staging. Got it complete on Wednesday and went back to the shop and then what do you think happened after about two hours. Yep, he decided to call and say that oh they are delivering equipment right now and I need you back here ... :thud:
Well, whatever so we went back and what happens, did anyone guess it was 2-1/2 hours before they decided to one show up as in the people.
However the equipment had arrived, however while waiting for the PM to grace us with his presence the last six pallets were delivered. Oh how droll ...
Ass-hats ... when they finally decided to show what do we get the most convoluted way to do inventory I have ever been subjected to ... my God ... who came up with this crap.
Apparently someone has already determined which site gets what device, yet is there any serial number info recorded by those people ... nope ... nada ... not at all ... why would we do something so logical as that
Well, the sorting of the equipment as to what site and took the rest of the work day. Matching a FO number on the box to the list then reading off what site and then which rack it is to be installed in, and now apply a sticker to the box.
Today we now have to open said box and save for the end of the project when we come back and de-rack everything, then box it up in the original box so it can be shipped to the main hub in Calif. and then distributed to the sites.
So the fun began today because now we have to now open the box, put a label on the device and then install it in the correct rack.
The icing on the cake as mentioned, is to also save the box and packing so when it goes back we can put it in the original box, so in addition to that we also have to put everything back on the original pallet for shipping.
Oh also found out today that we are also doing all of the recording of serial numbers and so forth ... well, what the hell is this, since when do we get roped into doing inventory (recording serial number, asset tags and MAC address info) for a Federal customer. That rubbish is supposed to be done by them as I have never been tasked with rubbish like this previously.
I think someone must have squealed and said that the Orlando shop is the best in documentation or some such scandalous lie ... :sigh:
Thanks a lot whoever spilt the beans ... yes we do have a clue on documentation but the manner in which this project has been shipped and packed, they can kiss my happy :waveass:
Installed the switches and routers today and was going to start on the radios and then one each ... ROADBLOCK .... arrived ... they have to be installed in a certain order for reason unknown to me however there was no simple way to determine it based on the little paperwork I had, yes at 4:00PM I am not breaking out the computer nor am I using my phone as a hot spot to access the files on my PC. I am not high enough on the food chain to have access to the internet while there, so it is a real pain for me to get to it. Which since I saved the file to my desktop it is not bad, however apparently the file I needed is one they had not sent :sigh: so guess what we had to do once home.
Yep downloaded and printed needed file. We will see if it will work better the what I tried to do earlier
If not it is on them to figure it out as in my mind I am here to rack and stack and connect equipment ... not manage the inventory and installation of the infrastructure.
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Oh man, a reg'lar three ring circus act, them be!
soooo... THIS! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvFFzGUVT80)
Complete with Dean Martin and JERRY LEWIS! :yippee:
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ah no! THIS melody summs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuKOL39-3Q) the meager brained boffice bunch up! :-D
Though this one is THE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkWGgGBMVD4) one I was actually trying to find.
Too bad I couldn't find a simple 'ding a ding ding!' sort of melody for ya. More suitable to the mentalities you've described. Just a tink tink tinkle tinkle plink plink on a little toy piano, yaknow?
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:lostme: J You might find this Cosplay more to your liking!
小林さんちのメイドラゴンＳ ED めいど・うぃず・どらごんず❤︎ TV-SIZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxblyMCUSo
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:thumb_up:
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Well, last night as in Friday, was truly epic for :whatthe: moments
Get a phone call from the answer service, "hey you need to respond to the work order"
:ummm: I am sorry I have not seen the email or text request, so did the background work by calling in and getting details. Had a "wait a minute" thought, that this is not a commercial call but a system call, still continued to try get answers mainly because if one is "on call" it is your to - do. However the request was for something I have never done before, I mean if I am sitting in front of a dispatch console I could most likely figure it out but I am nowhere skillful enough to explain it to someone over the phone. I am capable of installing dispatch console all day any day, but use one and set them up for use, no training in that department.
So while still uncertain if I was to respond or not I am trying to call my senior tech and got the dreaded no reply and "the mailbox is full" nonsense. Now I am upset, so called the next one up on the food chain and at last he finally answered and gave him the facts, he knew the answers (obviously since he is the ultimate top of the food chain for all techs) and got him to explain how to patch resources and then he said he would handle it as it was a system call not a commercial call.
Checked up later and saw that it was taken care of so all ended well. Later on the senior tech called me back and did say that you did good because that was indeed a system call and we do not respond to call outs for dispatch consoles. So at least I did do the right thing but it was certainly annoying that I got the call and I can only suppose that since the system guy did not call back in a timely manner they called the first person on the list, which is me (it is in alphabetical, and my name comes before the other in the respect) but he is listed as public safety and I am listed as commercial and boy did they get that part wrong, yes they did :sigh:
Talk about a minor nightmare for me last night, some days it just sucks to be me. Mainly because I have not had experience in service calls for radio systems in general let alone public safety radio. I was definitely upset for a while regarding the initial lack of support, and disappointed in myself for lack of knowledge on how to perform the task. I can install these systems all day long and cable them so they work. I just do not know how to set them up for use and that after 10 years working here is annoying.
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However on the other side of the coin I did get a "commercial call" on the previous day and that one I was able to sort out, was able to get my senior tech to answer and confirmed what I thought was the answer. After that called the customer and was able to walk him through it on the phone and got it repaired without having to go to the site.
Called that a win since I am more familiar with those systems and felt more comfortable trying to explain that to the customer on the phone.
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Well, the Friday install work on the Federal project was interesting in more ways then one.
Why, if you recall I mentioned their entirely overly complicated inventory and sorting scheme. Yep, rubbish ... here is where it gets ugly, started to install the actual radios (GTR) all VHF and some with duplexers. Initially no problems, at least not until I got to just straight radios with no duplexer since according to the print they had to go in a certain order. All was good until the print disagreed with the packing list I was to use for reference.
After the third trip to the rep, oh by the way I forgot to mention the project manager was out on Friday along with the second apparently they bought went back to wherever they hail from, leaving the on site guys to make decisions and answer my discrepancies.
:thud: If you guessed that they were as useful as a 'insert favorite euphemism' move to the head of the class.
Yep, useless :sigh: so with each roadblock I ran into I got more and more disgusted with how the whole project was 'thrown together' as this seemed to be the correct description. The drawing showed no comparators in the racks. However according to the the packing slip there were to be comparators in no less then four racks. That detail got either overlooked or it was changed and no updates were made ... however you guessed it, twas the latter of the two.
Seriously how are we expected to rack and stack if you cannot give up "correct and accurate details" so by days end it got to the point of :whatthe: hell am I supposed to do with these, I told my point of contact and then said I am just going to do this since to me this makes the most sense and there is no answer as to what they truly want, why because that person was on a conference phone call and could not break away to answer.
Really why bother ... after I got to the third one he finally got free and then said oh no they want them in a different order. Oh :soapy: my :waveass: ... stinking :bs:
So in the interest of not needing bail money we called it a day and started to clean up and pack things away since they was no definitive answer as to what they wanted it to look like when it was done.
The fun was prior to this happening the PM called and wanted pictures of the progress to show to the customer to show the progress on the project. Oh great here we go again, making others look good due to our efforts (plural since I do have help on this project) there are times that this nonsense irritates me and this is one of them.
Well, when we come back on Tuesday, that place is closed on Monday due to the holiday. And since I have plenty of Motorola required paperwork and classes to get caught up on, we are not coming in there on Monday. The funny part was that they were trying to get me to come in on Monday even though they have all these errors in the layout of the project.
:@u:
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Caliope Circus jingle again? :lostme: :ima-getcha:
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Definitely
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In retrospect I am beginning to wonder just what the deal was with Friday night.
A dispatch center calling in for instructions on how to patch channels together ... think about it ... they all go through training before they are put on the floor by themselves and even after there is always more then one on duty especially for a county. So :whatthe: is this ... calling in for instructions on how to patch channels about ... there are others working there and you mean to tell me that it never occurred to you to ask a fellow worker how to do that ... or that not a one of them knows how to do that ????
I am starting to think that my 'ehem' was being pulled and hard that night.
Just saying ...
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:lostme:
A. They got a Volunteer From a Different department who Just got the short straw and had to do desk duty.
B. On the job training was a Missing a few steps and they called you to refresh how it is done.
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Lord knows but it sounds about right to me.
Today's adventure was even more entertaining. Apparently last week there was a call for the senior tech that a router was down at one of the remote sites for ICE. So a replacement got shipped to the shop and since I went to the shop today because technically they were going to be closed at the Federal place. So a drive out to Daytona, get the needed key assist to get into the site, remove the defective router, install the new one, wait for it to affiliate, call it in to the person monitoring the system and then return to the shop.
2-1/2 hours that I will never get back :tearlaugh:
Could be ever so much fun, since coming up in November as I am supposed to go with the senior tech to these sites and start learning how to do site PM's for ICE. I have done some Federal PM's before such as the Post Office but according to the senior tech these are different in regards to the level of detail required.
However my return to the Federal site tomorrow is going to be every so much fun, why because there is still no definitive answer for the questions I had on Friday still ... oh and then to add insult to injury there is supposed to be a phone conference regarding the cable matrix. :ummm: excuse me why do I need to have my time wasted on a pointless meeting going over the cable matrix.
Just give me a copy of it so I can get on with it instead of wasting my time with a meeting going over what for me is a "common and simple task" asked for the matrix and got "crickets" in response. :sigh:
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The real treat was the phone call at the end of the day for the Cruise ship, why well let us say we are getting material for it and no documentation to guide one. Well, after a 30 minute conversation with the cruise ship account rep from Motorola all I can say is :OMFG: I have a bad feeling in regards to their ability to manage accounts.
The first bit of fun is why are they coming here, well if you have a bogus address what do you think will happen. Worse still is once more the radios provided are only Wi-Fi capable not "enabled" sorry dude you will need to provide EID's so I can turn that feature on to be able to program the radios and make them ready for pick up.
So much fun in my future for this account
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Gosh, sounds kinda like most people when they are shopping for personal purchases (Walmart, NewEgg etc.), they don't read the Features much and Specifications and Requirements even less. Me, I do. That would be like me ordering a kickass AMD AM4 Ryzen 9 x99000+ CPU and then shop up a dinky little Socket AM2 motherboard and simple ancient RDRam for it. GAH! Wot a clabberation! Curdled lumps and all! Nope, I gotta know all the parts I buy will do what I want and play perfectly with all the other parts. When I pushed the power button on me birthday, BadMoonRYZEN *STARTED* up and ran peops! Gotta be very careful shopping this stuff.
So, methinks the real problem is putting things on the PUBLIC market that is WAY too tech heavy for the general populace. BUT that is the advertising target. Any and every body! It's really amazing they aren't having more problems with that kind of marketing strategy.
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Yep the account rep or maybe the salesman for the account now, both have their collective head either in the sand or up their ass or each others :shrug: hard to tell at this point and at any rate it is a picture I really do not want to envision.
The original sale rep had her act together and sold a specific model and feature set to meet the needs of the customer these people that have taken over since she retired are :soapy: idiots
Heaven forbid that anyone should look at the original sale order to get it right, which brings us to today. Radios that do not have all the features that it should for it to be seamlessly integrated into the fleet of radios are not doing the end customer a service.
So tis more like the account reps who in theory are supposed to know the product who are the morons this time around, instead of a mislead customer.
Case in point was the next question this guy asked, I am new and do not understand truly what a code plug is and does ... :thud: ... and you are picking out radios for an account and do not know what you are selling them.
Double :thud:
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"What's amps?, More is better right?"
I feel for ye Jherr, but one of the "perks" of working with others, is the belly laughs you get when you realize they're 1/4 step above ignorant and believe they're educated.
The previous sales rep sounds like she had her stuff together!
Cheers
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Ain't gonna be a fun time with your new dingleberries in the place, J.
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How about that I got the cable matrix at last, as in 10 minutes before I left for work this morning.
Remember, requested it yesterday at 3:30PM and did not get it till this morning.
:thud: :whatthe:
Well, after that auspicious start could the day get any better? Yep straight into the gutter, started off with the easy ones from last week. Then it was time for getting a correct answer for all of the site controllers in regards to which one goes where .... oh yeah a complete bunch of :bs: had to undo all that I had already started and then I get the lovely the line numbers on the box did not match the shipping invoice. Seriously can these losers do anything right.
Oh, their current excuse is that there were changes during the engineering phase ... great well none of that got forwarded to the staging phase ... ass-hats.
The real fun was at long last we got the entire 29 sites staged, equipment wise, then my helper started on the power cords and I started on the cabling.
Did one and was like wow, was this supposed to be complicated ... :thud: you have got to be kidding me. Well, I tackled that part and by days end I had 15 of the 29 cabled and then we get the rubbish email saying that we need to have a conference call about the cable matrix ... you have got to be kidding me. Prior to the email I took a couple more pics and sent them to him for posting in the album. Then he calls me prior to the meeting, he still wants me to dial in, :sigh: dude this is not complicated the only issue I have is the federal provided equipment is still missing, there is no small form factor jumper for the only site with two switches, and where is the port assignments for the Cisco switch that each of the routers for the sites will be landed.
Oh and for the piece de resistance the inventory spreadsheet that was provided is about as convoluted as the rest of their attempts at tracking anything.
Good grief :sigh:
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:lost: :hypno: :bs: :waveass: :sake: :cmereJ: :ty2:
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@ Wizzard: I actually think that most of them are the poster child for a working definition of ignorant. Must be because I never went to college and had half of my brains drained out and filled with air. Must be why I see things differently, as in the less convoluted work flow.
@ McGrandpa: I certainly do have my fair share of them things starting to multiply around these parts do I not. :puah:
@ Rad: please double the :sake: and send the waitress over right away methinks I am going to need them both posthaste.
Ah well, tis almost time to drive in for today's exercise in .... not exactly sure what it is called but it sure doesn't resemble any known method of working towards a common goal that I am familiar with, me and the helper yes ... us and the paper pushing, always in a conference call bipedal humanoids ... not so very much ...
The only fun part that I see is that being half way done with the cabling on my part and the helper up to rack 5 out of 7 for doing power cords. Certainly see no reason why I wont be starting inventory at some point today. :thud: That ought to be a lovely nightmare, since the idiots used the nomenclature on the packing slip, to whit instead of calling it a HP switch it is called out as some random string of letters that ends in "S1" that is supposed to be my clue that it is a switch and "R1" is supposed to be my clue that it is a router.
:thud:
I am so happy I get to give my students a test tonight, hopefully it will make up for the frustration I am going to be putting up with today.
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Well, all I can say is there is a lot I do not understand about people. I get the concept of worrying about your kids when they are sick, in this case the kid is a special needs kid however I have trouble with the concept that you were up all night and got no sleep. I was under the impression that raising a child was a two person job. Considering that this a complete family with both parents, would not you like work together on caring for the child? Or am I missing something ... probably am I am clueless on this whole aspect so I just don't get it at all, especially the concept of "I love children", yet not only you but your wife both have had mild "special needs" difficulties and a previous child of the one had a child in a previous relationship that was also full blown special needs. So you love children so much that you bring a child in the world knowing that the odds were against the child dodging the special need set of lifestyles.
It is one thing to get dealt that from out of the blue, but to know that the chance is high and decide to go ahead, is something I do not understand.
The bottom line is that he didn't come in to help finish the project. The real issue was he started on it yesterday, left the notes on site and therefore he could not transpose them to the spread sheet I emailed him. So I wound up having to do them on my own from scratch, why all over, because he needs penmanship lessons desperately ... my God I have never seen such atrocious handwriting since the second grade.
So, wonderful had to do it by myself for the whole project. How droll well, however since I have always done inventory ... and Lords know I am way to good at it. In fact so good at it that I completed it all by days end, over 160 pieces, with serial number, MAC address and asset tags even did the unthinkable I was able to sort out what pallet they were originally shipped on, was kind of nice that I did go the extra three feet because I uncovered three duplicate numbers that had to be sorted out for accuracy.
So corrected a few things that only I know about, well except any of you lot that reads this, before anyone else saw the sheet. Calling that a win :thumb_up:
Still not overly happy about having to do it all by myself yet again, one would think that others should be capable of stepping up.
I know, such fantasies ...
Now for why it seems certain people will never get higher up on the food chain. I received a phone call from the senior office lady, or "den mother" asking about why am I the only one who has parking fees posted against the FPS project, didn't the others go with you?
Yes, they did and I did tell them to post it on their notes ... have they not done so? :sigh: Guess what you get to do?
Yep, chastise them and give them a hard times, because I did tell them when I gave them the service order number to include those fees.
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Got an email late in the day from the boss, forwarding rubbish from one of the counties we service, the county is bleating about how all contractors will have to wear masks regardless of whether or not you got the pseudo "vaccine" yet they still encourage all to get the "pseudo" vaccine
:ummm: So what would be the point of getting the "pseudo" vaccine then ... inquiring minds want to know ... especially if you still have to wear the mask :ummm:
Excuse me this is no longer about being afraid of the air around you ... but about "controlling the masses"
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Well........ there's always scuba gear. self-contained air supply. could even charge to the customer as "Its required".
Cheers
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@ Wizz ... too right
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I have a Friend who Was too Old to have a Kid and Married a Lady just as old as him and they Had a Child with Special needs. He Does everything For that kid she Blows it off and From the look on her Face would Off the Kid if she was left alone with it. I Understand the whole it is "our" only child thing but come on That amount of Suffering in the World that Family did not Need. It Eats Me up Sitting down with them and Watching them Die inside as the Kid is a Walking Time bomb With Rage and Strength on his side and These Parents are in there 70+ and their health is Way Gone! o.O Anyway Sorry Just not a Happy Thought.
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But you got what I was questioning, so a happy thought or not it is a topic that needs consideration.
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Anyone want to try and explain to me how if I pay all my medical bills when I receive the paper bill that a collection agency can claim that a bill has been turned over to them for collection that is dated Aug 8, 2020
Yes, folks last year ... :thud:
Oh and by the way since it is Saturday and after noon there is no one to get in touch with at the hospital. Because I sure as cats have kittens am not calling or writing the collection people on this topic.
Especially since I looked at all of the previous bills and the account number they have listed is not on a single check that I have written to them
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One thing comes to mind about this situation.
This could be an honest mistake made by the hospital.
Advice, you have the right idea about contacting the hospital first, make sure you are calm and don't get angry on the phone when inquiring about the billing for hospital.
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Someone could have posted those check you written to a different account, some people should not be in accounting. Hopefully you can prove everything you did to pay your bill and have it solve at the hospital. Misread the post the first time so I know that the collection agency is not scamming you (Corrected previous post after rereading the post).
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:lostme: Are You sure that it is a Legitimate Bill and not a Bill you have already paid and not double billed Cause that happened to me.
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That is what we are checking out however comma the billing department seems to be closed on the weekend and is only open Monday through Friday.
So the discussion starts tomorrow
The first thing I checked was whether or not the collection company was a legit one. The second was to try and call the hospital, then started looking at my bills from the hospital, which brings me to the above mentioned stopping point.
Guess we will find out something I hope tomorrow. Because a hospital chain that is large ought to have centralized billing and be able to keep track of the accounts from all departments and branches without having the proverbial right hand meet left hand rubbish going on
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Yes J, you got it all wrong about "wot it takes to raise a kid". It does indeed take 101% from the parents. EACH parent. So that added together it comes up to be 98%. Yes, regular arithmetic does not function well on Hoomin Beans bro! I see your attempt to quantify the experience arithmetically. Sorry, that just doesn't work at all.
You do not have to take my word for it nor even ask anyone else about it. Better if you don't, but rather, try it first hand, yourself! Heh heh! Now THAT sounds like taking 4 cats 3 monkeys and two Great Danes and shoving them in a electric dryer and hitting HIGH! with a bar across the door. I double dog dare you to be there when that bar is lifted just 5 minutes later!!!!! BWAHAhahahahahahahahahaaaaaa! :haha: :heeheehee:
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ooh! That sounded worse than Kianna on Luffie, actually! :lostme: :ima-getcha:
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Well, the first thing about me trying that for my own, not happening since I am a sports model not a working model. :tearlaugh:
Next bit of fun no internet at the house when I awoke this morning, got a text message at work around 9:30 saying the outage in my area has been repaired :thud:
And for the nightcap we now have a public safety radio so I can now hear in real time all calls that come across Fire and several other centers, but the good bit is this had it on while driving to class. Made my first turn on the main road to class and got about to the second traffic light and what do I hear come across the radio ... all hands on deck ... yep they called out 6 to 8 vehicles, including a heavy rescue and a battalion chief.
Auto accident with entrapment ... located at the intersection I had just drove through about five minutes ago .... Timing is everything ... is it not....
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:lostme:
Worst one I have seen was a drunk Driver Plow his car up an Bridge embankment and compress the whole car down to the rims of the car imbedded right at the juncture where the bridge and the road meet under the embankment. o.O You know the spot you see Homeless people sleep under bridges crammed the whole car sideways up under there!
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I count myself lucky to have not seen one like that, I did not see the aftermath of the one from last night, a student did though and he was talking about the one was a family and that they did get out prior to the first responders arriving and it was nothing but kids and adults climbing out wherever they could get out.
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Now for work related nonsense was building out a MedCom system and half way through one of the idiot IT people finally got back to fix a problem on my system and oh joy, now that program I am using to build the system out with crashes every time I open a system config to continue to work on it or even when I try to view a previous system.
What the unholy :soapy: is going on.
Told said IT guy and "oh I know nothing about that program you will have to get a hold of IT general support" :soapy: It was working before you started messing about with my machine and now it doesn't .... WTF
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Well, it got better today as I told ye ole leprechaun about the fiasco with the laptop yesterday, (an eight hour day of work wasted, that got his attention) it got escalated up the proverbial food chain as to the top dude. He got a hold of me by phone in the afternoon and got the same guy that hacked on it yesterday remotely and finally got him to spare some time to drive the computer remotely a second time.
Well, surprise ... not really it was what he had done yesterday that caused all the problems, "my opinion" I started to have with the software. Today he had some utility open to create an event log and then had me do what I did yesterday to duplicate the problem.
Bigger surprise it still went :cmereJ: up again, had been trying to work with it in the morning and it was still all fouled up then, so it was nice to see it still pitching a fit when I was to demonstrate the problem to him.
Lo and behold after he ran his event log and saw what was what, it turned out that the fix he applied was indeed the root cause of the problem. :thud: Seems as if the program is a bit "sensitive" his words not mine as to how it processes files. Well, after he put an exception in the "program fix from yesterday" for the executable that I was trying to use, finally at last it worked.
Damn imagine that a bottom feeder like myself actually was right for a change in regards to what the root cause of the problem. And considering that yesterday the tech was saying "not my problem I do not know anything about that program and it is not in my scope". Twas amazing how a word in my bosses ear got it to the top person who got the original tech back on it and resolved in the same day.
:thud:
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Well, it might sound odd a bench tech that doesn't truly know how to solder properly or at all but it is on the short list of I need to learn it and become better at it.
While I was messing about in the background with the tech and the computer. I worked on a repair that required some soldering to be done and wha-bam made a stab at it and then had the senior tech inspect it to make certain it was good. Well, out of the five pins to be solder on the front, three were great and two needed just a bit of polish to be correct .. :yippee: go me.
Then had to do the other three pins on the back side of the board and got them right the first time so there is hope for me I think, the real proof was when I did the after repair tests to ensure proper operation.
Passed all post checks and tuning definitely a :woohoo: moment for me.
Only problem there is about 20 more to do, junior office lady finally pulled parts, I guess the positive spin would be cool more practice maybe I can feel comfortable doing this, the current mood is :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: seriously this many :soapy:
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plz interpret that soap in mouth ref plz
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"Wash your mouth out with soap" in other words I was running through all of my favorite bad words with gusto and feeling ... repeatedly ... and quite possibly ran out of bad words to use.
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:ummm: I know I have no life and do nothing that is of earth shattering importance, (well, most of the time, since it is important to me) however I find it extremely comical that the boss sent emails to me and the senior tech about todays work at 9:00 pm last night
Really I am going to read a detailed email with an attachment of a 20 page document at 9:00 pm after I just got out of class and arrived home ... I want whatever he is smoking as it sounds like some good strong stuff.
I might be dedicated and diligent whilst on the clock and working for the customer and the boss, however that does not apply to when I am off duty.
:thud: Besides the fact that this install that is being done, although I got documentation on it two weeks ago ye ole boss has kept me busy doing other projects the entire time to the point of I have managed to look at maybe the table of contents in one manual and maybe 20 pages out of 256 pages in the other one.
Yeah this install should go over like a lead balloon. The email was from the engineer of the product that is doing an acceptance test for the end user. So the rep that supposedly knows what is going on in the email indicated that he doesn't think that the redundancy desired is achieved in the manuals stated manner, but needs to be done this way instead, makes me think as to what this guy thinks is going on ... does he think it is already installed and waiting on him. Boy is he in for a surprise.
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Well, it went over just as suspected :thud: :sigh: situation normal all :soapy: up. Yep, I have installed a large amount of gear in four post racks before, but this time it was the worst install in memory.
First mistake I read the instructions on how to assemble the rails on the equipment. Second mistake I followed them.
So by the time I got ready to put the server in the rails and slam it home, guess what it was saying :@u:
At that point I am now official ticked ... frelling instructions. So did the careful examination as to what was going on ... oh about this time is when the "engineer" is rearing his head and saying come on and figure something out to get it installed even if you have to fake it.
:thud: What the unholy hell, (frelling punk ass kid) methinks some people don't understand that some of us having been working with our hands putting things together longer then they have been alive.
After examining it carefully we found the problem and then started working on finding the solution. Found a possible solution and about an hour and half later got it reconfigured and was ready for test it out. Well, surprise part one of the fix was every thing I wanted, however the second part of it was not at all what I desired.
What happened well, when I went to slam it home in the rack the actual server did not line up with the rack spacing of the points of fastening. Yeah if I wanted to screw it off in the rack I would have to take it apart all over again and move it down and hope that it would line up. Hope, being the operative word as this server is a four RU server the mounting rails comes in at the second RU and even though I counted it out correctly they did not line up so :shrug: do it over or what the hell ... my professionalism said damn it and time to rip it out. The engineer got the customer and asked for a second opinion. I was told to stand down and not sweat it ... oh sure make me compromise my principles. :sigh:
Not pleased by that but oh well, went forward with the other parts of the project and got it completed. Senior tech did his thing and got the six channels requested hooked up and recording and now the engineer decides to pipe up and say let us break for lunch and come back and finish the install up.
:thud: :ummm: :whatthe: hell are you talking about, we are done.
Dead silence and "deer in the headlight looks" directed our way.
As I said some folks just do not what our shop is capable of doing. Then again I really need to stop with these "rabbit and hat tricks" as someone soon is going to start expecting it of us regularly ... oh wait ye ole leprechaun already does, :sigh: :thud:
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All I can say is there are a lot of SNAFUs in life which means Situation Normal All Fouled Up. You can substitute Fouled for another word that may come to mind.
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Yep, we have ran into this scenario often enough over the centuries enough to be on first name basis with it ... oops, I meant decades, yes decades ... sorry
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Hopefully this will give you a laugh. :lostme:
https://youtu.be/Tn1rxTHriwA
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That it did ... twas a good one
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The US Military produced a bunch of those "Training" films through the decades, thanks for that one.
49 years later, we'd all forgot the name of the regular Joe's we shared a smoke with at the butt kit, or ran a rack race with, at 3am. But nobody ever forgets the name of their company "SNAFU"! We had ours. Everyone liked him, just as they did Private Gomer Pyle (Full Metal Jacket). You cannot undo or forget the calamities that happened everywhere he went though! He made it straight from Basic Training to Home Again with both he and us mostly in one piece. It was with a sigh of relief our Company Commander (E-7) informed us his flight landed safely in Toledo Ohio. See, if his flight disappeared with him on it, he COULD actually end up back with US! Scary thought indeed! :lostme:
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Hey M-C, do remember your small arms training school?
Short Story:
the CG used everyone elses Small Arms Training schools, as we were smaller than the Marine Corps back then. In Basic, our first visit to the small arms range went pretty well, I thought. I'd never even fired a gun in my life, so the line coach told me very solemnly that if I did exactly as he said to do, I would earn the High Expert medal in Pistols that day. So, I did, and I DID! But that is where our own Recruit Snafu really shone man. He wore coke bottle bottom glasses, was incredibly high strung and absolutely reactive to whatever happened. The kid was on autopilot, driving at night 150+ mph in the fog with the headlights off. No wonder trouble went where ever he was. He had a 'thought' while holding his M1911A, loaded and ready to shoot. He spun instantly to the line coach with the .45 held at about a 45 degree angle, and it fired. The line coach's USCG ball cap went flying, he suffered powder burns on his face, and had to change his shorts. Our entire company, 45 guys, just stopped whatever they were doing, made their weapons safe and put them down on the loading pulpit, and waited. We were Bravo 86. Charlie 86 did likewise, they were training with us that day.
Recruit Snafu never made it to the barracks. Our DI called ahead, and people went and gathered his gear and had it waiting in the CO's office. He was discharged that day, and for the reason of safety to all personnel around him. We were all thankful the line coach recovered well, and was with us next day. My turn on the Pistol line, I am readying the .45, and he quietly asked me "Did you SEE that, I mean see it happen?" "Yessir, and I am so thankful that pistol aim was just a little high". "YEAH! No SHIT yeah! Well Mac, let's get you winning that medal now!" I don't remember that guys name, but after he let out a holler like that, he was OK again! Our Snafu? We all wished him well. ELSEWHERE.
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Well, that adventure on the roof was not all bad, nice big flat roof accessible by a ladder in the generator enclosure, just a lost of walking that day. So the getting a body up there not so bad then the fun began when we started taking material up to the roof that was the fun bit a 250' reel of hard line, two 2-3/8 x 8' galvanized pipes, three antennas and let us not forget about tools to do something constructive while up there and additional installation material.
Oh my giddy aunt, at any rate got it all together and got things started and since we could not drop all three down the same pipe and we only had one reel of cable had to do some fiddly math to make it right and since one of them had to go down a pipe that was not in the comm room and requires a trip down the hall in the ceiling before it went into the comm room, we pulled that one in first. yes so much fun, fortunately the place is not open and we did not have to do anything crazy stupid to get the lines pulled.
The real fun began when the hospital IT people showed up and I started to sort out what I would need from them. Oh my giddy aunt that turned into a song and dance, mainly because although I did get the requirements right I did get them mixed in with the other possible configuration that we need from IT. Next thing I know someone pulled some strings and the cabling company was over there putting in a patch panel and running cable for the drops I needed and got them patched into the ports on the floor where the lady in charge (charge nurse) wanted to have the remotes located.
In the meantime my guys got the antennas installed and the lines in the room, terminated to a new ground bar, surge protected and then were running the jumpers to the rack that was slated for our equipment. I went and built out the ground cage for the rack installed the bus and then grounded it back to the ground bar they had installed. So the bottom line was that by 1:30 the entire install for the antenna system was completed. Would have been nice if it could have all been completed but I am still waiting on the radio equipment from the salesman.
So close but yet so far, office people wanting the work done so they can charge for it and then the others wanting it done so they can open and here am I in the middle waiting on a third party to provide the missing equipment so I can make the other people happy. :sigh:
What the flying dog leg ...
The real fun was me explaining to the senior tech what I had asked for network wise, well after another half hour that I will never get back it turns out that I was right but had explained it wrong to the others involved as I was combining two configs when up to point A was one config and if I add the rest then it is point B a different config and is technically not needed if the moon is made of green cheese and three cocks lay addled eggs in the morn.
:whatthe:
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Oh I see this will be hilarious since I have not watched it decades .... Elvira Mistress of the Dark
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Wow talk about a B grade movie holy :tearlaugh: it is so bad it is almost bearable
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Oh my God could this get any campier
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Oops just did :tearlaugh:
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Holy double :thud: with a hint of :pervy:
That twas ever so bad and not in a good way
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Guess all I can do now is follow it up with "Nightmare before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" and just where is that Addams Family one at :ummm:
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Oops found it
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Elvira almost makes that Horror-thon worth watching. Heh!
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True ... almost ... it was certainly a groaner in more ways then one.
Ah well, worked our way through "Nightmare before Christmas" and now this morning am doing "Corpse Bride" :tearlaugh:
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Time for a cleansing of the palette doing some Dr. Who w/Patrick Troughton afterwards who knows what will be next as it is obvious I do have an extension library ... slightly eclectic but what did you expect ... a rubber biscuit.
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Time to go back to the anime
"Big O" up to episode 20 now
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The palette is cleansed so now tis time for something different ... a man with three buttocks ... oops wrong quote.
Time for the Mummy's Ghost
'snicker'
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Ready for some dull, boring, tedious and commonplace entertainment?
A view of my roof top I am looking into solar to get the power bill under control and they needed to have a view of the roof so I said yes I want copies of the shots.
Only posting two of them since it might be construed as being boring by others if not me :tearlaugh:
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Love it
Wednesday is at that special age where she only has one thing on her mind.
Boys?
Homicide.
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Wow Talk about Zero lot line house! O.O
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I live in a townhouse; zero lot lines have nothing on me
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Well, how about that they have a new hire but is it going to be of any help in the shop ... nooooooooooo .... although he is supposed to get some bench work experience first, but his true end job is to be a system tech working one of the public safety sites.
:sigh: Am I surprised ... not much .. well they are going to be in for a big surprise in a couple of months since they are trying to mandate that all employees have the bogus shot and prove it. Sorry but, that is called a violation of PII (personal identifiable information) and since I am totally against it and feel that with my luck I would be the one to die from it or worse still, become disabled by it. Not happening
Methinks there are going to be some legal pushback from more then just us in Florida.
The funny part is going to be go ahead and get rid of us old farts in the Orlando shop and I will enjoy watching the shop implode since us old timers are the only ones who know what is what ... and considering that I have not seen any of the mobile installers step up to do what either me or the senior tech do we are not holding my breath on it staying open if they truly go stupid at the top of the food chain namely "the corporate level". And considering that I heard from one office lady who did get the shot say, "that it will be a cold day in hell before I give you that PII" ... Love it
So hang on to your underwear as it is going to be a bumpy ride.
Seriously, think about it they expect you to get the shot yet all of the Federal places I have been too state they don't care what your "vaccination" status is you still have to wear a mask and maintain social distance.
:whatthe: So the point of taking the jab is :ummm:
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:lostme: It is About Control, Always Has Been. :kissie:
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TRUTH
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Hey Elvira hosted The Corpse Bride on Peacock couple nights ago. About 2 am I think. I laughed and groaned my way through it. And Elvira made sure she was seen as well as heard in this one! Heh! :ima-getcha: :jacko:
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ACK! My middle daughters birthday was yesterday. I was two hours late wishing her a happy one while it was still her birthday. Me and my weird sleep pattern. Oh the SHAME of it all! (where is Sylvesters son when ya need him?!@?)
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:lostme: Oh J Your Governor is Suing The Biden Administration for You!
Florida Sues Biden Administration Over Unconstitutional Vaxx Mandate For Federal Contractors.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/28/florida-sues-biden-administration-over-unconstitutional-vaxx-mandate-for-federal-contractors/
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Loving it
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Moving on to even more entertainment ... the junior OL called in and then asked the senior OL to say "if I had a chance would I process the radios on her desk in for repairs" ... :thud:
Seriously those repairs have been sitting on her desk for the last three days and today she decided to call in (might be legitimate) and then has the audacity to ask me via the senior OL to check the radios on her desk in for repair.
Guess what the senior OL had to say to me about that ... "don't go out of your way" ...
Well now how about that she recognizes and acknowledges the slacking off the junior OL is guilty of on a daily basis.
Got to love it .. yes I do ... and surprisingly there was enough other tasks and repairs that had parts pulled for them that I was busy all day with that task, so none of the radios on her desk that have been there for the last three days as mentioned got processed. I did process the repairs that came back from depot as those in my mind have a priority. But anything else on her desk NOPE, NADA, didn't happen.
I have my own tasks and yes I will help out if need be, but since those repairs have been sitting there since Monday and you never lifted a finger to get them processed ... nope ... not happening ... then the ye ole leprechaun called and asked me about some thing else that I have on my list of things to do and this topic came up and he said point blank ... NO do not process any of them. I will be having a talk with her ... well, I will believe that when I see it ... but .... not holding my breath, especially on it sinking in her skull and work ethic.
To which I replied that the only repairs I processed where ones that came back from depot. He was cool with that part. Liked the idea that the staging computer system was hacked on and fixed at long last
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Well, tis a happy moment just saw ye ole paycheck and the raise that was discussed has arrived and it was as large as alluded. :yippee:
Now if we do not have to worry about the :bs: mandate for the jab since we work at federal locations occasionally and have more then 100 total employees at all locations. I can actually smile a bit more then normal ... that would be nice ... reason being is at last I am now making more then I was when I got let go from the previous job in 2011 ... at last.
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Nobody can force you to take a frikking shot or any other medication dammit!!@!!!!!
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Yep you and I know that but there are way to many ... I hesitate to call them people due to the lack of lucid reasoning ... that still think that it is their duty to force you to comply with their beliefs.
So not happening and seeing how I just saw Florida go to the table to sue the government on the "if you have over 100 employees you must", I am just sitting back and watching it play out. Should not come to much ruckus ... I hope ... since ye ole boss has not said anything and he is still getting us to sign up for clearance at two new Federal sites.
Yes, two more ... what the hell
Anyway, the junior OL showed up on Friday after I had already been there and had the morning chit chat with the boss and a cup of :java: He was still pleased about me not doing any of her tasks and even went so far as to make the comment of "what do we need her for if she can't ..."
:thud: Works for me. The boring part is that I did not get to be nosy and hear if she actually got reprimanded ... bad habit of mine ... still working on getting rid of it.
The rude part in my mind is all she managed to accomplish was checking in the radios on her desk. No processing of return to customer, no pulling parts and then to make it even better she still likes to fuck up the radio information, such as make and model number. All of the different models of radios do not have the same model number ... just saying ... trust me the model number for a XPR3500e is different from a XPR6580 just a tiny little bit.
And then she was gone for the day just like that ... :whatthe: ... she comes in late "some arrangement she made with the boss", ... whatever ... and then leaves early and there is still work to be done with customer radios.
Must be nice.
Oh BTW we be on call this week and got a call from the service last night crying about something being down at Reedy Creek and once she started to describe it I informed her that it was P25 (public safety) and I am on call only for commercial ... nipped that one in the bud right quickly.
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Well, now so much for a quiet Sunday. Phone started to go crazy at 9:30 with back to back text messages, a phone call that dropped as I was never able to get the thing to connect properly. Then I called back and got through and figured out what was going on, a legitimate call, so got dressed and ready to go out. Then got a call from the senior system tech to make sure I got the call, yes we did and I am on my way.
Well, that smoothed things out.
So called my senior bench tech while driving out there and get some clues as to what to look for after I gave him the brief description of the problem.
Got there and at least the truck was there, when they first called it was out on a call, so got to checking around for the items I had been told about. Found one of the things to look for to be valid so I got that fixed, still not working ... :sigh: ... oops they got another call out and he had to go and now we wait until he comes back.
Well, forty five minutes later he returned (structural fire) and what happened when he pulled in and shut down. Then he turned it back on so I could continue to troubleshoot. "viola" it started to work again.
Well, while they were out I had talked to the senior tech and found out that most of the time when you plug control cables back in, that was the problem, it takes a while to reset or it just requires a hard reboot. You know, turn it all off and then back on.
Which is what occurred when he pulled back in the station. It was still on when I found the issue and the radio was never turned off till after he got back to the station. So wha-bam it started working correctly.
Cool running no blood sacrifice, no burning of sacred incense and putting the witch doctor regalia on ... whew
Well, my first solo service call, :woohoo: ... successful... no longer a service call virgin :tearlaugh:
So two and a half hours with drive time to get it sorted out.
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If I took a call, I got 4 hrs callout pay. ALWAYS. Or just don't call me. [End Of Discussion] (EOD)
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But Michael, you did good. Did whatever it took to resolve their problem, no matter how long it took. Good stuff, humble padawan! ;o)
Yaknow, above all other points about our work; We Troubleshoot Everything! :)
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If I took a call, I got 4 hrs callout pay. ALWAYS. Or just don't call me. [End Of Discussion] (EOD)
I get four hours regardless of whether I go out or not. This call being on a Sunday turned into the standard 4 plus the amount of time spent since it was the weekend :yippee:
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Well, they are trying to get ever so rude here as they are now sending out individual emails reminding us to submit our vax cards.
Sorry, that is called PII and is protected by HIPPA in other words they can kiss my ass. Guess we will have to file for the exception. Found out that the boss is filing for it as well, even though he did get the jab. Even one of the OL is against providing any proof.
The crazy side is going to be the concept of sure fire us because we either wont get the jab or prove that we did get it. The key is the "knowledge base" between me and the senior tech, who has forgotten more then I will ever know about radio, nonetheless the bottom line is this, if they decide to dump us the Orlando shop would go in the trash.
Now add to the mix all of the system techs, I do not know where they stand, but I heard some rumblings from one or two of them. Which if they got let go you can count on a lot of people unprotected from more then this stupid virus.
Remember I do "police, fire and medical public safety radio". Once again I am talking about the "knowledge base" some of them have been working radio for 20 plus years and know the system inside and out. So are you really going to fire them all, because I will either not get the jab or prove it to you. And watch out if one files for the exemption and then it is denied it is then that in my mind it becomes coercion.
Which leaves those who have got the jab, will they cave and give up PII or will they say no? Don't know, not asking as it is not my place but it should be a bumpy ride for a bit longer.
I even got a "compliment" from the boss when I mentioned that whatever, I am within a year and a half of full retirement age, and although I have liked working here for the last 10 years, how long do you think it would take to train someone to where I am now. He said every bit of 10 if not 15 years "since you were a quick study" (that was the compliment) kind of a weird compliment but :shrug: will take what I can get ... but it is true, consider that what I do is second nature to me, but for the mobile guy's to do what I take for granted, would take an act of God. Plus, the amount of interest or desire to learn and do more then sit there on their asses or better still, stripe the parking lot ... really? ... What century will they step up and learn more, the one did get the jab, will he turn over the proof, don't know but the scary part is that if he were to take over my duties the place would crash and burn. There is quite a bit of things that I do that I just do and say naught about it and since I am so CDO (OCD) about documentation and they are "ehem" regarding it, :shrug: :whatthe:.
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Well, talked to the ye ole leprechaun about the topic a bit tonight and boy howdy it is going to be one hell of a ride apparently, I grabbed the paperwork on a medical exemption and we will see what happens there but I think I am also going to grab the religious one too to see what is listed there and have it as back up. Mainly because of the details the boss provided on the topic.
Oh to add some fuel to the fire he apparently printed out the companies HR policy or whatever the hell it is called and read it and well, that document is being violated already to start with .. so "may you live in interesting times" ... seems to be coming true.
I swear all I want is a quiet life, nothing fancy, a roof over my head and the ability to provide for myself and have a little extra.
:shrug:
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Anyway did the PM for a department at the hospital today and one would have thought it would not take all day. However the department head had about 10^6 number of questions about her radios, ranging from why are the batteries giving everyone so much trouble with charging is the gang charger bad? :ummm: Sorry no, your batteries are all over 7 years old and average life is about 3 years so call it a win that you got them to last as long as you did but they be pushing if not past end of life. In fact two of them when tested said "forget it" literally.
The good news is that all of her department radios passed the "20K push to talk tune up". Which made her go :ummm: I said well if I said a PM would that make sense to you and she is like ... no ... does "20k PTT Tune up" make more sense ... well sort of, guess she is not really tech savvy as in worse then me :tearlaugh: Nonetheless when I gave a touch more detail she got it and all was good in her mind once more.
Answered all the other questions and we now got things in her department on track again.
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The real fun was the side converse with the senior OL apparently the cruise ship people called again asking about their radios?
After a call to me and three emails passed back and forth the full story finally emerged and it was still one of those :ummm: moments. But wait there is more because at that moment FedEx made a delivery and viola there was the rest of the radios they were inquiring about.
Well, I can already see what I will be doing tomorrow :sigh: my only hope is that these have the Wi-Fi enabled on them or I will be waiting on someone to provide keys to activate the feature on them so I can do the programming.
The code plug is written for them in such a fashion it must have Wi-Fi and it must be enabled for them to be programmed. Besides when they get a 20K PTT tune up it is so much easier to push firmware updates out via Wi-Fi then having to plug in each radio individually. Still have to touch each radio one at a time to do the PM but if I can get the firmware updates done with them just walking past an access point that is half the battle ... literally.
Well, as mentioned tomorrow looks like fun .... even more fun will be the boss putting the junior OL on the carpet. There were a few major mistakes in how the radios are being processed and I mentioned it to him, since the one time I tried to mention it to her she decided to get snooty with me. :shrug:
Sorry, I am tired of picking up the documentation details after you that are consistently dropped. That is not how any good business is ran ... just my wild ass opinion, then there is the concept of repairs to be sent to depot that have been waiting to be boxed up and shipped since Oct. 20th granted that doesn't sound like that long, however the problem in my eyes (only) is how many are waiting to be shipped. Then once again, there are over a dozen waiting for parts to be pulled so they can be repaired. :thud:
One would think if you do a little bit on all tasks each day, then you would not have a backlog on multiple aspects of your job. But it looks like that is not how her "mind" works, providing that it truly does work ... sorry
:shrug: ah well sleep in the bed you make ... which I have always done in the past when I fouled things up ... it might have taken a bit to learn that lesson but I have learned it and accept what happens after I make a decision.
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(OBOL) [old batty office lady] *JHERRITH!* where the hell are those damn docs for these radios?
(Jherrith) Not MY job. It is YOURS in point of fact! ( keeps walking out the door to sound of steam escaping ears of OBOL)
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I know you do things just to help see to it the Job Gets DONE. Even when you know it is tasked to the person sitting idle at a desk filing her nails. Some will think you are being just too nice for your own good. I do. That OL and her boss need to be dunked in it, feathered and run out on a rail. You are doing your work plus hers/theirs? Well, you aren't getting paid for it. One way of seeing it is that you are doing the work they are getting paid for. Put your hand out in waiting, while with the other make the rubbing fingers in the Money sign. Yeah. You earn their pay AND your own. Demand it!
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I tell you sometimes it just don't pay to chew through the leather straps.
Why? Updates that are made for software in use and no heads up that hey you need the latest and greatest. How do I know that happened? We got more radios for the cruise boats, ships, dinghy's ... whatever ... and when I tried to add it into Radio Management ... :thud: :soapy: hard fail. What the double hell ???
Tried to read it in the regular programming software and again no joy ... well at that point got smart enough to go to the portal for all of our software and sure enough a new version ... so nice to say anything you bunch of :soapy: x 10^36
Yea, yea I know quite cussing ... well maybe ... however today is not that day.
All that happened yesterday and I downloaded and installed all the bits that I can since I do not have server permissions I cannot update the server without totally breaking stuff. Which is ever so nice because both of the people that did take care of that now never come to the shop as one is a Federal ST and apparently we are but dust now and the other is a county ST although he will at least answer his phone and try to help, ye ole FHGB (fair haired genius boy) (although he does have dark hair) took two days to respond to my phone calls, texts and emails.
What the double hell ..
Ran out of bad words in two hours today, because I will try to solve my problems on my own if possible, but when I get to an impasse and ask for input being put on ignore or :o_go_on: I become rude and frustrated.
Well, he at last called back and once again I have to listen to his damn kids whine, cry and rumble in the background ... I get it that is what kids do but it is really hard to understand you through all the background noise ... :sigh: .... oh by the way he doesn't know where or how they happen as he has five of them.
At last though I was able to explain what was going on what I had done and what the other "server" guy had done and according to him it should work, well it did "once" it is now doing the same thing as before ... whining about language packs need to be installed.
Well, after listening to him tell me what to do, already did all of those steps still doesn't work, I had a glimmer regrading version numbers. Did these :soapy: write and include a newer version of English into the code plug, that for unknown reasons didn't get in the updated version of the RM software?
Well, sanity check in the morning and we shall see, because if not then I have to call software support. I only hope that I get someone that speaks English with an English accent. Instead of some Pakistani accented (very heavily) version of English like I got in the IT department. I am all for gainful employment for all but if the person who needs help cannot understand you then what the :soapy: is the point ... inquiring minds want to know.
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Well, methinks someone is not totally aware of what happens when you give up any information to the government.
He is saying that all is on his card, yes he got the vax is name and birthday, and that the company already has that information.
Well, did you bother to extend the equation ... they will be sharing that detail with the government .. at that point they have all your PII at their fingertips.
Sorry I have had my identity stolen once before and have to this day, still file a PIN when I do my taxes to make sure that everything is on the up and up.
So do you really think that info you give them is truly safe and as mentioned before it is none of their business whether or not anyone has gotten the "gene based therapy" shot.
My medical history is my business and no one but my business ... period
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:opr8: Had My info given away by the IRS. Have to get a code to do my Taxes too. :thud:
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Dang. That makes 3 of us. But hey, I have not had "income" in many years. The IRS said themselves that my VA Pension money is not taxable. And I do not have interest bearing bank accounts at all. So the IRS said, do not file a return. Call me sick, perverted or anything at all, but I actually felt lost, bereft, let down for what ever weird psychological reason. But, I don't file tax returns now. To me, that is plumb sad. I feel almost un-American!
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Hey J, sounds like you have had a couple very busy days at work man! I enjoy seeing that. :o)
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Busy is always a good thing, the percentage of it being productive is what I was or am unhappy about, two steps forward and three steps back is not a good ratio
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Well, have a little wet road action this morning I wonder how that is going to turn out for the first responders ... most likely busy beyond belief.
I mean very few people can drive in the rain in my neck of the woods to start with, so going out onto roads that are already wet and possibly slick should be ever so much fun ... right ... I mean what could possibly go wrong :tearlaugh:
There I go again tempting fate ... or is that poking the bear with a sharp stick
:shrug: Don't know, maybe I should leave early so as to not be in the thick of things with "those other drivers" :ummm:
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Knew it by the time I got to work, there were four auto accidents, one vehicle fire, one stabbing and a apartment fire all by the time I got to work and that is only a 30 minute drive.
:thud:
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:tearlaugh: Wow! just received a package at work with dimensions of:
16" x 12" x 4-1/2"
for contents (heater for the solder sucker) in a plastic zip lock with dimensions of 6" x 3"
And we wonder why everything cost so much to ship.
:thud: :tearlaugh:
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Oh boy. No, not gonna attempt it. I will just wait till awake. (plop!) zzz zzz zzz
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Indeed I certainly was and still am doing the :whatthe: dance about the packaging.
On another note just to show how crazy today has been because it has been raining all day long.
123 incidents that Orange County Fire Rescue dispatched in four hours. (1:30 - 5:30)
Of those 22 of them all happened during the drive home.
Had one that you would not want to be involved in, "water rescue" ... yep someone drove into a retention pond.
Double yikes
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Heyyyy! I have seen a few of that kind of incident around these parts J !!! Seeing as there are 'cattle tanks' (retention ponds) in most fields people have here. IT is not so odd to see the occasional car roof breaking the surface of one, while it's now sober and wide awake driver sits on top of that. Heh! I make sure to know where my car is going. No assumptions permitted! I haven't heard of any fatalities from these incidents, happily. Darn man, only the roof visible!
Ok seems you actually had a pretty decent day, in spite of the sprinkling!
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The sprinkling turned into real rain as in :rainy: at about noon and didn't let up till about 17:30
The driver in the retention pond did fare well as in they were able to get out of the car and the water was up to the bottom of the windows only so assuming that is a win, well except for now getting the car out of the pond and then making it road worthy once more.
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I hear they can take cars that were fully submerged in floods and make em like brand new again, no problems. That took a while and much experimenting but it's THERE now :)
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How wonderful went to drive the personal car yesterday and it said nope, you haven't driven me in two weeks we are not starting, battery again.
I don't drive it but once a week to start with since it has other issue like head gasket but I do try and drive it at least once a week for a couple three miles just to keep the battery charged up. Guess who is gong to have to jump start it this morning before it gets exercised. :sigh:
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How entertaining this is, been doing the watching of sodium intake so when buying products I am getting more on board with reading the labels.
So how can one put "unsalted" on the product when there is still 2% or 3% sodium content
:ummm:
Perhaps unsalted means something else in a different dialect of English that I do not speak. Seriously ... :whatthe:
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More fun, got the car started and drove off for about 20 miles and then came home then turned it off and drove again later no problems.
The real question now is whether or not to repair it due to the head gasket issue, which if I do this would make the second time I have done so, the problem is that since I am in theory coming up on retirement do I want to deplete my savings to repair and hope that is all that will go wrong, or should I go in debt and replace instead, since I am coming up on retirement it is a puzzling question.
However think about it with the world going to hell in a handbasket ... do I want to deplete my meager savings to keep a personal vehicle running versus going in debt to replace and reduce future repair bills. Focus on retirement being on the horizon.
:ummm: Then again if the world does truly go to hell in a handbasket then this poor planet will be naught but a smoking cinder in space so paying back a loan is a moot point.
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Well The Unsalted thing is they did not add Salt to the Contents But some of the Items Naturally have some salt in them. Like Celery is used to preserve Some Meats cause it has Natural Salt in it But they get away by saying no added salt O.o
The Thing with the Car is How often do You go Anywhere?
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On the weekends for books and food
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Books and Food Are how far away from You now? 5 miles or less?
How about Family How often do you see them?
In an Emergency How far do you need to go to Evacuate?
Do You Travel out of State?
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Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?
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Food 2 to 10 one way
Books 25 one way
Family 45 one way not often
In the center of the state could be problematic
Out of state, nope
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Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?
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Probably since I drive a Ford
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Got reminded of a radio commercial, thought I'd share/
Another one was
New for 1960, The Nash Rambler American available with continental kit!
Ahh... the goode olde days.... shame they are but coloured memories.
Cheers
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;perplexed: Humm A Used Truck O.o but for cost Motor Cycle But that comes with the Danger of getting Wet and cold.
Taxi or Uber might be less costly in the long run.
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Have you Thought about trying to fix it yourself! As most of the cost is Labor. :opr8:
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Head gasket job, 2nd time for this vehicle. What engine is it? V6? Get rid of it. 4 cyl, get rid of it. V8, take to a better mechanic that won't add repeat business to their work. Jackasses.
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Favorite Aunt had a 64 Rambler American (station wagon). I did a head job for her. At HER request, I used all the old parts except regular sealants and head gasket sealant (metallic). Did the job on a Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon, job complete, the engine ran like a champ. It was a little in line 6 cylinder. I got to use it a couple times for dates! See, the back seats folded down of course, made for a long clear bed...then the front seats also laid completely flat, making for interesting and steamy times. Heh! Other than looking like a "Mom n Pop" type of car, I never saw anything wrong with those cars. They ran good, did not rust out like the Dodges did, and they were sturdy. Not to mention cheap to work on. Not so sure what gave them their bad reputation. I tried to do my part to clear that up, but who listens to a 14 yr old back then? My Aunt appreciated the job, but me, knowing there was nothing wrong with that engine in the first place, asked Why. She giggled and said just to give me the experience, and confidence, in my own abilities and know how. Cool. :o) Thanks Aunt Jean, now, may you Rest In Peace dear lady. :o)
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Yep, four cylinder Ford Focus 2008 had another problem with the radiator system that was also expensive which was when I was told that it was a common problem for that make and model. Wonderful :thud: All told though I have put into repairs double what I paid for it, got it cheap because the A/C didn't work and was already over 100K miles. Which is why I be reluctant to repair but at the same time I have no desire to go into debt anymore then I already am, especially considering how stupid the world has become, plus we are close to retirement. So a tricky question requiring much thought.
I remember the Rambler station wagon from my youth as well, as that was the family car, considering it was four kids plus parents. Had to have a car big enough for all
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;perplexed: Humm A Used Truck O.o but for cost Motor Cycle But that comes with the Danger of getting Wet and cold.
Taxi or Uber might be less costly in the long run.
If I had a spot to securely lock up a motorcycle, (open parking lot as I live in a townhouse community) I would love it except for the part of any rain or hauling groceries. I drove motorcycle in my youth all the time and everywhere and had an old beater of a car for the wet and cold day. Which would be a good call now an old truck.
As to Uber and so forth not a fan, prefer to not have to rely on others yet, too independent and stubborn for that scenario.
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Wow methinks the human race is set to weed itself out in a double heartbeat.
Had a call on the radio that I listened to, patient calling for medical, however they couldn't find him and where they were sent to the people there said nope didn't call.
Turns out that the person calling would not call 911 for themselves. They were calling family members and having the family member call it in, well that might explain the mixed up address ... to make this fun I heard no less then three different addresses during the call and they still had not found the person. Well, one of the back story people was a daughter and she was on her way and by the time she got there we had yet another address.
Wow, ... at any rate I got home before they got it all sorted out and I turned the radio off
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:whatthe: Sadly You will heard more of those as we go into the holidays / Winter as Depression Starts to Attack the More Vulnerable People Who Unknowingly Isolate themselves from Help.
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That is certainly sad as I know I can feel depressed frequently.
My bigger issue with last nights radio call was the address being wrong, the person is calling out for help, granted in the most round about way possible, (probably because I am depressed, I am worthless, best not bother 911 personally) before the daughter got there to set everything on track.
However what if she actually had a medical issue requiring treatment, how was it that the other people that called it in messed up the address so badly. Fortunately the Rescue was in the right neighborhood but for the other people, this person called out to them, to call in help and then for them to hose the address each time is kind of ... awkward ... for lack of a better word.
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A lot of 911 dispatchers use the address lookup for the phone. Hard lines mainly. Especially if the caller seems very distressed or incoherant.
Cheers
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Indeed, although I am afraid for the fact that the person called family friends to report trouble and the address was screwed each time, until the daughter got on scene.
A 911 dispatcher can definitely only work with what they have .... and reverse call look up only is so good.
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Well, found out we have a new hire that has "thin skin" .... that is the only way I can express it ... if you are going to "want to talk to me" because you feel "friction" then do not "pussy out" and say your piece. My skin is thick enough to handle it ....
Otherwise all I can say is "SNOWFLAKE"
Dude grow a pair ...
The bottom line is this:
I am single and have been for centuries
I live alone except for my cat
I have no close, if any friends
I have work and class associates only
I am not politically correct
I do not sugar coat anything, if you want sugar coated, the Dunkin Donuts is down the street
Apparently the junior office lady has issues as well:
I am tired of covering up her "documentation" lapses.
Finally got around to reporting it to the boss, apparently he took her to the carpet. She made a comment that sounded like she wanted to talk about something. Well, then she said never mind, I will wait till I calm down. "sounds like 'truth hurts' to me" ... whatever because a Fire Station had a service call out. So me and the senior tech took off to look into it. Got back and all the junior lady said after I checked in with the senior OL was could you check in these repairs?
I took a single box with me and made the comment about my other duties, and carried on with my other tasks but did manage to work in checking in those repairs before end of business.
The real bullshit is she checked in none of the other repairs that came in today. So now the real dilemma is do I ask the boss is this what the outcome of her being called out on poor documentation or just do it, although it is not like I have other things to ignore.
Oh that is right I am to go with the senior tech to install a pair of repaired repeaters over at Universal Studios tomorrow and then configure one of the newly arrived repeaters for a MedCom project that just arrived.
Still need to check out whether Mr. Thin Skin (MTS) can access Radio Management software to program cruise ship radios or not ... oh that is right everything to him is now an app instead of a frelling shortcut .. :whatthe: ... tell you what just open the frelling program ... I am sorry app ... and let me know when you get to it ... and then we shall go to the next step.
The real fun interesting part is this ... he will be in the shop on the bench for a short while before he is set up as a system tech working P25 with the other techs.
So why should you care about whether or not I have a "blunt and direct" nature .. oh that is right I am the one that does infrastructure installs and you will have to make it work after I am gone. Best to try and get along with me ... not really ... I am not that sort of person ... if I know how the final install is to look and configured then that is what will be present when I leave.
Bottom line is all of my work is done to professional levels regardless of "human emotions"
I do not and will not play that game
However I look forward to the pedophiles mandate screwing the pooch for that task. Granted one could hire some one to do what I do, but how long will it take for you to get them to my skill level tech-wise, or better still customer account knowledge?
Just asking ...
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maybe they will end up shutting down like MY employer did after they terminated me? I was doing way more than I should have, and the boss guy kept pushing, pushing. More, more. Then there was no more at all. I was gone. And the phone just got disconnected. I never told them where I went. After more than 25 years I was totally disgustipatedly DONE with them. Bye Byeeeeee !!!!
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Yeah we are back !!!!
Gets sort of kind of tough to vent when one has no place to vent and especially since as mentioned before I have no friends or worse still no one that understands what the hell I am talking about to start with, RF is sort of specialized to say the least.
Anyway going to be one of those weeks already, thank goodness it is a short week due to Thanksgiving, (we get both Thursday and Friday off ... with pay)
Senior OL and the boss are both off the entire week though ... :sigh:
So much for making sure things are still going forward. Why? Well senior OL asked about a repair for one of the police departments. Found it on the shelf waiting on parts. Dug into the service ticket records :ummm: it states that parts were pulled ... really do not seem to be any in the box, :sigh: once again the junior OL has screwed the pooch.
Bottom line and I will not bore you with all the testing, research and hunting down of facts. I had wrote down the correct part number to be ordered to begin with all the way back when it was first checked in (August 4th) and here it is November and the correct part still has yet to be ordered. The real kick in my ass is the original paperwork can not be found ... imagine that ... sometimes I wonder why I care so much ... no one else seems to ... well the senior tech and senior OL do somewhat at least more then these other ... dare I call them workers. :thud:
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:kissie: :iminnocent: :peek: I see Mary is doing :odd: I hope she recovers! O.O
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LOL....I think all of the Admins were doing that Rad....with fingers and eyes crossed...
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Tis been ever so entertaining at work these past couple of ... such as the above mentioned issue with the police radio for a city served by us ... all the way up to still receiving material for one of the cruise line boats that technically should not even be coming here ... still ... and let me not forget to mention that lack of radio equipment being delivered so I can finish up projects that are still pending.
Makes me a bit cranky to say the least ... but what can I do .... I like to complete projects and when I get thwarted as you can tell I get "testy"
On another note it is still the same rubbish as usual with the entire supporting cast of lunatics ... Senior OL and Junior OL ( :thud: ) then there is the MTS new guy along with the mobile installers, the ever missing "leprechaun" and the only sane one besides myself that is .... the senior tech.
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Case in point on the "weird" ... please explain how a solder station can go from working one day and then not the next time I touch it?
Meaning it was working the last time I used it, but I noticed that some repairs were left on the shelf for longer then needed ... oh they need soldering ... :ummm: ... how odd the new guy MTS was giving me rubbish about where is the flux and the wet sponge and this that and other style of tip.
Wow and yet these repairs have been sitting there for all this time ... tells me that if I was a suspicious person that someone knew the solder station wasn't working and that it was going to be "hidden or covered up" for as long as possible.
Reason being is that I picked up the one that needed work on it and surprise MTS did not even desolder the switch and clean the pads to make sure we could do the repair here instead of sending it off to the depot to get the pads replaced.
:whatthe: Maybe he doesn't know, maybe he doesn't care, maybe he is an idiot ... oops said ... wrote that out loud.
Yep, I am a hard ass and do not play around when on the clock, I tend to be serious ... as in very
So while troubleshooting the soldering station as to why it wasn't working, found that the switch was the culprit got a switch form the mobile guys and tested to make sure it would work and then started to resemble it and do my final checks and what does what one of the mobile installers do ... while I have my head next to the faceplate putting it back together and turning it on for the last and final check .. yep decides that why the hell not let us make a "loud bang" noise.
Okay having been shocked and hung up on a live 277v circuit ... I do not obviously appreciate horseplay while involved with electricity. Don't care that it is a 120v circuit, as a solder station the amperage was higher.
Yet he and others seemed to find it amusing ... ass hat.
Sorry horseplay and electricity do not mix and I will call you out each and every time.
Don't like my attitude ... then don't pull bullshit like that in the future.
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Waaaay back when soldering irons were heated in the forge.... well not quite that long ago.
I was working on a 440V system, had things powered down for a solder inspection, Bozo #2 decided popping a paper bag would be humourous. I presume he laughed when they extracted my screwdriver from his arm and stitched him up. Boss saw the nonsense, commented it could have been worse, and yes I'll get my screwdriver back.
Moral of the story? Dont f**k around people working with high voltage, we tend to get high strung.
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Cheers
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Seconded
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Ab-so-FRICKIN-lutely !!!!
Great to be back and see y'all again! :happydance:
Great that :opr8: is going at a happy pace on your job J!
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Well, another day for the history books ... maybe a footnote ... turned the central air to heat last night and thought naught about it until I woke up in the middle of the night because it was chilly ... this blows ....
Woke up this morning at the normal time and yep the temperatures were in the range that I do not care for ... great not on my list.
Well, went to work and called in for the A/C tech and got a service call on the books. Well, got the depot stuff done repair wise and that coincided with the time the A/C tech said he could show up.
So made it happen and ... the suck ass news is that the blower motor is shot ... :whatthe: ....
Part two of damn it all ... the tech went to get a replacement and of course there is not one on the shelf and I have to wait till Monday.
:sigh:
The silver lining is that even though it has only been a year since the install was done (why in the hell is a blower motor going tits up in a year) it is covered by the warranty ... including the labor. Yep we bought into the extended 10 year warranty on this baby. Technically labor is gone after one year but since I missed it by one month and I know the guy who owns the business ... well let us say sometimes it pays off ... plus they have got all of my business since 2007 and I have called them out only three, maybe four times tops in the intervening years. So they did cut me some slack.
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Found out later that apparently since all of the top admin folks were gone that the rest of the mice decided that closing up at 3:00 PM was the right thing to do ... seriously ... the only reason I know this is that I went back to the shop since I had a package delivered so I went to pick it up ... hey it was books what did you think I was going to let them languish there all by themselves ... all holiday weekend long.
Perish the thought
Anyway on the way in one of the sales reps called and asked about some radios that I told him were ready for delivery and he was on his way in to pick them up. Told him I was headed back so they should be still there if not I will be in shortly.
The bullshit part is that he called back and said they were already gone and asked whether I had already been in and if not how far away I was from the shop.
That is when I found out that yep everyone else had left by 3:00 PM
:whatthe:
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Am looking forward to browsing and reading portions if not all of the volumes that I got this time.
They are all on my favorite subject ... Math ... :yippee:
Got some of the beginning texts on the topic
Principia by Newton
Elements by Euclid
Elements of Algebra by Leonhard Euler
:yippee: Now that is a line up ... at least in my world it is ....
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if Your Blower motor is broken then
A. The Thermal sensor is not working to Stop it from over heating.
B. The Auto to Manual Switch has a Fault inside or the Thermostat is Giving a False Positive to the motor.
C. The Motor was bad from the factory
D. it was not Balanced when the impeller was installed.
E. System was not properly Grounded.
As for lock out tag out is not being used is why I Have burns on my Body. o.O
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Based on how it failed I am thinking maybe B or C
It worked properly last year no problem so who knows.
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Well, tis no longer at a temperature that requires clothing in my house. I mean I do live alone so why do I have to wear them 24/7?
Reason being all of the cooking and use of the dishwasher.
Brought the inside temps up to a very nice comfortable 78° :thumb_up:
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Uh oh! At 75°F I turn ON the AC J! 68-72 is purrfect for me! :happydance:
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While working at Proler Metalworks International I always used correct lockout-tag out procedures. And there have been two instances of foremen from other countries that did NOT respect those rules. WHICH to take bolt cutters and cut the lockout lock OFF and install illegal 'hotbars' in a fused disconnect which I had removed fuses and locked out that disconnect to work on the 3 phase 480vac welding drop it served. One minute later, I put screwdriver to that welding drop plug box and got exploded off the little platform onto the steel deck 10' below. Foreman went to jail 6 months and then deported. Me, I was blind for over a week, eyes completely bandaged over. Vision came back fuzzy for a month. I WAS wearing all safety gear. Still, the UV flashburn to ye ole eyeballs hurt like a bear. It was little comfort knowing that foreman was in jail. I wanted his face actually. But Law said nope, I cannot have it. The fuses I pulled were 300 amp BusLink type. The dropbox and screwdriver must have taken the role of fuses. Even with ALL safety gear ON, and it being mid January and about 20F in the shop there, I was bundled up pretty good for weather. But face and hands still got burned pretty bad. I also have this permanent "racoon mask" around my eyes, from metallic dust embedded in my skin. It shows up in xrays! Eyes did heal, as did the rest of me. But trust? You got to be kidding. I mean hey when a FOREMAN cuts off your officially issued lockout gear, what the hell DO you do then? Work in pairs? I dunno. Last job I worked, one of the guys I worked with did the same. To ME. WHILE I was working on a hot bus. I just happened to notice my hairs standing up suddenly, static. I carefully backed out, walked quietly around the MCC and caught the guy with MY tools, taking off the little ACB lockout I had put on just a minute before. He screamed he had work to do dammit! Not anymore. I went to my supervisor, who fired both him and HIS crew chief. And so it went, for another 10 years.
For Truth J. I got so sick of the whole bullshit "workplace" thing. I was glad they canned me for disability.
That's OK now, see, I am DONE with that whole "Workplace" thing. Permanent (PAINFUL) 'vacation', as it were. Disability Retirement. It sure gives ya plenty of time to reflect on stuff. Too much, actually.
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I start bundling up at those temps :tearlaugh:
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Well, me too J! BUT, I gotta have it cool. Me n sweating don't work so good anymore. :OMFG: :shock: :explode: :psycho: :cookies: Yo have a great cookie brah! :D
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Oh the horror my favorite brand of :sake: is no longer on the shelves of my Asian market. And we are on the last flask :sadder:
This blows like so much of yon ill wind.
Looks like we will be returning to regular spirits for the near future ... :sigh: how boring.
Reason being is simple dollar to volume cost. There are other brands of a similar quality but the volume to price ratio is ridiculous .... literally.
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I feel for ya, J.
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Indeed check this out
The 1.8 liter or 60.8 oz bottle @21.95 which I favor works out to .36 per oz
The alternative is 720 ml or 25.3 oz @32.95 which works out to .77 per oz
And considering that I drink at least one of the 60 oz bottles a week you can imagine my consternation when doing the math
Just shy of $70 to accomplish what used to be done with less the $25
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Oops. Looks like for ya to suck it down ya might just have to suck it up J. Did that come out wrong again? Gee. Sorry man. :OMFG: :yeow:
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Well, with the way the "inflation" rubbish is going, it appears I am going to have to ration my intake which with the state of the events is really going to suck ... regardless of direction.
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Got the dreaded call after I got back from the book store ... I wonder how they time things like that I really do ... Yep I am currently on call and got one for the hospital chain .... where you ask ... why out in BFE ... or to put it another way and in perspective 45 minutes away.
Dispatch is not hearing Security or getting any response from Security over WAVE
Well, now isn't that just wonderful ... oops, forgot the sarcasm alert ....
Anyway made a couple of calls to determine the state of and what was actually going on and since I trust a Security person to mess about with radio equipment as much as I trust :ummm: wow some many comparisons to make ... I will leave it up to you this time.
Got attired in suitable attire to indicate I was trying to be "professional" ... don't laugh it could happen.
So got dressed and headed out and made a few more phone calls to make certain I had a game plan once I got there for resolving the problem. The fun bit was once I arrived it was slightly comical because the Security guard was on her feet and asking if I was there to fix the radio.
Wow, didn't see that coming.
At any rate I got a first hand account of the problem. Matched up with what had been said earlier by the person who called it in and had a game plan already if that was accurate.
Go me, it might prove to be simple after all, got into the radio room and lo and behold what I had expected was indeed occurring. Double :cheer:
Decided it would be good to see if the officer was interested and was capable of learning ... well had a eager student. This is promising, so as I pushed the magic buttons I explained in simple terms what was going on ... and :yippee: all was fixed.
Just needed a simple reboot as the link to the network was down which is why it would not communicate back with Dispatch.
What a concept. Had two other things to look at if that was not the answer so we were very pleased at the ease that this one was brought back to normal. She did a radio check back to Dispatch and all was loud and clear so time to go home.
So a 45 minute drive there and the same back plus another 30 minutes to sort it out and get all parties up to speed as to the resolution. :letusboogie:
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Well, been a nice four days off ... almost a shame to have to go back in tomorrow.
Why, must be me getting on edge due to unresolved issues with previously mentioned topics.
It still bugs me on a professional level as to how a radio can still be awaiting repairs when as mentioned I find out I had requested the correct part back in August. Yet somehow not only was the part number changed, found to be wrong and then supposedly filled with the wrong part and now the original paperwork has now disappeared.
:whatthe:
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Obviously to complicated for an old fart like me
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But not for the maggots working in said office. NOT in a forgiving mood, me. I do not forgive those maggots who cause you far more consternation than all your other issues combined. Not at ALL.
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Yep forgiving of the junior OL is definitely not on my list
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I swear I have the worst luck, was going to run a slide show of pics I have on an external drive and what happens ... Sorry this media is write protected.
:ummm: All I want to do is view it since when does that crate a "write" prohibition. I am not trying to write to the file I am only trying to open it .... or am I missing something here ... again?
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It could be that malicious virus could have gotten in to your computer like ransomware there is a way to unlock it through the command prompt, through read / write, but this video will show you free way through software to decrypt your files. These viruses could even come through email that had virus attached but not always by the sender but by hackers. I have this problem from time to time too. The bottom video is very good.
How To Recover Your Ransomware Encrypted Data Files For Free
https://youtu.be/8mCtBQqHZQA
https://youtu.be/g0yXmQx89x4
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I swear I have the worst luck, was going to run a slide show of pics I have on an external drive and what happens ... Sorry this media is write protected.
:ummm: All I want to do is view it since when does that crate a "write" prohibition. I am not trying to write to the file I am only trying to open it .... or am I missing something here ... again?
your media is write protected. means no temp file as place marker can be written. damn primitive coders!
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If you are interested in using a command prompt this is a good article on the subject.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/15-cmd-commands-every-windows-user-know/
This one will explain how to change read/write in your windows computer.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/change-readonly-setting-command-line-dos-51176.html
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One last post on subject.
Read Only Attribute from Command Line
https://youtu.be/U7ry_NALYrQ
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Thank you will be checking this once back home. It is odd though as it is an external drive as mentioned and it was just fine yesterday.
Damn technology
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Not always but occassionally ext-drvs will write protect itself when disconnected, then winders "forgets" to "put the tab back". Theres always the ctrl-A; properties; set attribute.
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Well, waiting on the HVAC guy to do his thing and get my heater working again we did the first and foremost fundamental thing all people should do ... well, except and besides it was morning and I was not in the mood to wait
Yep, reboot the system you big dummy
Now that pictures are available to view and make notes and so forth :pervy: :cheer:
Still going to make a text file of all the links and tips you shared for reference though ... you never know
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How cute the tech replaced the blower motor and it still was refusing to give heat ... :whatthe: well after another hour of troubleshooting finally found the problem. Some how the damn blower motor shorted the circuit board ... :thud: you have got to be kidding me.
Some times it just sucks to walk in my shoes
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:iminnocent:
SAD LITTLE MAN
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I3R3bHC7w8Ez/
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Yeah, but now you have control over heat/cool temps in there! :glittery:
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Yes we do and that in and of its own self make me a happy camper
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a blower motor and control board don't cost that much. I have repaired a bunch of HVAC units on the job and the blower motor and cycle timer are always the two most replaced items. Then too, plenty of idiots chop up thermostat control lines (4 conductor phone wire) doing even minor renovations. so, resplicing that was also common. But I only got paid $20 an hour. Back then that was considered eye popping. but it wasn't even scale for the day.
Those motors were 220vac, two wire, grounded. But the supply was most often 480 v 3 phase.
Ahhh enough of that dotage! Bleah! :yeow:
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Well, Merry Christmas to ye Jherrith! :happydance: :glittery: :xmas11:
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Thanks for the early holiday wishes
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Well, the paralyzingly dull boring and tedious part of the semester has arrived. Administering the final exam, hands on and written.
Then the "just kill me now" part ... writing a final report card... for 17 students ... by all that resides above and below this mortal realm I loathe this task with great intensity.
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Got to be easy, really. Just give them exactly and only what they EARNED. Fewer people become collateral damage!
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Trust me I do, what the hard part is, I have to do it in a positive manner.
Which leads me to the statement I wish I could put on it but am not allowed.
"At least he wasn't picking his nose while ignoring the class discussion"
Or in this semester at least he didn't snore while sleeping during class ... :thud:
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Armco Steel hired a maths professor to teach us our "Industrial Math" academic portion of our apprenticeships. He was highly paid too. And we had to keep up with all the work, averaging an 82 percentile or get kicked from the program. I was having marital problems, bad ones. Desperate to keep a failed marriage together I left Armco to try and save it. It didn't work at ALL. I hate talking about it because it makes me think of HER. And I hate doing that. But moving back to Houston, I was not accepted for re-employment. And the facility shut down the end of that year. Sad, very sad.
NEXT! I took my year of learning to metals reclamation, a huge scrap metals outfit. I learned how not to be an electrician there! LOL! It was SO Cord City. I learned to work on and with higher voltage gear as well as the 'normal' run of 500 V or less motor and controls. Got my 4 year letter, at least, and I was damn proud to receive that from the company Electrical Engineer! That last place, I do really miss the Maintenance Shop and ALL the work I did in the facility. Yeah, even replacing our sewer lines to the 1 foot main line for the City. I was selected to give a 30 minute course on "Non Toilet Paper Disposal".
Which ended my having to yank commodes off the floor to dig out the feminine napkins and the like. Yeah, THAT bit was not so fun.
I'd much rather be crafting, building projects, setting up repairs for any production line. Installing the new Fiber Optics! That was cool stuff. We had to get exact length measurements for the new orange sheath cable. Only about 3/8" diameter. BUT we were told to have x size coils of spare cable at each end. No problemo! Heh! Then we set up and installed the media converters at every station. Suddenly we had instant unhindered communications with all points in the entire facility. Me and the bosses were totally pleased with ourselves for that. Even though we knew darn well the IT Techs set the cables up before sending to us, 1,400 miles away. it was very nice to have a plug n go, system START actually started right. Lovely.
So, nowdays the multiplexers/converters are all one tiny card I hear? Not back then. The muxers resembled big power strips with coax ports. Anyway, have a lovely Friday Jherrith! Mine is going ok so far. Got hot COFFEE! :D
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Got to say some of the customers have some truly unrealistic expectations. It can be so troublesome, newest task a commercial group has had problems updating their radios to the latest firmware on RM (radio management) a week long trip has been scheduled for all of in the shop to go and sort their problem out.
My only problem with all of this is that I am as green as the grass is long in how to use RM.
The sales rep did bring some radios in for me to get started on, so the fun has begun
One I used my regular CPS to do the firmware update that they seemed to be having trouble getting RM to do for them. A couple of issues did arise and I was able to still get through all of them.
The real problem I am seeing is trying to duplicate the same results on my RM database.
The typical sequence is to add the radios first, then read the radios into the database. Next you can add the config which would program the radio you also have the options to update firmware add features and so forth , which I have not done previously.
Oh joy
The first stumbling block I see is that to read this customers radio I need a password.
Which I do not have
Makes no difference when I update firmware as I am not changing the code plug.
However am I able to read a radio into RM without the password? Don't know, have not tried that before ...
The real task I have heard alluded to is that we are to get there RM database working so they can do their thing in the future.
Oh great, out of the three of us in the shop we have MTS (Mister Thin Skin) and green beyond even my imagination. My senior bench tech who knows even less then I do about the software. Then me the only one with a modicum of experience. Basically very little ...
Great I barely know what am I doing and fought with it in the shop for about three days to get it updated to the latest version and to get the latest firmware to get the cruise ship configurations to work.
Oh by the way the length of time delay is partly in fact to getting the other two peoples laptops to work, in addition to the staging computer I have in the staging rack. My laptop went relatively smooth once I got past the language packs being corrupted ... yep they released an update that had no English language packs in it but the firmware did have it, so talk about a "clash" basically half my battle.
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:ifonly:
Not sure if this will help.
Radio Management: A quick guide with links
https://cwh050.blogspot.com/2017/10/radio-management-quick-guide-with-links.html
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Oops now ya did it Radkres....looks like J got Lost in RM Neverland! LOL!
BTW thanks for the link, that is THE definitive site for Things RM!
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Could be worse things to read on a Sunday morning. Although it will have to wait till the grocery shopping is completed. Already got the bedding washed and ready for the dryer and the morning cup of ... drank down. And all the vendors with sales last month have got their commissions ... still have another eight (8) report cards to write but at least we are at the half way mark.
So a little radio tech will be a good way to "cleanse the palette"
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Fascinating reading look forward to reading the text and watching the video more then once
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Didn't come across anything specific to my questions, just a couple of hints which means tomorrow at the shop will be interesting for me. Since no one else seems to wants to get involved.
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Who would have thought that such little things can be so hard? Well, anyone that has ever tangled with the OLD DOS level drivers and the 640K ram barrier KNOWS that drill! I was SO in love with 32 bit OS and then, wow, 64 bits. Win XP Pro 64 bit OEM was The End of 32 bits for me. I never looked back, even having to deal with nasty driver kludges and related crashes. Now, it's full 64 bits or nuthin! LOL!
Radio gear. Yaknow, Motorola actually started all this crap with their "FLEET HAND HELD RADIO". That yellow and black monstrosity radio that also made cell calls. That was quite a while back, but you gotta know J, things HAVE improved since then! And it seems that you have a fairly good handle on it!
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The thing I can't get a handle on as of yet is the lack of interest or trying to understand on anyone else's part.
Case in point would be MTS who still closes the program ... oops my bad ... application every time he works on a new radio.
Programs are on computers and laptops, applications are on phones or tablets
:sigh:
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Riiiiiggghhhht! Tell that to Win 10 J! LOL! It is clear they are wanting to have everyone climb on board their Social Media and MOBILE comms bandwagon. And no old schooler wants a damn thing to do with that crap. Treat my BadMoonRYZEN like a damn telephone - BAH! HUMBUG!
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O.o Funny My Windows 10 computer has an Airplane mode just like a phone! o.O
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Didja know that SOME machines are shipping with a Win 10 version called "S Mode". Which I gather stands for STUPID.
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Well, it went straight to hell in a handbasket today.
Started with continuing with the other commercial VHF account, what sucked was as before trying to do them with RM. Not happening if the license was missing, couldn't retrieve the info, have a feeling that since they were not registered via my system that I will be out of luck using RM. I have no problem retrieving them via CPS, just RM giving me fits.
Then we got tasked with going on a service call to the county sheriff dispatch as a governmental back up system was off line. That was a complete mess, but at least it was easily solved after I replaced the power supply.
Then I had to get sidetracked by the cruise ship radios. Well, at least with all of the struggles I have been having with the other account it was refreshing to have something not as complex. I was able to get them done as a batch job and in a timely manner which spells trouble, because it means under ideal conditions I am starting to understand how to use RM.
And we all know what happens to you when you understand how to use a tool (software) case in point the boss already asked one of those :ummm: questions.
Now if I could get the other two to get on board with the concept and desire to learn and or understand the five "W's" on the topic.
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The one thing that always gets any level of Management on board with you J is: If it makes THEIR job easier! If you can show them that, they are with ya all the way. But heck you already know that one! LOL!
:xmas11: :glittery:
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Making his job easier is one thing, it is getting the others in the shop to put forth effort to learn it so my job is also easier, instead of me being the "lone wolf" who understands it and no one else does or worse still, do not want to.
My only concern is that he wants to try and use it on a city Fire Department.
Which in and of its ownself is all right, the trick is first getting everything in the database. Second do an upgrade while they are working.
Why because depending on how I push the update out it could make life really miserable. Either a scheduled update or let us just shove it out now both have drawbacks. The biggest one is until all radios get the "code plug" changes once the first one is complete, they will not be able to talk to the next guy until his radio gets the update.
A firmware update is not an issue but if you want to change the code plug one runs the risk of until it is completed there will be a break in communications between all users.
Now on a small department that is not much of a problem but when you get to hundreds or thousands of radios ... :OMFG:
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But isn't that city just a couple dozen? (cringes waiting for the dopeslap)
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Is bit of a pickle as 911 has to stay up no matter what. My Systems had 7 Day battery system that two whole racks of batteries and Socket for Emergency Generators to be hooked up. O.o But I also Had Hair back then too! :opr8:
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But isn't that city just a couple dozen? (cringes waiting for the dopeslap)
Well, the city he mentioned is small in regards to the size of the Fire Department so that could happen, however Rad is right in respect to they have to be able to talk at all times.
So a large fleet of radios would be very problematic in that respect.
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You know sometimes I wonder about those folks higher up on the food chain then I.
Staged 29 sites back in September, in theory they were to have it all programmed and vetted and good to go in October, as you can see it is now December and this will mark the third time that the date for boxing up and shipping has been pushed back. Yep it was to be next week but it is now sometime in the first part of January.
I wonder what the hell could possibly be so difficult about programming these sites to all talk to each other and whatever the hell else they want it to do.
Like I said currently beyond my training level but still how complicated does it have to be and why are you making it that complicated.
:shrug:
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Went back to the place where they launch rockets into space, they wanted to split the power for the system up and balance the load "better"
:ummm: Well imagine that I only put the system in four years ago and now you are not happy with the power solutions you provided on day one.
:thud:
Whatever I guess is all that can be said, especially considering that we were told that it was at one place and then it turns out to be a different place ... oh and by the way those guys don't know how to get the day started anytime before the sun gets warm.
Told be there before 9:00AM we are there waiting at the "supposed site" and the point of contact doesn't show up till 9:30 then that is when we found out that nope it is over here that the work will be done. :sigh: It was 10:30 before we were able to get started ...
So glad we weren't on a timed schedule or outage ... oh wait a minute we were ...
At any rate my part was to reroute power cords to the new transfer switches that had been installed in the racks and try to balance the load while at it, yeah that part didn't work out so well on the first rack, but once I stopped listening to the point of contact and the :odd: system tech and listened to the electricians there, we did much better on the other two racks that were in the scope of work.
Got it completed and then they tested it and wha-bam worked as intended on their side :yippee:
They called in the next level up person to come in for the demonstration and get his blessing. :ummm: another person that recognized me from the original install, that is two people out there that remembered me ... :thud:
Anyway he was pleased with the demonstration and said thank you to us and took pictures for his higher up. Damn if they spent as much time doing actual work as they do on paperwork I bet they would get more done.
Again above my level of responsibility and pay grade, since I do not have one at that place :tearlaugh:
To me the funny part was the point of contact looking at all the work done after the electricians had already done so and then question everything, why was it funny? Because the electrician gave me the :duh: look behind his back. I guess that ye ole point of contact has a rep as being ... well you insert your favorite adjectives or sequence of adjectives.
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Like, um, Peter Quill's fave descriptor for Ronan The Accuser? "Yeah I am talkin to YOU, you Turd Blossom!" One of me favorites! :D :glittery:
Yeh so try and build a mental image of THAT one! Ha!
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I see words and the picture that phrase just drew was, is, might have, could be ... quite disturbing and 'ehem' messy
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Fun movie! Just watched it again.
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My Favorite Order from a Customer Was Teach us Everything So we do not have to call You again! o.O All I was there for was to replace a Keyboard and Mouse!
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Had a moment like that yesterday right at 4:00 which is a half hour before I punch out so to speak. Apparently some wires got crossed somewhere because the senior OL thought I was on call since I did one for the senior tech who is on call on Monday which I originally thought was just because he wanted me to get experience with Motobridge, not just because he is also on PTO.
So here I am trying to mind my own business and I get a call transferred to me. I answered and "how quaint" the radio's are down at a different hospital site. I am like damn it, I took it because I didn't know any better. Besides as mentioned the senior tech is on PTO which is not the problem here since if you are on call you are on call except when you go out of town and make prior arrangements.
Anyway he lives much further out from the hospital site (63 miles) then where I am at in the shop (16 miles), so I took the call. Especially since I had a suspicion as to what the problem was and what the fix would be ... yep turn the repeaters off and then back on and wait for them to affiliate with the network and get connectivity once more.
Sure enough that was all it was, :sigh: and but of course everything is monitored remotely so the IT guy reporting this is not at the site and there is no one there who knows what to do or how, although I did try to get him to save me a trip ... that did not work out. :sigh:
Did my thing called it back to him and told him the details and then he asks can you explain what is going on to the guy there so we can not bother you with something like this ... way ahead of you already did, just like the last time when you had the same exact problem at the other site in the same neck of the woods.
Interesting thing was they had the same set of events leading up to it that the previous site did ... a generator run was done and the site did not connect back to the network when done. Methinks someone is getting a nastygram from us (the shop) and find out where the missing link is because this is stupid. Especially since when I questioned the officer I find out that he has had the same set of problems the other one did for the same amount of time, yet it was not reported till now.
Oh by the way I still did make it to class on time only to find uot I had printed out the wrong set of report cards ... :thud: ... I had printed the mid-term ones instead of the finals ... :thud:
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Here is the cute one remember the Federal customer that can not get 29 sites programmed and vetted ... he calls wanting to know if I have a Trac unit he can borrow for a day.
Well, I do however you have to get permission to borrow it from higher up on the food chain then I.
Then he asks well can you test it and make sure it works, uh no I am an installer, not a system tech and I do not know how ...
Later on I find out that oh he could use a freq standard tool instead and does not really need a Trac unit. Well, do you have one of those ... :ummm: yes however it is in use in our shop to do repairs and no you can not have it for one day let alone one hour.
So they finally settle on the Trac unit and then asks whether or not I have anyone that could deliver it tomorrow as in today and nope, can't help you. Then later on I get the call well we will be there in an hour can we get it today.
Yep, sure, whatever ... he shows up and what do we have but twenty questions on it. Dude for a PM you are incredibly dense. Beside as far as I am concerned your "Federal system tech" should know how to make it work and just give it to him and be done with it.
Oh that is right they have only been trying to vet this install since September when we built it out. Remember it was supposed to have been vetted by October and here it is December and now it will be January before they will be complete.
Well the other side of the coin is you stated one day and you can bet I am going to hold him to it.
So the fun bit is the 20 question round, where is the power cord, which is when I realize it is DC not AC power. :ummm: just hook it up like your DC powered CCGW you have for one of the sites and all will be fine. Do you have any wire to do that with or can I just use some CAT5 to make the connection. :thud:
Good grief methinks these people higher up on the food chain all need to go back to school and get some good common sense pounded into their oatmeal-filled skulls.
Sure let us push 120v AC across 24 AWG wire at 10 amps and turn it into DC voltage and run it for how long ... I don't know ... all I know is he violated my common sense circuit.
No wonder it takes forever for these people to get anything done they be idiots, especially if you do not have the tools needed to do your job and are borrowing from anyone who has it and then do not even know how or have the needed material on hand to hook it up.
What sort of "techs" do you have other there ... tricycle techs ... because I am certainly not getting a warm and fuzzy from them at all.
Anyway another talk that will be had in the future getting them to "catch a clue" if they can that is ... not holding my breath
Oh and as mentioned you get it get one day EOS and I will be reminding them of that detail.
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you will be lucky to see that bit of kit again in 6 months J. I would have sent him to THE top brass to ask that question.
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Unless I get in their face you would be right, however I intend to make their life miserable until it is back in my hands.
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Ok J, coolness!
I ordered some fruitcake and a gift meats n cheeses box last night. The one brand I did not see was Corsicana Fruit Cake. Corsicana for some 100 years had been the Fruitcake Capital of the World. And you had only to visit the city to see IT IS TRUE! They also had a bakery there that made excellent fruit cakes! LOL! It's also where the first X is from. And why I never go back there!
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(pssst! RAD! did he at least crack a grin do ya think???)
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Not sure as the same Client was later Arrested for Credit Card Fraud.
For your Fruitcake o.O
https://collinstreet.com/
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I WAS looking at all Walmart search results for fruitcake. So, they most likely don't buy from Collins Street Bakery. They and the Regional Hospital seem to keep Corsicana alive. Also, my X seems a result of the Texas Chainsaw starvation Era. I ain't laughing either.
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My order for some fruitcake bars went through. Pthththththhh!
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Well, this is ever so interesting had a launch by Blue Origin this morning. Granted it was in Texas so could not see it from the street as we used to do in my youth here in Florida.
Why is this interesting because I have been working on a PM for the portables that they use at their facility in my neck of the woods. Just sorted out 29 that they could not get to update no matter what they did, and yet here I am knocking them down like nine pins.
Granted I am using stand alone CPS and not RM but after investigation on my own and via the link that Rad provided previously it turns out that they did something stupid crazy on their server and they got nowhere. Here I am a lowly know nothing and I got them to all update, well at least those that had features purchased for them that is, as I ran across four that had nothing purchased, :ummm: guess that is why they will not update. :duh:
Imagine that ...
Well, apparently the next step was to create a database here at the shop and read all of them into it and do the full creation of a working database. Well, that took the rest of my day literally, remember with radios that already have a password on them I have to add them one at a time, and include the password with each radio. Just adding serial numbers is not enough if you do not tell the system the password it cannot read the radio into the database. Then I have to read each into the database, then apply a config to them and then write them back to the database a final time. In essence I touched each of those radios a minimum of three times.
Some days it just out right sucks to be me.
Why so much fuss on these radios, apparently we will be having a service contract with them in the future. Oh joy ... they know how to write a code plug but can't figure out how to use RM to add features to their fleet. I am so not looking forward to the trip there on the 20th as apparently we are to show them what they did wrong. :thud:
I hardly know what I am doing let alone how I managed to get it to work. I have a clue as to how I made it work at the shop, but can I duplicate it in the field?
Flip a coin ...
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Oh by the way I have another customer that I have to use RM with to make the management of their fleet easy. The fun part is I needed to add features to these radios, well all right can we add the EID for a feature and then activate it in RM for the radios that need it?
:woohoo:
Worked like charm, even more pleasing was the fact that I was able to use the same EID for the other part of the fleet of radios and add the feature to the radios that required it. Went down with out a hitch, loving this concept.
At this point I am wondering what the heck the others did that mucked it up so bad.
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:ifonly: :iminnocent:
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Arrrggg!!! :yeow:
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Yeah . . . what RAD sez !!!
(fruitcake bars - 3 lbs - on 14 DEC.)
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:ifonly: :iminnocent:
That has to be it ... fools
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Oh "The Idiots Guide To Complicated Things" Vol2.
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Cheers
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Companion volume how to make things more complicated then they are ... now available.
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WOW talk about some really crazy advances in TV shows. Story telling and video effects and well more ...
Fascinating the time line referenced in it as well, starts off mentioning a date in 1997 as the start of the show, mentions plans and preparations for the events started over 40 years ago. So in other words the year I was born :tearlaugh: How comical mainly because the events depicted were definitely major pipe dreams back then, considering the advances that science has made in the field of space exploration and travel.
Figure out the show yet?
Started in 1965 and ran until 1968
I have always heard and knew of the show and if I saw any episodes I do not recall a one of them. Granted I do not know if it was watched growing up or not, then again when it first aired I would have been 8yrs old which means I would not been allowed to stay up that late and ran up till when I was 11 yrs old.
Found it on sale at Barnes and Nobles the complete series so it might prove to be somewhat entertaining. Considering it is classic television
Name of the show will be provided tomorrow evening if not guessed by then.
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Wow so may clichés by todays standards, and yet this was popular back then especially considering what we know about how things of that nature should work
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Most of the ones I come up with started later, Like UFO. Though The Invaders was about that time, as well as Space Police, but that only ran 1 season.
Voyage to the Bottom of The Sea was about that time frame. As well as Time Tunnel.
I'm stumped.
Cheers
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The Champions
Land of Giants
Joe 90
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Well.... Uraturaman (Ultraman) was about the same time but ran in various iterations till '72 then it was rebooted through about 2000. and beyond...
Then theres Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Stingray....
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Ahhhh . . . SPACE: 1999 or Star Trek: The Original Series. BUT methinks SPACE carried on much longer than three measley little years. ST: TOS, well that one fits your tropes and dates perfectly. I have seen every episode of it dozens of times. As with every one of the ST series and films! LOL! Also, being as we could watch color TV only by visiting some one or place that had one, I figured it was just another B&W program. I was in the military before I saw episodes in COLOR! Of anything, actually.
Raquel Welch sure looked interesting in Fantastic Voyage, in full color! Like that dirty perv doctor scraping the lymph off her boobs so she could breathe. Riiiiiight! Those were sure some great lungs! LOL!
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Stingray? "Aqua Marina" !!!!! :D
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I have "Aqua Marina" and "Fireball" saved on one of my many HDs as well as the themes from many 60's telly shows. Wild Wild West has a good theme.
There used to be a site with tonnes of radio and Tv themes. Green Hornet, The Shadow, Put Out The Lights....
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Nope on all of them so far
Oh it is in black and white
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Guess I give lousy clues
Foreign power tries to sabotage flight, one each robot, four adults .... recognizable theme track.
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I'd say Supercar, but only the first few episodes were B&W.XL5 fits with Venus, Steve, Brain, and Robert, plus the commander guy.
Live action, Marionation, Anime? as Astroboy, Cyborg 009, and Giant Robo fall in the time frame. Four Feathers Fall does as well.
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Same with Lost In Space only the first few episodes were B&W.
I'm going to bang my head on the desk on reveal arent I?
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Indeed since you got it right on your last guess.
Ding, ding, ding we have a winner all out of chicken dinners
"Lost in Space"
And since I do not have any memories of watching it I would not know they switched to color later on
Will say that the Dr. Smith is certainly quite the sinister person .. I could take lesson from him on that topic methinks and use it during class :tearlaugh:
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I love :thud: the concept of the first alien spaceship that they meet they just happen to be able to figure out how the navigation system works and determine that there is a planet with "Earth-like" gravity present ...
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Wow they even got the phobia name for intense fear of heights wrong .... good ole Dr. Smith is an idiot. Oh how intriguing I recognized one of the background galaxy photo, it has M16 the Eagle Nebula in it.
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Wow a laundry basket and what appears to be a washing machine seriously and oh damn done in less time then it took time to type the statement.
Boy howdy that Will kid is certainly a handful and half how in the hell did he get as old as he is acting like that :ummm:
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You know what I just now realized is that no matter where one is at there are always cobwebs which means spiders are everywhere where is my :kaboom:
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First season B&W, 2nd on colour. Judy..... am I right? though Maureen was a looker too....
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Cheers
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Yes on both character names.
Moving on to more hilarity, have to do on line training to renew my access badge at the airport ... yes that one. The funny thing is I haven't had to go there and do anything in over a year, but got to have it up to date. The :bs: part is that there is four plus hours of my life that I will never get back. Yep, go out there if I am unlucky once a year or less, yet every two years I have to get validated all over again. Oh and I just remembered this is another one of those places that do not like the fact I was born overseas. So best remember to bring the passport as my FS-240 is becoming a bit on the delicate side.
I swear I spend more time validating who I am and acknowledging their security protocols then I work, well feels like it at any rate. Oh let us not forget to to notify the person in charge of my ID that I am ready for it to be renewed since I just can not just walk up there and say let us do it, got to be approved on top of the training, and let us not forget the $$$ that they want for it to put some icing on the cake.
:ummm: I am there to do work on your behalf yet I have to pay for an ID badge to do work on your behalf. :ummm: Sorry doesn't take much to confuse me. Oh an it is first come first serve no appointments and if there is a long line ... sorry about your luck you should have got here earlier.
Well my intent is to be there shortly after they open which I am not certain when that is as the guy that approved my application for renewal did not know ... :sigh:
Guess I better get traveling now ...
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The 2000's movie, Lost In Space, same theme song, very different Jupiter 2. Better Robot, Dr. Smith (Gary Oldman!) I think I will pop that one in the drive and watch it today :D I think the TV show was 2 years later start than ST:TOS too. Different network. Marta Kristin=Judy. Bill Mummy=Will.
Aw hey easier to just pop in a link! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058824/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
Seems in 2018 there is a new TV series I never even knew about. Grrr I hate that!
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J we're hanging onto the edges of our chairs man. Let us know how today went!
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Well, got there and now they have new standards because of "covid" :ummm: corona virus disease ... in other words a varient of the flu come on people let us stop the insanity and the hype and stop the panicking that is going on daily here ... ay any rate now you have to sign in take a number and wait in the lobby as they only allow 10 people in the badging area.
What ever helps you sleep ... :thud:
Anyway another $52 of company wasted on badging that gets used maybe as mention once in two years or not at all ... the funny part is that $27 of it is for fingerprinting ??? really they never took a new set while there so there is a quick and easy couple of dollars for them. :sigh:
I must be living in the wrong time since I believe if you are charging me for something you had best do the task. I mean am I wrong? I don't give a damn if they are on file you charged for a set of finger prints and all you did was attach the archive. :ummm: Doesn't sound legit to me but then again what do I know ... I am just a grumpy old man
Which tomorrow I am certainly going to fit that description since I have to go out to the Cape again for badging at another facility out there and to add insult to injury I have to give the new guy a ride out there ... great MTS and me in my truck for an hour long ride there, get badged and then an hour long ride back ... I am going to need bail money because he has yet to demonstrate any intelligence that I understand and he acts like it is a chore to be there because when quitting time rolls around he is driving out of there like a NASCAR racer.
And we all know how much I enjoy rubbish like that ... :rat-atat:
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OK, you survived that ordeal, NEXT! :D :happydance: :glittery:
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Oh you love the next one deals with the best laid plans of mice and men going :kaboom: Then we have todays excursions can't wait to see how this will go NOT :thud:
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:ifonly: :whatthe:
He said, "Luke, stay away from the Darker Side
And if you start to go astray, let the Force be your guide"
Oh, my Yoda
Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yoda
"I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed
But remember, if you kill him, then you'll be unemployed"
Oh, my Yoda
Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yoda
:opr8:
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Well, the best laid plans was the final deployment of the new MedCom at the hospital. Told or asked the customer to have ports and IP's set aside for the cut over, what did they do instead .... not as asked .... so we are installing the new equipment and they did not have connectivity in place or IP's ... that would work ... why did I say it like that ... well because it turns out afterwards that the guy who gave us the IP's gave us ones that would never work here period. Okay these were provided on the 6th of Dec and you did not bother to check and then we show up and nothing works you get all snooty ... bad move.
To add insult to injury they didn't figure this out till end of day and since today we had a trip to the Cape on the top of the list.
It was not working except for the portables.
What do I get but a call right before I fell asleep (I am still on call) stating that they are not hearing PEDs on the portable all they are hearing is Adult.
Well was able to resolve that with a phone call and informed them the system was not working at the end of the day due to the IP snafu.
All is good so after the morning jaunt out to the Cape we got back to the hospital and starting changing all of the IP's in the devices as they had "got their act together" and sorted that fiasco out.
That is when we found out they were complaining about the portable and the reason they were not hearing PEDs was simple, someone changed the channel on the radio to adult channel :thud: you are kidding me.
Well, after several false starts we got the IT guys on point for providing connectivity. Was able to ping the radios from the device downstairs so senior tech went upstairs to do that side, would have liked to have done it myself but he had me stay downstairs so that when he was done I could get them to connect and keep the walking down to a minimum well it worked because after a while I got bored and decide to see if he had finished one by seeing if it would connect :yippee:
So I went to the other desksets and started to get them to connect. Well surprise it went as hoped for and intended. Then I got a text message from the senior saying the deskset in PEDs was on the MedCom channel :whatthe: Went back and sure enough if was so reset it back to the proper channel and told the ladies' at the desk ... no touchy :tearlaugh: ... except to reply.
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Todays excursion was even better as yesterday I was telling MTS to pick a place to meet for the drive out to the Cape, what do I get but a, "never mind I am going to drive out there myself" ... wonder when he was going to tell me that, as he made no attempt so I sent an email as that is the only method of contact I have, and after an hour with no reply I called one of the mobile guys and asked him to tell MTS to read his email.
That is when I find out that he will be driving on his own.
:tearlaugh: ... sissy ... :tearlaugh:
Go figure, guess I must be to harsh, abrupt and abrasive ... poor little sissy
:shrug: Whatever
I guess it is just as well, since I wanted to be there early as we had to go back to the hospital and get it working. So I left early and was there by 7:30 managed to get my badge and was done in nothing flat and was driving back to Orlando. Called the senior tech to find out his timing in getting his badging done and so forth, turns out he was about 45 minutes behind me.
Well, to make it real comical, I find out that MTS showed up after the senior tech was done and was walking out the door. In other words it was 9:00 before he got there.
Pretty certain that he would have hated riding with me since I was insisting on being there early.
Well, it looks like next week when we go out there to do PM's he is going to be the original problem child, because he started bleating about driving his own vehicle and then made the comment of how when he worked for Motorola in Arizona that it wasn't like this, so what I was driving my vehicle when I first started all over as well or rode with someone ... big deal.
Grow the fuck up sissy.
Then he made the funniest statement ever well, make a decision on travel .... :ummm:
Well aren't you the lead tech ... :tearlaugh: .... not even close, there is no lead, and I call the senior tech that out of respect. You got problems and issues about driving and oh you are not going to put any equipment in your car as your insurance doesn't cover it if something happened. You need to talk to Dave, call, email, whatever it takes to get answers because it is not my call to make that decision ... period.
So this is going to be entertaining to say the least. Because he even had the audacity to ask when we were going to meet out there, and when I said we need to be ready to work at 8:00 I could see he was going to start the whine about driving as mentioned earlier.
I can see this is going to be an entertaining short week ... NOT ...
He even asked the stupid question about what we were doing and that was to ask if we were updating the firmware in addition to doing a PM on the radios.
:ummm: What part of "PM" do you not understand, a PM involves updating the firmware, tuning it on the service monitor and then wiping it down with alcohol cleaning wipes.
I found out something even more entertaining and stupid he had ran into a problem with some radios giving an error code that indicated there was an ID problem. Well, guess what we found out ... these were radios that came back from Depot, they had the programming flushed from them, so we have to reprogram them for the customer. So find the right code plug and pop it back in and away you go ... right ... nope that is when he got the error.
So based on the above details and if you understand radio programming a wee tiny bit what do you think the problem might be ... I only twigged on to it when he showed the paperwork and asked why do these two numbers do not match .... you are fucking kidding me ... yep he popped in a default code plug for the department and never BOTHERED TO CHANGE THE ID to match the paperwork for the radio.
And this is from someone that "supposedly" has experience with radio.
My head hurts ... as in a lot .... well, you now know how to fix the other three radios that gave the same error ... so handle it.
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Did, um, Motorola send this retarded puppy to you, J? To see if it might be salvageable?
Did they also send you a baseball bat to do the "Final Adjustment" for the scrap bin?
Yeah I know, I am SUCH a nice guy to work with! :heeheehee: :yeow:
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I hope the :soapy: not because I am not in the mood to train anyone that can be offended so easily.
The only dubious lining in the whole thing is that ye ole leprechaun has doubt about him as well, apparently he is or has done things that is making him wonder ... don't know what and do not want to know all I can speak to is what I observe and deal with, but if ye ole boss has misgivings then my take can't be totally unreasonable.
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The more I thought about this the more I doubt his skill at anything unless you tell him step by step.
Because all I can say is that any organization that has a full blown radio system and xx number of radios would have an unique ID for each radio to talk on the system, since if they all have the same number then conflict is the name of the game when trying to key into the system.
Yet he put in the ID that was on the template and never bothered to change it to the ID that was on the paperwork that came with the radio when it came in for service.
The scary part is that it never occurred to him to ask ... which makes me wonder just what the hell he did in Arizona. Obviously nothing commercial or it was very low level public safety. Or worse still he just monitored and "maintained" a system. Because he certainly knows :soapy: about repair and maintenance of the actual radios.
I am thinking that his supposed future role as a "system tech" is going to be troubling. If he can't handle repair and maintenance and check ID and system keys (for public safety systems) all I can say is WTF :soapy:
Well another funny statement I heard from one of the system techs was that he didn't want to train anyone ... that is kind of troubling to start with since we all have to learn the system that one would be responsible for and you can only do that by following a lead tech.
Although I do not know what he knows about MTS but it is telling that he doesn't want him to follow and learn the system, and since he is the one that cries the most for someone. :ummm: Very Interesting .....
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Well, it is not quite a :kaboom: :bang: or :rapidfire: but an addition has been made to the collection today
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sounds good J! :glittery:
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Wow 11.75 hours total, lots of windshield today as I did the trip out the Cape and then home. Drove to the site for the new customer that tosses rockets in the sky ... well, the good news is that site one was pretty much on point ... however when we got to site 2 after hitting a detour ... rode was closed as in completely ... even the escort riding with me was surprised so I guess communications is not a common thing out there ... :whatthe:
Anyway once we got to site two it looked like things were okay in the beginning that is until we got to doing forward and reflected power tests. First repeater was definitely normal about 80 watts forward, 1.09 VSWAR
Second repeater not so very much going through the duplexor forward power was in the milliwatt range ... not a good sign. Went straight through the repeater got something that was expected. However that was through the repeater and not the duplexor, tried some other tests and then wound up pulling it out of the rack and running the tracking gen on the service monitor and boy oh boy what the double hell is wrong with this ... according to my senior tech it was looking like it was never tuned or at the least tuned poorly.
So how entertaining, well at least the good news is that they allowed me to remove it from the system and take it back with me to work on at the shop instead, plus they gave us the balance of the radios they had there so that means I don't have to listen to MTS whine about driving and then having to be on site at 8:00 ready to work not just pulling up.
Thank you Lord
Downside I have 47 radios to update the firmware on, then auto tune and add into our shop server via RM. Technically it will be all three of us doing the work but I am not putting any money on MTS being shall we say efficient and capable of more then doing the tuning and maybe cleaning. I have a sinking feeling that updating the firmware might prove to be a make or break on his abilities ... we shall see if he is capable of that task without asking 17,256 questions.
Not holding my breath ... sorry, not sorry
Was confirmed that we are to continue to build out our shop RM database which means once the PM is complete then it needs to be inputted into the database. Now call me micro-manager if you want but I think that the less people that :soapy: with the database the better. So while talking with ye ole boss who showed up out there it seems he is in agreement which I think means I just volun-told myself to do it. :thud:
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sounds good J! :glittery:
Thank you good sir
Yep added my first AR to the collection :heeheehee:
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Well, got the duplexor on the operating table and this one was one of the ones the senior tech "loathes with great intensity" just saying, that certainly did not make me feel warm and fuzzy.
Oh well, my first task was getting MTS on point, never met anyone who is so freaking "delicate" as he is, Told him that I will need you to get CPS open to help with the tuning of the radios and what do I get , "I'm in the middle of something and can't stop what I am doing" :whatthe: really did he think I meant to stop what you are doing immediately and open the program ... what a ignorant lout he is ... I do not recall saying "right this minute" :sigh: this new hire makes my head hurt.
Literally
So I do not bruise his delicate ego any further I told him as much and said just let me know when you get to that point of being ready to open CPS ... :thud: and people wonder why I prefer to work on tasks by myself
Well, he finally got to that point and it is let us start with getting the radio up to 2.10.9 firmware then we have to go to 2.21 and here comes the bombshell ... I don't have that on my computer ... :what!!: why not? Well I am only taking radios to 2.10.10 so why would I need anything else ... :thud:
:sigh: Fine tell me when you get to done installing the software :sigh:
Internally I am thinking :whatthe: is wrong with you .... just because one customer is going no further then 10.10 doesn't mean that a different customer is not going to go further you need to have them all on the computer just in case. I so can't believe I actually have to tell this to a "former" Motorola employee ... more and more I wonder just what the :soapy: he did previously. Besides annoy everyone within a 25 foot radius ....
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Well, the outcome on the duplexor ... DEAD ... can't pass power through the thing to save its virtual ass
It was disgusting what the senior tech had to do to tune this damn thing ... but it still was unsalvageable. Didn't expect that one tiny bit.
Oh well, turns out the customer has a spare, so sending one of the mobile installers out there to return completed radios and pick up the duplexor and any of the straggler radios. While I stay at the shop and continue to update and PM the radios still at the shop.
Should be interesting as to how this works out for us, as it sounds like the senior tech will be out there first thing to do a PM on the mobile radios, had no idea they had radios in vehicles as well, fortunately there is only two of them .... or so we were told .... time will tell
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:happydance: Received a high five for the staging work done for the CBP install ... hoping that they also gave one to my assistant .. oh by the way I gave him one on my own earlier ... would be nice if they gave him one on their own too
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:luvbooks: 3701 :luvbooks:
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Not defending him but ... something that has just occurred to me about this new customer that is launching rockets, have seen a ton of hate post in F***book because he is doing this instead of using that money to feed the hungry and help the homeless.
Now I agree that it is a good thing if you can do so and you do not wind up assuming their burden and become one of the many.
However two point have managed to wiggle through the mush I have in my skull:
1) It is his money he can spend, waste, fritter it away however he desires.
2) There are already hundreds if not thousands of organizations that supposedly take care of the less fortunate. If they haven't succeeded what makes one think that one more donation however large or small is going to wipe it out?
The backside point to that though is why do all these organization have upper level management taking down a six figure salary, thought the donations to the organizations was to help the less fortunate, not line your pockets.
Just curious
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Then again whats to say he doesn't already contribute to various charities, so what would it matter if in his spare time he tosses rockets into space.
Oh by the way I also have my favorite charity that I donate to on a regular basis ....
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If you give a dollar less than 5 cents makes it to the people who need it.
This is a Fact they do not want people to know.
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I hear that and it is most annoying which is why the homelessness, hunger and lack of .... will never go away no matter how much one donates.
I make my donations to an Indian school for those on the reservation in the Dakotas, so hoping that more then a plugged nickel gets to the children that attend which if one believes what they scribble in the news letter it is possible. But as far as the mainstream and high view organizations ... nope sorry not happening
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I am beginning to think that paying attention is a lost and or dead art.
You are sitting there and I am talking to the one mobile installer and going over what is to be done with the radios that are ready to be returned and part of the outline includes the statement and bring the extra radios back ... so that would mean what ???? Maybe there will be cookies and cake, maybe a margarita ... what ... inquiring minds want to know.
With that being said what do you think one should do when done with all of the previous radios ????? Say something like I'm done with all of these ... nothing at all ... go take a nap ... seriously :whatthe: would you do.
You know it is a project that has several stages and since you wiggled out of not having to drive out there as the radios came back to the shop what does one suspect the next step would be, sat there and watched senior tech tune a VHF duplexer saw radios coming and going and after you finished the first batch of portables ..... nothing ... not even a hey these are done is that it?
Guess I must have been raised all wrong because I was taught that when one is done with a task to check and see if there is anything else that needs doing or is that it. Not just go off into la-la land.
I seriously do not know why one would have to spell stuff like that out. It baffles me to no end ... his reply to "are you done" was I did not know there was more and why are they in your office? The customer doesn't want them mixed up so I kept them separated from the others .... (what does that matter to you) ... I never bothered to ask why did you not check to see if they were all done, just felt another "thin skin" moment coming on so :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
It was at that point that it occurred to me that he never asked for a service order number either, so asked and oh I was given a number by the leprechaun, so put my notes in on the ticket and couldn't see his ... oh great went to the senior office lady and asked, yep wrong ticket ... :sigh: number was given to him.
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Well, Christmas has arrived and twas a bit early
Brand new AR-15 with ammo, last week
9mm 50 rounds per box at $19.98 each :woohoo:
And now Dr. Who The Evil of the Daleks
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Did you buy the AR-15 furniture as well?
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Not yet, figure I will get used to the stock version then we will get "fancy"
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Well, still have Monday off for the Christmas holiday, they give up both Eve and Day off here and since the day fell on Saturday we still have Monday off. :yippee:
Oh BTW we happen to be on call :thud: ... don't say it ... don't even think it ... :pweez:
Any way on Tuesday me and the senior tech are going back out to the rocket place, since we are all done with the portables, got the replacement duplexer tuned and cast an eye over the new configs they sent, just to give them a sanity check.
Thankfully MTS is not required since he would cry about travel and so forth ... found out something interesting when I let the senior office lady know about the mismatch on the service ticket and that was he went out there twice for badging :ummm: what did you do to screw up something so simple as that ... not that I really want to know but it is quite odd that one could screw something that simple up.
Oh well, the real amusing part for me is that the communications project that gets moved back now for the third or fourth time now wanted me to come out this week to make them 17 more cables. Told him, sorry no, I am booked with other priorities ... he wrote back to the boss asking for my other obligations to be rearranged so I could take care of him.
:thud:
What the :soapy: hell; methinks that someone is overly full of themselves, especially since he has pushed "the boxing up" back so many times. Oh found out that we have also not received the billing information for the project. So just when are we getting paid?
Yet he wants us to drop what we are doing to jump to his bidding .... yeah not happening.
So it is now set for Jan 3rd and get this he even put a caveat in the email agreeing to that date oh be prepared you might need to come back another day or two.
Wow, fairly certain this is what as known as arrogance, or the world revolves around me ... go figure ... then again why did you not realize that you needed 17 extra cables till now?
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Well for those of you that did not figure out where I was at in regards to others tossing rockets in space. Check these out.
There are actually two locations shown here; one is where the work was done and the second is where we might garner additional work depending on how well the PM changes the coverage and reception for the first.
Oh for a frame of reference there is a mock up of the new rocket they are working on, next to one of the landing legs by the poinsettia's it is exactly as tall as I am, 6'.
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Ahhh...... Crepe Caramel, been by there once,,,, 8 )
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Old mans, second wife, after Mom divorced him for .... TMI .... retired from there ... was one of the bean counters out there
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Now the real fun, got a text from the sales person stating that he could not get the licenses for the rocket people sorted out in time for our visit tomorrow and it needs to be rescheduled until he can sort it out.
:thud:
Well it is not like I don't have other things to do such as clean up work at the hospital chain. Plus they ordered eight (8) new radios that need to be added to the inventory and programmed. Nope not letting the thin skin "princess" even get involved with that account too many moving parts and documents to cross reference to set them up properly. Since he is going to be public safety and not commercial tech I am not under any obligation to show him anything ... in my mind ... besides I do not want to have to do it over ...
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If nobody asks you to take care of him, don't bother to even think to do a such thing.
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Rule One.
Never Feed a Fool.
Rule Two
Do not Give Cherries to pigs or Advice to Fools.
Rule Three
You Can give a person knowledge, But you can't make them think.
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Being reminded of that regularly ... as in too regularly
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If nobody asks you to take care of him, don't bother to even think to do a such thing.
In theory he is supposedly an adult and should for all intents and purposes be a self starter and looking for tasks to complete, not wanting to be spoon fed ... granted there are some things of an inventory nature I am not sharing because past experience has shown that "too many cooks spoil the broth" ... and I take customer inventory seriously, as in very seriously ... because if there is a question about it I am the one on the carpet to explain this, please.
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I'm mainly independant at job, once the tasks are explained to me. I know I can be back once in a while to people linked to what I did, just to be sure I didn't make a mistake. Specially if it's a task I didn't had to do again for a long time.
Yet, not to run after colleagues to everything in all time. Nor, once I have ended, to wait that somebody decides to give me another task. When everything is done (administrations can be very very slow during holidays, with few to do :lostme: ), I end even by "do you need I destroy paper folders for you?" And I play with that machine between 2 phone calls. I hate to be doing nothing.
It's always better to know your inventory, to see if something is missing or not.
I like the Rad's answer, but don't want to know for cherries and pigs :tearlaugh:
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Well, it has finally been solved. The missing license for the radio at the rocket place. It finally penetrated my thick skull that the number listed for how many and what that were bought did not match what I had done the PM on and entered into my inventory.
:ummm: imagine that you lot bought 94 licenses and I worked on 101 devices
I am not much of a math major, technically I am :tearlaugh: but one is going to run out of licenses if you have more devices then licenses ... just saying
God I so love a simple answer, it was not till I was done and there was still issues being raised on the radios that were giving me fits, that it occurred to me to look at the quantity of radios that were worked on, :thud: sure would have been nice if I had seen this earlier but at least I saw it ... finally.
Good thing since me and the senior tech are going out there to return the balance of the completed portables and replaced the bogus duplexer. Just the two of us, ye ole thin skin was not invited, why should we, he would be naught but a third wheel doing nothing productive. Well, except maybe crying about having to be there so early and having to drive his own or better still have to be ready to roll at the ass crack of dawn to catch a ride to be there on time. :heeheehee:
Yep, that is me being evil once more ... or is that still ... :ummm:
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:yippee: The removal at the hospital yesterday morning went smoothly, well, didn't really start off that smooth, ye ole senior tech parked a bit on the messed up side and shared paint with my vehicle, fortunately it just rubbed out and there was no crinkle or crunch nonsense.
Not the most auspicious way to start the day but it didn't get any worse.
Oops, I take that back had to go back to the shop to sort out other issues.
The worst one was to try and solder back on a LED light on a radio, then I lost the damn thing ... :thud: So worked on the volume switch in case I could get lucky and find it if I didn't obsess about it. Was trying to use the solder sucker to remove the excess solder and no joy .... :whatthe: I just fixed the damn thing and now it is not working ... Well, found the problem the tip was clogged. How in the hell does that happen, considering I haven't used it in weeks, oh that is right MTS is about and Lord knows that :soapy: doesn't say anything to anyone, waits for others to find and fix it for him instead of saying there is a problem. But you know if I were to say anything like that it would be "oh I am so not a team player and I have it in for him" and the litany goes on :soapy: and on.
Now granted it is possible that it was negligence on my part especially since I did not know that you still have to make sure the tip is clean after use. One would have thought that since it was hot enough to extract the solder that it was hot enough to pull it all the way through the tip.
:shrug: Maybe not, however it still seems strange that naught was said about it and then I find out that a problem exists when I try to use it. Just like the last issue when there was a repair sitting on the shelf that needed a part soldered on and yet when I decide to solder it on the solder station switch is bad and the station will not turn on. Imagine that a repair that has sat there for a while as in a week and in need of the solder station. Now this is the guy that was making fun of my abilities to solder in the first place, leaves the repair sitting because it needs some solder work done on it ... and lo and behold .... the station doesn't turn on.
God I wish he would just get the :soapy: out of the shop and get assigned to wherever so I do not have to deal with him on a day to day basis.
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Made the trip back out to the rocket place and while we were hoping to tie up all of the loose ends we got stopped because the manager of the department wasn't there, was on vacation in N. Carolina :whatthe:
Must be nice, wish I could just up and take time off like that ...
No one else can answer all the questions about the pending projects except me and they will not let me take that much time off in a row, they say they would just work around it but I know better.
At any rate went over to drop off the rest of the portables and then over to site 2 so the properly tuned duplexer could be installed once more. Sounds deceptively simple .... ding, ding, ding ... yep not
The install was easy it was trying to use a portable to key it that proved to be a problem. the digital wattmeter although hooked up properly and so forth gave no reading, because the portable the escort brought with him would not key the system ... now I am baffled ... what is going on here
Well about two hours later we finally got it to key the repeater .... after trying everything it turned out the portable had a different RAS key in it that the repeater did not, and for those who know radio if those files don't match you are not getting into the system.
The only thing I can think of is that for some reason when I brought radios back they were working on updating the code plug. Methinks they forgot one simple detail if the master repeater is not in migration mode which would allow an incorrect RAS key to operate, then having a peer in migration mode is not going to help one tiny little bit. Because it is still looking for the original key, Since a "peer" gets instructions from the master.
So if the master has the old key and it is set to enabled, and the peer was in migration but the radio had either a blank field or the wrong number .....
In essence you have a new RAS in the master and it is set to enabled so it is pushing that across the network and if it doesn't match it says :@u:
At least that is what I think happened .... because when I got the portable changed over to the original RAS it worked. Could get in, key the system and got a valid power reading. The only other thing that I thought of just now is not a pleasant thought, since my laptop did not write the code plug or config, it leaves the field blank and if I wrote all the radios for the system with a blank key that could be trouble. However, for them work on their system they would have had to write all of them back to the system so it would have access and work, so what is to say we didn't get by luck of the draw a radio that had been wrote back to it with a new RAS key but nothing else in it ... well this is making my head hurt now so guess we will have to research it further to see what is truly the answer.
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Well, I am only half right the master can be enabled, and have the ending RAS key the rest can have the RAS in it and be set to migration and it would or should have worked.
However the other repeaters had a different RAS in them and the portable itself either did not have one or it was the original and would throw a fit because of them. In theory according to the reading I did it should not have cared but it did and in a big way.
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This is cute the Federal comm site wanted me to rearrange my schedule to drop what I was doing to cable up the WAVE side of an agency. Had a question and posed it, what do I get back, an auto reply stating that they would be out until the 3rd of Jan. which is when I will be returning.
How cute I am supposed to drop what I am doing to dance to your tune yet you are not even "available" for the obligatory question and answer moments.
:nanana:
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I wonder if people ever remember from where they started .... have tried to call the "fair haired genius boy" over the last two days trying to get some ideas and clarification on the RAS key and how does enabled and migration differ.
I have ideas but I have not found much to support all of my theories in the documentation that I have read, so instead of reinventing the wheel it would be nice to ask someone that has been messing about with in both RM (radio management) and just normal programming.
But, noooo ... ever since he got "promoted" to Federal system tech, trying to get him to talk to me is like pulling teeth with the third party getting the Novocain instead ... in other words ... I would rather wrestle a rabid Tasmanian Devil with a toothache.
Granted my senior tech has given me so good answers and input but so far the reason as to why the trip to the space flight did not turn out as planned is still unresolved. Unless as he mentioned their is such a mismatch of RAS key's with enable and migration on the repeaters with the portables having one value and the repeaters a different value and the method in which it resolves the mismatch.
Or worse still, there is ... as we think ... there are multiple RAS keys in the system and not all of the devices have the same one and the important one, the master repeater, is not set properly
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Ok think of it like this RAS key is a number that changes over time.
The Server Knows that RAS Key for that Device and knows the Time when the number for that device to change.
What happens is every time that Device communicates to the Server the Number from the RAS Key has to match the "RAS key" on the server as the two are Kept in Secure RAS Key authentication Mode.
Think of it a Dumbed down Version of the Frequency Hopping Radios that was used in the past.
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Do not know anything about Frequency hopping radios and how they function ...
... so either you just showed your age, or I showed my ignorance ... flip a coin
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Frequency hopping radios Use a tiny Computer with a Set number of Frequencies they use the Crystal Radio Pulse as is used in Clocks to Set the Rate of change in Frequency that the Receiver is tuned to the same Set of Frequencies Numbers.
Example
Radio 1 Sends on Set1
Only Radios with Set1 Active will hear what Radio 1 says.
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I was thinking about a beautiful actress in the 30's-40's who actually invented and implemented 'freq hopping' for the US Navy back in WWII. Her system is still used globally today!
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-2000-hedy-lamarr-dies-1.5313058
QUITE a bright lass, that Hedy!
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Technically a RAS key does not change with time or freq, they are set "in stone" in the master repeater.
In theory and when set correctly then the subscriber radios can key into the system as long as the rest of the repeaters are in migration mode. With only the master set to enabled which sets the stage for a RAS to be implemented.
Once all devices are reprogrammed with the correct key then you can change all repeaters to enabled and if you do not have the right key you are not getting into the system ... EOS
However and the senior tech believes this to be true as well that somehow they got too many RAS keys in the radios causing conflict after conflict and to make it more complicated they also have privacy keys that are not properly configured, one can only have one RAS key per system, but you can have multiple privacy keys. However screw up how they are configured and then add up a inconsistent RAS config in the mix. I am starting to think there in lies the problem. I have seen evidence of a minimum of two RAS keys and three privacy keys and methinks the root of their difficulties might be located in that area.
Just giving a privacy key to one set of radios is fine but if it is not in the master repeater along with any and all other privacy keys to the channels you want separated then you have problems. Because radio A might have a privacy key for this channel, radio B does not and the key is not present in the master repeater which is where the other repeaters pull the operational details from, and the other caveat would be radio A is set to basic privacy no key required radio B is set to enhanced which requires a key again if these details are not in the master repeater and properly programmed into the radios ... welcome to an entertaining :soapy: show.
Methinks a "channel partner" notorious for :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: for fouling things up spectacularly and on a consistent basis fed them inaccurate information and did not answer the customer questions accurately resulting in why we are out there fixing the system. First reason was that the other group can not perform preventative maintenance on a radio system. Which is why we are there because the customer was complaining about "lack of service" ... part of a service contract includes a PM at least once every two years to bring them back to spec, our shop can do this the other one ... not so very much. Yes the other group is also notorious for breaking promises and not showing up when stated. They are more of a sales group and not a technical group, case in point I have gone to several customer sites originally installed by them and had to fix them. The list of errors found every time I have had to repair a site is ridiculous.
Well, no matter how you cut it tis looking like there is going to be some fun times coming soon. Mainly because of the misinformation that the customer is laboring under regarding the difference between a RAS and privacy key and where they need to be located at in the code plug. Both on the repeater side and the subscriber side. Screw it up even just a tiny bit and best hold onto your underwear because you are in for a bumpy ride.
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Well, I was wrong a second time the master repeater along with all of the others have to be in migration mode for the system to accept any RAS key on a subscriber trying to key into the system.
The system takes instruction from the master so if the master is set to enabled it is looking for that one key and will not allow any others. However if in migration it will accept any key.
So until all devices have the same key across the board you leave it in migration once you have got that completed then you can set them to enabled and only the correct key will let you in the system.
Just in case I neglected to mention it RAS=restricted access to system
An excellent security measure, because even if you could figure out the freq for the system without the key you can not understand any transmission nor can you key into the system.
Like I am thinking they have the master repeater set up wrong and have too many keys in the system. So if the wrong key is in the radio and the "enabled" repeater says "no go" then life sucks for you. And this is what I am thinking is going on ...
I feel the customer got bogus information and set it up according to that and now once I returned radios back to them they decided to update the configs for the radios and do not have the repeaters configured properly hence the trouble.
Because remember some radios have one version of the key several have different one and I seem to recall a handful that had nothing at all. The same issue holds true for the privacy key enabling them to talk amongst themselves. Some have basic, some have enhanced and the some have one key and other have a different one, which is fine provided that the channel pool is set up "correctly". Since obviously if the privacy key is only in the radio and not listed in the repeater that key is about as useful as well .... :soapy: ... nevermind
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Well, they are at it again, I have sales reps and customers thinking that I write my schedule and that they only need to talk to me to get tasks done.
:thud:
Sort of crazy that they come to me instead of through the proper channels. Sucks to be one of the few that know what is going on with their systems, guess that is why they came to our shop to help them get full benefit of their system. And once we got into their system and sorted out what is what, senior tech and myself are the only ones that know what is going on with the space customer. Then there is me and the Federal Communication site where I am the only one that knows the ins and outs.
It is flattering to be wrote to directly and asked for updates but I do not schedule so I can't help out.
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More to the point it is above me responsibilities to act without a directive, especially on high profile accounts.
Anyway it is ever so comical that it never seems to stop with these people. Latest wrinkle the cruise line is back in the mix again wanting to know where packages are at that I have already notified them of having arrived and having been shipped back out.
The thing that is most annoying is that now there is another new set of people on the email chain still trying to sort out why this is continuing and it is obvious that even though they got copied into my original email notice chain, not a one of them have bothered to read any of the previous emails in the chain.
You know the part that is really a deal killer ... these idiots that can't fix a simple shipping address issue that has been going on since the first quarter of last year. Seriously that long and you still can't figure it out .... wow and these jack-legs all make more then I do ... how annoying. And now today's email that I saw has four new people on the chain that were not involved before .... good grief.
Makes me wonder if the account managers have any sort of a clue as to what the :soapy: is going on
It is so annoying and frustrating that people that make more then I ever will can screw accounts up continuously and still have a job.
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Well, I am now officially welcomed to the "must take meds" club.
Yep, had a dust up a couple of weeks ago with my blood pressure, it stabilized and although they did lots of tests and took samples and so forth they found nothing.
It is quite annoying, the best answer they could forward was "environmental" well I have been having serious thoughts that something is not quite right with the air I breathe and after the roof got replaced and then this latest hospital visit I am certain that something needs to be done.
First step so far was to buy an air purifier, hate to say it but should have got one of these a long time ago as there has been an improvement in overall breathing inside the place. Only drawback is that it is only good for 300+ sq. ft. so we will need to get a second one. Kind of thought it would be wise to do so from the beginning but thought that checking the results after one made sense. But, the results bear it out, need a second.
Kind of cool as there is a display indicating air quality, first plugged it in and turned it on, it definitely didn't like the air quality. It oscillated between red, yellow and green for several minutes before it finally got cleaned enough to stay green. Moved it to the bedroom and wow took a bit longer before it was happy in there, so yep going to have to get a second one.
Back to the meds part though I now have to take blood pressure meds , been only three days and I am already not liking this, first two nights "night sweats" in capital letters ... completely soaked along with the sheets. Last night wasn't as bad as I seemed to make the whole night without sweating balls.
The other weird bit to me is that I am not interested in having a drink any longer. Had one on Tuesday and barely finished it although I had not yet taken the meds yet. But since then no desire at all, sucks as in seriously, the only up side to it is that somehow no alcohol has resulted in an additional drop in weight of four pounds.
:whatthe:
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I hear ya on all accounts, J. Air purifiers can only help. Losing weight too over here. I have misplaced 32 lbs since stepping into the ambulance on Dec 21st. Yeah, 32 lbs! At first the tried to say even more. But i checked wt on several certified hospital scales, as well as my beds scale. Now at 261.3 lbs. yup. Thought i was headed straight for 200 lbs even! Ha!
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Well, it certainly sucks to be me ... on call this weekend and what did I get yesterday afternoon but a call from the hospital liaison stating they have a problem with the portable as in dead battery and the battery will not charge in the charger.
Well, had a couple of thoughts on those symptoms. So swung by the shop picked up a couple of batteries that I knew were charged and brought them with and wha bam the radio worked again as intended however they were not doing anything wrong with how they were charging and swapping them out. So no clue as to what created the problem here, other then the batteries being two years old there is no real reason for them the act up like that at all.
The weirdness didn't stop when I got home, as I took to the two dead/defective batteries and placed them on my chargers at the house and WTF they charged up just perfectly with no problems.
Checked the stats on the batteries and they showed that all was on the up and up.
Whatever .... at least until I got up this morning and the same problem was presented .... :thud: how in the hell do you destroy two perfectly good batteries over night ....
Well, got out there after stopping by the shop for some other items of usefulness. Such as the service monitor and a new charger, just in case.
Turns out that apparently they had a power surge a day or so before they called for the problem. Curiouser and curiouser, turns out that the charger was plugged into a house power receptacle, which means that every time they do generator test they charger is getting slammed with a surge. Going out on a limb now thinking that there might be a relationship between then two events.
Well, swapped out the charger and left it plugged in the house circuit, took the portable with me and did a PM on it with the service monitor. Well, about twenty minutes later decided to check on the charger and found out that it was in alarm again ... this can't be right so changed it out to a generator circuit and went back to my testing.
Well, the pre test did not turn out well for the radio, both high and low power on no less then 5 freqs for both power settings were bad. Not good at all, at any rate got it back to factory specs and then checked on the charger and surprise the first time I checked it was at 28% when I checked it before leaving it was up to 30% charge so going to cross my fingers on this, sorting the battery problem.
One can hope that with the radio being brought back to specs and doing some seat of the pants troubleshooting by switching the charger and the receptacle it is plugged into ... one can hope
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Maybe this Happened? o.O
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:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :odd: :odd: :odd:
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I was thinking about your Problem and was wondering if a Battery / Surge protector was emplace to avoid the Start up Spike from the generator on / off on the system? or a line spire arrestor to even out the ups and downs?
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But...... Rad........ that'd make sense.....
8 )
Cheers
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Well, this sucks balls, two weeks ago one of the employees tested positive and yet came into work. but no one knew anything at the time. Now after two weeks pretty much all in the office including those that got that jab have wound up sick with the virus.
This damn thing is crap with capital letters and it just annoys and pisses one off in alternating degrees. Why because both the senior tech and myself who have not and will not get the jab tested positive too, quick go ahead and say "told you so" get it while the getting is good everyone.
The thing that is annoying about all of this it that they have no "treatment" for it, oh take some useless pain meds for the aches and pains you might feel, if you have a bad cough try this to alleviate it.
So this is the best they offer if you test positive.
What a load
Anyway it is now day four since I got the positive although I am thinking I was possibly positive a couple days prior. Nevertheless today was the day the installers for the solar panels came in to do the installation. Talk about noisy and pushy. The nasty part is that the installer is trying to push off the install in the electrical box on me and that is pure rubbish, you are the installer you are the one to stand for inspection so you need to make it right prior to the inspector sign off.
Plus, I still feel like rubbish (100°) and you lot are nattering on and on about this that and the other.
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:nopanic; Congrats on getting the Flu 3.0
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Yeah man. It's a booger. Once ya shake it, it's pretty much shook. Shake that thang bro!
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Working on it and today is the first day with a temp of 99 so that is a start. Have been able to eat and taste my food but it has been been only because I know I need to eat that I have been doing so
on the plus side :ummm: I guess is that since I came down with it I have dropped 10 pounds.
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Yup, ya eat to live. Not live to eat! Do well bud!
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Took a test today and it came back negative and the good news is that the temperature for today is 97.5
Was able to handle more then ye ole Jewish penicillin ... I mean chicken noodle soup with vegetable.
Still have the problem of what is it I want to eat .... seems to be a dilemma for me.
Still down 10 pounds since Monday past
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Be happy, even rejoice, brother J!
I am down to 250.1 lbs. Kind of a magic number that.
(Just never imagined I would crap my way down to it. 6 trips in one day!)
:yeow:
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:tearlaugh: Sounds like what happened when they removed my appendix ... it was so bad it was stating to hurt
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yup, it was definitely cramping and hurting. Sure glad the bathroom stayed empty!
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Well, since I have been under the weather for a very long time, been watching a lot of anime and Dr. Who
What is funny that after watching so many of them and back to back .... guess what you pick up on the subtleties in the voice actors and man some of the roles being played are night and day. :tearlaugh: What is odd to the point of "bored now" is how in some of the ones I watched they don't seem to be capable of doing much more then drink cup after cup of tea WTF ... anyway as mentioned at the beginning of my stint my desire to drink alcohol has gone into the gutter as in it is non-existent ... still .... most odd to me
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Does seem a mite odd, J! :nopanic;
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Especially considering how many centuries I mean millenniums, ooops decades. I have been imbibing.
The disturbing part is that I am drinking an inordinate amount of tea for the past month now. At least I am not sucking it down like they are in my anime's as mentioned ....
Anyway made the mistake of not realizing today was ... is ... a holiday to us, at least it only took an hour after arriving before it dawned on me. The disturbing part was seeing all of the "fun and games" that only I can do since I am the only one that knows who gets what and why.
Besides we already know my feeling on those that make no effort to even ask what project one is working on or how many different customer jobs are pending.
Yep, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Oh well, should be interesting to see exactly what sort and level of "fun" tomorrow shall bring.
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Here is the other fun bit have not been interested in anything to do with F***book either. Briefly went in yesterday and all I saw was posts by groups I follow, a couple of shares and reactions on something I shared back before my fun and games started and nothing else .... granted I was not expecting a dozen comments asking anything about me since most who know me know I am over here more then there to a degree, but still it was eye opening to say the least not a single one picked up on the fact that I have not been active there since before Christmas .... guess I am only important in my head :tearlaugh:
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Not driking is perhaps just another step in your life. Your body saying to you "we have over with, it's time to move on something else".
I heard green tea is good for body.
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Methinks I have left out quite a bit of context here, first up yes we have drank alcohol for some little time (decades) and more then what is recommended. However for the last two years it has gone from ridiculous to responsible.
Even more so is the no more then two a night shrank down to one and it was not every single night.
So I talk a big game about always drinking but the truth is a touch more boring, nevertheless as a bartender for over 8 years, trust me we drank and was always trying something different, so my conversation is riddled with references every where you look.
After the appendix incident it was a bit more then a month before I even cared for a drink. This time it was the damn virus that has made the desire to have a drink wane to a ... nope not interested ... sort of feel an interest tonight but not a driving one so no big deal.
As to the green tea comment I have been drinking green tea and several varieties of for well over 15 years. My thing is that I usually only do one in the morning, now since I am not interested in my after work drink I have now started to have a cup sometimes two, typically peppermint green tea in the evening..
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:noway: Nope Can't Go Peppermint Tea! :nopanic;
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OOHH! OOHH! I had a GO this morning! oh YOU didn't. Sorry!
:nopanic;
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Well, the peppermint part is not bad as I like the flavor and we can tolerate green tea also, so sort of a win no matter how I look at it, granted I have a multitude of other flavors of teas. I usually try to finish one box at a time though just because I am :odd:
Anyway went back to the primary care yesterday, she is so pleased with the blood pressure and it seemed to be all she talked about, .... um excuse me there was and still is a bunch of rubbish going on, that to me she didn't seem to care much about, I mean hello I just had to deal with this virus bullshit and I've lost 10# since that started, breathing is back to "it sucks", still have the sense of taste and smell but the concept of having to decide what to eat and then make it for myself . :o_go_on: ... quite boring. Been able to eat a light lunch at work, basically a sandwich which is a bonus. The chicken noodle soup in the evening has been a blessing, even if it is from a can it does work wonders for me. The WTF moment is somehow that indecisiveness of what to eat translated to I now should see a gastroenterologist .... :ummm: now certain how the concept of not knowing what I want to eat equals lack of appetite.
I be puzzled by that leap of ... not certain logic is the right word but whatever ...
The bad news is now she wants me to use a nebulizer, well maybe not bad news but news nonetheless. She seemed surprised that the pulmonologist didn't have me on one when I first went to him. Sorry, all he cared about was pumping me full of drugs and use an inhaler ... never trying to get to the bottom of the problem.
I swear some of these doctors must get a commission how many drugs they can prescribe per person. Not that I would be surprised if there was any truth to it. Nonetheless the interesting part is that I have done two sessions with the new toy and I do seem to breath a touch easier and even managed to cough up some congestion from my lungs. Ye ole primary doc was stating the she could hear a bit of wheezing and what not in my lungs.
:duh: I did just get over the virus ... a bit of wheezing I would assume is going to be normal. However like I said she was surprised that I had not been previously given a nebulizer. Go figure I swear the term "practice" is so appropriate to these people. The disturbing part they are practicing on ones quality of life. :soapy:
These trying moments can be so annoying, case in point was another appointment I was supposed to have during this time had to be cancelled due to not having a negative test at the time. So now I get to reschedule that :tearlaugh:
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The work fun is even better though, got word on an install that they want to have done, well, you know if you had allowed us to buy and sell all the electronics it would have already been done. But Noooooooooooo, they wanted to buy the repeater themselves plus the duplexer, antenna and mast. Something about them saving money .... :thud:
Well, I have all my parts and when I asked the salesman if they had everything all I got was the repeater and antenna is in their possession ... no confirmation of the duplexer or mast for the antenna.
:ummm: Interesting however if you only have an antenna but no mast then you are wasting my time. Whether or not you have the needed duplexer to make it work is not my problem. Remember they are the ones decided that they wanted to provide the electronics.
Sounds like fun.
Next up was the cruise ship sent in two radios for programming. How fun, it is for a ship config I do not have, granted they were smart enough to send a sample radio that I could build a code plug from, so I was able to work it out. Took a while since there were some parts that did not translate across so I had to manually enter the values. No big deal, just time consuming. Anyway finished and then called and wrote to salesman and said the radios were completed and got a "WTF" you are done already?
:ummm: What did you expect a week long trip to hell and back.
There are times that I think I do not get nearly enough credit for what I pull out of my :waveass:
Ah well, I have the satisfaction of knowing I completed my tasks accurately and on time. That is enough ....
The real fun is at long last the consolettes for the Clermont hospital location have finally shown up. Which means I can now rack and stack and then do the final config checks and get it installed and out of the shop at long last. :yippee:
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:tearlaugh: Got to love all of the new spam mail I get .... your settlement check for $25,000 is waiting your approval ... your Walmart gift card is waiting, your Costco gift card is waiting your approval ...
:ummm: I seldom shop at Walmart, never have shopped at Costco and have not filed any sort of lawsuit as in ever .... makes a person wonder if they think that everyone heads zip up the back
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Almost forgot the most amusing "your head zips up the back" moment.
One of the school coordinators asked me when I was going to bring in my Walther to show it to him. The real question though is why do I need to bring it in to show you. I certainly do not need your approval on my firearm purchases. Thank goodness I said nothing about the AR purchase ...
:thud:
Seriously ??? what are you .... stupid. First, that would be bringing a firearm onto Orange County school property, which has the sign saying no firearms. Sure let me bring one on campus even if it is in the evening hours, there is also the fun part that technically I am not allowed to conceal carry in the company truck. His comeback was do you obey all the posted speed limit signs, ..... so what would be the difference?
Exercising my 2nd amendment rights or not, methinks I would be in over my head and in hot water in nothing flat if I was stupid enough to do such a thing. The real question is why do you want to see my hand gun you have way more then I ever will ... oh wait that is right he apparently lost all of them at the bottom of the Banana River .... :whatthe: ... first off why were you in a boat with all of your firearms? Second just how did you lose all of them overboard at the same time? Third if you want to see it so badly all you have to do is look it up on line ... get over it.
It is both amusing and annoying that he kept at it all the way up till when class started. Seriously what the hell is his problem
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:yippee: The thought of alcohol no longer makes me "bored now" so tested the theory and well I can handle one of the liqueurs tonight so calling that a win.
Stopping at one so as not to push my luck.
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:nopanic; Well it can get you fired and a Few Felonies while you are at it. Are You Sure this person is on the up and up and not trying to have you removed? o.O
Some people want you to send them pictures of guns and then use it against you.
Look He is a Radical Trump Fan and is planning to over throw the Government!
He Just sent me this picture of him holding a Gun! Etc... :nopanic;
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Yep, methinks he is a troublemaker in that respect ... which is why I kept telling him to :soapy: forget it.
Secondly this guy has never been able to greet me properly it is always "Hey Mr. Smiley, or how is it going Mr. Grumpy" Just because I do not smile or look as if I am pleased means nothing .... idiot ...
Got so bad that I just stopped replying, and started looking around as if I was looking for whoever he was talking to, yep that pissed him off once I stopped letting him get to me.
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:yippee: The thought of coffee no longer makes me "not today thank you" tried one and was able to handle it although I did cheat by putting a shot of Bailey's in it :iminnocent:
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The Baileys Coffee sounds nice J.
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Tasted as good as it sounds ... seriously considering having one while I make something for lunch at work.
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:nopanic; Well it can get you fired and a Few Felonies while you are at it. Are You Sure this person is on the up and up and not trying to have you removed? o.O
Some people want you to send them pictures of guns and then use it against you.
Look He is a Radical Trump Fan and is planning to over throw the Government!
He Just sent me this picture of him holding a Gun! Etc... :nopanic;
Indeed I told him if he wanted to see one that badly he could just go on line and browse to his hearts content. Yes, but is it a picture of you holding yours ... of course not and what does it matter they all look the same basically since it is stock .... :tearlaugh: .. after that the conversation just went into stupidville and I just had to ignore him ... seriously what part of "No and get over it" do you not understand .... guess some people are just born instigators ...
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"Lee, Just stand there and hold this 6.5 Carcano... C'mon, smile."
You could just say "Sure as soon as you get me a picture of you holding up an ISIS flag."
Id10ts abound. But.... if you shoot them someone will claim they're rare and should be protected. Like the mosquito.
Keep maintaining Jherr, darwin award applicants usually resolve things eventually.
Cheers
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Or I have another possibility in my mind. The guy likes men, and he has "sensations" when seeing one with a gun. If so, J, you are his type :tearlaugh:
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Or I have another possibility in my mind. The guy likes men, and he has "sensations" when seeing one with a gun. If so, J, you are his type :tearlaugh:
You are sleeping in the dog house for that thought
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:nopanic; Humm Never thought of that does he have soft hands? o.O
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:rat-atat: Who knows, who cares I find lifestyles of that nature repugnant and loathsome. If he wants to go down that path fine and dandy. I do not need to know about it, although I bet his wife is in for a surprise .... maybe ... who knows, who cares ...
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Ew Yuck! So sorry world, but I side with J on that stuff!
More power to Gay everywhere. Just not with me. I am very partial to femininity! :happydance:
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Seconded times 10^17256th power
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Maybe He's A Lumberjack!
Monty Python: The Lumberjack Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tFJQ-LIAkI
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Oh my giddy aunt ... could very well be as I wouldn't put anything past him
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:OMFG: :whatthe: :yeow: :nopanic;
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Moving onto other things today such as the install at the elementary school that has been on hold for two years.
Why? Because they wanted to save money on the project, :thud: well, whatever floats your boat, but if it takes two years to get to this point then just how much did you save????
It looks like the equipment they gave me to use were from other sites because we had to strip the antenna of an existing cable that was connected to it. How cute. ah, well at least we and the guys were able to get the install completed and without having to dodge any rain, like was present yesterday when I went to check and verify that all was still on the up and up and good to go. So that was definitely a win. In fact not counting travel time it took the three of us 3 hours to complete.
The funny part was in one of the emails that the school rep sent he told me what the freq was in the repeater and indicated that we would be able to test it while there .... :ummm: ... you had me remove all programming and testing from the quote so in other words ... not today ....
Ever so much fun especially since I do not have a portable that I could program with the freq. :shrug: Some people just do not realize the extra headache they cause for themselves when they try to do it on their own.
Case in point, they ordered a duplexer ... good right??? Would have been if it had been tuned, however it was an untuned one .... although they did present me with a pre-selector that was tuned ... so guess that is how you get around not having a service monitor to tune a duplexer and do it properly.
Again :shrug: whatever
The fun part is as mentioned I had nothing with that freq in it, so no checking possible. The sales rep was on our side and said it was all on him to make the final tests. :heeheehee:
The disgusting part though is about half way through the work I started to wheeze like a 300 pound person running a marathon. Seems like the asthma that I thought had moved on due to the appendix removal was back again.
Been doing an inhaler in the morning and typically that was enough, the primary wanted me to use a nebulizer, twice a day which I started but cut back on it because it was turning my mouth into the Sahara Desert. However after having to use the rescue inhaler while on site and then once more on the way home. It is obvious that I will have to go back to twice a day on the nebulizer.
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You came into Contact with the Allergen that sets you off? Might want to look into it maybe.
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The question is what was it that set me off. The number of choices in retrospect is quite large.
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Hrrrrmmm.... foolishness, silliness (Nah you dont trigger with me), stupidity?
Could even be something mundane like dust..
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Indeed those are all valid triggers
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Sunday, the day before release day, and some noobie tech I never saw before charges into my room proclaiming I have both physical and occupational therapy. "So c'mon let's GO!"
UH UH! I do not. Was not told of this before now, I check out tomorrow, so NO. Do not accuse me of some imagined wrong. Not doing it. That is all.
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Talk about a :rat-atat: moment "noobies" especially stupid ones should be pitched out the nearest window.
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I learned I hadda put up with one of em at least. They write up my final eval. For medicare. 30 mins, not 3 hrs. Did it, Done. Now I'm hungry!
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Just did dinner and round two for the day on the nebulizer. Even remembered to take the meds which for me is still hard as I have never had daily meds for any reason previously and now I do ... :sigh: Dishes are in the process and we just finished watching/listening to Haruhi Suzumiya, so time to pick another :ummm: .... about ready for another cup of tea :thud: .... it does suck though that I do not really want alcohol still.
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Well, we have been at the national law agency the past two days packing stuff back up ... at last. Yes, I use that term with precision, originally installed all of the equipment back in September of last year "oh you can come back in two weeks to pack it back up" .... not sure how two weeks equals the real world time of four months.
:whatthe:
So the good news is this, the schedule said a week for this to be completed. We finished it today. There are days that I seriously underestimate our abilities, twixt me and the other guy from the shop we busted this BS out in nothing flat.
Now for the real rubbish, we need you to sort out the cable for each site and box it separately and put a label on it indicating what site it is for .... :thud: .... you have got to be kidding me ... are the installers in CA that incompetent that they can't read a box label and sort out what cables are needed to be sent with the equipment to each site?
Seriously .... it is a real slap in the face to realize that there are people working here that can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground and still have a job.
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Tell you what, that damn virus sure takes it out of a person.
Three weeks after recovering and ye ole body still cries about exertion. The last two days unracking and packing equipment back in boxes with the associated bending over and walking is taking its toll.
Feel like someone 2 or 3 centuries .... decades ... sorry about that ... decades older
This breathing concept truly is not back and hitting on all cylinders and that is all I can say
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Some People Will have Permanent Lung Damage. My Second Cousin Now has to have a Ventilator while he sleeps and he is just 35 years old.
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That truly sucks, definitely feel myself failing the upcoming stress test in May
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I know the little finger O2 checker can be had at Walmart (and any pharmacy) for cheap. I thought the nurses were issued them, but nope, they like having the portability of having their own that isn't on a cord. I need to get me one too. Seriously. This last stay in hospital they showed me where my o2 dropped to low 80's while I slept, but with just 2 liters of oxygen it was in the mid 90's while sleeping. I find I usually feel better on waking too. So, yup! I'ma get me one. Then I gotta research them Inogen3 oxy concentrators. See what I gotta do to get one. Hey if it helps us live longer and feel better, yessir! :happydance:
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May look into that just because now that you have given some details. However I think my issue is just that the asthma that I though was in remission after the appendix met the back hoe is now back and with a vengeance.
My inhalers help when needed in the day time, the nebulizer now that I am doing a twice a day thing as recommended helps out too.
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Yep, do as the doctor tells you to.
TL has a little saying from his doctor. Listen to her keeps her happy. Your body is happy only when you DO what she tells you! or something like it...
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Aw c'mon J, share a little of that warmth!
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Currently 77° at 11:00 AM so could probably share maybe 10° if that helps :tearlaugh:
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Ahhh! That brings it up to almost freezing now! :happydance: :sno3:
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Well, that other place that throws rockets in the air was on the agenda the other day. Had to complete firmware updates which we needed a wi-fi connection to do so, have to get to the license server to get the serial number validated. The weird moment was at first it would not recover the license then we had a brain fart and I put the RAS key in the code plug and :whatthe: it recovered it and activated it with no further fussing. Definitely a head scratching moment as one would think that has naught to do with it but apparently it did and it whined until I loaded the key. The good news was once we got past that part it did the :letusboogie: dance it it blew right through it in nothing flat. :yippee:
I so love it when something actually goes right the first time. Had no wi-fi connection the first time we went out there is why we did not complete the update then, but yesterday ... all better now.
Then got the :whatthe: moment as they wanted us to look at why the system which used to do OTAP (over the air programming) with no hiccups, now is giving them fits. Great it is not like I work with that program daily or have even ignored or read the "Help" file for it but now I am supposed to know all the answers. Wish the hell that I would be told that before I go out to a customer.
Then again me and expert being used together in the same sentence is a "slight" misnomer .... okay a big ... large ... humungous ... whatever
At any rate I now get to ignore or read in depth all I can find on that topic and see what it takes to make it work, although the caveat is that "they claim" that it worked fine and they had no other parts or software when doing OTAP.
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Ahhh! That brings it up to almost freezing now! :happydance: :sno3:
:tearlaugh: Went up another five over here pushing low 80's now :woohoo:
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And we are back down to 60° this morn ... :sigh: ... I have a yo-yo that works as good as the weather in my neighborhood :tearlaugh:
Anyway went to pick up some of the meds last night and boy howdy did I learn some "stuff" from ye ole pharmacist (she was cute too) apparently the nebulizer is for wheezing and is or can/should be done every six hours ... :ummm: I wonder if these people, meaning the doctor realize I work for a living and do not always have that luxury of time to stop and do the thing.
Probably not .... at any rate the doctor said in the morning and at night okay that is doable. However now the :whatthe: moment ... I am supposed to do the normal inhaler in the morning ... so do I do that first and then the nebulizer or the other way round. That is when the pharmacist said oh no you are to do that inhaler twice a day ... :thud: Wasn't written on the one I had, but when I got home I checked and yep that is one I got from the hospital and it says once a day. The refill I got says twice a day ... :thud: The fun part is the rescue inhaler which I guess is what I use when I can't get to the nebulizer is different from the other one I have been using, turns out only in appearance it is the same drug basically and I am to use it as I have been .... :yippee: I am doing something right ... for a change.
The pills for the cough I had during my walk through the shadow of the valley of death is now two pills three times a day instead of one three times a day. Now if that is not a head scratcher I don't know what would be one. Anyway the cough is not nearly as bad as that and one pill morning and night keeps me from having a problem, did forget to take it one morning. I was able to make it through the day with no adverse effects but it was kind of dicey there towards the end of day.
Anyway me and ye ole doctor need to get some clarity going on, so I called the office and got yep well I will put a note on your file and have the clinical person call you back ... if you guessed they still have not called me back ... move to the head of the class
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Forgot the fun part of the work day. Ye ole thin skin went out with one of the installers to do a removal of console positions in a dispatch center and lo and behold they were not back by end of day.
Got a full days worth of work out of them both for a change. I say that because these are the guys that show up at 8:00 on the dot, take a lunch and yet leave at 3:45 or no later then 4:00 so how does that equal 8 hours ... don't know ... but just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right.
So I still show up early enough so that I am ready to roll at 8:00, not just walking in the door, and deduct for my lunch before I leave for the day. At least when I look at the man in the mirror ... I can
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Good on ya J! Not everyone is honest, obviously. Sad huh?
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Very much so
Time for a treat watching "The Dalek's Masterplan" a 12 parter that has only two episodes surviving so the rest is reconstructions from surviving telesnaps and so forth, still enjoy the show so calling this a win.
Especially since outside it is even more grey then this morning, still in the 60's though
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One of the odd things I noticed before leaving on Friday has me scratching ye ole head again.
Why are there so many repairs being sent to depot for repair. Took a look at a few random ones and it appears that not a single one was ever evaluated and was just sent off regardless. :thud: If that is the case what is the point of the thin skinned ones existence.
Saw a few others that definitely makes me wonder about his reason for employment, we can and do solder switches in the shop we also replace earpiece ports on a different model of radio, yet all were sent to depot with no attempt to look at a single one.
Can we say :whatthe: :OMFG:
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The sad part is what can I say and to whom ... as it will probably look as if I am just stirring the pot and being a pain, and since it is known that I have little patience for playing around and none for slacking. I will get another black mark for being a troublemaker instead of trying to improve the efficiency and profitability of our shop.
Short sighted in my opinion, granted I am seriously lacking in the diplomacy part of presentation to the boss. The good news is that at least the boss does understand that "tact" is not in my set of behaviour traits and can read between the lines.
Still it does make me nervous or concerned to mention it to him, will he care, will anything come of it ...
The real fun was details that the senior office lady told about the happenings in the shop while I was out doing installs and service work. Too many to mention in this thread except one the junior office person asked for a copy to CPS as she can no longer get to it on the company web site. That should have been my clue to not give it to her but I did ... :sigh: ... I can be so stupid
The reason I say this is what reason does she have for needing it, she is to check in radios for repairs and prepare them for return, so she does not need "programming software" at all ... so call me baffled for a reason.
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Well Does it Cost You to Have the Stuff Looked over by another Company and have them Review the work and send a cost back to your company?
Like We could have fixed these in house at the cost of this but we sent them out at this cost?
Hard to say About how personnel Vs. this guy is costing us money in your company will work out.
O.o Always Hard to Deal with Lazy people.
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Truth
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Well, how about that the junior lady's incompetence's reached a new low ... high???
Senior bench tech gave her a radio to write the final ticket for so it could be delivered, apparently there was another radio on the desk that had to go to depot.
Can you guess what happened ... yep the repair was prepared to send back to the customer and the actual return got sent to depot again.
None of the details were discovered till the senior tech came back from making the deliveries which is when he found out that the radio given to him for delivery was not the right one. What makes this more interesting and disturbing on the junior lady's part is that both of these radios have asset stickers with the name of the agency in large bold print on them ... so you got them mixed up how ... oh that's right there was a training class next door that she wanted to attend.
Oh and before anyone says well why didn't you check the invoice before leaving. Two reason there were about 20 radios total that were being taken back and two if one has to check her work before it goes out then what is the point of her being there to start with ???? Inquiring minds want to know.
:whatthe: :soapy: So you have tasks here that you can't complete properly, so explain just what the double :soapy: are you going over there for ... or more to the point why is the boss letting her :ummm:
Too complicated for me at the moment to say the least ... but it is :soapy:
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I'm a maniac and I control several times what I have to put in the good place. Not radios, just documents for me, still if they don't go in time at the good location a full work can go in :dustbin: because of delays required in administration. But checking once is the required minimum :whatthe: And having a place for stuff coming back for repair, and another on the desk (or whatever it's done in your company) for those which must go to repair is the logic."Pêle-mêle" is never a solution.
If for your company there are bold scriptures for here or there, all I can tell is you have a champion. From what, I'm afraid of the answer in her case :nopanic;
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Might be da bozz tell ya none ya bizniz! Sounds like one of the "Ask that and yer FIRED!" kind of things.
McG.
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S.E.P. (Somebody else's problem)
Know when to Leave it at work and do not bring it home.
I do not know Maybe she has something Going on in her life and she is distracted.
The thing I know is this is higher up the chain problem that they have to resolve.
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There are some things we run into in Life, such as this situation, that might benefit from very carefully chosen words spoken the right way to the right ear. But it would need to be VERY carefully chosen indeed. And I doubt my own ability to be any benefit there. I can imagine how YOU feel, J! Seems you have revealed one of those "Damned if ya DO and damned if ya DON'T!" sort of things.
GAH! :yeow:
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Which I made sure that he asked about what happened instead of me just coming out and saying something.
The good news is that at least something did come from it as I saw evidence of a meeting between the boss and the junior lady.
Will it change anything who knows ... at this point I just need to stop worrying about things not getting done properly and just point the finger when asked as to why, technically it is out of my hands as I did my part ... she didn't ... sorry about the outcome.
The other fun thing I found out was that she was or is supposed to show up earlier then she does, while the senior office lady is allowed to come in at a later time.
Another reason for me to walk away from this rubbish.
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Well, at last we have got an answer to the reason why OTAP broke at the other "rocket tossing" place.
The short version is there were two instances of a required program and they both had the same ID .... bad move
Changed that and wha-bam it now works :yippee:
After five days ... 3 on my own ... 2 with a level three tech .... finally solved
Yes we are having "margaritas" tonight to celebrate
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Damn those were strong margaritas .... only took two to get to the happy, fun time place :tearlaugh:
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Heh! I cannot 'hold' even two any more! I'd sure be sleeping great with the one though. :happydance:
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Disturbing part was there was evidence of making a third which I didn't finish but did save.
It was frozen solid when I pulled it out and took quite a while to shall we say defrost. :shrug:
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Not enough alcohol to anti-freeze it!
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Which is odd as one would think Tequila is more then strong enough and then Cointreau instead of Triple Sec as the second factor of the "mixture" ... most odd indeed
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Well, definitely a good start for my day. Got the new office chair put together for in front of the shop computer. The other chair we were using was no better then a standard chair no elevation. Got that together and rolled it out and "ahhhhh" perfect no more having to stand, or tilt my head so far back that ... well you get the picture.
Even better start to the day ye ole Mr Thin Skin is out on training for the week ... :yippee: Still sucks that everyone else is getting training except me. Then again I am in the middle of the semester which means I technically should not leave in the middle of it for any length of time.
:shrug:
Bonus, I was able to get the control station I screwed up last week working properly again .... go me.
Got the VHF duplexer tuned and had no problems and nothing was sketchy with the tuning so it is good to go :yippee: again
Learned how to repair a mobile radio and made a new test cable for my service monitor for tuning mobile radios, definitely a win. Considering we do not get many mobiles for repairs to start with, so learned something new today.
Then with all of the stuff we learned on Friday from fixing the OTAP problem, got the needed software from Friday installed on the shop staging computer. Still not comfortable using it so maybe we can do some training tomorrow using it.
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Sounds like you need less training and do more teaching J! :D
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That could probably go both ways. I do know that one of the things that some training would help on would be learning the questions to ask, because this customer sure did withhold a lot of the details that would have enabled his problem to be solved sooner, if I had known the right set or sequence of questions to ask him.
So not knowing the systems that he is using and not finding anything that resembles a true "manly manual" to study or even training material from a class on the topic the troubleshooting that should or could have been hours turned into days. Technically a week plus since he is not the only customer or task that I have to deal with, but I am the only one at the shop that knows what he has and how it is configured. Well, the senior tech knows about as much as I do although I have dug into the laughable tech manuals more then he, but he too has other tasks and customers to take care of, it really is amazing how some of the customers in the world think that the world revolves around them and only them.
Then there is the mobile installers that I am not certain what they study or know ... well they certainly know more about mobile installs then I could hope to ever know but other then that when it comes to infrastructure, they can put it together when shown or told, but beyond that :shrug: not so very much, which wouldn't bother me so much if they would step up and ask ... "How did you do that?" But they don't ... :sigh:
Don't even get me started on the MTS guy, he seems to live in a fantasy world of his own devising and I am certain he gets his mail there, I have tossed a few questions or comments his way and all it does is just reinforces my desire to have no interaction with him at all. Then the junior office lady that can't manage the one task but yet wants to move on to a different set of tasks. Oh yes that is right she is better at those tasks then the one she was hired for, .... and this is our problem how? If you can't or will not take care of the little tasks given you what or why should you be asked to do more challenging tasks?
Just because you do not like your position or the job you have to do daily doesn't mean you should do it with any less diligence. Because that is certainly a factor in others decisions as to give you new tasks or responsibilities. Well, that has been my experience at any rate ... maybe things have changed over the last 30+ years I have been working, technically longer than that but I am only counting the electrical portion of my work career
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Did some checking and it looks like the 3rd of the month was when the OTAP problem was presented and the solution was found on the 11th.
Six business days total ... feels longer then that
Found out what the other software does as well, it seems to be a dispatch style solution for the TRBO radios that has both commercial and some public safety applications.
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Oh my the pasta sauce with ROMA tomatoes goes so well with some asiago style cheese cooked in it! Then of course . . . pour over ramen noodles! YUM!
Cool beans on the software too!
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OJT Limits what you know and the next person knows is why I sent my team to school to learn what they should have learned in OJT.
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Oh my the pasta sauce with ROMA tomatoes goes so well with some asiago style cheese cooked in it! Then of course . . . pour over ramen noodles! YUM!
Cool beans on the software too!
:thud: :tearlaugh:
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Found out that all the work on Friday created a second problem that I did not see until today as I had not tried to read, or program a TRBO radio.
Failed every single time .. WTF ... had nothing on me today. I will say this much our service desk or help desk ... sucks ass .. period
Took four hours for them to figure out that what I was doing on Friday was the cause of my problems today ... am so glad I did not have any TRBO repairs or tasks this morning that were critical, as this would have sucked ... insert favorite adjective, technically a noun ... EOS
The sad part was the one assigned to work with me was throwing his hands up and saying, "sorry dude I don't know what to say" ... Excuse me it was working on Friday last week you cannot convince me that the ports for my USB or the OS went "cuckoo for cocoa puffs in that length of time"
At that point I got in touch with the tech I was working with on Friday behind the other techs back. Apparently the first tech must have posed the same question to him because next thing I see in the chat window was "hey so and so says check to make sure this is turned off"
And at last the problem was solved .. seriously ... and the part that is irritating was that the work done on Friday left a network connection still enabled. Turns out that CPS is looking for the radio driver and the "network" connection that was also still open was conflicting with it. And to add insult to injury, no that detail is not documented anywhere in any documentation that I have, oh the "level 1" guy gives me a doc that he claims has details on this topic .... a 704 page doc ... :thud: :whatthe:
The only good news is that yes I paid it forward by telling the other guys in the shop what happened, how it happened and how it was eventually fixed. Mainly because I was ranting and raving loudly. :sigh: still have patience issues ... yes we do ... Even told the boss although he doesn't do work like this, he assigns it to us to do :thud:
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Didja punctuate the end of that sentence with the period "JACKASS!!" ?? Ya shoulda! Deffo feeds yer impatience it do! LOL!
:happydance:
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I am starting to finally understand that I am not wired the same way as everyone else is ... I definitely care to much about things that it seems as if no one else gives two hoots ... or is that a damn ... about.
Guess we need to find the "Serenity Prayer" and print it out in big bold type and put it on the wall in my office and the fridge at home to get me to relax and let others dig their own ... whatever
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The original by Theologian Reinhold Neibuhr
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
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Appreciated
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:ummm: Well, somehow wound up down a different rabbit hole was browsing the web this morning and we are a touch concerned as it looks like I can relate to several of the key point of someone with anxiety.
Not a pleasant thought at all, although it does sort of explain my work related rants ... when looked through those type of glasses ... guess more research is needed there but the Serenity text is certainly going to be a help provided I read it when I get "mean, irritable, cranky and bad tempered"
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Methinks that the spam artist must think the head zips up the back as they are still telling me my $25,000 settlement check is still waiting ... multiple email address for them and have already had seven this morning
:tearlaugh:
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I am getting spammage about McAffey Protection is about to expire, click here to fix it! Yeah right. Never EVER allowed them onto my system. Oh then there are all the You've WON! @ Walmart, CVS pharmacy, Lowes, Home Depot etc. etc. etc. Total crappola. Same for Your Package is waiting to be delivered, Click HERE! Oh no I don't! Sigh. I sent all that to JUNK, then clean it out once a week.
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Fortunately a good 95% of that goes straight to the spam folder with no interaction on my part.
Well, that damn rabbit hole I got involved with concerning anxiety was very eye opening as I continued to traipse down it for a bit at work. The scary part is that there is a name for this version that I seem to exhibit the most behavioral traits. So further research is required before I put a name to it and work on lessening the triggers.
Speaking of triggers ye ole junior office lady did it again today, hands me the radio that she screwed up on by sending it to depot when it was supposed to go to the customer. Well, it got back to us and she requested a quick check on it to verify that all was still good.
:rat-atat: times some obscenely large number times 10 to the 17256th power ... still messed it up. Gives me a radio for another city instead of the one that needs to go back to the other customer.
One would think that you could not royally :soapy: something up that simple. Match the service order number that has a serial number on it to the radio presented to me. Well, she managed to :soapy: it up so bad ... I did find the right radio to paperwork match eventually ... and had to go :whatthe: how can you give me a radio for another city instead of the right one. Reason why I am making a deal about this ... the correct radio has a big massive sticker on the front of it stating who it belongs to .. yet she still :soapy: it up.
The only good news is that she was out on lunch and was not present when her :soapy: was unraveled and trust me that my ability to be politically correct while pointing out yet another mistake is beyond my abilities. Fortunately since she was out I had time to read the "prayer" a couple of times and did what I needed to do for both radios and said not a :soapy: word to her when she decided to come back from lunch and, oh by the way leave early. Must be nice, come in late, take lunch and still leave early.
Did not even bother to tell her that it was ready to be processed so it could go back, ... why because one she never asked if it was complete and two because she did not do a :soapy: thing after she came back from lunch ... anyway.
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don't get in a dither over stuff you just can't fix, J!
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If another time she does again that and she is not yet at lunch time, you don't need to talk. Just put the sticker turned to her face and point your index on the sticker, just to be sure. Except if of course she is one of those people from "show the moon and the idiot will look the end of your finger" :shrug: Would be surprised at that rate.
But remove me a doubt: she knows how to read?
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@McGrandpa Friday was day one of doing nothing about it at work. Granted I speak of it here as a means of getting it out of my system so it does not eat me up from the inside. Which by getting cranky at work was doing so if I can ignore it at work and only talk about it here and get to the point where I seldom talk about her 'stupidity' then I am on the road to recovery.
@Aelin In theory she can read and even speak English but after the Friday debacle I am not so sure. Then again I did myself a favor and said not a damn thing to her regarding it as I no longer have the energy for the :soapy: storm that would have ensued ... she can dig her own grave and trust me she is, whether or not something ever comes from it is another thing. But not my problem, she will rise to her true level of incompetence soon enough ....
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Right, I keep forgetting that this thread is your let some steam off thread. Hmm. Maybe I should take a page from your book, J. Rather than vent on the doctors and other sorts at the VAMC I go to for ALL my health needs I should keep a running journal or somesuch where I can safely vent my frustration and anger. So it does not build to an absolute rage.
I am now doing this, I moved the resultant text over to my "New Rig Coming Up!" thread. I am sure J don't need all that in here! Ha!
McG.
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:iminnocent: :odd: :snore: ;perplexed: :rat-atat: :luvbooks: :thumb_up: :cmereJ:
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OY! That wuz my line! ;o) (yuk yuk yuk!) :tearlaugh:
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Trust me there are days that is my line as well, did at least get the last of the test papers from Wednesday graded and entered and even built my grading spreadsheet for the upcoming entertaining progress report.
Now there is a vent worthy topic if I ever had one. Case in point once all the papers were in I stopped grading and said all right time for the next task ... what?, you could call it a night ... I replied with, a show of hands of how many of you can terminate a 66 block. Someone actually raised their hand, so I said come on up here and show us. Could have heard a pin drop ...
I point blank told them that a part of their grade on the midterm progress report revolves around how well or if you can do/understand how to terminate cabling.
So began to show them, what do I get at the end of class but complaints from the other side of the room that they couldn't see, I asked then why did you not get up and come over here so you could? :thud: I swear these kids are so frelling frightened, hands on work does not mean one on one you are going to have to get over this fear that the media has instilled in you and get back to acting like human beings instead of mindless sheep, wish I would have said that but I just now thought of it .... however there is Wednesday of next week, since the school is closed on Presidents Day ...
wish we had a President in office right now ...
so there will be some wailing and gnashing of teeth then no doubt ... why I have 20 students and only 16 boards ... some of you lot will have to double up ... EOS ... I can't wait.
Like I said it is part of their grade to demonstrate that they can terminate cable and trust me I don't care how frightened or scared you are if that is your problem then why are you even wearing a mask, isn't that supposed to protect you?
Yeah, thought so ....
I have already walked through ... the shadow of the valley of death ... so I have basic immunity now. Still have trouble with the breathing but according to two other co-worker who have also had it. They said their breathing sucked for several months afterwards so apparently it is normal to a degree, my breathing was barely back to normal after the appendix debacle so I am certain this did not help my system at all. The only silver lining is that, I went through it and had no need of a hospital and crazy stupid drugs or the wrong ones and came out the other side, intact.
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WHEN a group of doctors get together, get all in agreement on a Game Plan for *ALL* the work and needs of just one particular patient (as in ME!) and then DO that. So then the patient (that's ME again!) comes out the other side just a fighting and struggling and from the prone upon back position throw a grown man into a wall some feet away. Yep, HE made it! Hey YUP! 8 hrs of solid surgeries with two very different doctors and their teams and gear. So, I woke in a lot of pain, cornfuzion, upset, disoriented as all get out and hacking up lots of (insert Post Nasal Drip here-SNOT!) yeah some stranger that looked all Herky and stout but wasn't attempted to horse ME off the gurney to the hospital bed. That one got the wall. Then my Doctor (CRUSH!) walked right up to me, put her hand on my arm and spoke gently - that disarmed me. No more fighting. Things were OKAY! Despite the pain disorientation confusion and lingering anesthesia, I was OK. SHE said so! THEN Tom (Mr Herky wannabe) helped me off the gurney to the bed, and I blanked right out again. This time, sleep took over. Not anesthesia.
Partial amputation of right foot. NOT the entire lower leg and foot! Made for a totally wonderful Christmas Present it did! :D Plus, my new Surgical Podiatrist is just gorgeous, no kidding! I like her. Though I got to wonder what she thinks of me. The Patient only? I dunno about that. Time will tell I guess!
SO...yeah that says I do agree with you about your assessment of Hospitals, Doctors and Surgeries in general. IF you get a great team that truly got all their marbles in one healthy sock, then Bob's Yer UNCLE! :D I did. Seems you did as well. Remember they all deal with things within the realm of MEDICINE, not electrical/electronics/mechanics/cabling. We got that job. THEY got one that is almost in another world, I think. Makes it difficult for some of them to communicate effectively with US, the regular world folk.
DUH! :yeow:
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I have already walked through ... the shadow of the valley of death ... so I have basic immunity now.
I walked through one of them too man, but ya never ever get immunity to Sepsis. OR whatever infection it was I actually HAD. YOU handled the virus that kills people man! YOUR body is now a national treasure. Well, your blood serum is at least. Seriously, if you DID have COVID (xyz) and are over it, the medical types might want some of your blood serum to help create vaccines with. Really. Can't hurt to ask. Right?
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Which version do not know, all I know was I tested positive and I no longer am, and I can walk, talk and crawl on my belly like a reptile ... oops ... normal human ... too complicated.
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All right ready to kill this idiotic moron and all of the extra emails that keep flooding the spam folder with my $25K settlement notice that for some reason the date to claim it keeps moving up ... :ummm:
There are times that being able to reach through the computer to the writer on the other side would be so appreciated, although I am certain the moron on the other side would not appreciate it since they would be in need of an :ambulance:
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Well, time to see what sort of week we shall get in the cards this time. No little school kids to deal with tonight, but then again I still have taxes to complete, figure out how to enroll in Medicare and now apparently I have to set up another bank account for my solar loan which in theory if they ever get it turned on and running will pay for itself .... yes we all know what I think of theories ... if you find one that can hold water you can use it to hold water.
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Time to :rat-atat: the people in charge ... get a call from the boss "hey did you read your email you have to go do a piss test"
Sorry about your luck I am over here at Station 58 working on a rescue that has an issue. You need to get it done ASAP ... whatever ... I guess that being on call is irrelevant.
:thud:
The real fun was that the place was only open till 4:00. Well, goody ... did mange to get the repair wrapped up and returned to the shop to get the print out required and pick up the rest of my stuff and make it there in time to be told to wait in your truck until we call you
:thud: Can you say :rat-atat: knew you could
The real fun was once I was in there they said to blow into the tube because there was also a breathalyzer test included. Wonderful ... excuse me I have asthma ... yep they didn't care so it took three attempt before they realized I wasn't lying and that the coughing and gasping for air was not an act. Granted I managed to get it to be a usable test on that last time but you can bet the :soapy: ass-hats in Chicago are going to get a nasty email on the topic tomorrow since I have to email them a copy of the paperwork. Even though the doctors office faxed a copy of it already ... I wish to :soapy: these paper jockey's would stop wasting us bottom feeders time with :bs:
Granted I haven't had a random test since I was hired 10+ years ago but that is the irrelevant part in my mind. Having to sit in the parking lot and go through another test that about put me in the dirt just to also give them the "golden cup" award is what irritates me. The not giving a damn about me having breathing issues is the real :rat-atat: moment.
ASS-HATS
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So much for what I was planning to cook for dinner. Another call out this one took about an hours worth of phone calls between all parties just to figure out who had the problem and the nature of said problem.
So much for a proper supper.
Turns out Station 5 had an engine that was giving them some really whacked radio issue. Had the senior tech on the phone helping me sort it out as there was no way I would have ever figured out what to look at and what to do next, the good news was that under his guidance got it sorted and working. Hurried it the hell out of there before something else broke. :tearlaugh:
Didn't get back home till after 9:00 PM which means dinner was boring and bland and not telling. Mainly that my original meal would not have been done till well past 10:00 PM and that would be if I had started it the moment I walked in the place then there is the eating of it, :sigh: so as mentioned when one has to get up at the ass crack of dawn this really plays hell with ones eating habits.
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Have you thought about a Slow Cooker? o.O
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Have both a slow cooker and InstaPot, just didn't consider tossing anything in it. As that would imply I plan my meals in advance. :thud:
Guess I am going to have to consider planning slow cooker meals on the weeks I am on call, although so far this week is shaping up differently then any other previous ... two call outs in one day is most unusual.
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Doing the delivery circuit this morn which means I get to come in late, well for me it is way late since I am typically there a 1/2 hour early most days.
Get to drop off a radio for the local city in my neck of the woods, followed by a trip to the Orange County radio shop to get the problem part from the Rescue that we worked on during business hours swapped out. Then off to the other city that our office lady had so much trouble trying to figure out who the radio belonged to that it has been in limbo since frelling October of last year.
And people wonder why I am so at odds with her ... seriously this radio has been mishandled by her for the last five months. Then we get to show up at the shop :tearlaugh:
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Went over to the thin skin page (f---book) and what do we find but two replies from others that obviously have never heard of "tongue in cheek sarcasm" man I swear if there are people that go about the place always acting that serious they are going to weed themselves right out of the gene pool with no help from the rest of the world.
Granted we can only hope that it will happen but still wow I thought I was overly serious more often then not ... :thud: I could take lessons from these idiots.
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Oh goody I almost forgot we are having the dog and pony show today, apparently the bosses boss and other are having a meeting in the conference room next door today. We had to do some more in depth cleaning yesterday because of it. :tearlaugh:
Whatever, I am typically fairly neat and orderly so no problem there, the truck has been suffering recently so cleaned out the tool bags and organized them, yes little things but it is how I make my living so it would be helpful to be able to find the right tool. The repair on that fire truck would have been so much simpler and quicker. Guess we should organize the side storage next so I know what I have for material on the truck next, as that is getting a bit into disarray .... that was "sarcasm" btw ... not fond of being on a job and unable to complete it because I do not have the right gender or cable type of connector. Because as we know if the other clowns are with me they don't have a damn thing on their trucks as they are to stupid or plain lazy ... not sure which it is ... to say hey I need to have some of this or that for my truck.
As to the office I inhabit :o_go_on: it is a bit of a shambles but there is little that can be done about it in regard to arrangements, there is a bit of material that is "one off" and if it gets moved it would be lost for months until I remembered where I moved it too. Case in point would be my tool bags found tools in there that I forgot I had that would have made previous tasks easier.
Damn old fart can't remember anything these days :tearlaugh:
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Oops I was wrong on the one radio for the city of: it has not been in limbo for the five months as I thought yesterday but has been out in la-la land for eight months.
:thud:
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:yippee: At last forward progress on the solar install. Got the electrical inspection passed. The drawings provided and what they used and installed did not match and you know inspectors if it doesn't match it will fail ... period.
Anyway got that step done, received the application to send to Duke for the push-pull power agreement ... or whatever the hell it is called .... signed it and it is back to the solar company they signed it and now it is the power company lap.
Let us see how long this step will take.
Talk about forever to get to this step they originally said (in November) oh we will be done by years end so you can get the tax credit. ... rriiigggghhhhhtttttt ..... They didn't get started till December and here it is the end of February ....
It has been claimed that I can still get the credit on next years taxes .... provided the idiots running the whole world towards Armageddon don't succeed ... not sure if I should hold my breath or not on that one.
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Big thing though is it will save you on your light bill! This Solar Heating is for hot water and central air, right? Which for where you're at, the water heating is the most help, yeah?
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I have an instahot water heater that only use power to light it. It is actually uses gas for operation once I call for hot water. So there is no constant heating and re-heating as in a conventional water heater.
The solar will power the whole house is how it is designed.
Let me think a bit here, I have gas for the stove, water, dyer and heat. They all use electric strike to get rolling, no pilot lights anywhere in the place. The rest is electric, central air, fridge, the washer, technically since the water is heated by gas (instahot) it is a half and half device along with the dryer turns on by electricity but the heat is generated by gas.
So my place is truly a hybrid, a true story was they had turned gas off in the neighborhood for repairs and you had to call them to come by and turn it back on and they said here "I will light the pilot light for you". I told him I do not have any, he gave me one of those "deer in the headlight" looks so I gave him the tour of my appliances .... apparently I was the first customer he had met that had one of the instahot water heaters. Plus the rest of the appliances being all electric strike for the ignitor was his second eye opener. There is not a single pilot light in the entire place.
Definitely a safety feature for those of us that have a diminished sense of smell.
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:thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up:
:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
:toast:
I have one gas pilot in the whole house here. Though have a gas water heater and stove, they are electronic strike. The old wall heater. It has a FLUE vent too, and was installed in the 60's I think. State of the Art for the times. But has a gas pilot. Even has a thermostat! The water heaters all have special new type of electronic control modules now. Essentially it is a 'flame safety controller' similar to what I am used to in the Industry. BUT looks more residential than the Bell & Howells and Honeywells and Foxburros I know.
You deffo have the safer home J !!
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While the washer does its thing on the bed linens it is time to try once more to fill out tax forms ... probably will have greater success pounding my head against the wall ... most likely feel the same.
The number of forms I have to fill out these past couple of years has increased and is becoming an obscene device designed to inflict :soapy: amounts of pain and anguish
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How droll or interesting depending on ones point of view.
I do not have enough deductions to itemize even with being in the hospital last year and having multiple follow up visits. Added in the interest on the home loan, didn't help. :thud:
Still have that student loan from back in the days of unemployment. The crazy part is that even though they have the forbearance still in effect on it I kept paying on it, so my principle balance has gone down considerably. Which is a good thing of course, and due to that I have of course not paid a farthing in interest on the loan. Guess who doesn't get the student loan interest deduction this year :tearlaugh:
However the bottom line is after my first pass with the math it appears as if I have good news ... I don't have to pay in and actually get money back, nothing to write home about mind you but any day one doesn't have to pay those wasteful ass-hats in Washington is a good day.
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:tearlaugh: :sigh: Turns out that the amount of my refund is slightly less then what I earn in one day at the day job :tearlaugh: and no I am not surprised by the math
... how droll ...
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Sometimes I wonder about those higher up on the food chain, especially at other organizations. Now don't get me wrong I understand that 7:00 PM is not technically late on most occasions unless you have to get up at an ungodly hour. And no I do not consider 4:30 AM ungodly unless perhaps I did not go to bed until midnight ... :tearlaugh: ... then it is obscene.
What I find more then a little odd is why I am getting a text message from the Emergency room director at the hospital we service on a Sunday at 7:00 PM stating that, "hey I got the go ahead to start the PM's on the radio system tomorrow when will you be ready to start" ???
:ummm: Wow, only took him a week to get this rolling and now all at once on a Sunday evening you want to know when I can start? How about a week ago when I first asked, this is part of the service contract so there is no additional charges. Since now I have no idea what the magic leprechaun has on the calendar for this week. Yes, I can check the thing on the phone but there are days when I wonder why I even hung the board as it seems as if I am the only one that takes the time to post on it.
Like two weeks ago I get the call as to when are you going to show up for the meeting .... :thud: ... what meeting it is not on the calendar ... oh but we talked about it ... :thud:
Anyway now the hospital is ready to roll and the point of contact is writing to me on a Sunday night at 7:00 PM saying "hey I am ready now"
:sigh:
I seriously believe some of these people do not realize that I am a bottom feeder and that I do not write my schedule and do as I please. I have to go through other people higher up than me to begin work.
The only fly in the ointment is going to be if I have to take the "thin skin" one with me to do these, why well because everything I do offends him apparently and two even though I gave him access to our tracking radio inventory program by looking at the data I can tell that he is not using it which makes me wonder 'why did I bother?' Yes the boss told me to but if the :soapy: isn't going to update it then what was the point.
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Might be Third Shift at hospital My Cousin works those.
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Well, this is the director of the ED department which makes me think a bit there is more this then meets the eye. But whatever I got past the morning and we have started the PM's
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Good Job! :happydance:
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Well, somebody's morning yesterday was totally ruined.
Pulling out of the community got to the stop sign before you can turn on Hwy 50 and this impatient person that wanted to turn left decided that since a vehicle was turning into the community that now would be the time to try and turn left. Well, this is a three lanes highway and seeing one lane is not enough, like I said methinks they were impatient because what they did not take to time to confirm what was coming in the other lanes.
There was a car in the far lane that somehow I could see but they either didn't or chose not to that was partially blocked from view, could have seen it if you took the time, that was for openers was speeding, two distracted.
Yep, if you guessed collision as in moderate damage to both vehicles, all three lanes blocked from scattered auto parts from both vehicles with one person going to the hospital .... move to the head of the class. Literally came to a stop in front of my truck, was able to go around and move on but all the folks on 50 behind them ... not so very much.
Well, stayed long enough to confirm no ejection from vehicles and no life threatening injuries and called 911 and moved on to work.
However it certainly shines a light on the driving habits of this population. I do not care where one is going it is not rocket science nor a problem in quantum mechanics to look twice and then a third time before pulling out against traffic especially on a multilane highway with no traffic signals. Two you do not have to drive so fast to get where you are trying to go or you get the option of not getting there like those two now get to look forward to, in addition to repair bills, doctors visits and insurance increases.
Really people you are not a first responder .... slow the :soapy: down. You will still get there and if you are late then you are late... leave early next time, that is if you get a next time.
The one driver was certainly going in for evaluation as I heard later on the radio, the other was not reported as having other injuries.
All I can say for certain is that neither of them got to work that day and both have car repair bills. Significant repair bills, and people want to get frustrated with me because I take so long to pull out as I am looking both way multiple times and using signals when turning.
That is why I do so ... I have no desire to be a statistic EOS
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Rather proves a point that I am always repeating to myself, heaven forbid that I have to be behind you and have to wait on others ... I am to important to do that ... I can't take a place at the back of the line, don't you know who I am ... and the scenarios are infinite ... all I know is that I get cut off in traffic, people make left hand turns in front of me. I am already in the left lane to turn but as mentioned 'heaven forbid I get in line' I will just turn from the center lane in front of you ... you can slow down and wait on me. I hope your eardrum burst from me laying on my horn to show my displeasure ... ass-hats. And before anyone says I am just being petty and childish by doing so, ... so what ... I like the front bumper of my vehicle to stay on my vehicle. Just like you I have places to go and people to annoy but there is no need for this incessant urgency to be the first one .... do you get a cookie or something for being there first? I mean what is your reason for driving like an :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
The place is still going to be there, the person, place or thing will still be there when you get there .... so WHY?
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Competition drilled into them from an early age? Sports, tests, siblings, many competitions. Enter real life... rush? you can die, don't pay attention to surroundings? you can die. or be eaten. And so on.....
Future Darwin award candidates....
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Truly man, I am so glad YOUR day was a better one than theirs, and that the people are gonna be OK. Damn, wot a mess that is though. Been there.
Ugh, never wanna do that again for sure.
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Hmm, I see an edit from this morning, yep some old men need little sleep and see when things change :tearlaugh:
Tis all good and the fact that you have been there and have no desire to go there again is one of those "lesson learned" things
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Right on!
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Well, had a week of preventive maintenance at the local hospital. Got three sites completed now and all we can say is that there is no accountability for the radios. My inventory indicates that this many radios should be at each site and have a range of ID's and what do I find .... not even close.
It is bad enough that these radios are not cheap but my goodness can you not even be responsible enough to keep up on the radios that are to be at your site?
Another amusing thing is while doing the radios at Winter Garden, one of the guys in Engineering came into the Security department and was trying to ask to borrow radios from them. First off there are no spares in there anyway, so that was amusing and then the real :tearlaugh: moment was that the engineer thought that he could use the radios in engineering just by changing the channel on top of the radio.
:rat-atat:
Sorry that is not how the radios are programmed for you lot. These radios are programmed department specific and a security radio will only work on security and you can not just turn the knob and get another department.
:@u:
Gods above I love my job ...
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Up to part two of getting my solar install to go live. The power company has indicated all of the pesky pre-turn on items have been met and documented ... so it looks like I will be operational by the middle of next week
Sort of ... kind of ... maybe
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Sounds cool, I guess! About the radios, I am lost about em. I'd have to start from scratch with the whole lot to grok whassup with em!
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Really quite simple with the radios, I have an inventory of all the radios issued per campus or site. The radios assigned to the campus were not all there and there were radios from other sites there instead, still didn't add up to the number of radios originally issued.
Programming them is simple once you break it down, you can either go make them department specific, meaning they will only work for that department on whichever campus or site they are at, since all sites are in the program.
Or you can make the template have all departments and break them down into zones and then you can select the zone (department) and then the channel knob is used to select which site.
This customer has radios programmed by department only, the engineering lead seemed to have thought that they were programmed like they were at the last place he worked at which was just select the department from a zone list and then select the site you wished to talk on, nope sorry about your luck buddy.
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Of course the solar going live sounds cool, they are asking for the first payment in April, this project started back in November with the initial sales pitch. So if they are asking for money there had better be a working system in place and not just waiting on approvals. It has taken this long to get to this point, and if the part two of the sales pitch goes well, I can get both the mortgage and the solar bill under one note and have a payment for both less that what I pay now, the down side is that it resets the number of years left on the mortgage.
So need lots of information to determine if that is a wise choice or not. I can get the interest rate to be at what I have already or slightly less, the payment would be less than what I am required to pay now so that means I would still be able to pay extra and not break the budget. Which is an important concern since in theory retirement is coming and a fixed income means consider surprises to the budget if possible. So need information and probably a consultation with the financial people for different perspectives on the details of the deal.
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Wow got to give the scammers and spam mail artist points.
They are now claiming that they are the IRS and I owe back taxes in one email than someone else in a different email is claiming to be able to have the IRS wipe out all of my debts
:tearlaugh:
The real fun is when you hover over the email header in the address line there is enough letters in it to make up two alphabets.
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yup and I bet it don't end in a dot GOV either! LOL!
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Indeed and now they are notifying me that someone might have ran a background check on me :tearlaugh: How droll considering that what I do for a living I have already had more background checks than I can count ran on me
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The funny ones are the ones that say to answer my phone because I am touching myself and want you to hear me moan .... right ....
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Right. But don't ya know there are plenty all around the world that DO "return that call" !! :nopanic;
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Indeed there are however, I am not one of them :tearlaugh: Ye ole head does not zip up the back ... took a while to get the zipper removed but it is gone.
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Now all I have to decide is what is going to be the correct financial move.
The finance company is working on the concept of individual loans, but is offering to wrap them all up under one note but to do that will extend the life of the mortgage.
Still waiting to get the details as to what is being offered but am sort of concerned if the mortgage is to paid off in x number of years as in less then 30 years, then the solar loan would be about half paid off by then as well ... Then there is the concept of doing up one that would combine both and the paltry amount on the student loan and put money in hand to be used however, which in my mind would be additional repairs and or small dollar improvements.
But as mentioned it now runs it all the way out to another 30 year note.
Is it really worth it ????
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Nope. Well, I have zero credit debt. And I want to keep it that way. The only cards I have are one debit and two ID cards. Ah and an expired library card. Drat!
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An expired discount card at the local book store is as bad as if not worse then an expired library card.
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Oh that is terrible man, what a waste of wonderment! The expired card to the bookstore is deffo worse! :yeow:
That library card IS renewable and free. Replacement discounts missed out on? FLUSHED, forever!
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Well, did some additional research and what not before I would commit to the re-fi and boy howdy, it looks great on the surface and so forth, but then reality set in and said hey dummy the house on its own if left only is paid off in 16 years why pray tell would you want to restart the loan and put it out another 30 years?
Besides do you have any idea how old I would be, or my possible state of health and the fixed income I would have to work around ... and then the head started hurting
So put an end to that pipe dream, plus the damn inquiry for the re-fi dinged my credit score by 15 points :thud: :rat-atat:
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There are some of us who have escaped the evil grasping clutches of *CREDIT DEBT*, apparently machinated by the most weevil of all, The ENGLISH BANKERS! Yeasssss...Ye Merri Ole Banke ofe Englande! May they be flushed (in hydrofluoric acid) forever! Anyways. Living without that nastiness for the nonce, I really enjoy keeping all the $$ t' would otherwise be paid out to some flunky as interest. Glad to see you regained control of yourself, J, and declined to fork yourself right in the old keester with that garbage. You could go through a different agency for the loan, rather than through the gold diggers who picked up on a novel idea and attempt to ca$h in on it. Hmpfh!
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The annoying part was I asked why such a huge ding to my score and got the :shrug: response followed up by are you sure you do not want to re-fi ... I decided to not reply
Highly annoying just saying
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Got rained out when trying to go to the other sites to keep working on the PM's for the hospital. Got to love Florida weather, dry as a bone in Orlando and can't see the hood of the truck while driving to Lake Mary :soapy:
Ah well, there is always tomorrow .. had to go in the office this morning to get the long awaited licenses installed in the radios for the other group that throws rockets in space.
Got sidetracked while there ... why because it was time for "evaluations" ... oh great .. well since I have always been a self starter I was not worried and it turns out I was right.
Got a stupid call later in the day from the boss asking if I had a code plug for a radio that the Lakeland shop installed. :ummm: Let me see when I had the repeater in the shop I programmed it and put a note on top of it with the freq they needed to tune the duplexer to, yet now today I am being asked for the freq's again :soapy:
Definitely getting annoyed by the concept of "no accountability" being demonstrated by so many others. How hard is it to make a copy of these details when you do the install? Apparently ... very ...
However are you really that incompetent that you cannot read the repeater to get the code plug which has the freq's in it or better still do you not know how to call the hospital rep who gave me the freq's to start with and ask him? I did give you his contact information. Besides I had to call him ... what makes you better than me? Absolutely nothing in my book ... IMHO ... just saying
Ah well, guess we will look for the file I provided previously and provide it yet again .... :sigh: .... So annoying
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Awww it's only a minor hassle, let it go gentle like! :happydance:
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Down the slippery slopes of demon sludge ... :tearlaugh: ... sure
What I am not going to do is give him full edit and delete rights to our folders containing said info ... yep they had the audacity to ask for it :rat-atat:
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:odd: :(ROFLMAO: :whatthe: :sure: ;perplexed: :shrug: :bs: :fixed:
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OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head!
OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head! OFF wiss iss head!
There, that said it! :happydance:
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Alternately.... "Sure, just write down your debit card passwords and bank routing numbers.."
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I tink he went to chew the guys head off! :nopanic;
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The sound you hear is no one disagreeing
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Ah yes the joys of writing progress reports has come round once more .... although joy is most likely being misused in the sentence. I know I can find a multitude of tasks more joyous then that, now, now don't get crazy and mention housework ... boo, hiss ... oh it burns ... :rat-atat:
Anyway at least I can watch the new Dr. Who video I bought yesterday, newly animated missing episode with the first Doctor William Hartnell in Galaxy 4
I have it originally as telesnaps and audio and the comparison between having it animated versus dialog and a handful of telesnaps is definitely a night and day experience. Turned the story from :borednow: to almost respectable.
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Well, took two more steps towards getting the solar turned on today.
First one is that it is turned on :happydance: at last.
Second have the monitoring program on the computer, it is still synching and shows no data as of now. According to my lady in charge she says typically the straight up web portal only updates once a day, so I need to get the tech back out here to get the wi-fi set up on the portal then it is real time updating. :happydance:
However I can see my system and managed to get it all configured on the computer web site. Even though I despise having to set apps on the phone I managed to do that as well, :sigh:
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Yesterday at the day job was ever so interesting, had a site walk for one of the smaller airports apparently they are upgrading the system for the TSA.
When we got there we were told that reception is bad and the system truly doesn't work well at all and due to that they basically only use talk around channels.
Well, that is not promising at all. Got to the main comm room and well now :thud: yep that looked pretty antediluvian in the cabinet, could not open it as no one had a key but at least they had glass doors so could see some details. First detail a VHF system, not that there is anything wrong with VHF just an observation. Second grounding "sucks" I swear does not anyone have a concept of what or how one should ground equipment? Apparently not.
Anyway the more we looked and dug into it the more both the boss and I were getting ... disturbed ... they showed us a picture of the antenna install since sorry you do not have fall arrest you can't go up there, hmmm I can't even see where you have tie off points on the roof but whatever ... however just by looking at the pictures one coulld see that it was not going to be pretty. No weather proofing on the connector and no ground on the cable, the mast was grounded but that is not going to help much if the cable doesn't have one as well, :shrug:
Well, seeing that the line looked like it might have problems set up the watt meter and ran a power test on it. Forward was fairly good at 65 watts. Not knowing what it was supposed to be we just said okay call that decent. Didn't catch the actual reflected power number but did see the VSWR reading 3.06
:thud: :thud: :thud:
Hooked up the service monitor to it and for a system that was supposedly set to 163.775 MHz all I had was the proverbial squggily line from one side of the screen to the other with nothing that resembled a peak at the desired freq. Methinks they have problems :tearlaugh:
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Does sound serious. Specially as it's the Combo Deal!
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O.o Humm look at Boss and Say R / R the whole Thing from Top to Ground and Bid it that way!
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In the words of an olde compiler,
"Redo From Start"
Sounds like it would be less expensive to replace the system. Though nostalgia does cause restoration thoughts.
Good luck Jherr
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Well, the system is getting replaced, I think they were trying to be hopeful that the cabling could be reused. Well when you have a roofing company remove and then but back in the antenna while they got re-roofed I shouldn't hold my breath.
Roofers are good at roofing not installing antennas. To close to the surface of the roof, on basic EMT not a mast and no concept of weather proofing or grounding.
Besides I have never been a fan of LMR600 coaxial ... to much loss per 100'. Granted it is made for a reason and it is probably good in those applications. I just feel better about heliax as a transmission line.
They will be switching from VHF to UHF and getting brand new latest and greatest portables. New repeaters and all the hardware, should help them out a lot based on the condition of the line and how it was originally installed.
Got to love documentation it is sometimes the only way to get people to upgrade the system. Besides it is an airport one would think they would want to be able to properly communicate with each other.
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Here is one for the funny book.
Monday was Pi day right 3.14159265
Well, the folks at the hospital in the break room were talking it and so forth, so being the crazy person that I am I asked if they knew about "the Ides of March" and what it is known for ... crickets ... yes the Ides of March you know the 15th, tomorrow ... still crickets
Um the date that Caesar was assassinated ... you know ancient Rome.
Oh I didn't know that :duh: :whatthe: and so on and so forth ... what are these people being taught ....
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Hear is the nostalgia look at the line sweep.
The "frequency" that the system is to work on is 163.xxxx MHz
You tell me what you think :tearlaugh:
Frame of reference the screen is set for the full width of 130MHz to 170MHz. Center Freq is 150MHz so each division is another 4MHz which makes the 163MHz in the middle of the second one out from the end of the chart.
Looks pretty ... right
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O.o Are they near a Sea Way Cause that is a Maritime Mobile (Distress and Calling) Setting?
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Pretty alright. Pretty useless transmitter. No peak, like you said in your first post. :nopanic;
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O.o Are they near a Sea Way Cause that is a Maritime Mobile (Distress and Calling) Setting?
Well if you call 40 miles close :tearlaugh: then yes
It seems most larger outside customers use VHF
Just looked up the Maritime setting and that is 156.8 MHz
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Well, got the proverbial ... why do I bother coming in moment ... got redirected again this morning.
Why because the two mobile guys were doing console upgrades which is good. The senior tech s out of town still on training, MTS is out on PTO ... really .... wish I could take it as often and as easily as the rest of the staff ... ah well ... whatever
Anyway just pulled into the shop and get a phone call stating I need you down at the city of "prime site" to sit and baby-sit the tower crew while they do work on the tower. How cute ... you want me to sit around and do nothing constructive :@u:
Granted we went down there obviously since no one else was at the shop or available and had keys to get into the place. However as we all know my inability to just sit there and look pretty considering that task is a bit of a stretch for me anyway. I brought repairs from the shop with me to while away the time. Yep, I do get bored just sitting and twiddling my thumb's
So managed to work my way through several (8) repairs while there and even practiced one of the skills I used at the airport. Calling that a win.
The bad new is that the tower crew still has another day of work out there, the good news is the MTS is back tomorrow and all the boss wants me to do is open the site up for the tower crew and call him and then he will send the TS one down to sit there and do the babysitting.
:yippee:
Which just means I will have a lot of repairs to work on tomorrow. Why, well surprise the junior office lady finally got her act together and did something that resembles her job description.
Although I really do not know how this person can be capable of any computer programming since she can't even input correct model numbers on radios brought in for repairs. The :soapy: person inputs the same model number regardless of what radio is being checked in ....
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No matter what model of radio it is huh? No matter there could and likely are dozens of different MODELS of radios that go through your shop every year. Or month even! Oh sure there is one basic TYPE of Radio...a PORTABLE MOTOROLA RADIO! I won't even wonder how MANY models of them Motorola alone makes. Likely thousands. You might could slip this single paragraph of text over her way. Might open her eyes a bit wider. That is, IF she is actually interested in doing her *JOB* !!!
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Indeed that would be her, and I am certain she just doesn't give a :soapy:
So did the test and I got up to 20 different models that I have touched repair wise. And let us not even consider options as some can be configured as UHF, or VHF, or 7/800, 900 and then we have the multiband radios and radios with multiband plus GPS. All the same model to her.
I correct it on the paperwork just to annoy her because ... well I am tired of her lackadaisical attitude.
But like I mentioned if this is the attitude you bring to the table for simple documentation, what makes one think you can do programming or trouble shoot or write scripts :ummm:
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Hmm. Good point. Me, I kinda like teasing scripts into existence occasionally. Heh! I do it here almost every day. Making the pretty posts over in the voting page. ;)
But her? Seems she couldn't even be bothered to spit on a script. Oh well.
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Well, I hear tell that it is in the works to be resolved but we all know how long that takes these days.
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Well, it is education time for me, been having issues getting the solar guys out here to finish the connection ... a wi-fi connection is needed so one can see and monitor the ins and outs of the system and overall health.
Well, the first time we went down this path I was called an asked to provide my wi-fi password.
:ummm: Anybody in here that works for a living and is out most of the time have that bit of info on them ... memorized maybe ... didn't think so ... so it went downhill from there since typically I do not like to give that type of info out to anyone, I mean consider that I am still filing a PIN with the IRS since my identity was stolen over a decade ago.
Well, got to thinking this morning ... gods above did it hurt ... just because I can't see it on the computer doesn't mean it is not working. Right?
You got it, hunted down some videos on how to read a digital meter with solar and ta-da when it is coming from my panels the arrow on the meter is pointing to the left. When it comes from the grid it is pointing to the right.
Boy howdy is it ever pointing to the left, without the wi-fi connection I can't really get an overall view of the power "in and out" nor can I see if all the panels are functioning to peak. But I can see that it is on and I am benefiting from the install.
About time to call the monkeys at the power company and remind them that I am now solar and my bill needs to be adjusted accordingly.
Got to love that concept :heeheehee: I know I will at any rate.
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Have you looked on line to see if there is a Tutorial for the wifi install?
I know of several that do not require outside help.
Solar Monitoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=785DAt3gl8o
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Though I do despise Google/YooToob for their data mining on all of us, and force feeding most unwelcome ADS on us....I got to admit I hit YooToob all the time for various walk-thru's and how-to's for lots of things. Usually with games, but hey, found some useful stuff on DiY round the house too. AND working on cars. SO. Yeah J, hit YouTube man!
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Watched and regrettably it did not have the answer I sought, the good news is that they got out here and got iyt up and on line for me to be able to see production.
I see two panels that are not at the same level as the others so going to be saying something about that in the morning.
Based on when it started to be "monitored" I guess I can deal with day one being only 77% off the grid. So going to have some tweaking and education over the next couple of days.
Also going to be saying something about how once I got home that my internet connection was "hosed" had to restart the computer to get it to play nice.
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Now the fun part getting to the part of the power company web site to turn off budget billing ... :tearlaugh: ... what a joke ell I found was how to turn the service completely off or start a new account.
And these morons claim they have such an easy web page to navigate.
:@u:
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That IS easy. YOU will pay to play *ALL* the way or you won't play at ALL! DO ya hear em raspberrying all of us man?
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Well, it took a phone call and 25 minutes later after three different operators it is finally fixed.
I swear there are so many different departments, and oh sorry that isn't my task, oops that is not the payment plan that I work with .... :sigh:
But the bottom line is it is fixed.
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Well, not certain what the :soapy: happened to me but we have had a hideous cough for the last three days, and although I have treated the cough as of this afternoon I got officially welcomed to the wonderful world of "Laryngitis"
Definitely an invitation I could have done without
Did run a virus test on myself and it came back negative so .... wonderful
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That you are bug-free is great! I have a thought on your somewhat recent respiratory issues.
While the salt air and 99% humidity are wonderful for some of us (we THINK!), many others of us do not fare so well with the constant barrage of moisture coming IN the lungs. Then there are the various molds, fungi, spores, pollens and BUGS that exacerbate any difficulty at all. In short, there is a reason Phoenix AZ exists man. THE Retirement Destination of the weak and wobbly elderly! Reason? Low Humidity, year round. VERY low methinks!
That is my thought on the respiratory difficulties ye be dealing with, Jherrith! Sorry it is so dismal yaknow?
I have now spent 11 years here in the Texas Panhandle area. And once I acclimated to the altitude and thinner air, I have had a 'common cold' TWICE. The flu ONCE. Sinus attacks? NONE! Coughing fits? Only when something I am eating or drinking takes the wrong path. For a guy that was a heavy smoker for so long, my chest is surprisingly clear. OF course, the nicotine clobbered my bladder/prostate. But my lungs appear pretty good. I am both surprised and thankful for that!
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The difference is, simply, humidity.
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Which is the question I keep asking the doc's
Why now
I have lived here my entire life with nary a hint of a problem and now over the last two years it has exploded in a plethora of :bs:
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Well, might be at the turning point as I woke up last night twice to the cold sweats ... hot sweats ... whatever, had a coughing fit at the same time that made me think my body wanted nothing to do with my lungs.
Sort of better now, voice still sucks, so need to shut the :soapy: up to help it help since apparently this is some sort of virus in- :soapy: -tion
Did some research this morning on all of the different colors and what not for mucus secretions ... snot booger to the masses. Man was that ever to much information first thing in the morning while drinking the first cup of .... definitely did not help with the visuals .... at least according to what I read and what has exited my nasal passage ... sometimes gracefully ... sometimes :shrug: .....
The things one does not want to know while waking up ..... granted are bodies are quite amazing on how it manages to keep us going but man some of the details should stay hidden ... just saying
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if them details had stayed hidden, they wouldn't know that stuff to be able to figure out how to help us! The green sticky ones are the worst, btw.
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Seconded on the green sticky, although the yellow-green sticky are just as nasty
Haven't got much better ... haven't got worse ... finally got smart enough ... (don't laugh it could happen) .... to see a doctor
Not The Doctor, just a doctor .... (Dr. Who reference)
How quaint don't have strep throat ... don't have the virus ... don't have a cold ... nope we have Type B Flu
I didn't know the Flu had types :thud:
So all of the recent fun and games for the last 7 days has been from the common "flu" bug.
How droll, judging by how much fun I have been having apparently I have never had this before either.
2022 is shaping up to be the year of viral infestations in my neck of the woods .... okay bored now can we go :pweez: something a bit more interesting would be nice
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Well after two days of clouds and rain the benefits of the newly commissioned solar system are looking very dismal
Yes not surprised ... disappointed yes
Tha is Mother Nature for you
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Why do some people even open their mouths I wonder,
Boss asks me what something stood for "I don't know"
It was for your alcohol and drug testing.
Then it must be the random testing you lot do.
No, I would schedule that it has something to do with the Federal contracts.
"Well, I don't know I just reported and did what was asked of me. Breathed in the tube and just about died because of the asthma and yep, they did not give a fuck or give me am option of a blood test instead, and then pee in a cup.
Just look it up on Google then and tell me, quite contradicting my answers if you don't like my guesses ... just tell me
" The voices in my head were going into overtime then, Thinking to myself if you are going to contradict me than why ask me in the first place dammit"
Just saying :shrug:
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Many are the strains of "FLU" man. Remember the swine flu, swan flu, BIRD flu? Now we have this COVID Flu, which seems to have originated with -
BATS! Yessir, Bats. So yeah now they got a whole new set of naming schema going on. I figure Flu is Flu unless it be COVID 19!
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Well, although I seem to be good and ready to rumble and the flu is not holding me back ... we seem to have a spoiled brat that has decided to take up residence to put me in my place ... or something like that .. yep ... flown blown laryngitis and with the amount of talking that I need to do between the day job and teaching I have totally :soapy: myself.
That was the polite version by the way.
I am now regulated to using a notepad to scribble on ... or it is going to get even more ugly then it already is ... great and this week is when the other teacher wanted to take it off for personal reasons. So boy howdy am I ever :soapy:
The :bs: part is that no one seems to understand the concept of "I have no voice" so why are you asking my questions and expecting me to talk.
Some people are so :soapy: stupid and incapable of understanding simple concepts.
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SO you just let your fingers do the talking. As in 1 digit down, 1 digit up, two digits down = That be YOUR place ya farkin sheetburd! Think they will get the message with such a direct statement? ;)
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One can hope but we are not holding our breath. Even the people in the shop seemed to have a problem understanding the concept. Had the notepad with me and just kept pointing to the first statement on it.
I have no voice!
"but you were talking to the boss just now"
"uh no I was scribbling to the boss. Like I am to you now."
:sigh:
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LOL! And you still get the blank HUH? look.
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Worse the same person decided to call me and ask where was I today, in a voice slightly softer then a whisper I responded "did you look at the job calendar?"
No, she replied
:sigh: I have no idea why I installed it and update it with information on what I am doing if no one is going to look at the damn thing. Hell, she has it as a shortcut on her computer, yet you call me to ask :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
Then she continues to try and do the 20 questions on me until I was able to shout out I can't help you you are killing my voice. Text or email me.
She hung up on me
Well, imagine that
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What the hell is wrong with people, I keep trying to explain I have laryngitis and it goes in one ear and out the other.
:soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
You people piss me off so frelling much I could spit nails
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Well spit em at them man, I am typing to ya! LOL!
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Trust me I intend to, and we will be aiming for vital points just to make it interesting :heeheehee:
Anyway thank God for the weekend I do not have to talk to anyone and I can just point at my throat and make the not working sign and they understand ... wow how is it the masses understand it but the fellow workers in the communication industry are incapable of understanding it
:ummm:
I am certainly confused by the difference in intelligence.
Anyway took a radio solution over to the neighbor and he to didn't get it at first but did rapidly, even made a joke that I was supposed to kiss the wife to see if I could give it to her ... sorry it is not contagious ... :tearlaugh: ... although she is certainly pretty enough to entice me to kiss her.
At any rate methinks this friend has some really weird thoughts that pop up at random, as I am working on material for class next week to continue to protect my voice and what do I get but a text about "can you program a weather radio and what are the county codes?"
Seriously WTF sort of drugs or alcohol are you drinking to come up with random stuff like this ... especially on a Sunday.
I am drinking margaritas and yet he is further out in left field then I could ever be ....
He gave me the model number of the radio and :ummm: wow twas a minute to find the manual and later still the chart for the county codes for weather alerts.
Not sure how he was unable to find this or maybe it is just a matter of him trying to get me involved or as he said he couldn't read the manual on the phone. He uses a phone more then I ever will to do everything, whereas I use a computer. Trust me I can read the manual on a computer far easier then I ever will on a "damn" phone.
:tearlaugh:
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Right on about reading stuff on the phones. My screen is almost 7" diag. Still too small for the damn web browser apps they keep cramming graphics and tiny text on. And that is the stupid "apps" for most businesses, specially stores like Walmart.com and the food vendors. Domino's, Sonic and Taco Bell are my "big 3". They give 1/2 off prices if you order through their sorry barely work can't read shit they put on them and they EXPECT ya to make your CC info permanent. I drive in, order, pay full price and the 2 legged dildo that starts spouting "You could have used Our APP and got half off!" gets a facefull of growling snarling snapping and maybe even a bit of cussing. They leave quickly. I did get the food though!
Well, if Walmart starts offering half off for ordering on their app. . . I will do the shopping on the PC and 32" monitor first, THEN order my stuff on the app. Groceries a tad over $200 this week, then there are the inedible items like Knee Scooter, Motor Oil & Filter, 2 TB SSD, a movie. Another $450! Sooo, yeah I'd do their app. For that! LOL!
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Well, we have a fan club now apparently I upset the office lady so much she complained about it to the boss. :ummm: Sorry lady I have nothing for a voice and you still keep nattering on, I am going to get frustrated and it will get ugly quick.
Fortunately the boss did understand the problem she is trying to talk to me and I have no voice and she wont get off the phone and text me instead.
He said I should have hung up and texted her and I replied sure that would not have ended well and we both know it.
He sort of agreed.
At any rate the rest of the story has finally came to light and in the grand scheme of things both her and me were in the wrong and it could have gone better ... :thud: in a perfect world maybe but that is not what we live in these days.
The amusing part is that the boss told me that she is having problems with her mothers health and that is why is got upset with me ... :ummm: not sure how that relates and besides you have a work life and a home life, if I can keep mine separate then why are you using that as an excuse to be "delicate"
The real big news that I have mentioned more then once to them up front is that "I got tested for feelings and emotions. I came back NEGATIVE!"
And the reason I think I have a fan club she hasn't spoken to me at all even when I say good morning or good night for the last two days ... I am so :sadder: I am certain it will take me a millisecond or two to recover from the trauma.
No one gives a damn about me if I ever say I have an issue, as in "trying to talk to me when I cannot reply" ... so I should give a :soapy: about your burden.
Why?
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:iminnocent:
As Good as It Gets (3/8) Movie CLIP - How Do You Write Women So Well? (1997) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ecbGNxEHM
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So that is the reason :tearlaugh:
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"I take away Reason and Accountability, and THAT gets WOMEN!" paraphrased to fit of course! ROFLMAO! :D :D :D :D :D ! ! ! !
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:ummm: Well, apparently I am argumentative all the time. Was told that the antenna to be replaced is such and such and when I disagreed, because I had already had the time to check and verify the correct antenna ... now I am being argumentative.
Methinks it is more that you can't possibly be wrong about anything so to hear otherwise sets you off.
Oh and when he finally did see that I was right did he admit to being mistaken and sorry I over-reacted ... yep crickets.
But man oh man if I am proven to be in error they want a blood sacrifice and the works.
So frustrating, and the other thing that is so frustrating is this nonsense of not being to do simple tasks as before, I mean seriously talking and breathing have never been a problem in the last six centuries and yet now I get winded trying to string more then three words together in a sentence, this laryngitis rubbish is the pits. The big problem is getting people to understand it and to stop trying to get me to talk. You can hear me effing dying when I open my mouth what part of "text me" is not understood?
Yes, I can talk to certain degree but these idiots want to go on and on and on and on and on .... at that point I am in severe distress and frustration levels have hit the danger zone and now I start to lash out.
So even though I have told them and warned them, now I am the evil one ... :rat-atat: ... ass-hats
Have this new antenna I am to install at the head end for a consolette for another agency. Got a hold of it and man this thing is the craziest one I have ever seen, looks like a porcupine getting ready to do the "I warned you" thing. Apparently it is a multi-band antenna of some sort, as it does the big three bands VHF, UHF and 800 MHz
The problem is the radials on it reach the bottom of the mast, but wait it is threaded so where is the other section .... yep there is none ... so how am I to install this ????
To make it even more interesting it is on the roof on a screen wall that if I were to use the buildings extension ladder that they have would see me in the hospital in intensive care at the very least.
Yeah that rickety and flimsy in my eyes. Didn't reach high enough for me to get to where I needed to be anyway.
Although without a way to get the antenna up over the screen wall there was going to be no further action on that concept. Tried to take one of my 12 foot extension ladders up there yesterday. Sorry no freight elevator to get it to fit in and oh the way the building was constructed the first two floors of the staircase said :noway: are you getting that thing up through here ... :thud:
Although he say you can get a ten foot extension ladder in there ... :sigh: back to the shop to swap them out and here comes the :rainy: and with feeling ... :ummm: didn't see that coming, wonder what today will bring in regard to completing the swap
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Yippee-ki-yeah
Got the porcupine with a hard on installed. Even had a nice power reading on it as in 44 watts forward and only 353 milliwatts reflected. Tis only a consolette so not high power by any means.
Then I had to do some nasty paperwork to document the install, reminds me of the stuff I have helped my senior tech fill out on PM's for Federal customer sites.
Did mange to gathered all of the information for the consolette with no trouble and then had to go back to the airport and do the same there, however that is a different type of base station and I have only read one of them before so for me that was a touch and go thing, but phone call ... ehem ... text message to my senior tech and all was good.
Then there was a bit of "about time" news ye ole junior office lady is finally gone, she is now someone else's problem. Apparently she got a transfer to being an assistant customer service rep to a "CSM" for about 50 customers. Things are going to be interesting for her as ye ole boss thinks she is going to be in over her head. So do I ... :tearlaugh:
The real :ummm: moment is that even though I am apparently argumentative and a blunt and to the point person the boss did put me in for a 10% bonus not the base of 4%
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Most entertaining! I hope you got a chuckle out of all that stuff.
NEXT . . .
1) wear a big sign saying "LARYNGITIS. CANNOT SPEAK!" then walk off when they try to converse vocally.
2) SHIT always rolls downhill. The STENCH from said shit always rises!
3) Leave LARGE steaming piles of SHIT under your undesirables!
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Oh my chuckles got even better later on as the cruise line people sent in 20 radios for programming ... okay for whom are they to be programmed for as they did not state that at all.
Although since they are 8/900 radios I think I know since only the island has that freq range. The good news would be if this is true well at least I have a manager code plug that is valid. So no teeth pulling maybe
Still waiting on the other code plugs to be provided and it looked like they did come in, as in after I was home.
Better late then never I assume is the motto ... :shrug: not caring much as they make my head hurt and I am so tired of the "deer and headlights" activities that seem to be the norm with them.
Found out that the paperwork I filled out now has to be printed so I can hand sign it to then scan it back in and the email to the appropriate parties ... :whatthe: ... I wonder if they sit up at night dreaming this crap up as to just how convoluted they can make a task. Hell to start with they sent the file as a "pdf" not certain what the :soapy: I am to do with that since we do not have writer so one can edit a file. However just as I was getting ready to get childish I saw and clicked on a tab that said "sign it" and lo and behold I was able to click in all of the boxes and populate it with the requested details. :yippee:
Serendipity strikes again.
Oh don't see where I mention the other bolt of serendipity ... I use a digital watt meter that can be operated from my phone .... imagine that ... me using a phone for other then making and answering phone calls.
Anyway my big beef was that although I could take a reading I had no way to save it on the phone. I always had to open it via the laptop to be able to save the measurement.
Well, ye ole mobile installer who happened to be with me while trying to get the laptop to behave said "just take a screen shot" and I am like I would if it could and he said give it here. After a couple of false starts he finds the right combo to show how to do so and "wha-bam" I can now take a screen shot of the watt meter on my phone and no longer have to open the laptop. The bonus is it saves the screen shot to the gallery on the phone which makes it simple to share with the appropriate people.
:thud:
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Hey sounds like a major pileup of WINS for you this round J! :D
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Indeed it does make me happy, since it is a rare occasion for me. Not that I don't win ever but it do seem like the times I do are spread out far enough apart that I forget that I won and any win large or small is a win as we all know.
Well, the voice seems to be getting better today I can almost talk and be understood by Watanuki and it doesn't send me into a coughing fit as before so hoping that this is turning around at long last, because it has been difficult. I can feel the throat is still swollen, and sore. But at long last it is starting to ease up. So going to proceed with caution and keep babying it as much as possible so I can stay on the road to recovery.
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Yippee talked to no one today except for an acknowledgement of "yes, I hear you"
Loving it.
Well it looks like we might have a night of classic on the TV
First up "Forbidden Planet" I have heard of this one many times but have never seen or watched it prior, so this should be a change of pace for me.
Next up or eventually is "The Maltese Falcon", a book I have read previously and have in my library, knew about a movie adaptation but again have never seen it so .... hoping for the best.
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Glad you didn't have to talk finally.
I first watched Forbidden Planet in the local drive-in in Alabama in the late 1950's. I've loved it ever since.
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Me too, hope I can convince them at the day job to keep my having to respond down also, not holding my breath for the evening though since this is Monday and a school night, but here is hoping.
Forbidden Planet was kind of odd as I almost didn't get what was the plot. Did get it, but they certainly did a good job of keeping one guessing. Most likely will have to watch it again to pick up on the nuances ...
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Well now had a really weird and off the cuff day.
Tried to go to work this morning and found out that we have low pressure in a tire. To the tune of a screw buried in it.
:thud: What a way to start the day.
Got worse, tried to change it out and what the double :soapy: couldn't get a lug nut off even when standing on top of the wrench .... :whatthe:
Called the other guy from the shop that I knew had more tools then I of an automotive nature and he came on over and he just about couldn't get the lug nuts off so I could change the tire out with the spare.
Took it to the shop that last worked on the tires and raised hell about it and his response "we tighten them according to factory specs" :bs: I have never not been able to change out a tire on my own with nothing more then the lug wrench.
And yes, I have changed the company truck tires out previously by hand, with no problems.
Not today ... how annoying
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:whatthe: Factory specks for What a Tank? o.O
Been on the side of the road with a flat tire and I Weight 250 and Standing on the lugnut Breaker bar I had to Jump up and down on it to finally break it free then on to the next one etc.. Was a long Swear induced Rant.
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Big win with the voice J! Glad you got the tire sorted. Lug nuts can be a problem at times. See, the hole the studs feed out of do get wallowed a bit, and tend to make the nut stick even more. I have seen lugs tightened so much that I broke the stud off breaking it with my big 4 way wrench. ?!!? Yep. Been a long time since that one. Doubt I could do that now. Did you get to go to work at all?
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@Rad Never thought about that but you are probably right. I weigh in at 190 and I have always been able to get lug nuts off and have done so on the truck before, not yesterday though.
@ McG yes we did finally get into work but I was still using bad words for some little time after I got it all done and repaired.
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Here is another for the cuckoo's nest. Have radios for the cruise line 800 MHz radios; opened up the archived code plug I have for the island and what do I get but 6 errors in CPS.
:whatthe:
Now wait a minute this worked just fine when I read it way back when and archived it so what the double :soapy: happened.
Well, after hacking on it all day and opening a case with Motorola, which went nowhere fast .... I swear they go out of their way to ignore me or I am not using it correctly don't know which all I do know is that they are the absolute worst when it comes to supporting the shops.
My opinion
Anyway after waiting for at least an acknowledgement of the problem I got "bored now" (I do have a customer waiting on these) and wrote to the last guy that helped me and damn an answer in a timely manner ... what a concept.
Turns out that a there is a range of freq's that require an entitlement ID to be installed in CPS to allow me to use that range of the 800 band. :whatthe: :ummm:
News to me, was also news to the senior tech. However he looked it up on the web and lo and behold with Trbo radios that portion of the 800 band is off limits unless you are licensed to use it.
:thud:
Why is crap like that never mentioned in any manual anywhere and you have to go down 17,256 rabbit holes to find the answer it is so frustrating and annoying especially to those of us that have no formal training mainly because there is no formal training for the software tools that I use. Doesn't help much either that I have only, well over the course of a handful of years been doing the simple repetitive tasks for programming and licensing.
The real kicker is I have never had to or tried to program an 800 band radio from scratch, I have only had code plugs that were blown into the radios previously and apparently they did not have that particular range of freq's in them as yesterday's behaviour was most unusual.
Well, he did give me a form, yep a form with the proverbial 20 questions, some of which I do not get, so another round of questions to make certain I answer them correctly. I swear can't I just order the damn things since it has a part number ... apparently not ... I have to deal with the sticky red tape rubbish ... :sigh:
Well, guess we shall see how that goes this morning when I get back to the office. Yep even though I take some of the angst and problems home with me mentally I do not work on any of it off the clock it can and will wait till the morning.
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Just got to the phone and checked work email and "wow" how about that the illustrious IT help desk finally got back to me and what do they reply "we need more information"
:thud: I swear I never win with these idiots .... never
Oh the time they finally deigned to look at my request 3:00 this morning ...
Even though I have an answer I am going to string them along and see if they can come up with the same answer. They already flunked on the timely part of a response mind you ... then again I did not state its urgency was of a high level nature but still ... the original request was submitted at 11:45 just before noon and it took them until 3:00 this morning before they replied and I get once more the generic "we need more information" reply :rat-atat:
Thank goodness it wasn't important :thud:
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:iminnocent:
Raisins are healthy, and they are inexpensive, and some people may even find them delicious. But they are rarely considered helpful.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill
“Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution — even if it’s right in front of your nose.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
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Here is the fun bit, I submitted the form to get the licenses I needed. Thought it would get kicked back since I wasn't totally sure how to respond ... nope ... went right through and had the license less then 30 minutes later.
Installed one on my laptop and then opened the code plug for the island and :woohoo: it worked all freqs are present no errors and so forth ... well imagine that ... :tearlaugh:
Seldom do things work the first time in my neck of the woods, so was most pleased.
Still haven't seen an answer from the level one IT support people ... surprised not surprised
Anyway had a favor to see if we could grant for the hospital chain so went traveling. Well, the request was granted but we found out immediately that the repeater is certainly very stupid.
Why? Well, the request was someone walked off with one of the manger radios and will not own up to it or return it, either because they don't know that they have it or are just playing stupid.
Doesn't matter.
Can you help me find it. Well, turns out yes we can, we can make so that radio can not access the system. What we didn't count on when we did the jiggery pokery was that by just turning the one radio off the system didn't know what to do with the others and turned all of them off.
:thud: You pay how much for these things and it can't figure out that even though one ID is not allowed that the others "would be allowed" hate to say it but that is "some crazy talk"
Only reason we found out is we got a call within 30 minutes saying there is a problem with the system, went back added the rest of the ID's and allowed them and all was right with the world once more ... if I had brought my test radio with me when we started this we would have found out right then and there instead of having to round robin the thing.
Guess who will have his radio with him even if he never uses it in the future, twas most embarrassing till we got back and sorted that mess out.
Fortunately it was an easy fix and all was right with the world once more in short order. Although the details that we had to figure out the hard way could have been avoided as in, is it documented in the help file?
Nope not documented.
:sigh:
Makes a person wonder just what is the purpose of a help file if you can not get any answers.
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Well, they finally decided to reply (6:00 am my time) ... :thud: :rat-atat:
We're sorry this is not an IT supported piece of software, we are closing the ticket out.
:rat-atat:
Hang on a second is all I can think of to say if it is not support or you are not the right people then tell me who I need to talk to :soapy:
But noooooooooooo can't do that ass-hats
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And everyone at the shop wonders why I dislike dealing with and submitting a ticket to IT
Looks like a perfect example to me.
15 hours to get the first response and then another 27 hours before they say "oh sorry can't help you we don't support that product".
:ummm: :whatthe: It is used to program the radios that are sold by Motorola what do you mean the software is not supported?
So again if you don't have an answer then who should I be writing to .. nope can't do that either they are just closing the ticket out.
And this is a "supportive" team of "professionals"
:tearlaugh: my :waveass:
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And now I find out after having gone through crap multiple times, that I have been submitting tickets incorrectly all this time.
Well, thanks a bunch for telling me folks, no wonder I disliked having to open tickets for help. I was never told how to do it correctly and I have been hitting the default contact button all this time and making my life miserable.
:sigh:
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All right I need a professional can someone explain to me why the IRS is stating that I made an error on my return in 2020 :whatthe: two years later and you are just now getting to it and "oh by the way we are charging you interest anyway and no we cannot remove it".
:rat-atat:
However the real question is this, if according to them my taxable income is down by over $300.00 then how can the tax burden be increased by $600.00
:ummm: That doesn't add up at all
Oh and when I tried to call I get the due to the high number of calls we can not take your call now please call later or visit our web site :thud: :rat-atat:
Color me three times 10 ^ 17256 shades of pissed off.
I know simple math and if one side goes down the other side goes down as well
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Call a Tax Lawyer! As this Sound Fake.
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Congratulations we have hit the in line for 1:04 mark
Estimated wait time was more then an hour ... let us see how much more :thud:
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Made it up to 2:03 and then it switched to another message and I was disconnected as they had closed.
Wow, and this is what our tax dollars fund, on hold for over two hours and once the office has closed to hell with you and double :soapy: you. Don't care, try again some other day
:rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
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Kidnappers and terrorists rarely care for those held hostage.
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Call a Tax Lawyer! As this Sound Fake.
It was a genuine letter from the IRS I don't fall the other :bs: learned the hard way and still cannot believe to this day that I was that stupid.
At any rate I am looking at the numbers again and I still come up with the same answers.
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Kidnappers and terrorists rarely care for those held hostage.
Isn't that the truth, worse still was todays attempts to call yep disconnected every time as due to unexpected high call volume on the topic selected.
First off what do you mean "unexpected" that is a load of :bs: and you know it.
Second went and tried a different tack and called to try and make an appointment in person. Maybe I would have better luck doing that ... :shrug: stranger things have happened ... :ummm:
Well after an hour of waiting in the line for a live person to talk to :yippee: I got one.
I need to make an appointment to go over this letter saying I owe.
Do you want to make an appointment or go over it now?
Well, hell yes if we can handle it over the phone that would be great.
Another 15 minutes of trying to verify who I am and so forth and then pulling up my file and now we are talking about it.
Well, it looks like you left three lines blank on this form ... :ummm: ... not .... as I have a copy in front of me and that is not the case.
So guess what we can't fix this on the phone you will have to make an appointment.
:sigh: Yep saw that coming ...
Let see, oh that is no good Maitland (the closest place) doesn't have an opening until May :thud:
Well, we can get you one in Lakeland two weeks from now. :shrug:
Or I can get you in on this coming Monday in Ocala ... which happens to be 61 miles away for me ... at 8:30 AM
Wow, how is that for a way to spend a Monday morning ... not my cup of tea but the IRS is a bitch at the best of times so since we have ample PTO I guess Monday coming up we are going on a field trip whether I like it or not ...
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Well, son of a :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: finally found the correct instructions with explanations as to how to fill the SE form out, and of course they changed it and now there is no longer a short and long form they want to double tax me now frelling :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: have only ever filled out the short form all these years previously. Dirty rat bastards
So it looks like I have to take it in the shorts again from the bastards in the "blood sucking parasite department"
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The sad bit is after wading through all of the goo and :bs: to recalculate the numbers I now come up with the same number except of course for the frelling interest I am being charged for a balance due I had no idea about until this week. Doesn't quite seem right to me in any way, shape, form or fashion.
If you don't know you have a balance how can you be charged interest on it?
Guess the taxes I just turned in and received notice that they got them means I will not be getting a refund as previously expected. Granted I was only looking at less then 200 but we can kiss that good bye
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Almost makes me wonder if I should even go to the tax office on Monday now. Since I am in the wrong ... :thud:
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:puah: times 10 ^ 17256 power was at the bookstore today ... no real surprise there, but what made me go :puah: is there was a "man" in there that had gold metal flake fingernail polish on his nails ... seriously :soapy: what the flying :soapy: is that :bs: about
Men in my opinion do not wear finger nail polish for any reason that is my story and I stand behind it.
And as I said "my opinion" one can agree or choose to differ with me. Won't change my viewpoint though ... just a heads up.
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:iminnocent:
Steve Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xxiK6Z4eXs&list=PLgQGyC5BAeQ_1mbq3bfa4Y3NYaLKy7lRw
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Certainly different :tearlaugh:
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Penn Jillette comes to mind
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Had to look him up as I have never heard of him, Going out on a limb but methinks the painting of one nail is slightly different then what I saw, as mentioned all nails in bright metal flake gold
A definite step to the left, right, up, or down from one nail.
Just seemed to be off in my mind, granted to each their own .... just was too garish for me.
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Anyway on to todays adventure took the day off as I had an appointment with the IRS and boy did that ever go wrong on so many levels.
First as mentioned I found out over the weekend that I was indeed in the wrong and I do owe, I strongly object to being charged interest on something that I had no idea that I owed on. Wonder how much more it would be if they had dragged their feet any longer, remember this is for the 2020 year return and 2021 has been submitted already so just how long have you lot been sitting on it.
So the first strike was that I actually do owe, took a :soapy: YouTube video to find the error but find it I did, the second strike was getting there and finding out that sorry we are going to have to cancel, but you can re-schedule the appointment with the manager. Excuse me I had to take the day off and drive for an hour to get here on time and then you tell me this rubbish.
Double, nay triple plus :soapy: As mentioned though I had to bottle that up as Mr. security guard looked like he was wanting some fun ... ass-hat .. not today from me.
The glimmer of hope was that while on the phone, yes no real person to discuss the rescheduling with .... a :soapy: phone. Bunch of chickens. Told her first, answer me this and that was when I did the "interest" dialog and then that changed into the fact that well after surfing the web site for the IRS and getting no where fast, I did a random search and found said video that showed the correct way and OK I do owe money. I object to the interest though, granted it might only be $16 and change but it is not right in my head.
While filling the form out while still there I got a little guidance on how to word why I think I should not be charged and it was the info about no luck on the web site as it leaves the problem lines of the form out and you just don't know that they are relevant now. I have been filling out a short form all these years previously so I made the assumption that I continue to ignore those lines. Much to my dismay. Anyway telling her about the lack of info on their site but that some random searching brought back and answer an in a timely manner that was actually useful. Was something that she said I needed to include.
Well, eventually it got the point of yes I can pay it today and file the form to "hopefully" get my interest charge paid back. Because as we all know filling out the form and sending it in and getting a judgement on it all before the next date of interest increase is a pipe dream on the best of days.
And you can bet that I had a copy of the check, voucher, and request form copied and stamped in my grubby mitts before I left the office. For another hour long drive back. :thud:
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Part two of the entertainment today was that I finally got around to dealing with the Medicare enrollment process.
The first call told me after I pulled it out word by word, that no they don't enroll, just sell you their riders and upgrades to the "original" Medicare.
Well, then who do I call and talk to .... :soapy: yep you knew that was coming ... eventually
The second call turned out no :soapy: better. Turns out they are the actual Medicare office but, they also do not enroll only offer the upgrades and riders ..... :thud: well, just who am I to call.
Got a third number this one to the SSA really why does things always turn out to be a nightmare for me to achieve when it comes to the government.
Well while on ignore or is that called hold .. I think ignore is better ... why because originally my wait time was 11 minutes it was 58 minute later that I finally got a person.
:thud:
While waiting I poked about on the web site that the recorded message kept bleating about and lo and behold it turns out you can start the process on line. Well, maybe this will work ... believe it or not in the just under an hour amount of time waiting. I was able to fill it out, create the whatever account I had to have and get it confirmed and received a confirmation that my application was started for Medicare.
:thud:
Not believing that story, but when the actual live person started talking to me it turns out that yes, I did get it started and it is moving forward :thud: I don't believe it
Three phone calls plus an hour and a half of my life I will never get back. Additionally the three hours spent driving to and from the IRS office we managed to get through an invasive governmental encounter.
And no one in reality was harmed, maimed or otherwise inconvenienced .. in that fantasy world that I get my mail at though well, let us say NOT so very much.
Not so much the people I dealt with as they were helpful for the most part except for the first two Medicare calls. But the agencies in general can take a long walk on a short pier.
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Wow imagine that, the check I gave up at the IRS office on Monday has already cleared my bank.
Man, they don't mess about when they are getting paid ... :thud: ... do they
Wonder how long it will take to get my $16 and change back for the "unjustified" interest that was charged.
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Can someone please explain to me just what is wrong with people these day ...
If you send a form of what test equipment one is supposed to have and I send it back with additional equipment added and highlighted to bring your attention to it and we work in the same part of the shop ... easily capable of being heard so number one why do you have to ask what the highlighted items are about?
You did ask for an update ... did you not?
Two why the :soapy: are you sending an email to ask me that ... what are you to chicken shit to stand up and walk over to my office door and ask?
Yes, that was a rhetorical question
Since he did send an email instead of getting up off his fat ass to walk over and ask.
Then to make it even more obvious that he is a chicken shit was he replied to the email after I spoke to him and stated that I should talk to the boss to see what should be done next .... :thud:
Dude you are an :soapy: idiot if you were tasked to update the equipment list for all techs and then we do, what do you think you should be doing with the list ... if you guessed "update" the list move to the head of the class.
However he flunked since he is trying to tell me to talk to the boss about what to do next ... and people wonder why I am at the point of choosing to ignore him 150% of the time.
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Well, it is official even the senior office lady has told this "thin skin" ... :ummm: person, thing, biological disaster ... that no this is how repairs are checked in and that is that ... knock it off ... you are not changing how things are done here when checking in radios for repairs.
I found myself in a position that I left early to make deliveries because the idiot has decided that all the equipment that was set up to do BPR 40 radios didn't need to be there .. I wonder if the :soapy: jerk even knew that that is what the computer and monitor was for or did he even ask before he just went off and tore it all down and put it God only knows where ... which brings me up why I left early ... it was that or be ran up for homicide charges ... yep someone that is literally the new kid on the block trying to tell the rest of the shop that has been working here for a minimum of 10 years up to 25 years, how to do our job ... WTF ... :soapy: times 10 ^ 17256
Or in other words .. guess what "blow me"
The other cool bit I heard straight from the senior office lady was that she brought it up to the head leprechaun ... all I can say is that if the office lady says no to you, trying to fight her is called professional suicide EOS ... so all I am going to do is my job or tasks assigned to me to the best of my abilities and work around his "crap" since he has demonstrated quite "convincingly" that he is not a team player.
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In other words it is going to be fun this day as I am setting the computer back up where it was and the monitor so programming can be done it is small and does not take up that much space. Besides the battery eliminator is at that desk and since it is the only one it makes sense to set the computer up there, the batteries for a BPR40 do not match any other radio we have and since they are not sent in with a battery .... figure it out.
Granted we do not get many of them but there is no reason to have to set the programming gear up each and every time. Besides that work bench doesn't have your name on it!!!!!
Saw something else that I have only realized what I was looking at and that is the solder station that the senior tech and I repaired and bought needed parts to make work is now missing the solder sucker ... wonder what ass-hat did with it ... wish the :soapy: that he would get sent out to what ever site he is to work at so we can get back to normal here as his attitude is wearing thin.
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Well, not certain what the heck went South but I am three kinds of :rat-atat: right now
So irritating when there is not a cause that I can point a finger at ....
Granted I did have a few triggers but none that on their own would put me in this state of mind. Then again add them all together, that would be enough .... most likely .. and considering I am cranky I guess that is where I am at this evening.
:soapy: it even though I am on call, methinks it is time for some :sake: in copious amounts.
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Definitely believe that one of them would be the boss asking about a piece of equipment that the thin skinned one looked at yesterday and gathered what details he could on it.
Yet today it is being questioned again ... WTF ... did you forget what the :soapy: :waveass: you did yesterday and why are you bothering the boss with this :bs: ... a second time ... and can you tell me why it has taken over a week to organize and sort all of the reports?
Seriously, impressed we are not in the slightest
Set up the computer to program the BPR40 radios that came back from depot. Ye ole thin skinned said "oh you know that there is a cable so you can clone them." :ummm: Well, let us see, it came back from depot repaired and the code plug was wiped so I am going to clone what into it?
And it is still going to require a 32 bit machine running XP to be able to even get into the radio.
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did the jr orifice lady work for mr. thin skinned? Hell hath no fury like a bitch kicked in da teeth! Sounds like she misedumicated the new guy, just to fork wit chu. AND she still has the thin skinned ears it seems. his scathing bits of horse puckey seem pointed right at you, with the bitch snickering the whoe time in da foreground.
I'm in a nasty humor this am, forget I am here...
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It is all right as I am still in my growl, growl, grumble, grumble mood so tis just fine.
The one real point in my favor is the senior office lady dislike his manner and attitude too. So it is not just me that has issues with him.
She had some little trouble this past week when filling parts on the service orders. he just scrawls the number and a quantity and makes no attempt to put a description, and then while helping her he puts a wrong part number down. Yep, called him out on it and then walked away just not getting involved with it any longer his ability to be a team player and remember anything from one day to the next if it is not done his way is becoming more and more clear each and every day.
Senior lady asked me to go over the parts inventory and check to see what is low and to let her know so she could order more then just the housings that we are on low on. While doing that, what do I find but an invalid part number on the one item that we were unable to locate earlier. :thud: Don't know who made that label as it looks like it had been there for a while but missing one number in the string made all the difference in the world.
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Do recall one thing that was an irritant yesterday.
Getting ready to leave with the senior tech and we got everything locked up and are heading out the door and what happens the boss calls the tech and say hey the people to pick up the van and haul it away are there but the gate is locked.
:ummm: :duh: Is what I am thinking, we are going home. Apparently the leprechaun in is "infinite wisdom" :tearlaugh: :puah: told them that we were still there at 5:00 pm. Technically that is the hours but as the senior lady already left and it was 10 minutes till :whatthe: hell.
Even told the folks that hey you are ever so lucky if you had been 10 minutes later we would have been gone. That was when they said "oh but the boss said you were here till 5:00 pm" :thud: So you wait till the last :soapy: minute to get here and then expect us to wait on you .... :rat-atat:
So had to unlock the gate get the key for the van and then wait on them to get it started, took four times to jump start it with their box to get it from the back of the lot to the truck. Then get it loaded on the truck so we could lock back up and then finally go the hell home. Although in my case we went to the Asian market to stock up on some snacks and buy a bottle of the good :sake:
And people wonder why I drink :sigh:
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How interesting, been watching some old videos in my collection.
Watching "Death on the Nile" by Agatha Christie. This features Hercule Poirot
I tell you some of these old shows are ever so more entertaining then anything currently being broadcast today.
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And now it is "Clockwork Planet" an anime in my collection
Not certain that there is any rhyme or reason to how I pick something out of the plethora that makes up the video library.
Could be worse I imagine ... how I am not certain, so let us not go there this time.
Thank you
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Oops got more manga and anime last night when I got home from work.
Now it is Uzaki-chan wants to hang out
Anyway found the solder sucker for the work station. Apparently it doesn't work according to the story being told by the mobile installer. Since ye ole thin skin wasn't in yesterday :yippee: a peaceful day for all.
Well, after finding it, turns out that it was not clogged so why is the statement it doesn't work being used. Plugged it in and it heats up just fine so not certain what the problem could be, later in the day there came an opportunity to use it on a repair.
Well, imagine that it works as intended, cleaned the board right up of the left over solder from a switch that is soldered to the board. The only thing I can think of now is that he doesn't know or realize that to be able to remove solder from a board that has certain portions of it connected together as a ground plane that you have to apply heat from both sides to be able to remove the leftover solder.
But do you think he would ask anybody or admit to not knowing something .... yep .... not happening in his world.
Apparently the boss is no longer enthralled with his behaviour either but as mentioned I am going to do my work and if need be work around him to get it done and keep moving forward. As mentioned before, no one asked for him to reinvent the wheel for repairs as it has been done in this fashion for years in the interest of inventory and tracking control, it does not require some new punk to decide that "oh, no you are doing it all wrong, there is no need to this or that as it is a waste of time."
Was told a humorous story about him last week trying to use the paper shredder, it jammed, he opened it up cleared the jam, and then tried to use it again and it wouldn't work. Yep, if you guessed he did not bother to close the door to the shredder move to the front of the class.
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Beginning to wonder if "thin skin" is related to jelly fish because I am certain that he has no brains at all, well at the moment he is not demonstrating that he has any. A piece of test equipment was borrowed that was hooked up to the service monitor, a frequency standard. Because it is being borrowed ye ole idiot thought that he couldn't use the service monitor to do PM's on radios. :thud: :ummm:
Not sure why he thought that but not getting into it, you want to be an idiot and not ask questions then continue down your path. Yes, it is recommended to use a device of that type but it is not a deal killer by any stretch.
:thud:
Then the boss comes in later and asks the same exact thing, after I explain it for a second time I inform him that I was just asked the same question. Next I hear that a piece of equipment that we have which is 48vdc is to be installed so it can be used as a frequency standard. :ummm: you do realize that my racks are on the other side of the room and for that to be of any use in that fashion we would have to move all of the service monitors over there and clutter up the staging racks with test equipment.
So even with that all said did he start to do any repairs? Nope .... :thud:
No, did not say that out loud since there was not a 48vdc power supply available anyway. :thud: Now there is, how droll.
Well, not dropping the repairs I am working on to install that ... well, at least not at the moment.
Next reason why I think he is part jellyfish, how long should it take to verify information on test equipment when you have all of the docs in front of you? There is a fair amount but not an overwhelming amount when you get down to it. So a week, maybe a week and a half?
He is on week three and still doesn't seem to be any where near complete.
So still no real work out of him still as he seems to be overwhelmed by the calibration documents .... whatever ... don't care.
Just doing the tasks I am to do and focusing on that to the best of my abilities, which seem to be sufficient according to the senior office lady.
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How cute it went up a notch. Now it is being stated that the service monitor will not work at all without a freq standard connected to it.
:ummm: Incorrect why don't you go into the menu and tell it to "not look for" a freq standard.
:duh:
Bet it will work then :thud:
The beauty of it all was that he told that to the boss, and the boss was the one to say to him you should know this stuff.
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Even more interesting was apparently he lied to the boss about something ... I am thinking that probably didn't end well for him.
Don't know any further than that and don't need to but it was a surprise to hear the boss tell me even that much.
I have tried to be of the mind set to pull up the big boy underwear and own up to it and move forward ... regardless of the pain .. telling the truth is always to way to go .... EOS
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*WORD!* The Truth IS the only way to go!
All that car repair stuff you been doing? IT got contagious it did! I finally got my Jeep GC back to the mechanic, WITH a nice batch of new parts, oil and filter, and plenty $$ for the mechanic. And it ALL got done and right, in less than two hours! Then he and I discussed some more future (like month of May!) work and we got that planned out and what I need to collect for him to install. MUCH less than before! Ha! But Jeep now corners like its on rails, no slippage of tranny, engine running smooth and silky, getting 2 mpg more. AC blows cold air again! Next, replace one window regulator, locate a blinker switch module, and find the foam seat 'cover' for drivers seat. Now when I open the lift gate, I gotta move back so it don't clobber me on its way up! LOL! Wonderful. Also, I noted a new Jeep sitting in driveway. Old Hyundai SUV is absent. !!! Bro In Law bought a new car! Yaaay! Now he's gotta keep the damn brats out of it!
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Wow, found out what the boss truly meant when he said to hook up a freq drive. He meant to install it in the rack between the two work bench's not just completely move it to the table across the room as that serves no purpose ... how interesting talk about someone not understanding what they were originally told to do and then not asking for clarity ... imagine that .... no I think I am tired of imagining anything to do with that "biod" (biological disaster)
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:iminnocent: Maybe he is one of these! o.O
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | Silly Songs | VeggieTales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLYhCGXUQWs
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Definitely could not be said better :tearlaugh:
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How cute I decided to check my Medicare enrollment form and we are now up to step two of three.
:thud:
:tearlaugh:
Who knows I might just get enrolled by the time I turn 65 ... go figure
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Would say that the wheels of governmental agencies turn round and round, but I am quite certain that might not be entirely true by any stretch of mine of thine's imagination
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At last it is coming up to the drop dead moment for the kiddies in class, review and one last shot at extra credit and then next week finals both the written and the hands on :heeheehee:
Finally time to sort out who paid attention and actually practiced and who just :soapy: off
End of the extra three or four dollars a month until September but :shrug:
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Well, moved the freq standard to where it was meant to be and got it all set up and my senior tech figured out why his monitor was not seeing it, had a bad attenuator ... imagine that , guess they do go bad after all. :thud:
Anyway "biod" must have been in pouty mode because he didn't move the other monitor back at all, since both the senior tech and myself got onto other business. Fine let him pout, don't care.
Received more radios for the boats only two mine you and at least this time it is for a boat we do service since they port in our area. Anyway got started on the adding to RM and setting it up for programming and what do I get when I try to read them into RM (radio management) yep failed ... :whatthe:
Turns out that they have updated the firmware yet again in new radios and lo and behold the current version of RM and CPS2 will not read it ... :thud: .. typical, a communications company that does not know how to communicate with the rest of the organization.
:sigh:
So had to go on the Easter egg hunt to see what is going on and at last I found them. Apparently what I use for key words and what they think is a key word for a search box is 'ehem' far apart. Now the fun part download it, why because now they have this insult to those of us that can download files in there called download manager. I seriously do not need help to download or manage my downloads, they are as bad as SPAZ with that idea.
The funny thing is all right if you say I need it. I will bite ... guess what it would not install. Yep, nifty piece of software dummies ....
Downloaded as I normally would got it and went to install it .... my goodness, I don't know what they did to it but I have not seen anything recently take so long just to get started. It is copying and transferring files faster then one can read which is normal, but the progress bar nada .. nothing ... zip .... showing. It was every bit of five minutes before I saw even a glimmer on the progress bar. So you all improved this how???? Inquiring minds want to know ...
Now this is all well and good except RM has two parts a client portion which is what I am to use and the server portion which is to go on the network which is what our "client" talk to ... oh great because without the server updated the client will not work. So had to call in the guy that does that stuff or was doing it prior to being turned into a system tech to take care of it, since I have not been shown or taught what to do for stuff of that nature yet ... still ... or at all.
Whatever installed CPS and yes I can now read the radio so there is that at last. Fun part was I told my senior tech about it out loud in the tech area, biod is sitting there with his noise cancelling headphones on ... I guess so he doesn't have to listen to anyone :soapy: so he doesn't know yet that the version has updated. So I guess we shall see how long it takes for that to be noticed by him. Since I am not going out of my way to say a :soapy: thing to him. You're the one with the headphones on so you don't have to interact with anyone not me.
Did drop a line to two of the customers that mess with programming on the radios themselves since this is something I cannot control or work around. One thanked me and I haven't heard from the other as of yesterday.
Should be fun times coming soon to a shop near me :tearlaugh:
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:ummm: I wonder how much noise the "biod" would have made yesterday if he was in any way shape or form involved with programming the school bus radio's that me and the senior tech did yesterday.
Had 121 of them to program. There are all packed in boxes in no particular order regarding serial number. So you have to pull out a radio, check the serial number to get the ID then you can program the radio. It wasn't till we got started that it was found that there was a set of radios where the bus rep fat fingered the serial number on one character. Didn't affect what we were doing mind you but he did have to call it in to the radio shop people so it could be corrected there, we on the other hand just kept programming.
Bet it would have set the thin skin one off based on his current behaviour though :tearlaugh:
Granted I miss the previous boss at the school bus depot as he had them in order with the ID painted on the radios so very little if any cross checking required at all. However between the two of us we were still done in four hours.
Got back to the shop and was talking with the senior office lady about something else and thin skin walks up and asks her what standard does the calibration company use when they do the test equipment. WTF
In my mind why are you asking her? Two why aren't you calling the calibration company instead? And three who wants to know and why?
I have been there 11 years, the senior tech has been there 25 and in all that time it has never been questioned or asked ... so whose ass are you trying to kiss "biod" :ummm:
And for the real $24K question why in heaven's name are you still :soapy: around with this task, it has been every bit of four weeks now and still no end in sight.
Lord knows if it had been assigned to me and it took that long the boss would be putting me on the carpet and asking why aren't you done yet.
Well, imagine that when we got back to the shop the "biod" had finally moved the service monitor back to where it came from and had it hooked up to the freq standard :tearlaugh: Will wonders never cease.
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And now on to today's adventure.
Who says I do not have fun on occasions.
:tearlaugh:
Yes got to mess about with a helicopter for EMS ... they be definitely different when it comes to programming
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Well, took the day off due to a doctors appointment and what happens I now have two more appointments due to that one.
Then I finally got off my collective ass and finally made two other appointments that I have put off for entirely too long.
Eye doctor and a dermatologist.
Four appointments to contend with and one of them is the crazy echocardiogram thing .... :sigh:
Hopefully that will be fine, as todays appointment was all normal across the board, so that is good news.
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Back to work related entertainment.
The boat is now asking for the programming software so they can program their radio to work on 403MHz - 512MHz instead of the 403MHz - 524MHz that they came with from the factory.
:ummm: Isn't 512MHz below 524MHz, so what would it matter if the freq band goes a bit further?
Got to wonder if the people in their engineering department are playing with a full deck.
Asked both the senior tech and the boss if that presented a problem and they both gave me the :tearlaugh: expression.
So, guess I am not as dim as I think I am on occasions. Quite comforting, at any rate I did say sorry you need to get in touch with your sales rep to get the software. I can't help you and oh by the way it has been updated to this new version number. So be very specific.
Got to love it when it is not my problem or responsibility to resolve the issue. Doesn't happen often but when it does it is so nice to put the sale people on the "burning carpet"
Make promises, you had best keep them because it is not in the lowly field techs list of duties to perform.
Another good one I heard is the school install that the guys and myself did back in Jan. of this year has just now been turned on :whatthe: and it is acting "funky" ... funky must be a technical term I am not familiar with, either that or I am to old to understand it.
:tearlaugh:
At any rate the fun part on this topic is that the school declined tuning, programming and testing ... now that it is acting "funky" now they want us to offer solutions on how to fix it.
For free .... :tearlaugh:
Sorry about your luck, and since the equipment that they had me install was provided by the school, and was quite obvious by it's appearance that it came from another school in the system and the IT department was basically re-purposing it with no regard for the "details". Such as tuning of the duplexer, preselector and repeater to the same freq across the board. Oh by the way, let us not forget checking to see if the portables are on the same freq.
:o_go_on: You don't need to do things like that to make a radio work ....
Show me a purchase order then we will talk.
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The other part of the day was we picked up radios from the hospital we programmed the helicopter for to bring back for repairs.
I kept them in my office since "biod" doesn't think that there is any purpose to using Smartsheet to track the repairs from the customer. First it is not your call to make that decision as the customer has instructed us to use it.
Get the :soapy: over it ... or better still leave them to me instead.
Quite interesting as when I checked the records I found of the seven I got that four had not received a PM. One was never programmed and the other two have been in for other problems.
The fun part is that these are a model that I have not repaired before, so a learning experience for me. They are a model I am not fond of as they are tiny and are only 2 watts, so a low power radio and talk about jamming all the electronics in a space that do not favor fat fingers like I possess. :sigh: :tearlaugh:
One of the reasons that I am adamant about taking charge of the repairs for the customer is that the last time a radio of this model came in for repairs the "biod" sent it straight to depot even though we have all the parts to repair it in stock.
Believe me they had better be in my office when I come in tomorrow. Or there will be :rat-atat: to pay.
Hopefully the three that I did get repaired on Wed. will be ready to take back tomorrow when I am doing a site walk at the same facility. :pweez:
So we shall see if I can do the two birds, one stone trick tomorrow. :tearlaugh:
The other upcoming fun project is that I am expecting 25 new radios for programming. So asset tags, ID's, entry into Smartsheet.
Better still is that I have to create the code plug for these radios as I do not have one from the initial roll out, for the model bought. So you can rest assured that I certainly don't want him anywhere near them.
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On another note had a bit of a bother with the fancy ass key for the company truck. Wouldn't retract as designed, so decided to ask for the spare until I could get to the place that replaced the battery in it and see what they could do for me.
Sounds simple right?
Until the boss couldn't find the key to the lock box where all the spares are kept. Swore up and down it is kept in one spot and one spot only and it wasn't there, tore his desk apart and never found it. He made the comment that this was the second time a key has come up missing. Disturbing indeed but I do not know what to tell you.
Drilled the lock out, on the lock box eventually and got the spare, used it for the rest of the day until I got back to my side of town to have my key fob looked at, big surprise was that they were able to get back to normal operations. So thought that was a win.
This was on Tuesday, fast forward to Thursday and get a call from the boss while off, :sigh: what else is new. Anyway asked about a service call that supposedly came in, sorry no record or idea about it. No missed call, nothing.
The real kicker was that he mentioned the lock box thing again and guess what now the key he couldn't find is now back where it was supposed to have been all along .... curiouser and curiouser.
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How fun had a site walk this morning, for a project started three years ago ... talk about falling through the cracks ... good grief.
Anyway got back to the shop and the portables for a different project had come back from the engravers. Thought I was going to be able to help program them but it turns out that the code plug was one that had to be built from scratch by the senior tech as I do not understand P25 code plugs.
And since he had to build one for a portable and all he had to start with was a code plug for a mobile and plus add other talk groups to existing zones. Yep way above my skill level so I went back to repairing the radios I brought back on Wed. got three of four completed so that is pretty nice.
Then got a text message stating that the hospital in Apopka had issues with their EMS radios, so went out there and boy howdy the new model was defintiely "hosed" so had to bring that one back with me to look at on Monday. The backup is an older model and they were having problems with it, but when I looked at the battery indicator and the date code on it, twas quite obvious what the problem was and since I had brought a test battery with me. :iminnocent:
I swapped it out and now we have power on the battery indicator above zero, bet it will work a wee bit better now.
Not certain why people think that batteries are forever ... but for some reason they do and it is disturbing that I as a field tech have to re-educate the end users.
:soapy: Sales people, since they never follow up until the customer complains to us the service shop.
So why do I have to do their job?
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Well, it is quite obvious some of my students are hiding their abilities, gave them a mock code exam for extra credit ... neglected to mention it was a "master's exam" and surprise, surprise had several of them that earned over 50 points on the exam.
Had my standard 20+ point range but to have more then one above 50 and even one as high as 65 :whatthe: didn't see that happening.
So interesting to see that I have shall we say some "sleeper students" good to see something of this nature.
They are the next generation of electricians and who knows some will be building the next set of business, education centers, retirement communities and so forth for the future.
I do like to be able to pay things forward and this is one tiny way to do so, and as mentioned it is refreshing to see that some folks are ready to go forth and just need a little encouragement to stay the course.
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Well, so much fun. The radios that were supposed to have been delivered last week still didn't show up as of Friday. One can only hope that things will change on Monday :iminnocent:
Hopefully we will also get some insight as to what is wrong with the one radio that I picked up from the hospital.
Also do look forward to seeing or getting some insight on another repair that is coming back. Volume is backwards ???? :whatthe: hell does that means
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Well, we are going in hiding today as this is the day when my Mother was laid to her final rest.
The entire past week has not been pleasant because of the memories, granted they do not cause as much distress as in the past. And it is only when I think about it that I realize that I am mean, irritable, cranky, bad tempered and grouchy ... as in more then normal .... that it is that time of the year.
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Well, how about that just received an email stating that my application for Medicare has been approved :thud: didn't know one could be denied
I have been paying into this cash cow for decades or centuries to start with ... and I have now "been approved"
I am really confused ... :shrug:
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Oh here is another one for the cuckoo nest.
Ordered more anime and manga .... yes I know no big surprise there ... however once I got the notice that my shipment is on the way that was the last update I got. So of course I am going to inquire it has been five business days so WTF
Oh we don't do anything about delivery issues till 30 days. You need to check with USPS to find out what is going on.
:rat-atat: Do you folks not read what is written there are no updates from USPS indicating that they have received the package for delivery. So how does one check for shipping updates if they never received the package?
Checked with the shipping delivery third party and they too say the package has not left the facility.
WTF
Now today when I checked out of boredom to see what the hell is going on .... the package is here in Winter Garden ready for delivery on Monday.
Give me a break ... WTF ... went and checked the delivery notes and for some reason the package has no notes until yesterday when it was in Jacksonville .... twice ... again ... :ummm: .... then it made it to Orlando and then Seminole distribution and now it is at my post office.
Amazing would be really nice to know how all that is even possible.
Missing with no delivery details for a week and now it has shown up ready for delivery can someone say :soapy:
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Oh great yesterday's mail gives me a nasty-gram
Yep now the HOA has decided my place needs to be painted.
Oh wonderful, we are not in the mood to do a two story townhouse ... the only saving grace is the neighbor who lost her Mother on New Years was wanting to paint not only her unit but offered to paint mine as well to increase the sale value of her place.
Even offered to pay for all of it out of her pocket.
Sweet, but with the nasty-gram I went to talk to her and talk about someone being elusive. Finally did get to talk to her handy man and put forth the request to talk to her so hopefully will get a chance to do so and see if it can be done any time in the near future.
Even going to throw out the offer that I too can and will put forth money to fund the project.
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:ummm: :iminnocent: Still haven't started writing draft report cards for the class ... it is almost as if I would rather have a tooth extracted without pain killer instead of writing those damnable things
:ummm: I might be onto something there ...
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Not hiring a single one of this years students. There was one that got it and did a passable job and followed all instructions but as to the rest of them :thud: not so very much. Then the incompletes :sigh:
Granted that was only the first 10, as the class is too big to have them all do the boards on one night. 16 boards versus 20 students not quite a match in heaven.
Funny thing to me at least is why some of the early folks cried about doing the hands on first to get it out of the way last night.
No, we want to do the written first. :ummm: the hands on is harder then the written will ever be in my opinion. But, no we want to do the written first :sigh: whatever
Can't wait to see how things will pan out tomorrow night when they swap.
Technically I can but it is probably best to just get it over with and move on to something else.
Oh by the way there are some people at F***book that have no sense of humor at all, whatsoever and so forth ... used a Bugs Bunny quote in a response and now I have a 24 hour ban .... I swear what is with everyone having their panties in a bunch.
Seriously a Bugs Bunny quote and you are going to ban a person ... wow ... might as well just throw the computer away if every thing that one says is going to be offensive to someone ... somewhere :whatthe:
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"every thing that one says is going to be offensive to someone ... somewhere"
The current truth of the populace, tween falsely accusing and ruining reputations, and sueing anyone that holds a differing opinion, I almost worry about the future of the race.
Still, the Darwin Awards are being given out left and right.
Cheers
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I worry about the human race as far, as will I be able to survive the :bs: current and coming
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:woohoo: Got the painting that is required and was offered to be covered by my neighbor rolling and since the HOA is now crying about it, tis a great thing that we have got together with her and got things in place for it to happen.
:woohoo:
I still made the offer to add funds to the kitty to get it done. Although she did state that she has already got the base color purchased, and just need to get the trim when the painting gets rolling.
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So not on my list, my back is giving me issues, so currently in investigation mode.
And methinks I might be on to something already because the pain that I have been having in my feet for a while seems to be tied together.
Checked my work boots which are the main go to footwear and so not liking what I felt when running my hands on the inside of them ... so not impressed for lack of a better term.
Thinking the reduction in discomfort that I am getting since taking them off after class might confirm the diagnosis. Especially after massaging them for a bit.
The real weird bit is that my neighbor had an entertainment center given to him however it did not work for his TV. So he asked if I would be interested.
:ummm: Free ... well free would work. Checekd it out and well now solid wood and not the pressboard rubbish, so yes interested. So got the area prepared and boke down the existing and moved "stuff" out of the way so it could be brought over and set up.
Well that part went well, not a 100% done yet with the tweak and polish but got the main portion done so I can watch my videos until I finish and or decide on how I want the final product to look.
The disturbing part is the little box I had that was used to entertain Watanuki while trying to get at his treats, that although was present prior to breaking the old down, has since then disappeared :whatthe: how is that possible. Still haven't fingered it out ....
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Well, it is quite obvious some of my students are hiding their abilities, gave them a mock code exam for extra credit ... neglected to mention it was a "master's exam" and surprise, surprise had several of them that earned over 50 points on the exam.
Had my standard 20+ point range but to have more then one above 50 and even one as high as 65 :whatthe: didn't see that happening.
So interesting to see that I have shall we say some "sleeper students" good to see something of this nature.
They are the next generation of electricians and who knows some will be building the next set of business, education centers, retirement communities and so forth for the future.
I do like to be able to pay things forward and this is one tiny way to do so, and as mentioned it is refreshing to see that some folks are ready to go forth and just need a little encouragement to stay the course.
Right. So, these that will be holding "Commercial" licenses, are they capable of doing MAINTENANCE and TROUBLESHOOTING in the Industrial Facilities? Hmmm? This is the ONE man, that seems to slip through most of the cracks. This is the ONE that most Industrial Plant Managers like to hire as they are not required to be licensed for In-House Maintenance. At least, 25 years ago they are not, not in Texas anyways. THAT is a serious deficiency that needs remedied! Yeah that means I should have been required to be licensed AND the COMPANY has to pay for the testing/licensing fees. That's like what, some $300 now or such? Mere trinket!
That would have forced the 4 year letter from a Master Electrician. I guess company managers hate this because they are deathly afraid of having to pay out something akin to Union Scale to the ONE employee. In the end, they did that anyway. Heh!
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My knowledge of things Electrician is at least 33% deficient now. There are things you know and do daily that I can't do. How droll! BUT Electricians are constantly gathering in new knowledge as the Edge of Technology keeps right on Moving On! AND said bits are added to the NEC every dang year. WW Grainger used to get and send out the NEC updates and addendums whenever they got them. My company was one of their favorite customers. All those folks that used to know me all think I died now. What an awful thing!
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Well, we are quite annoyed now as we have the dubious pleasure of having to write the final report cards. I know I despise this task each year but it is truly a pain. Especially with the skills shown by the kiddies ... I mean I do understand that you are not familiar with the skills but my goodness one would think that even being unskilled and having practiced that you would be able to complete the hands on exam in the three hours given.
:thud:
Nope
Ah well, I guess someone got their revenge because I had my dermatologist appointment at last this week and boy howdy, I am not certain what or how they did the biopsy on the two areas of interest but it is still "uncomfortable" today.
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:iminnocent: :ifonly: Have You thought that this might be the best for them!? O.o
Put Em Down - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_8cfVpXbo
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:ummm: Since you put it that way ....
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How entertaining decided to get a bit more with the rubbish that folks seem to think that they cannot live without.
Yep got me a sound bar; a 5.1 to be precise.
Still using my standard 32" flat screen a stand alone Blu-ray player. Decided to finally upgrade since I got a new entertainment center, for free. It is made of solid wood and not that press board crap, so took the neighbor up on it. Still trying to the rest of the living room set-up, but have the basics down the TV, disc player and sound bar powered up and playing together nicely.
Took a few minutes since I have non-standard devices. However I won in the end and now all of my Dr. Who videos that boast a 5.1 sound track truly sound "awesome" then again any of my anime that also boast a 5.1 sound track will sound different. :pweez:
And yes, even though I went to way to many rock concerts as a small child, I was able to tell the difference. My only issue is that the "preferred set up" versus what I can do in my living space are shall we say miles apart.
Nonetheless, we have got a start on it and we be pleased.
Next will be the distribution of the existing DVD and CD's into the storage on the center which then frees up the previous storage to the point of now what will I do with it ... not seeing much of a problem but it will take a few moments to determine the best use for the newly opened shelves and storage space.
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Open shelves? boockes
easy na? Cheers
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Congrats on the goodies J! The Entertainment system furniture sounds great. I got a soundbar too, just gotta remember to turn it on. My TV is several years old now, it's a SCEPTRE 40" IPS panel but is not "smart". I wonder if it even has WiFi at all. It does have three great HDMI inputs and a few other types as well. But no smart apps. Oh well! I got this one cause the picture is simply awesome, and it was on sale at Walmart. The built in sound is real light, so the soundbar (RCA) was a needed buy too.
Do you remember those inexpensive Dae Woo monitors from way back there in the 90's? That company became "SCEPTRE", and they made a very rugged and inexpensive 15" VGA monitor. I scarfed a bunch of them for family's computers. Those memories are why I bought this television for my living room. :oD
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What is truly scary is that all of the DVD and Blu-Ray that was in the three shelf bookcase that was quadruple stacked ate up all of the storage space in the new entertainment center.
And it is not small by any definition of the word, it is taller then I am and it is every bit as wide as I am tall. And yet that little book case filled it completely up WTF .... methinks someone buys to many videos.
:o_go_on: that couldn't be it
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Well, class is over for a few months and it is time to re-group and get ready for next semester and figure out better ways to present the material because as mentioned some of the kiddies couldn't even finish the cooper terminations in less then the time allocated.
So either they never got it or they spent more time "goofing off"
Flip a coin
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Watching for a second time a video that is tied into a manga series that I follow and it is so entertaining.
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Oops sorry
In/Spectre
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How cute finally got to the next doctors visit ... ye ole eye doctor ... yep as expected they had changed as in both of them. Nope not surprised as it had been a while but at least this time it felt as if they actually did a proper exam. The last one I had seemed a bit on the :shrug: side to me
Granted the price tag did suck a bit, but at least this time insurance was of use and I do have the resources to pay the balance and will still have two or three dollars left over ... hey one has to be able to still buy :luvbooks:
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Might even buy some food and alcohol ... :tearlaugh: ....
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Cuteness abounds went back to the airport for the final trip.
Doing what you ask ... aw come-on you know you want to ... Yep put metal tags on the lines to the antennas ... really ... :thud: so at the one place the airport I can see that being valid as there are multiple antennas that look pretty much the same.
However at the business office it should not be a problem, I mean the antenna looks like a porcupine with a hard-on if you can't figure it out that it might be a special use antenna you have no business running the job. Or more to the point those you send out to work on the system or do a PM need to go back to their cubicle.
Because you are to stupid to work in the field.
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Well, color me impressed I did inventory for my class that I teach and when going through what is on hand for both tools and material I am totally :thud: flabbergasted ... only two pairs of scissors disappeared this time.
That is such a surprise as that is a small item in size however it is part of the tool kit so therefore it is "somewhat hard to conceal" that it is missing. Mainly because, both of us teachers do straighten up ... however I see a touch of tightening up is needed.
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Well, how about that the rain is coming down and perfectly mirrors how I feel at the moment.
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But it does that all the time in Florida!
We are slated for about a week straight of rain starting Sunday! A totally rare treat for up here!
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:o_go_on: It doesn't rain that much here :iminnocent:
Then again there are two types, needed :rainy: and :rainy: that matches how I feel.
:ummm: What does that mean :ummm:
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Well, decided to try additional re-arranging with the sound bar. Now, granted not overly happy about moving it and then plugging it into an outlet that I do not have an UPS back up in line with the equipment.
Guess it is not a real big thing but we happen to be semi-anal about things of this nature. Anyway played several of my DVD's and Blu-ray that have 5.1 as an audio option with it plugged in up front, not bad sounds great and so forth ... well got frisky today and finished cleaning up the original TV stand, moved all of my CD's in there and have room to spare :yippee:
Moved the sub and rear speakers to behind me and as mentioned not happy about an unprotected outlet ... and the test video is The Five Doctors and boy howdy did the bar get raised and demonstrate how good it truly can sound.
Happier ... yes we are .... guess the only other option for improvement might be to hang the sound bar which is the front and center speakers to the top of the opening of the entertainment center. Currently it is just sitting at the bottom of the opening in front of the TV.
Brackets to hang it above and on the wall or in my case the top of the center were provided so ... considering ...
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Well, ever so much fun have to go and start the install for the new MedCom system at one of the hospitals. Only problem I don't have the radio's or interface equipment. So the push to complete this is .... why?
Yeah who knows what goes on inside of these :soapy: paper pushers heads. I am not paid enough to know or to care at the present.
Nevertheless we got it started and made very good progress on day one. The fun part is that the original quote was to go across the roof top. Then we learned the the structure was going to go up two more floors. So then version two was submitted. Then we had a site walk to get things together on both sides to go with version two, ... then in the middle of the week we get an email stating nope we want to go with version one.
:soapy: :soapy:
So now they expect us to shift gears to do the install based on version one and now we need to work with the roofer to get both felt and adhesive to affix our antenna material to the roof without voiding the warranty on the roof. Because we are a radio shop we do not store or stock any felt for a roof let alone the adhesive since it seems to be different for every single roofing contractor in existence.
So seriously people ...
Ah well, we did as mentioned, have good progress for installing the new antennas and lines. Even got some of the prep work completed inside of the comm room where we dropped the lines in at so as mentioned good progress made.
The fun part will be that the roofers will be unable to be on site to work with us until Thursday. The good/bad news is that I think we will have our side completed by tomorrow.
Oh BTW key assist is another one of those things that no one thought about, it did get sorted but talk about a song and dance to get to that point so as to not be dragging their guys into being a baby sitter all day.
So many moving parts that no one is far enough up the food chain to be able to view and account for all of them.
Ah well, NMFP, going to be taking up the coaxial shield up to the roof tomorrow and get it roughed in so to speak. So, by Thursday we shall be at the best place in the world to be .... waiting on others .... I love that spot.
And since the radio equipment, although ordered still hasn't made it here yet. By the way I will also need their IT people to provide three (3) new data drops, prior to turning it on.
:heeheehee:
Yes, I am evil ... but only because I know what is needed to make it work ... and the customer likes to pretend that they have never done this before and drag their feet every chance they get until it becomes for whatever reason an issue in their "mind"
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Wow, and people think I am intolerant.
A response on F :soapy: book definitely proves some people think that just because you do not study, read and research as much as they that you are less then the dust beneath their feet.
Must be nice to be able to focus all your energy and time on one topic.
Mine is focused on providing for myself and studying ancient history does not put a roof over ones head or food on the table. It is good for a random subject to peruse, but with the multitude of viewpoints and theories on even the basics, I am going to spend my time doing ... what ... ?????
Not being narrow minded and studying only one subject and acting high and mighty about my "supposed" mastery of "history". I prefer to know a little about a lot of things instead of a lot about one thing. Which makes a person more well rounded :ummm: ???
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Moving on to work related entertainment.
Got started on the hospital install for the new MedCom system, still do not have any radio equipment from Moto to install but the customer was adamant about getting the back side installed now. :shrug:
Go figure ... because I can't
Anyway over the last couple of days we not only completed the roof portion, but also got the comm room roughed in as well, so todays task was to get the last of the roof top work complete. Met the roofers and got all of the roof work completed, this morning :yippee: got to love things coming together once in a while and today they did ... cool running.
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New task, radios from the cruise ship. They want it reprogrammed for a different boat. Sounds simple yes, well I got a rude awakening it is nothing of the sort.
Pimple one: No copy and paste of radio identity between databases.
Pimple two: No drag and drop of radio identity between databases.
Pimple three: When radio is read into RM it reverts to the previous identity
Yes, my rosy life is now in the "I am killing the unicorns and small furry mammals" mode.
To make it even more entertaining it looks like I need to update the firmware plus do a PM on all of them as well ... :sigh: and then finally reprogram them.
This is going to take longer then originally thought ...
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And now we have the local entertainment company that is ready for the next set of logging radios to be installed. Except what do I find out today the next set of radios have not been programmed. Although I was told that they had it in order two days ago
:ummm:
Sounds like fun tomorrow.
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Oh by the way not even going to go into detail about the lovely "rubbish" for next week.
Yes, when everybody and their second cousin twice removed seems to have taken off .. I swear I need to get more in the habit of doing this too.
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:OMFG: Say it isn't So A Know it all on the Internet! :odd:
So my Reply would Be!
Creep - Vintage Postmodern Jukebox Radiohead Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw
And then This!
Seven Nation Army - Vintage New Orleans Dirge White Stripes Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB6HY8r983c
And just So!
Black Hole Sun - Vintage Soundgarden Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6RD6mjiIZE
:kissy:
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I guess the good news is that the leprechaun is taking the week off, along with about two more system techs but since I do not interact with them much to start with not concerned about them.
Do have two interesting jobs coming up though, one is a PM at the local UPS hub, they need a PM. Sounds easy enough, although we had to go out there for a problem to find out that oh yes you need some serious help.
You could use a business card to scrape the dust and grime off the top of the cabinet, let alone the repeaters inside the cabinet.
Pulled the front cover off of one and both the senior tech and me groaned and hung our heads in disbelief.
Had to check on the vacuum at the shop to see if it was still in good working order and then go to Radio Shack to get some compressed air and contact cleaner. Oh to make this even more entertaining it is a MTR2000 which means you cannot get into it unless you have a computer running 32 bit XP
Double big :thud:
Next one is to move a station at the airport yes, the one we just upgrade that one governmental "emphasis on mental" agencies radio system. The "here we go again" part, they ordered a cable or thought it had been ordered. Because why would anyone tell you that the part number is wrong and update it so it can still be ordered until you inquire.
Thought we were a communications company ... thought wrong obviously. :shrug:
Now fast forward to last Friday past, guess who they are asking if they have one of those types of cable. Oh it is not something that one can just whip up either, as it is a RJ14 on one side to a 3.5 jack on the other. We do not carry stock of that nature as the device that needs it is to come with one.
Oh so why didn't it? One failed last week and we moved it to another location. So they want to move this one but do not have the parts to do so, but it was ordered. If it is not here what good does that do you lot?
Should have ordered one when the original went bad, we did, so now the full story comes out. As I notated above. :sigh:
So why did it get scheduled if the parts aren't here oh we were going to ask you if you somehow managed to have one. :thud:
Makes me wonder what they would have done if I had said no I don't, hindsight ... I know, regrettably I said I just happen to have one.
Technically I have two but I am not telling them that .... it is ever so frustrating that I pull all of the rabbits out of my hat and no one says thank you or damn that really saved us.
First off why are you telling the customer you can do something when you do not have all the facts straight?
:nanana:
Wonder what would happen if I took a week off like everyone else seems to be able to get away with ... probably wouldn't be able to find a damn thing. I also believe that I would turn the phone off so they can figure it out.
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Heh! What would be fun is a candid recording of their faces when they discover you cannot be reached. period!
Rain is great only if it isn't on me while I try to sleep. Sigh.
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Trust me the thought is getting more and more appealing.
Latest wrinkle the "snowflake" in the office has now taken to wearing full blown headphone ... noise canceling, I am guessing all I can say is ... well supposedly I can't say things like that but don't care. :soapy: him
One there is no reason to wear them as we are not in a noise intensive environment that can damage hearing. Two it is a safety hazard in my opinion since you would be unable to hear a legitimate alert. Three it is just rude that I have to raise my voice to get your attention, you don't like working here then find another job.
Frelling snowflake
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Well, the PM at the local UPS hub was as filthy as expected.
Took a vacuum to get the big stuff, it was one of the little Dewalt shop vac that you can use either a batter or 120v power with and sure enough filled that thing up over half with just the vacuuming out part. There were several spot inside it where it picked up a "chunk" yes I use that word with great precision ... that caused it to clog because it was unable to do it in one go.
That is BAD
Second bad bit, 3/4 of a can of compressed air to get the dust out of all of the connector and contact points. :thud:
Third was incidental but, my hands and my jeans were not the same color when I started. Took several minutes of scrubbing to get all of the filth off of my hands ... just saying.
Anyway on to the tuning and PM of the repeaters. MTR2000 which as mentioned requires a 32 version of XP, cannot use any other OS to get into the radio. Was walked through the first one step by step. Boy was that an experience, got to use the oscilloscope on my service monitor for the first time, haven't had a need before, so that was informative.
Anyway three transmit screen to tune and two receive screens before station one was completed. Then power out on the antenna ... oops ... this is not good as it is showing only 10 watts out of it and this is on a 30 watt repeater. Started breaking cables apart inside and still no joy.
So put that on the back burner and started on the other repeater, however this time ye ole senior tech decided it was time to visit the litter box and for me to just carry on. :thud:
Well, I remembered it all and by the time he got back I was just wrapping it up. Tested that antenna for power ah, now this is more like it ... 22 out of 30 watts. That makes more sense as there is cable/connector loss and so forth to the antenna.
So backtracked to the other antenna and did some jiggery-pokery "technical term" and it is now either the line to the roof or the antenna itself.
Going to have to schedule a return trip to get one up on the roof and one inside with the monitor to do line sweeps and so forth to sort that out.
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Had even more fun at the dispatch location at the airport. The actual break it down, move it and reinstall it went pretty damn smoothly twixt the two of us out there, grounding took some extra time but I managed that on my own while the mobile installer worked on the station.
Finally got to the point of testing it and lo and behold their IT guy who pulled the wire in got it right the first time, with no sacrifices required to make it work the first time.
Got to love it. An actual IT guy that knew his stuff and had his act together, first time I met one of them.
The only snag that we ran into was that all the other stations have a replay function of all incoming calls. Well, the third cable for that feature was not provided at the new location. Did some research and what do we find that cable was never at the previous location because it was a training station only in a remote room that was never connected for the function.
Now that they decided to move it on the floor they forgot the detail when they set it up for the move. Found out that the feature they are looking to activate is something that is separate from the radio system.
Ah well not my problem since neither of us were given details prior to moving the station and the system tech that has this on his list to maintain is on PTO this week.
Amazing ... NOT
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Got back to the radios for the boat and what do I find but two radios that were not on my list for either boat. So why do they have a config in them, since neither have wi-fi enabled in them for openers. They also happen to be five firmware revisions out of synch with the boat system.
The fun part is that one was for one boat and that ID was duplicated. The other had an ID that was not part of the original deployment. :ummm:
So where did they come from ?????
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Sounds like the human norm man, SNAFU! LOL!
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Indeed and it gets even better then this, so we will have to see how the higher ups handle the problem ... I am just a tech not the account manager for the customer.
It is on them to fix it, not me by any stretch of the imagination.
On another note:
Been having some little fun watching my videos since I finally went the way of a sound bar for 5.1, why because I am finding several series that were encoded with 5.1 that I was unaware of and now we are getting a most pleasant surprise. Both in my anime and "ehme" regular viewing material.
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Well, entertaining this is most certainly ... someone mentioned being priced out of their place rent wise.
Which is why I bought my place all those years ago.
So did a quick "zillow" search, yes I am aware they are not all that accurate but it is certainly good enough to give a range and all I can say :thud:
The fun part is that they do not have a new roof and solar panels in the description nor do they have the detail of a fresh coat of paint "fingered" in the estimate.
The only thing I will say is that despite the lack of up to date details on the condition of the place, I would technically be ahead by quite a bit, to bad one could not sell and use the proceeds to get into a place without still owing.
Then again I would have to be crazy stupid to move; since my library is at 3,870 volumes plus my other collections. Yep not moving ... any time soon at least.
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I recall your collection reaching 2500, and you affectionately rubbing that volume so gently! You haven't slowed down one bit buddy! :D
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From what you researched; apparently NOW is an excellent time to *OWN* ones own home. I know the utilities went up noticably this year. Bad news for the moochers that get kicked to the curb now.
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:happydance: Happy Birthday J!
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Thank you
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:viking: :bday3:
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Many thanks
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Been in a bit of a burned out mode for some little time and it looks like it is still hanging about, ah well ... a few things to toss out there on the work front.
Did an upgrade at the Melbourne airport and "lacerated" the back of my hand between two knuckles ... to the tune of six stitches. The stitches finally got taken out today after 14 days.
Yep that bad of a cut, so I actually was the one making the blood sacrifice that day ... yep we did mark our spot "ehem" quite clearly.
Finally found the problem with a sites code plug. Did not understand it since my test radio worked every time. So finally did a side by side comparison. The site only has two repeaters and in the portable code plug one set of freqs was wrong, so it was only seeing one repeater. Not going to work very well ... to say the least, but finally found it and made the changes to the code plug and then reprogrammed the radio and viola !!! Got to love it, except for the part of finding out that the fair hair genius boy was the one who left the "bogus" code plugs in the system folder. :sigh:
Had a repeat of the programming problem with the boats. Well, with all of the research trying to fix the hotel code plug problem, I had some insight into what to look for with that customer. Yep, found what was causing the problem, made the changes and sent a copy of the repaired code plug back to the boat people and got the "thank you for your valuable assistance" :thud: WTF :thud:
Don't think that has ever been said to me previously ... quite the change. I can almost be happy about finally getting that nonsense sorted.
Got another one of those stupid text message from the group that is doing the loan on the solar install, still wanting me to refinance the solar with the mortgage .... why would I want to combine them and extend the loan out for 30 years when the mortgage is currently set to be paid in less than half the time. Which would then mean that the amount that was paid on that could be applied to the other and then pay it off in less time.
Guess these people writing loans are looking to keep us in debt and suck up the interest payments to make there daily bread. Sucks when "the consumer" stops and thinks for a few seconds ... for them at any rate. Since the real question is this, refinance out another 30 years would make me 95 by the time it would be paid off and this would be all the while when I am on a fixed income ... yep the train wreck of social security.
What part of that makes any sense when if I leave it like it is mathematically it would work out in my favor better, as when one loan drops those funds can go to the other and since both of these loans are currently 3% or less in what universe would it make sense to extend this out that far. It would be nice in my mind to get to a point where there is no major debt to be concerned about instead of always being in debt.
:shrug: But what do I know :shrug:
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Loan Sharks. Parasites. Live off the interest you pay them. But, for WHAT?! If there is no credit debt, then there is no parasite! :D
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O.o Wow Stiches! :OMFG: I think I will Lay down over here and try not to pass out! :thud: Too many Memories of those.
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For me it was the first time I ever received stitches ... even when they did the "backhoe to appendix" last year since it was laparoscopic they used glue to seal it no stitches so a brand new experience for me to say the least, although judging by how it looks methinks she might have taken sewing lessons from Dr. Frankenstein, definitely see a "visible scar" in my future.
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Well, I can tell you this much after seeing this when I got back to the shop this afternoon doing updates and handling loose ends
I can guarantee you I will never do a mobile removal or install.
If this were to have fallen out of the vehicle when I was working on it. I would be doing the :OMFG: :puah: dance with three part harmony
Just saying
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Found a Dead Possum in a Locked Electrical Cabinet! o.O
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That sounds worse :OMFG:
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Must say there is going to be crying in old town today ...
Car cut off a "dump truck" ... not a bright move on any day ... end result .... North bound 417 all lanes blocked, dump truck overturned, and diesel fuel leaking on road.
Bet someone is not going to get where they wanted to go and there will be some serious "additional costs" ... just saying.
Second bit was going home from the book store "where do you think I go on the weekend" all but one lane blocked on the 408 West blocked due to another accident with injuries, at least there was no overturned dump truck involved this time.
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I've been on your highways and byways and they are a rough travel at times....
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Nope, what makes them rough are idiots that think that they are more important then all others and heaven forbid they should have to wait ...... behind another for any length of time
And these idiots are on each and every highway, byway and street, side road the lot ....
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Dang. Here I am having had more stitches than I can even count, plus staples AND sooper glue too! Count your blessings J!
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J there are a few that deliberately do the slow thing, figuring to handle the speedsters on their own, since the Police aren't doing it.
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There are drivers like that I will give you, however cutting off a dump truck is one thing I think should be avoided ... just saying.
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Just like walking up to an angry tiger and slapping its nose...
Darwin Award recipient..
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Oh for real man. You do not go just suddenly doing anything in front of a BIG Rig of any sort. There is just no stopping those heavies quickly. ALL little 4 wheel, 2 wheel, 3 wheel vehicles tend to take on a very flat profile after one of those trucks rolls right over said vehicle. And then, sadly, is what happens to any driver and or passengers in those now flat vehicles. J, you are right man. I think there are MANY drivers who really think those rigs can stop on a dime. Near 100,000 pounds? Not happening. And full load dump trucks and cement mixers are at the very top of that real short list man. Sheesh! They got ALL that weight rolling on half the wheels!
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And now we have F*ckbook's panties in a twist they have even less of a sense of humor then a fly.
:tearlaugh: guess they can't handle true and blunt speech either, too many damnable snowflake out there telling other what to think and do ...
"hey snowflakes" :upurs:
Now we are FB jail for two days :tearlaugh:
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The newest sign that America is dying
A billboard on a major road is now advertising "all inclusive" adoption
It has a picture of two men with a baby on it
And here I thought that adoption was for a family group as in one man and one woman. Because two men and a baby, especially as they were depicted on the billboard just screams "potential abuse of the child"
And I am not apologizing for my non-woke opinion ... this is just wrong on all levels.
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seems the more so abusive to leave women OUT of the childs life.
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That is my theory as well ... single males back in the day could not adopt a child so why all of a sudden is it fine for two men in an obviously gay relationship now allowed to adopt :ummm:
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Well, how about that my prediction has come true
All the moving about of radios for the hospital chain with no oversight has created a service call that is billable for them. Originally radios were bought and programmed for the site, those radios are no longer at the site and they sent a security officer out there to post and his radio would not transmit.
Well, imagine that if the radio is not one that is supposed to be there and the one you sent out does not have the updated code plug with the new site info ... :duh: yep not going to allow you to transmit.
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:OMFG: :Felix: ;perplexed: :ifonly: Yes a Billing Moment! :woohoo:
Stupid is as Stupid does! Covers so many things now days. :iminnocent:
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Sure is and it will not be cheap either as it was two hours total time, which includes drive time there and back.
Maybe this will get them to pay attention and get the reprogramming of the fleet of security radio done. The real fun is that not only is there a large quantity of radios but there is also no less then six models that the code plug will have to be updated for, granted some are done because of the deployment to the new sites but the older models of radios nope not so very much.
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Latest fun was to go out and pick up a MedCom radio for repairs and since the inventory showed two for the site. I went on out there what do I get greeted with ... where is the loaner radio?
Um, no you are to have two here to start with ... where is the other one at ????
Yep, deer in the head light ... ran that up on the hospital chains side of the equation as it is there issue not mine .... wonder how long this will take to sort out.
Oh by the way did a quick once over and the housing is busted in three places and the display is shot ... yep methinks this is going to cost as the damaged housing is from playing rugby ... football ... dodgeball :shrug: .... whatever ...
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Exquisite my latest shipment of Manga and Anime arrived
And oh my time for a blast from the past ... the anime ..
Cowboy Bebop all 25 episodes.
Oops
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Well, how about that they borrowed one from one of the other doc in a box sites.
Only problem, not programmed for this location, asked the senior tech a couple of questions and it was a simple fix according to him.
Well, an hour later I got all of the error messages to go away from the modifying, tested it and all worked out just fine. Waited until they had a call in for services and got the warm and fuzzy due to being loud and clear both directions.
Got back to the shop and told him what I went through and that I did succeed. So what did I get, but the comment why did you not just drag and drop from the top of the code plug tree.
:thud:
Seriously ... can't do that trick with Trbo radios. Apparently with the APX line you can do exactly that ... damn it, could have done the code plug in five minutes instead of an hour.
Damn it all, I so got to stop taking the long way around.
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:OMFG: The Day that you to do not learn something is a Day you did not learn something! :OMFG: Deep Thoughts With Jack Handy :woohoo:
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Here is one for the cuckoo nest got home from work tossed the ball cap I wear on the bed and the next thing I know Watanuki is rolling around in it like it is catnip and acting as if he had a double dose <LOL>
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Sounds Cute! :peek:
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To them, everything is theirs to play with LOLOL
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Yeah and his favorite smell is home finally! LOL! :grenade:
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Well, not an especially quiet weekend. The HOA is pissing and moaning about my place needing to be painted even though they know that the neighbor two units down has already put in that she is providing the material and labor to do so, :sigh: did get past those morons and their crying and things are moving forward in fact I told the neighbor that if she left me some paint I would take care of cutting in and painting behind the hobo shed for the trash cans.
So that is what I was doing and what do I get but an email from the theme park asking how is it possible that I have two radios with the same serial and ID number. Hmm not possible unless it went to depot and they :soapy: it up
Then before I went into work on Monday I get a text this time asking why were radios delivered to them when there are parts missing from the radios.
:thud: as in double big
She sent pics and everything so forwarded that to the boss before going into work along with the email and discussed the possibilities of how and what happened.
Bottom line went out there later on when the lady came in for work and got all the details, one; the radios were indeed sent back missing parts which from the picture provided I had the presence of mind to take with to correct that mess. Two the other two radios did in fact have the same serial number and ID on them. Went digging into the code plug and so forth trying to sort out which one was the true ID#1081.
Did finally get the warm and fuzzy feeling on the topic so brought both back for further review and returning to depot so they can fix their mistake.
The part about all of this that is annoying is the returning of radios missing parts because at the moment there is only the snowflake that consistently "frells" things up and sure enough read the service order and he was the last to touch them.
Here is where it becomes outright stupid, told the office lady that I had updated the inventory and why on the parts, used to fix the problem, and what do I hear from her. Oh he asked about some radios for those parts as he had extra later around the other day. :thud:
Then when he could not find the radios in the batch being prepared to go back he response was :shrug: oh well they will turn up later.
Wrong attitude dude
The boss thinks so too, because of what he asked for me to do when I saw to the radios. The part that is totally annoying about the whole thing is that we have never had this many errors and problems prior to him being hired, now all of a sudden it is like we can't go one week without something being :soapy: up
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That is what I refer to as a 'dingleberry'. Yep.
An aside J: I bought this latest iteration of a 'Smart Phone' because I was tired of playing with its USB cable port. I looked at it with another phone taking a macro photo of it and see the one in my LG Stylo 6 is cracked. Ah, explains a lot.
The one replacing it is a new version of a Moto G Stylus 128 gig 2022 model. It is a bunch of improvements over the LG Stylo 6!
I chose the Motorola Moto G because of you, J. Actually did! :) You reminded me of just HOW comms-centric Motorola IS. They actually pioneered a LOT of stuff we see in phones today.
And, Motorola is THE Go-To for all things "Hand Held Radio!"
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Aw shucks
Today we have a new wrinkle. In their infinite wisdom they have once again upgraded the firmware of course without saying a word out loud.
So now I have to upgraded the CPS software to repair radios and plus update the Radio management software for my larger customer accounts.
The real wrinkle is that now when I get a repair back from Depot that has been loaded with the new firmware there is one feature for one customer that is no longing being loaded and now I have to call in for support to get it fixed.
How annoying
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It's Not a Bug, it's a Feature! :woohoo:
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Indeed a feature that one can most certainly do without :tearlaugh:
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Double big :thud: last two days spent pulling in the special CAT6 plenum cable (violet) of all colors to choose from ... :whatthe: for the Fire Dispatch remodel. Definitely proved the point that every one else measures cable as a banjo string instead of allowing for oops ... why ... they only ordered three rolls, since it was a specialty thing that we don't stock the customer ordered it and set the amount required to do the job ... can you say "not so very much"
Knew you could.
The first clue that things were going to go :40: up, was there was only three rolls ordered. So how do you pull in two cables per station with three rolls and manage to maximize the number of stations completed. In the real world of pulling cable you always order in even numbers especially if you want it done efficiently. Can't pull in two stations which would require four cables at a time if the idiots in charge ordered only three rolls.
Morons.
Then they finally did get another roll of cable in the middle of the getting down to the point of having to measure and then pull one off and then pull the set in to its location. :bs:
Well, despite the level of stupidity exhibited we managed to get as far as we could with the material provided.
Still hate them ... completely open floor with the raised floor stands and cross bars in place and three tons of flex and sealtight all over the place making walking a challenge with capital letters plus some of the absolute worst cable tray I have seen in my short life.
Best chance if ever to roll an ankle and break it in multiple places if I ever saw one. Fortunately, I managed to NOT do something like that ... came close once when I tried to do my "slip on a banana peel" trick.
Ands what do we get for thanks today ... a complaint as to why did you not pull it down the newly installed cable try in the center of the room. Well, let us see it went nowhere near the station locations which would require more cable then you had purchase in the first place I think is a damn good reason.
There are other bits and pieces to the story but I think the main gist should convey the level of ignorance shown on a customers part when you expect the installers to pull in stations the require a minimum of two cables with only three rolls on hand and then state that oh by the way under floor inspection is Wednesday.
So let us pull in ten stations one at a time ... the funny thing is the other services that needed to have different colored cable also, yet they all managed to have more then enough boxes of cable, instead of reels, to pull more then one station at a time.
Go figure
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Todays adventure was a removal of a radio station for the DEA at a local hotel.
Disturbing news was that the senior tech remembered it to being a real nightmare and filthy in the room.
The only good part was that in addition to me remembering to wear a black shirt to hide the dirt and grime generated in an elevator equipment room. Was that the senior techs memory was a bit short on what we found on site.
The first bit of good news was it was a four foot cabinet instead of a six foot one. The bed news was there was a pre-amp in the cabinet. Good news the cabling they wanted to be removed was not installed with a lot of care so my cable loppers made short work of it inside the room.
Bad news was on the roof, turns out it went to a 14 foot fiberglass antenna. :sigh: Getting it off of the roof was a bit tricky but it was managed without having to make a blood sacrifice :yippee:
The fun part, get it all downstairs to be removed. First problem the antenna will not get past the staircase and the one connecting door with an immediate turn. Good news was they weren't worried about saving the antenna. Well, I did try to get it down in one piece because I do hate to destroy an antenna unless I have no option ... yep that door in the middle of the trip down killed it. So had to cut it into three pieces to get it downstairs.
Finally got it all done and back to the shop and called it a win.
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:OMFG: You did not tire a rope to it and pull it off the roof with a truck like my Installer did!? :woohoo:
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Thought about it but since it was an 18 story hotel and they had several conventions going on I decided to forego the proper way of removal. Besides I did not have that much rope to tie to it :tearlaugh:
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That could have been a nice drop!
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Finally getting to the end of the tunnel .... yep the house re-painting project is almost a wrap have only the front door with its trim to see it complete.
Talk about sweating ones balls off, yes I was painting in the early morning hours to beat the heat ... ehem that idea although good on paper did not translate that well to real life.
Pushed on nonetheless, and the back of the house is done and all the nooks and crannies where my outside electrical panels and services are is cut in and painted up to each device.
So looking pretty slick and boy you can tell who else in the neighborhood needs to paint ... wonder if the HOA is going to get tough with them, since they made such an issues out of mine?
Guarantee that I will be at the next monthly meeting to raise hell if there is no additional painting by other residents and landlords.
What is good for the goose ....
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That could have been a nice drop!
Indeed 14 foot fiberglass omni antenna over the side of an 18 story hotel :heeheehee: that would have be just shy of newsworthy :tearlaugh:
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How cute we now seem to have a new companion: known as Temporomandibular disorder (TMD)
Some times I wonder ....
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Don't you keep the teeth too much joined during your days - or nights? No wisdom teeth around deciding to come?
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:OMFG: You might need to get a Very good bite Guard. From What I have been told You might have some Stress in your Life! :odd:
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Do have one of them but when I use it at night it dries the mouth out quite bad and I wind up waking up even more to drink something to relieve it
Stress ... maybe there might be some ... :tearlaugh: I do tend to take things too seriously on more then one occasion. Difficult for me to let it go, but I do try so there is that ....
As to wisdom teeth, nope all gone as in decades ago.
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Well, uncovered a "oops" how did that slip by us error yesterday. Quite annoying to, it was since it was a customer that said to remove certain services from the quote which I did, but forgot to remove it from the written proposal, sent it to the boss and he missed it as well .... :sigh: so now we are on the hook for something they originally said no, we will do it ourselves.
Why, are we doing it .... they complained about the system acting "wonky" ... yep that is a technical term ... :shrug:
The annoying part is that the system was installed in January and they waited till April to make the comment .... WTF .... and here it is August.
Could not have been that bad if it took you this long to get around to figuring out something was off.
Anyway we went out there to see what was up and read the repeater first to be able to see what freqs were programmed in there and what do we get but a password protected code plug. Ask for the password and oh my God we do not give that out ... well, then how are we to verify that what you say is in there is what the duplexer and pre-selector are tuned too ... never was given the password ... wow is all I can say; why because I deal with agencies and groups much higher up the food chain than a piffling little school district.
Federal, State and Local government and other commercial groups plus Police and Fire dispatch and vehicles. I can get the access needed to do my job at every one of these places and yet a piffling little school district is going to balk ... Go take that long walk on a short pier and don't forget your concrete waders ...
Fine whatever frelling IT (Idiots in Training) department ... was at least given the freqs by them which without them you can say bye bye because there is nothing we can do ... what makes that interesting is that I was given freqs much earlier in this project and still have the email and the freqs in the email do not match what they said it was to be tuned to ... imagine that ... to add even more color to this ... why was the repeater beaconing ... it is a single repeater .... what or who is it beaconing to?
Oh well by the time we got what they said the freq were the tray was out and getting checked and with the freqs I was given months ago .... not even close ... no wonder it doesn't work, oh but wait these are the freqs you need to use. :thud: As mentioned we work with Federal systems ... stop insulting us.
Turns out the pre-selector was tuned to the second set of freqs they provided. The duplexer ... never touched at all ... really ....
Imagine that ... well did what we could and now if it doesn't work still they are on their own ... if you are not going to cooperate then we can't help you. Just saying .... :rat-atat:
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:ifonly: More like one of the IT People Found a book and "Worked on it " Then could not fix what they worked on and Said it was your fault it now does not work! :fixed:
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If we do not hear anything back or get a thank you it works now ... yep ... that is going to be my "go to story"
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Well no surprise here not a word has been proffered since we were out at the school :thud:
Not surprised
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:ifonly: More like one of the IT People Found a book and "Worked on it " Then could not fix what they worked on and Said it was your fault it now does not work! :fixed:
IT = Idiots (in) Training
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Well, there are new monkey's or idiots in the Depot repair department.
Radio's sent in, which has "connect plus and digital" features already in the radio come back to me as an analog radio with no features in it.
Today's returns from depot now has the total up to six ... bunch of morons.
Because first I have to call support and get a case open to get new entitlements.
Then I have to convert the radio from analog back to digital
Install the entitlements
Now I can finally reprogram it with customer information.
Then auto tune it and finally send it back to the customer.
The first batch was five radios and the process describe above took 6-1/2 hours
So annoying
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:OMFG: Think of it as Work Security! :thud:
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Yeah, an irritating form of 'job security', so right on Rad!
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Please tell me that wasn't 6-1/2 houres "Per Each".
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That was total time for the entire batch not per radio .... I would be much more uncouth if it had been per radio. As in :rat-atat:
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Had to go out and remove another radio and cabinet for the DEA, fortunately this time we didn't have to pull the antenna and feed line.
This sissy is not climbing a 300' tower for any reason .... :iminnocent:
Surprisingly enough it went very smooth. I got there a bit early and right after I got there the person to open the place up showed up then the senior tech about 20 minutes later and Mr. Trailer puller along with the snowflake showed up about 30 minutes later.
The good news was that the place did not match what the senior tech had described it was way easier to access. The bonus was no spider big enough to haul you off like the last time the senior tech was out there, that would have me pulling the 9mm out and emptying the entire mag in it .... and then reloaded if it so much as twitched.
However nothing that exciting "whew" Since I was first I checked it out and said damn it all, and pulled the jumper to the window out, disconnected the ground unplug the 6 foot cabinet and lined it up with the door. All before the senior tech got there, sweet deal.
Once the other two showed up while they were laying plywood in the grass not gravel to support the weight of the cabinet. I was securing it to the big ass furniture dolly. I finished about the same time as they did and the mobile installer (not the snowflake) finished and he got that beast out and in the trailer faster then I could close everything up behind us.
Secured it on the trailer and away they went. Spent more time driving there and back then the actual work getting the thing out. No, I am not complaining.
They made some real changes at the site according to the senior tech and it certainly made a difference, as I was expecting this to be an ordeal at best ... a nightmare at worse. Instead we got a radial segment of a baked confection. :tearlaugh:
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Piece Of Cake! Hah! Excellent work y'all!
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Well, back on call this week and got a call on Saturday morn, apparently the medcom radio was not on. Sounds simple and since it was literally around the corner from my place I thought cool running should be done in nothing flat and I can run all of my shopping errands afterwards.
:tearlaugh: You funny guy.
Four hours later finally found all of the moving parts that were causing it and lo and behold those lovely folks in IT who should not be messing about with any radio equipment had "screwed the pooch" again. It must be in their job description to fuck with systems they know nothing about .... because it is there ... :thud:
First issue there is a cross over cable at the remote on the desk that is not the one we made for the install. Yes, we make our own patch cables. In and of its ownself that is typically not a problem .... well until you put a crossover cable in place of a straight through cable ... :rat-atat:
You would think with all of the times that they have thrown themselves under the bus with their blunders that there would have been instructions from higher up to not touch the radio equipment and peripherals
Apparently not ... still
At any rate I am willing to believe that this is most likely a two part problem since after I replaced the wrong patch cable it still did not work. Used the Fluke to check length and wow something isn't right here .... 102' measured from one direction and 246' measured from the other way ... :whatthe: definitely not seeing that working anytime soon.
So will have to make another trip out there to get a full synopsis so the monkeys in training can be told where to look for the solution. And as you can tell I can't wait to find out where the problem is at .... if it is truly on us fine but if not .... well, let us say .... :ummm: .. well nothing polite so I will let it drop for now.
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For our next trick, had a rescue vehicle put in a ticket the their mobile was not working properly volume wise.
Not a typical complaint and certainly had me thinking that well time to replace the radio and send it to the radio shop for repairs. Uh, NO
Had senior tech with me and we did swap it out at first but when the problem persisted even before he finished plugging in the control head cables ... sort of, knew it was a wee bit deeper then a simple swap.
Turns out the code plug was missing a check box and that was why it would come on even with it completely turned off at max volume. The check box that was missed "check for control head for power" in other words there needs to be a control head before it turns on. With that uncheck it will turn on any time an alert is sent by dispatch, which was what was happening.
Typically would say how entertaining but that added up to several hours that we will never get back and it was a programming error that radio shop created from the get go ... and technically they don't want us messing with the programming of the radios ... they even have them password protected to prevent this ... okay ready to see you come out to a service call at 2:00 in the morning to fix a simple code plug issue.
Yeah ... I don't see that happening at all ... fortunately ye ole senior tech knows the password, we were able to get into the radio and lo and behold there was the issue ... fixed it wrote it back to the radio and viola fixed.
Ye ole senior tech called the radio shop manager and reported the findings as this is sort of a serious functionality issue. He was doing the ... well that explains why we are getting reports of battery issues. Maybe, since the radio is always on because the radio is not looking for a control head for power it could cause problems in the Rescue vehicle as they are are not configured and built like an Engine. According to my tech in an Engine when you turn it off you also are flipping switches to complete the shut down and the battery is completely disconnected which bypasses this type of service call issue.
Senior tech even told him that the code had to be fixed it was and the radio shop manager never batted an eye.
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Must be nice to have Seniority! :thud:
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He certainly can make things happen .. we like it
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Well, had or still have a problem with ye ole service monitor for tuning radios. All makes and models work just fine until I select APX. Went on a two day phone conference with tech support with the manufacturer and they had no clue, sent me a loaner to tide me over till mine got looked at ... what happened when I got it the exact same behaviour :thud:
How is that even possible.
Then two days later ... both mine and the loaner are back to normal ... :whatthe:
Called the tech support guy and had him baffled and stumped.
:sigh:
The only silver lining to the whole thing is that I learned after the fact that if you unplug all other USB cables and plug in a mouse before booting it up it recognizes a mouse and you don't have to curse at the touch screen interface or find the stylus that gets misplaced every five minutes.
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Got another of those abomination letter from the "governmental thieves" aka IRS saying I can't do math.
Well, since the instruction do not explain it very clearly "blow me" and yet again I am on the hook for another $200 to the parasites.
Then again what does one expect from an agency that was only supposed to be temporary to begin with
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Another part to FDR's "Big Deal" ???
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not sure if this will Help You.
https://freedomcte.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FCT1215C.pdf
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My senior tech has the Freedom R8000. Mine is a Viava 8800SX
The service manual is still useful.
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:OMFG:
https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/literature/motorola-solutions-apx-series-auto-test-and-alignment-user-guide-8800sx-digi-manuals-user-guides-en.pdf
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How cute the new upgrade to the Fire dispatch at the other county that falls within out shops purview. Definitely want to smack them upside the head with a large heavy object.
Repeatedly .... especially since there has been an additional slew of changes since the last time I was there which was only a week ago. I swear can these idiots not make a decision and stick with it.
No, instead they want to keep making changes but still expect it to be complete and ready to roll out on such and such a date. While I was paying attention to my task, there was no less then three if not four meetings among the Fire dispatch department heads.
All I got to say is it will never get done, if you don't stop changing how you want it to look when done.
Ye ole system tech knew that I had time off coming up so he was trying to be greedy and have it all completed on both sides :tearlaugh: Sorry not happening. Since you also desire the cables to be ran within the new desks. Sort of slows the process, but at least I could get at the cable ends without having to become a contortionist.
Well, he didn't get that lucky and then considering that I had class that night, sorry not staying. Well, can you get them all terminated and stop running them in the furniture. Maybe ... :tearlaugh:
Well, this is so much fun .... why ... because not only did I take Thursday and Friday off this week, but remember Monday is a holiday. So it will be Tuesday before I will get back there to finish the terminations. Snicker, snicker ....
The real fun begins then, because although I will be back to work after the holiday, I have a new doctors appointment and since I need to start burning up my excess PTO we will be taking Thursday and Friday off again next week :tearlaugh:
Tra-la-la-la
So Monday is a holiday, Tuesday and Wednesday is a normal work day with school also on deck for Wednesday night, so again sorry have to leave at 4:00 due to the time required to get back into "town" lots of luck getting it all done especially if you think I should also help in the grounding of the stations.
So which do you want all the data connections completed and working or the stations grounded. Take your pick ....
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Interesting tidbit came up on Wednesday past, saw an email regarding some upgrades some other public safety sites for an agency.
The part that is interesting or annoying ... take your pick ... was I was mentioned by name to do the installs. :thud:
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*sniff sniff* I smell bonus and control. By name means privilage. etc etc...
Well... that power trip went by fast...
At the least, your time not theirs, as you'll have to shuffle your schedual around. Expediancy costs, and waiting for parts costs more. 8 )
Cheers
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:whatthe: End of Year Spending to off set New Year Why did you not spend that money allotted from last year problem. :nopanic;
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On to something new
T-15
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15-T the Tax thing or T-15 the tank? :OMFG:
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Try something to do with :luvbooks: this time
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T-15, a new countdown? For what this time?! C'mon J, share!!! :woohoo:
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:luvbooks:
What else
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:luvbooks:
What else
Ahh soo a new order of Book(s) ! Kewl! :D
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Technically new level
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So you got all 15 of Gordon R. Dickson Books?
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Can't say that I know him, however a quick search shows that anything by him is not in stock at the stores I go to which is disappointing to say the least.
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Back when I could simply be in one book store, then spy a very different and huge one across the street, I delightedly walked out the new books store and over to the used books store. That's where I could find the old titles I wanted. And I did too, find LOTS of great old titles I'd been missing a while. filled my trunk up with books that day! Now that I have a fair size SUV, I could do even more books. Just need a good right foot to do all that walking stuff. Wheelchair don't really cut it. Too slow, cumbersome. So you are moving past 3,000 books, or is it 5000 now?!
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BTW, J. I figure you are above and beyond most county libraries now, in numbers of books! :woohoo:
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It is T-3 to reach the 4,000 mark
:letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie: :letusboogie:
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One of the additions today was a classic reprint
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
Yes, a written version of the opera which yes, we have that in my collection as well, :shrug: I am of German ancestry. What did you expect. The cool thing about it is that it has both the original German on one side and the English translation on the facing page.
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Now that is cool. Too bad we are still considered filthy barbarians by the Japanese, or we might talk them into a similar thing with their Manga and Hentai magazines and pocketbooks. :D
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T-2 only one of the next on line purchase came in today :sad:
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Humanity is doomed
1) Landscaping crew turning on sprinklers to water the grass, with the hurricane to hit in two days time. In Lake Baldwin Park
2) Maintenance people outside putting on a coat of paint on the big red ceramic pots for over sized plants om the sidewalk again in Lake Baldwin Park
3) Student claiming he had to leave class early on Monday so he could prepare for the hurricane ... so just what the hell were you doing over the weekend .... jerking off?
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:woohoo: You just now Figured that out!
I Was Told this by My Priest 1 out of 1 of you will Die! Now get on with your Life! :OMFG:
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I most assuredly did know that, it just caught me off guard to see it demonstrated so many times in such a short period of time.
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Well, imagine that it has finally happened I can clean out the bay of all the crap that the ye ole pack rat leprechaun has not allowed to be disposed of, granted there are times that holding onto stuff is a good thing but after 10 years and continual comments of "oh we can use it on the next project" and so forth and it never gets used or worse "oh I can't get rid of that it belong to another customer" and then it sit there forever and the customer never takes possession of it and we still hold onto it.
Bah humbug
Or the real kicker it was the wrong item ordered ... so why did it not get sent back? Inquiring minds want to know. Better still it is obsolete ... so why are we holding onto it for a customer. What are you all pack rats and can't bring yourself to dispose of anything. Best one though is an UPS for a project 10 years ago that has been sitting here ... couldn't be used .... why? wrong voltage ... yep it is a 208v three phase UPS
Most commercial buildings here do not use that configuration. So it has been languishing here all this time. Finally can get rid of it and then all of a sudden no; not yet I have a buyer for it. Really I have been trying to get you to get rid of it for ten years and now in 20 minutes you found a "buyer". Yeah right, you weren't even trying before ... don't lie to me.
Although I didn't call him out on it but the real deal killer is that was Friday of last week and the guy was to have picked it up on Monday and still hasn't shown up to pick it up. Probably due to the voltage requirements. Well, it is an everything not used or useful that has been sitting in here has to go, so if he doesn't show up today according the office lady in the dumpster it goes ... :yippee:
Yes a 30 foot dumpster was ordered to facilitate getting rid of the crap. Now all I have to do is get the damn mobile installer to stop trying to save shit that I said can go ... he is worse then the shop manager.
So where have I been ... why of course doing a PM for the local hospital chain. Oh, to make it interesting my records show them to have over 300 radios .... between me and the senior tech we were done in three days. And no we did not do 100 radios a day, not possible .. so guess which department has some explaining to do ... oops I said that with an evil grin. :heeheehee: To make it even more entertaining the damnable program that they insist I used to track their fleet of radios decided to update the search engine and now can't find a frelling thing ... literally. Type in an asset number and instead of returning that asset only it gives me over 20 choices and not a single one of them is the one I am looking for ... :thud: times 10^17256th power.
Opened up a ticket and once I got them to understand what is going on because as we all know it couldn't have been the update that is making it act wrong it must be you. They finally admitted that "oh, you're right, the engineers are looking into it. We will include your feed back in the notes so they can sort it out."
:thud: imagine that ... someone admitted to making a mistake ... will wonders never cease.
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This probably too late, but is any of that junk small enough to sell on eBay to recoup some of the money lost in the equipment cost? Or is it to costly to sell and better off in the dumpster?
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Been recycling stuff that can be recycled. Granted some of it is hardly worth the effort to do so as there is time spent prepping it, loading it and then taking it to them. But, we have received something back on the "stuff"
Trying to sell any of it on eBay is definitely more trouble then it would be worth, as we do not have an account with them to begin with and then there is the amount of time required to post, and sell. Supposed to have the bay cleaned and ready for the dog and pony show at the beginning of December. Then again there is stuff that one would never be able to sell, anyone need a 14 foot UHF antenna :tearlaugh: had 6 of them before they hit the dumpster.
Or better still how about a three phase 208/120 UPS with battery cabinets (commercial grade)
But definitely trying to get some money back on the stuff that is recyclable, the time restraint puts a damper on the selling on eBay concept unfortunately.
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I can defiantly see your point on the time table you have depending on what is there and being November. I am glad you are recycling and recouping some money from the clean up effort.
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Well, the first dumpster was hauled off and a second was dropped off, yes there is that much rubbish. Haven't been able to spend as much time as I would like to sort and do the pitch and toss due to having to do PM's for the alphabet soup agencies, yes those people. :tearlaugh: Technically no laughing matter if you are an illegal but you get my drift.
First problem with those idiots though was they update what version of software to use. Okay not a big deal until we tried to download and install it. Why well, it said ... NO ... the minimum version of Java runtime is not detected ... :ummm: Really mainly because I could find it on the computer. So tried a older version then the latest but still newer then what I had and this time it installed it. :woohoo: Tried to run t and got the same error message. Well after spending a couple three hours with both me and the senior tech beating or heads on the wall we left.
The next day had someone more computer savvy then either me or the senior tech come in and try to fix the problem. Two hours later but with out a blood sacrifice ..."damn it" ... he got it corrected. Went to the next site on the list the following day and again it fussed at us, to the point of the senior tech calling in to the agency that monitors the system and worked on getting in that way, wound up downgrading the software and still couldn't get in, so they showed him how to get in via the rear panel. Viola in he got so at last the PN could be completed.
The rude part was I had tried to also downgrade my install and it would not let me again so tried to go back to the previous version and that it did allow "whew" anyway once all was done I asked for the senior tach to let me log in to see if I could do so, regrettably it was after the system was normalized, so it would have generated a trouble ticket.
So let me go in the front panel, set everything up and he tried it first and that was when I noticed something that was apparently missed by him. The length of the password was different from the previous time. I did not press the issue but when he got in through the front panel and later so did I, methinks it might have registered that oh crap all the trouble I have been having was because of that ...
Then Nicole decided to visit ... :sigh:
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Well went out on Friday unfortunately it is not a paid holiday for us but whatever still was wearing the "Remember Everyone Deployed" (red) shirt since it was Friday. Anyway despite the drive and all the lakes surrounding the place that were not supposed to be there we did the same task there and this time all went correctly and smoothly ..
Got back to the shop after one in the afternoon and saw nothing was changed from the previous day the number of repairs that the snowflake had completed or any progress on cleaning in the bay .... Well, nothing to say as it would do little good and I am tired of trying to get others to show initiative and clean or do anything beyond that on their own. It is less stressful to just do the best I can and be diligent of my own tasks and let them shoot themselves in the foot on their own.
The good news is that the senior office lady sees this and has said one or two things that make me have hope, but it is still a long way from fruition. So started to check in radios for repairs why one of the mobile installers can't do this is beyond me but whatever, at any rate had the backlog all checked in and on the shelf before leaving for the day and boy howdy you would have thought that while there at least one or two repairs would have been completed .... WRONG ... didn't see a one go on the return to customer shelf while there in fact the office lady said as much, that nothing had been accomplished until the senior tech and I had returned.
Well, have noticed something else that explains why so little is done by him. He sits in front of the service monitor and watches it while it tunes a radio instead of starting another one while it is doing its thing. :thud:
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And now the icing on the cake, ye ole other tourist trap has finally said to program the radios for the other boat and gave us the payment. Should not take me long to do as I have been only waiting for the go ahead since July and all of the preliminary work is complete.
But wait there is more I got an email on Saturday, :ummm: really people ... stating they found or "have" three radios that they can't program because it is a different model and they can't find a similar one to clone from .... :tearlaugh: Can you please look at the code plugs and make them work.
Forwarded that straight to office lady and said should we not make them aware of the fact that for us to do so incurs a charge and that they should be including you in the email chain.
Yep, they wrote to me and me alone.
Not how it is done guys.
Can I make them work ... yes ... as I have already sorted that out and have a code plug for the relevant radio model, their problem will be whether or not the radios they have contain the correct feature set, because without that ... sorry about your luck. Stop trying to do shit on the cheap and just do it right, it is so much easier in the long run and you build good relations with the people that are doing the work. :iminnocent:
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We got to be here "with you!" when you were figuring lots of this stuff with these radios out. You have done well, glasshoppa, very well indeed! :java:
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The fun part was that the rep from the boat called me directly and asked about the topic.
Told him point blank you need to send them here to get them programmed, as I do not have a code plug for that model of radio and I will have to build them from scratch.
Sorry about your luck ... ye ole senior office lady was fully supportive and pushed back at the account rep on the topic also .... so we shall see how this works out in the long run.
Because if they try to program these and do not give then unique ID's oh the fun that will descend upon them is ever so entertaining ... I can hear it already. :tearlaugh:
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How fun, the next phase of the upgrade for the alphabet soup agencies wanted to have the other sub sites updated but oh by the way you can only install and do the temp wiring as we are not ready to cut them over.
WTF
So in other words I will have to make two trips to each site to complete this project. :thud:
There might be only five sites but they are all on the East coast ... Cocoa Bch, Melbourne, Titusville, Daytona Bch and the last is at least near the shop. The bullshit was they wanted them all done in one day ... The fun part was the first one which was to be a 20 minute job turned into 2-1/2 hours ... why the :soapy: ST took :soapy: forever to respond to each text that I was to send and then kept harping about you need to do it according to the MOP (method of procedure) you are now cleared to do all step from # to #
:sigh: Hey :soapy: I am waiting on you and am already past that point. This is not the first install I have done, and it is to simple so stop trying to make it more complicated then it needs to be
Writes back "so are you up to step ##
:thud: :rat-atat:
Then the next bit of fun go to site number two and what happens when I got done with it, I can't get to it via the UEM ... :sigh: turns out they shipped the wrong one to us. :rat-atat:
So had to revert it back to original config ... get to the next site and the POC was not present so had to abort and go to the next site and of course the router I have is again the wrong one.
WTF is wrong with these :soapy: people ... you cry about it needs to be completed by such and such a date and wow the wrong routers are shipped to me and the ST is useless in regards to getting anything done in a timely manner as this was not to have taken all frelling day.
It gets worse but I will not bore you with all of the details at the moment ... but all I can say is these people are :soapy: morons.
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:aaah!:
:ahhhh:
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Found out later on that the reason the project is hosed was due to ... get this they upgraded the software tool used to created the project from one version to another and guess what ... it hosed up all of the "important details" such as which router gets programmed for what site
I swear :rat-atat: you have got to be :bs: me
A project that you silly engineers have been working on for who knows how long and you thought it was a good idea to upgrade the software tool in the middle of it.
:duh:
Even I am not that stupid and all I do is install the equipment while you pencil neck geek cry about it not working ... You designed it .... you figure it out.
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Proof in point that once some of these tech get to a certain level they forget how to tie their :soapy: shoes.
Received a call while driving from one site to the next, "Hey do you know what size the hardware is that is holding the remote at such and such place on the wall?"
Seriously?
Do you not have any tools with you to do work with or did you think that since you are a tech all you need is a computer?
:duh: When I explained that leave the base on the wall and just removed the allen head bolts from the chassis and lift it out. Again well do you know what size they are? :duh: Really ?????? does it matter most allen head sets that you buy are a complete set from blank to blank, figure it out they haven't changed; in oh I don't know in the last 30 or 40 years
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Or as you're driving tween sites, "Is this an emergency? If so, I need your office to authourize my office for the $500.00\houre emergency fee."
Their foolishness does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Whew! havent vented like that in a long, long time.
Thanx Cheers
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The "I am not taking that bet." That he called the shop to get one of the other guys to go out there and take it off the wall.
As surmised proved to be correct and you would have lost all your money :tearlaugh:
Yes, we asked when we got back from the last PM and "attempted install" for the alphabet soup agency.
Yes, the mobile tech went out there because the knuckle dragging Neanderthal ST didn't have any allen keys in his possession.
I so loathe being right about those ST's all the time.
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On a different note the PM and install went right for a change at the Orlando area location.
:thud: Imagine that :thud:
Yes, in shock I am ... well it went almost alright. Was shuffling the equipment around in the cabinet to fit both the new router and a power strip in it and broke a screw off that I was unaware of at the time. Went to unloosen the other screws and obviously some other knuckle dragger tighten them down so much that you could not unloosen them because they had also stripped the screw head out, I so despise phillip head screws when they use the cheap one that the head just strips out by looking at it.
Had to drill the screw head off ... don't have a screw extractor kit .... yet ... :sigh: Anyway got them out and went to fasten the equipment back in the new "temporary" location and that was when I found out I had snapped a screw off in the rails of the cabinet rack. :sigh: Couldn't get at that one to try to unscrew it from the back because I would have had to unplug and remove equipment to have the needed room to do so . :shrug: It doesn't need all four screws to hold one of these switches or routers up so :soapy: them.
So carried on as usual ... funny thing ... sort of .. was this time when I called into the Federal ST I got replies that were decidedly more timely then the previous day. Guess someone must have said something to him ... found out later that the PM had said my work had priority over anything else that came up.
Imagine that ... they finally get that we are doing them a favor by dropping everything to accommodate them sending the equipment late and then expecting it to be done when they said "jump" ... we do not ask "how high" any longer when people act that entitled.
Sorry, not sorry.
The real annoying part was the Fed ST still kept stating rubbish you are cleared to do steps xx-xx in the MOP ... :sigh: give me a break and stop with the acronym :bs: I am over it.
Anyway got it done and it came back up with no problems and was able to leave. The "your :soapy: up on your part does not constitute and emergency on my part" came when I called in to say it was done. The PM asked if I was going to go out to another site ... :rat-atat: NO was my reply, two reasons, one see previous statement about emergencies and two these sites have people on site and unless it is scheduled you are not getting in ... EOS ... plus you have yet to sort out which remaining routers go where and until that is sorted and you have this scheduled with my office lady .... not happening.
Oh by the way she is off all of next week for Thanksgiving, I am off Thursday and Friday, senior tech is off Wed. thru Friday.
Guess what is not getting done next week. :tearlaugh:
Lots of luck getting this completed and ready to cut over by the first week of December.
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That sounds SO like The Government Offices I remember. From the mid to lat 70's! To use a computer, you had to have a complete IBM Teletype repeater, even if you were right in front of the mainframe itself. Sure looked like a space jockey seat to me! Programs were carted over TO the mainframe via a train of uniformed Petty Officers with two wheel carts with one cardboard box each. Full of manilla punch cards to feed the mainframes card reader. How exciting! Get one out of order and (poof!) no program! No markings on the cards to say which it is in the sequence. Just the one corner cut off every card. (lurch groan)
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Always a hoot whan they slipped and dropped the afore mentioned box of cards.
They look at us and realize why we spent houres marking each card on the back.
My dad invented a faster card reader, just before they became obsolete. Good pay for the time.
Cheers
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How is this for cute I can install two of the sites which they say the routers on hand are the right ones tomorrow, their reply oh I don't know if we can do that we have cut overs scheduled all day. Can you do it 12/1 or 12/2 or 12/5
:ummm: You are the ones that want it done right away after making multiple mistakes and now tomorrow is not good enough :rat-atat:
Oh well, answer now one way or the other or it will be the 5th and you can just go ahead and kiss my :waveass:
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Well, was hoping for an admiration day since I am off for the next four days.
Well, so much for that idea .... first up they updated the RM software again along with CPS which means I need to get the shop computer guy to install the updated server software on the shop server.
Two and a half hours later it finally submitted to the ministrations of him.
I swear
Next up on the fun and games list auto tuning returns from the Depot. Straight forward and technically a radial segment of a baked confection ... yes ... not today thank you
tried four different configurations of connecting the radio to the service monitor and not a single one worked ... get to the second test and it would abort ... not fail the test but actually abort. Bypassed that test, ran it again and it still aborted after about the third attempt and realizing I was the poster child for the definition of insanity ... I stopped. Roped in tech support for my service monitor and what did I find out ... if you guessed that the update Motorola did to the firmware which meant I needed to update my laptop to so I could read and program the radios. That firmware has a bug in it that prevents the service monitor from tuning the radio and causing it to abort when testing.
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The next level of entertainment, the replacement routers were delivered yesterday at the end of the day ... :thud: good thing I wasn't going to any of those sites yesterday because waiting on them to get me the routers would have been a major deal killer.
Well, got to them today and did my prep work such as attaching the rack ears and my premade ground cable. Updated my spreadsheet with the new serial numbers and MAC address information.
The amusing part saw an email from the project manager saying we need to get these scheduled as soon as possible
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
You funny guy ... you made so many errors from the get go and now you want us to ask how high to jump.
Not happening, so far I am only scheduled for Titusville on the 5th and you can bet I am not volunteering trying to do more then that on the 5th, they have been crying about no support on certain days and oh we are cutting over on these days and have been having repeated and multiple problem doing cut overs already ..... as they say ... poor planning on your part does not constitute and emergency on mine.
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By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
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Too Right, Wizz!
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The Proclamation. The Preamble!
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Had real "funny students" last night.
The one said don't get off topic when doing the review. What does that one do but constant chatter and not paying attention as usual wow
This ought to be "FUN" on Wednesday.
Even better that same person asked if we don't finish do we get to finish it next class :ummm: what seriously ... uh NO ... you get one night for the written and one for the hands on. You did a 100 question mid term in one night. How is a 100 question final different? Besides there are only three nights left ... figure it out.
And for the record if you can't finish the hands on in one night which is far less then I would ask of you if this was work in the field to be done ... well you would not have a job with my company. Sort of the concept of if you had been practicing instead of jaw-jacking you would have the confidence and ability to do the tasks. EOS
Went over the methodology for the boards and this same guy is trying to record me ... really well it is no wonder you are a knuckle dragger in the field, if you are incapable of reading instructions in English yet have to have them explained in details to be able to do the requested tasks.
He is going to be in for a big surprise come exam night because you get no cheat sheet, no crutch, nothing to use as a fall back to do the work. It is not like I am asking you to wire up a control panel for the Space Shuttle, all I want is some simple basic data communication links. Install a cable on a 110 block take the other end to a 66 block and make up male and female jacks for the drops coming off of the two points of termination.
:thud:
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I bet I can do that, and I haven't had the class! Or even worked in the field since 2007. :-(
That guy wouldn't be called "JOKER" in the barracks would he? ;o)
Maybe it should be "Private Pyle" eh? As in Gomer Pyle...under Gunnery Sergeant Hartman!
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He most obviously is because he tried to do the fiber portion of the hands on after he got done with the written even though it took him over two (2) hours to do that much and then got all defensive when I told him no just stop it is one night per task.
Even went over the concept of one night per on Monday yet for some reason he seemed to think that it was alright to start on it .... :thud:
The real eye opener was take a pair of wires down to the outlet box and make up two jacks.
Most people think that it is in the wall so I would have a device in that box that you could plug a device into ... right ... not the one guy ... yep if you guessed he had male mating plugs in the box move to the head of the class :tearlaugh:
Had my favorite non stop talker in there on the boards, wired every block wrong, to whit the 110 and 66, wired them according to the device patterns instead of looking at the IDC that go on the 110 block and remembering that oh these colors are in a different order. The bonus was even put one of the IDC's in upside down. :thud:
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And away we go ... it is report card scribbling time once more. How paralyzingly dull, boring, tedious and commonplace .... I so loathe this task. :ahhhh:
Why? Simple I do not sugar coat anything and yet I am supposed to give a positive comment on each students card.
:sigh: If you want something sugar coated there is a Dunkin Donuts nearby :duh:
In other words ... sorry about your luck ... if you do good I will say so, if not ... well, I will say that too.
At least we have the 2nd season of Miss Kobayashi Dragon Maid for entertainment while dealing with the task. Also just got the latest Dr. Who animation "The Abominable Snowman" for the main course :tearlaugh:
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Can't wait to see night two of the finals, especially with the folks that have to do the hands on part. If their previous work during practice is any indication I am going to be in for another long night come Monday. Which sucks since Monday I have to go back and finish the installs for the alphabet soup agency on the coast ... all three of them in one day which is annoying :shrug:
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Well, not surprised one tiny little bit with how things played out on the last night of final exams. In other words, late arrivals and some of the absolute worst terminations seen, which proves my point that yep no one was practicing as instructed.
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Have you ever noticed there is always ONE person in every new class that sorta sets the example everyone else keys onto for their behavior? Seems less prevalent in small class groups, say 5 or 6. But with a dozen to four dozen people, it's like a catalyst affects the entire group. I found even I could be that one, in many cases. So, when I DID see that, I chose to be the active, studious one that enjoyed the whole class. It actually did help. Works best if 'actor' for ONE is active from first moment in class. :)
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Haven't acknowledged that bit before but what you are saying makes sense it is to bad that the wrong person was the vocal one that led the behavior of the class ... :sigh:
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Now for the latest whining :sadder: tonight is the last night of class and according to the curriculum you have to show up ... period ... or be marked absent.
Granted I pace my class so the last night is short and sweet, sign in, find out if you get to see me next semester, get your grade, than go home.
You would not believe, or maybe you would how many are :sadder: about having to come in because and here you can insert your favorite excuse ... this years top one is that it is a waste of gas to drive however far they have to for only a trifling thing as that ... "Do we have to come in?"
:ummm: What part of "you must show up" do you not understand?
Come in, sign in, get your grade or don't come in and get marked absent ... Your call ... don't like it talk to the class coordinator "I can't help you."
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You could have Kianna give them the news. Heh! Heh heh!
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That thought did occur to me however methinks :kianna: has a touch less patience than I with :sadder: babies.
And I have no discretional dollars left for bail ... :heeheehee: :iminnocent:
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So? Did that ever stop you before? Hmmmm??? Heh!
:glittery:
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Not really but I would rather spend the money on books and not bail :tearlaugh:
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Now THAT is a right pregnant idea! :)
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Seriously did you expect me to spend my money on anything else ... BTW .... 4,129 :luvbooks:
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While they might seem a little "young", The Eragon cycle and Ender Wiggins 5 volume series are still great reads. Christopher Paolini authored the "Brisingr Cycle" and Orson Scott Card the Ender series. Paolini IS a youngster, and Card a parent who wrote for the college set. Even speedreaders take a long moment perusing these!
Congrats, J, on clobbering the 4,000 mark. Lots of libraries have around just that many or even fewer!
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The thing I really need to clobber is the complexity of programming acollection of equipment to be used as a MedCom alert station.
Each agency is three discreet if not four parts dependent on which agency it is for and then a minimum of 17 step per device to program them. Then you get to repeat those same steps for each aditional device. Well, except for the actual radios those are a whole other animal.
Then once you are done with all of that, it is now time to make certain it works. BTW haven forbid you make a mistake anywhere because the "edit" feature is pretty frelling useless, had to edit a name and nope, no can do, you have to add a new folder correctly named and then move everything in to it ... one at a time ... then you can get rid of the incorrect folder.
Anyway the radios require ID's from the county to be added to the system and then activated so it can be programmed after of course you program the control board in it first. Then the one radio for local traffic has to get a duplexer which comes untuned so that has to be set for the freq's it will be using, then the radio has to be programmed set for the correct power level and type (analog or digital) and once that is set then pop the watt meter on it and check what sort of power is coming out of it.
To many moving parts it is enough to make your hair turn grey or white or some other :odd: color.
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Happy New Year, Michael! Been a fairly good year, it has. :ny-fathertime: gosh, this one even looks like me! LOL!
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Hmm. If ANY one can "assemble and graduate" the entire collection of gear for creating a MedCom Station, it would be you. You have already planned it out, in your mind. Just as any good Electrician will build and run a new circuit in their mind, you have done the same for the Med Com Station. The boring part is DOING it! LOL!
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Even more troublesome is the final vetting and operational checks. The weird part was the power checks through the watt meter, the state and local antennas did fine and gave me reflected power in milliwatts. Did the county and it was like WTF how is this possible this reading, it sucks as in big, wet, sweaty **** ... insert favorite "noun"
So had to make a return trip to use the service monitor on it for a sanity check. Sanity check said all was good, no clue as to why my original reading with the digital watt meter said ... blah, blah, blah ... senior tech said that was one of the reasons he is not a big fan of them. He prefers the analog watt meters. Apparently the digital being ran off of the phone for results is a disadvantage ... although that does not explain why the State and Local being good.
My head hurts ....
Then for the icing got a call from the facility saying that the MedCom is not working ... WTF ... we were just there and it was working then ... returned and what do we find ... a big fat nothing burger ... based on the info given and the fact that when we walked in we could hear a call coming in ... seems most likely that the incoming rescue was on the wrong channel and that is why they couldn't call in.
Sigh ... damn ID 10T errors make my head hurt everytime.
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Did anyone tell them to switch channels to the right one? ;o)
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Fluctuating Signal Can sometimes happen and Cause a Digital Meter to pick a section of a Wave Signal. That is What I have been told. Have never seen it Except when we had both types of meters Digital said one thing Analog said it is this Wave range. :peep:
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Back in the day, the Simpson 160 VOM was the top multi meter to have. After just a few more years, Tripplet was the top dog. Smaller, faster, more attachments. Both were still analog. Both still showed the averaged sine, not any peak or low. All the digital VOM's I have now have options to cover both bases for AC and some other things. I would think the current crop of freq testers would too. Guess not.
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It certainly was most peculiar. Granted I did not check a second time with either the digital or analog watt meter ye ole senior tech said service monitor would be the best and most accurate.
So have no other reading for the comparison. Did find out while we were ripping and tearing the old out that apparently the yagi pointed at the courthouse for the "county 800" is not quite on point.
Okay, so I am blind in one eye and can't see out the other. :shrug:
Granted I just used line of sight since you can see it from where I was at so kind of, sort of, thought I could line it up visually. So not doing that again.
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New MedCom wrinkle another site called in with an even more intriguing issue. The new EMS direction informed me that another site was down, now for the kicker it has been down for two years ... what don't the charge nurses call stuff like this in and rapidly?
Apparently not
Well, got out and checked the system out with their IT tech and my senior tech and ta-da "broken" doesn't even begin to describe the problem.
Took the better part of five hours to narrow it down to the deskset being faulty. Still not 100% certain because the only way to check; is to swap it out with another deskset would be to completely reprogram it for the system to see it. Not a really great concept.
I tell you somedays it is not worth chewing through the leather straps
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Oh great what do I get in this years batch of "heads filled with oatmeal" students.
One that states I identify as transgender and am going through hormonal replacement thearpy ... :thud:
My pronouns are she and her .... :tearlaugh: Lots of luck getting me to care one tiny little bit. Or use them ...
What the FUCK
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:sure: Ok Class Today we will be implementing Your Class Name
"You" is now your Name! So Starting Now I Identify You as Thing 1 Etc.. :peep:
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To be honest here is a Article on Teaching for those who need "Help"
ADAMS: How To Deal With Transgender Students
By Mike S. Adams
Jun 30, 2018 DailyWire.com
I get a lot of email from unhinged leftists. And I certainly expected to hear from some of them in response to my latest Daily Wire column, “My Preferred Pronouns.” Being an unselfish person, I like to share my hate mail with readers — and my “hate male” when it is from feminists. Here is what one “woke” Daily Wire reader had to say:
“You are a real piece of (expletive deleted). Today, you say the transgendered suffer from a mental disorder. Next, you will say that paraplegics suffer from a mental illness. How do you teach transgendered students given your atavistic views on human sexuality?”
(Author note: The term “atavistic” refers to views everyone shared prior to around the mid-point of the Obama presidency).
Of course, someone has to suffer from severe intellectual hernia in order to fail to grasp the distinction between a) those that lose use of their limbs through some accident and b) those that cut off appendages voluntarily in order to help their body catch up with their perceived sexual identity. But embedded within the otherwise ludicrous email is a serious question, which I will paraphrase as follows: What guidelines do you follow when interacting with transgendered students in the classroom?
I am actually delighted that someone finally asked about my views on how to teach transgendered students. I only adhere to four basic rules when dealing with students who suffer from Gender Identity Disorder, so I will spell them out for my leftist critics:
Always Use The Student’s Preferred Name
You might call the name of Charlene on the first day of class and be corrected by a voice asking to be called Charlie. Or Patricia might ask to be called Pat. Or the correction could be something less smooth — such as Bruce demanding to be called Caitlyn. Regardless, always show respect for the person by using the name they prefer because it is just that — a preference. There is nothing inherently male or female about a first name. This is a non-issue. Don’t make it one.
Avoid Using Pronouns
Pronouns are different. When Bruce goes from simply asking to be called Caitlyn to demanding to be called “she” you have a potential problem. Calling Bruce “Caitlyn” is simply honoring a preference. In contrast, calling Bruce “she” is telling a lie. In a nutshell, Bruce is now asking you to accommodate his mental disorder by lying and saying he is something he is not. Just as there is good reason to refrain from lying and saying “she” there is also good reason to refrain from saying “he.” The reason is that it is completely avoidable.
When my first transgendered student asked to be called by a male name on the first day of class I had no idea that she would also become my best and most outspoken student in the class. There were numerous times throughout the semester when her comments were so enlightening that I almost responded by saying something like, “Did everyone hear what she just said?” In such cases, when I came to the part of the sentence with the personal pronoun I simply substituted the student’s first name, which is more personal anyway. Professors who make an issue of this by sending around sheets of paper the first day of class asking for each student’s preferred pronouns are just being pretentious. This is another non-issue. Learn your student’s first names and use them whenever you call on them in class. Issue resolved.
Don’t Take The Bathroom Bait
Some people say that North Carolina’s HB2 was an “unnecessary law.” I agree. Had it not been for the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte passing a city ordinance (requiring all private businesses to allow access to any bathroom on the basis of the patron’s perceived gender), the state legislature would have had no need to address the issue. Generally speaking, transsexuals have quietly used the bathroom of their choice for years with no problem — that is, until LGBT activists politicized the issue.
When my first “transitioning” student decided she wanted to walk into the men’s restroom just as I was walking out I simply ignored her. It was awkward to be certain. But it wasn’t worth calling the bathroom police. If you are ever assaulted in a bathroom by a transsexual then do what you would do if a normal person outside a bathroom assaulted you: Call the police and/or defend yourself. If not, just go about your business. This is another non-issue. Don’t make it one.
Provide An Alternate Basis For Student Identity
I cringe every time I hear the phrase “LGBT people” because it implies that those who are outside of the heterosexual norm are somehow defined by their sexuality. As educators, we should have no part of the undignified business of encouraging people to build their identity around their sexuality. We cannot love people by actually encouraging the spiritual evils that victimize them — even when the culture praises us for doing so.
Thus, whenever I see my former student (who is obviously going through radical hormonal therapy to appear male) I do not ask her how her gender identity transition is going. I ask her how her studies are going. I thank her for being such an attentive student. I tell her how much I enjoyed having her in my class. This lets her know that she stands out because of her mind not because of her membership in a newly contrived class of victims.
This is really all you need to know about how to deal with the transgender issue. Best of all, my advice is free of charge. Because some problems are so simple they don’t require a diversity expert who demands a six-digit salary from our overburdened taxpayers.
Now, let’s move on to more serious issues. Like ending classroom oppression against left-handers who have to sharpen their pencils with devices built by the dominant right-handed majority.
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Basically told "him" that I call people by name typically in class so don't expect me buying into the pronoun game.
And when I address the calss as a group I use the majority rules to determine what I call the lot.
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Well now, didn't see this coming my credit score dropped four points. The only thing that is different is that the school loan got paid off.
Wow guess to have a credit score you are to stay in debt, paying debt off is illegal :tearlaugh:
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about the debt issue: CONFIRMED! One MUST be IN current credit debt to maintain their credit SCORE! I have lived debt free for years now, and my credit score is lousy. TMobile took my proud statement as a good sign and gave me a POST paid plan. Not a pre-paid like A T & F'ING T shoved on me. Also, my TMobile monthly payment is "all-in!" meaning whatcha see IS da bill! Sure does make it easy.
Friday The 13th. Mine was easy, I slept through most of it!
Guys, about the trans thing. Until I get to know someone at least sorta well, I just call em by surname. I dispensed with the pronouns entirely. Those that just have to insist on my speaking to their issue? They see my back. Leaving. Which measure happens to work well for most any "their" issues!
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It was a surprise to see it drop and that is the only thing I can think of that would cause it. At any rate they will have plenty to track since I still owe on the house and the solar install. It was just an eye opener to see it drop that much over one debt being paid off.
As mentioned by you and just my normal behaviour, I use names .... to :soapy: with pronouns.
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*POCK* a buncha pronouns anyways!
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Pronouns matter; to those whose skin is so thin that wind (as in spoken word) can cut it ... not to me
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Me, I am what I appear to be to most folks. A big, ugly old geezer barely motating around!
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Pretty damn true for me as well, definitely on the old geezer part .... big is relative and as to ugly well, I have yet to send small furry mammals running away, children do not run to and cling to their parents sobbing hysterically and I have yet to cause mirrors to break nor can I curdle water by looking at it
As to the perambulating about in manners not wholesome to describe .... :shrug:
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LOL...if he wants proof on the "Not so ugly" part...I believe we have pictures to prove it in the galllery....or maybe not depending on who was doing the clean up :thud:
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You did the cleaning and very little at all remains
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The site still remains....so our efforts worked.
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:thissmall:
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Happens to be a very old pic and from FB please do not do that again without permission
Thank you
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Everyone was told what was going on "J"....Including you...and I'll leave it at that. Thank You.
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PS...that IS a cool shot of you....
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This is not a warm and fuzzy feeling. Damn good thing I get my Amazon purchases delivered to work.
Why?
Printed on the outside of the box;
"Just a box, standing next to a door, waiting to be opened"
That is just asking for trouble in my opinion
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Same problem here. Thankfully I've downloaded the UPS tracking program so I watch the delivery every step of the way...from the moment it leaves. Great tool....
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O.o So Please Explain to me how Something I did not Order show up to my house And I have no Record of This Order or from who as I Can not Read What the Label Was and nothing inside to even give me a Hint As it was a Jar of Nuts! :thud: in a Shiny Amazon Pouch! :peep:
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A driver was in a hurry to get home so you were picked to get the last package :peep:
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Sounds good, TL! I said I was ugly. I am, just not horrifically ugly! LOL! Plus, I do try to use something my Mother gave me, LONG ago. *MANNERS* !!!
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Nevermind ....
I shall move forward and just say this our resident snowflake in the repair section is digging a deeper and deeper hole.
Got another one of thos eletters from a customer indicating there is a disconnect on the programming of said radios.
:thud:
You have provided the code plugs and option board details so WTF is the problem?
Unknown at the moment guess tomorrow is going to be interesting with several "capital" letters in the spelling thereof
And the disturbing part is two fold, one I have a PM and rebanding project starting Monday for the local utility company. Plus ye ole hotel is also wanting to upgrade and change things up for their entire system.
Why is snowflake not roped in to assist, well best I can tell from the boss and the office lady is this ... "does not play well with others" ... apparently and yes I have seen evidence of this he is the final authority on all things radio and we are peons and can't find our ass with two hands.
Got to love someone who has never seen a customers system come in and say "oh that is all wrong it should be done this way"
:thud: :soapy: times 10 to the 17,256th power
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:sure: Why is he still there! :ahhhh:
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I wish I knew
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Oh I dunno. You might blush and barf at the same time, J! :thud:
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Over a entitled snowflake not likely.
I am at the point of just saying I am done adulting. I am even done doing human.
I just want to goat. That way I can eat all day and head butt the annoying ones into next century :tearlaugh:
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Yeah, but, then you'd be accused of bull-y-ing! :thud:
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:peep: How long till You Can Retire?
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This time next year is full retirement age
Then again ... my luck is that I won't be able to afford to retire till a half hour before they bury me.
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Well, this ought to bring the room down.
The old man was sick with the manufactured virus and in the hospital, just got the 7 - Romeo call.
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Will Pray For You and Your Family!
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So sorry to hear it! We'll also be praying for you and your family.
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Thank you both
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Yeah, ow. So sorry for your loss J.
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So sorry to hear that "J".... We have you in our thoughts and prayers also....
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RIP
F.D. Bruning
11/16/33 - 02/04/23
Laid to rest 02/09/23
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Sorry to hear about J. All my condoleances. :peek:
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I'm sorry for your loss Jherrith.
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Thank you for the kind words.
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Sorry to hear of your loss J
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90 years and five days. Quite a lifetime man.
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? I question your math good sir :tearlaugh:
Technically it would be 89 years 2 months 20 days
No doubt found out things that had not been mentioned previously that makes a person pause to think about
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DOH! I added steads of subtracted...sleep addled brain cell, sorry.
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It is all good I just couldn't resist you know highly developed sense of sarcasm and vinegar
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Semi - amusing thing during the reception after the service. Talking and it eventually turned to reading in which I mentioned my TBR pile next to the bed. The middle sister who did attend mention she had one of similar size and that she was a reader as well, to which I asked well which one do you have with you now?
I don't have room for one in my purse .... how about the car ... nope.
:thud: Good Lord you are not a true reader unless you have at least one if not two with you at all times.
Found out also that apparently two shelves of books is a lot and "it is all good"
Amateurs ... granted I live alone in a three bedroom townhome and she lives in an apartment of which I know naught about but she too lives alone so WTF
:sigh:
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Well it depends the size of her apartement. Where I was before, I had to think a lot more than now before to buy books. But then, I had the town library if I wanted to, and if I found something I wanted to (re)-read.
Now, the book shop with new books here searches to decide what you read. So I abandoned the hope to see new books sooner in the flat. I don't buy online. But we have another book shop, with second hand books; and we also have once a month the "braderie" with many books. Thanks to second hand book shop, I almost fulfilled my Astérix and Tintin collections. And found some good old books I heard about. There are also sometimes english books, in the shop or at the braderie. In that last, I found the 3 first stories of the Morgaine's adventures. Wish to find the latest one day.
But to have a book on me? I go on my feet, I can't read during the traject and where I go, I have generally no time to read or must stay focus. And books aren't tiny. Currently re-reading "The White goddess" by Robert Graves when cats let me do. So not a pile for me.
So far, I know my Mom is reading a lot of books in the same time. Last time we talked about, I know she was almost at 10 :thud: I prefer to concentrate about one. If I can't, then I took a comics. But if it's a pure dictionnary of myths, I can enter and exit from the book when I want.
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My kids ransacked my books and movies. Bleah! At one time I thought one 5 shelf bookcase filled with just my favorites was good. Being as I was in a 1 br garage apt for 14 years. But then there was all the hardware and software, which was everywhere!
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I was an Amazon member and read so many ebooks...that I ended up reading several books again and again lol.
Cancelled my membership though as I find I am not reading as much...so why waste money per month.
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That is why since I do have the room and can indulge myself I buy real books as I only pay once and can read them as often or as little as desired.
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I don't have the room for real books...I would love to have a big bookcase with heaps of books...maybe one day I will win lotto.
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Well, we have 26 bookcases today with a current total of 4,198 volumes however the weekend approaches and all we can say is look out :luvbooks:
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Holy moly that's one heck of a lot of bookcases...you could open a second hand book store!
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I desire more though
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Lol...of course you do. Your house must be gigantic to accommodate all those books and bookcases.
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Nope only a two story three bedroom townhouse (1,245 sq ft) ... but I do live by myself so that does free up a few square feet :tearlaugh:
Oh by the way 4,203 :luvbooks:
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Our remote spy cam saw one of J's bookshelves through the window:
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That would be the video collection ... maybe ... :tearlaugh: as I saw several Blu-ray and DVD covers :tearlaugh:
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Still impressive though...
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That is easily twice as many BLuRay/DVD movies as I have. And I have near 400 in my two little shelf units! I have had to slow down buying all the movies I want. No where to put em. Now I just get special ones. Like Alita: Battle Angel, Avatar: The Way of Water (when it comes out on BluRay!).
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Impressive it is, although I do not think I have quite that many in my video library ... never counted
Maybe we shall make that the next "how about task"
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Well, someone must have met me once in the past, just saw the t-shirt that proves it.
Walking HR Violation
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Man go to a customer meeting and the things that come to the surface would make a person cry, always suspected upper management is the root of most if not all problems that trickle down to my gutter.
Definitely proven yesterday and what is with all of the new projects being discussed and then told that goes no further then this room ... why did you even say it out loud then :ummm:
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Yep...the rich get richer...and that's all they are worried about...mans greed!!
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Right First Time
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Well, now at last the people that run the boat have believed me when I said that until you get me a code from all of the repeaters and at least one known working radio I can't help you in resolving the problems being experienced.
Got code plugs for the repeaters and sure enough the color code is different from what I was originally told. But wait there's more, it also shows that a RAS key was used plus enhanced privacy, which means in the long run without those codes for both field, nothing I can do, the new radios will never work EOS.
Imagine that the bottom feeder was right again.
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And here we are, guess it wasn't a big deal after all, since once the problem was found and they had been notified we be hearing naught but "crickets"
Got too love it, as in not so very much
Better still was being notified by another vendor that we have radios for one of the other boats to be programmed we will bring them by .... "crickets" again
Additional radios are still awaiting proof of payment so we can ship them back to the respective locations. Oh also waiting on a shipping label from them too
Man, for a bunch of folks crying about this and that they sure seem to take their time on the follow up when it is demonstrated that they were the ones who dropped the ball.
Sounds like it is going to be ever so much fun when we do the site walk and survey of the newest boat when it is in port.
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Yeah, that is the Customer for ya. Act like they know it all in the beginning, then after total catastrophic failure to operate, the system a smoking ruin....they admit the might not know quite EVERY thing. Harumpfh! You get paid the big bucks to be able to waltz right in, snap your fingers at the problem, and viola! IT WORKS! So to add chagrin to their expressions, you actually have to tear it apart, put the still smoking idiot proof but now dead parts to one side, then add in new good ones, spend the time needed to upgrade and assimilate the new bits, then press the "START!" button and NOW it works! All because they wanted to exclude YOU, the most expensivist part to the entire project...to save both a little time and a LOT of M$ney! So, in their unforgivable stpoopidity, they now spend three times the time and two point five times the $$$$ just to get what they were buying in the very first place. They could have had it ALL, a month ago! And done by just standing back and allowing YOU to do your job in the first place. GAH!
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You got that right to say the least.
It seems to be getting even better on that front since there is now the next level of management on my side involved, so guess who has to explain the whole story all over yet again.
Yep that person ... the one typing ... :tearlaugh:
Well, technically crying since I had had to repeat myself so many damn times.
Oh they finally brought the radios over to be programmed and here is the funny bit. That other vendor wants the security keys so they do not have to send them off for programming when sold ... NOT HAPPENING ....
We have the contract for that boat not you ... let me escort you to the edge of the pier so you may complete your long walk on a short pier with concrete waders.
:iminnocent: We are never violent. :tearlaugh:
Don't give a rats ass if you sold them to them or not you do not have a contract for service so go to :OMFG:
Beside if that is the way you want to play it you can release the security codes to us for the other boat radios so they can be programmed, but since neither you nor I have a contract for service with them ... so now what :rat-atat:
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Even more fun a different customer is finally getting material sent into the shop for staging. Something that was discussed a year ago and it is now arriving .... :thud:
Even more fun is that no directions and scope was provided and at this point it is just a matter of fingering it out ... which sometimes is fun when one is :pervy: but when it is radio equipment it becomes ever so paralyzing dull, boring, tedious and commonplace.
The fun part is that we just dove in and started to assemble and finger it out ... sent an email for clarification since a few bits seem missing. What do I get back is an email indicating oh my what are you talking about and the intent was to stack the two half racks on top of each other with the VHF combiner cans in them and stiffen it up with kindorf to increase the structural rigidity.
Rubbish
Two half racks stacked with 16 combiner cans in each ... talk about top heavy and lowering the serviceability of the system. Since in addition to the new combiner cans there is to be additional repeaters and multicouplers.
Doing any work on that configuration would become more difficult then leaving them apart, I understand your space limitations but if this was a problem don't you think it could have been designed better.
Damn engineers make three times what I do and are barely half as smart. Apparently only those who do the servicing of the equipment understand the limitations of various configurations
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Dang.
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The other fun bit I neglected to mention is that the racks are basically a "tab A in slot B" configuration and there is only two true nut and blots to hold it together.
And you want me to do what with this assembly :thud:
New fun at the hospital PM once again several as in 30 to 40 radios are missing ... not surprised. The fun bit was a radio showed up for the PM that; one was not on the inventory, was issued by the previous vendor, had the incorrect code plug obviously, was three firmware versions out of date, (technically more then that but it only took three passes to get it up to date) and was in need of repairs.
:thud:
More entertainment form the boat customer. The so called "customer service rep" wrote and asked how long to do a PM on the boats system. Umm let me think over 300 radios that have not been updated since deployed and six repeaters same stats. Take that times x number of minutes per and then divide by the square root of a piece of pi multiplied by two guys at a base of 8 hours a day. Granted we would probably work more then that since what else would there be to do while on board?
However sorry can't do it while in port we would have to go on the trip. :sigh: Since the minimum amount of time would be three days for two people based on the size of the fleet of radios they have ... so relayed those details to the CSM and guess what the reply was .... oh wait she hasn't replied ... :tearlaugh:
Even more fun is the complaint that there are radios that are missing and then others delivered that don't work. Our records say .... "crickets" ... they were never in our shop at all ... so they don't work why? :duh:
Not sure where this delivery chain is broken at but it is definitely in multiple pieces and no one wants to assume responsibility for the :soapy: ah well :shrug:
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:peek: So A Normal Day! :ahhhh:
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Pretty much :tearlaugh:
Regrettably
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Aww BOOGERS! :ahhhh: :yeow:
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The real entertaining bit that I found later for the boat is that, "nope, contract states done while in port"
Well now that ups the ante to almost 10 days now since we can only do an 8 hour day while in port and quite possibly not even that much depending on when they leave. Nonetheless as they are only in port once a week it is going to take about three months to do one boat. :thud:
I love my job I will not quit ... however ....
Well, the engineer for the rocket project came by for the preliminary meeting. So far so good, still wants to keep it open to stack the racks, we are still against it but :shrug:
Did some insertion loss test on the cans and surprisingly they match the paperwork provided so at least we got what was ordered.
Two sets of combiners were not tuned to the correct freq but they were only 60 KHz off and on the Anritsu it amounted to a "nothing burger" problem, so calling that a win. Got a meeting scheduled for today so that should be interesting. Followed up by weekly meeting on the computer as the project is now getting to the more interaction twixt both parties is needed.
Started to modify the code plug in the new repeaters to work on the system and all the fields that I remembered that need adjustment; I got the first time. Still have a couple more drop downs to hit but got distracted by another one my Federal removals and a site walk for one of the City Fire Stations that is 'ehem' a "problem child"
So much fun I can't stand it and oh I am certain that the definition that is being used is quite WRONG
:iminnocent:
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:thissmall: Only 8 hours to ... Sure :thud:
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My thoughts as well
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Someone has to much time on their hands and lives life on the edge.
:tearlaugh:
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:thud: Well I Have Seen Pennies used Before But This is! :ahhhh:
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LOL....don't see that everyday....and YIKES.... :thud:
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I figure with that he has earned the extra holes in his foot!
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Too Right
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Obviously I am living in the wrong era ... could have sworn that being called a motherfu*ker twice does not qualify as being nice.
Yet that is what occured yesterday. Came home from buying more books (you should not be surprised) to find not only mine but the next door and across the street blocked by a moving van.
How about that there is a spot conveniently located that would accommodate a moving van ... but hey let us park in the middle of the road and make parking a nigh impossibility to achieve .... and then call anyone who asks them to move it out the way to relocate it a motherfu*ker because we have to work too.
:thud:
College H.U.N.K. Moving company is a misnomer to say the least.
Honest, Uniformed, Nice, Knowledgeable
They flunked the "nice' part quite admirably, especially considering that I did not call them that or worse ... so their reasoning is :shrug:
Even better was when I lodged a formal complaint and the HOA actually did call and try to gather details the operator for the moving company acted as an ass ... :tearlaugh: ... so nice to see people dig themselves in deeper.
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:peek: So You found Your Facebook Friend at his Day Job! o.O Your luck is so Good?! o.O :thud:
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With luck like that I could and will pass on it ... thank you
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Well, tis on call this week and got one last night that was for me totally new.
Radio stays keyed up
All right had some idea of what to look for when I arrived. So started with the simple stuff of unplugging and making sure the headsets were plugged in completely. Did all right until I got the one that as soon as I unplugged it a stream of water poured out of it. :ummm: Thinking that is not normal :tearlaugh:
Yes, boys and girls that is not normal ... did the rest of the troubleshooting required to please the paper pushing, pencil biters. Yep you need to get this rig to fleet as this is above what I can do for you, I can and did isolate the problem jack, unplugged it from the headset box, confirmed that everything else works and that is all we can do, condensation from the Fire engine A/C down a interior column and getting into a headset jack is just a touch beyond my skills :tearlaugh:
Oh also not one of the easiest place to try and park at either the amount of real estate available .... I have stamps in my stamp collection that are larger .... just saying
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Well, how about that now my students are getting worried about passing the class, or better still I have always maintained a xx% score and nothing less is acceptable.
:ummm: I did warn you on day one so what is the problem.
Fun times ahead
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Minor ailment I am sure compared to what others deal with daily.
But this "Hallux Rigidus" (arthritis in the big toes) is definitely bothersome.
Considering how much of my day is spent on my feet and also walking. Been doing what the podiatrist recommended and have also got an arthritis doc involved but it looks like I will have discomfort or pain going forward .... regardless. The special inserts so far so good, but the shots in the toes that I was given have worn off and .... you know the drill ... time for me to whine
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is it Posable You have Gout? o.o Normally starts in the toes.
Had A Roofing crew remove a Water tight Cover on the roof once that filled the whole buildings Phone Conduits with rain water every time it rained but No one Said a Thing about it till I got out there and Fried myself trying to find the short in the phone system! :sure:
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Well, the podiatrist says no, and some of the other symptom of gout are not present.
Then again the x ray did show complete bone on bone contact :shrug: Still getting other test and procedures done so technically the jury is still out
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Ah you got one of my most favorite doctors! I love my surgical podiatrist! She be purdy! :D :D :D AND married, with kids. :(
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:pervy:
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I saw her today and she was HAPPY with me! And my wound got smaller by a centimeter each width and height, with no stuff to debride hardly. Made me happy too! Cause she was in early from a surgery, so was wearing her OR scrubs. A major reminder of what this amazing person *DOES*. And that could happen to me too. While she is a Limb Salvage Specialist, she is also an expert limb removal doc too. Yeech!
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So glad to read that your wound is seems to be healing nicely McG...We'll forget about the latter and concentrate on the limb salvage Specialist McG...
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Great thinking Sanbie! That is the direction I work in! :D
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How cute let us push a device policy update out for those that use the Android phone at work on Friday ... and not tell anyone.
Talk about a exceedingly annoying, the weekend was complete :bs:
Then to get it to get updated and then back to normal
Oh you need to delete your work profile, reinstall it and then pray that all of the work apps load on their own.
Of course mind didn't so I had to go into each app, cancel the install, start it over to get it to install. Then had to go back to each and set the permissions all over again
Four hours later .....
:rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat: :rat-atat:
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Well, the results are in, all of the not putting forth any effort and why don't you just give me a passing grade students did pass.
By the skin of their teeth but they did pass.
In a way that is bad because they are the future tradesmen going forth, no pride in their work, no knowledge, no desire to better themselves.
:sigh: :shrug: I did try to pay forward values in ones work that will pay dividends in the future but I guess that is not what they want, can't wait till they find out that the world is more harsh then I ever was in class.
Did have a couple (about 6) of them that actually wanted to learn and be better so that was the warm glow of satisfaction for me, but the three of them that for some reason couldn't be bothered :shrug:
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:thissmall:
We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn. Matthew 11:17
:whereizit:
If You Really want to scare Yourself Read
The Abolition of Man By C.S. Lewis
Lots of what he talked about Back then are coming to Fruition now.
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Well, it is at my local B&N store, so on my shopping list it is
Interesting verse read the rest of the chapter and found it intriguing.
Now off to see the arthritis doctor :sigh:
Then book shopping :yippee:
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Well, just had it driven home even harder that I come from a different age.
Paying bills
Today we get notices saying a payment is coming due sometimes up to three weeks before it is actually due and still get the weekly reminder.
Pay a bill on time and when it gets posted at the bank it is that same day posted at the place where you sent it.
However, when they make a mistake on the posting of the funds, even though two separate checks are sent with a memo to explain how the funds are to be credited, it now take a 30 minute phone call, after wading through a 2-1/2 minute mechanical voice talking about crap that is not relevant, then another 7 to 10 business days to fix it
WTF :rat-atat: time 10^17256th power
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:peek:
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Defintely
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Even Stormbringer ???
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Stormbringer is not allowed on line, I'll be damned if I allow that one to get all frelled up by the jack legs of the world-wide spider web. It is for rendering only, all of my downloads of content is facilitated by USB drive.
I do not have a network line to it
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What I ought to do is eliminate GOOGLE entirely. No GMail, no Chrome, No Earth Pro, no YouTube. THAT would make the interwebs a LOT safer! Since I can't {LEGALLY!} do that favor for the whole world . . . I can do that for my own system(s)!
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I COULD do what you did, and reinstall W10Pro on this rig with NO networking at all. Means kill the WiFi driver. Then, with no WiFi or BlueTooth, no lines plugged into it. IT would be safe. Ah, no email or browsers, no games cause Steam requires the internet. So, I use this machine for just doing modeling (modo, vue6Inf, silo, milo, pegasus, ZBrush, MILKSHAPE3D!, Blender and *POSER* Pro 2014. Jenn Blake's P13 fiasco be damned. Cannot even use the stuff I already DO use in it. No Genesis/Genesis2 Figures at all. So I keep on keeping on with Poser Pro 2014.
That load seems a little light for this machine. :oP
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Light it may be, but with no connection to the outside you do not have to constantly fret about virus, trojan, malware and so forth each and every day on it.
Because you use it for your hobby.
The other system is exposed to it and is where you check and test all downloads prior to transferring
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Yep!
"Meticulous" is NOT an "OCD" !!!
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Indeed, however doing the server swap for the high and mighty "upgrade operation" team. All I can say is that for the amount of money they get paid to do whatever the hell it is .... they sure don't do it very well.
A server that was swapped out yesterday was still not functioning correctly when they left, apparently they didn't care much, but the agency was without a fully operating encryption service as in the "redundancy part"..
The fun part was that just by the worse part of convenient bad luck .... the redundant site in another state ... had a rooftop fire.
oops
They got lucky, the fire was only confined to the roof only and did not get into the building, since the IT room was directly below the roof. How fun ... the good news is no damage and no further system issues.
Today came in to hopefully replace the backup encryption server and .. nope still not working ... had to stand around and look pretty ... I know impossible task for me on a good day ... they didn't get their act together until almost 4:00 in the afternoon.
:sigh:
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Most odd ... end of day I see a text from the boss.
The system tech for the county called him to ask him to have ground cables made up
So :ummm: why call someone to text me to ask for material :ummm:
Wouldn't it had been simpler just to call me .... considering that the most important part was left out ... how long did you want the cables to be ...
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Things to make you go :ummm: at work they have designated May as Mental Health Month.
And are giving everyone this Friday off with pay ... :ummm:
What are they trying to say ...
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Are you sure you want an answer to that :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: But that does give you a extended Holiday since you'll have Monday off also.....or......will you.....
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:peep:
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Friday off with pay is likely his paid holiday (memorial day?). So, he will probably have to work at straight time ON Memorial Day. Yuck.
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Nope fortunately I also have Monday off with pay.
Should be interesting though ...
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:peek: Sounds like Time Lord Marathon! :peep:
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OMG! :thud: A Four Day Holiday Weekend! That'd be almost like a mini vacation!
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@Rad RFT :heeheehee:
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How cute we happen to be on call this weekend and a follow up call out happened with a site from a Thursday service call.
Well first trip did no good as there was something wrong with the file provided.
So restored it to the original settings, that we knew worked.
Today they cried that it is broken still and this is no good.
:ummm: You lot have no backup equipment for failures nor do you have a any backup databases to restore a system from a failure.
This is our fault "How?"
So went out a second time and went to the other site and downloaded the file from there directly and then blew it into the other site. Took it today ... thank God .... not sure why there was a difference between a file from email versus a file from the actual device.
Bottom line it worked.
However, when the call came out today the person who called it in had the "*******" to ask "Are you on call?" Yes, I am ... (already can tell that this person doesn't like me and thinks I am stupid) must really suck that I am on call ... bet it really sucks that I got the problem resolved and it is working properly again
Bet no thank you will come from him or the other person at the top of the food chain.
Ass-Hats
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The "Joy" Of Being on Call! :thud:
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And the grateful thanks from an appreciative customer and management.
Not.
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Well, at least the worker bee that was on shift and got me the needed key assists to get to the location, said Thank you. So there was that, still wound up missing a free meal the night before ... :sigh:
So we will take what we can get, and people wonder why I like to be alone and read instead ....
So where is my :sake:
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More entertainment occurred today, we got our hands on the user manual that goes with the device and how to use it.
:ummm: First bit for a radio to be allowed on the system, it has to be entered manually in the system. Which means if you are a proper data entry person you not only save your work, but you save a backup copy of the work.
:ummm: So where is that at?
Next up if you had truly taken the course on how to use the device and have been using it to add radios. Plus, since there is a difference of almost 500 radios in the three years between backup files. The original and the one we just created. Again I ask where is your documentation?
The fun bit was the part in the manual as I was reading it, there is a feature in there that allows you to force "sync" database ... so if you took the class, why didn't you remember this and to make it even easier it will do OTAP so again why are you, "the one who took the class" being more incompetent than my neighbor kids.
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Well, went to do another install with the guys at one of the commercial customers that tosses rockets and even though two days were allocated . One for the install and second for any "gotchas"
We managed to get to the point of "waiting on others" in other words until the customer finishes the code plugs for the subscribers we can not turn the new repeaters on and swap antenna lines :tearlaugh: to finish the install.
Very cool to say the least in my mind.
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When I was a kid working in the local convenience store, customers paid us then often said Thank You after I said 'Thank you for your business!'. These days, folks seem confused as to when they should say Thank You. Usually it comes as an insult. Glad I don't work with the public anymore! Good thing ya got this thread huh J?!
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You know it good sir
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Well, *I* am gonna say Thank You! For your attention to detail, for getting jobs done right first time, and for just being a good working person! THANK YOU!
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This should be entertaining, just received the first of the new model line (R7) that is replacing the XPR 7000e series of radios.
Why interesting well, except for the senior tech who was in the right place at the right time, and bought one. We have no details on them. He did do a bit of work getting his up and running and it turns out that we need all sorts of new toys to service and program them ... how cute.
The good news is that he put in the request for all of those tools and parts after he got his and they all arrived before the first "customer purchased" one came in for programming.
Couldn't have planned that better if I tried ....
Well it is for the hotel chain and they have two code plugs one for managers and one for the worker bees ... wasn't told which group, one would think managers first.
Anyway a couple of points, new model means new code plug has to be created .... new firmware will have to be downloaded but at least I can still use the same programming software so that is nice. The real question will be will my service monitor be able to get into them without a blood sacrifice or (another update if I was being polite) :tearlaugh: .... me polite :tearlaugh: now, now don't laugh it could happen
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:peek:
Here is the Spec sheet if you are interested.
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Can't hurt no doubt. Many thanks. :thumb_up:
I have downloaded the service manual but have not yet read through it so between these two resources I should get a good grip on it.
Have already read it in CPS to get at the default codeplug so we do have the needed cables to program, did a test run with my service monitor just to see if it could get into the radio, which it did, so that is nice.
Noticed a new test listed so as mentioned will have to read the manly manual to see what is required ....
The fun is going to be modifying an existing template to work with this model for the customer. Which I have done before with other models so that should not present much if any difficulties. :thissmall:
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Something that had not occurred to me was going up the proverbial food chain. Apparently you have to ask for that sort of advancement, and here I thought it was a matter of showing willingness and initiative by taking on and doing new things :thud: Shows you what I know.
That was how it was at the last place before here, you wound up getting tapped for a new position by the boss. Here you have to ask for it or I guess you get stuck in that rut and heaven help you if you want out.
Expressed those thoughts and concerns to the boss as they just hired another new system tech, at least this one doesn't come off as I am better than you and this is how it should be done like the other one, who regrettably is still here, :sigh: At least his attitude has changed since he got slammed in his last review, how do I know ... well the fool printed it out on the printer in my office and didn't know it printed there and left it so ... not very bright if you didn't bother to look for the first copy you printed.
Anyway, got into the long drawn out discussion on the topic with the boss and at least I got some "joy" from it in regards to the fact that although I feel as if I am at the bottom of the food chain apparently I am not, and he has been working with the highers up to improve my pay scale and position.
Guess we shall see how that turns out. Did find out that yes he has asked me to do other things and wanted to know if I would do them regularly, at the time definitely wasn't confident enough to take it on. Told him so that back then not so much, now I feel better about my skill set and could do a passable job on the simple easy stuff, would need help on the more complex ones (quotes), so according to him he is trying to get a position for a project manager to be allocated, does the site walk, writes and presents quotes. Order and track inventory and basically do what I am already doing in a peripheral manner.
Does make me wonder who would be taking over any of my current tasks if I have to switch my focus completely. Mainly because the other two installers (mainly mobiles) have shown no interest in stepping up. So should be an interesting rest of the calendar year.
Did ask one question about the service contracts for the customers in regards to who drives the PM portion of the services. Turns out it is supposed to be that customer, well that explains why my past weekend was shot to hell and back, obviously they either don't care or think that it cost extra to do a site PM. Heaven forbid one should get the jump on issues before they take your system down ... let's wait until it goes tits up and then cry about it loudly.
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It's good that you had that conversation and got some clear answers with no BS. I'm sure we all would rather be told the facts rather then the "Buttercup" conversations they normally have. And it never hurts to ask "Why" and "When" .... Sounds like a good chat and hopefully a great outcome that includes a position change and a pay scale to match.
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J that was a long sentence, though a mighty good one!
("Anyway, got into the long drawn out discussion on the topic with the boss and at least I got some "joy" from it in regards to the fact that although I feel as if I am at the bottom of the food chain apparently I am not, and he has been working with the highers up to improve my pay scale and position.")
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Well, a new twist on the day to day at the work environment
We will be moving to a new location.
:thud:
Apparently they no longer want to pay the rent on the building owned by the previous owners which would have been the owners of the authorized dealer.
What ever since now it will become interesting as we will still be followed by the abomination of the upgrade operations crew and their obscene inventory that keeps taking up space at our current location. Rumor has it that they will have their own warehouse section for them alone and never the twain shall mix ... not holding my breath. There will still be garage space for the mobile installs but it looks like the opening might be to small for a lull blown Fire engine as it is two foot smaller then our current facility. Next to nothing for offices space. So not sure what that means for me since what I use in the day to day will not fit in any one of those engineering/tech cubicles shown on the drawing.
There are two rooms for programming which might work out since we would set up the racks for our staging in them and since those are rather large might work as a half office to accommodate the equipment and systems that are handled, staged, fondled ... whatever by me an the senior tech.
Distance wise it is not to bad it will change from 15 miles to 19 miles one way. It is sort of still in the area for the classes about three miles versus the current four miles so no big deal there, so as mentioned should be an interesting rest of the calendar year
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Riddle me this : Who do you think should be asking about how large the garage door openings are going to be a the new shop?
The people that will be using the garage .... that is what I thought
Yet what do I get but a phone call from the installer asking if I was still at the shop as the boss just called and wanted to know how wide the doors are ... :ummm: it is a quarter to five we have already left can't help you.
Small wonder why you are not moving up the ladder ... no interest in what is going on. Since I recall that only thing out of his mouth was no offices for any one... never said or asked anything about the garage spacing /details for installs
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More interesting details coming out a trickle at a time on the new digs. Looks like both the senior tech and me get the programming rooms of which there are two of them to ourselves. One room for each of us. Saw a picture of the new workstation and work bench that will be for doing our thing on should be most nice, especially since there is still room in the office for a regular desk.
So could be interesting if half of what I am hearing is true. The cool part is there will also be a tower for our test antennas, as in a real one that will require a tower climb by our preferred tower climbers. No idea how tall it will be, but if it needs them to climb it, methinks it will be more then a couple of feet up in the air :tearlaugh:
We even get to set up all of our staging racks that require an outside antenna for staging and testing in the "tech center" :heeheehee:
Guess we might be doing more and different staging and/or systems in the future as there certainly seems to be a lot of ... for lack of a better word ... potential in this place.
The cool part is that it is new and no we are not taking any of the junk ass furniture or sub-standard equipment over there at all. I sort of like that idea to say the least.
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Oh guess what, I really need to learn to read a service manual completely .... was having trouble getting my service monitor to tune the R7 .... found one error on my part ... think I have the answer to another problem so tomorrow is another day and I hope to finally resolve part two.
Do know that we need other test equipment if we are going to do a proper PM on this model of radio. So more testing and tweaking of the parameters till we have a full picture of the procedures.
The first road block I had was that I needed to update the software in the service monitor ... I love how updates are pushed out with no notices to anyone ... asshats.
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Well, well all is better on how to tune the radio. All my theories proved to be valid.
Did get with my senior tech to assist with the variable voltage power supply issue, and since he had bought one for himself and it is actually a matter of punching the required value in instead of the rotary dial on the antediluvian one that I have been using. Worked like a charm for a change and that test for voltage calibration passed.
With the removal of the attenuator it now passes all of the others tests like a champ.
Read the fine print on the page where I got that daft idea from and they are not even using a service monitor which explains the need of ...
Decided to get involved with the speaker and mic calibration tests, found out that there is another four pieces of equipment needed, the cheapest piece was $600.00 and a option pac has to bought from Viavi for the service monitor :thud: plus other items. :ummm:
Methinks that we are not going to worry about that test going forward ....
New fun was my current problem with the first R7 by doing multiple test between it and the senior techs personal R7 it was finally proven that it was the radio that was the problem. Called the sales rep and said WTF so he is sending a replacement.
Next, got another shipment of 28 of the R7 radios for a different customer So did some testing with those for comparison except when I turned them on it was now trying to connect to a network .... :ummm: went and tried to read it in CPS and oh my goodness it got even crazier.
Finally found the answer and then finally was able to put together an independent hot spot and the radio finally saw it and "activated" good grief .. what they do with radios these days .... why would you buy or sell a radio that was not activated to a customer ... again :ummm:
Even more fun is that once I got that first activated, checked the firmware version in it and if you guessed it was already in need of an update ... please join me at the front of the class.
Some days it doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps
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Even more entertainment in the works, the powers that be want us to start installing the equipment at the newest site to be added to the county system.
Not logical since it is without power and it has not got a final inspection record. :shrug:
Whatever.
Got the equipment loaded on the trailer with the other guys and decided to do a sanity check by driving by the site to see about access.
Guess what the Project manager forgot ... padlock combination on the cattle gate ... padlock on the enclosure gate ... door lock on the enclosure .....
If you guessed no details on how to gain entry past the first two gates and just where exactly is a spare key for the door located ... it is time for a beverage of choice and a platter of snacks for all
:tearlaugh:
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:peek: So a "Normal" Day! :ahhhh:
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You got that right
I really need to stop trying .... it is to the point that the hammer required weighs more then I do :tearlaugh:
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I love finding your new uses of the English language when you get steamed up. Heh! Right colorful you! :D
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My previous post said I had to activate the radio for me to be able to read it in CPS
I was off a bit
It actually say it has not been "regionalized"
Whatever that is supposed to mean :tearlaugh:
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I love finding your new uses of the English language when you get steamed up. Heh! Right colorful you! :D
I read to much :tearlaugh: :iminnocent:
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Nah, not a chance! LOL!
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Well, went to deliver the new site equipment today as they fingered out the combinations.
Oops, the front door key was where ... strike one, strike two, ah there they are.
Asshats
First bit of fun the guy pulling the trailer got it stuck in the wet grass ... I swear when we say don't stop why in the :OMFG: did you stop fortunately the GC came in later while we uploading the trailer to lighten the load and hoofing the boxes to the site and used his monster truck to pull the van and then the trailer out so calling that a win.
Was sweating body parts left, right, and center by the time it was unloaded. On the way back to the shop what do I get but a phone call saying; oh by the way you have an appointment on Wed and make sure you get your labs done.
:thud:
Such timely notice I guess I should be uh something .... not sure what ... but yep
When I got to the shop what do I see just arrived but material for a different install, this time a MedCom.
So let me think two School board projects, one system tower site, and now one MedCom. Plus let us not forget the other two jobs at the other place that tosses rockets.
:sigh:
At any rate since the doctors visit is a priority left early to go bleed for the vampires and what do I get informed .. yep if you guessed that we no longer accept BCBS for lab work as in blood let us have a drink together.
Do you want to go elsewhere, umm, since they want the results in two days time and it is already late in the day guess we will have to grin and "bend over here it comes again" on the bill.
Guess it would be to much for them either the insurance or the medical place to say something in advance ... :shrug: Guess this is what I get for not micromanaging my life.
So far the only good news is that combiners for the system site have been tuned. But, since it was not staged we have no cable matrix for the RF or data lines needed. Honest I am going to stop chewing through the leather straps ... one day. So now I have to go to an existing site to take pictures of how this rubbish gets cabled up. Granted I have a fair idea, since I have done more than one. Still a pain in the :waveass:
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Doctors visits, good things!
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Only in respect to the concept of getting off of the methotrexate which made me feel like crap and since the blood work showed that it was :rat-atat: my system I am calling that a win
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O.o Why Are You taking That "Powerful" Aka Toxic Medicine?
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Ye ole quack doc said it was the best thing despite the side effects.
NOPE sorry quack doc it is messing with my systems and did absolutely nothing for any of the symptoms ... so not taking it any longer ... period
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It has been proven yet again it must be nice to sit at a desk and tell others that it is supposed to work and go together as shown in the drawing.
Well, your drawing is all :soapy: up
First it is a mirror image of what is in the field second the clearances you seem to think that I should have are not there EOS
Then there was a random comment made that all of the power strips are on the back side of the cable tray sections ..... ding ding ding .... I think I have it sorted now as that is not the case out at the shelter for the tower.
But now they want a damnable video conference so they can see what the problem is, .... guess English and picture are not enough these days ... yo get off your dead ass and come and see and then all will be clear.
Oh that is right, desk job make twice or more then I do ... don't have to visit the real world.
:sigh: :rat-atat:
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sometimes it is a help to be able to accurately sketch what you see. Key is Accurately! Sounds like you got someone not worth the job IN the job.
Just saw Ip Man for the first time ever. Found and binged on Ip Man 2, 3 and 4 also. Donnie Yen is an excellent martial arts expert, and decent actor. He's the star in all 4. Remember Sunday Morning Kung Fu Theater? I loved that as a kid!
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Another day of working only in the field no access to my email except via the phone ... no big deal yes ....
Got home after sitting in traffic for 1-1/2 due to an auto accident with the dreaded call of Northbound lane blocked along with "no code, no vitals" and and found an additional 120 emails ... mostly junk :thud:
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Details on the previous post:
Congratulations to the drivers of the world that think the world revolves around them. Whether you weave in and out of traffic, 'since heaven forbid I can't be behind you and wait on you' to the ones that are more aggressive and just out right cut you off to get in front of you for similar reasons.
Well, one person died and the other was taken in as a trauma red patient to the hospital.
The by product of one lane blocked both directions of a major road and all of the other drivers behaving in the same manner trying to get around it.
First problem the spot in question has no off ramp before you got to it so you :soapy: ass-hat will just have to wait in line like the rest of us.
Second just because there is a toll plaza with cash lanes prior does not mean that oh yes I can't be behind you and stuck in traffic "I'm to important for that" so we are going to use them to get ahead of everyone else, guess what you still have to merge back in with the rest of us and if you think I am going to be courteous :tearlaugh: you got another think coming.
Third why in the name of all that is holy are rubbernecking now that we got to the point where we can finally clear the traffic jam WTF :soapy:
1-1/2 hours to get to my destination instead of 20 minutes just because someone decided that oh no I am too good to be behind others. Well, sorry but you died and the other driver is hanging by a thread, heaven forbid that either vehicle had passengers.
Since, I have a public safety radio I knew what had happened and roughly where it was at, but by the time it was called in, I was already stuck in the traffic snarl and had only one option; wait and deal with it.
So you lot might want to consider that when driving, is it really that important to lose your life because you simply must get there now ... or worse still was the text message really more important than your life.
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On to less traumatic news after two days the pencil pushers who haven't stepped outside their office in who know how long finally figured out what the dilemma was at the new site.
Had to go there with the computer to do a video call because apparently my English sucks and they cannot visualize anything in 3D in their heads .. too much oatmeal in there I guess....
Bottom line the shelter was configured wrong and guess we need to do it this way, that might work from your perspective Mr. Ivory Tower how about the system tech that has to service this abomination?
Needless to say another four (4) hours wasted on the project that no proper drawings were provided for and was assembled wrong to start with ... heaven forbid they should admit that though .... :sigh:
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That makes for very entertaining Work, J. You should sell that as a Blu-Ray and make $$ on it! Um, Is 'Pencil Pusher' synonymous to 'Bean Counter' ??? [IF answer==YES THEN Insert Lurch Groan]
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Technically I would not call them a bean counter per se as they are the ones that are doing the planning and drawing of how the new site is to look ... how many base station radios, combiners, TRAK unit, multicouplers, switch and routers ... so on and so forth.
Oh and how it is to be installed and oh my goodness I have been doing this for 20 years and I have no idea why it doesn't work.
Well, for one your drawings are shit as they do not show orientation of the racks and the equipment to be installed in them.
Two your builders did not follow the drawings, as the power supplies were not installed on the same side of each row.
That in and of itself was enough to screw the pooch
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Had the fun one on Friday, time to install the antenna over at the school board for the upgrade to the system.
First question from me is why in the name of all that is holy do we need 20' of 2-3/8" mast pipe?
"oh the installation has to withstand 300 mph wind loading" .... :thud: you do realize that if you have 300 mph winds there is not going to be a damn thing standing as that is higher than a CAT5 hurricane .... silence ... oh I meant 110 mph
RIGHT
Next he want two people only to install this on the side of the equipment room on the building, granted it was two 10' sections of mast but still that is more like a three man job, since the crowning touch to the install is that the antenna is another 8' in height ... so first get the first mast hung, then using a pipe to pipe clamp install the second then make sure it is plumb and level. Next put in a top support for the other section of mast .... and then install the antenna so it is above the roof of the room.
By the way getting up on that roof and then making the mistake of touching it with bare hands ... yep asphalt roof ... ran out of :soapy: words in short order. Remember we do all of our silliness in the daytime crawling around on a roof and having the sun directly on you is typically not an issue ... boy was I proven wrong.
Anyway it did get installed and the third guy had to break to go to a Fire Station as an alert speaker wasn't working. Apparently we are now going to be doing these system for that county where in the past it was not on our to do list.
Got to love how well informed we are kept ... NOT
Back to the install, the folks who made the wall penetration must not own a level ... they could not have picked a worse spot to place it and the amount of available power in the room is barely adequate, and to add insult to injury the existing busbar was completely full .... I thought you did a site walk?
Oh by the way if you guessed the boss took the day off move to the head of the class, also found out he is taking all of next week off as well .... how cute he can take the whole week off yet I can't get a day off for my birthday next week, granted I did ask too late for it off but still :soapy:
Well, you can imagine that not much is going to get done on that day by me
However we have a console relocation, continued work on the new site, programming of radios, and a PM to either get started on or get scheduled on the workload, the other two guys have three days of mobile installs and removal on their dinner plate and the "snowflake" who gives a :soapy: still don't why he is here but I digress and it is not worth my time to rant about his presence any longer.
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AH! Another July BDay! Mine was Yesterday. I think Paul wrote that one.
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Wednesday is mine
Such a cutie
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aw just don't go having a 5th on the 5th, J! ;o)
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Well, I do have to work that day so definitely not going to be allowed to slack off that much .... plus I have got the amount I imbibe down quite a bit
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Me too. About every 2 or 3 years I get adventurous again, and get me a bottle of whatever thinking its gonna last a month or more. 1 week, bottle is decoration only. Heh!
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I have managed to get my drinking down to what I used to do in a couple of days, now takes up to a week to finish.
Which is an improvement
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Well, had fun on Monday moving the equipment from the two post rack to a four post cabinet.
First off I despise cage nuts .... with great intensity.
Second had to move a fiber box and interface panel that belongs to AT&T from the old to the new, not really on my top ten list as it does not belong to us. But, of course no one else was available to facilitate it. So what happens when I unplug the fiber jumper .... broke in my hands when I unplugged it. :OMFG: How is that even possible. Fiber connectors are not supposed to do :bs: like that .... just saying.
Made a call to the system tech and asked if he had a LC to LC single mode fiber jumper, as I did not have one on my truck. I did have a LC to ST but that is not useful much :tearlaugh:
Luck stayed with me and he did and had one ran out to me and we kept moving forward on the relocation, the crazy part was the cabinet was barely big enough to move all of our stuff into the first cabinet, since they wanted me to rack up and install the backup consolettes. So they would have a backup solution ready in case of any tech problems.
Then this oversized monitor that they used was supposed to fit and excuse me tis only a standard size cabinet so a 24" monitor is not going to fit inside of the cabinet. :thud:
The other blemish was that all of the parts to get it configured like that had not arrived. I was able to get it back on line and running however until the antenna relay arrives it will not work as desired. Which basically means that until I cut the relay in; I will not have a single switch solution to bring the backup consolette online, in other words something so simple a dispatcher could do it without one of us having to come out and transfer the system.
Yes, the replacement fiber jumper made it out to me and when plugged in and all equipment powered up and connected to the switch and so forth all systems were green, made a phone call to the tech and had the dispatch center do test calls and all worked properly :yippee:
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Yaaaaaayyyy! :yesway: :sassy: :luvbooks: :thumb_up: :Hi5: :toast: :hug2: :congrats: :viking: :grpwave: :knelvis: :congrat: :EliDriverNurse: :awesome:
(yes, I read it J!)
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I need to know how did you lot figure out what seasoning I like and wind up soaking the leather straps in them to encourage me to chew through them on a daily basis.
Just stop .... please
Reason being, went to install a repaired repeater. What did I see while there another failing ... did some testing and oops the PA is bad; one of the replacement parts that the customer has chosen to not keep a spare on hand ... :thud:
It is bad enough that it took them over six months to renew the service contract ... not entirely enthusiastic to go the extra mile at the moment. Considering that the current equipment they have is one no longer sold and supported.
Time will tell as to what happens next ... not for me to consider as it is definitely above my pay grade.
At least I thought about it, though :tearlaugh:
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Then the customer finds the bad PA, and wants to say it's YOUR fault they don't have a working one now. Cause you didn't give them a freebie. Doncha just love them sorts of jackasses? :bs: When I worked overhead crane service, I would happily hand them the Lease Service Addendum to sign. :)
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They didn't even know that they had a failure happening. Apparently the software that is used to monitor the system health doesn't tell them about an impending failure only after it truly fails.
Then again I was talking to their new hire as that is who answered the phone and if you had two rocks you could rub together .... well, you know where I am going with that statement.
The fun bit is this is when the same manager who oversaw the Connect Plus controller fail and did not have a up to date backup, even though he took the class and knew how to use the device, came over to see what was going on ... he also did not know about any of the features of the monitoring software nor did he have any idea about the other software tools that are used to maintain your system.
Oh, could you provide a link to it .. um no ... that is on your support page and I am not allowed to provide links. (EOS) You will have to find and download it yourself.
Yeah you took classes on the maintenance of the system .... RIGHT
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Which as the *MANAGER* (I think mangler) what HE got from those classes is exactly the proper point where he is to bow out and pass the buck. Yes. Right.
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Only if that person doesn't act like a "dick" by acting above his knowledge base which this person has been known to do
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That sounds about right
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Well, how about that the "we know all there is to know" finally renewed the maintenance contract. Only seven months late however it is retroactive so they have only another five months before you lot have to renew it again. :heeheehee:
Guess the good news is that they have finally signed off on upgrading the system to a CapMax system as they have way to many subscribers for a standard CapPlus one
Here is hoping that they will at last get off of the abomination of "Connect Plus" for the shall we say security protocols.
Oh wait they will have to in a way, since the XPR 7000 series radios are no longer being sold. The new R7 radios do not support "connect plus"
that will be ever so much fun .... not sure for whom but there you have it.
School board project has turned into three separate parts that are somehow supposed to talk to each other and well, not seeing it yet but it is at least being considered though, so there is that going for the project. Interesting tidbit is that they too are buying new radios as in the R7 (only product available) but it appears the other radio vendor in the area has been screwing them over "that's a technical term" in regards to programming, service and so forth and they seem to want to break with them. :ummm: Bottom line it looks like things are going to get even busier or interesting than before.
The rocket tossers have got a tentative date for part two of their project however they still have not decided how they are cutting over to it since they decided ... well someone decided ... to change the master repeater freq, which means every radio has to be touched not only for the addition of the new freqs, but the designations of them.
Finally we have power at the new site for the county, at last no longer do we have to turn around multiple times to cook ourselves evenly while out there, tis not a good thing when I with a diminished sense of smell can smell myself ... just saying. Why the incessant urgency to put this place together is another thing I have yet to understand. mainly because, according to the office wife, we have no PO or installation agreement. Yet there I am with the other two slogging away at it. Since the addition of power which means A/C we did make significant progress yesterday. Only fly in the ointment is that decided lack of oversight on someone's part. Already have a list of multiple items that were not delivered.
However now I find out the ye ole shop manager (leprechaun) has a quote for this project and that the parts should have been ordered ... :ummm: this must be another one of those well why didn't you check up on that :bs: thing. Good news though is the tower crew has the outside work in the final stages as all of the lines are down, terminated and in the building. Oops no polyphasors ... imagine that ... oops wrong power supply on the multicoupler ... imagine that ... never mind ...
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THinking on last year, you've had worse!
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Well, good news on the multicoupler power supply. I see why I couldn't find it before ... in a box inside of a box and shipped with the parts for the GPS Trak system ... asshats ... at least I found them so there is that, only thing I am not happy about is the lack of a tray for them. Guess we could velcro them to the top but that would look tacky in my opinion.
So we shall see what they intend to do as I mentioned it to them.
Well, we have said it before and I will say it again ... stupid people should not own tools. Get a call to my "favorite" (sarcasm) Fire Station saying no tones or alerts at the station. :sigh:
Get there and what do I find but the area tore the :OMFG: up Radio is shoved off to the side, it is still on but one could see that there were issues. First thing the amp that drives and sorts all of the audio was not powered on. Traced it back to a power strip that they had it plugged into, yep turned off. :sigh:
Did a test still nothing ... poke around in the ruins some more and found that the accessory connector had been unplugged. Really people if you don't know what the :rat-atat: you are doing leave it alone ... please just leave it alone.
Anyway plugged it back in still no audio ... did the crawl on my belly like a reptile, so I could get a closer look ... oh my how about that, explain how you can bend a pin on the radio base ... asking for a friend ... bent it back to the correct position ... and no it was not a oops I touched it and it bent, no you had to put effort into it.
Anyway got it back to the right spot plugged the accessory port back in and at last audio and tones in the station.
Later on the senior tech called and asked about the station as he just got the call that there was an audio problem at the station ... again ... :thud:
Turns out that ye ole city worker and gone back in there to continue his work and wound up breaking two of the wires to the speakers thereby :soapy: the system once again.
All I can say is if you touch it you own it ... so if you don't know that you can fix it if you break it while doing work next to it don't :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: touch it
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It still amazes me how many guises stupidity presents itself in. And that Fire Station mess, that is Stupidity Redundant!
Hey, you dig old Sci Fi books, check this out popped up on Reddit: HERE (https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/153jib8/1st1st_chilton_dune_rebound_by_master_bookbinder/)
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:peep: Sad that is Typical in some Stations as they are run by The Three Stooges and I did do it Kid!
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Question: If you know that you have a job on Monday at an existing airport for a system upgrade. And you know what the airport is called and you sat at the office and did naught all day long, is it incumbent upon me to tell you what the street address is ... I mean you did have all day to look it up .... asking for a friend ....
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"I don't know, and I am too busy now to Google it up for you!"
THIS be your incumbancy! :thissmall:
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Ooh here is another good one. Facebook is saying I requested a password change and here is the code to use.
:ummm: Facebook Security with an email to Facebookmail :ummm:
Yep nothing to see here
:rat-atat:
I know very well how to change my own password and why would I ask you to help me change it and why should I tell you I did not request it, there is just many small things in this that makes me say "wrong"
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:peep: Funny Get those FB Request and linked in All the time and not a member of ether! :sure:
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There ya go J! Ignoring that garbage is the best thing to do. You could, as you are an intensely curious person, just view the entire HTML message as pure text and get a big chuckle out of what you see. All the great looking stuff about FB is just that. All the working stuff is likely to be in Da Mudderlandt! RUSSIA! There are a LOT of people that fall totally for "it looked good to me" gambit. Thing is, even Zuckerman won't ask for sensitive info in email. He is the dickhead that created/owns FB.
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Which is why I did not click directly on the link in it but opened a new tab and hand typed it in there to see what was going on
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:thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up:
:viking: :viking: :viking: :viking: :viking:
:grenade: :grenade: :grenade: :grenade: :grenade:
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Yep, occasionally I have a clue and manage to not do stupid things when on the internet and responding to emails.
Turned out to generate a message that all was good and the request for the change was discarded
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Well, got to love it when you find out details after the fact such as "Oh, were you not told about changing out the coax?"
Umm, no and beside we do not have or use LMR600 for any of our work so I do not have any at the shop let alone any connectors for that type of cable.
We did bring some LDF-4 with us but when I saw that they had a conduit body for the point of egress I said naught, pretty sure I would violate all bending radius standards trying to install LDF in a conduit body (LB to electricians)
Moving forward though found there was no clamp provided to attached the new antenna to their mast pipe. And imagine that nothing grounded on the roof at all.
Surprise, surprise, surprise .... NOT
Muddled our way through all of that silliness and got it up and running and then the computer decided it did not want to read the radio, had the right version of software I thought, there was an update so made the phone my hot spot since at an airport there is no such thing as a wi-fi network that I am going to be able to use. That fought me tooth, fang and claw but finally got the update, got it installed and still no joy .... WTF ... made sure I had the right IP scheme ... oh let's try a different patch cable ... :duh: now it works I swear some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps .... at all.
Finally all done and in and doing signal level checks. I am kind of wondering why do you want to change the coax at this point since I am getting readings from low of a -52 dBm to a high of a -28 dBm this system is so hot you could go off site a mile or so and still have coverage.
:shrug:
At any rate finally got back to the shop around 2:00 in the afternoon and what comes in while I am putting stuff away ... a semi with two palettes of equipment for Windermere .... how cute ... turns out it is the microwave equipment guess who has to now go with the microwave people to get them into the site so they can start their work .... yep delegating it to the other tech :tearlaugh:
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LOL! A good day is a good day. Better not to mess it up so early in the week! ;)
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How entertaining the airport requires the coax to be replaced. However they still want the original results ASAP ... Why, if it is going to be replaced why does it matter .... :sigh:
:soapy:
Well, it has just been demonstrated that you can not trust anybody ... why do I say this ... we are currently running cable for the transmit lines at the new Orange County site. Sounds innocent enough
However other tasks required our attention so we have not been out in a couple of days.
What do we find when we go out today .... cable missing ... in other words ... someone came in during the time we were not out there and took advantage of the fact. Since there is currently a common gate code and the key is still stored in an unsecured fashion ... do the math.
:soapy: :soapy:
Disappointing ... to say the least :soapy:
Now time for the crowning jewel
Received multiple calls about the WAVE dispatch application not working. :ummm: and what pray tell do you want me to do about it ??? WAVE resides on your network I have no access to your network. So since the application resides on your network and only you have access ... how do you expect me to troubleshoot it?
Asking for a friend.
A few things were discovered and learned that would work to restore the system. What do I get today but a call from yet another campus, and yet another IT "wanna be" stating that it does not work at their site .... after explaining yet again that the app resides on the main campus network and that I cannot work on it, and that "restarting" the port (disable then enable) has fixed it previously ... so why are you giving me lip about it.
If your department would stop pushing network updates out willy nilly instead of vetting them first, maybe just maybe you would not continually break the radio system.
But what the :soapy: do I know, I am just the dust beneath your feet .... dumbass ...
Since the only thing I can do is check to make certain that the base stations are on and have a solid network connection, other than that I can't help you.
Do as I request and reset the port connection .... I do not care that you reset it three days ago ... it still seems the network does not like the app.
Surprisingly .... NOT ... he got upset when I requested him to do that ... even more surprisingly he must have done so, as while monitoring the system I see that the app is now broadcasting to that site once more.
Do you think he called back to say it is working "thank you very little" yep not a peep
:soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
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He must have seen the bill your company sends his company and figured that is what YOU were paid. Eh HEM! Even though what you WERE paid is likely way above his pay grade. Insecure egotistical <MALE> attitude hard at work there.
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It is annoying to say to say the least, I know my shortcomings but I have a good understanding of our system. I also know that I am ignorant about a great many things "network" related (and will admit it) however I do know that the app is on your network and that there is naught I can do to troubleshoot it and that all I can do is verify the health of the radio system ... then pay attention.
All of your posturing is not going to change a damn thing ... the problem is your network and that is that ... oh and it came to light that these calls about the issues they are having with the app on their network that interfaces with the radio ... yep the network side is NOT covered under contract and is billable ....neener, neener, neener ... guess what ye ole office lady did ... yep told them ... maybe that is why the arrogant one did not update us further. :shrug:
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What is really disconcerting is that coax cable was stolen from the new tower site.
We know that too many people know the combo to the cattle gate. We also know that in my mind that the key to the front doors is not very securely protected.
Still doesn't change the fact that someone knew enough and took advantage of the days we were not there, which does include the weekend and now we are short cable.
Can't wait to see how they are going to blame this on us, because you know they will somehow ...
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Ahhh that ain't right. Too, since we all know how people can be, why would your guys take expendable stuff like that out to a site and just leave it without an armed guard? Or was it already run?
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All we have for use as transport is a Ford Escape and trying to get a 700+ foot reel of cable in and out is difficult, granted each day it would be less but then there is the amount of time lost to tear down and set up each day and these :soapy: :soapy: are already crying that it is taking to long.
The tower crew left their 500' of 1-1/4" reels outside on site and they were never messed with at all, however the full story has finally came out as to why the cable is short for the inside, the calculations I made for length was based on running it in a certain fashion, they were not able to do it that way so wound up using more cable resulting in the shortage.
Which is a relief because someone would have to be very savvy and have a use for cable like that and know it is there, remember coax is mostly outer jacket and dielectric, the shield is copper yes, but the center conductor nowadays is copper clad aluminium. Not going to get much from a scrap yard for that crap. Plus being half inch cable @ 50 ohms it is not really suitable for much else ...
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Half inch, is that R-6? Anyways, glad ya got it sorted!
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Some poor Fool is Stripping that thing in their Garage hoping to make some money! :peep:
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@McGrandpa, nope this is bonafide 1/2" coaxial, EC-4 50ohm from Eupen used for radio transmission
Not your garden variety TV coaxial RG-6 75 ohm stuff that you can get at any ole Home Depot, Lowes, or electrical supply house.
Nevertheless I did find the length problem as it was based on a different path for the cables which added distance to each run that was never taken into account.
Just had a phone call this morning, even though I am on PTO, I swear no one, but no one, ever reads the :soapy: work calendar that has details like this on it. Anyway the worker bee is asking me questions again about stuff that I have already talked about more than once to him the other worker and to the leprechaun.
No one listens ... ever ...
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Isaiah 44:18 :peep:
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
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Amen
To add insult to injury he has now called three times :thud: :soapy: and just texted me ... my head hurts
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Up to four now this is so much :bs:
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BLock em during PTO?
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Might have to as this is bona-fide crap
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Well, it got very interesting, was double booked this week :thud: I swear it is beginning to be a given that more days than I care to count that it doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps
Anyway once the boss was informed that "excuse me" I will not clone myself and that the problems generated by the other job that others seem to want done yesterday can not be solved by throwing more people at it, ... why ... the parts are not available or in stock so you want us to finish ... HOW?
Anyway moving on to what I was scheduled to do ... a PM for the radios at the facility in Celebration out Kissimmee way. So what happened, if you think it went as planned, go sit in the corner and rethink your choices .... yep ... first day went as planned, however day two went :34dd: up
Got the call that a different site was showing out of range on the radios there ... well got there and what do we find ... both repeaters were off. Oh and how about that went to reset them :thud: ..... swapped out the source of power for the repeaters and double :thud: .... did some further sanity check regarding power and triple :thud:
Final conclusion power supply was dead ... on both of them ... how is it possible for both to die that at the same time ... found out that the last time they had trouble with the system they had staff go to each site and check that the radios were on and ... oh by the way at this site I was told that the last time they checked that one repeater was off to start with and never came back on line. Well, :ahhhh: why was it not reported so we could have come out when it was first noticed.
Nope why would they do such a daft thing like that ...
Turns out that both were truly dead and how about that we had spares at the shop that were owned by them so back to the shop and then back out there to install the new power supplies. The good news is that got them backup and online. Did the due diligence for power out to the antenna and checked out the RDAC logs for errors.
:OMFG:
Anyway got it up and running and all was good once more
Until today when I got another call with a new problem with the dispatch system ... just shoot me ... please .. either that or that WalMart greeters job is better by the day.
Anyway after seven hours of proving that it is not the radios but the network, I finally got answers from some of my fellow workers that would answer their questions ... at last. Finally got the missing piece of the puzzle and it is on a device that is owned by them and it is on them to find the box, physical or virtual where the app resides and restart it ... the fun part no one on the customer side knows where this device is at or where the app resides ...
:tearlaugh:
Oh the real funny thing is that the only person that might know its location is on PTO and they will not answer their phone .... unlike stupid me that answers the phone every time :sigh: I really need to learn that lesson methinks.
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So these Places Do not have a Site map with Equipment Locations on Record with Serial numbers of Said Equipment With the Software loaded on them listed in the inventory for the site? o.O That Something that we do in Texas For Emergency Back up Disaster Recover For 911 Sites! :ahhhh:
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The 911 sites do, however this is a commercial customer.
Granted I do have all of the details mentioned, but this one says you are not allowed to see or touch our network ... to which I reply it is not the radio system that is broke it is how your network talks to it. And it almost always turns out that they pushed an update to their policies' and forgot or neglect to check that the permissions for the radio system are in place. This time it looks like a app that they own, on a box that they own, is off and since it is theirs and on their network ... I was never privy to its location ... yet somehow I am supposed to know where it is :thud:
As for the other site that had dead repeaters, it requires someone to physically look at them since once again the only other way to check them would be remotely and that would require a network connection with an app, which we are not allowed to touch their network :shrug:
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Ah Keep forgetting you also do "Non Critical Services" AKA Loser Sites. :thissmall:
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:tearlaugh:
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I hereby offer my most sincere Beavis & Butthead Laugh. Heh! Heh heh! Heh heh heh heh heh heh! Forking Idiots thinking they actually KNOW something. Bah! Soooo WHY did they call you at all man?
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Maybe so they can do the dog and pony show for their boss???
:shrug:
Tell them each and every time it is their network that is the problem the radios are fine but, heaven forbid that I should be listened to or believed :rat-atat: :soapy:
At least now it has been "proven" that it is on them as they finally found out where the app lives and now that they also have the "ehem" know-how to access the management page from a browser page .... maybe they will check the status page for the health of the system before wasting our time.
Why, found out that it is a billable call as it is not covered by their contract :heeheehee: Guess who informed them of that ... yep the office lady .... :heeheehee:
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Well, it is that time of the year ... time for a new batch of "adult students" to squeeze the oatmeal out of in my class.
:tearlaugh:
Got to start somewhere ... and we are starting with the concept that one of them has a name that is totally unpronounceable by me without significant help. Trust me I read enough and have seen many combinations of alphabetical letters to be able to sort out most combinations. However this guys name is at the top of the list of "difficult" ... that doesn't happen often.
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Can you ask him if he has a nickname and call him by that name?
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Is he from India and rolls, double and triple rolls half the alphabet when speaking? Found a guy like that on YouTube that creates a LOT of tutorial type vids for how to find things in No Man's Sky. I just cannot listen to this person more than a few seconds at a time. I can't decipher his speak fast enough to keep up!
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Oh believe me I am going to request a name I can pronounce tonight when classes start ... either that or I am going to make up one
Seriously a name like: Dieucifrand
Does not roll off the tongue with any sort of ease.
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:peep: Might Be Welsh? Love The "Adult Students" People Pretending to be Adults With the mind of a Child and the attitude of a Teenager. :ahhhh:
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Apparently Deuce works for him as a name ... thank :soapy: :soapy: :soapy:
Not certain about the Welsh part since he has nothing that resembles an accent and I didn't ask so time will tell
Already had my first student decide that he was going to leave when he felt like without saying anything ... not a good sign .. can't wait to hear his excuse ... NOT
Got one that is definitely going to be the problem child, late, would not put his phone away for whatever reason, even though I asked/told him to do so, and just left and missed my wrap up of what I expect from all by next class :sigh:
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Small improvement on night two, not by much, apparently ye ole left without saying so has a medical condition that warrants this type of behavior ... wonder how that works for him when on the clock :ummm:
Nevertheless he didn't show for night two :sigh:
Whatever
And for the real eye opener ye ole bean counters at the mortgage company claimed I had not yet paid for the month, well how about that here is the bill pay confirmation number that I did and the date it was delivered on ... figure it out :soapy: ^17256th
Well, it has at last been found, bet they wont say a :soapy: word about it. Only took a grand total of 11 business days and 6 of those were me telling them to :soapy: find it as you are not getting any additional money and oh by the way there had better not be any late charges as this was all due to your negligence not mine.
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"Humanity Wanted Extinction I Gave it to them!" Skynet :peep:
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Well, how about that, took two more days off in a row and this time only got one call this time, from the office lady in charge ... big improvement over the last time.
Twas a legitimate question so called that a win, was asking whether a set of radios for the other group that tosses rockets were programmed. Uh, no, there were no instructions to indicate that, nor was monies included for it and since we have got around to doing more work and we saw what they wanted programmed into the repeaters we no longer have a valid code plug for the mobiles.
:@u:
I do not read minds any longer when it comes to programming as I almost always misunderstand. So there is that I guess ...
Did get a text stating that, "hey you need to send completed pictures of the install at the school board as the way the line is strapped will not meet our codes." :shrug: Want to tell me where it is in violation ... inside or outside .... called both people involved and only got voice mail ..... sucks to be you lot then ... I understand the AHJ having the final say, however it is not complete to start with as changes keep getting made to the programming, so do not get your delicates in a twist. Plus, as mentioned tell me what part do you not like inside the room or outside the room, and it had better be RF cabling as that is all I ran, if you lot do not like the data line that others ran ... talk to them.
Sorry.
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:peep: You think the School Board that can't protect kids from Groomers but lets Pedophiles Run their Curriculum?
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Indeed makes my head hurt to say the least
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Time for the proverbial belly flop ... yep went back to the airport on the East coast to replace the line since I do not stock LMR 600 or connectors in our shop.
Got set and ready to go and then the rain started ... WTF ...
So went inside to work with the other guy as we had to install an UPS ... wait for it .... with three (3) extended battery packs .... :thud:
Which for openers meant we had to disassemble the entire cabinet and then put it back together with all this extra rubbish.
It is a rack mounted UPS at 500va plus the three 500va extended battery packs.
Not to be a smart ass but f you need that much back up I would think you have bigger problems at the airport.
Just my dumb ass opinion
Anyway got it done and back up and then went to work on the outside line since the rain was long gone and stuff was dry again. Outside went just fine ... but ... yes you knew there was one coming .... Trying to get the line inside was a whole other story.
Wouldn't say someone was misled when they did the site walk but they were misled ... yep ye ole leprechaun ... under the bus time.
Once we got it figured out what had to be done and we got the line inside the stairwell ceiling area it turns out that the cable only had eight feet left inside the area.
Umm
Yea this is not going to work, spliced it to the balance of the existing to get it back up on line and tested. Only to be told by the boss that the Motorola pencil breakers are not going to let it slide and we will have to go back a third time to pull in a line that reaches from point A to point B
How fun ... NOT
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I Had to remove the Batteries to solo install those! :ahhhh:
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Did have a helper to assist "somewhat" then again, once the first was secured in the cabinet everything just stacked on top of it. Did not turn out to bad. Doing the interconnect of the cables to daisy chain the batteries was a bit of a challenge, as the provided pics were a bit lacking ...
What else is new ... right .... ?
New wrinkle went to update badge access to the Cape and they had an issue with the computer and the update screens. :thud:
Found out one detail on the problem with the base station at the airport, two different styles of radios ... one conventional and one base station repeater. The code plugs are different in layout and again no one wants to believe me :rat-atat:
So love the support I get ....
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Well, in the interest of being responsible :tearlaugh: don't laugh it could happen ... took my flag pole down for the "supposed" storm coming by the morrow.
Thinking that a 20' spear pulled up and flung about might be a bad thing in the neighborhood.
On another note all of the scaredy cats at the local tourist trap chickened out and postponed the PM on their system.
School closed for Wednesday since the school buses are not to be driving with children in them in sustained winds above 30 mph ... sort of makes sense. Although my students are supposedly adults and we are a night class. Apparently we have to follow their lead for operation hours.
And with Monday also a holiday they are going to forget everything by then since the next school day is now next week Wednesday
:sigh:
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Ah That is Good More time to Read!
Went to get Gas today and the pump Had a software error and crashed and had to be rebooted! A Gas Pump! o.O
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Having to have a gas pump rebooted is crazy
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The more I think about this issue I have with the radio the more I think that the damn thing is not programmed. The code plug in mine is named as a conventional radio, which in retrospect is true for all radios. The fact the other code plug I was learning off of is called a base repeater should be not applicable, a name is a name sort of logic.
Granted mine is in the 400 MHz range and the others that I was using to practice with are all 800 MHz in theory, should not be an issue but I still think that it is ... so guess who is going to have to read a 59 page verification manual to see just what is different and how .... :sigh:
Since at the moment I see nothing in the code plug about "adjacent channel interference, or illegal carrier" and that is what they be crying about, just wish people would stop thinking that everyone has the same level of training or experience.
I have been asking all the system guys who do the 800 MHz system and guess what, that part is not looked at or worried about and when I mention that my questions revolve around a 400 MHz radio they are all "wouldn't know we don't mess with those"
Well, how is that for a fine howdy-do ... I understand that one can not learn about and remember all types unless you work on them daily, but the fact that I have yet to get a direction where I can research my situation is pretty ..... well insert adjectives
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Hurrah they claim to have the issue at the badging office sorted as of last night.
Also got the call from the boss last night saying that depending on how the weather is in the morning don't rush off to work.
:ummm: What weather, sorry have lived to long in central Florida and unless that storm is during a repeat from '04 I am just calling it a summer shower. Went outside and the ground is barely wet where I am at and although I do have some wind it is not high enough to cause driving concerns, although the rest of the population is probably shaking in their delicates.
Hell, even my neighbor went to work last night and he drives a semi, sometimes a tandem one.
Checked the predictions and since I have to drive to the East coast and the storm is on the West coast, once again I am calling this a nothing burger
Wonder how these people would act if this really was a SHTF moment :ummm:
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Is the equipment properly Grounded? Has anyone installed a Advanced Metering Infrastructure?
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/radio-frequency-interference-best-practices-guidebook
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Grounding is under control as this is a new install by us. The section on external RF interference (adjacent channel) is what they want checked, however not seeing the table in the code plug so I can manipulate the settings to make the test and see if there is any, now the caveat to this is that where would it come from since this is a stand alone repeater, and it is not a trunked system.
According to the CSS software the parameter they want validated is available on a trunked system not a stand alone
So where is my wall so I can bang my head against it. :thud:
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https://spectrumeffect.com/rf-challenges/
https://nanotron.com/EN/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AN0002_Wi-Fi_Interference_with_CSS_Transmission_1.0.pdf
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All I can say at the moment is thanks ... got lot of reading to do now. My ST for public safety just sent me a manly manual as well, that is already making my head hurt but at least between the pair of you I am getting closer to my solution
So calling that win
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And the win is the "adjacent channel" test and measurement "thorn in my side" is only applicable to a trunked system and this is a stand alone repeater
So wish, the people at my shop would :soapy: listen to me when I make a statement
All I can really give them according to the manual I was readings is; SINAD and RSSI values
:thud:
Thanks fo the input Rad it did help sort this mess out.
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Not sure if this place would have anything for you but came across it.
https://www.rfwireless-world.com/
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It do seem to be more orientated to wireless as in network connections. Where I deal more with straight up RF
Still has some points of interest so bookmark it and will dive deeper
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Real fun got the notice from the bank that the morons, bean counters, idiots at the mortgage company have credited the monthly payment.
The bank shows the payment as posted, so guess they got their act together for a brief moment this month :thud:
Lackadaisical jack legs
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Even more fun on the RF front
The other hospital chain that we do work for is crying that newly programmed radios by us are not working at the sites.
:ummm: Since they were only programmed for the ambulances and not on-site communications I guess that might be a problem. They are single band portables so ... sorry about your luck
To make it even more interesting is that one site they be crying about is one that we did not install as it is out of our responsibility range. In other words the next county over, granted for some reason the repeaters for the site were delivered to our shop ... as in three years ago... but we did not install them
Yet now they cry about the communications at the sites :thud:
Color me confused :ummm:
Just saying
Better still was the email I saw this morning asking for the code plug so the other shop "could find time to go out and check them"
Really "find time" ... more to the point you installed them why do you not have a copy of the code plug ..... asking for a friend
Am I the only one in our area that routinely makes a copy of everything I touch or program?????
So glad I am on PTO and turned the "out of office" email notice on. The real fun is that my senior tech is out of town as of yesterday, so no he didn't provide anything since the original inquiry started "after hours"
Tuesday ought to be fun with capital letters when I return. :sigh: As the senior tech will still be out of town.
Oh even more fun the project manager for the new tower site found out we were moving and wound up calling me and started pumping me for details since he could not get hold of the leprechaun ... sorry all I know is we are moving ... when? ... sorry don't know ..... Where? .. Exchange dr is all I know ... you want better information call my office lady she knows ... the sad part is I had to tell him twice to do so ... really what part of "I don't know, call my office lady" was incomprehensible ????? again asking for a friend
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OR; you want what and where the h-e double L are the last ten years of promised pay raises huh ?!?!
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Damn good question, yes I have received raises as in more than one ... do they account for all of the things I do that are technically not in my scope of work ... :sigh: not so very much.
Yet I still am doing them.
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Can't wait to see what will come out of the hospital fiasco .... because as mentioned ... not in our area of responsibility.
When they (Lakeland shop) installed it. I ask did you not make a copy of the code plug for service and troubleshooting ?
Fairly certain you have archive copies of all of the public safety site code plugs. So what makes another customer, even if commercial, different?
My memory of all the details for the Osceola site are hazy since that was when we first got involved with documentation and programming. Seem to recall that I went there once and found the duplexer was untuned and was for 400 MHz-500 MHz. So if they are crying about the portables that we recently programmed with the senior techs vetting my work, they are in for a big surprise since the portables are all 800 MHz for ambulance traffic and not for local communications. How about that ....
As for the other site it is even more entertaining since they did get a full MedCom install and we did do the work. So not sure what the real problem there is, unless they are crying about the BDA performance. Once again we did not do the install at my level of responsibility. Another division of our shop did that work and it is certainly not my problem, yet it seems they are trying to make it mine.
See what happens when you are to detail oriented ... others .... assume you are in charge and know how to fix it.
I so need to become a bit more lackadaisical in that respect. Or just remember enough to say sorry so and so, did the install not our shop. I can only point you in the direction for you to resolve your problem, not solve it for you.
Bit of a cheat sort of, but being expected to solve other people's problems outside of our shop's field of responsibility is the real problem.
In other words why is not the other shop capable of the same level of service to the customer, whether or not they are public safety or commercial.
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:peep: High turn over in their Department maybe?
Would Wonder if they even know What was installed at all? Some Departments never Back up or Document the sites that they are required to maintain. Sounds like a someone Got Lazy and got called out. :ahhhh:
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More like the ones in that shop and the BDA department are as you said "out right LAZY"
Regrettably the equipment came to my shop first and being the CDO (OCD) person that I am, it is documented in all facets. Not certain if I had anything to do with programming them back then but if I did then that is archived, if not well sorry about your luck.
It truly does suck that I seem to be the only person wired in such a manner, I do my best to document everything that crosses the floor of our shop. Fairly good at it since I get asked more times then I care to think about, on rubbish like this .... makes one wonder .... what would happen if I were to be as "LAZY" as the rest.
Oh well, it is amusing since one of the other questions was about a BDA being installed in Osceola. Yes, I have answers to that also, but why would anyone want to listen to me. :tearlaugh:
Tuesday is going to be ever so interesting ... especially when I show the documentation to back up my assertions. Granted it is all on the internal shared drive but apparently no one knows how to research them properly.
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How amusing my prediction was proven, here comes the request for the code plug again. Like I said I put up the out of office notice on my email, however as soon as I was back to work ... wha-bam ....
The annoying part is when I was talking to ye ole leprechaun he wanted nothing to do with the topic, uh wow .... whatever ... told him that they were crying for the code plug and he started to get stupid about it, which is when I said that "the portable I have the code plug" since it was programmed here and we archive our work. Even more amusing was the request for it bypassed him as he was not copied in the email which is what I mentioned.
So it got sent but really why he needed to be such a dick about it is beyond my comprehension. Must be more bad blood between our two shops even though in theory we all work for the same company. Then again if they were truly doing their job at the other shop, you would not be pestering us for something you should have had archived. Just saying. But what do I know I am just a bottom feeder, know nothing, knuckle dragging Neanderthal.
:tearlaugh:
Although Neanderthal man was more intelligent then first imagined based on recent findings so :shrug:
Anyway he meaning the leprechaun decided to act like a dick a second time yesterday. I am at the new tower site working on the last details, and he calls to ask if I was out there and what I working on, tried to tell him but once he heard that yes I had printed labels and was making up the environmental jumpers he cut me off before I could finish the sentence. Stating that was all he needed to know.
:sigh:
Guess it doesn't matter that we ran out of blank pages to print the labels on ... hell I haven't had to print anything out in centuries so how would I know that I was low and plus does one estimate how many pages you will need if you have not labeled a site from scratch.? Asking for a friend.
But apparently he did not want to hear that part, so I didn't bother. I had ordered more, when will I get them don't know, at this point don't care. If you didn't want to hear the complete response it is on you.
All the cabling is done and what I can get labels on will have labels on them and if the ST that are coming next week can't figure it out when programming and optimizing the site ... you lot have bigger problems.
The real fun is going to be when they turn the site on because to the best of my knowledge no one has done a hot check to see if all the equipment works. :iminnocent:
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I am sure there is a song in that somewhere! :thissmall:
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:peek: I Have A Cure for Your Problem! Transfer ye ole leprechaun to the other shop! He is incompetent, Their incompetent. Perfect for each other! :peep:
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@Rad don't know that want their incompetent manager as a trade in though :tearlaugh:
Had one of those weird days started off with walking into the shop and seeing four mobiles that were dropped for a PM and alignment ... wonder why they did it that way ... I do a PM on the radio and the radio is fine yet if you put it back in the car it gives issues guess what ... yep ... did anyone think that the antenna and line should be tested ???? Yep, asking for that friend again.
Next went off to do a PM for one of the alphabet soup agencies once again. This is the fun one, there is only one consolette there that works. Then there are supposedly four desktop remotes, too. Did find all of them, the only problem not a single one is working or even turned on .... how cute my tax dollars at work. The even more entertaining part was finally went hunting for the polyphaser, and guess what the line goes straight up to the roof with no access to be able to get to the antenna or even view it from the ground. Wow how cute, apparently though, all is good with the consolette when doing the forward/reflected power tests. The senior tech broke out a new toy and was able to do a line sweep without having to break out the full blown service monitor, so much easier ... handheld and was able to show VWSR and what freq it was using.
The fun was that before I left the shop I passed off the labels to the other guys to put on for me at the new site. What do I find when I returned they were still there and had no even started out there ..... :rat-atat: Seriously why .. sounded like nothing but lame ... fine went about my business, which was to get the results together for the PM just completed. Needed results from the senior tech so certain details could just be copied over. They weren't where he said they were so asked him for them and another two hours wasted waiting on the file. :sigh:
Worked on a pull and stack tidbit that I figured I could get done by the time I got the file. It should not have been that complicated but apparently his motivation is in the toilet. Well, by the time I got the file the other guys had still not even attempted to go out and put labels on ... I hit the breaking point and just grabbed the labels from his car where I put them this morning and drove on out there ... I see no reason to ask more then twice for someone to perform a task, plus after the leprechaun cried about it twice already .. surprise got a call from the other guys asking what happened to the labels ... told him yes, I took them and I am on the way to the site. He said they were on there way and do I still want them to show up. :thud: :soapy: you should have already been here working on this, why are you asking now.
Granted didn't say that outloud, but man I am getting fed up with this rubbish.
Did get curious though and turned the site on to see how many items were going to be problematic. Surprised I am, everything started up and behaved as I expected for nothing being programmed. Well, almost everything the GPS Trak unit had alarms on it, called the local ST and explain what I saw and then he asked a question, how about that, nope do not have that item ... that is why it is in alarm ... :sigh: yet again more :bs:
This place is becoming a thorn in my side and a host of other descriptive phrases, not suitable to repeat in mixed company.
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:peek: How long till You can have Retirement?
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The thought does occur to me more often than I care to admit ... but if I did that I would have no excitement in my life .... :tearlaugh: ..... you funny guy :thud:
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:peek: Well time to take a trip if you got Vacation to get away from there and decompress! O.o :odd:
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Have multiple four day weekends already schedule for that purpose. As in every other week when I am not on call.
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You may find the 'decompressed' world suits you far better than the mess ladled out on you in the Work world. If so, take it! :D
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I am trying to last long enough to get max of the shaky SS benefits before I consider that move ... remember books cost money and I still have a mortgage :tearlaugh:
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:peek: Something to help you Decompress!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQY-By678vk
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Definitely a start
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I am trying to last long enough to get max of the shaky SS benefits before I consider that move ... remember books cost money and I still have a mortgage :tearlaugh:
Oh right, and I thought you'd already paid the house off! My bad!
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Well, the house is "allegedly" according to random searches worth over twice what I paid for it. How ever we still have a balance on it ... damn ... sigh
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Well, how about that more rubbish from the leprechaun. Wanted to know why the airports had not been done yet.
Well, let me think had the new tower site to finish, the hurricane came through sort of, then there was the rework of one of the other airports on the coast, then two PM's at two different customer sites.
So I was supposed to get to this "how?"
Besides these are the same idiots that want an "adjacent channel interference" test done on a single station site. Where is the adjacent channel located at?
Morons.......
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Talk about the best laid plans going :40: up was getting ready to go do the grocery shopping and of course a visit to the bookstore ... I mean it is on the way ... sort of, kind of, maybe ... if I don't strain myself.
However what happens have a service call come across the system, and :sigh: I am now on call this week. So off we go ... what is really disgusting about the whole call was that the dispatch site decided to move a system back to its original location. However did they think to plug the PC and the monitor into the UPS, did they think to turn the UPS on .... move to the head of the class if you said "no" to both questions.
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Methinks some people should not be allowed out with supervision.
Case in point had to go back to the least favorite hospital to work with IT again to sort out why the County Medcom doesn't work ... again. The problem still had not been resolved by them on the IT side nor have we made any progress as to why it is not working on our side.
So removed all pieces and brought back to the shop.
While we were doing that it was noticed that the one for the State was not connected - So on the way out stopped by the remote and went to restart it.
:ummm: "Hello Houston, we have a situation"
Someone in their infinite wisdom decided they needed the power cord from the wall wart that powers up the device and it is now missing ... :thud:
WTF people
Didn't make the EMS radio person very happy at all, since apparently judging by his expression he was decidedly displeased. Amazing how people take it upon themselves to decide what is needed and what is not .... especially on mandatory required devices.
:sigh: Ah well, it is on the point of contact to find the cord and do the internal chastising ... methinks it is not going to be pretty, just my dumbass opinion.
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we used to mark then with the site name and number we found the Police the most sticky fingered. :shock:
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@ Rad ~ Why am I not surprised :tearlaugh:
New adventure today.
Repeater was fine. Except the line to the antenna and the line to the floor were swapped at the combiner. Meaning the floor was getting flooded power wise while the antenna was marginal at best. Would it work like that yes, is it the optimal configuration ... NOT
First base station ... antenna connector on the back of the radio ... broken as in completely gone ... will have to send in for repairs as this is a Federal customer and we can not repair them due to contract stipulations.
Second base station unplugged and not powered on ... :sigh:
I so need to stop chewing through the leather straps
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Maybe this will help! :drinkonus:
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Ah Huh HUH huh huh! (Baby Huey laugh)
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okay okay, it was a good one, Rad!
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Well, now talk about a change of pace. Since we turned the new tower over to the county why are we being tasked to clean up after all of the other trades. I barely clean my place, and they want dusting, sweeping, mopping and a coat of wax on the floor.
NOT
Utter rubbish especially when I was tasked to go there and open the place up so a cleaning person guy could come in and do the work. The utter rubbish bit is he thought I was going to sit there and wait on him to do his work and then lock up.
Called ye ole office lady and that nonsense was squashed rapidly. Told him what to lock up when done and left to go to my next adventure.
Load and extension ladder on the truck and go to one of the local hospitals and remove 3 decommissioned antennas, well two of them were simple enough the last one was another story. A 12 - 14 foot open dipole VHF antenna ... talk about a bitch in capital letters, fortunately an employee was up on the roof top as well just ambling about and believe it or not he actually asked what was up and did we need a hand.
:yippee: Damn sure did not turn it down since my senior tech was with me and he is even more plagued by medical issues so didn't see him being capable of one getting on the roof and two doing much ... the random guy saved the day as he was both fit and capable of holding onto the antenna as I finished removing the mounting clamp.
Got it wrapped up and got the hell out before they decided they wanted something else done.
Was getting ready to go the PT session this afternoon and got a call saying my therapist was out and today was cancelled ... and before the phone could even cool down the office lady is asking who is on call we have Battalion Chief truck radio with antenna issues ... :thud:
The real disturbing part is that we have a multitude of work that has been pending for months and they all now want it done. WTF
And since ye ole leprechaun boss is still recovering from his surgery and is out to pasture ... talk about crazy crap ... since it turns out that the leprechaun had projects on tap that he did not communicate to her, so now these customers want their projects completed however none of the extra parts required were known about by her nor were they "obviously" ordered.
:sigh:
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Can we Medically Retire Leprechaun? o.O
Always nice when someone Healthy Shows up to Help!
:hallowoops:
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Typically for a removal like this I would have had the other two guys as backup since they be fit. However they had to start a new project yesterday so figured I should be able to handle it. Knew it was going to be tricky, but was not going to rely on the snowflake (yep still there) for the assist. Just one of those things, yes he has changed a bit but first impressions and actions speak loudly. Don't have any desire to try and work with someone that all of the other system techs at both counties want nothing to do with too. Sort of kind of a clue that something is still not right ... :shrug: ... but what do I know.
Now for the part about the leprechaun except for where that would put more on me for the same pay I would agree, as there are beginning to be more and more instances where he is forgetting stuff and then claims that; oh I told you about it.
Case in point would be there has been no less than three or is it four projects that no parts have been ordered because naught was forwarded about them. Ye ole office lady is getting purchase orders or an installation agreement and has no idea what they are for until she digs in and does the research. However the customer is asking when can it get done :thud:
And then this morning I get an email concerning submitted paperwork on a PM done a month and a half ago saying, "oh a picture is missing" please fix.
:duh:
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And the list of stupid :rat-atat: goes on.
Service call for a hospital their MedCom portable doesn't work. Really? Get there and it is working, just has no signal strength. Okay, dug deeper and got into the politics of the site .... :bs: I feel dirty now. Anyway this is direct relation to them not wanting to spring for a base station and proper system, which to all intents and purposes is illegal to not have a fully functioning emergency radio system.
At any rate there is no coverage inside the ER area but right outside the glass doors there is, let us think....steel, concrete and glass building all with no BDA or any other method of improving signal coverage. Yet, apparently it will work for months at a time and then it doesn't and oh no one bothered to say that this is not under contract and after hours work must have a PO and the list of other "political crap" gets deeper.
Ah well, it will get better eventually as they have finally broke down and got the ball rolling on a proper base station and remote. So if they ever get the requested IP addresses to us so we can finish programming the devices .... :shrug:
Office lady was tired of hearing a customer beg for us to come out and look at their Fire Rescue at the airport. Well, okay guess we can go out, however before it happened the full story came out. Yep more political :bs: however when it is all said and done they do not have a contract with us for maintenance on the Fire vehicles and their current provider did the work and it is worse then before apparently and oh by the way they (their provider) are to busy to come out and look at it a second time.
So you call us to fix someone else's mistake, senior tech said I think that is a bad idea as if we touch it then we bought the problem. Even just looking at it is a bad idea ... so not going on that field trip.
Had another customer complain about the lack of PM's for them and why is everything out of date on the firmware .... well, first you need to schedule the PM as I have no ideas what sort of events you might have at any given time. As to the firmware that is the responsibility of your sale rep to sell you the entitlements so we can upgrade them. How firmware is pushed out has changed and if the sales rep has not been forthwith, I truly don't know what to say as it is not our shop's responsibility to do their job.
Finally got the Ivory tower guy to realize that I already told him all about the battery situation at TSA, and apparently it sunk in at last. So next week now that all of the sites have a clue as to what the mystery shipment was all about we can at last install them and put this project to rest.
The funny thing is that he thought we had done an airport that is way out of our range of work. It would fall on a different shop. So why do they keep pestering us ... :shrug:
And now the pièce de résistance at another hospital where they are upgrading the MedCom system we have to add a new base station well ye ole idiot, this time it was me, was not aware that it had never been installed at the time. So that technically meant no antenna on the roof or line into the comm room. Got out there at last to confirm my mistake, however got a pleasant surprise, as in oh did you forget all the antennas were moved and when that was done additional lines were pulled in from the roof to the third floor and yes there is an antenna installed too.
Hot damn, so I did not screw it up as much as originally thought. All I have now to figure out is a run from third to first floor in stacked comm room and it is completed, well once the base station gets delivered that it ...
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:drinkonus:Oh you had FUN! :shock: :shock: :shock: :mummy:
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:hallowoops: What People want You to fix other Companies Stuff for Free! So A Normal Tuesday! :shock:
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Well, been mildly entertaining since the last time .... a customer called and asked how they could find missing radios ... :ummm: .... sorry my crystal ball is broken.
:tearlaugh:
No I didn't say that not seriously it is your fleet and staff and it seems as if you have some folks that will not admit to anything.
Well, there is a way and it does work provided that they try to use it so let us see if we can make it work.
well, apparently the last time I tried this it was on a master repeater that was an SLR8000 and all I needed to do was set the ID of the radio I wished to disable and done and done, no other residual issues.
Don't try that on an XPR8400 it doesn't work that way I found out much to my surprise.
Told it to not allow these four ID's to access the system, however unless you tell it to allow all others ... yep you guessed it. Everyone is denied.
:thud:
I swear why does this crap have to have so many different types and styles of gotchas. It makes my head hurt.
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Fun and games yesterday had to go and do some real install work that apparently since I have experience as an electrician my presence was needed.
:sigh:
Well, it was amusing to say the least as I let the other guy start the show and what happened when trying to drill the first hole in the concrete wall. Yep he drilled straight on a joint and hit the wire that they place on every course of a concrete wall ... :thud:
Drill above it I said then it was; I don't want to have two holes in the wall ... An LB is being installed keep them tight together and you will not have to worry about it.
:sigh:
So he drills a bit above and now hits the web between the two halves of a concrete block and now has to drill all the way through it ... I seriously need to stop chewing through the leather straps.
Probably partly my fault since I know this due to my past and they have no past history with it. So the first conduit run was a semi nightmare. The second one, they must have learned from the first and I did keep harping on the details so it would be easier. Surprise it was :thud:
Now pulling wire through them was fun and games for them not for me.
The one guy got a fish tape to use ... I am looking at that as to "WHY?"
My goodness it is less than ten feet and a straight shot what do you need that for ... oh the #2 ground is not flexible enough to just push in the conduit ... sorry guy but I have pushed wire for far too many years to desire to remember and proved that statement false in a matter of minutes.
The same happen with the data cables required ... it sucks to know this and just make it happen and when I try to explain what I am doing and why the one guy listens nods his head and does exactly the opposite .... :thud:
Yet they can install a radio in a fire truck, ambulance or rescue vehicle and it looks like it came from the factory
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O.o Humm I Blame the Trouble Shooting error testing people for why the program does this vs That! :hallowoops:
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:tearlaugh:
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Man you already KNOW that Commercial Electrical, Residential Electrical and AUTOMOTIVE electrical are actually from three different Planets, right? Oh, and Residential Appliances are from the tidal locked moon of Planet Residential.
Didja at least get a wry grin from that? Heh! ;o)
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How cute, ran into a real cute piece of work.
Apparently my solar was off line, didn't know naught of it till I saw a end of month report which indicated a problem.
Did the WTF move and tried to call the folks that installed it and lo and behold no reply, no reply to email, to the point of it was kicked back as undeliverable.
Now we are getting :rat-atat:
Sent an email to the monitoring software people who ... imagine that only confirmed that yes it is off-line and check this and call the installers.
:sigh:
Well, being sort of capable found out that one of the fuses was shot and went trying to find one. Guess what Lowes and Home Depot do not carry Time delay/Dual element fuses .... :thud:
Could only find the Time Delay aspect but at least it is up and working again, while I go hunting for what I truly wanted and go on a search and destroy mission on the original installers. Asshats
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Around Here They are Known to Screw People over For Long term loans They get their kick back and are gone to the next Victims Similar to Irish Travelers. :shock:
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Indeed not pleased at all about this, since it is now three years since it was installed. Received another error message from it so called the folks in charge of the reporting of performance and they set me in the direction of finding a new maintainer. Why?
Well, as mentioned the original number is no longer in service, checked a different number they gave me, nope sorry that is also on my phone list of numbers called ... with no response.
They then said go to our website and go here and there and type in the zip code and select a new maintainer from there, well while there I went searching for the original folks and surprise ... not really ... they no longer are in the list of companies.
:rat-atat: times 10 ^ 17256th power
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Another tidbit ...
The FB nazis decided that a repost of mine was in violation of their standards ... :duh: Claimed it violated the security standards ... what exactly was the post they wouldn't say :ummm:
So how did it violate anyone's security :shrug:
Another ...
Got to Melbourne yesterday morning for another PM and what occurs right as I am getting ready to start, if you guessed there were call outs for Fire trucks needing service, since I am on call this week ... move to the head of the class ... to make it even better ... three, yes three all at once. :thud:
Yet another ...
End of day Office lady want sto know if we can get an install done over at Reedy Creek, as the system tech is going to be out there all week as well, long story short, later she asked why I am doing all of the set up as it is a job the senior tech is to be in charge of, :ummm: then why did you tell me about it?
But wait there is more ...
End of day email from ye ole leprechaun asking another customer when is a fiber link going to be installed so we can do the base station installed ... "would like to get it done by the end of the month" yep that is what he said ... again :ummm:
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Cute ... methinks there are still people out there that thinks that some of us folks have heads that zip up the back.
:tearlaugh:
Accosted by someone while filling up the gas tank this afternoon. I am pumping gas and reading my book and this guy decides to interrupt ... excuse me I am reading ... go away.
He didn't :sigh:
However it turns out he wanted to sell me a set of "airpods" ??? ... sorry have seen them but don't give a damn about them so, "Nope, sorry not interested".
He still kept trying to talk to me, oh I am from Canada, I don't speak the language well and for the prize my name is Mohammad :tearlaugh: All this from a guy who is one driving a BMW and has a middle East accent ... so you are in need??? So why are you driving a BMW ... once I told him multiple time that no I am not interested and don't care about tech. He tried his next ploy here a male bracelet "gold" in color and is now trying to get me to buy it ... because he needs to buy food for his kid ... really ???
Like I said I guess my head zips up the back and I will believe anything that is told to me .... NOT
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My Grand Mother Was a Gypsy Magnet We Could not Go Anywhere and not Be Found by one! o.O My Poor Dad Also has this Curse! :pweez:
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:td1: :td2:
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Thank you very much ... I do appreciate it
Doing a rack of lamb this year along with sweet potatoes and vegetables "still undecided"
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You always have lamb LOL....Unless you missed a year and I didn't catch it.... I know you enjoy it a lot. Glad you had a good Thanksgiving my friend.
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Happy Late Giving No power here! :shock: :td1:
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Well, even though I had great hopes for Thanksgiving they did not pan out.
Why because "certifiable" someone or other decided to finally see the dentist due to the problems that they have been having ... and how cute they had to pull a tooth right away.
:thud: and pain times 10 ^ 17256th
It was basically Saturday before I felt like eating as the teeth, jaw and associated parts were shall we say .... continuously complaining. The hidden bonus was that the pain in my shoulder seems to not be as annoying. Must have something to do with the all systems are connected. Only downside is that in two weeks I have my next visit to the dentist :sadder:
Last night was quite annoying as the lovely TMD issue seems to be still present, probably always been there but with a tooth that was shot and asking for top billing, everything else is sort of, pushed to the side.
Although once I put the brace (?) in I was able to get through the night without gritting or grinding my teeth and did not wake multiple times in the night. Always calling those nights a win.
Went to bed a bit early and wound up finishing one book as it only had 100 pages left, picked up number two in the series and plowed through the first 100 in that before deciding to do the lights out thing.
Woke up this morning and finished off two mangas and then read the next 100 pgs. in volume two. Go figure
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J, I do commiserate with your pain my friend. It's why I haven't got my lost teeth replaced in over 20 years. Still have 2 left. ;)
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O.o I Pray not to see one anytime soon as I have no Way to pay for anything they would do! :ny-fathertime:
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Well this certainly ranks up there for an WTF moment.
Got out of class tonight and what do we see but a fire in the building behind the Fire Training Academy.
And yes it was a REAL fire since there were no Engines or Tower vehicles on site at the time.
Imagine that a real and definitely unexpected fire just behind their training academy
:thud:
Called in it and they were there in a timely manner to put it out ... but as mentioned it was most surprising to see something like that after class ended.
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O.o I Pray not to see one anytime soon as I have no Way to pay for anything they would do! :ny-fathertime:
Yes, they still are doing the same to me .... give me money .. oh and by the way did we ask you for more money :tearlaugh:
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They ain't cheap either!
:glittery: :xmas: :ny-fathertime: :xmas5:
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Well, I understand that times will always be tough for some and that there isn't always one thing to blame it on, for example government, upbringing, wrong place wrong time and so on and so forth .... but to just waltz in like you own the place and can do what you want is pushing the envelope.
Cleaning out the bay at work since we are moving to a new location. What do I see when I come back from a service call, number one none of the others that are in the shop doing any cleaning up. But two random people going through the dumpster and scavenging anything that is metal or even slightly recyclable.
Um, hello you are not allowed to do that this is not public domain, this is a place of business, and you are trespassing and stealing. Put it back and leave.
Went in to find out just what the heck was going on and by the time it was sorted out as to the fact that no one knew it was going on or even incorrectly gave them permission to even be there and removing things.
They were leaving without putting it back and sped away before the troops could go out and stop them.
Highly annoying especially when it was found out that the snowflake was the one that gave them permission to do so ... :rat-atat: that "expletive deleted" of a waste of good oxygen is the absolute epitome of a moron.
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Sounds like the alley behind the strip centers. Not a strip CLUB, ok! But yes, the owners put a dumpster out as needed for each business. Yours is getting stuff hijacked, is there a fence/gate cutting the alley off from the street(s)? Most around here just have the drive meeting the roads, with the dumpsters all along the drive behind the stores/businesses. Fair game? No?
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We do indeed have a padlocked gate on both sides. In my mind they must of scoped it out and decided to be bold and just come on in like they owned the place and the "snowflake" said sure help yourself. ASSHAT
What's done is done but it is ever so annoying that it occured.
Well, it is official out of ten only four students paid any sort of attention to and attempted to practice the lab work prior to last nights final.
Said they could come in early and start so they could have the maximum amount of time. Only five showed up. :thud:
Three of the four that put forth effort were the first to show up. What was so disgusting was the fact that several of them just out right forgot what the hell they had practiced and their wiring looked someone cooked up some spaghetti and threw it at the wall and what stuck was considered good.
:sigh: There is going to be some crying in mudville tomorrow night. Since of course they all think their work is fantastic, and oh I didn't have enough time. :ummm: you had the time you decided was good enough for you as you had the option to come in early. Fine I get that sometimes things happen, but did you not take it seriously, did you not make an effort to inform the boss that you had an important test. I mean the company is paying for you to take the class would they not want a "positive" return on the investment?
Inquiring minds
On a different note ... oh look a man with three buttocks .... oops
Finally got to do the last of the yearly PM's for the alphabet soup agencies. :yippee: done for another year ... got to love that ... sort of ...
Have weird vibes in the air at the office, in addition to discarding stuff, it was told that we have a meeting and a meal this week Thursday. :ummm: a meeting with everyone from the service side of the building is to be there... meetings are mostly a mixed bag especially at the end of the year, and you are including a meal ... but wait there's more, it is to be held at Andretti Indoor Karting & Games Orlando :thud:
And apparently we all have a free round or two in the carts :thud:
Now I'm really nervous. Since not only will our missing leprechaun going to be there but his boss and the bosses boss is in attendance too. Like I said this level of a meeting is quite unusual and troubling, perhaps I am making a mountain out of a mole hill perhaps not, the only reason I am troubled is that the leprechaun specifically asked when classes were over so as to ensure I could be there which is fine. Which all right the positive spin is just to ensure that all could be present since I am the only one that has another work related task after hours.
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Jut out of Curiosity Do you have The Electrical safety Videos. Viewed by the Class? You know the ones where Dumb people Die on the Job From Electrical Flash Or when Someone Becomes Ground to High Voltage? Might Want to think About Why Being Dumb Around Electricity is Bad! o.O
https://www.esfi.org/workplace-safety/workplace-injury-fatality-statistics/
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In theory they are supposed to see these videos in the first semester.
Methinks I should inquire on that topic as the level of stupidity seems to be on the rise
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Well, that was an interesting meeting so to speak ... the downside is that place was way more noisy than I had expected.
In other words I have reached that age where what used to be not loud enough is now painful to the ears ... :thud:
Didn't see that coming
Anyway, it has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that I suck when it comes to driving go-karts. My goodness it was certainly way more complicated than I thought it would be, and considering that I am at the top end of the scale in length I found that my foot was on the damn brake pedal more than off which makes for an crazy driving experience to say the least.
Don't get me wrong the place was nice and the meeting cool, plus a free meal but the noise level was more than I cared for, then driving home showed me in no uncertain terms as to why I do not go out at night, let alone in tourist traps areas .. :rat-atat: was the attitude I had when I started ... and then seeing it was not going to get any better I just called it done and dealt with the rubbish.
Not bad but since I have been sedentary for the last several centuries ... I mean decades .... it was a bit of a shock for my system.
Meanwhile, managed to get through the last nights of class and :yippee: they all passed with no difficulty ... granted some were still in the high 70's for a final grade which does not make me happy ... however they did pass and that is a good thing.
The downside was today I think i met my first "Karen" was at the bookstore and oh my goodness there were not enough cashiers, and where is your manager and can you get more help to the cashier area .... seriously "BITCH" does it really matter how soon you can get checked out and pay ... you are not a first responder that has to get rolling, which even if you were you would not be away from your vehicle and out of uniform. Plus, what does it matter how long it takes since the line was moving at a normal pace, considering folks are asking questions and also buying gift cards .... You are not going to get a cookie for getting checked out in "x-number" of minutes.
Good grief people just "CHILL OUT"
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PSA if you are going to be an idiot and pull out in front of me on the road you had better drive ... because if I have to hit my brakes because of your stupidity I am going to be all kinds of an asshole
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After a few dozen time of that in a month, I just gave up any good expectation and defensively adopted the There WILL be some jerk pulling off the On Ramp right in front of me so EXPECT it, and that made nearly clobbering them with a smile easier! Heh!
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GUYS! Radkres's Fatal Statistics page shows that of all the electrically related fatalities, 15.15% of them are ELECTRICIANS! GAH! Shows the old addage is so right:
There are Old Electricians
There are Bold Electricians
There are NO Old Bold Electricians.
WORD
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After a few dozen time of that in a month, I just gave up any good expectation and defensively adopted the There WILL be some jerk pulling off the On Ramp right in front of me so EXPECT it, and that made nearly clobbering them with a smile easier! Heh!
Yeah I am at that point also, I expect them to do stupid shit ... and I have certainly not been disappointed
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As My Pastor says There are People Who have the God Given Gift to Push Your Buttons!
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Man I think someone needs to have a talk with your Pastor! :glittery: :xmas5: :ny-fathertime:
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:pweez: Well one Time He was Talking to God and Said "Lord if You want me to Stop for Donuts You will Get me a Parking spot right in Front of the Store!" "On the Eighth Time Around There Was!" :ny-fathertime:
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Well, no surprise here went to follow up medical exam and she wants to run more tests. Sounds like they are more for baseline details then something wrong, since I'm not complaining about anything ... well medically related .... actually knowing my luck :shrug:
Anyway tis most fun as the exams are on either side of the Christmas holiday. What a charming way to spend the Christmas holiday.
Whatever will happen next
Oh that is right heard a truck yesterday while by the front door and saw a flash of the brown and yellow of a UPS truck ... whatever ... looked out the window and saw the truck pull away and then noticed that something was on my chair that I have on my front stoop.
Turns out to be a package address to me ... um ... I haven't ordered anything that would require a UPS delivery.
Turns out it was from work and it was a shipment of Omaha Steaks .... :thud: certainly did not see that coming at all.
My freezer is pissed off at me like nothing else ... it was just full before, now it is overflowing.
Mostly beef with a couple of oddball things tossed in, dessert stuff and a side dish .. Bottom line there is enough steaks/hamburger patties in there for a meal a day for damn near a month ... WTF
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Now for more fun and games.
I have to take training classes and such for several of the customer sites to keep my credential active and or valid.
Well, the airport is due, however I had forgotten just how involved that is ... in other words by the time I was done with the training classes it was a "there is two hours of my life I will never get back" ... :sigh: ... moment
The real annoying part is that there are an equal or greater number of them to take for the day job, including some that are just "in my opinion" pencil breaking, paper pushing desk jockey's purview ... not so much me ... I install and maintain I damn sure do not try and sell to customers a darn thing :shrug: what ever as mentioned there is another lord knows how many more hours of my life I will never get back
And for a dab of icing we now have to do a training class for one of the hospitals we do work for, to add insult to injury we were out there yesterday installing a new MedCom radio .... get finished go downstairs to instruct the charge nurse and the first words out of her mouth was that is not where we want it ... :thud: sorry about your luck you will have to talk to your IT people and the HMFIC to get it moved.
The fun part the HMFIC said that the nurse manager wants it there and that emails were sent out on the topic ... again :shrug:
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I hope they remembered to wear their *MORON* labels on their foreheads. BLEAH!
J, Merry Christmas!
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Well, tis another year started in the wonderful world .... or welcome to today's episode of :shrug: my life
Started quiet this week, so that was nice, had a site walk to do for the resort at Disney for the veterans. They are upgrading their radio system, From ... wait for it ... Hytera .... yep being technically a Federal facility they do not want any Chinese tech in use. Okay, most likely has nothing to do with the lawsuit that Hytera lost against Motorola for them stealing proprietary information on radio ... whatever happened is certainly above my pay grade to be conversant on the topic.
Anyway the craziest and most crap=tastic install by who knows who and certainly nowhere close to R56 grounding spec. I thought the ungrounded polyphasers inside and the lack of outside lightning protection to be quite cute and delightful. Then the one repeater on a piece of foam on top of a milk crate on the floor was a moment of .... "words fail me"
The amusing part is that I was doing a site walk for a second install. Apparently a first had been done and parts ordered, but now they wanted to get a second quote to finish installing all new from start to finish.How cute .... (that was sarcasm)
reason I am mentioning that is the original showed re-tuning the duplexer ... guess what that manufacturer of radio has the duplexer as internal to the radio.
Oops no "new" duplexer was ordered. Sort of went downhill after that, do you want to continue to use duplexers with all of the spacing and tuning requirements to get them right, plus the cost of four of them, four antennas and then labor.
Or do you want ot go to a combiner set up,
Currently that is where it was left at when I departed. Either solution can be done it is just a matter of which gives the best bang for the buck. Personally I would like to see a combiner and a trunked system but ... :shrug: I don't see that happening ... most likely a digital system non-trunked
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Ugh. Sounds like drudge work eh? Meantime, I hope your Holidays have been grand! :hug:
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Holidays were good, nothing spectacular but them again nothing obnoxious so calling it a win.
Didn't have a call out over Christmas when I was on call and once again that is a win
I am back on call again and once more the call goes out for a city stating that the FIN (Florida Interoperability Network) is down. However comma this is a known problem involving the county and a bad fiber hop.
Can you say above my pay grade to even look at let alone resolve.... knew you could.
Back to the resort customer, saw an email yesterday from them and they avoided answering the questions presented previously yet in the same breath asked when the first 15 radios and one repeater will be installed ... hmm first methinks we need a new code plug for the radios and for the repeater before we even begin to address that statement, and since no duplexer was ordered don't quite know how to address that request.
Granted I do have a duplexer from a previous project and possibly could tune it to the freq needed since at least they did provide with that information. Four freqs and four talk arounds ... which explains a lot ...
The fun though is that they still think we are going to move the entire shop this month ... :ummm: sorry still don't see that based on how the place looked last week when we went back to pull more cable. I originally thought we only had another 29 to pull in but ... you knew I was going to say that right ... we now need another 48 for the demo systems that are to be set up in there for the "upgrade" group.
I am still wondering how this is all going to get sorted since no one else has lifted a finger to sort and pack, apparently in their eyes it is all my stuff and only I know what to save and discard ... :sigh: ... all I can say is that if any of you lot would show initiative and get involved maybe just maybe you to would know what is in stock and where it is kept and if it is useful .... but nope can't do that .... they would rather sit there and fuck around on their phones doing Lord knows what or surf FB on their laptops.
:rat-atat:
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You would likely piss off the resident trolls, demons, little green peoples and other idiots....while at the same time lighting a seriously hot flame under their seated posteriors! (GASP!) they would actually have to get up and DO something! Sacrilege! Oh The PAIN Of It All! SO! AAAnd it was that blankety blank old fart that caused all this MESS! He should never have just walked out on US! Ain't there laws against that sort of thing?!"?!@?
You have my full permissions and even Blessings to print two copies of this missive for each of them and deliver it to em on Walking Out Day! :D
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You know it good sir, we are not afraid to piss them off. You sit around and earn a paycheck ... tis time to actually do something to justify that paycheck.
Anyway decided to take some time off since anything over 40 is lost and we are not letting that happen ... regardless ... the fun part is that we have two projects that require responses from me ... oh well, I am to much of an asshole or "something" and did respond to the information requests.
Boy howdy is there a can of worms below the surface on those projects
Oh well, the real fun is that one there are two other requests for information that are more the purview of my senior tech who ... "quote ... unquote" ... did not know what I was talking about when I asked him about the emails that we were both copied on ... and since he is the senior tech and is the point of contact for the project ... I leave that for him to respond to since he has forgotten more then I will ever know ... yep he has no idea what I am talking about ... how cute.
NOT
Not understanding why he chooses to ignore all emails and watch only old videos and so on instead of doing anything "customer related" I am so tired of being the wet blanket.
Even more funny is that there is a request for a troubleshooting trip for two fire stations and has anything been done about it .... NOPE .... :thud:
And then I get a email asking about the airports PM's stating that the power output is wrong and I need to adjust it. :ummm: Only problem, there is no way (as a field tech) that I can change power settings in a repeater as that is a factory thing, so this should be fun ... technically NOT but we shall see since I see that I should revisit the place to verify the readings.
I swear and remember we are supposed to move our entire shop by the end of the month.
Saw something funny yesterday though, not only does it seem that only me and the senior tech knows what needs to go and/or saved but our resident snowflake was printing out a massive manual and then decided that he was going to move to an unused office to go over the material ... seriously ... we are moving and so when will you decide that you can assist ??? then again the other installers have a similar mindset ... so who am I kidding.
NOT ME :tearlaugh:
Assistance from others is just another city in whatever your favorite country to denigrate happens to be this month
I am beginning to get very tired of this nonsense ..... as in VERY TIRED
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:ahhhh: Why is He Still There! He is a Dunsel!
RIP Retired in Place
Senior Tech Maybe Waiting to Retire. O.o
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Not sure why the snowflake is still around but if he is reading a manual for a new product maybe he is trying to go to a different department and I won't have to interact with him at all ... not that I do to start with ... but if you become completely out of sight then I will call that a win.
Not sure what the senior tech deal is, he is younger than me by a couple of years and yes he could probably retire and since his wife actually makes more then him to start with it would not be a financial issue.
So not sure what the problem is, one day he complains that he is not involved in anything around the office I try to involve him and it is the shuffle of telling him what to do next. :sigh:
Technically I have reached full retirement age and could at any time tell them all to "take a long walk on a short pier". Will I, ... probably not .... but I could .....
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:3flower;
Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj2iGAifSNI
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:thumb_up:
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:peep:
I've No More F***s To Give!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
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Well, now this is interesting, ye ole snowflake decided to move himself into an open office ... without permission ... from ye ole leprechaun ... finally found out in a roundabout way that "oh my anxiety levels" are unmanageable back in the tech center.
:ummm: Really you have been here for over a year and now all of a sudden you are claiming "anxiety" .... first it was stating that I am to blunt and need to be less aggressive ... then it was you are trying to tell us how things should be ran around the shop ... then it was consistently wearing earphones to the point of having to shout to get his attention. And now thinking he can just take over an office because he wants to ... NOPE ... doesn't work that way.
Ye ole work wife asked the boss what is up; as in is he working on a special project and other concepts and ... if you guessed ... NO he is not .... move to the head of the class.
Can't wait for the boss to tell him to get the ... "insert your favorite adjectives" ... and be a team player or .... well we all know my feeling about him .. so I am saying naught.
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:peep:
I've No More F***s To Give!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
I looked up the lyrics just for the hell of it and that is one funny ass song dude.
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Couldn't agree more. That is a truly wonderful song! Thanks, Radkres!
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All right there is something not quite right with me.
Tis minor so don't panic ... we were diagnosed with "hallux rigidus" arthritis in the big toe, a while back ... in my case it is both of them ... how cute.
Anyway they have been giving me grief all day and what happens later on in the day ... serious rain
So does this mean like everyone else who can tell when rain is coming due to a bum hip or leg ... my barometer is my toes ... :thud:
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My head hurts more and more until the storm arrives. For about 20 years now. My dad used to say "Go go soak your head". Sometimes that seems like it might be the thing to do. :toast:
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One of the Treatments for it is hot then cold Foot baths O.o Surgery is also an option My Friend had it done on both feet at the same time for cost reasons it was cheaper. Do not do that unless you like living in a wheel chair for around a month that's if the grafts heal quickly! o.o
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Well, how about that ye ole shop manager aka the leprechaun is in the office now since the work wife is on PTO, or vacation ...and what do my eyes see when I come in ... if you guessed the boss taking the snowflake into his office and closing the doors and being sequestered for several minutes as in five or more .... move to the head of the class and if you also guessed that he moved everything out of there and back to where it belongs including himself .... bonus points ...
I know for a fact that I may not be easiest person to be around but I do know that there are channels one must or should go through when working in the office and to just bypass them especially as the newest one there is just setting yourself up for a "reckoning" just saying ...
Well, time to enjoy "NOT" my site walk today and tomorrow over at ye ole theme park for the deployment of a Cap Max system ... I can already feel my feet protesting ... I would laugh about it but I know that it will not be a laughing matter by days end.
Saw some forward action on the resort for the Veterans project. So that hopefully will get past "people just talking"
And at last the IT people at the hospital finally understand that we need the last octet of the netmask to be this value for it to work. Must be a world's record as this has been dragging on and on and on since this time "last year" yes .... last year .... I understand that networks can be troublesome but this is ridiculous ......
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the peopples is finally listening to The Voice of Experience! YOU!
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:zipit: Don't Jinx it! :pweez:
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Indeed I have no desire to jinx it
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Time to look forward to Monday and whether or not the :bs: with the 800 MedCom at the Altamonte location.
Will be resolved ... that is
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Well, so much for jinxing it ... it did so in full measure with bright lights and more .... so if you have not yet guessed the MedCom install did not go as planned
:sigh:
I so have to learn to stop letting my thoughts come out my mouth
:thud:
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Well, looks like if in addition to doing radio installations I am now supposed to now be an A/V installer
:nanana:
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Is that from the MedCom pimples?
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The hanging of TV's and such is the county idiots
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Well, how about that there was a special team meeting via computer at work this morning.
The first thing out of the managers mouth that called the meeting was ... after 34 years ye ole leprechaun has stepped down and we are merging the Lakeland office with the Orlando office managed by the Lakeland manager.
:thud:
WTF
Talk about needing to stop chewing through the leather straps ... did not see this coming at all. I mean yes, it is odd to have a computer generated meeting ever but the news provided was one of those "out of left field" tidbits to say the least.
The fun part is though we still have the shop move in the next couple of weeks and no less than three customer install at the same time
I am feeling that there is not going to be enough :sake: to keep me operating "ehem" smoothly
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The leprechaun is Retiring? or being Demoted?
Your Whole Team is being Moved to another officer or they out sourcing your management to another office?
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Actually retiring.
The manager from another location taking over and will manage both Orlando and Lakeland offices.
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O.o Oh That Sounds ... Bad One Person over A Larger Area! :pweez:
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Not overly fond of it myself. Although the Lakeland shop is more public safety, not commercial and public safety as we are in my location. Besides there is a set of people that are assigned to Lakeland so it might work, although it does look like the new boss will on the phone more than anything else instead of focusing on one shop.
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What an awakening went back over to the prime site to work on hanging the damnable TV's. The good news is they got hung, the bad news those things are junk, apparently there is such thing as commercial grade and residential. Therein lied the problem, these TV's along with the hardware were not rated for commercial which if they had been apparently they would have had mounts that were not such junk and the TV's would have lined up correctly to make it look like a video wall and there would have been a network port that would have tied them all together so only one HDMI cable would have been needed instead of four. Plus they would not have had the on off controls located in such a manner that you would have to leave a space twist them so the remote could hit the damn thing.
The other thing I learned is that I must be getting old as I was in literal agony by days end and once home I was moving about like a very ancient crippled man. Still ache this morning granted not as bad as last night but I have certainly been doing to much desk work as that caused me a whole lot of pain by days end. And as to my lovely issue with my feet (toes to be precise) I ran out of bad words.
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:3flower; I Have found Your New Supervisor!
https://youtube.com/shorts/B-A66lrzygs?si=I8HxO3xH8yaTeNS-
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Hilarious ... thank you
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Aw I think you're more like Tony Stark changing into IRON MAN...or, better still...
CLICK ME![/url}] (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RwVGhjGtFDI)
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:ahhhh: O.o I Feel He looks more like This!
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It gets even better though, the office wife got food and stuff together and had all who work out of our shop come by for the retirement party. Bunch of people throughout the place, well towards the end one of the CSM's asked all to come out front for a group photo .. what does the snowflake do ... gives her the bird .... :thud:
What the unholy hell ... well guess who got reported for "not certain what it is called" but that is certainly unprofessional and flipping a woman off is definitely borderline suicide to say the least.
The fun part was that yes he did get reported and the new shop manager wrote him up ... better still was the backstory that he recalled. Such as he was previously working at the Lakeland shop and was acting in a similar manner in regards to not working with others, thinking it is his duty to change how things are done because it should be done "his way" wearing headphones all day so he doesn't interact or hear anything else going on in the shop ... and the list goes on .... well apparently he was never hired here in Orlando he was transferred here because of that and more .... oh great ... however I think that this time he dug his grave.
Why because he has got the office wife "royally pissed off" ... and she added more to the compliant to the new boss, which was when he told her about the snowflakes past ....
More fun was his attitude this morning bitching about two pallets I had set out to do some packing for another customer, he threw a fit because it was blocking access to the shipping crates. It is not like they were going to be there all day or even a handful of hours but he decided to get his panties in a twist about it. Wish I would have had the presence of mind to say "oh yes your majesty" that would have been ever so entertaining to see his reaction.
Then the company that does secure shredding of documents showed up. That is when we were also informed that they do not do stairs to retrieve the boxes of documents. So we got started and the office wife said "all hands on deck" and if you think the snowflake found the easiest spot in the chain for getting the boxes down ... move the head of the class .. then the office lady said "hell no get up there" and now imagine that all of a sudden now he has a bad back and he doesn't want to do any more damage to it. Yet according to the previous Lakeland manager when he hired on he said that yes he can lift 50 pounds repetitively no problem.
How convenient
Even more annoying is that according to my step counting app I have met my goal the last three days in a row (3 miles a day) which means that the pain from the lovely arthritis in both big toes is going through the roof. Literally .... sucks to be me
Now the icing for my day ... senior tech took the day off (hamfest) whatever don't care ... I do care that there were two meeting regarding the project at the theme park ... guess who was to take charge of it .. also guess who has not been involved in these meetings except for the last two and a site walk ... which if you guessed that I know "diddly" about the big picture .. let us retire to a corner and get to drinking ... as I need several right away.
Now if you also guessed that he did not reply to any text and emails except hours ... as in several hours .... later
We really need to stop meeting like this :tearlaugh:
Oh and let us not forget that there was also a service request on the dispatch console .. posted four days ago ... that he never bothered to follow up on. That I got tasked to follow up on due to that reason. Highly annoying .. especially since when I went there I found that two of the cables that are involved to making it work were dead on the switch. No link light, no activity (obviously)
Would that had been so hard to follow up on ???
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:whatthe: So Snowflake Should have never been hired Was Transferred instead of getting canned. O.o You Sure he is not some kind of Witch?
Might want to get one of those feet massagers that you rest your feet on and see if that helps any?
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re: snowflake ... unknow
re: foot massager ... it is the weekend and that is when I shop ... sounds like a good idea
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You know what really makes my head hurt ... they are sending the snowflake to Vegas for "training"
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O.o Nepotism ?!
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Not sure of that or how he is managing it since most just "loathe him with great intensity"
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IF said flake belongs to certain (descriptive labels placed HERE) groups, which all companies observe AND specific laws generated by various minority factions within government PROHIBIT . . . then the company MUST hire this and other persons regardless of qualifications to satisfy US Govt forced QUOTAS. Oh, this um specifically applies to any company providing goods or services TO the US Govt. yes, ah eh HEM! WHICH provision, under laws, IS also illegal. Imagine that! Double talk from and about our illustrious GOVT.!
If you were a senior manager, you would likely have to deal with this garbage too. Ugh.
Perhaps it is less desirable to deal with flake than that double talk garbage?
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Nothing special about him in regards to any "group". The only thing that might be in that vein is ex - Air Force.
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:whatthe: Even if he Fills some Checkbox There Must Be Something Else You can't Swing a Dead Rat in Florida And Not hit an Ex Military Something With Better Skills and Aptitude that this Specimen.
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The sound you hear is no one disagreeing .... do wish that he would go the way of the dodo
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Well, we are in a severe state of tension ... they claim the movers are coming tomorrow to start moving our shop.
However I was there yesterday and they were still putzing about with details.
That was when I noticed that in the "tech center" the only outlets on one wall are approx. 7' above finished floor ... we work at a desk so how is this useful, let alone logical?
Better still can anyone answer me why in a tech center where you work on radios ..... that carpet on the floor would be a good idea?
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Had something like that Could not remove the carpet. Had to Lay Plywood over the carpet and Run Drop cords secured with zip ties.
Hope You Get Better Help That We did! :pweez:
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How lovely, Friday rolled around and here is the moving company with no pallet jack and then news came from the new location that "oh, we are not complete .... yet"
You mean "Still" in my mind
So welcome to the cluster fuck, the cluster fuck, the cluster fuck
Who wants to be the pivot person in the oncoming "circle jerk"
This is going to be very traumatic is my thoughts
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Ever Tell You the Time I Came Back from a Job to see the Servers Being rolled into a U-Haul? And The company Was Closed and all the leadership Was outside the building Handing out What was left in the company Coffee fund as all the Money that was in the Banks had been with drawn By the company president Who fled the Country with his Secretary. Yep Good Times! :hug:
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Oh my :soapy: God
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Totally :rat-atat: the idiots have decided to continue to cry about the UPS at the new tower.
Apparently the people who wired up the alarm points on the UPS wired one of them wrong NC instead of NO
And they want me to fix it
Sorry that is not in my scope and besides I still remember when you lot call me and the others incompetent
It is the vendors issues not mine as I have no desire to own that UPS.
Plus I have an install for the rest of the week at another customers site.
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S.E.P. =Somebody Else's Problem
:3flower;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI
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Sure enough is ... why ... because they failed another inspection yesterday afternoon :thud:
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Oh this nonsense just gets deeper and deeper.
The original offices that the senior tech and myself were to get ... negative
In fact we get absolutely nothing out of the move and ye ole senior tech in definitely unpleased.
In fact the senior tech is so unimpressed he has put out a job application .... the scary part is they called back and he has had one phone interview ... the only problem I see with this is that currently he does little to no work about the place and yet he wants to go elsewhere.
I do not want to see him go as I have learned and continue to learn from him on a multitude of radio topics.
And we still haven't gotten complete approval to move in and there is stuff left at the old place.
Better still took Friday off because of a doctors appointment, and get the proverbial 17,256 phones calls about everything and its cousin twice removed.
All I can say so far since we are not officially in the new place is "NOT IMPRESSED" one tiny little bit. :ummm:
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Well, technically we are in the new place and it is utter nonsense
Outlets at 7' above finished floor at one tech location, dead outlets at the other.
Then at my "spot" only one duplex instead of multiples like the others, and of course it doesn't work.
Even better I went hunting it down in the panel as I have the knowledge, and it is not in the panel at all.
Not even pleased obviously
Better still is the utter :bs: of having to use or badge to get in and out of the building every time.
Then there are several doors that if you are not careful you can lock yourself out instantly. :thud:
Even better is the concept of the bathrooms are on the other side of the reception desk, so guess what if you go to the bathroom to shall we say "make a mess" and since there is no air freshener yet around the lovely, fragrant effluvia that wafts out after completed such a task apparently made the office lady highly unhappy
:tearlaugh: technically it is not but what is one to do :shrug:
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Watch out for the Vanilla Candle Spontaneously Appearing! Or one of those 30 day Scented oil things! As for the missing Fuse box Might need to place a toner and go around and trace the line O.o One time found it was wired into the Bathroom Ground fault!? :toast:
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That wouldn't surprise me since two GFI's in the break room do not trip when I use my GFI woodhead on them.
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Now to add even more insults ... the new manager wanted to see about partitions between our area and the hallway.
Yep, guess we are truly persona non gratis and are not to be seen let alone heard.
:soapy:
Even better if you go in the bay you have to badge back in through the door, which currently is not operating properly due to the door not being pinned correctly. So if that doesn't spell discrimination I am not certain what does ... we all work for the same company so why does one have to use an ID to go from one side to the other. Even better why are there cameras in the building and what is this obsession that we all have to accept that this is the way things are and one just needs to accept it.
Says who, all the beginning promises were not delivered so why should I accept a damn thing that is spoken any longer. I mean obviously this move was for the pencil breakers and paper pushers and those of us that do the hands on work are third class people and not to be considered in any fashion.
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Well Have You Thought about Transferring to a Different Shop?
Have You Taken a Vacation? You know Get away from it all!
You have had a Lot of Stress dumped on You. :toast:
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I am sure he is considering the R.A.E.D. shop now. Retired-ANGRY-Extremely-Dangerous!
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Well Have You Thought about Transferring to a Different Shop?
Have You Taken a Vacation? You know Get away from it all!
You have had a Lot of Stress dumped on You. :toast:
No shop is even close by so not viable.
I take bits of time off to make four day weekends and such, haven't taken a full week off
I think you might be on something in regard to stress building up
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Definitely getting riled up to say the least.
Doors that do not fully close on their own.
Now we have a bathroom that is backed up and has one of those aromatic presents still in it so yep not happy.
The available square footage that we had previously is gone and what we have now is a joke.
The loss of the office is a very sore point still and people still like to wind us up on that point, yo just go away ... ass-hats
Oh we have to play storage locker to a CSM material and the latest rumor is that the material that was stored in Lakeland is now coming over her as well, WTF and all the other words that express disgust and so forth.
Said it before and I will say it again this move was never for us the worker bees AT ALL
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Words of Wisdom! O.o Take A Really Long Vacation! Lose the Phone While Your At it! :toast:
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The sound you hear is no one disagreeing
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So I am a bit slow on the uptake more often than not .... just because ... but if as the employers say that one is not important and we can do without you or replace you in an instant ... then why in the hell should one work for them.
Color me stupid but is a corporate attitude of that nature really going to build team spirit or improve customer relations?
Why should it make a person want to work there if the corporate attitude is so what, we don't care about you and you're replaceable?
Perhaps I am not important in any fashion, but if that is the case then why do they ask me all the questions about customers, projects and so forth ... better still why are you asking my opinion on something ... if I am, as you say not important
Having a hard time wrapping my head around this one.
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Sounds they are worried about how much knowledge you have...so by putting you down it boosts their confidence...
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I Think You Should Schedule A meeting with the Big Boss and Ask Him Straight out Are They Trying to Get Rid of You Before You Can Retire So they do not have to pay You Retirement?
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There is no pension here so that is not a concern. I think they just like to make life difficult as possible for all just because they can and who knows maybe it validates their existence as Sanbie surmised.
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So explain to me when I say we do not service cell phones at our shop and only deal with public safety radio that I am arguing with you because the other operator put me in touch with you?
I don't care that they fixed it over the phone two weeks ago it certainly wasn't my shop and besides two weeks ago I was on call as well, besides how is it that you need it fixed if you are talking to me on it?
:ummm:
Plus it is 10:30 at night what is so effing important in your life that says "oh my God my phone is not working right and I need service now"
Seriously?
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:3flower; Same Problem We Have When We Say We Do not Work on Apple Products! The Glazed over eyes and the Vacant Stare! :toast:
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Feel the pain dude, although this was a step up, a phone message to call at 10:30 PM
But as you said some people don't just understand the concept of "sorry we do not service that type of device"
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This should prove interesting, just got the news on the "incentive bonus" and yearly review looks like we will do fair to partly cloudy
Then heard about the concept of the yearly pay raise or whatever their version might turn out, currently looks a bit wimpy.
Heard that the new manager has already determined that "oops, you do more than expected" you are "underpaid" and both him and his boss are working on changing that ... we shall see if that is a truthful statement.
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O.o I Like More money! But I Got screwed into Salary! More Hours Same Pay! Never Make that Mistake! :rat-atat:
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Agreed
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Well, the trade show went off fine we guess, got my 10MHz reference problem sorted ... as in the second box that we have for such work is :bs: and does not give a clean signal for a service monitor like mine. Tis odd that the other one (Freedom 8200) doesn't care but such is the state of affairs.
They did show off their latest version obviously, so made sure the boss was present to get the details and sales pitch. Did arrange to "cross fingers" get a demo monitor for a trial run so to speak. So we will see if that pans out or not. Would be cool as the latest version has some extra bells and whistles that mine does not have ......
Back to the daily though finally have got the consolettes required for MedCom installs. So started to program those up along with the associated hardware. So at last maybe I can finally get two projects completed , now if only we can get the idiotic AHJ in another municipality to get off their high horse we can get a third completed. Not holding my breath.
Still have a connection problem at yet another hospital that has been dragging on for a year now. Everyone in the IT (Idiots in Training) department want to blame all others except themselves and when you prove that it is them it is crickets for them to respond and show up to sort it out. WFT
Am at the point of now waiting on the vendor to deliver an antenna for the next two projects. Was kind of interesting on the one as they get a new repeater. The senior tech asked if I had done a power check, uh nope.
So did one and boy howdy what :OMFG: is going on.
Well, did get it sorted, frequencies were swapped in both the repeater and the portables. :thud:
Thank goodness for finding out about it now instead of when on site ... I so dislike egg on my face in front of the customer.
Fun times was sorting out a problem for a customer that we have not had any dealings with for over a decade. Apparently they had a problem and the "channel partner" either could not or would not bother to make time to sort it out.
We got called in and well, damn yep there is a problem. They sent a loaner for us to install. Once installed did the due diligence and what did we find .... other problems buried very deeply.
The most telling one though was "the radio was connected to the wrong duplexer" yep the radio wants one set of freqs, however that is not what the duplexer was tuned for .... so only the simplex channels worked.
No wonder I call the other company ______ zero
Ah well, that is enough entertainment for the time being we have food to devour :heeheehee:
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Hallelujah ... the one MedCom thorn in the side has finally been resolved. Granted the networking department still did not admit to any wrong doing on their part but whatever they were doing while we were requested to review and reload the existing profiles got two of them to work correctly. Most importantly was the 800MHz emergency one is now functioning correctly. New wrinkle is the the State MedCom seems to think it is turned off. It is not and all cables all properly connected and even did a reboot of all devices ... however ... still thinks it is off. :thud:
Had to do an early start on the Federal alphabet soup agency this year, had two of them back to back. Not a problem and they went fine until I tried to call the "mother ship" and say close case number such and such ... uh no I can't close it without have the completed worksheet. :thud: What the unholy hell are you talking about you had no problem closing the previous case yesterday and nary a peep was made about the worksheet then. So why in the name of all that is holy is it an issue today ?????
No valid answer was forthcoming and at that point it was do whatever you want my POC is so and so and he is the only one to get the worksheets ... fight it out with him ... good-bye
Still having issues witht he building being deficient in so many area and places. Still :rat-atat: about the whole thing still as we got royally screwed in this move
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WTF my phone is being a poop head today. Has decided it doesn't want to see the SIM period. I have reset it, cleaned it ...inappropriately even .. works for a few then :thud: deader than a doornail.
I swear me and electronic devices have ever so much fun
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Not sure if this will Help.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-no-sim-card-detected-android/
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Well, I did do some searching also and between what you showed me and what I found I have tried them all ... to no success ... :sigh:
Guess ye ole phone is wanting to go to the great electrical scrap heap
Even went to a Verizon store since it is "technically" from them but as not being an account manager they did not even look twice, which I did suspect would occur ... but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Let us see how long it takes the company to get it taken care of ... since I am supposed to be on call occasionally :tearlaugh:
So until I decide to buy a personal phone as a backup and pay a monthly bill for something that I will not even use ... remember value for every dollar spent.
Ought to be interesting
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Reminder To Act surprised When they Can't Reach You! :c-cat:
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Oh indeed .... :heeheehee:
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LOLOL! :c-cat:
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Well now, please just shoot me now.
Got the "trusted device laptop" when we got back from the theme park install.
Preloaded with Window 11 ... oh please give me a break, talk about a radical change in how everything looks and behaves makes me run out of bad words rapidly in short order.
I am so not looking forward to this one single tiny little bit .....
More interesting is that I have a new phone coming as well, to replace the one that no longer sees it SIM card .... :thud:
Damn electronic devices to contend with ... :sigh:
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:c-cat:
How to make Windows 11 look like Windows 10
https://www.pcworld.com/article/541452/make-windows-11-look-like-windows-10.html
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Oh this is highly useful and easy to implement. Know what I will be doing once in get in the office today, that is after my trip to the Cape to renew my credentials.
:thud:
Thank you