What happened today that neither pissed you off nor made you happy but is nevertheless noteworthy?

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Fwiffo said:
That just means we're old mate.

I also moan about not typing properly on all glass mobile phones when my 20 something mates use Siri/Google Assistant to read and reply to lengthy messages.
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I tried voice to text when it first came out and wasn’t impressed, but I think I need to try it again. My texting speed and accuracy is getting worse and I’m also missing a lot of typos that standard spellcheck is missing. Hopefully a better AI will stop my habit of starting work emails with ‘Goof morning’ 🤦
 
Just think of those people who come to the meeting room with an open laptop claiming they are taking notes *AND* listening to you with the computer flipped open. Reading *AND* writing impairment.
 
I thought my left IT band recovered and it looks like it's still sore. Skipped the leg press and will try again tomorrow.
 
I spent all this time tracking down all the tax slips, making charitable/political donations and other things to tweak my tax bracket, and buying the tax software to file and keeping it up to date. Then when I finally think everything is complete they tell me the tax agency hasn't finalised all forms yet so I have to wait.
 
Fwiffo said:
I spent all this time tracking down all the tax slips, making charitable/political donations and other things to tweak my tax bracket, and buying the tax software to file and keeping it up to date. Then when I finally think everything is complete they tell me the tax agency hasn't finalised all forms yet so I have to wait.
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You live a wild life, Fwiffs
 
I’d always imagined the first gig I take my kids to, would be some some unknown indie band I would be sharing with them. The cool dad opening their eyes to a world of amazing underground music.

Instead my kid has me buying tickets to Playboy Cardi at the mega dome, where I will pretend to understand what the hell he is singing about and complain about how loud it is like the old man I am.
 
Dropbear said:
I’d always imagined the first gig I take my kids to, would be some some unknown indie band I would be sharing with them. The cool dad opening their eyes to a world of amazing underground music.

Instead my kid has me buying tickets to Playboy Cardi at the mega dome, where I will pretend to understand what the hell he is singing about and complain about how loud it is like the old man I am.
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My first gig with my kid was Metallica.
Just saying
 
We'd been to plenty of gigs with local bands, but strangely it took till my bloke was around 18 to go to a BIG overseas act together.
Luckily, it was great. Greendale was much much more interesting live with funny built set than on CD. But I could take it or leave it.

The second set with Crazy Horse was simply magnificent - the band teetered excitingly on the edge of chaos as they powered straight ahead. All of the songs extended noisy versions.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - 11-22-2003, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Greendale: Falling From Above, Double E, Devil's Sidewalk, Leave The Driving, Carmichael, Bandit, Grandpa's Interview, Bringing Down Dinner, Sun Green, Be The Rain

Encore #1: Hey Hey, My My / All Along The Watchtower / Powderfinger / Love And Only Love
Encore #2: Like A Hurricane / Rockin' In The Free World
 
Easter is the same day for Christians following the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
 
I was right all along. It's driver's licence. The government printed that on my card.

I was sometimes swayed to use license.
 
You know natural catastrophes are an issue when a national insurance company is hiring for a meteorologist.
 
Fwiffo said:
You know natural catastrophes are an issue when a national insurance company is hiring for a meteorologist.
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Is this a new thing? I would’ve thought they would always have had a meteorologist on staff- there’s a whole section within our National Weather Service specialising in natural disasters who always land interesting private sector jobs after retiring.
 
Dropbear said:
Is this a new thing? I would’ve thought they would always have had a meteorologist on staff- there’s a whole section within our National Weather Service specialising in natural disasters who always land interesting private sector jobs after retiring.
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I've never worked at the global head office. I'm always in a regional or branch office. Most projections/forecasts are done by actuaries based on a combination of loss experience (former claims), publicly available data (flood zones, etc.), and private/purchased data (industry specific software like earthquake cresta zones). Data/analytics people, which is really an offshoot of the technology people, also do some of it as well.

Maybe deep in the bowels of the 100K+ head office there's a guy who just does this. After all one of my companies had an art curator who gave tours to visiting employees or guests of the company at one of the head offices in Munich. She also spent the rest of the time procuring art and storing them.
 
A professional acquaintance I met for lunch last week just asked me something yesterday I thought we already sorted out. He said he had to make a day trip to the States and deleted all of his messages with me in case the border people read it. So he doesn't remember if he asked me.

Now I'm more concerned about why people think what I say or message is subversive to the current administration.
 
Some dude at the supermarket stopped me to gush over my watch. On three different aisles!

He is gilting his own dials and plans to start making watches soon. Gonna call his company 12 Marks or something
 
All I got at the supermarkets in the past week was a woman customer coming up to me asking "Sir will you be paying cash for those?"

Am I a money changer?

Another two short women couldn't get the dashi or something at the top shelf. I'm already a hobbit but I got it for them anyway. They first asked for one, then two of one and two of the other.

Do I look like a grocery store worker?
 
Nothing like taking apart a squid that looks like it was eating something.
 
I went back to this French patisserie for the first time in 2+ plus years since my father was first hospitalised with heart and diabetes issues. The female owner still recognised me.

She said it was a long time.
 
Just when the post office is about to go on strike again I have people bidding on my stuff on eBay....
 
You’re doing better than me! I’ve listed a bunch of stuff on various forums and facebook marketplace without a nibble

Though I stopped listing on eBay when they stopped allowing receipt of payment through PayPal
 
I find the listing options are still painful but easy to relist for free. Also some guy wanted his shipments combined and it did it for me on his proposal through eBay. Otherwise the fees make selling low value items almost a moot point. They charge sales tax on used items. No idea why.

I also encounter a lot more people who bid and retract, don't pay or bid on multiple auctions of the same item and brazenly tell you they go with the one with the cheaper price.
 
My mother is still wearing black. I assume because of mourning. Not sure how long this is supposed to go on for.
 
I still haven't been to the beach yet. It's been cold. But I keep going to this 'love park'.

Also my local driving range is under renovation till June. I wonder what happened to the bloke and woman with the Mercedes with a brat licence plate. It's usually open year round.
 
I had this free concert circled on my calendar from the local opera company. Unfortunately the one singer I voted for to get into the academy and is now graduating from it never showed.
 
First time sitting in a bar since my father passed away and I have some bloke go on and on about what they can or cannot do in Bloomberg. Fixed. Variable.
 
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