... servers: I gave #sonTwo back the used Dell server he bought for me some years back and added a second one (an HP), because he needed some hands-on for a job he was applying to. #sonOne had offered to send one, but I had already ordered.
Next up, #Daddy_A ... he’s been doing some webdev courses, so I may see if there’s something on Ebay for around $100. (The purchase, if it ever happens, will not be soon. He needs to be sure he’s going in that direction.)
#sonTwo used to put father-son days on my calendar, so he and his younger brother #Daddy_A could get focused time.
#sonOne used to call me at work to ask "When am I going to see you again?" ... needless to say, I still think productivity is important, but give the people in your life some regular time that is not shared with work of any kind.
She introduced her oldest child (other than hair color, a clone of her younger brother) and conspicuously avoided discussion the child's father.
Later on, in conversation with my son:
Me: Guess who I saw today?
S1: (some friend of his who still lives locally, but whom I haven't seen since the 1990s)
Me: No, $GF and her oldest son.
S1: Don't bring her up. I have bad memories of her.
I was kind of happy to see what had become of her when she more than doubled her age.
I’m sure he’s looking at the $CRYPTOCOIN value in US dollars charts and thinking of it like the stock market. However, stock markets are regulated (even though I still think they are sometimes manipulated), and cryptocurrency exchanges are not.
I told my son (again) to concentrate on coins which are actually used to buy and sell goods and services rather than being led by upward curves on charts. I know the youngest ( #Daddy_A ) isn’t doing any cryptocurrency stuff, but I should ask the oldest ( #sonOne ) whether he’s doing it. If he’s doing it and can give his brother the same advice (but from the perspective of having done it), then it is more likely to be followed.
I should probably try to buy some cryptocurrency on “LocalBitcoins”:{https://localbitcoins.com/}, so I’ll have some skin in the game. That way, my conversations about the topic will be from the standpoint of someone who has some risk of losing money.
@geniusmusing It was funny. When I took #sonOne to see the 2nd one, I asked him if it was the same actor ... other than the first one, I hadn't seen anything with Macaulay Culkin in it, and didn't even know his name.
Too busy working, I guess.
I haven't watched the third one, but I think I have all three on DVD.
I remember seeing this movie at the dollar movies with my best friend. We’d gone to visit his parents, and I’d offered to pay $1 so his younger brother could see it with us, but my friend was not having it.
We watched the Mask (very good at the time; might stop by SPC’s movie night to see whether it retains that impression). The next day, I took #sonOne to see Dumb & Dumber, so we picked up my friend’s youngest brother at 06:00 on a Saturday. The two high school kids loved D&D, but I thought the name was a description of anyone who paid to see that film.
I often try to avoid #Amazon, but this time, I ordered from there. One of the things I dislike about Amazon is when I order items for multiple children in the same house, and they spread the delivery over a month's time. It's really a lot easier if everyone gets their stuff at the same time, even if they have to collect everything at one warehouse (ship it to that warehouse) and then ship it all together to the customer.
In this case, besides my order, #sonOne purchased clothing and shoes for #Little_Girl_A3. All of her things have arrived already, but for the boys, only a pair of t-shirts have arrived. The rest will arrive in (what looks like) 4 more shipments between now and the end of November.
I still haven't ordered their shoes. And I don't know whether #sonTwo ordered their socks yet.
> I believe these guys aren't only not reasonable with their prices but also do a shit job.
Well, yes, they likely do. Like a lot of places ( $EMPLOYER included ), I think they need to complete a certain number of repair jobs per day to justify their jobs. So if the repair is going to take longer, they might resort to halfway jobs that meet the time constraint.
Also, their workers vary in their level of skills (even though I'm pretty sure they have a standard procedure of what to do and how to do it). When #sonOne worked there, he was soon put in charge of teaching new employees the ropes, because he was top-notch even before he got hired there.
I don't know enough about their prices to comment, but I am aware of competing local repair shops who failed partly because (IMO) their prices were too low.