"I can’t hear you. What’s your extension again?
It’s seriously the second question I ask on a cold call. If they really are my bank / etc , then they’ll give me that super fast. If they try to give me a number, I assure them I have it in the phone book.
So many scams derail when you’re calling back an internal extension from the well-known switch-board number.
Like the French with the Germans back then.
Bay-gull. Bagel.
itteration
My boss was the child of a Paperclip scientist. The rushed immigration actually left them with improper status, and he tells a fun story about how they got that settled.
Fahrenheit
Since 95% of people on the planet have evolved to metric, it may help to point out the unconventional measurements when you use them.
It conforms to the rule about the cheapest weddings leading to the longest marriages.
We moved into a place here that’s right across the street from a major hospital. It’s a tower next to a busy ‘40x’-style roadway near an Ell train and a double cargo rail line with a partially-secured crossing. “You okay with trains?”, they asked. We were fools!
All day we’re exposed to fire, police, ambulance, subway bong-bongs, train ‘q’ whistles, air rescue and traffic.
But it’s not bad. We were above the 12th floor and facing away from train, metro and highway, and the air rescue’s route past our place was almost at our window so it was always cool.
The only thing we couldn’t cope with - and this will out me - was the double-pane windows were no match to the one train guy whose ‘q’ was an absolute by-the-book whistle and it seemed he was standing on it for a full minutes sometimes.
…at 0300 .
Nightly.
We hate that guy.
We moved a year ago - after 5 years there ! - to a new place that our revised building code says should have an AC and it does. We’re much happier despite paying like $4/sqft/mo in rent. It’s got triple-pane windows and that would make allll the difference.
I promise you can cope with loud noise. It’s not ideal, but better windows help, as does concrete construction.
A friend was running electrical for studio shoots on the news. He couldn’t take a go of it either, as gaffing is grunt work no one respects unless and until the dalai lama is visiting and trips over a power lead.
I can survive in 9c but 100c will kill me.
Convince us your message is important enough to write but not so important as to fully spell all the words in it.
And this is how we get Systemd
Arizona seniors would like this.
My 1990s CF infantry boots - bought new - were used daily for 20 years, Calgary snow and Vancouver rain. Another 10 years of occasional use and another 10 years in the closet because of an injury. But it’s getting fixed and I will be using them again.
Zipper? You and I have different footwear.
POPULAR != BETTER
There’s therapy for that.
Obligatory Mitch. Thanks.
I get a reward every two weeks.
I tailor my work commitment based on it.