Inconvenient Annoyances

I have a colleague who rock climbs a few times a week and has the same problem.

Can you turn off the lock (if you don't go out often) or change the code to something simple until he's back?

I was considering changing it temporarily.  But maybe I will just turn off the lock for a few days.  That'd be even less annoying that a shorter/simpler password.  I rarely go places, anyway (no car, and we live in a rural area), so I don't even know what I'm protecting it from! 

Update:  I went to settings to see about disabling the lock for a few days, but it would've deleted all of my fingerprints and stuff, so I was all, "meh... I'll just keep typing in my password, I guess."  But then I saw that I could disable it for safe locations, such as setting a "home".  So now my phone only asks for my password for the first time I try to get into it, and then if I use it within 4 hours since last use, and I haven't left "home", then I don't have to unlock it again.  Yay!

Meeting friends at Bill’s tonight for dinner.  I haven’t been to one before. 

We go to breakfast at Bill's once a month or so... I really like their food. 

I love their breakfast food and the dinner food is okay but there doesn't seem to be as much choice for non breakfast! 

Hey kimberley, do you ever use Hey Siri or the android equivalent?  I always thought it was a ridiculous faff until I started to use it, and Siri has gotten a lot better lately.  You could just leave your phone next to your sanding and ask Siri to read and dictate your responses to text messages.  I do it all the time when driving and it works well.  No logging in required, you don't even have to touch your phone.  Yes, it is creepy to have Siri listening to everything you say.

Hey kimberley, do you ever use Hey Siri or the android equivalent?  I always thought it was a ridiculous faff until I started to use it, and Siri has gotten a lot better lately.  You could just leave your phone next to your sanding and ask Siri to read and dictate your responses to text messages.  I do it all the time when driving and it works well.  No logging in required, you don't even have to touch your phone.  Yes, it is creepy to have Siri listening to everything you say.

I've tried it.  The messages aren't always interpreted correctly, but the mistakes can be amusing and I tend to leave them in.  But I do prefer to just type what I want to say.  It's quicker than training my AI.

Anyway, other than very light sanding between coats of poly, the sanding is done.  Now I'm just waiting for my fingertips to heal.  *whine* My fingers hurt.  And my hands.  And my arms.  And my legs.  Really, I'm just pain incarnate.  And I still have more to do.

I don't mean to be obtuse, but can you not use work gloves while sanding? Sanded-off fingerprints sounds really painful!

I don't mean to be obtuse, but can you not use work gloves while sanding? Sanded-off fingerprints sounds really painful!

Not obtuse at all!  I have leather work gloves, and I generally use them.  But I kept having to take them off to feel the surface, and it got tedious putting them on and taking them off constantly.  It slowed me down a lot.

I did put a plaster on the pad of my right thumb on the second day.  (I'm right-handed and did most of the sanding with that hand.  My right thumb took the worst of it.)  The plaster dramatically improved my productivity and quality of life.

Ouchies!!!

One of my first jobs was working on an assembly line putting together battery packs. It was such that we all used to put athletic tape (similar to the sticking part of a bandaid) around the tips of our fingers or they would be raw by the end of an 8 hour shift. 

Hope you don't have to do a lot of that!

Ouchies!!!

One of my first jobs was working on an assembly line putting together battery packs. It was such that we all used to put athletic tape (similar to the sticking part of a bandaid) around the tips of our fingers or they would be raw by the end of an 8 hour shift. 

Hope you don't have to do a lot of that!

Oh, that's a good tip going forward.   Thanks!

This was a rather big job and my husband had to go back to work, leaving me with the sanding and finishing.  I won't have this amount to do again until we start to build our kitchen, and for that I won't be on a deadline.  And now the bulk of this job is done, so I can say I don't have to do much more now. 

I just left my wee bairns in Aberdeen and I miss the hell out of them already. I don't know when I will get to see them again.

I'm on a bus somewhere between Dundee and Stirling, listening to our favorite music and trying to keep myself from bursting into a complete meltdown.



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NCTAMI72- your family is beautiful!

I feel like Sirius would be proud of my IA for today. On Facebook a friend of a friend wanted her "story" shared far and wide of how the UK caused her severe psychological harm by refusing her entry. She showed up with no funds, no return ticket, no job, and asked to be allowed entry for 30 days to meet up with her unemployed boyfriend, who she knew through the internet. Ummm. Pretty much the example of what not to do when trying to gain entry to a foreign country, especially not the U.K. She kept referring to the detention center as jail, but it sounded ok - plenty of games, meals provided, their own rooms and they're given access to email and a free cellphone (with no camera of course). I explained that they hadn't targeted her, she simply didn't have the evidence required to make it clear she could fund her trip and return to the US. And of course, she was still the victim and didn't do anything deserving of being denied entry. It was a really amazing thread and other people thanked me for laying out what would've been a lot more reasonable to do at the border with regards to showing ties to the US and ya know ... having a return flight.


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I along with six other colleagues got moved to a specialist team about four months ago. We all queried raises as we're doing harder, more complex stuff. We were told by the head billing/finance manager she was pushing for it hard (and she's got pull in the company). Found out today our 'raises' are on standby because we've just got the clear to merge with another company and they want to play that out first.  Our jobs are safe, because we're written in a contract to state so but still... WTH.


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I along with six other colleagues got moved to a specialist team about four months ago. We all queried raises as we're doing harder, more complex stuff. We were told by the head billing/finance manager she was pushing for it hard (and she's got pull in the company). Found out today our 'raises' are on standby because we've just got the clear to merge with another company and they want to play that out first.  Our jobs are safe, because we're written in a contract to state so but still... WTH.


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That is such crap! Raises for a team of employees would not break a deal like that.


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I along with six other colleagues got moved to a specialist team about four months ago. We all queried raises as we're doing harder, more complex stuff.

I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me back in May.
My old job was so mellow and easy.   

I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me back in May.
My old job was so mellow and easy.   

It's so frustrating isn't it?

My old job was horrid so in comparison I'm happy. But I've been trying to look for a new job, but it seems like everything is a pay cut ( and I'm not making a huge salary) or I think I can go for it and get turned down.

It's a tough market so I guess I should be happy.!