I made the mistake of putting off changing my password.
I think it's been an hour that I've been on hold with the call centre.
Not that there's much happening today: two regular daily stand-up meetings (to get things out of the way) and I need to do some testing on a class that I developed to call an API and which may or may not work, because the provider hasn't yet finished coding the API into their systems.
I wonder if I could talk the contracting company into working 4 days a week instead of 5? Except I always hated watching the women in my offices work "3 days a week" which actually meant "work 5 days a week, putting in the time mostly at nights after their kids had gone to bed, but only get paid for 3".
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At this time of year, in this season of La Nina (hot and wet and damp and humid and warm) EVERYTHING IS GROWING GREAT GUNS.
This is excellent for the things I want to grow (mostly). I have an eggplant that is rapidly growing gargantuan, a sugar pumpkin (one, singular, I can't seem to get any others to pollinate), and a watermelon (again, one, singular). The apples are going absolutely bonkers, and I really need to either freeze some or else dry them.
However, the warm and the wet is not so great for things like lawns that need to be mowed once a week to keep neat. We don't have HOA's in my neighbourhood, but it would be nice not to have a complete jungle. Or, at least, to have some order among the madness. Anyway, I regularly hear the neighbours mowing or whipper-snippering industriously away: the song of suburbia. And I have collected a decent stash of grass clippings from the neighbours for the various composts.
Another unfortunate intersection of the warm and the wet is that the chickens are getting mites and fleas, which love this kind of weather. We have all kinds of dusts and herbs and things to try to keep them at bay, but sometimes the bugs just get ahead of you... *sigh* And it would probably help if I were cleaning the chook roost more often. Which I would do if it were drier. It's hard to plan to clean out the chicken coop when the sky threatens rain at every turn.
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Why can they not provide a variation in on-hold music? I've listened to the same 16? 32? 128? bars of music over and over and over.
Problem is that I can't do anything with that damn on-hold music in the background...
I think it's been an hour that I've been on hold with the call centre.
Not that there's much happening today: two regular daily stand-up meetings (to get things out of the way) and I need to do some testing on a class that I developed to call an API and which may or may not work, because the provider hasn't yet finished coding the API into their systems.
I wonder if I could talk the contracting company into working 4 days a week instead of 5? Except I always hated watching the women in my offices work "3 days a week" which actually meant "work 5 days a week, putting in the time mostly at nights after their kids had gone to bed, but only get paid for 3".
--
At this time of year, in this season of La Nina (hot and wet and damp and humid and warm) EVERYTHING IS GROWING GREAT GUNS.
This is excellent for the things I want to grow (mostly). I have an eggplant that is rapidly growing gargantuan, a sugar pumpkin (one, singular, I can't seem to get any others to pollinate), and a watermelon (again, one, singular). The apples are going absolutely bonkers, and I really need to either freeze some or else dry them.
However, the warm and the wet is not so great for things like lawns that need to be mowed once a week to keep neat. We don't have HOA's in my neighbourhood, but it would be nice not to have a complete jungle. Or, at least, to have some order among the madness. Anyway, I regularly hear the neighbours mowing or whipper-snippering industriously away: the song of suburbia. And I have collected a decent stash of grass clippings from the neighbours for the various composts.
Another unfortunate intersection of the warm and the wet is that the chickens are getting mites and fleas, which love this kind of weather. We have all kinds of dusts and herbs and things to try to keep them at bay, but sometimes the bugs just get ahead of you... *sigh* And it would probably help if I were cleaning the chook roost more often. Which I would do if it were drier. It's hard to plan to clean out the chicken coop when the sky threatens rain at every turn.
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Why can they not provide a variation in on-hold music? I've listened to the same 16? 32? 128? bars of music over and over and over.
Problem is that I can't do anything with that damn on-hold music in the background...