As did my dad’s younger brother. A screamin’ eagle.
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My attitude: sit on your butt and go off into that gentle night, or get your ass in gear and stay active.
Still, with age come physical challenges, and sometimes mental ones.
I've been known to lose my car keys a time or two, and forget names of people I don't normally associate with, and random objects. Way it is.
Army of One, me.
My Doc a few years ago suggested I go to a gym and swim. lol. I asked him who the hell has time for that? Come follow me around all day.
Every Windows update lately seems to screw my LAN up. I mean, come on, MS? Two pc's plugged into the same router and they can't see each other?
Had to do a network reset on both pc's to get them talking.
Sometimes I just want to get out my B.F.H. and beat the shit out of something.
(Psycho Killer - can't you see?)
Had to do a network reset on both pc's to get them talking.
Sometimes I just want to get out my B.F.H. and beat the shit out of something.
(Psycho Killer - can't you see?)
Yep, had an update today. Better check on things. . . .Every Windows update lately seems to screw my LAN up. I mean, come on, MS? Two pc's plugged into the same router and they can't see each other?
Had to do a network reset on both pc's to get them talking.
Sometimes I just want to get out my B.F.H. and beat the shit out of something.
(Psycho Killer - can't you see?)
I've never understood why I've had so many LAN problems since every incarnation of Windows after XP.
Wish the stuff would just work without periodically having to step in and do something. Three PC's, a TV, AVR, and sometimes a disc player on the network and all can be seen except the pc's sometimes.
All services are set correctly....SMB is enabled...something is wrong when you can browse to your AVR's web interface but can't see another pc on the same LAN.
Ok well long time nuttiness. I'll get off the soapbox for a minute.
MS does these things on purpose to old people so that it keeps ours brains active...still can't find keys and remember names though...right? Lol
While Boonie was going nuts with his PC networking, we got a view of Mt. Aetna from our hotel this morning:
Are you going to visit Herculaneum? My late parents said it was way better than Pompeii (mind you Pink Floyd didn't play Herculaneum....
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It is annoying, I often want to check a download on my PC before sending to the NAS and following any update nothing sees the PC
, yet as you say all services are correct
Not this time. This trip covers only Sicily.Are you going to visit Herculaneum? My late parents said it was way better than Pompeii (mind you Pink Floyd didn't play Herculaneum....
Rod Stewart considers selling his sports cars because of local potholes
Condition of roads near singer’s Harlow home makes it difficult to drive the prestige vehicleshttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2...ing-his-sports-cars-because-of-local-potholes
I need to vent, and this thread seems like the logical place.
4 months ago, I purchased a bottom loading water cooler. Picture below, in case you're wondering what the hell it is...
It arrived in excellent condition, per instructions, I left it standing upright for 24 hours before plugging it in. Plugged it in, all displays light up. I put the 5-gallon water jug in. As you can see, there are 3 buttons on top. One for hot water, another for room temp water and the third one for cold water. Hot works fine, cold works fine.....but....the ambient temp button does not work. I mean, it pushes down super easy with no resistance. No water, no nothing.
So, I'm like, no chance I'm keeping this thing if it's got issues. A major pain in the ass to box back up, but I did a great job and even stretched the super thick plastic that it came with over the outer box and taped it up.
Requested a return/refund from Amazon. I even selected the reason for returning from a drop-down box as "item defective or not working". Easy as hell. Dropped it off at local UPS, within a week, I received notice that it had been received and refund would commence.
To be honest, I totally forgot about the refund until today (4 months later). I got an email from Amazon saying they processed my refund. First off, I'm thinking, why in hell did it take that long? Then, I see the refund is for $145. Then I'm thinking that isn't right. Looked at the drop-down from the refund link, and it says they charged me a restocking fee.
I about blow a fuse on that one. The damn thing was defective when I got it. I shouldn't have to pay any restock fee if the product is broken.
Get in a chat with a real person on Amazon. I explain (calmly) the situation. He says he needs to get additional information and 5 minutes later, his response is "I see that there is a restock fee for this item". Then nothing more. I wait, silence. He then says, I hope you understand.
Now, I'm getting pissed. I said, you sell me a defective item and you expect me to pay a restock fee? I told him to put someone on higher up. So, up comes another guy. He tells me to give him 5 minutes while he reads through the messages/chat. He comes back and says you are being charged a restock fee.
Duh! That's my damn point. He knows I'm angry, so he finally says. I'm willing to make an exception and get that fee reversed. You know what I'm thinking....but I was done with this guy. I said, thank you.
So, yes, they dropped the fee, but they called it an exception. WTF!!!! it should not be an exception. It should be a mistake, and they should apologize and then reverse the charges. I'm still fuming....
4 months ago, I purchased a bottom loading water cooler. Picture below, in case you're wondering what the hell it is...
It arrived in excellent condition, per instructions, I left it standing upright for 24 hours before plugging it in. Plugged it in, all displays light up. I put the 5-gallon water jug in. As you can see, there are 3 buttons on top. One for hot water, another for room temp water and the third one for cold water. Hot works fine, cold works fine.....but....the ambient temp button does not work. I mean, it pushes down super easy with no resistance. No water, no nothing.
So, I'm like, no chance I'm keeping this thing if it's got issues. A major pain in the ass to box back up, but I did a great job and even stretched the super thick plastic that it came with over the outer box and taped it up.
Requested a return/refund from Amazon. I even selected the reason for returning from a drop-down box as "item defective or not working". Easy as hell. Dropped it off at local UPS, within a week, I received notice that it had been received and refund would commence.
To be honest, I totally forgot about the refund until today (4 months later). I got an email from Amazon saying they processed my refund. First off, I'm thinking, why in hell did it take that long? Then, I see the refund is for $145. Then I'm thinking that isn't right. Looked at the drop-down from the refund link, and it says they charged me a restocking fee.
I about blow a fuse on that one. The damn thing was defective when I got it. I shouldn't have to pay any restock fee if the product is broken.
Get in a chat with a real person on Amazon. I explain (calmly) the situation. He says he needs to get additional information and 5 minutes later, his response is "I see that there is a restock fee for this item". Then nothing more. I wait, silence. He then says, I hope you understand.
Now, I'm getting pissed. I said, you sell me a defective item and you expect me to pay a restock fee? I told him to put someone on higher up. So, up comes another guy. He tells me to give him 5 minutes while he reads through the messages/chat. He comes back and says you are being charged a restock fee.
Duh! That's my damn point. He knows I'm angry, so he finally says. I'm willing to make an exception and get that fee reversed. You know what I'm thinking....but I was done with this guy. I said, thank you.
So, yes, they dropped the fee, but they called it an exception. WTF!!!! it should not be an exception. It should be a mistake, and they should apologize and then reverse the charges. I'm still fuming....
I always check the return policy these days with so many 3rd party sellers on Amazon. Too many fakes and crap to risk buying from a reseller named you_can_trust_me
Actually, this was not third party. Sold by Amazon.
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