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A number of year ago I got a Mah Jongg set and had always intended to learn to play this “some day” – Along with the set I did get a book and actually tried to understand how to use the set.  The book was pretty confusing to say the least.  I did talk with [...]

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Ronald Headley on January 31st, 2012

I apparently am having one of the “computer days” – It began last night, one of my main computers could not get to my email and had to “re index” the Thunderbird inbox.  This happens from time to time and is usually “automatic” however last night it was taking an extremely long time.   I checked [...]

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Ronald Headley on October 20th, 2011

  A few day ago I called Central Payment to inform them that I was closing my store and no longer needed the Merchant Credit processing.  I was told to fax in a notice to them that I wanted to cancel.  A day later I got a call from one of their representatives who told [...]

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Ronald Headley on July 21st, 2011

With all the news of voice mail hacking by a media giant in the UK that has led to the downfall of at least one newspaper I got to wondering how this could be.  The media people involved did not look like geeks. Turns out what was being done is fairly simple.  Two people call [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 16th, 2011

When I first heard of protesters demonstrating at the funerals of fallen military people several years ago I wondered what kind of people would even think of doing anything like that.  A funeral – any funeral is a time and place where family and friends are grieving a loss and attempting to put their life [...]

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To top off the very strange technology day a customer just walked into my store. (to understand this I own the store – I have a completely separate business in my store- – they repair computers and they take care of their own customers – they just use some of my space) Gentleman fifty years [...]

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Ronald Headley on January 4th, 2011

Actually the day started with Valvoline messing up my rear wiper. Next I tried to do an online motel reservation that did not work, called the motel so that was easy. Next I had a phone in order, my credit card machine would not take the number – rebooted it and then it worked. A [...]

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Ronald Headley on January 4th, 2011

I just got done with the worst voice mail system I have ever tried to use in recent years. Lowe’s Customer Service. First try – it wanted my account number – I spoke the numbers – (I call automated voice mail several times a day and know how to speak the numbers), it rejected the [...]

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I just took my Honda Element in for an oil change at Valvoline Instant Oil change. They did their usual good job with the oil change – however they noticed the back wiper blade was shot and needed replacement. They attempted to change just the blade, they were at the back for awhile – when [...]

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Ronald Headley on December 29th, 2010

by permission from @BenjaminBradley Many, many years ago, when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had beautiful hair of red. My father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed. This made my dad my [...]

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