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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by Front-Ranger on Today at 02:42:00 pm »

Maybe the bank is planning to turn its one-and-a-half locations into apartments, like in this New Yorker article.

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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on Today at 02:14:54 pm »

That's outrageous that they expected you to use your own vehicle (use your own fuel?) to transport those files/that company property.

As for reconfiguring space, I understand my late employer has been doing that, too (except that the company owns its own building). My former colleague has been classified as permanently working remotely--no cube in the office for her!

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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on Today at 02:08:26 pm »

Their names are so similar that I have a tendency to confuse Peter Hessler and Nathan Heller.

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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by Front-Ranger on Today at 02:08:25 pm »

Wow, Chuck! What an ordeal! The nerve of those C-suite people turning desk workers into schleppers and stevedores!! If I were a commercial entity and found out my documents were being treated that way, I'd change banks! Enjoy your staycation and heal up!!

My windows need cleaning too. I would love to be able to see all the spring flowers clearly from inside.

Isn't it funny how modern cars always need to have four new tires, never just one or two?? 

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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by Front-Ranger on Today at 11:51:15 am »

"The Battle for Attention" by Nathan Heller is supposedly about everyone's shrinking attention span due to technology. However, that does not explain why we name three-hour movies as Best Picture and read 10-page articles like Heller's. There are flaws in the argument. But the most interesting part of the article, to me, was the discussion of the Order of the Third Bird. It's a semi-secret society of people who congregate to look at paintings and such. Do any of my friends here belong or know of this group?

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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by CellarDweller on Today at 11:49:36 am »

Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!

Oh my, it's been a while since I've been to my blog!  Hope everyone is doing well!


Things have been crazy on this end, so here are the updates!

My bank is doing some "cost saving" things, which don't involve lay offs.   The office that I work out of can hold up to about 300 people.  Of course, it's been pretty empty since Covid, and everyone started working remotely.  The bank has decided that they will now only lease half of the space.  This means that the floorspace will literally be split in half, and a wall will be put up, and another business will end up leasing that space.   Our section of the office is also being reconfigured, with a new floor plan.   This meant that we had to go through all the cubicles and file cabinets, toss out whatever junk we could, shred up any expired documents, and make sure everything that we were losing access to was empty.

While this was going on, the decision was made to close a commercial location in Southern Jersey (again, no lay offs).  Someone went through that location, and said that they located 10 file cabinets full of commercial files that needed to be boxed up and moved.  They picked our location for storage, and they basically told me and another team member that we needed to go to this location (90 minute drive away), box up these files, and bring them back.   We spent 4 hours boxing and loading, and were able to only get 2 cabinets worth of files into our vehicles when we ran out of room.

The issue was that we only had one week's time before we lost access to the building.

My coworker and I had a Teams call with the powers that be, and told them that if they wanted this files moved to our location, the bank was going to need to hire a moving crew with a large van, and have them pack it up and bring it to us.  Thankfully, they were able to get this accomplished last Monday, just a day before we lost access to the building on May 1st.

On a personal note, I hadn't been able to go to my parents' home for a while.  Dad got sick, and it turned into pneumonia.  After being diagnosed with pneumonia, mom called me to let me know she had caught Covid, and passed it to my brother, Chris.

 

Thankfully, everyone managed to recover from their ailments as of this past Monday (the 29th).   Dad is fine, and mom and Chris tested negative on Sunday the 28th.

Needless to say, I'm very tired!       Thankfully, just by coincidence, I had scheduled this coming week for vacation.  I'm not going anywhere, it's a "stay-cation" and I intend to do some spring cleaning around the apartment.  I'll be cleaning the windows, then putting up the Memorial Day lights and flag.   I also plan to do a good dusting, and move the furniture to clean behind and under them.

The main thing that needs to be done is drop the car off with the mechanic. It's due for its first inspection since I purchased it, it's due for the next tune-up, and it needs 4 new tires.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on Today at 11:25:16 am »

This is the only one that went well today.


 


Strands #62
?The horror?
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on Today at 11:17:51 am »

the games are not my friends today!


Connections
Puzzle #328
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🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on Today at 11:13:00 am »

Yeah, history was not my friend today!




Flashback for May 4, 2024

14 points
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Play here:
        https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/upshot/flashback.html

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on Today at 10:52:34 am »

Wordle 1,050 3/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ RATIO
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 PLUME
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 VALUE