When the weather is hot, I’ll play fetch with the dog at night. She keeps wanting to drop the ball for me to pick up in the shadows of the far side of yard instead of near the back door where I’m standing and can actually see where the ball is.
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Like @Mathman I get to have more HVAC fun. I replaced the upstairs HVAC in 2022, and downstairs last January. Upstairs worked great, downstairs did too in the winter, but downstairs had struggled to keep up a bit on really hot days. Had been meaning to call them, but had my hand forced last night.
We had a power outage. HVAC fired up fine after the outage. However a little while later the upstairs HVAC quit and thermostat was black like no power at all. He’s here now, and it’s a dead motherboard. Covered under warranty, but need a replacement installed another day.
He’s still looking at the downstairs HVAC, which is struggling harder since it’s the only one operating
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The tech changed the filter, cleaned the coils, and used his diagnostic equipment on the downstairs unit. It was still not cooling much at all, and diagnostics checked out ok. He then tried some of his old school mechanical equipment, which told him it was low on coolant. He put 2 lbs in there and it’s running well now. Unfortunately a new unit shouldn’t need 2 lbs of coolant. Maybe it has a leak, maybe they didn’t get it properly calibrated on install. We’ll see.
Lennox is closed on the weekend (and they were affected by the Crowdstrike issue today), so he can’t order the motherboard until next week. It’s busy season, might take a little longer to get it,…He can’t test whether the thermostat was affected without a new motherboard. If the thermostat got fried too, then it could take a little longer to order the new thermostat. Best case scenario is maybe upstairs A/C works midweek, but based on what he’s saying I wouldn’t be shocked if it gets pushed to the following week. That’s brutal in July here, particularly since we don’t have a downstairs BR.
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Maybe we have a thread for job offers that annoy you. Maybe we don’t - but, we do have this thread, and I’m annoyed.
I get recruiters, even corporate recruiters, are going to cold contact people about jobs. The worst that happens if they ask is (1) they get ignored, and (2) they get told no. I also get that there are dozens of job titles, a recruiter at a company probably doesn’t know what all of them mean.
But for crying out loud,
- at least understand the job you’re pitching and the person you’re pitching it to - like, perhaps, understand the difference between an actuary and an underwriter, or life/annuities and property/casualty,
- if you took the time to look at someone’s LinkedIn profile and they’ve got a job history posted, check and see if they were already at your company or not; if they were, ask yourself if they previously worked here and then left, do I think they’re going to want to come back? - and if you talk yourself into yes, perhaps try finding out why that person left before pitching them on stint #2,
- don’t pitch your position as being desirable because it requires offers a hybrid work schedule when your office is at least 3 [over 4] hours away, one-way, from the candidate you’re talking to, in a job market where actuaries know they can demand remote work and get it, and your salary range for the credential and amount of experience you’re seeking is 25-40% under the bottom range of even the lowest actuarial salary surveys.
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Certainly, you’re in the right place, but you may also enjoy posting in here : Recruiter Discussion
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Power is out again. It wad a little rainy earlier but I wasn’t thinking we’d lose power.
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My cable box is acting up. Time to call the cable company for a replacement!!
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My phone has been telling me it will stop raining within the hour for about five hours now.
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There was a lady in front of me at the grocery checkout that had 2 (TWOOOOOOOO) packages of… of… rai-SIN bran muffins!!! 
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I’m hearing fireworks in the distance. Stopped after about 30 seconds.
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Eventually, it will be correct
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My wife made a dinner reservation for my birthday on the wrong day. Though after 40 years she knew the correct day. She confirmed she thought she had the right day.
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Flight to London from Munich got cancelled and it was the last flight of the day.
So we ended up having to rebook for Tuesday night and had to find a hotel for an extra two days as well.
The story from Easyjet was that they were still having issues with the IT outage and flights were being cancelled.
Also had to rebook the pet sitter (Mon, Tue), the summer camp for the little one (Tue), forest school for the little one (Mon).
Grrr…very annoyed.
And then when I was arguing with the airline about rebooking (they wanted me put us on a crap connecting flight) an FT flash update hit my phone about Biden retiring from the election lol
What a weird day we had today.
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I was not 100% at work friday. I suspect my computer wont work for the first 90 minutes tomorrow.
That said, if the industry existed pre-computers we will be fine. Maybe ill have martinis in the office too?
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…and smoke a pack or two or three of cigarettes.
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My first visit to a Walmart in a couple of years gave me 0 reason to go back any time soon. Maybe I was unlucky and this was a poorly run store, but what a dysfunctional place. Seems like they went out of their way to make the checkout area as confusing as possible.
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Maybe you could just “space out” for a while
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Same in my city, I only go a couple times per year when I need something I can’t find anywhere else. Just in general, it’s kind of a sad place to be.
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Yup, same. They’re so huge that they stock items that other stores don’t so I do go in a few times a year for random stuff I can’t find anywhere else but ugh.
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