Sense of accomplishment

[Wallingford]

Originally Posted by JustKelli

For me I'm a little bit proud of myself for actually saying please before I ripped someone a new a**hole because I had a package stuck in a warehouse in British Columbia for almost a week because of the wildfires and the roads were closed. They got the point and threw it on an airplane, I had it less than 12 hours later.

Gold star for you ripping someone a new a**hole.

I think this is eight days you've avoided the penalty box. How's that for an accomplishment?

[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by Wallingford

Gold star for you ripping someone a new a**hole.

I think this is eight days you've avoided the penalty box. How's that for an accomplishment?

I know right LOL ( and yes I know you were being sarcastic). I had to draw the line when the person said to me I don't know what to tell you there's nothing we can do about it like as if they've never heard of an airplane before, cost was never an issue, time was, it cost them a mass production of our equipment contract. But it didn't take me long to have Charlotte connect it to my system in Edmonton while I remotely accessed it on my Calgary servers, now my company is Canada's newest mobile Wi-Fi carrier so I can undercut the existing ones and my mobile carrier can go f*** themselves now.

My last infraction expired on August 11th I think it was so I've got a little wiggle room.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by RedMage

I had an appointment over Zoom today and I never used Zoom before and the link from the e-mail kept bringing up an error and I found a workaround and feel pretty proud of my accomplishment considering I'm not very good with technology.

Unfortunately, I have to take part in Zoom meetings all the time, due to work and the pandemic.

It pays to look good: wear a good top, make sure your hair is in order, and do it from a desktop computer with an external camera that you can position so that you face is not front and center, filling the screen: best a head and shoulders shot, off center and that takes you at a 3/4 angle.

I use a variety of backgrounds, depending on the situation: sometimes something very formal like a Victorian office with mahogany furniture and an antique roll-top desk behind me, in other, less formal meetings I have used the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, the padded cell of an old lunatic asylum, etc...

[ReclaimedJBr]

I feel a great sense of accomplishment whenever I get myself out of a seemingly water tight situation. My father always said I was the biggest con artist he’d ever seen.

[Wallingford]

Originally Posted by JustKelli

My last infraction expired on August 11th I think it was so I've got a little wiggle room.

It's always good to have wedgie room.

[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by Wallingford

It's always good to have wedgie room.

That's one of those it's better to give than to receive things.

I joke but in reality considering 2 years ago I had brain surgery after a hockey injury and last year chemo, I've come a long way in 4 years under the guidance of my William to whom I owe the world may he rest in peace. Here is a small list of accomplishments I and those close to me are proud of me for, but without my exceptional team of professionals and loving support from Charlotte and my man none of it would be possible.

- my company bought by Industrial Light & Magic

- sold screenplay to Isle of Man Productions. Production in 2024

- worked on Black Widow film (cgi continuity and editing)

- just sold rights to newest screenplay currently in production, to HBO revamped as limited run series late 2023

- in discussion with Amazon Prime...

[JustKelli]

Damn, some days I even surprise myself. We launched a mobile Wi-Fi carrier service yesterday and rolled it out while still in the beta testing process but soon after found a small glitch that a lot of very intelligent people were racking their brains trying to figure out why. I made a phone call to Edmonton and asked one of my people if there's anything unusual going on in the immediate vicinity of my building to which they replied there's major construction at the moment. I quickly realized that all of the heavy equipment and movement was interfering with our signal so it boiled down to a simple solution of shielding the relay equipment that was communicating with our satellite.

I guess it boils down to something as simple as nothing is ever a failure until you give-up.

[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by Justice Beaver

I feel a great sense of accomplishment whenever I get myself out of a seemingly water tight situation. My father always said I was the biggest con artist he’d ever seen.

But can you get yourself out of an airtight situation is the question LOL.

It takes a pretty good head on your shoulders and keen eye to perform a good grift but that doesn't make it right., but still an accomplishment no less I suppose.

I own an investment company so I'm pretty much in the business of convincing people that they need something... that ultimately they may or may not need. But I was taught well to do no harm and to give a person and honest value for their dollar.

If running a con allows you to sleep at night good for you keep doing what you do but just remember that karma is always watching everything that we do and eventually she will catch up to you as she has to me a time or two.

I knew a guy that once convinced a mentally challenged person to trade a dollar bill for eight pennies that he had in his hand saying that he had far more than that one piece of paper... it ate away at him for 50 plus years

[Reclaimed08]

Originally Posted by JustKelli

Thats one nice thing about technology like computers, they don't call you an idiot they just send you a message that basically says try a little harder.

I think I would prefer an error message calling me an idiot and then explaining the possible solutions like I'm five so that I understand where/why I fucked up. I basically got lucky with this one.

Originally Posted by alexora

Unfortunately, I have to take part in Zoom meetings all the time, due to work and the pandemic.

It pays to look good: wear a good top, make sure your hair is in order, and do it from a desktop computer with an external camera that you can position so that you face is not front and center, filling the screen: best a head and shoulders shot, off center and that takes you at a 3/4 angle.

I use a variety of backgrounds, depending on the situation: sometimes something very formal like a Victorian office with mahogany furniture and an antique roll-top desk behind me, in other, less formal meetings I have used the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, the padded cell of an old lunatic asylum, etc...

I use Zoom for my therapy appointments and use my smartphone to attend as I don't have an external camera and my PC isn't in an area that's conducive to the meeting. My background is the curtains of my bed so it's nice and plain and I have the camera positioned so that it's not just my head it's also a good portion of upper chest.

If I ever do use it on the PC I'll look into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise as a background because that would be so cool!

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My sense of accomplishment is that even though in this last week I struggled with insomnia and depression I managed to finish the month strong and complete my exercise goal.

[xlr8tx]

Originally Posted by RedMage

If I ever do use it on the PC I'll look into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise as a background because that would be so cool!

I've been doing that for years, alternating bridges from the various starships in the franchise.

It's funny to see peoples reactions, whether they recognize it or seem confused as they try to discern what they're looking at. It's even funnier when they don't acknowledge it.