I learned that the best deal in town is the annual Goffstown Garden Club Plant Sale. Herbs for a dollar! Flowers for a dollar! Larger plants for four dollars!
This is our haul for very little money – some of it went to Sally’s city garden. I hate to say it, but this may be the best these plant are every going to look…
From Cousin Kate:
“Note to self: spray toaster oven pan with non-stick spray before making frozen french fries. 😦 ”
The good news is that she learned this lesson all in one meal and the next batch of her fancy-pants sweet potato fries came out great!
I’ve learned that good documentation is better and more reliable than my memory and that the stuff I record here in my Lessons Learned can be very useful in learning again, and if necessary, yet again.
Today I needed to make a Word table that spans pages yet retains the column headings automatically. I didn’t have a clue in the world how do do that (OK I had a clue about part 1 but not part 2, which actually makes it work). But I knew that I had learned it once this year. Using the search tool, I found it quickly in the February 9 entry, Word Table Tricks, and what do you know? It works!
I’ve learned that the florescent light over my desk is hot enough to melt the chocolate stashed in the compartment above it.
Darkness now reigns on my desktop.
I learned that if you are coming back from a morning run and run into the chairman of the conference you are attending and it’s clearly too late to get dressed and back for the start of Day 2 (even if you and your boss decided together to get breakfast and come late) and you think you are now busted, it is really better to NOT wave hello because then you might realized that he had not recognized you in running gear and cap in the first place!
I may not be a candidate for undercover work. But you knew that.
My daughters taught me that Starbucks gives soy milk in your latte for free if you use a pre-paid Starbucks card. It actually takes five paid drinks to get to that level, but then you are there forever.
You can merge any Starbucks gift card onto the same registered card.
All the benefits are here: https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards
I knew this once a long time ago but I learned it again today: in the American South, “tea” means iced tea and the other one is called “hot tea”. So this means if you order tea with dessert, you get iced tea.
From Jill:
“I learned that if you take a deep breath and relax, your mind can become clear enough to see that things always work out.”
I learned that microwaving soy milk makes just as delicious a latte as steaming it, without the mess or effort. I can save the fancy stuff for guests who actually want the foam.
We all worked so hard on the design of the new website, the user interface for a survey program for pediatric patients and their families. We worked with the media group to come up with a color palette that would be comfortable for the little kids yet cool enough for the teenagers. All this, only to have the project logo go all blurry around the edges, as though parts of it were flaking off.
Was it the monitor resolution? Nope. Was is the browser? No again.
Eventually the lead developer figured this out: There was NOTHING wrong with the application nor the logo and it would look just fine in production for our end users. The problem was that we kept sharing it with and looking at it through WebEx, which works great but does not provide a crisp image. When we tried it directly it was fine.
Lesson learned: What you see, via WebEX, is not necessarily what you get!
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