…write to your company’s help desk! My laptop’s internet was on the fritz, and one quick email to a friend at my company’s help desk pointed me in the right direction! Before you wail in despair and buy a new computer, ask a friend with some techno know-how to help!
Learned by Kat! Thanks, Kat!
So says the Boston Express counter woman who gave me a refund on the extra tickets I bought, since I still had my receipt. Without it, nothing!
I may have been accused by A Loved One as having a “trash purse”, but most of that extra stuff is almost always just lots of receipts. Now we know the true value of that! Receipts are good!
I am probably the last person on earth to learn that you can send Word document (and I guess this means PowerPoint and Excel, too ) in an email, using Outlook, directly from Word using a button that has probably been there since the beginning of time.
Hey at least I learned it,.
fabric!
I have learned that topstitching should be done on the right side of the fabric OR the thread tension must be carefully calibrated to look just as good with the bottom threads.
I have learned not to wander off in IKEA. There is no cell reception and it’s hard to find your Loved Ones once you part.
I learned that if you are going to use whiteboard cleaner, do it when you are not going to need to stay in the immediate area. Use it, for example, on the way out the door at night. That stuff is unnecessarily strong.
What I have NOT yet learned is why a brand new whiteboard and brand new whiteboard markers even NEED whiteboard cleaner! What happened to the technology of oh about 15 years ago – the idea of using a plain old chalkboard type eraser, without noxious chemicals, and it worked just fine?
I learned that for some (really stupid) software, restarting the computer is not the same as shutting it down off and turning it back on again. It means use the Start > Shutdown > Restart option ONLY.
And isn’t is stupid that to shut down you click Start anyway? (this is probably where we hear from those Mac users… go ahead!)
I have learned that there are more shuttle buses from the Bank of America stop, right around the corner from Jimmy Fund Way, then there are from the main Dana-Farber campus stop.
A line forms there, and a number of Longwood Medical Area shuttles stop there.
Score!
I have learned that some but not all of the buses from New Hampshire to Boston (and back again) have power outlets for use by passengers.
A few quarters and some stray underwires (?) but really it was the Susan B Anthony dollar that did the real damage when caught in the workings of our washing machine – to the tune of over $200!
So the lesson is ALWAYS empty your pockets before you put your clothes in the wash.
And no, you can’t have your dollar back.
Jane's Lessons Learned 