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My mom had laser surgery on her eye yesterday. The good news is that her vision is now 20/20 in that eye. Soon she won't be able to whine about being "blind" as an excuse to not do stuff. She's been milking it like crazy for the past few months.
She's being a big quim about things. Like last night she started shouting for help and I thought she'd fallen down or gotten hurt or something and all it was was that she didn't want to walk across the lawn by herself or something. WTF?
She will freak out more over minor stuff.

On a funnier note, my brother got a call from a scammer trying to get remote access to his computer.

here's his description of what transpired:
doofusaurus said:
Today, I got a phone call that Caller ID identified as a 'Skype Call User'. I answered, and the quality of the line was very poor, the man had an obvious Indian accent. He told me that he was calling on behalf of Microsoft because programs on my computer had alerted him of an issue. And that every time there was a problem, even if I did not click yes to send it sent an alert so that they could help fix the problems. And that the problem was on my computer that while it was not critical yet, it would be critical soon. I asked him which computer, he told me with great emphasis 'It is YOUR computer'. I asked him again, which computer, noting there were multiple computers in the household, and he said 'YOUR computer. You answered the phone, it is your computer.' I again note that it's not my phone, it's the land line, and he insists again that it is my computer.

Sounds Legit, right?

So I say okay, I'll listen. He asks me if I'm sitting at my computer, I say yes. Then, he asks me to look on my keyboard for the windows key. I tell him that I don't have any keys on my computer that look like my windows. He explains that it is the Microsoft Windows key logo. I say 'oh, I'm using a mac.' There is a long pause and a heavy sigh, and I sense he's about to hang up, so I tell him 'I have a microsoft computer, though!' He says 'could you please go to that computer?' I chipperly tell him okay and then stand up, and walk in place for a little bit, making sure he can hear my footsteps over the phone. Then I sit back down at my computer, and resume playing Wartune on Facebook.

So then, he tells me to find the windows key. He explains that it is the Microsoft logo, I tell him I don't know where that is, so he specifically tells me that it is usually between the left cntrl and alt keys. And I respond 'Oh! The penis key!'. He tells me no, the windows key, and I say,but mine has a penis drawn onit. so he describes the windows logo to me in detail, and I say 'Yeah, the penis key.' He sounds confused. and I say 'I guess they don't all look alike'. So he shrugs that off and tells me to hit that with R to open up the Run function. Well, I tell him that nothing happened. He asks me what I saw on my computer screen. I tell him 'Nothing. It's black'. He asks me if my monitor is on. I tell him no. Then, he asks me to turn it on. So I tell him okay (still playing on Wartune). He asks me what I see. I tell him 'It says no Signal.' He sighs, and then he asks me several questions about whether my computer has lights on it, if it is plugged in etc. I tell him no to all of the above, and essentially I make him walk me through plugging in and turning on my computer, and starting it up. So after all of that, he tells me to hit the Windows+r to open run. He tells me 'Enter M as in Martin S as in Sam' or something like that, and I stop him there and say 'I don't want to run MS! Multiple sclerosis is bad for my computer!' so he sighs, and explains that it stands for Microsoft, and that he wants me to put in MSConfig.

So I tell him I did, and he starts explaining to me how I need to go to services, and that some of the programs have stopped, and that means there is a problem, but he can help me fix it.That he will tell me what to do, that I can fix some of it myself, but that some of it I will not be able to fix. So that I will have to give him access to my computer so he can see my screen. At this point, I tell him 'Oh, thank you, but I've figured out how to fix it. I'll just hit the penis key until my computer cums.' At which point he finally just sighs and says 'Have a good day sir'.

To which I replied 'Okay, and started hitting a random key very loudly on my keyboard while yelling 'WHEEE!!!' before I hung up.
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I got called to an emergency job yesterday at 11am out in LA and got back home at 4:30 this morning, I need coffee.
 
Went to the mechanic's shop to ransom my truck, took it by the tire shop to have two new tires put on the front. It feels like I am driving a different truck. I had to stop by the warehouse to straighten out a few things, so I got to the jobsite shortly before noon. Called a guy who didn't show up for work (again) to let him know that he is fired, had to leave that on his voicemail. Wrote his brother up for missing yesterday "so he could pay traffic tickets". Good help is so hard to find.
 
phishfood said:
Did you make lots of money?
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No it was more of favor work, I made money but not what I normally do! Helping out a Superintendent that made a major oops! probably saved his job.

We built a Panera Bread restaurant and he placed the Freezer and it was off by 15" from its insulated slab so the concrete outside the freezer on one side was freezing and causing condensation to build and puddle water. We had to jackhammer under the freezer and pour a new part of the slab and put in proper insulation to keep the rest of the concrete from freezing and then had to go to the other side and put insulation under the concrete because if you don't it will freezet he moisture in the ground and over time push the freezer up and break the slab.
 
How is Panera Bread? I thought about giving it a try tonight.
 
Pretty good! I like their bread a lot and the cheese but it would be better with a Boars Head meat. I haven't had enough stuff there to properly judge it.
 
Panera is one of my favorites. Very fresh food and soups. Their desserts are really good as well.

Today my daughter is having her first child via C-section. I will soon have 3 grandkids!
 
Congrats! I am eating a home made sandwich on Panera bread that was given to me.

Wait! you let your daughter have sex?
 
Remember though, the mother is the same winch who is receiving a free house from me, so I can't really trust her too much.
 
Left there with two boxes of ammo and some Mesquite wood for my smoker.

Then i got my machine delivered. Here is the new toy.

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