BS: gnu retires

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 03:53 PM

I suspect that you might cover gas money to and from work for what a contractor pays at Costco or Sam's Club.

I know what you could invent - a special white paint to spray on the world's glaciers to reflect sunlight so they won't melt so fast!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:01 PM

I haven't got time for anything except FIGHTING and CLAWING my way through Windows 8 on my new laptop... 6 hours to get IE10 to show up -aaaaggggghhhhhhhh. I am sure it is very simple if you know how to do it. Otherwise, silly old gits like me think... click IE on the start up screen... nope... not a hope. Ya get "This here is great!" but ya don't get it.

Explanation : I won the NB Power lotto last night. I had a PC problem earlier in the week and it went from bad to good to worse. I lost the first NBEPC lotto last night but the second time the power went out... I won a new laptop with Windows 8! Cost me about $740.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 09:05 PM

BTW... with IE10 and WIN8... when I type in this box, the spellcheck works. That's gonna help with all my typos but it's gonna slow me down.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 11:49 PM

I've had this page floating around, waiting to read it today. Perhaps it will help you.

IE 10 is more secure, so here's a Microsoft tool to prevent you updating by mistake.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 06:17 PM

Well. Having worked for an awful PRICK of a boss since 1996.01.03, the day I was officially self-employed, I looked forward to retirement. I ran my consultant engineering company with one employee and he worked like the dog I mushed.

I recently held a retirement party for him and gave him something he should have had for a while... the perfect gift. When he is using the oven in his stove, he can't see the time on the stove clock and, since the piece of shit microwave oven clock stopped keeping the correct time after only 25 years (ya can't but good quip anymore, can ya?!), it's a bother so I bought him a new kitchen clock and presented it to him at the big retirement bash! He programmed it and installed it on the weekend and posted a pick of it on
flickr.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 07:19 PM

wot an excellent pressie!

good clear face, unlike the clock I bought myself recently - dunno why I didn't notice it had a dark background, but I can still read it.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 08:58 PM

Now that's what I call a CLOCK!

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 09:21 PM

I hear that the Vatican has an opening, Gn-ze...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 09:29 PM

Bobert... ganew the first? I'd make some changes and even more so than Bro Joe (see the other thread). But... I just wanna retire an RElax and sing an write and banter with peeps like youse.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 08:29 AM

Selfish old git. Don't you know the world needs you?

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Feb 13 - 08:21 AM

gnu-

So when do you travel south for a visit?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Feb 13 - 11:14 PM

gnu, Charley asks a good question. I think it would be great if you stopped in Maine on your way to or from Rhode Island!

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 13 - 07:02 PM

South for a visit?

Many know... I am housebound for the foreseeable future due to family commitments.

Now... the only reason I checked back into this thread is (and, I am glad I did - thanks for the nice comments)... PETE DIED! When I had my VERY brief stint in the coveted Blue Vest, Pete was the guy that showed me the ropes. Only for four hours but I knew him as he sometimes attended St. Bernard's which is where I met him years back.

RIP Pete.

SOB! I just talked to him a few of weeks ago! I don't go to Walmart all that often... usually just to go for a walk inside, out of the cold and wind and look at the young ladies which seem to abound in such stores.

Yes... I am a dirty old man. What's wrong with that? I don't harass any of them. I just long for my youth.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Feb 13 - 07:59 PM

Okay, you sucked at being a Walmart greeter because you wouldn't do mop duty...

You say that yer arthritis is too bad to sell women shoes...

You don't want to be pope...

Guess that leaves only two choices: just another bum in the park or...

...president of the United States...

Whaddayathink??? Yeah, I know that yer supposed to be American citizen... No problem... I'll hook you up with the guy that did Obama's birth certificate... Ya' know, you do look like you were born in Montana...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 13 - 08:34 PM

US Prez? I dunno. Seems like a lot of hours. 24/7/365 on call? I did that on call shit from 8AM to 10PM 7/7 when I worked for me and I hated it. Besides... no one in politics would support me as I am for gun control, for equality control, for health care control, for fair wages control, for environmental control, for... ain't no way to get control of big money so ain't no way to get any control in politics. That there's gonna take a young man with a gun according to history and the newspapers I read every day lately.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Feb 13 - 08:41 PM

Yeah, yer right...

I'll keep in the case...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 13 - 09:03 PM

Say, Bobert... maybe I was too hasty... what kinda coin does a bum in the park make? What are the hours?... flexie-hours? What's the benefit package like? Do I need a union ticket? Do I have to take courses? So many questions. I need more details before I turn down being "Leader of The Free World."

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Feb 13 - 05:44 PM

I am sorry about Pete, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 13 - 09:20 PM

Thanks, Lass. He wasn't a close buddy but he was a cool dude.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 05:18 PM

Another retirement gift arrived today! A while back, I gave up the recliner and put a glider rocker halfway to the TV so I could read the guide and such on my TV. Moving it back to where it was shortly and returning to comfort. Cashed my second pension cheque yesterday and got this on sale. Sure beats the old CRT clunker.

The retirement party continues.

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 06:13 PM

47"??? You'll never keep up with the Jonzes that way; surely you thought you were ordering the 74", didn't ya?

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 06:41 PM

Buddy, me house ain't that big. But the new TV is! Wow! I can SEE it from 13' away!

I even bought a new chair for my office today... assembled!... for $100 tax in. My back is getting better already. The replaced chair had pillows and towels on it at over 18 years old so I guess it served it's purpose, even tho I paid 40 bucks for it!

Subject: RE: BS: gnu retires
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 Feb 13 - 09:31 PM

Enjoy your new stuff!