Meh... for all of life's okay events

The “add an incident” action shows up in mine as an icon on the right side of the screen of a location pin with a plus sign while actively navigating to a location.

I think the incidents show up as icons while navigating, and may be voiced too (I usually have voice nav off or limited so I can listen to audiobooks so I’m afraid I’m not sure there… And on top of that, for some reason I haven’t been driving much :wink: )

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An incident doesn’t mean an accident?

I am so naive.

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I was actually just using “incident” in the most general sense, since it’s almost all icons in the actual interface… I don’t think it’s used in the app. Looking at the actual interface again, it looks like that button opens a panel titled “add a report”. :slight_smile:

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AQI is below 100 for the first time in nearly 2 weeks here. I can actually open the windows again.

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Well, my older and only brother gave me a lead to a job today via email, and it might actually be a viable one! He’s a local artist and the job is at a gallery in Mount Clemens, not far from where he lives. It’s called The Loft Fine Art Gallery, and he’s worked on events with them and I’m pretty sure he’s had a booth at one of their showings. It’s $10/hour, but “flexible schedule” and “work from home” were mentioned in the tweet (I still don’t do the Twit…ter thing), which sound good to me! So I sent an email expressing my interest and PLEASE HOPE FOR ME THAT I GET THIS JOB PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE, I literally have only pennies in cash, and $3.something in my Paypal! :smiley:

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Yea-ahhh…it’s intern work. Gack.

I’m somewhat beyond the intern stage. I’m guessing they wouldn’t want me - I mean, I DON’T KNOW…but geez, I’m gonna be 56 in a month-and-a-half. Ageist of me to write that, I know…but still…
I know I’m worth more than $10/hour gross, and really don’t want to HAVE to take direction from anyone, other than to learn the duties of my job. Fucking capitalism!

And my fucking parents and teachers for telling me how intelligent and talented I was but doing SHIT-ZERO to encourage me to do anything with my brains and talent! (grrr…mustn’t get myself started…)

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I cut up an onion in Monday.
I can still occasionally detect the odor on my fingers.

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Rub your fingers on a piece of stainless steel. Bizarre but it works. Excellent for garlic, too.

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Finally getting around to one of the things at work that wasn’t done while I was on vacation.

Move a bunch of iPads from one companies’ MDM to the other companies’ MDM .

This is the most annoying process ever.

Release them from the old MDM
Attach them to the 8 year old MacBook to use Apple configurator on them to move them to the new MDM.
If/When that fails, take them to a windows machine with iTunes, force the iPad into DFU and wipe it and reinstall the iPadOS
Put it back on the MacBook, hopefully it works this time.

Until you find one that is locked and all the common account I know of won’t unlock it. (Only one so far)

This just gets them into the MDM. No one built out the profiles they needed either.

And do this all over my mobile phone’s hotspot since dealing with the corporate WiFi is a pain on these things

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I just found out that iOS will allow me to type by dragging my finger around the keyboard. Thus I can now type sentences like this: FCC cup pressing USB watch high Devil receive hrs way day check plan app all am am so so evil.

Thanks Apple! :+1:

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That’s about my experience with that.

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So it makes Trump-ed-up sentences?

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Fresh so dry do C can C go to then guns arm pins Who crib shut it by whip Zack.

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Yup, reads like a transcript of a call of him to his Fox people.

Or a cut-up Surrealist sentence.

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Hurricane came and left. We’re all fine.

Also my period arrived so I can stop being a bloated mess.

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Monday: Start new critically important time-sensitive task, (task A). Several interruptions, but have enough uninterrupted time to figure out roughly what needs to be done on it, and a plan to get it done on Tuesday.

Tuesday: Start actually working on Task A, but then get sidetracked with support questions and a request to deploy an urgent hotfix ASAP. Drop what I’m doing and start getting that hotfix ready (including merging it into the mid-branch) then in mid-process get told to hold off because it’s not ready after all, it needs more testing. Then get told that we need to hotfix about 6 other things to 2 systems. Start sorting that out (including how to deploy without accidentally deploying the thing that was already merged), then when I have it figured out, get told to wait on 2 of those because they aren’t ready yet after all, so don’t deploy them.

Work until 3:00 am getting those 2 system deployments done by myself. (Noting that none of that was really time-critical - and they would all have normally been deployed the next night.) In one of them I had to figure out a workaround to bypass standard process due to the fact that that other thing was already pending deployment.

Wednesday: Get almost half a day to work on Task A, before getting interrupted by support questions and then having to prepare the normal deployment, which takes until 2am. That’s 26 hours work in 2 days (not counting breaks). Now I’m tired, but need some personal time to relax.

Thursday: On an hour’s sleep, I declare a late day for myself and tell everyone I’ll be back in the afternoon. That afternoon, I get a couple hours to work on Task A with only a few interruptions. But then one of those interruptions (new Task Z) suddenly takes priority and I get asked to stop working on time-sensitive Task A and work on that instead. Decide to call it a short day.

Friday: Figure out Task Z pretty quickly (but apparently it wasn’t that important after all since nobody bothers to review it). After a few more interruptions, get assigned to take over Task Q as top priority, but I know nothing about it so the person who was working on it has to brief me about it, and nothing’s documented and in the middle of explaining it he goes offline for awhile. Finally start into that and then get told to hold off, don’t work on that after all, it won’t work, they have to do something else instead. Finally, at the end of the day, get back to where I left off on that critical time-sensitive Task A that I started on Monday.

So now I feel like I worked hard all week, long hours, and accomplished nothing. Been in the business long enough to accept it, but still, it’s just meh.

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My “JOE” buttons finally arrived. Great timing, Joe.

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There was an important milestone in mid October, but I was too obsessed with the election to focus on it. My iPad Mini 4 turned five years old.

I bought it in late October 2015 soon after I was downsized. It was intended to be an aid at interviews and a source of entertainment if I ended up sitting on the floor of an unfurnished apartment. It was both of those things and more.

It quickly became my primary personal computer. It helped me pass time as I daily sat in Caribou Coffee waiting for something to happen. In fact I mostly built my portfolio website with it while sitting in Caribou using Weebly and a few other support apps.

Anyway, it’s still my primary computer and doing fine. The only thing it lacks is support for the Apple pencil.

To commemorate the anniversary, I changed the lock screen and home screen wallpapers for the first time since it was new.

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Interesting. I bought our iPad Air 2 in April of 2015. Mostly use it for email and web browsing when away from my Windows 10 machine. The latter is what I use for graphics and music and so on.

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For creation of consumption?

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