I just had one thing that I wanted to accomplish today and it got done.
Sensei came over today and picked up the sword. We had a really nice chat. I wish he could have stayed longer. Hopefully, he will find a buyer soon. I can’t say enough what a load that is off my mind. Not just that it is getting passed on, but that it is in responsible hands. I was really worried about that.
Other than that, not much news.
I am closing now because my keyboard has decided that the space bar should stop functioning unless it is banged hard, twice. There are crumbs in there, and it should be replaced anyway.
See you tomorrow.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
Good news on the sword. Bad news on the keyboard. Sometimes you can dislodge material by turning it upside down and shaking it.
I did try that, that’s how I know about the crumbs. Lol Still need to replace. It’s time.
When I headed an IT department, I considered keyboards and mice as disposable. Any question about their fitness, whatsoever, and I replaced them. If not, you could easily spend hundreds of dollars troubleshooting a component that was only worth tens of dollars.
What is humorous, is that I had a boss, for a short time, who was clueless, and he actually wanted property tags on computer mice. Never mind that there’s no good place to tag a mouse, and that the time spent inventorying them would exceed the value of the mouse itself, it just didn’t make sense. But sense just wasn’t in this guy’s wheelhouse, he just liked throwing his overabundant weight around, when he wasn’t, literally, sleeping in his office.
So when his mouse failed, I took that support call myself, plugged in a new mouse and conspicuously cut the cable off his old mouse, right in front of his nose. You could hear his blood boiling in his veins, but my point was made; he needed to work (or at least pretend to work) and the time required to troubleshoot HIS mouse would far exceed the cost of several computer mice.
BTW, he was fired, perhaps a year later, in part because he concealed important information about finances. No embezzlement, mind you, but just storing up info to use as ammunition against others, instead of meeting his fiduciary responsibilities. As it turned out, they had paid $90,000 over a ten year period to lease a phone system that served ten phones, and he knew it was happening.
He was a real gem.
Indeed. I’m leaving out the juiciest part. What I knew of his personal life was atrocious.