Whining Thread #2

[David_In_CA]

Whine: new macbook air, which is really quite gorgeous. That's not the whine part.

Transferring all music from iMac and Old Macbook, consolidating it, and transferring playlists started at about 8:30 in the morning. That has taken, so far:
- two external hard drives, each of which took about 2 hours to make one last back up music from source to drive
- significant worrying about using cable to transfer music between laptops b/c old one is an Intel chip and new one is M1 Apple chip, and that creates Issues
- decision to upload from backups rather than use cable and cross fingers
- two phone calls to Apple tech support to divine whether I had to have Excel installed on new Air to be able to "export Library" as .xml or I could export playlists one by one as .txt files. Tech support could not answer this question; TDNWMH. So I gave up on tech support and simply looked it up on the internet (answer: yes to both). I am not buying Excel for this new mac. I don't need Excel to dj. So...
- ten playlists at a time copied onto a thumb drive from Old Macbook and copied from thumb drive onto Air. This took, shall we say, some time. Round about 2 in the afternoon, I broke for lunch, then was back at it until around six, when I took both Old and Air down to the kitchen table and poured the last of the Writer's Tears -- into me, not the laptops -- which increased my tolerance for Old, Slow Tech and improved my attitude, and continued swapping the Old, Slow, Safe Way.

As of 8pm, I was copying playlists from iMac to thumb drive, having finished playlists from Old Macbook. And then I went to bed, having soothed my jangled nerves with Irish whiskey.

eta: still not done.

How do you consolidate the music? I have multiple copies of a bunch of songs because of backups and such.

 

[ProgressNotPerfection]

What part of the check would you skip? Every piece but the memo and date is to make sure the correct amount of money is going to the right entity.

Several vendors say, "you can leave the 'pay to' line blank; we have a stamp." However, that's not smart. Just because they have a stamp doesn't mean they will correctly use it. And meanwhile, you've just signed a blank check - which anybody can cash by writing in their own name as the payee.

 

[RiseNFall]

I don’t really disagree with those advocating filling out a check in its entirety, but if the store gives you a receipt indicating that the merchandise has been paid for, it’s up to the store to make sure that the check is completed properly. It’s not going to affect the customer.

 

[IndyLady]

I guess it depends on the particular store, but at the grocery and big box stores, I've seen the cashier run the check immediately through some sort of printer machine that types the store name and amount on the physical check. That would be a nightmare (and a risky liability) otherwise for someone to have to go back later and figure out what transaction it was for to fill it in.

 

[snapdancer]

I guess it depends on the particular store, but at the grocery and big box stores, I've seen the cashier run the check immediately through some sort of printer machine that types the store name and amount on the physical check. That would be a nightmare (and a risky liability) otherwise for someone to have to go back later and figure out what transaction it was for to fill it in.

That would be OK if they hand the check back to you for your signature afterward. Fill out check first, sign second.

 

[Warren J. Dew]

That would be OK if they hand the check back to you for your signature afterward. Fill out check first, sign second.

I'd still want time to copy the information into my check register.

Then again, I refuse to get a debit card and try not to shop at stores that don't take my preferred credit card. I'm pretty picky.

 

[Cal]

I can be patient with check-writers – up to a point. I lose patience when they stand idly staring into space or looking at their phone while the order is being rung up, and only after the clerk says what the final amount is, will they then start in with “Oh – let me find my checkbook” while they dump out their purse or rummage in their backpack. And only after they find the checkbook will they realize that they need something to write with. “Oh – I don’t have a pen. Does anyone have a pen?”

 

[j_alexandra]

How do you consolidate the music? I have multiple copies of a bunch of songs because of backups and such.

by hand. But there's a setting in Music that lets me see just the duplicates, so it's not as onerous as it could be, in comparison to, y'know, transferring playlists via thumb drive.

 

[Cal]

And, one more thing – when people need to “borrow” a pen, and then they don’t return it (so they then HAVE a pen, right?) but it happens EVERY time they need to write something: how do those pens immediately go missing? What happens to all those pens that they borrow and don’t return?????

 

[IndyLady]

OK I'm not naming names, but some of you better never be writing checks at the store.

And, one more thing – when people need to “borrow” a pen, and then they don’t return it (so they then HAVE a pen, right?) but it happens EVERY time they need to write something: how do those pens immediately go missing? What happens to all those pens that they borrow and don’t return?????

Funny you mention this, I almost never loan out my pens. I usually carry a couple with me - not super nice, just the kind you buy in a multi-pack at an office supply store, but I have a particular brand I prefer and I don't want to lose them. On the rare occasion I do allow someone to use my pen, I'm pretty much hovering over them while they write and I make sure to get it back right (write - get it - ha ha) away.

I've barely read any Shakespeare, but I have cherry-picked his "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" as one of my life rules to live by. As a general rule, I don't loan stuff because it's probably going to end up as a gift. I loaned someone a fringe dance shirt years ago, and when I asked for it back a couple months later, she was like, "oh, you need it?" Well, gosh, it's my shirt and your event is done, yes it's time to return it (she did).

On your original rant - those check writers also need the amount repeated to them 100% of the time, they NEVER comprehend/remember it the first time.

 

[raindance]

And, one more thing – when people need to “borrow” a pen, and then they don’t return it (so they then HAVE a pen, right?) but it happens EVERY time they need to write something: how do those pens immediately go missing? What happens to all those pens that they borrow and don’t return?????

They go and join all the single socks (the lost ones, not the remaining ones). On the other side of the wormhole.

 

[ProgressNotPerfection]

They go and join all the single socks (the lost ones, not the remaining ones). On the other side of the wormhole.

I was just about to say that! About the socks, I mean. I didn’t know there was a wormhole involved, but it makes perfect sense…and it’s accessed through the vent in the clothes dryer.

 

[ProgressNotPerfection]

As a general rule, I don't loan stuff because it's probably going to end up as a gift.

Yes. My general rule is never to lend something to anyone unless I am prepared never to see it again and not to feel resentful about the loss.

This exchange from the movie “Out of Africa” has always stuck with me:

KAREN: Oh, yes. He [Denys] has got lovely books. Does he lend them?​

​

BERKELEY: We had a friend, Hopworth, he'd got a book from Denys and didn't return it. Denys was furious. I said to Denys, “You wouldn't lose a friend for the sake of a book.” He said, “No, but he has, hasn't he?”​

 

[Cal]

AAAaargh! I just discovered that a pen in my purse has leaked, and there is blue ink everywhere.
(Where is one of those pen wormholes when you need one?)

 

[Brummbaer]

About the socks, I mean. I didn’t know there was a wormhole involved, but it makes perfect sense…and it’s accessed through the vent in the clothes dryer.

Wormhole? No! It's the sock-eater from discworld:


It might have got here via a wormhole!