Monthly Archives: January 2020
Beware The Caps Lock Key . . .
Jan and I had a nice quite day at the rig, not doing much of anything. Very nice.
About 4pm we headed over to Dickinson to have dinner once again at Los Ramirez Mexican Restaurant. And I think we’re just about at the point where we can just sit down and say, “The Usual”, since we always get the same thing.
Jan gets her Pechuga Rellana,
but without the rice.
So that leaves her with Shrimp, and Broccoli. covered with a large Chicken Breast topped with Melted Cheese. And it’s not just a few shrimp hiding out under there, but an entire school.
I of course got my usual Beef Fajita Taco Salad.
For some reason though they look at me funny since I don’t eat the taco shell, jus the good stuff inside. I think the shell has about as many calories in it as all the goodies inside.
Then after dinner we drove over to Nassau Bay to check in on a friend of ours who was having printer problems. And of course as it often happens, it all worked fine while I was there.
This has happened often enough over the years that I’ve often thought about having some of those life-size cut-outs made of me, glaring. Then I can rent them out to clients to stand next to their computer so I can intimidate it into correct operation.
Three times in the last few weeks I’ve had client’s called me with login problems. And in two of the three cases it was because they had accidentally pressed the Cap Lock key without realizing it. So they were typing in their password incorrectly without knowing it.
This is why I really don’t like password fields that don’t allow you to either show the password, or at least have the Eyeball in the field so you can double-check it.
In the third case they had a flakey key on their keyboard which they didn’t notice. If you ever suddenly have a problem logging into something, go to Notepad or some other text editor to be sure that what you think you’re typing is what you’re actually typing.
Thought For The Day:
If we’re not supposed to eat late at night, why is there a little light inside the fridge?
sift
Making Up For Lost Steak . . .
About 4pm Jan and I headed up to the Saltgrass Steakhouse in Webster to make up for missing our New Year’s Eve dinner while she was under the weather with our sequential colds. So, since the only cold-related problems we’ve got is an occasional hacking cough, we decided that tonight was the night.
We’ve found that if we can get there around 4:30 or so, or at least before 5, we can usually get a table pretty fast, or even immediately, like tonight. But by 5:30 the place was full and there was a line.
Between the Wedge Salads, Jan’s 9oz. Filet and my 16oz Ribeye, the meal was as delicious as usual. And even better, we had a $25 discount on our Loyalty Card, so my steak was pretty much free.
Coming home, we had planned to drop off our Christmas decorations at the storage room. Both of them.
Our Rig Christmas Tree,
and our Christmas Wreath on the front of the rig.
but it was getting dark so we’ll do that tomorrow probably.
Between everything we had going on, and our NYC trip, I never did get around to putting up any lights this year.
Bah Humbug!
I’m sure you’ve probably seen the TV commercials for the TV streaming channel, CuriosityStream. Started by the founder of the Discovery Channel, it features very well made shows on History, Science, Space, Society, Technology, and a lot more.
We had been talking about signing up, and then Jan found a post on Facebook giving you a 40% discount for yearly signups. So 1 year of HD service, that’s normally $19.99 is now $12.99.
For an entire year.
And if you want 4K service, it’s $42.99 rather than $69.99. Another great deal.
But there is a lot of 4K content on the HD service, also. Which meant that I got to see 4K video on our TV this afternoon, and it’s fantastic.
BTW this sale only goes through tomorrow, so check it out now at the link above.
Thought For The Day:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis
hgh
