The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[igorsMistress]

Good morning, IM

Good morning, Sour

Hi Janie

Hi Janie, thanks!

Hi IM!

Hi Sour!

Hi DMC

Morning Janie, hope your day goes well



Morning IM, have a great Saturday!



Morning Sour, a good day to you and the Princess too!

Thanks Debby, you also!

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Those are beautiful Mark!

Good morning IM, hope you have a wonderful day.

You also Mark, and happy to know Susie is feeling better!

Good morning folks


Good morning Debby, have a great day

Good morning DMC, have a great day... Beautiful flowers, I'd love for you to come decorate my place...

Good morning Janie, have a great day

Good morning IM, have a great day

Good morning Sour, have a great day

@janiedoe and @Blooie your daughters are truly beautiful young ladies. I wish my son would have got hitched, Oh! I forgot he did, to the Airforce.
Good morning Mark, have a great day

@Blooie and @janiedoe beautiful grands... I think those of us who grew up prior to the electronic age were luckier than our kids and grandkids. We learned to find things to entertain us not in the electronic spectrum.

Hi Bob

Hopefully going to the store today without the walker. We'll see how I do.

This talk about electronics and kids today remind me of a strange story...

In my former life I manufactured training kits. They contained guns and explosive simulants that looked so real only a chemical lab could prove they weren't. It was small scale production so all done manually in assembly line fashion. Each station had a bar code scanner and parts they were responsible for adding. The cases would slide down a long series of tables with stuff scanned and added at each station. One day the line kept getting disrupted (i.e. increasing my cost). I went to see why and found that one of the young guys on the line was paying more attention to his phone than his job. So I took his phone away and walked over to put it on his desk. When I got to his desk his phone started ringing so I answered it. It was his wife, he hadn't returned her text. She wanted to talk to him. I asked if it was an emergency, she said no. Then I politely told her he'd call her back when he was on break. The next day he came in and quit. Told me he couldn't work under such circumstances.

I hope you can go without your walker!

I work at home and we use zoom for our meetings once a week for an hour. There was one coworker, my age so over 50, who never looked at the camera, it was obvious she was looking at her phone. We have no phone policy but as long as it’s not a problem we don’t get in trouble. You and I both know working at home requires some discipline, she has none. I’m pretty sure it’s what led to her getting fired. Also, my 78 year old mother can’t put her phone away to eat dinner. So I have a phone policy also…don’t come to the table with it whether you’re a guest or not. Period.

This is just typical of today's workforce. It's a real problem. I found it hard to hire anyone that could pay attention to their job, during the last years that our business was open. They feel that they have a right to their phones, even though they are on someone else's time.
I worry most about my granddaughter. Her whole life is an open book. Every mistake she makes and every thought she has, is documented on social media. I'm glad that we didn't have this technology when I was young, because I was just as naive as she is, and no more prone to listening to my parents.
I'm pretty sure that people will have their phones implanted into them at birth someday.

I’m happy to say that my 13 year old grandson has no social media accounts. None of the kids do actually. With my daughter being a 911 dispatcher for a horrible community of murderous, deceitful human beings, the oldest hasn’t been able to argue himself into having one.

 

[janiedoe]

Hi Janie

Hi DMC

Thanks Debby, you also!

Those are beautiful Mark!

You also Mark, and happy to know Susie is feeling better!

Hi Bob

I hope you can go without your walker!

I work at home and we use zoom for our meetings once a week for an hour. There was one coworker, my age so over 50, who never looked at the camera, it was obvious she was looking at her phone. We have no phone policy but as long as it’s not a problem we don’t get in trouble. You and I both know working at home requires some discipline, she has none. I’m pretty sure it’s what led to her getting fired. Also, my 78 year old mother can’t put her phone away to eat dinner. So I have a phone policy also…don’t come to the table with it whether you’re a guest or not. Period.

I’m happy to say that my 13 year old grandson has no social media accounts. None of the kids do actually. With my daughter being a 911 dispatcher for a horrible community of murderous, deceitful human beings, the oldest hasn’t been able to argue himself into having one.

My 85 year old mother-in-law loves her phone too. Never puts it down. Unfortunately, she is very paranoid, and keeps changing her pass code. This last week, she locked the phone and no one has been able to unlock it. Verizon nor Apple has been able to unlock it, because it is "obsolete". It's an iPhone 8.
The granddaughters asked me to buy her a new phone, but my husband vetoed that. He says she has to pay for her own phone this time. (I've bought her last two phones.) And, that she needs to stay off Facebook, so she should buy a jitterbug phone. She falls for every scam and befriends every one who requests. I don't do Facebook, but I have an account, just in case I want spy on grandkids and mil.

 

[Blooie]

Got kind of a giggle out of the social media comments made right here in a sort-of-social media platform! You guys probably know me better than a lot of my extended family does. I’ve whined here, vented here, grieved the death of my sweet sister Linda here, celebrated my grandkids’ triumphs and stumbles here, and prayed with you here. I’ve worried about you, laughed with you, cried with you, shared a gabillion photos, and even told you what we’re having for dinner!

I worry about you when you’re sick or hurt (@rjohns39, you be careful not using your walker today). I know your hobbies. I know your pets and your flocks. I know who’s taking care of a sick spouse, child, or grandchild. You’ve watched Evan, Katie, and Kendra growing up. If I disappear for awhile, you worry about me, and I worry about you.

I just realized that I’m a social media addict too. I guess the only difference between me at 71 and kids at 17 is that I get done the things I need to get done, and don’t have my nose stuck in my phone at inappropriate times,

 

[rjohns39]

Got kind of a giggle out of the social media comments made right here in a sort-of-social media platform! You guys probably know me better than a lot of my extended family does. I’ve whined here, vented here, grieved the death of my sweet sister Linda here, celebrated my grandkids’ triumphs and stumbles here, and prayed with you here. I’ve worried about you, laughed with you, cried with you, shared a gabillion photos, and even told you what we’re having for dinner!

I worry about you when you’re sick or hurt (@rjohns39, you be careful not using your walker today). I know your hobbies. I know your pets and your flocks. I know who’s taking care of a sick spouse, child, or grandchild. You’ve watched Evan, Katie, and Kendra growing up. If I disappear for awhile, you worry about me, and I worry about you.

I just realized that I’m a social media addict too. I guess the only difference between me at 71 and kids at 17 is that I get done the things I need to get done, and don’t have my nose stuck in my phone at inappropriate times,

Good morning Blooie, have a great day

 

[DigMyChicks]

Got kind of a giggle out of the social media comments made right here in a sort-of-social media platform! You guys probably know me better than a lot of my extended family does. I’ve whined here, vented here, grieved the death of my sweet sister Linda here, celebrated my grandkids’ triumphs and stumbles here, and prayed with you here. I’ve worried about you, laughed with you, cried with you, shared a gabillion photos, and even told you what we’re having for dinner!

I worry about you when you’re sick or hurt (@rjohns39, you be careful not using your walker today). I know your hobbies. I know your pets and your flocks. I know who’s taking care of a sick spouse, child, or grandchild. You’ve watched Evan, Katie, and Kendra growing up. If I disappear for awhile, you worry about me, and I worry about you.

I just realized that I’m a social media addict too. I guess the only difference between me at 71 and kids at 17 is that I get done the things I need to get done, and don’t have my nose stuck in my phone at inappropriate times,

Hi Blooie!

 

[janiedoe]

Got kind of a giggle out of the social media comments made right here in a sort-of-social media platform! You guys probably know me better than a lot of my extended family does. I’ve whined here, vented here, grieved the death of my sweet sister Linda here, celebrated my grandkids’ triumphs and stumbles here, and prayed with you here. I’ve worried about you, laughed with you, cried with you, shared a gabillion photos, and even told you what we’re having for dinner!

I worry about you when you’re sick or hurt (@rjohns39, you be careful not using your walker today). I know your hobbies. I know your pets and your flocks. I know who’s taking care of a sick spouse, child, or grandchild. You’ve watched Evan, Katie, and Kendra growing up. If I disappear for awhile, you worry about me, and I worry about you.

I just realized that I’m a social media addict too. I guess the only difference between me at 71 and kids at 17 is that I get done the things I need to get done, and don’t have my nose stuck in my phone at inappropriate times,

Good morning, Blooie

I'm janie, and addicted to BYC. (But my house is clean and my animals are fed.)

A laugh from instagram:

 

[N F C]

As long as we're talking family and phones...

My 92 yr old mother insists she has to have a cell phone but she doesn't seem capable of fully understanding how to use one. She never has learned how to retrieve voice mail messages (or even recognize they exist), so if anyone points out they left her a message she just insists she never got any message because her phone is broken and goes gets another one.

Can't begin to say how many cell phones she's had the past dozen years since my dad died (he's the one that was a sharp cookie with technology).

 

[janiedoe]

As long as we're talking family and phones...

My 92 yr old mother insists she has to have a cell phone but she doesn't seem capable of fully understanding how to use one. She never has learned how to retrieve voice mail messages (or even recognize they exist), so if anyone points out they left her a message she just insists she never got any message because her phone is broken and goes gets another one.

Can't begin to say how many cell phones she's had the past dozen years since my dad died (he's the one that was a sharp cookie with technology).

My mother in law hasn't learned to retrieve voice mail either. She can however, change her pass code. I don't understand it at all. We had it "child locked" too.

 

[Blooie]

Remember back in 2016 when I had my heart attack and in a morphine induced fog, changed my BYC password? I knew I’d done it but had no clue what I changed it to. Dear, sweet Sumi had to get me back in!

 

[DigMyChicks]

Remember back in 2016 when I had my heart attack and in a morphine induced fog, changed my BYC password? I knew I’d done it but had no clue what I changed it to. Dear, sweet Sumi had to get me back in!

I don’t remember that.