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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
dah di dah dit, dah dah di dah?
:-)
ROFLMAO!!
The only Morse I know is my son's name, LOL.
So, I'm in agreement with your wife's brother-in-law's sister?
I think I definitely need an intervention....
Evenin' msdrby.... I think your hubby ought to brush you up on 'lectrical wizardry!
Naaaaw. Anthony's cute, but has that arrogant look around the eyes.
*shaking head at my complete lack of sanity*
I only took eleven calls, and every one was Drama City!
So ... this woman calls up, saying her screen is dim. I have her run diagnostics on the system, to see if the problem is hardware.
Me (well before the event in question): "Okay, the screen will show you some color bars. Tell me if they seem dim to you."
In due course, the color bars appear. It looks like the TV screen when they lose the satellite uplink. Beneath them there's a prompt: "Did the color bars appear?(Yes or No)"
Customer (upon seeing the color bars): "Err ... err... some color bars are on the screen!"
Me: "Okay. Do they seem dim to you?"
Customer: "It says, 'Hid the color bars appear? Yes or no!'" (Yes, she said "hid," not "did.")
"Yes. Do the color bars look dim?"
"They look fine. What do I do?"
"If you see the color bars, press 'y' for yes."
"How do I do that? With the built-in mouse?"
"No, press the letter 'y'."
"You mean on the screen?"
(By now, your friendly li'l tech has muted the call and is screaming, literally, in frustration.)
(um-muting the call) "No, the letter 'y' on the keyboard."
By now, of course, thirty seconds have elapsed, and the diagnostic freaks out, assuming the color bars aren't visible because no one acknowledged them.
"Oh!"
45 minutes later, I realize the customer's talking about her wallpaper when she said the screen was "dim." I change her color theme to "Windows Classic" ... that is, plain blue ... and she was perfectly happy.
<sigh> I need to sit down and look at pretty water from a nice warm deck ... I've been cold all day.
Got anything warm, anyone? Preferably with chocolate as a major ingredient, and with a moderately high proof?
Yer never offensive Ruthy!
heheheh... well, I'm so outta shape on morse I'm ashamed to say I had to doublecheck to make sure I got "CQ?" right.
Another good morse tidbit [useful on zot threads]:
di di dah dah di dit?
[question mark]
Nite folks.
G'nite Corin!
You did notice there was another mug next to yours, right?
Pass the bottle when you're done. I'll take a shot or two in mine while we're at it. *grin*
Now, do I use the mouse to get popcorn or do I just touch the picture on my screen?
Strange. I guess the Taladega (sp?) 500 is here in Anniston this coming weekend (I'll be back in Wash. by then) -- it seems a pretty big deal in these parts.
ONe of the funny things is I'm down here with all these Tacoma area politicians who are generally pretty far left (including our Mayor, who's a huge Kerry fan). Man, they are feeling like I do most the time in the NW. Alabama is pretty hard-core conservative and they're not silent about it down here. And it bugs these NW political types something fierce. I get a quiet and hidden chuckle out of it.
It was just about that bad!
I love quiet hidden chuckles! Evening Scott.... I didn't know dusk was different in the South.
Got anything warm, anyone? Preferably with chocolate as a major ingredient, and with a moderately high proof?
Oh, Rose... I do *so* understand that call. Yeesh... I got a ticket opened a couple days ago from a major PITA manager from down south. This [redacted]munch opens a ticket then (almost twenty, count'em TWENTY) minutes later, decides that he's not getting the attention worthy of his position and so spam mails me, the CFO, the CEO, the Chairman of the Board (Balrog, of whom I've prior spoken) and a collection of other short-fuse users, all of whom I'm sure were carefully chosen to produce the requisite mail storm.
Turns out that the complaint he had was about "totally unacceptable changes" to a system that he "relies on daily" and "these changes will make it impossible" for him to continue being the valuable member of the company that he has obviously been over these many years.
All of this will of course result in "major loss of business" resulting from this change in systems that he was not consulted on.
I called the CFO (my boss). I showed him that the last change to the system in question happened in 1998.
1998.
Six years ago.
Pardon me, while I enjoy the moment. [sigh]
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