Tired of never knowing which renewal notices were real and which were duplicates or fake-outs (the ones that try to get you to re-up half a year in advance), I started looking for a consolidated magazine account site.
I found it on Amazon, which is where I pretty much ending up finding everything worth buying, and end up buying everything worth finding.
One by one, I will renew my magazines there, and always know the real status.
Gale taught me that there is a difference between having a personal Facebook page and a business one and that you can get in big trouble for using a personal page for business. It seems that many people don’t know this. But now you do.
I have always been a fan of complaining, when it’s part of a move to action. I whined so much about my cold house, which was taking five hours to go up four degrees, that I heard my voice in complaint and said “Wait, that’s really not right!”
I called Putnam Fuel and they had someone over to FIX the problem, within the hour!
From Gale:
“I learned that when the temp is this cold, my garage fridge turns itself off and the food in the freezer defrosts.”
Today I learned what a Clerk of the Works is.
While manning the I.T. phones in the Command Center for Dana-Farber’s move-in to the new Yawkey building, I met a man, sitting next to me and manning the Facility phones. His job is Clerk of the Works for the construction project. I had never heard of this. Have you?
From Wikipedia:
The clerk of the works or clerk of works (often abbreviated CoW) is a person employed by the architect or client on a construction site. The role is primarily to represent the interests of the client in regard to ensuring the quality of both materials and workmanship are in accordance with the design information such as specification and engineering drawings, in addition to recognized quality standard
I learned that if I’m too lazy and it’s too cold to fill up my car with gas because it’s 20 degrees out, I should do it anyway because the next day I may be stuck doing it in ZERO degrees!
I learned, from Gale as she learned from Dott, that she can fix her ongoing no-incoming-email problem by turning her Droid off and then turning it back on, at least once a day.
Too bad none of the techs in the Verizon store could tell her this!
I have learned SO much, today, about how to use Digital Credit Union’s deposit-from-your-computer function. Over the course of the day, I’ve gone from total frustration and a gazillion failed attempts, to a string to of two successes in a row, using the hints that came from my friends on Facebook!
Here’s the deal: When you hit the “scan” button, the DCU function controls the scanning settings, and is really stupid, with few options. Over and over, it could not detect the proper size of the back AND the image was too light.
So this is what works: scan the checks to a file (one front, one back) first. My superprinter does that quickly and well, with default settings. Then run PC Deposit, choosing the file option. It worked!
I got this idea from Rita, who said change the scan settings. PC Deposit won’t let you change settings but my scanner figured it out automatically! Judy said put a dot in every corner and that may have helped, I’ll try it without next time and see. Both of these ideas came from Facebook, within hours, and I would never have figured this out on my own.
Thanks, friends!
I learned that some wonderful person/organization actually grooms the New Boston Rail Trail for cross-country skiing!
Caren and I went as a lunch break, happy that at least one other skier had laid down tracks ahead of us, but when we met up with him near the official trailhead, he told us that someone from New Boston (Parks & Rec?) was grooming the trail ahead. Sure enough, there was a snowmobile (usually none are allowed) doing multiple passes, dragging a thing that grooming laid down an surface from skiing heaven!
I have learned, again and again and again, that I love working at home.
I do love going into the office, seeing my friends and colleagues, and having that in-person connection during meetings. I also like the Big City and much of the commute. It’s still a kick to work in Boston.
But it’s hard to beat the added value of the extra five to six hours I get in my day when I work from home. Between the extra I can put in at work and the extra I can keep, it feels like winning an extra day in my day!
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