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Cake day: August 26th, 2024

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  • When they took our photos? Oh that was more so for us as a souvenir. We got to meet and shake his hand and they took our picture and we got a copy of it to remember the occasion. About like meeting a celebrity at an event and they let you take your photo with them shaking their hand or doing something fun with them, just this being a political figure.

    I was a kid so I didn’t have a photo ID, but I remember they did have me write down where I lived and my name and my great aunt gave them her photo ID to prove who she is. I’m pretty sure they did that also in case something happened, like if a bomb got left with him or something then they had a list of names of people who physically met with him. This was less than a decade after 9/11 so we were still in a pretty heightened time, security-wise. It was during the Bush administration and this was his Attorney General he appointed over the country. If I remember correctly, he was also the first Latino Attorney General, so they may have also been concerned for his safety because of that too.


  • Sort of. My great aunt was working with district attorneys and was able to take myself and some of my cousins out there. It was a pretty fun experience.

    We rode a train and went to the downtown area and we also met the US Attorney General at the time where he had a photo op for all of us. Was my first and only time meeting someone so high up in the US government and I remember them checking our IDs and had us sign in with Secret Service before getting to shake his hand and take a picture. I have no idea where that picture is but I remember the event very well.

    We got to see some of what she did and interact with her coworkers and hang around the city area.


  • Just did my former friends earlier this year.

    Life is life. Gets crazy and we don’t work together anymore so we don’t get much time to hang out.

    He blew up on me about me never reaching out but like when? And I apologized and said I would try to make a better effort to reach out.

    After about an hour, he never texted me back and I realized that the last message sent before he blew up on me was me reaching out to him a few weeks prior and he never responded! So like wtf dude.

    So then he or his wife said something and I never responded and they texted me a few times for a few days after but I never replied, let alone read the messages.

    I was already on the edge about them anyway. They had a problem with everyone. Everyone eventually had a problem with them and it makes me feel like they’re likely the problem people in their various situations. They were very strict about things and it just never felt right with me.

    I gave them my car that I was no longer using and they were super appreciative which is how we became friends, but I honestly was just trying to be nice. I wasn’t really looking for friends.

    Idk. I feel bad about it sometimes but I also feel like it was long overdue for us to no longer be friends anymore.







  • The auto closing is driving me insane.

    I have 3 different computers I use on a daily and each of them encounter this issue multiple times each week. A meeting starts and I have to go start up Teams and wait for it to fully open to join the call. Or I have someone cold call me and I don’t get the call on my computer and won’t even after opening Teams.

    They can do a full refresh and release new features to make it look pretty but nothing has been done to address this issue that has been ongoing since day 1 of this “new Teams” refresh.


  • I believe they will never allow users to delete entire chats like that because it will cause mass panic for users and managers, particularly. You already have users doing dumb shit like deleting files accidentally. And more than that, you’ll have managers getting upset that users may be doing it on purpose like “omg I never saw that message! 😱 “

    Deleting your own stuff is easy and okayed because it’s not an easy process and it involves multiple steps.




  • It’s really crafty and nasty. And it also allows users to go through the process without requiring admin access.

    We needed to stay on Windows 10 for a few reasons at work. I had a few users tell me this or that broke and they could no longer use this function. Remoted on and found the computer was somehow updated to Windows 11. Users swore it was not their doing. I know what happened; it’s an update screen that has a decline at the very bottom corner far from the button to allow the update to proceed that most users don’t see so they are being intentionally misled by Microsoft to think they have no choice but to accept the update. And worse is that none of these users were admins. So what the fuck, Microsoft?!

    It’s so infuriating and disgusting.

    Thankfully we can now move to Windows 11 without issue, but that was a really frustrating time to be an admin and Microsoft deserves every bad thing that comes of users getting upset over this. Hopefully lawsuits to lose some money over it.




  • Gumbo. My mom made it a few times and I always hated it. Turns out she wasn’t making it correctly until I had my extended family make it the way our family did from Louisiana and now I can’t get enough of the stuff.

    My family goes all out on gumbo, making a pot that will cost around $400 (pre-pandemic pricing, not sure how much it went up since) but have every little thing everyone wants from shrimp and sausage to chicken and all the little fixings in it.