When I was just starting school, Mom had me lay out what I was going to wear, and what I needed to take to school the night before. It worked very well, with the exception of when I forgot to tell her I needed something.
Ahem. Oops.
It has been a habit that I have continued. (Both the laying things out, and sometimes the forgetting.) But I am beginning to wonder if I need to put a fridge in the car.
Seriously.
I go to work on Tuesday, and I put out the stuff to take to Mom. I put my clothes out, to change, once I finish feeding. I have all the foodstuffs for a snack space at the sub.
Hat, vest, purse...
Oop, need to make lunch. Which, I put mayo on. Well, don't need to leave for a bit yet, so I better keep this in the fridge...
This happens nearly every time I make a lunch with a perishable! I get half way to town...
Click...
Oh... Crap.
Now, most days I do bring 'emergency money', but that isn't the point. I really need to get some way to have the things in the fridge, unlike Vegas, not STAY in the fridge when I leave. This occasionally happens with eggs that a gal orders, who lives in town.
Now, I put up a note for the eggs, but have occasionally forgotten them still. I have had people tell me that I need to put a string on my finger, rubber band on my wrist, etc., to remind me.
Nope, I remember it's there, oh, when it catches on something at work... Sigh.
I know I can do this, it's not rocket science, (or rocket surgery, as I read on a t-shirt recently), but if I remember one thing, I seem to forget something else...
I am highly tempted to store apples, and granola bars at the sub.
If they didn't get eaten... By someone who is not me.
Meh. I think a brain cell or three are in the back of my brain, just waiting to see if I remember, then when it's too late/far to go back, they spring the trap.
Darn cells, anyway. Maybe a pre "flight" checklist.
If I don't misplace the list...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Phone service. Or not.
We have a relatively new phone system I am using at work. It was presented as being much easier to contact people in other buildings (including the ones in the main office, which is in another city!), and that we could do nearly everything but make coffee with it.
Uh, I don't like coffee that well, and don't really think the IT guys remembered they were talking to people who are NOT techs...
For example. I have to transfer calls to dispatch. Now this should be easy. You just ask the tech guys, and they give me a several step process.
Uh, huh...
And when I need to do that, if you don't do it in a very short time, it will hang up on you, and more urgently, the one you were transferring. NOT good. I started telling them the phone number for dispatch (non emergency), if I was transferring them, or telling them to hang up and call 911 if it WAS an emergency, so I wouldn't keep dropping them. Very poor way of getting the job done.
I finally sat down and read the booklet (paper, even) we had for the phone.
Well, it wasn't MUCH of an improvement, but I found out, from that, and one of the gents who is in the office, that if you know the extension, you type that in, then wait for it to ring, then hang up the phone.
That's all. Not several steps. Just 2, basically. And I've only lost one since, and that was because of a power blink. Much improvement there.
So, now, I need to learn how to transfer calls IN THE BUILDING. This shouldn't be hard, right? Dial the number of the phone the person is near, they pick it up, all is rainbows and unicorns.
Well, except, no one seems to know what the extension numbers are for the six phones in here, except for the main phone, i.e., mine. That would be great if I call myself for some goofball reason, but doesn't do me a bit of good if I have to call one of the guys up to my phone. I have needed to do this very thing more than once, which leads to me handing them paper and pen, and leaving my desk, so they can get the info...
So, I need to go get one of the tech guys, and a tech to confused person translator, and see if we can straighten this out.
On the bright side, I do know how to 'park' calls, and can send them wither and when they need to go, now... If I know the extension.
Uh, I don't like coffee that well, and don't really think the IT guys remembered they were talking to people who are NOT techs...
For example. I have to transfer calls to dispatch. Now this should be easy. You just ask the tech guys, and they give me a several step process.
Uh, huh...
And when I need to do that, if you don't do it in a very short time, it will hang up on you, and more urgently, the one you were transferring. NOT good. I started telling them the phone number for dispatch (non emergency), if I was transferring them, or telling them to hang up and call 911 if it WAS an emergency, so I wouldn't keep dropping them. Very poor way of getting the job done.
I finally sat down and read the booklet (paper, even) we had for the phone.
Well, it wasn't MUCH of an improvement, but I found out, from that, and one of the gents who is in the office, that if you know the extension, you type that in, then wait for it to ring, then hang up the phone.
That's all. Not several steps. Just 2, basically. And I've only lost one since, and that was because of a power blink. Much improvement there.
So, now, I need to learn how to transfer calls IN THE BUILDING. This shouldn't be hard, right? Dial the number of the phone the person is near, they pick it up, all is rainbows and unicorns.
Well, except, no one seems to know what the extension numbers are for the six phones in here, except for the main phone, i.e., mine. That would be great if I call myself for some goofball reason, but doesn't do me a bit of good if I have to call one of the guys up to my phone. I have needed to do this very thing more than once, which leads to me handing them paper and pen, and leaving my desk, so they can get the info...
So, I need to go get one of the tech guys, and a tech to confused person translator, and see if we can straighten this out.
On the bright side, I do know how to 'park' calls, and can send them wither and when they need to go, now... If I know the extension.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Pen pals, and other missives.
Well, today is election day. Which actually has nothing to do with anything, except I am at the sub early, and writing is my plan for most of the day. I had to arrive an hour early, and will have someone come in an hour early to spell me... 7am to 8pm, we have decided is MUCH too long of a stretch.
Anywho. I am writing my blog, of course. Then I am going to write my Aunties. I didn't get my Easter cards out to anyone, (Hi, messymimi... eep.) and, so I am going to do a "Yes, I am late, but I am thinking of you" notes. It's hilarious, in a way, I sit and type my blog, and everyone is soooo serious when they come in, she is working so we must not disturb her with our requests. So I make a point of dropping typing when someone comes in. When I am writing with pen and paper, more than a few ask if I am filling out forms.
Didn't know why that came up, until I realized, I am usually writing with a clipboard. Most places use those for forms, at least around here... The funny thing, when I am doing some of the "actual" work for the sub, where I have a ream of paper, and am intently looking at the computer, most folk don't notice! Odd...
(And Heaven help me if I am reading a book, or knitting. Which has been perfectly fine with everyone from Sheriff on down, as long as we aren't ignoring what we are 'supposed' to be doing with customers...)
I have two pen pals, and I just sent off letters to them. One is a brand new pen pal, we accidentally met up on a knitting forum. Think I told the story, but short version, we were dropped, unintentionally, from a pen pal list, and so we checked with each other, hey would you like to be MY pen pal? Yep! And off to the races...
She is in New Jersey, so we have rather different experiences, and places, so have (hopefully) a lot to talk about. I have written with my computer, just to make the letter easier to read, but I have a new printer. It can print both sides of the paper, which is wonderful, saves paper and postage.
Except...
It prints the back page upside down. I am going to have to figure out how to correct this problem... Right now, I will just pull the paper out, and turn it so it's correct, but there has to be a way to do this without needing to mess with the paper... So my pen pals will get a unique letter or two until I can get it sorted out, but hey, it's still a letter, right?
Anywho. I am writing my blog, of course. Then I am going to write my Aunties. I didn't get my Easter cards out to anyone, (Hi, messymimi... eep.) and, so I am going to do a "Yes, I am late, but I am thinking of you" notes. It's hilarious, in a way, I sit and type my blog, and everyone is soooo serious when they come in, she is working so we must not disturb her with our requests. So I make a point of dropping typing when someone comes in. When I am writing with pen and paper, more than a few ask if I am filling out forms.
Didn't know why that came up, until I realized, I am usually writing with a clipboard. Most places use those for forms, at least around here... The funny thing, when I am doing some of the "actual" work for the sub, where I have a ream of paper, and am intently looking at the computer, most folk don't notice! Odd...
(And Heaven help me if I am reading a book, or knitting. Which has been perfectly fine with everyone from Sheriff on down, as long as we aren't ignoring what we are 'supposed' to be doing with customers...)
I have two pen pals, and I just sent off letters to them. One is a brand new pen pal, we accidentally met up on a knitting forum. Think I told the story, but short version, we were dropped, unintentionally, from a pen pal list, and so we checked with each other, hey would you like to be MY pen pal? Yep! And off to the races...
She is in New Jersey, so we have rather different experiences, and places, so have (hopefully) a lot to talk about. I have written with my computer, just to make the letter easier to read, but I have a new printer. It can print both sides of the paper, which is wonderful, saves paper and postage.
Except...
It prints the back page upside down. I am going to have to figure out how to correct this problem... Right now, I will just pull the paper out, and turn it so it's correct, but there has to be a way to do this without needing to mess with the paper... So my pen pals will get a unique letter or two until I can get it sorted out, but hey, it's still a letter, right?
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
FIRE!!! Right? Hmm.
I was driving home after working at the sub, and as is often the case, I was driving right during rush hour. I also have a small car. I am not picking on anyone, much... However, I have noticed that large vehicles seem to think my car is fun to be right against. I guess I also create road rage- by driving the speed limit... Meh.
Anywho, while turning the corner to get on the road to my house, I cross train tracks. While worrying about a dingbat passing me on a double yellow line, I happen to look down the tracks. It's a reflex, you know, avoiding even BIGGER vehicles... And I see smoke. White smoke, which is usually lawn type grass, (this is Oregon, I specify), or wood. The glimpse I got was the grass was on fire. But it's not impossible that someone was burning slash wood.
But it bugged me. I don't really have a logical process when I see things, but the mental gears kicked in. It wasn't near a house... It WAS by train tracks... That, in and of itself was odd, unless there are Railroad workers near, they don't just set a fire and leave. In fact, there wasn't a person around. Sadly, that can be not so unusual, but it was near the center of a field. Most farmers would at least have someone watching it... It just bugged me, the whole way home.
So, I called it in. The info was taken, and I figured it was probably a fluff on my part, probably getting the emergency guys out for no reason...
The next day I receive a Flash Alert.* It said that a fire had been called in. Yeah...
And it turned out it was not one, but 2 fires were burning, and they had to have 2 engines called out, as it was in a bad area to fight fire in. (The railroad goes over and by a swampy area. Oddly, the grass can be tinder on top, with the soil the consistency of a wet sponge below.) They were able to put out both fires, and I gather since I'd called it in fairly early, the damage was minimal. They didn't know how it started, though. That bothers me a bit, but I guess, they will hopefully figure it out later.
*Flash Alert is a notice that fire, police, schools, etc., use to tell people about 'news' and events. I am signed up for several of them. It was originally for a job I had, now it's just because it's interesting, and I am nosy... :)
Anywho, while turning the corner to get on the road to my house, I cross train tracks. While worrying about a dingbat passing me on a double yellow line, I happen to look down the tracks. It's a reflex, you know, avoiding even BIGGER vehicles... And I see smoke. White smoke, which is usually lawn type grass, (this is Oregon, I specify), or wood. The glimpse I got was the grass was on fire. But it's not impossible that someone was burning slash wood.
But it bugged me. I don't really have a logical process when I see things, but the mental gears kicked in. It wasn't near a house... It WAS by train tracks... That, in and of itself was odd, unless there are Railroad workers near, they don't just set a fire and leave. In fact, there wasn't a person around. Sadly, that can be not so unusual, but it was near the center of a field. Most farmers would at least have someone watching it... It just bugged me, the whole way home.
So, I called it in. The info was taken, and I figured it was probably a fluff on my part, probably getting the emergency guys out for no reason...
The next day I receive a Flash Alert.* It said that a fire had been called in. Yeah...
And it turned out it was not one, but 2 fires were burning, and they had to have 2 engines called out, as it was in a bad area to fight fire in. (The railroad goes over and by a swampy area. Oddly, the grass can be tinder on top, with the soil the consistency of a wet sponge below.) They were able to put out both fires, and I gather since I'd called it in fairly early, the damage was minimal. They didn't know how it started, though. That bothers me a bit, but I guess, they will hopefully figure it out later.
*Flash Alert is a notice that fire, police, schools, etc., use to tell people about 'news' and events. I am signed up for several of them. It was originally for a job I had, now it's just because it's interesting, and I am nosy... :)
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