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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 3rd day of the 37th week, the 13th day of the 9th month, the 257th day of 2016 [with only 102 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Bald is Beautiful Day – dare I point out that this only works for the male of the species? One of the most discouraging things a woman faces in our culture is hair loss…
- Fortune Cookie Day
- International Chocolate Day
- Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day
- National Celiac Awareness Day
- National Defy Superstition Day
- National Peanut Day
- National Pet Memorial Day
- Positive Thinking Day
- Roald Dahl Day – on his 100th birthday
- Scooby-Doo Day -- 47 years of this inane jingle
- Snack a Pickle Day
- Uncle Sam Day – officially proclaimed by Congress in 1989 as "Uncle Sam" Wilson was born in 1776 – looks pretty good for 250 years old, doesn’t he?.
On this day in 585 BC, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrated a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. In 1541, after three years of exile, John Calvin returned to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism. In 1788 the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital of the fledgling United States. In 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film. In 1899 Henry Bliss was the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. In 1906 the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. In 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC was introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. In 1985 Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES. In 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. And in 2016 NASA Voyager is 18 hrs 52 mins 31 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:257:120000:1L)
So…. Conversions.
No not the kind where you have a religious epiphany – altho since John Calvin is mentioned above, I will say that I am convinced that Calvinism and the entitled attitudes it spawns has a LOT to answer for in our society. No I am talking about the kind of conversion where IT changes over an entire organization to a different operating system, in this case, the phones. Oh the whole it went pretty smoothly – they went through and set up all the phones ahead of time, and because ours are VOIP, they daisy-chained the new and old units. And when we came back in on Monday morning, we did indeed have phones….
And then the little things started in the office and my name just about got worn out with all the questions about where to find things and how to do them. I do understand the frustration of stuff that just won’t work, I do – and if you have read here for anytime at all you have heard my tales of woe in dealing with my Alienware X51 – but I really do understand the IT point of view as well. It only takes a few times of being told the files are not in the folder [did you try going thru IE instead of opening a file in EXCEL?] or that OUTLOOK is GONE [because you don’t see the shortcut?] and your patience starts wearing a bit thin. IT doesn’t need to deal with the little things when they have to worry about things organizational wide, so I try to handle as much as possible here but today, I cracked and for the first time, put someone in touch directly with IT instead of running interference. Why? Because they stopped listening to me, huffing that they didn’t see any sense in rebooting [yeah, well I can sympathize, especially after the 4th time I am asked to restart] and asking if I knew what I was talking about. As soon as we reached that point?
I was done. Don’t want to listen to me? Then do it yourself . Or wait your turn and IT will get to you when they can.
Savvy?
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