I should clarify that the joke was about putting holes in donuts, not putting holes in coworkers.
I thought that was weirdly specific to have happened twice!
Bit of an anti-rant here. As told earlier, for the nonce at least, I no longer have a working UPS, and actually since the battery had more or less totally failed, I effectively haven’t had one for awhile. I’m using a good heavy-duty surge protector with about a dozen outlets.
So anyway, there was a brief power glitch earlier this evening, a fact which I know because the computer was off instead of sleeping when I came to use it just now, and the microwave clock informs me that the time is 88:88. All of which is leading up to an interesting point about Windows sleep mode. Maybe this is common knowledge, but I wasn’t aware of it. While it maintains memory contents in a minimal power mode, it also writes all context information to disk. Thus “sleep” is really equivalent to “hibernate”, except that hibernate is explicitly intended to allow complete power-down, while sleep is intended for an immediate quick start.
This is a really great feature in the absence of a UPS. When I powered the computer on, it appeared to be going through a normal boot sequence, and then announced “Resuming Windows” and everything was back the way I had left it. Every once in a long while, Microsoft does something right.
I’m not too happy with the update either. It’s silly, but I don’t like what they did with the clock… I’m still playing with it to try to find a setting I can live with.
When I graduated from the University of California in 19mumble mumble, I was promised an email account for life. Perhaps that was a stupid promise for them to make, but it was a promise, and they made it.
Lately, they keep contacting me with new conditions. You can have the email, but if you go over a certain storage limit, if you don’t install dual-factor authentication, we’ll cut off your account forever. None of these are unreasonable, but they weren’t part of the deal. There’s just something unpleasant about the tenor of these communications: they’re using their power to force me to accept a modification of the contract, and hoping I fail so they can cancel it.
Of course, none of that beats when Chase bank bought Washington Mutual and introduced a monthly fee to my “Free Checking for Life” account. Again, it wasn’t me who gave it that name!
Bastards, all.
I’m glad I closed my account with WaMu before that happened.
Silly - you thought it meant your life!
Free checking for the life of …
our willingness to offer free checking to you peons.
My GF is having Mother’s Day dinner with her son as we speak. He’s 32. She tells me this “kid growing up” thing happens fast.
The good news is that he’s buying. So you have that to look forward to. 
I did that on our other TV - thanks for the suggestion. I was even able to paste it in from my password vault.
Awwwwww.
Dweezil’s transition to a regular bed was a non-event: we had the third bedroom decorated with all new furniture when Moon Unit was a newborn, so he got to move into his Big Boy room, which was pretty exciting.
Moon Unit, when we moved her to a new bed, we put away the toddler bed. She was excited… but then when we gave away the toddler bed a few months later, she really got upset with us. That was 25ish years ago and I’m sure she’s forgotten.
Beautiful weather this weekend, so where did I spend most of it? Suffering inside after being outside for bit; stoopit tree orgies!
I am currently getting chemotherapy for breast canceer. I got a call on Friday while I was hooked up to the IV and asleep because they gave me Benadryl. The call was from HR telling me I’ve used up all my intermittent FMLA and it won’t reset until December. I am getting chemo through the beginning of July and then I have to get my radiation treatment scheduled. The actual fuck?
I sent a message to my oncologist to see what we can do, but I think she’s out of the office on Mondays. So I’m at work today, trying not to fall over. I may not be clinical staff, but I do work with patients and my brain and energy levels are not up to providing the best patient care right now. I prioritize that if HR doesn’t.
Also I found out this morning that one of my former co-workers died yesterday of metastatic breast cancer. This week can fuck all the way off right now.
Agreed, on your behalf!
Why in the fuck can’t Fitbit make a fitness watch that doesn’t fall apart after two years? My first one failed when the button on the side fell apart. The second one had a band that attached to the watch with a little latch that had a metal bearing surface that was only about 0.2mm deep and didn’t work when the plastic around the latch fell apart. And the latest one fell off my wrist when the hasp on the band fell off because the plastic failed again. During the very strenuous activity know as sleeping.
And why do I keep getting Fitbits if they are junk, you ask? Good question. If it was up to me I would not, but my wife buys a new one and gives me her old one to use. Gift horses and all that. So I shouldn’t complain, but then again I can’t get her to stop buying this cheap crap. For a device designed for an active lifestyle, these things are not robust. She will upgrade before it turns to shit so she doesn’t believe me when I tell her they are crap.
I thought that Garmin made complete crap, but they are a Rolex compared to Fitbit.