Happy Birthday Mary Shelley!
Election day here in the States falls on my Birthday- November 5th.
I hate my birthday. I’ve hated it since I saw that people who honestly did not care if I lived or died wishing me a ‘ Happy Birthday ‘ on my Facebook wall. It made me realize how pointless my birthday really IS.
I can honestly conclude here that for as much as I am stressing over the upcoming election- it has shoved my birthday right out of the picture.
This might be the happiest birthday of all!
FOWC: Conclude
OMG- THE COMPUTERS ARE DOWN- HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET DEPARTURE INFO TO OUR AIRLINE PASSENGERS?
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport employees write flight information on a board during a computer system outage. From Seattle-Tacoma International/X
Well. I guess you go old school.
A few years ago the company I work for had computer issues and as a result some of our warehouses were not able to receive or ship our orders.
I say SOME because there a a few of us who worked in warehouses before we got computers in, and those of us who DID have computers couldn’t get near them because Office Staff would beat you back with blunt objects for fear we would screw things up.
For the uninitiated, the systems we had in those days were NOT user friendly and if you didn’t know what you were doing you really could mess things up.
Now if you do that on the system I’m using it screams at you- well it beeps and chirps -and won’t let you move forward. It invites you to back up and try again.
I hate it that if I’m not on a Social Media Platform I ‘miss out ‘ on what is going on in the lives of my friends and family. I hate it that when I know how to make something run smoothly if I don’t have internet access and I have to play dumb because people do NOT want to hear that they can make a system move without one.
I hate it that as a GEN X’r people younger then me think it’s funny that I don’t need the internet to function. It’s like the Internet is THE POINT and I’ve missed it in a big way.
But here’s the thing, when some of us hit the wall because the Gods of the Interwebs have abandoned us, they get stopped dead in their tracks.
I don’t.
Amen.
RDP Thursday: WALL