If anyone is interested, Chuck will be moving into a rehab hospital, soon. He is able to talk and feels pain in his left leg, but his arm isn’t doing well.
He is talking and is understood when his teeth are in place, and hasn’t lost his sense of humor. Zeke is doing everything he can to handle Chuck’s business until Chuck can do it himself. We are all thinking about how this same thing could happen to any of us.
And of course, the resident busybody, Berta, is up to her old tricks trying to run Chuck’s business. Chuck can’t stand her, and she doesn’t even know when he has insulted her.
In other news, my shredder lives. I called Fellowes today and went through all kinds of troubleshooting techniques, and as I was replacing the shredder on the basket, preparing for the purchase of a new one, I looked up and saw that the wall switch was in the “off” position. I would be embarrassed if it wasn’t so funny! Musta been a blonde day for me!
Talking legs and arms that can’t talk as well without their teeth. What kind of hospital is Chuck in?
As to the blonde moment - I could tell you about the time I accidentally shut down Prod for 30 minutes but I probably already have.
It’s a recessive gene, but it’s never really gone.
Glad Chuck and your shredder are doing better! I lost 3.7 lbs. this week.
In a few minutes, I’m taking Sally up to the hospital for the Medical Explorers program. I’ll look at the Christmas trees display and then sit in the lobby and read. Alone.
Happens.
Probably the most embarrassing moment of my engineering troubleshooting career happened when I was way too young to blame 'oldtimers' disease. Even remember where and the approximate year - late 1972 or early 1973, Ohio State University campus. Don't remember the building name, but I think it was a dorm.
All electronic stuff has fuses. Or of it doesn't it should. Or it was made in the 7th Galaxy by Samsung. And most modern types have indicator lights of some flavor or another that indicate the health of the fuses or the presence (or absence) of power supply voltages. While not as prevalent back in the early 70's all the new stuff the company was installing back then had some application of this feature.
So a call comes in that the elevator is down and since it was new stuff I got the call. After getting to the motor room and looking around I noted in passing a pretty light shining in the fuse panel and said something on the order of 'that's nice, I'll need to check on that when I'm done.' And then proceeded to spend over a half hour troubleshooting what seemed to be a massive catastrophic failure. The details aren't important other than after all that time I re-looked at that pretty light shining on the fuse panel near the base of the controller and did the 'you dummy' thing. Because the fuse for the main logic supply was blown. And the pretty shining light which was intended as a troubleshooting aid had so informed me when I first arrived.
I would be embarrassed if it wasn’t so funny!
I was embarrassed even if I did think it was funny. There was a lot of ribbing about the field engineer who couldn't find a blown fuse..
5 years of studying electronics engineering learned me to always check:
• Is it on?
• Is it plugged in?
• Is the outlet live?
Fixes 90% of the problems, no kidding.