Serenity Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 On the Discord, the word is that there is no Reaper Live due to a surge of flu at Reaper. ReaperJon reported that the DFW area is getting hit, with a shortage of tamiflu. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Jack Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 8:51 AM, Thoramel said: Had a field day scheduled for today and all the folks I'd be meeting on site cancelled due to the weather. I don't understand why no one wants to get outside and do some hiking today. It's a full two degrees above freezing and the ice/rain/snow combo falling from the sky is barely noticeable. Wonderful weather for standing around in a flooded swamp dominated by two meter high vegetation and one meter deep pools. I was all excited to break in some new cold weather gear. Bunch of cry babies, I tell you. Punks, all of them... I weep for the future of humanity. I walk out to get my mail with no shoes on in two inches of snow. On 11/15/2022 at 1:23 PM, Cranky Dog said: UPS hates me. It's one of those weeks where I somehow offended the courier gods again. Client is sending me a new company laptop to replace the older one I have. It gets shipped on Friday. It's in town at 5:47am Monday, 10 km from my office. Next update I get at 2:16pm is that it's now 738km away in completely different city *AND* is reported as damaged. On 11/15/2022 at 6:16 PM, WhiteWulfe said: Loaders were told not to do such things, but it happened all the time, where they'd put something up there "real quick" and they'd "deal with it in a bit" and it wouldn't be dealt with. On a tangent, there was one time when I was working at a dept. store and was outside gathering carriages in the parking lot when a woman took off with her baby's car seat still on the roof of her car... Yeah, fer reals. Usain Bolt has never run as fast as I did that day. On 11/15/2022 at 10:25 PM, sumbloke said: I did a month as a dockhand at a courier company (not fired or anything, I just took the job to fill some time before moving cross country for work). Some of the behaviour I saw was... questionable. Such as, when presented with a wall of packages in a truck too tall to pull things down from the top, one guy would just yank out something around head height and let everything above it fall down... Whenever I'm working at a warehouse, I always teach our new hires the art of removing an item from the middle of a stack without tipping over everything on top of it. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparrowMarie Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 I am so over being cold. I woke up at 12:30 today because I did not want to get out of the warm bed on top of awful sleep. I am trying to get some crocheting done but, again, the cold is wrecking havoc on my joints. I have some holiday painting that needs to be done but I'm fairly certain I need full use of my hands for that too. In other news, I might be getting a new laptop because the one I have now has started randomly shutting down and restarting in the middle of anything, almost daily. I looked around online and this seems to be a known problem with this kind of laptop...since 2015(?) at least. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted November 18, 2022 Moderator Share Posted November 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Serenity said: On the Discord, the word is that there is no Reaper Live due to a surge of flu at Reaper. ReaperJon reported that the DFW area is getting hit, with a shortage of tamiflu. Yup, definitely seems to be going around; my wife has it, she was able to get Tamiflu for it, though. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 @Jasper_the_2nd glad you are home and back with us! Get your strength back up! 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 @Jasper_the_2nd good to hear you're back! 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 9 hours ago, Serenity said: On the Discord, the word is that there is no Reaper Live due to a surge of flu at Reaper. ReaperJon reported that the DFW area is getting hit, with a shortage of tamiflu. I just got my flu shot Tuesday. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malefactus Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 @Jasper_the_2nd: WELCOME BACK! I hope you are feeling up to hobbying soon! 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cranky Dog Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) Remember that misdirected damaged laptop I was supposed to get through UPS. It arrived yesterday morning. I am pretty certain the box it arrived in was not the same as the box it left in as it was in far better shape than the contents and much cleaner. The contents were in the bottom of an oversized box with only a few layers of thin cardboard underneath it and plenty of bubble wrap on top. It does boot and seems functional. But there are no power cables with those accessories, so only a slowly draining battery. And there was no return box with the return address as originally expected. So yeah, that "strapped to the front bumper" hypothesis has some credibility to it. Edited November 18, 2022 by Cranky Dog 2 4 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Oh yeah, that's definately a shipping insurance claim right there. It might be functional now but with that kind of case damage and dust and dirt who knows what issues might be waiting to happen with connections and components inside it. 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 14 hours ago, Mad Jack said: when a woman took off with her baby's car seat still on the roof of her car... Yeah, fer reals. Usain Bolt has never run as fast as I did that day. Rest of the Story??? Was there a baby IN the car seat? Was it a empty car seat? Did you arrive before it could slide off the roof? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Eyed Monsty Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 @Jasper_the_2nd glad things are on the med. Here's hoping your convalescence goes smoothly. GEM 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Eyed Monsty Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Cranky Dog said: Remember that misdirected damaged laptop I was supposed to get through UPS. It arrived yesterday morning. I am pretty certain the box it arrived in was not the same as the box it left in as it was in far better shape than the contents and much cleaner. The contents were in the bottom of an oversized box with only a few layers of thin cardboard underneath it and plenty of bubble wrap on top. It does boot and seems functional. But there are no power cables with those accessories, so only a slowly draining battery. And there was no return box with the return address as originally expected. So yeah, that "strapped to the front bumper" hypothesis has some credibility to it. Looks like it fell off the bumper, was run over, then the now damaged package dumped in a muddy puddle. Original packaging then disposed of to conceal the evidence. Sheesh. GEM 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Educational news on the morning news this week has been the school district for Denver (not the metro, just the specific city). Originally they wanted to close 10 schools due to budget issues, then that dropped to 6 due to anger from parents, then 5. Then last night the superintendent proposed just closing two. Not our school district and my youngest is a senior this year anyway (felt weird realizing I didn’t need to care about next year’s school calendar). So not my fight. But that’s not why I am writing. One of the ten schools that they wanted to close? Has just 100 students. If that’s six grades (middle school system; k-5), that means that there’s a single class for each grade and a mere 16 students per class, average. Now that I wrote that, I realized that it’s a class smaller than my elementary school in (nearly) rural Oklahoma. City had 10k people, and every elementary school had a single class per grade. My grade was the largest ever, so had to have two classes per grade to accommodate me and my 30 classmates. Now not sure what to think. A school that small in a large city? Wow that’s tiny! But with that good of a teacher to student ratio? That’s the ideal or so I have heard. And it’s probably within walking distance and very local. The school is probably very embedded into the neighborhood. And Denver can’t afford rural Oklahoma standards of education? Uh, wut? Just a stream of thought while I contemplate the slow Friday working from home. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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