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Tuesday
I found some yarn, got (yet) another circular needle - where do they all go? Dunno. Knitted a tension swatch. Did the arithmetic, knitted some, measured, frogged, tried again with more stitches, measuring again . . . Hmmmm. & that's only the start. The real fun comes when I try to do set in sleeve armholes & a v-neck. But at least I should have the right number of stitches by then. This may be the last of the knitting blogs for a while, apart from the odd update, eg: when I've finished a section.
Hunting dog shoots hunter. & there was I thinking that you took a dog with you to put up the game AND to retrieve it. Seems like some hunting dogs can only do the one thing, apart from shooting hunters. Maybe they're in league with the 'game'?
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I don't know about you, Dear Readers, but one of my pet dislikes is receiving a 'round robin' email with a ginormous list of recipient which is what the purpose of the BCC* (Blank Carbon Copy) facility. OK, so it's interesting to see who else has been mailed, & even to discover their addresses, but somewhere in the back of my mind is the niggle, "I've heard there are organisations 'out there' which skim headings like these and pass them on." Heck, we get more than enough Spam as 'tis. H reckons to delete around four to six hundred per day - & that's the ones getting caught in the filter. Occasionally some get right through.
This chap reckons it's because programs & operating systems aren't nearly as intuitive as various producers would like to think. Yes, well, writing as a non-geek who's spent ages looking for the Spellcheck facility on this newly updated browser . . . He also reckons that people work with what is familiar and are unwilling to 'engage further' to learn how better to use the programs. He could have a point there. Or it could be something to do with the financial myopia of their bosses - who arrange for employees to have various software packages to use for their work - then won't supply training because 'training costs money'. So it does. But then, inefficient use of the software also costs time & money. Don't the myopes realise** that? Or is it that they can see that training will cost x-time & y-money; whereas time spent (wasted) by staff scrabbling around for a way to do something, or doing it in a less than efficient way, not to mention the frustration, gets lost in the general 'noise' of daily routine? Ack!
Or maybe the myopes think that staff are so committed to their organisation** that they'll take "How to use (system name)" courses in their own time? After all, someone is clearly living on another planet!
Which is probably enough for today. Off to knit some more. Y'all have a good day now!
*For those who don't know, or have forgotten, BCC may be found part way down the Edit menu. Go look.
**Look, realise and organise are both spelled with an 's' near the end in English. Any other spelling is a dialect, & not real English!
I found some yarn, got (yet) another circular needle - where do they all go? Dunno. Knitted a tension swatch. Did the arithmetic, knitted some, measured, frogged, tried again with more stitches, measuring again . . . Hmmmm. & that's only the start. The real fun comes when I try to do set in sleeve armholes & a v-neck. But at least I should have the right number of stitches by then. This may be the last of the knitting blogs for a while, apart from the odd update, eg: when I've finished a section.
Hunting dog shoots hunter. & there was I thinking that you took a dog with you to put up the game AND to retrieve it. Seems like some hunting dogs can only do the one thing, apart from shooting hunters. Maybe they're in league with the 'game'?
* * *
I don't know about you, Dear Readers, but one of my pet dislikes is receiving a 'round robin' email with a ginormous list of recipient which is what the purpose of the BCC* (Blank Carbon Copy) facility. OK, so it's interesting to see who else has been mailed, & even to discover their addresses, but somewhere in the back of my mind is the niggle, "I've heard there are organisations 'out there' which skim headings like these and pass them on." Heck, we get more than enough Spam as 'tis. H reckons to delete around four to six hundred per day - & that's the ones getting caught in the filter. Occasionally some get right through.
This chap reckons it's because programs & operating systems aren't nearly as intuitive as various producers would like to think. Yes, well, writing as a non-geek who's spent ages looking for the Spellcheck facility on this newly updated browser . . . He also reckons that people work with what is familiar and are unwilling to 'engage further' to learn how better to use the programs. He could have a point there. Or it could be something to do with the financial myopia of their bosses - who arrange for employees to have various software packages to use for their work - then won't supply training because 'training costs money'. So it does. But then, inefficient use of the software also costs time & money. Don't the myopes realise** that? Or is it that they can see that training will cost x-time & y-money; whereas time spent (wasted) by staff scrabbling around for a way to do something, or doing it in a less than efficient way, not to mention the frustration, gets lost in the general 'noise' of daily routine? Ack!
Or maybe the myopes think that staff are so committed to their organisation** that they'll take "How to use (system name)" courses in their own time? After all, someone is clearly living on another planet!
Which is probably enough for today. Off to knit some more. Y'all have a good day now!
*For those who don't know, or have forgotten, BCC may be found part way down the Edit menu. Go look.
**Look, realise and organise are both spelled with an 's' near the end in English. Any other spelling is a dialect, & not real English!