Isolated Blurt Thread Again

[TxRad]

Yep. My sister has it too. We were in the car once, I was driving, she knew where we were going. She said "turn right." I turned left. The thing is, she actually meant to say left, but she got it wrong. We canceled each other out. Her boyfriend in the back seat about died laughing at us.

And they say, two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Today was a messy day. Started out great, ended with unimaginable stress. On the positive side of things, $685 later, the wife is finally scheduled for oral surgery tomorrow, so I expect she'll be a happier person very soon. She's been in pain for years, and we're both tired of it. We are also now finally "official" Georgians, so there's that, I guess. Thanks, DMV. Yay?

We're borrowing a friend's car for the time being and are just fed up. The goddamn battery in it is a piece of shit, I have been stranded three times, and now we're faced with finally having the means to buy a car of our own, only the approval process is glacial. Not to mention, bad credit and joint account, two things that Carvana doesn't generally like.

Between the car payment and insurance, I have a sinking feeling I'll never sleep again in order to work enough to afford the vehicle I need to do gig work. One wonders how the rest of our bills will get paid.

 

[Handley_Page]

Why is there no "zero" knob on a digital multimeter ohms range ?

 

[TxRad]

Why is there no "zero" knob on a digital multimeter ohms range ?

Butt there is. It is built into the circuitry and is automatic.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Butt there is. It is built into the circuitry and is automatic.

It would be nice to zero out the resistance and capacitance of the leads - mine doesn't quite do that.

 

[Handley_Page]

Butt there is. It is built into the circuitry and is automatic.

It would be nice to zero out the resistance and capacitance of the leads - mine doesn't quite do that.

Neither does any of mine.
But I have a couple of old-fashioned 'analogue' meters that did the job.

 

[TxRad]

Both of mine auto zero but they are high dollar units. The only time they don't is when the battery starts to get low.

 

[Handley_Page]

Both of mine auto zero but they are high dollar units. The only time they don't is when the battery starts to get low.

I think I'd better have another go at the Instructions.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think I'd better have another go at the Instructions.

My definition of "technical expert" is the person who's one page ahead of me in the technical manual .

 

[oggbashan]

My definition of "technical expert" is the person who's one page ahead of me in the technical manual .

My definition from having done that - Is the person who writes the manual.

 

[oggbashan]

As Literotica's story sit was down I decided it was about time I backed up my files again.

I am copying some documents to a flash drive. Estimated time of transfer?

19 hours!

 

[Handley_Page]

As Literotica's story sit was down I decided it was about time I backed up my files again.

I am copying some documents to a flash drive. Estimated time of transfer?

19 hours!

That sound like the sort of process best left over the weekend. . . . .

 

[oggbashan]

I decided I did not need to keep the printouts of the final drafts of all my stories.

I have started burning them in my garden incinerator. I have back-ups on CDs, DVDs, flash drives and my hard drive.

I have 25 full A4 folders taking up over six feet of shelf space. So far I have burnt 4...

 

[Handley_Page]

I decided I did not need to keep the printouts of the final drafts of all my stories.

I have started burning them in my garden incinerator. I have back-ups on CDs, DVDs, flash drives and my hard drive.

I have 25 full A4 folders taking up over six feet of shelf space. So far I have burnt 4...

I have but one 'story' which I wish I still had, but it was printed on dot-matrix and on cr@p paper.
But I have lost something a tad more important and I think I must have filed it 'special'.

 

[oggbashan]

I have but one 'story' which I wish I still had, but it was printed on dot-matrix and on cr@p paper.
But I have lost something a tad more important and I think I must have filed it 'special'.

I lost one story, my first 'erotic' story, when I decided to revise it substantially. I still have the revised version , transferred from 5.25 360k floppy to 3.5 floppy to hard drive and CD but not the original much longer version.

It could never have been a Literotica submission since the major plot line involved the sexual abuse that the hero suffered as a child and his eventual redemption as an adult.

But I still regret it although in retrospect it was bad which is why I revised it drastically.

 

[oggbashan]

What's this thread doing on page 5?

I have been just checking my number of submissions for 2020. I'm behindhand. It is week 17 and I only have 16 submissions!

I did 52 for 2019.

 

[oggbashan]

Bloody Banks!

Because I am at "severe risk" I can't visit my bank branch to pay my credit card bills as I usually did.

I paid both April statements by telephone - an extended process because my compromised voice means voice recognition software won't recognise a sixteen-digit card number so I have to wait an hour listening to awful music before I can speak to a human.

For one card, that process was to pay three pounds!

On the other card, I eventually had to set up online banking - which I didn't want to do because my keyboard skills are shot as well as my voice. That insisted I had to have online statements as well which I didn't want so I wrote to the card company complaining. They agreed to reinstate paper bills through the post and today I had a letter acknowledging my letter and a paper statement. The letter said they enclosed a Direct Debit form - but they hadn't!

So I had to hang on for another hour of awful music to speak to a card company employee. I wanted to pay the latest statement and set up direct debits for the future. But she had trouble hearing my sixteen-digit account number so we had to go with my address, middle name, and telephone number before she could find my account. Only then did she say the statement I had was a duplicate of one I had already paid!

But the credit card company has now recorded that I am a disabled customer (their speak for 'a stupid old git!') who needs special treatment. Which probably means nothing different in practice.

Next week I will get a statement from the other credit card company which I only use for my council's automated car parks - two or three pounds a month, and the whole process starts again...

For some reason the council will NOT accept debit cards - only credit cards.

 

[oggbashan]

I have just had an email to say that the Direct Debit will not be effective until after this month's payment so I will have to go through the telephone wait - again...

 

[oggbashan]

Daughters!

Fourth phone call of the day from eldest:

"I've just remembered something I need to say to Mum."

"No, it isn't worth fetching her from the garden. I'll ring again later. But I might have forgotten what I want to say - so I'll write it down..."

 

[oggbashan]

Lycra?

Please don't wear lycra shorts on a bicycle if your waist measurement is 50 inches, particularly if the shorts are several inches smaller than your actual waist measurement.

And please don't wear a flared miniskirt that leaves nothing to the imagination when you are older than 70.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Please don't wear lycra shorts on a bicycle if your waist measurement is 50 inches, particularly if the shorts are several inches smaller than your actual waist measurement.

And please don't wear a flared miniskirt that leaves nothing to the imagination when you are older than 70.

I don't want to see that kind of thing, but I will never tell someone to not do what they want. I'm a firm believer in personal freedom so you as you aren't causing actual harm to other people.

That is fake harm. We pretend to be offended by it, but in all reality we just don't like it.

 

[oggbashan]

I don't want to see that kind of thing, but I will never tell someone to not do what they want. I'm a firm believer in personal freedom so you as you aren't causing actual harm to other people.

That is fake harm. We pretend to be offended by it, but in all reality we just don't like it.

I'd never say anything to anyone about their choice of inappropriate clothing (now I'm not an employer!) but some are unaesthetic.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Hullo dahlinks!

Well, Ogg and Thee, I have been doing PE With Joe so hopefully I can continue to cycle in short skirts that blow right up in any puff of wind to reveal my tout ensemble, until I am 70 at least .

I am vewy sowwy I have not been around much. Unfortunately my workload has about doubled recently. This is always a busy time of year, and now about half of my students are in situations that would make your hair stand on end (yes, even that hair too), if I broke confidentiality and GDPR and told you about them. So I spend long hours at my laptop, when I would a lot rather be pretending to do virtual lapdancing .

If it were not the case, I had thought I would come ... on here and set up a thread called Pussy in the Time of Coronavirus , but sadly what would - I am sure - have been a thread of unusually delicate and inspiring written contributions from you all is not to be.

I did have a nice compliment paid me the other day by one of my students. A couple of years ago I made one of a set of recorded tutorials: in mine I explain slowly and carefully how to design your very own conceptual framework. Anyway, a student emailed me to say that he had finally got round to listening to these tutorials (I always tell them repeatedly that the whole set are very useful), and he said I had a lovely voice - he even put a tongue sticking out emoji in the message, cheeky beggar . Unfortunately although I was larfing over my laptop, I of course had to write a po-faced professional reply in a school-marm tone of writing, not that I suppose that put him off at all.

I was thinking of my filthy dirty audio stories (under a different pseudonymous moniker to protect my innocent blushes), and that my epitaph could be: "If I should die, think only this of me, that there's some corner of a dirty old man's mind that is forever Madam X's."

Keep safe, and take your pleasure where you can, sweet things. I will try to make time to pop back.

 

[TxRad]

Dear lady, there are so many things I could say to that post but I'll leave it at, Glad to see you safe and sound. Please stay that way.

 

[Handley_Page]

Dear lady, there are so many things I could say to that post but I'll leave it at, Glad to see you safe and sound. Please stay that way.

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