Thanks for apparently working on Parts LinQ in Prod instead of Dev over the weekend. Now nobody can put their emergency orders in because the Availability function has been borked most of the day.
One can still see general availability in Cross Part Lookup, but order verification uses the standard process only.
Bravo!
Got a chuckle when this popped up. Have to wonder if this is them being proactive, or a response to a specific incident.
My bet is on the latter.
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The moment never hit me until now.
Kirk: "Your father is Hikaru Sulu?"
Demora Sulu: "Yes, Sir."
Kirk: "Incredible. Congratulations, Ensign. It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm."
Demora Sulu: "Thank you, Sir."
Chekov: "I'm sure Hikaru must be very proud of you."
Demora Sulu: "I hope so."
So... What happened between Hikaru and Demora that she wouldn't know what he thought of her career?
2023 Trailblazer LT, 65k on clock, extended GMEPP Platinum 250ded warranty out to 2029/113k.
It is currently at dealer for an unforseen fuel delivery issue; it looks like it might be related to a brand new recall that they haven't even populated the VINs to yet.
Current payoff is just a hair under $8k. Carmax will give me $13k, Carvana $14k. Based on assumed equity, looking at trading in for a newer unit with more bells and whistles. Dealer has one on the lot, they're already working up the numbers for me when I come in tomorrow afternoon after work.
Talked to the rep about how they handle transferable GMEPP warranties on trade-in. He said they typically go back to get a prorated refund, but given the amount of warranty left, is it a possibility that they actually instead just increase the trade-in value off the top if it ends up being more valuable that way? The transfer fee looks to be $50. I'm not sure how much more valuable it would be that way in the current used vehicle market vs just a straight prorated refund.
The only thing I'm NOT looking forward to on the available units? They all have 19" wheels. I liked having 17" on my current ones as the tire costs (particularly for snow tires) is significantly lower. Well that and I've never purchased AWD because I like the option of only replacing a pair when needed without having to worry about having tires shaved in a pinch.
As for numbers:
MSRP: $30,780
Discount: $1,250
Doc: $695
Total: $30,225
Ideal trade equity including warranty proration: $6,500
GM Reward Point redemption: $1,500
Price before TTL: $22,225
Best rate currently 5.9/60 but they say they can do better through a credit union. Penfed (which I had a loan through in the past with no issues) is currently 4.44/60. Thick 800 file.
So... Do I bring my Yu-Gi-Oh cards for floormats?
Yesterday morning, Fedex delivered a repackaged item that belonged to us (which I know was repackaged because the dims on the label were less than half the size of the box actually received.
Also in that oversize box were a couple dozen overnight and ground packages that did NOT belong to us. Some of them look rather high value as well.
We tried calling Fedex but the person at the toll-free number was beyond useless. They kept trying to treat it like we were trying to ship out, when in reality we're just trying to help fix the mess their sorting facility created by getting all the packages moving to their destination again.
In the end, they did nothing for us. It looks like the Fedex driver that came today did also not take them.
So now we are sitting on all these packages while Fedex is now likely sitting on a pile of pissed off customers because these "lost" packages are just sitting here.
So... who do we actually contact to make them disappear off our business dock and get to the actual recipients?
US/New England.
I live in a town of ~30k where I am an unpaid appointed member of a town commission dealing with environmental issues, outreach, and as an advisory to Zoning and Wetlands boards. I have been a member for a few years now and enjoy being able to make a little bit of a difference to make our town a better place to live. This is a commission that is statutorily limited to the number of any particular political party can be a member of (the rest unenrolled) in order to foster equality and balance in opinions and action.
An issue has just started to fester, however, that I am not sure how to react as it plays out.
There is one member that routinely sends out group emails to the rest of the commission. They are not the only one, and up until now every note/link has been related to areas our commission has some level of local purview. The most recent message, however, went off the political deep end. It was images and links regarding certain taxation issues in other States that even the most deluded of participants would realize is about nine area codes away from anything we handle. Trying to be as tactful as possible, I sent as a group reply:
"What relation to Commission business are we to be considering here?"
to which another member responded:
"I agree with this comment. I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend, try to stay cool!"
In response, the original sender went completely unhinged. I won't post the full response, but there was talk of the "extortion by the crooked and corrupt, criminal, communist, socialist,entitled, marxist, demonic, treasonous,narcissist, state government psychopaths who insanely believe they all walk on water"
So yeah, that...
Now, this Commissioner had already asked about the procedure for resigning at the last meeting, and was given a comprehensive response. My question to everyone here is, should I respond to this with something along the lines of this:
"I am sorry to hear that you are considering resigning from the Commission. As xxxxxx (Town employee that runs our meetings) had detailed the process for this at the most recent meeting, I am sure they would be more than willing to review this with you."
I know it seems somewhat passive aggressive and I realize nothing is going to piss this person off more than remaining 100% professional, but I still have the urge to send it regardless.
I don't remember where or when, but sometimes very long ago I signed up for a service to notify me whenever there were real estate transactions at certain addresses or with certain last names.
I received one such note today. My remaining abuser lives, the one I have been NC with for the past ~20 years.
Apparently there was a real estate transaction registered last month on their home. It was a quitclaim deed assigning the home to my younger sibling, the clear GC their entire life. Last, I knew, they (the sibling) was still living with my older sibling in the already-passed abuser's home that never went through probate (and thus, they can't sell as I'm legally entitled to 1/3rd of the property under State law).
I'm just going to say this preemptively, the same thing I said about my other abuser's passing: I hope they find the peace in death they never afforded anyone around them in life.
They rolled out the new version of Impact this past Monday... This app has turned into a first class turd.
The system no longer remembers the default of seeing 200 entries at a time, now keeps defaulting back to 25. Yay, constant extra clicks to do the same thing as before!
They took away the Save icon in the Print options, meaning now you have to go through the extra steps of manually changing the printer to Save to PDF each time you want to email a diagram. Yay, constant extra clicks to do the same things as before!
Be careful using the Back arrow in the upper right section as you are just as likely to be switched to a truck you worked on hours before as you are getting to the next higher arrangement you were just in.
What is with all this fancy fade in and out bullshit on mouseovers? It has absolutely no actual function other than to suck up additional processing power. Did this come from the same vibe programmer that apparently walked into a McDonalds, fell in love with the Eastern European /r/brutalism colors and design, and thought, "I want to get me some more of that!" It's enough to give a migraine.
I could go on and on...