Thread:EirysMarie/@comment-29954643-20180521060918/@comment-26224233-20180522023758

Thanks for stopping by MFB. Since you brought it up, I guess I'll actually have to read my profile (LOL). I've been so busy recently, that I've just tried to keep that one line up-to-date. I have to update it for this weekend, anyway. We are going to hit the beach, so no SSHM on Saturday and  maybe Friday and Sunday.

It used to be our power would go out at a drop of the hat. I live at the bottom of a steep hill (in the old days that meant no TV reception). Our utilities are undergound; however, there are places on our feeder line that are above ground with lots, and lots, and lots of trees. And, to add icing to the cake, all of the underground  utitiles pop above ground in their respective boxes at the top of our hill. None of the utiltites involved can figure out why lightening LOVES our boxes. Me, I think location, location, location describes it adequately. They did something in the past year, and we have only lost power 3-4 times in the past 12 months.

Now the Internet problem certainly was a comedy of clowns. jeesh!

I am so looking forward to retirement. I was talking with one of my previous student workers (Virginia) and she agreed with me that the other side of the office doesn't understand or try to understand why I do things the way I do. I have always said that I do things for a reason--that I take the system approach to solving problems. Virginia then went on to say that is why she still comes to me when she has a thorny problem to solve. I have to say, shet made my day. On the other hand, my current grad student is still learning....and she knows I'm leaving.