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captainsblogI still can't bring myself to address that inevitable cluster. I do have iCloud installed on the new laptop, and it appears ready to do some syncin for me, but I refuse to plug the phone into it until I get through my run of five straight appointments in Rochester tomorrow between 10 and 2:30. At least I got out of a sixth at 3:15 because my dentist's hygienist called in sick for tomorrow; this is now the second health professional to beg out on seeing me in the past week.
Over the weekend, I finally got the Semagic blogging software going on here. The install itself was easy, but I'd forgotten that Dreamwidth imposed an extra layer of password protection about 18 months ago. That finally explained why the Masked Password in the Semagic login box on the other computer was much longer than the one I use to access DW itself. This post contains the magic beans to get connected, which I have duly copied and saved in a Word file in this laptop's Semagic folder.
Speaking of Word, I got all of my ancient Office files more-or-less working on this laptop using the Office 365 app. Outlook won't sync the old laptop-based mail folders and calendar items with the server-based ones the new laptop connected to, so for now at least I have two sets of folders to toggle between. Even with that, though, the new machine is SO much faster at everything that those extra seconds of toggling are just fine, thanks.
Then, today, I got the new computer and new printer to talk to each other. This was another Case of the Mysterious Password, where the login/password that connected Old Laptop to New Printer did not connect New Laptop to New Printer. A Tech Guy showed up unannounced at 10 this morning, just as I was going on a call with a court, supposedly to "fix things," but he never figured it out. He escalated me to a Bigger Smarter Faster Tech Guy who was going to do a remote takeover of this machine. Eventually, though, I got tired of waiting for him, googled some support forums, and figured the damn thing out on my own, thankuvermush. (For future reference: the trick is to make the "Scans" folder on the PC shareable through Windows.) After I got it going, I called TG#1 to tell him to tell TG#2 not to bother calling- and to educate #1 on what I'd learned so the next poor shlub won't get stuck with the same problem I did.
Turning in now in hopes of getting good sleep before All The Things tomorrow.
Over the weekend, I finally got the Semagic blogging software going on here. The install itself was easy, but I'd forgotten that Dreamwidth imposed an extra layer of password protection about 18 months ago. That finally explained why the Masked Password in the Semagic login box on the other computer was much longer than the one I use to access DW itself. This post contains the magic beans to get connected, which I have duly copied and saved in a Word file in this laptop's Semagic folder.
Speaking of Word, I got all of my ancient Office files more-or-less working on this laptop using the Office 365 app. Outlook won't sync the old laptop-based mail folders and calendar items with the server-based ones the new laptop connected to, so for now at least I have two sets of folders to toggle between. Even with that, though, the new machine is SO much faster at everything that those extra seconds of toggling are just fine, thanks.
Then, today, I got the new computer and new printer to talk to each other. This was another Case of the Mysterious Password, where the login/password that connected Old Laptop to New Printer did not connect New Laptop to New Printer. A Tech Guy showed up unannounced at 10 this morning, just as I was going on a call with a court, supposedly to "fix things," but he never figured it out. He escalated me to a Bigger Smarter Faster Tech Guy who was going to do a remote takeover of this machine. Eventually, though, I got tired of waiting for him, googled some support forums, and figured the damn thing out on my own, thankuvermush. (For future reference: the trick is to make the "Scans" folder on the PC shareable through Windows.) After I got it going, I called TG#1 to tell him to tell TG#2 not to bother calling- and to educate #1 on what I'd learned so the next poor shlub won't get stuck with the same problem I did.
Turning in now in hopes of getting good sleep before All The Things tomorrow.
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Date: 2021-10-07 03:07 am (UTC)Just think, if Lincoln had attended the theatre virtually, there would have been no assassination. (Just noticed you can't spell that without an ass twice.)
WOW
Date: 2021-10-09 01:05 pm (UTC)I bookmarked the page about the trick for Semagic. Thank you! I used it with Livejournal but when I came here couldn't get it to work and found regular posting worked pretty well. But it is nicer to have a client kind of do it all and be able to save it to tack something on later.
For my part, I have started to really think about security more for my e-mail and browser and have been testing a few things out that seem to be working pretty well. I want to talk to Wayne also. He seems very skilled in these things.
Anyway--see you today at group? :D
Re: WOW
Date: 2021-10-09 01:31 pm (UTC)About security and such: you'd mentioned Avast as an option for killing that Windows Defender that was eating my memory. I Did Muh Resurch and found that they are now owned by the same company as AVG, and that they were selling off data they were getting from their scans. So I went with something called Avira on the old beast, which seemed less intrusive of both memory and privacy.
Here's the link on that.
Re: WOW
Date: 2021-10-10 10:53 am (UTC)Re: WOW
Date: 2021-10-10 02:38 pm (UTC)https://www.facebook.com/100003635712326/posts/2378814435583057/?d=n
Re: Well...
Date: 2021-10-11 12:02 pm (UTC)I have had the experience of taking my dog in for a scheduled euthanasia and an uninformed vet tech asked me stupid questions about why we were there. Even though the vet herself handled everything as she should have, that made me feel so angry that I never brought a pet to them again. The incident described in this post, if true, would make me as an employer question if their staff even knows what compassion is. INTENSE training would follow.
Having said that, and addressing some of the other comments about care: Emergency Vets are ONLY trained in emergency medicine--wound care, accidents involving broken bones, lacerations, crush injuries, seizures, and the science of euthanasia. They know about drugs related to those things--anti inflammatory and pain reducing meds.
In our town, we had an Emergency Vet purchase a General Veterinary practice, and we quickly began hearing stories of our clients getting weird, half baked diagnoses. I do not work in veterinary, but companion animal care. However I've learned enough to know that you don't send a dog home and say "We can't find anything but it's probably a soft tissue injury and will heal" without telling a pet parent what concerning symptoms to watch for and without following up, as an example. So clients should be aware there are things ER vets JUST DON'T KNOW.
As to fees and financial practices: I can imagine that the world of ER vet care is similar to that of hospital ERs, where the majority of cases could have been prevented through proper care of the pet over time. In other words, most emergency visits are likely to be "sudden" lethargy, vomiting,limping etc that is not really caused by an accident, but by a pet parent ignorant of or ignoring proper care. When a vet meets a pet in that condition, it WILL cost more to save the pet. It WILL cost more to see a vet after the usual hours. And I can see where they might HAVE to tell clients coming in up front what the initial after hours evaluation would be. They MUST keep their lights on and pay their staff. People who think these fees are too high do not know how much it costs the vet to be open and properly equipped. It IS hard to talk about money when you are upset about your pet. I would not want to be in the position of this vet staff.
Now, are there bad vets? Sure! It should always be a RELATIONSHIP with any pet care provider. That means BOTH the provider and the pet parent SHARE responsibility. It's the vet's job to do everything in their ability for the best care of the pet. And it's the pet parent--who knows their pet and their situation best--that has the responsibility of advocating for and making decisions on what that vet advises. If at any time you feel uncomfortable, express your concerns and get them answered...or not, and choose another vet. Being informed as best they can going in is the pet parent's job, ALSO.
Hope that helps... ;)