Ours are wired into the mains here with a battery back up. Better safe than sorry. One of the advantages of buying an older property that needed a complete rewire.
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We did. The sun was out. Saw a deer and a few squirrels and birds.
Mrs AFB was not up to our usual pace. We do the same walk in 40-50 minutes usually. Took nearly twice that today.
That sounds lovely, - and it is necessary to take one's time with such things, why rush if you don't feel up to it? - but I hope that she was also able to derive enjoyment from it.
I believe so. We enjoy our walks. She is sore again now though.
And although sunny, it was not especially warm.
It's related to temperature. Cooler temperatures reduce battery output voltage. Temperatures usually drop at night, and drop more later at night.
Then after the low-voltage sensor threshold is crossed, the power needed to drive the beeper further reduces battery voltage, so it goes even more into "Replace me NNAAOOWW!!" territory.
Agreed, that - while sunny - it is not especially warm.
Actually, it is damned cold, with a bitter, biting, wind.
The wind is cold but not too much of it here. This morning we had our heaviest frost of this winter.
Yes, still very much electric blanket weather, and donning many, many, layers when venturing out.
Or even if just staying in! Although the sun has got our lounge at 16.5.
Clear sky here, but still damned cold.
Brrr.
Decent Brother phoned, and we have just had a lovely chat for an hour or so.
I much prefer phone calls for catching up. Texts or emails just don’t really do it.
Likewise.
Just phoned a very good friend of my mother's to touch base, and we had a very nice chat.
Emails are okay for me (I like writing and am at home on a proper keyboard), but I loathe texting, - the sort of texting that turns into detailed conversations - and deeply dislike the physical experience of trying to text on the phone's touchscreen.
You’ve been emailed to do work on a Sunday night? I would be swiftly ignoring that sort of thing personally. Nothing worse than pressure passed on because of someone being incompetent further down the line.
I had to have an awkward conversation with my boss a few months back because he was sending me WhatsApp messages in the evening and I told him it was stopping. In fairness it has stopped so he listened lol.
I’m retired now. But when I was working, I had no motivation to go into management. So every so often I would get a new manager that was younger and less experienced than me (I was fine with that). But I often had to train these new young managers. It was very similar to adopting a new dog. If you didn’t train them right away they would develop bad habits, and once established it was much more difficult breaking them of those bad habits.
That being said, NEVER use a rolled up newspaper and try to beat them into behaving properly. 😊
Having developed software and having had bosses who were not technical at all, I not only had to train them, but I had to talk at a much lower level to attempt to increase their understanding of what was possible. It either worked, or they were so overwhelmed that they told me to stop. When I got "Do what you think is right." I felt better.
On an evening?
On a Sunday evening?
That is pretty inconsiderate, - and somewhat disrespectful - to put it mildly.
I don't mind that sort of stuff - very, very occasionally, very rarely, and only if it is a genuine emergency, for, after all, unexpected stuff does arise - but, but, but......"a shed load of work" that arrives on Sunday evening (which is still the week-end, and is still well outside of work hours, irrespective of the day of the week), work "needs to be done by (Monday) morning" is - to my mind - inappropriate.
When I worked in the Horn of Africa, I had a boss who had a charming little habit of dumping the proverbial "shedload" of work between 23.30 and midnight on me, to be attended to, and addressed before the senior staff meeting at 08.30, and about which I would have to brief, (and which said boss never attended, never appearing before 10.00); to say it irked me - irked me massively, - would be an understatement.
Nowadays, but I am both older, and a lot less tolerant of indulging the whims of incompetents in charge, I would challenge this to a far greater extent.
"Hi, boss, I wonder when you'd like to meet with the Human Resources Manager? You said 10:00. Okay then, I'll set the appointment for you."
Today was the first time I've ever had Red Robin. Gotta be honest, it was actually kind of awful, and now I have a stomach ache (which I assume was caused by eating there).
It's a restaurant chain operating in the U.S. So based on my experience, if you're ever here, don't go.
Their huge burgers always look terrible to me. If I want that much meat, I'll order two smaller burgers or chopped steak to avoid the bread overload.
It is a sit down restaurant chain in the United States. Heavily advertised. Aside from hamburgers they have a large menu but much of that variety is the result of a well stocked freezer and liberal use of microwave ovens
I remember seeing them in 1995 when they opened a restaurant across from the hospital where I was working at the time. However, another restaurant, Bertucci's, opened at the same time and I adored their pastrami sandwiches. I've never been to Red Robin or Outback Steakhouse or a number of other eat-too-much-for-your-own-good restaurants.
Well.....
Technically, the boss (who was Head of Mission) could have - and did - forego - the daily senior staff meeting at 08.30, as that was, technically, the "Ops" - operations - meeting, headed, and chaired, by the Head of Ops (No 3 in the Mission, after HOM and DHOM).
I was the political adviser/counsellor, also a senior staff position.
However, being hit - not occasionally, but reasonably regularly - with important stuff I had to deal with at 23.40 (email from aforementioned boss, who never appeared in an office prior to 10.00, and was always late - always, but always, always - late (by at least 20 minutes), without apology, or notice, and worse, then, those meetings invariably ran over time, by at least an hour) for the senior staff meetings - held twice weekly - which this person had to chair - really irked me.
Not least as I privately suspected that this wasn't really necessary, but was, rather, a disorganised management off loading stuff on staff in order, I suspect, to retain the appearance of a semblance of control and to try to keep people unbalanced, in what was - at the very least - a dangerous, difficult, deeply unstable, and profoundly corrupt country; the day job was quite sufficiently demanding and difficult without this added unsettling (and entirely unnecessary) nonsense.
Yes, it was a very unstable and delinquent part of the world; however, I have also spent the best part of two years (also with the EU, also as a political adviser/counsellor) in Afghanistan, which was at least as unstable, and dangerous, and deadly, but, while serving there, - with a few, rare, yet very necessary and understandable exceptions - I was rarely hit with 23.40 emails requiring immediate and all night attention prior to delivering briefings on that subject matter the following morning at 08.30.
So yes: My view now is that while occasional emergencies are understandable, (and, of course, require immediate and absolute attention), not every crisis is an emergency, and that bosses need to understand, recognise and respect, personal time, and private time, and space, and not seek to encroach upon that, except in occasions of most dire need.
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