The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[drumstick diva]

AW how cute - are they safe enough from predators? That's quite a nest.

 

[Teila]

AW how cute - are they safe enough from predators? That's quite a nest.

Yep, they are super secure. To get to them, something is going to have to get passed the dog, scale one of the house supports, hang on to and crawl across what is the floor boards hanging upside down and then chimee down a piece of string

They are on the edge of the house but under the stairs which you can see in the top left of the picture and a good 4' off the ground; basically hanging in space except for the string:

 

[drumstick diva]

sounds good -

 

[N F C]

Morning everyone

Haven't had much BYC time lately, by the time I get home from work my behind is dragging and it's off to bed. BUT, I get 2 whole days off starting Sunday And I'm so looking forward to that!

You all have a great day!

 

[bruceha2000]

While we do not currently have room for a separate bed, I have thought about it

I do not think he has apnoea and more that it is related to the fact that he has a few beers in the evening, has sinus issues and could do with loosing a little weight; it has been worse of late because of the congestion related to his man-flu

But, thank you, if it gets to that stage, I will investigate the options further; still think the pillow on face option is easier and cheaper LOL

The pillow would certainly be cheap and take any financial issues off you. Room and 3 squares a day plus time in the yard, probably no plants to tend though.

Re apnea, you would be the most likely to know if he possibly has it. Snoring isn't apnea, stopping breathing and "starting" then breathing again is (at least as far as I know). If he is doing that he certainly should go in for a sleep study.

“Paul, do you want to alliterate on the attachments issue?”

One of my "favorites" was "talk to the foil" (*). Right, talk to the thing we are all looking at, I'm sure the image will learn a lot.

* aka slide, transparency, in the end a document on the laptop, shown on an overhead projector.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning.

 

[bruceha2000]

Always ahead of us Cap. We have had daffodils for about a week. Iris not close to blooming yet.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Hey, I have told you guys n’ gals about the company figjam wannabe’s who think they sound important and cool by tossing out the corporate speak? The more complicated the wording, the more intelligent I appear etc?

“I will get so and so to talk around the ….”
Or
“We will not be tearing down silos”
Or
“Low hanging fruit”
Or
“Set aside a time box”
Or
“Deep Dive”
Or
“Boil the Ocean”
Or
“Move the Needle”
Or
"Move the goal posts"

Etc etc … I hear these and more on practically a daily basis and it annoys the *&#@ out of me and does not make anyone look or sound important but moreso, ridiculous!

Well, we had a meeting today which I was half listening to, the “um’s” and 4 hours sleep tending to make me drift off and the figjam wannabe chairing the meeting says “Paul, do you want to alliterate on the attachments issue?”

Alliterate???

Hey Sunshine, if you want to go down the path of corporate speak because you think it makes you look and sound cool, ya might wanna know the meaning of the ‘big’ words you are tossing around

PS. Paul did not alliterate but he did elaborate

I, however, did not hear the rest of the conversation because I was too busy doing these ones ; fortunately for me, I was on mute

Lol
I
Manager speak drives me nuts!
I once asked my district manager to speak in regular English. He was so brainwashed that he had no idea what I was talking about.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

The pillow would certainly be cheap and take any financial issues off you. Room and 3 squares a day plus time in the yard, probably no plants to tend though.

Re apnea, you would be the most likely to know if he possibly has it. Snoring isn't apnea, stopping breathing and "starting" then breathing again is (at least as far as I know). If he is doing that he certainly should go in for a sleep study.


One of my "favorites" was "talk to the foil" (*). Right, talk to the thing we are all looking at, I'm sure the image will learn a lot.

* aka slide, transparency, in the end a document on the laptop, shown on an overhead projector.

I didn't know foil was still used .
I had a summer job when I was in university working @ IBM. I was in the education department, making foils. They used a language called a.p.a. foil. Imagine my surprise years later when I discovered a.p.a. foil = html.

 

[bruceha2000]

I think "foil" is/was specific, or nearly so, to IBM. I worked there for 34 years. Never heard of a.p.a. foil, maybe it was a program that made it easy to create HTML for the purpose of projection for people that didn't know how to write in HTML?