@hybotics An associate. We worked together. Anyone meeting the slimeball for the first time could see the cash-register view in his eyes. He just looked shifty.
// @jextxadore
@hybotics Just when I was buying my home & needed all the spare funds available a former workmate phoned to say he'd "accidentally" acquired a check from my checkbook several months earlier while we were sitting in my work vehicle having lunch. He claimed that it looked like a piece of paper that he grabbed to make a note of a phone called he recieved at the time.
He had used the check to buy a new Ericsson mobile phone for $600.
"How can you do that and not realise it's not a check of your own?” I thought at the time.
We arranged to meet that afternoon and he said he'd have the cash ready.
Little bastard was late to the appointment and was (obviously) $5 short of the required amount. I made no issue about or, just glad to have the bulk of the funding returned.
In trying to work out why he should have confessed to me of his sin, I can only conclude he was under spousal pressure to come clean. She was a more morally scrupulous person than he.
// @jextxadore
@skematica
Listening to Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by Sensitive New Age Cowpersons on @AppleMusic.
https://itun.es/au/-745k
This group does everything in bluegrass style.
// @larand @jmreekes
All the unidentified phone numbers you block are calls from your future self trying to warn you about your terrible choices…
My friend Les, from Yorkshire, says he much prefers the Australian winters to those back in the UK. Here, he says, there's snow but you have to make an effort , go for a drive to encounter it, rather than having to co-exist with it for three months of the year.
Preparing what my Yorkshireman friend Les calls "sloppy peas." It's reconstituted dried peas (not the split variety but proper garden peas) cooked up with a hambone. In the absence of the latter, I'm substituting a smoked pork hock. The peas are mostly reconstituted but need more cooking.
And almost instantly fixed. Somehow I'd disabled app deletion in Restrictions. Rectified.
This is seriously weird. I can't delete apps from my iPad in the normal manner: there's no black x on a while circle when I hold the app & make it jiggle.
Received an email from the President of the Mac User Group asking if I could find a used high-spec Mac Mini for use as a new server for the Club's OpenText FirstClass BBS arrangement. The old G4 XServe that Apple donated to us 10 years ago is no longer up to the job. We have a quote from a supplier for $2100 to upgrade the processor & RAM of a Core i5 model.
I found a retailer in the same side of the city with several 2.8 GHz Core i7 Mac Minis at $1080 each. We'd only need to upgrade the RAM for a bit over $300. Hopefully we can get one of those machines.