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in my experience the customer is rarely right 
(like when they think their printer is broken because someone forgot to add more paper to the tray they use)
(like when they think their printer is broken because someone forgot to add more paper to the tray they use)
"customer is always right" is probably not looking at the bigger picture and only thinking from a customer's perspective (since they think they have every right because it's their money).
But I agree with you, some customers are just clueless and some are just dangerous because they know just enough, to become dangerous, thinking they know it all.
Thanks!
How's your dad doing?
Not bad, looks like the laptop has a bit of 'power' to play sim 3? Does it have a dedicated graphic card or integrated on the motherboard?
How's your dad doing?
Not bad, looks like the laptop has a bit of 'power' to play sim 3? Does it have a dedicated graphic card or integrated on the motherboard?
The laptop is actually right on the minimum specs listed for Sims 3 lol (2ghz, 2gb ram). Its from the windows vista era. Been getting it back up to speed by defragging the hard drive, updating windows, removing any spyware and viruses. It runs like new now. I'm surprised. I even cleaned the keyboard and everything and it looks new now too.
So far it seems to play sims 3 ok, but the graphics sliders are all on minimum lol.
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My dad is improving, but still needs a lot of loving care. Thank you for asking.
Been getting it back up to speed by defragging the hard drive, updating windows, removing any spyware and viruses. It runs like new now. I'm surprised. I even cleaned the keyboard and everything and it looks new now too. .
Been getting it back up to speed by defragging the hard drive, updating windows, removing any spyware and viruses. It runs like new now. I'm surprised. I even cleaned the keyboard and everything and it looks new now too. .
Personally, I enjoy 'cleaning up' the computer/laptop. Have you tried using/download (free)CCleaner?
Glad to hear your dad is getting better.
Personally, I enjoy 'cleaning up' the computer/laptop. Have you tried using/download (free)CCleaner?
Personally, I enjoy 'cleaning up' the computer/laptop. Have you tried using/download (free)CCleaner?
And I also enjoy cleaning up old/slow computers. I use CCleaner, Super-antispyware, Auslogics defragmenter, and AVG antivirus (all freeware, and work great). 
Bit Defender is a good free antivirus. Also very unobtrusive. From what I can find it is currently about the best of the freeware options.
Or you could just use Lin... ah, never mind.
A question: Is it easier to clean up a computer or to wipe-and-replace the whole Windows and download and reinstall drivers? Personally for computers that have been online for years I usually go with wipe-and-replace.
Or you could just use Lin... ah, never mind.
A question: Is it easier to clean up a computer or to wipe-and-replace the whole Windows and download and reinstall drivers? Personally for computers that have been online for years I usually go with wipe-and-replace.
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Another call week, another week-long project to help me stay on course. That's ok because the once beautifully weed-free garden is under siege now and only I can save it.
Because I'm a small time super hero, y'all.
I'm also covered in mosquito bites.
I told the owner of the store (new owner, not the frazzled woman who left me in charge so she could go brush her teeth at the post office) that if I had the resources, I would bonsai every tree in this town. I thought she'd tell me that maybe that word doesn't mean what I think it means, but she just said, "Oh! That would be so neat, to have like dragons and flying pigs and stuff."
Sometimes it's nice to meet people who KNOW.
Because I'm a small time super hero, y'all.
I'm also covered in mosquito bites.
I told the owner of the store (new owner, not the frazzled woman who left me in charge so she could go brush her teeth at the post office) that if I had the resources, I would bonsai every tree in this town. I thought she'd tell me that maybe that word doesn't mean what I think it means, but she just said, "Oh! That would be so neat, to have like dragons and flying pigs and stuff."
Sometimes it's nice to meet people who KNOW.
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Steve, it probably helped a lot when she (presumably) was told by you that that horrible* woman didn't get another date .
Sorry to hear she was treated so badly by a boss who should have realized that some customers are just awful* when they can get away with it.
*No judgement meant, but she really was behaving badly, and "person who needs help" isn't nearly as funny as "horrible woman".
.Sorry to hear she was treated so badly by a boss who should have realized that some customers are just awful* when they can get away with it
.*No judgement meant, but she really was behaving badly, and "person who needs help" isn't nearly as funny as "horrible woman"
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I've been closely following the story of the NAACP leader (Rachel Dolezal) who has persistently claimed to be biracial, even claiming a black man as her father, but is actually white and was outed by her very white parents.
It's a bit fascinating to me. I have two white friends who grew up in all-black schools and they were threatened with rape and assault every single day in the halls between classes. Both of them had biracial relationships and biracial children later on in life. And on the flip side, I have a black friend who would persistently talk about "white privileges" and how much easier it is being white... until this person found out their great-great grandmother was white and, later had a biracial child of their own.
Race is a fascinating topic to me. I can understand a bit of how this Rachel must feel, having 4 adopted black siblings.
Because I was adopted into a white family, I've always felt 110% white on the inside. But the outside tells a different story, and when I was in my teens, I would have done whatever it took--surgery, dyed hair, contact lenses--to look white--just as this woman has done everything she can to her appearance to look black. I'm not sure if I could have gone so far as to actually tell people that I WAS biologically white, nor would I have wanted to try to represent white people. And I most certainly could NEVER pass myself off as Asian in any way, shape, or form. I know nothing about the culture and because of its attitudes towards adoptees like myself, despise many aspects of traditional Asian thinking.
I can certainly understand a bit of how this Rachel Dolezal must feel, because I've felt that way all my life--in-between, with no way of fully fitting in to either side, but yet longing to fully fit into something. But I couldn't claim to be Asian. And I can't claim to be white. When I was in high school I wrote a poem about "The Puzzle Piece That Never Fits." I tore it up one day in a fit of anger because I couldn't understand why God made me this very strange type of "half-breed" that didn't even have fully "real" halves.
The bottom line is, I'm sure this woman was looking for the same thing--a place to feel as if she fully fit in. I feel a little heartbroken for her, though I think what she did (lying about her race and misrepresenting herself) was totally wrong. I'm definitely putting her on my prayer list. I hope she finds her place.
I might not be able to fully define who or what I am, but, I'm thankful that God has kept me truthful about it.
It's a bit fascinating to me. I have two white friends who grew up in all-black schools and they were threatened with rape and assault every single day in the halls between classes. Both of them had biracial relationships and biracial children later on in life. And on the flip side, I have a black friend who would persistently talk about "white privileges" and how much easier it is being white... until this person found out their great-great grandmother was white and, later had a biracial child of their own.
Race is a fascinating topic to me. I can understand a bit of how this Rachel must feel, having 4 adopted black siblings.
Because I was adopted into a white family, I've always felt 110% white on the inside. But the outside tells a different story, and when I was in my teens, I would have done whatever it took--surgery, dyed hair, contact lenses--to look white--just as this woman has done everything she can to her appearance to look black. I'm not sure if I could have gone so far as to actually tell people that I WAS biologically white, nor would I have wanted to try to represent white people. And I most certainly could NEVER pass myself off as Asian in any way, shape, or form. I know nothing about the culture and because of its attitudes towards adoptees like myself, despise many aspects of traditional Asian thinking.
I can certainly understand a bit of how this Rachel Dolezal must feel, because I've felt that way all my life--in-between, with no way of fully fitting in to either side, but yet longing to fully fit into something. But I couldn't claim to be Asian. And I can't claim to be white. When I was in high school I wrote a poem about "The Puzzle Piece That Never Fits." I tore it up one day in a fit of anger because I couldn't understand why God made me this very strange type of "half-breed" that didn't even have fully "real" halves.
The bottom line is, I'm sure this woman was looking for the same thing--a place to feel as if she fully fit in. I feel a little heartbroken for her, though I think what she did (lying about her race and misrepresenting herself) was totally wrong. I'm definitely putting her on my prayer list. I hope she finds her place.
I might not be able to fully define who or what I am, but, I'm thankful that God has kept me truthful about it.
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Staying up too late in order to watch four episodes of Yard Crashers...probably not the best idea, because I'll just end up trying to build weird stuff in my own ginormous and fairly blah yard. My husband will get home in a week and be all "Seriously? Who built a giant chicken out of rusty metal and left it in the middle of the yard?" And I'll try to explain, and he'll insist that if I'm going to go on DIY channel binges, that I at least promise not to build 6-foot tall metal chickens anymore, which would be sad.
*sigh* I was on the verge of doing something super important, I think it had to do with pizza. But now I've got visions of rusty metal poultry dancing in my head.
*sigh* I was on the verge of doing something super important, I think it had to do with pizza. But now I've got visions of rusty metal poultry dancing in my head.