Unfortunately, "booting" TAs is against the law.

My favorite is when they get petulant, and holler how "well, it shouldn't be like that. It should work the way it's supposed to"

twitch, twitch.

You'd think rebooting was an acknowledgement of failure or something. Of course all it's revealing as they they never bookmarked their favorite porn website and if they have to close the tab they're afraid they'll never get back to it.

I'm sorry it's going to take 5 minutes out of your life to power down your computer and bring it back up. Hit restart and get a latte already.

Much, much heart~ma to your dad, Steph.

Aleve does a wonderful job on pain for me, but unfortunately it also makes my throat swell shut.

who needs to breathe when you have pain relief?

The added bonus is that our company pushes various updates that only happen when you reboot, so if you don't reboot on any kind of reasonable basis, you will have multiple updates that have to run. So he had to whine about that too.

Whatever. You would think that is computing 101. Computer acting in any way wonky - reboot. Slow - reboot. Not connecting - reboot. I should have told him to call our technical assistance center.

We used to send out a file that had been, unfortunately, rigidly formatted (page breaks, column breaks, section breaks ... oy) but we'd found that if it looked weird a lot of the time switching views (from layout to draft and back) would clear up the problem. I once had a guy on the phone who, when I told him this, argued back and forth about it, asking why changing the view would help, it didn't make any sense ... until one of his tech support people came in and, while he was whining at me, changed the view, changed it back, and WOW! it worked! He thought his tech support person had worked a miracle ....

Teppy, much it's nothing ~ma for your dad.

I have yet to find a dose of pain medication that helps with my pain, which sounds similar to the pain Omnis was describing, so maybe I need to stretch more. Usually taking more Advil just results in a stomach ache and continued pain.

I couldn't remember whether or not we were shelving at the library bookstore today. So, I wandered over there, but nobody was there. Now I'm at the coffee shop.

The house showing went very well today. Emeline really liked it. The backyard is fabulous, the basement is cozy and finished nicely. The kitchen has horrendous wallpaper, but the owner said that he doesn't care what we do the house. He is looking for long, long term tenants and since he knows me (third generation family friends - I have known this man since he was literally born.)he is glad to have someone he knows in the house because he knows we'll take care of it.

Plus, his mom told him to rent to us because I am "a good egg. Just like her mom."

Aims, that sounds really really good.

Hot damn, Aims, that's very promising indeed. All digits crossed!