Sorry. No idea on Alcatraz tickets. I’m sitting on the dock of the bay working.
I found this on the internet on Alcatraz tickets:
http://www.inside-guide-to-san-francisco-tourism.com/alcatraz-tour-tickets.html
Thanks CQ. I also found that. Since we will be in Napa going in at 6:00 AM to stand in line on the off chance that one frees up is probably not going to happen. I will continue to check the site for cancellations. I actually contacted them directly and they did respond. I asked if they had tickets set aside for tour groups and the response was that they do not. Once it is sold out it is sold out unless there are returns or cancellations. So booking through a tour company probably isn’t going to get me the night tour. I guess we will just go on a day tour. Still plenty of tickets for that. Oh well.
I like much of Barry Manilow’s music and he seems like a decent guy. I am also happy he has love in his life. But, how naive are these women fans?
FallGirl, LOL.
Our office is being remodeled and in the fall, the attorneys will move into small, uniform-sized offices. Gone will be the lovely corner with two full walls of floor to ceiling windows. Anyway, work was slow so I emptied and put into recycling the contents of around 30 notebooks of professional materials. Most dated from the 90s…before scanning and digital storage. I still have LOTS to either pitch or have scanned, but it’s a start.
^ Funny you should mention that, mp. Today was the last day in our old office, on Monday we will be in our new place. I have been spending that last 2 months packing up documents for storage (certain finance records have to be kept for a loooong time), shredding stuff, etc.
It will be strange working in a new office after 7.5 years here. My commute is most likely going to be longer (not sure by how much), but my workspace will be larger, I’ll be near windows and my department will be located in a much quieter part of the office. We will be closer to restaurants for lunch (not that I go out to lunch more than once a month, but it’s nice to have options).
Keeping records as a therapist: forever, 10 years as civil cases run out, 7 years by licensing --are
the choices.
But kids need to be 7 min. and then until they are 18 years.
So, I have records that I must keep until 2022.
Last spring I had a call from a lawyer asking for a client’s records. I was of the 10 year idea and this client was over 9.0 years past. So I sent them.
I then researched my licensing and malpractice and found 7 is quite enough.
I am always my own best enemy.
egad.
Closing my physical office this August on my 66th but need to secure a bunch of these records for many more years.
Shaw, you’re not supposed to be sitting on the dock of the bay working…you’re supposed to be “watching the tide roll away” or " wastin’ time" or so the song says 
Speaking of which, I really don’t know how you, or lately CQ, handle constant airport shenanigans.
I’m 2-for-0 now in two months for leisure travel in terms of flight shenanigans. Last month it was an ice storm in Detroit that scuttled a smooth homecoming and led to 12 hrs of musical planes…and yesterday it was 70 mph winds at OHare that had us messed up.
Apparently Mother Nature has strong feelings about me getting home
On Record Keeping…in my profession, apart from code documentation, there’s zero need for paper at all, though a need and expectation to maintain digital archives. Which makes me wonder how it is that I have tomes of paper files…except perhaps for posterity after a cataclysmic EMP that wipes out the digital world and civilization as we know it Then again, I doubt future generations will be able to read my cursive…since most can’t now
We pay a lot of money to archive actual client files. What I pitched were things like seminar notebooks where we were learning about new legislation for 1998.
If one pays dues to the bar section applicable to your practice, one can get all those materials online for free.
The computer crashed, the washing machine broke, the car has a recall with a dire warning not to use the passenger seat, my hearing aid stopped working. Fun week!
Now we have gone from a PC to an Apple with a humongous screen. The part to the machine is on it’s way.
I did buy a lot of neat glass at the sale and the 240 goes in this week.
RM, it was really cold coming back from the night tour. The entire reason I wanted that tour was to hear the
doors close. S was starving and I was weak so we left just before as waiting meant another 45 minutes for the next boat. A regret of mine as looking back I doubt he would have starved. We took a cab to our hotel and had the driver drop us off at his, the cab driver’s, favorite Thai restaurant which was nothin fancy, “Thai King” I think…which to this day S claims to be the best food of his life. So a silver lining. This was in August a decade ago.
Oregon, sounds like you are having a disastrous technological week.
kmc, flying is can be a challenge, though international flights tend to be the ones they let in if the weather is bad. I spent Thursday in Chicago and flew back Thursday night. My flight was supposed to get in at 1:15 and didn’t get back until a bit after 2. With the Wingz (like Uber but with scheduled airport pickups and dropoffs), I was home somewhat before 3 but had an 8 AM call in London the next morning.
There are two things that make traveling easier:
- A zen approach – you just can’t get anxious; and
- I fly first or business class and can wait in lounges which are usually not chaotic or stress-inducing.
We had a great weekend. Friday night, we had for dinner, some young friends from Renaissance Weekend. Two of the them were heading off that night to run the Tokyo Marathon (one of them has run over 30 marathons). Saturday: Work (ShawWife has done some spectacular paintings from Rodeo Beach, a little bit less abstract than her normal work, but stunning as display of artistic skill); cycling in Marin (pretty hilly) and dinner in SF with two couples from Boston who now live in Sausalito. Sunday: we drove to Carmel-by-the-sea, walked on the beach, had lunch, visited art galleries (to see if ShawWife would want to be in any but no interest I don’t think); and then dinner in Palo Alto with ShawSon and GF (whom we are loving). Now back on the boat. [I’ve got to do a little work for a European phone call tomorrow AM.]
kmc - I second what Shaw said about a zen attitude. In my job, I work with the client on Tues-Thurs and have Monday and Friday for travel (for domestic clients). So far I’ve always made it to the client in time. I try to schedule early flights so if something goes wrong I have the possibility of a later flight. And I usually have a good book with me. Belong to an airline club (paid by employer) so I can relax when waiting. And I try to avoid Chicago. Seems like there are always delays there, doesn’t matter if it’s winter or not.
Sitting in an airport right now. Got here too early, but I leave a cushion since you can’t always predict traffic. I have my book!
I second career – I try not to take the last flight of the day out just in case there is a problem. I try to find airlines where I have status: in case there is a problem, they will try to take care of me. I also avoid Chicago, especially in winter. I have a flight where I redirected the travel agent from a connection in Chicago to a connection in Phoenix.
Did those of you on our private Facebook connection see ShawWife’s ocean pieces?
I had a screen nightmare and I bet your post was the cause! I dreamed that they did some “upgrade” to the computers at work and when I returned to the office, my two large monitors had been replaced by a single, old monitor with a tiny screen. Probably a combination of reading about your screen and feeling old and passed by at work.
We went to the rehearsal dinner restaurant early last evening and chose the menu while eating a complementary dinner. Son is so easy to please! I’m grateful for that.
Hi all –
Busy season for me, so only popping in here and there. Knee is better, but still sore. Doc says to give it another 2 weeks before we go the next step.
Our two weeks of glorious warm weather (73! in February!) has come to an end, and snow is expected tonight, though only a few inches. I’m really disappointed that with my knee I haven’t been able to go out and hike. Sigh.
Sorry for all that are having tech challenges. My keyboard got flaky on the new Macbook, but they took it apart and suddenly I am not getting extra k’s and spaces showing up. Whew. For a while there it looked like I had the strangest spelling.
So funny and bad poor mp. The new screen is 27" and we have it at 3/4’s to adjust.
Still no washing machine part #-o .
Hearing aid issue is no cost to me.
Saw a plastic surgeon today. i think I am the older here so not criticism allowed =; .
This is my second opinion and the two were exactly opposite.
So thinking. I will give more details, promise, but need to make dinner now.
Hi arabrab!Good to hear from you and glad the knee is healing.
oregon - you will get no judgement/criticism from me. I had an eye lift a few years ago. No regrets.
S turns 20 today so I no longer have a teenager. I might be the last one on this thread to pass that milestone.
Good morning. Interesting flight tips. Note to self: move away from OHare McH and I were discussing how much it feels like flying has changed since our earlier days of frequent business travel decades past and concluded it had a lot to do with the difference between first or business class and downward price pressures on airlines.
Arabrab, sorry to hear your knee is still sore, hope its better soon.
Missy, your nightmare would be a real nightmare in my world too. Oregon, you’ll come to love that big screen very soon and then it will be hard to look at anything smaller
We had two relatively minor technical travesties too, Oregon…garage door opener and coffee grind/brew machine. They got the garage door fixed before we came home, but the coffee maker fritzed out Sat a.m. Which made me the crankiness girl in the world on two fronts:
A) I’m a caffeine addict and really only like a fresh-grind brew and
B) The capresso team GS that bit it was only 17 mos. old…the earlier model, of which we had two, lasted 13 years and 15 years respectively.
If this isn’t an example of planned obsolescence, I don’t know what is. We have ample evidence that capresso/Jura used to know how to make a coffee maker that would last for about $250 But at the same time, for a grind/brew, which are hard to get right, I still like the machine overall for our heavy-use setting, and it still makes a better cup than its closest competitors.
So my choices were to go upmarket at about $1,000 to get their next in line in hopes of longevity, or to just suck it up, rebuy the same model that’s now in the $200 range and assume its disposable in a year. Mch argued against the upgrade on principle (or distrust that it would actually last longer) and I was in a hurry to replace it so I begrudgingly bought the same model…which was kinda stupid because I spend six times that on coffee beans in a year
First world problems, I know, but why oh why did they mess with a good thing? Presumably to sell more, I guess because they’re a bit cheaper than they were 15 years ago…just like flights
See the cranky-old-person-theme running amok here?
No criticism from me on cosmetic surgery. I have a wish list in my mind.
As long as we are complaining about first world problems, something is wrong with the suction in the pool. (H gets irritated that I know nothing about the workings of the pool. Isn’t it okay that I maintain ignorance of something? I didn’t make him get involved during over a decade of washing expensive gymnastics leotards and dancewear so they wouldn’t shrink, bleed or fall apart.)
No judgement here either! I have a small skin tag under one of my eyes. I want it removed. I am hoping they can do another quick fix while they are at!
H was crazy busy yesterday as he started his new career. He is very excited to use his expertise/experience in a new way. He said it was liberating to head in a new direction after 25 years with the same organization. I am happy he feels rejuvenated!
Just finished listening to the novel, A Man Called Ove, on Audible. What a quirky and funny story about a grumpy old man in Sweden. It is a simple story but will leave you with a good feeling. I listened to the book while I walked on the treadmill and this was a good one!
kmc…we have trouble with digital scales. We are on our second in 18 months. Can’t figure out why they go crazy!