That reminds me when I had to explain to the IT manager of a well known international merchant bank how to enter her login username and password into her broadband router. Or even the case of a database design project leader for well known international telecommunication company who wanted to know where his webmail messages had disappeared to - yep he had downloaded them to his Outlook email client on his PC.

I live in an area where trees down across roads seem to be the norm. Thunderstorms, tornadoes and ice storms can each make a perfectly good road impassible. I'm surprised that I don't hear chainsaws discussed here more frequently. I wouldn't want to be caught without one.

I spent all day, with another old guy volunteer, removing a large tree that fell down in our campground. Thank God for Stihl...

I hadn't thought of how a computer programmer actually dresses either. I know exactly one, and he wears jeans and Hawaiian shirts to work.

A come-along would be handy also. I picked up a new one still sealed up at a garage sale years ago for a good price. It and a good length of rope with hooks on the ends would be handy for pulling things out of the way.

I'd just finished writing my checks for the month. I had money. Someplace. I'm sure of it. So I was being grumpy.

It really is funny how many people do believe we all live like the google crew. Noooo, far from. At least in my current gig, I don't have the roaches trooping out of the break room with my lunch, demanding vengence for the death's of the brothers. *laughs*

It seems like the ideas for kits are making them bigger and harder to carry around. Isn't the idea to have enough gear to get you out of the city?

There is a reason why the pointy hair boss in Dilbert is so loathed. At least no one has asked me for an SQL DB in mauve because they think it has the most RAM.

I have a supervisor that doesn't stand up for us at all. If presented with a problem his stock response is, "Well gawd dawg guys, I've done all I can do!" His nickname is "Crawdad" because when presented with a threat he backs away from it as fast as he can, like a crawdad! But he brought in fresh honeydew melons tonight, so everything is forgiven.

"...I had to explain to the IT manager..."

And that, my friend, is where the term "stupervisor" came from...