Amazing

Yesterday I went shopping.  

At checkout, the lady in front of me encountered some sort of delay, and open mouth apologized to me, in line behind her.  I assured her everything was OK.  

When the cashier was ringing in my sales, we were engaging in a tight but interesting unrelated conversation.  As my wallet was pulled out to pay, she exclaimed, "I have done this before, because I recognize that wallet".  I believed her immediately because I receive so many comments on my choice of credit card and currency container.  

I then mentioned how once I had been in line and the clerk was asking me about the wallet and a lady behind me was very impatient and extremely rude about it.  She was saying how much of a hurry she was in, and how .l.... yada yada       ... as she continued to berate the clerk, 

"You were amazing, we were doing this, checking and talking, and you said to her 'SHE  is being polite to me, her customer'"  "I am her customer too" she said.  And I corrected her with, "yes but she is serving me.  We have nothing to do with whatever is causing your urgency.  In fact this very tantrum is delaying you further".

She said I was "amazing" perhaps she is not used to people being calm under pressure.  The woman's crisis may have been real, self induced or not.  But I didn't let her infect me.  Because. According to some people. I am amazing.   I smiled as I walked out of store.
--
Kevin
T&FB @Ke7in
Instagram Ke7in12
Google.com/+KevinFillips

This email was sent by my beloved Motorola Droid, using Lap dock Technology.

Fwd: Close your email and head outside

Even pinterest.com wants me to go play in yhe rain

... On the go, responding via
my Galaxy Tab3

This e-mail may contain confidential material. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. It may also contain personal views which are not the views of [    pinterest     ]. We may monitor e-mail to and from this network.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Pinterest" <editorial@pinterest.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2014 11:51 AM
Subject: Close your email and head outside
To: kevin3.0
Cc:

Android App · iOS App
 

Hi Kevin,
Discover all the places people have found to escape the harsh blue light of their computers and bask in some warm, real-world sunshine.

 Collect your favorite travel ideas
>
>
> 

Unplugged places near and far
> > 

Adventurer Awaits ...
> 

197 pins
> ·
> 》Tammy D
> Follow
> #EcoCostaRica
> 72 pins
> ·
> Green Global Tr...
> Follow
> Idaho in the Raw
> 66 pins
> ·
> Kerry Angelos
> Follow
> Gypset Getaway
> 10 pins
> ·
> Tyler Govaars
> Follow
> Western US National ...
> 25 pins
> ·
> Ordinary Travel...
> Follow
> Snowy Adventures
> 22 pins
> ·
> Ordinary Travel...
> Follow
> Hiking Glacier Natio...
> 28 pins
> ·
> My Itchy Travel...
> Follow
> Weekend Escapes ~ Co...
> 47 pins
> ·
> Robin Evans ❀
> Follow
> Happy Pinning!
>
> Pinterest
> Facebook
> Twitter
> Google
> Blog
>
> This email was sent to kevin3.0@gmail.com.
> Don't want to receive this type of email? Change your email preferences.
> Didn't sign up for Pinterest?
> ...

Top the Tater

Why Target?

For the past three years since this returned to Minnesota, He's been able to find his ftavorite chip dip in your dairy section. Valentines  Eve, after choosing $200 worth of electronics, dvds, blurays and the favorite chip, rounded to where the dairy section formerly was. Just yogurt. No sour cream, no Top the Tater to be seen. Much time was spent looking for the product  bought at Tarrget more than any other store in Minnesota.  Sour cream was found at feet level a couple aisles over.  The red phone eas called, she looked for me and with me and asked up the chain of knowledge to learn it has been discontinued. 

There are no longer any refridgerated chip dips but the chip aisle is over flowing.  It is understood dairy is a perishable and under performing brands are routinely dropped by megastores for false economy. 

More than ten years ago WalMart and Kroger learned when they drop someone's tavorite brand they likely lose that customers regular grocery business.  Target famously uses consumer buying habits to infer when female shoppers may be pregnent. How can they fail to notice the complimentary relationship of chips and dip. Did they miss the chip/dip serving platters designed by some also ran in their boutique aisle.?

Loss leaders in the grocery business  a freshman in college Econ 101 topic. If a store does not sell bread, shoppers avoid it.

To demonstrate an economic loss to the bottom line, this Target shopper demonstratively chose to abandon half the items in my cart at the cashier. I wonder how much the chip dip was losing? Without mentioning the brand, the cashier was able to name the discontinued brand. ISo not the only one to mention it apparently.  But the metrics do not show what we do not buy. Which is why that action was used. For the lack of a $3 dip, Target lost around $100 bucks of doodads unneeded or wanted ezpecially. This might be the only one you know about. 

A quick trip to Target to get 50 blank DVDs. The dip was a maybe, but much higher in my wants than the bluetooth items I alao picked up.   Target is not a grodery store. The expanded grocery offerings was supposed to make it more convenient to shop at Target.   It was not very convient when a 30 minute trip doubled and a half, involved 4 team members two radios and the help phone.  CVS is not a grocery store but they sell refridgerated dips with far fewer choices for chips.

This blogger has a Master of Science degree in Economics from a southern research university. (UK 1992)

Please note, by calling Target designers "some also ran" I am not criticizing the designers.  Some of my best friends are designers.  Plus the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" Ad stopped me in my tracks and could be the behinning of a new career choice for me. But really Target designers are very good. Their advertising agency is very good. But people fail. The guy that discontinued refridgerated dips but kept the chips has failed me. The tech guy that thinks an HVAC vender needs access to Target Customer payment data, should be sentenced to work behind locked doors ovetnight at a Wal-Mart.

... On the go, responding via
my Galaxy Tab3

Sweet

This Christmas while shopping, I stumbled across the Lifesaver multi pack called the Sweet Story Book. My sister and I used to get them every Christmas. I noticed there were many varieties, but I made sure to choose the traditional hard candy ones.

At gift exchange, my sister handed me a familiar package, I grabbed the one I had wrapped for her. We opened them simultaneously. We both chose the Hard Candy Christmas.

... On the go, responding via
my Galaxy Tab3

Thin Clients: Tinycore

Thin Clients: Tinycore:

"This is a generic description of how to set up a Tiny Core based web server. It has been updated (May 2013) to match my current setup of Tiny Core 4.7.6 running on a Wyse S10 with 1GB Flash and 512MB of RAM. Although the previous version was still running perfectly I decided to switch to using a Wyse S10 as it consumes ~6W power when active and idles at ~4W."

'via Blog this'

source "Thin Clients"

PuTTy

---
and so it goes
###

Dakota City

Yesterday and today was the Harvest Moon Festival at Dakota City Heritage Village. This blogger started volunteering at the townsight located adjacent to the Fairgrounds in Farmington MN for the past month or so. Today we were grinding coffee in their authentic General Store. Yesterday we made rope at the fire barn. This festival is one of just a few events open to the public. If children complete all tasks, they are admitted free to the Christmas program. Running this store today was a bit of a challenge, but very capable of process. This blogger may choose to "adopt" the general store for future times. We'll see

---
Kevin via Smart phone

RK's Logging Camp

In 2012, reminiscing about the summer of love, I named my camp, Camp Haight.
This past spring it was a temporary lumber camp/
---
and so it goes
###

Cyclothemia

About a year ago, a psychologist diagnosed me with cyclothemic disorder. It is similar to Bi polar but longer cycles and thinner extremes.

I have been following my mood swings, and I seem to be in a "low". But I've noticed an upturn so I think Sunday was the trough and I'm back on the ups.

---
Kevin via Smart phone

Update. Forever new definition of.

I had been posting stuff like this at "Posterous", forever means until we change our mind.

#Twitterfail

I thought I would update you on what's going on in my life. I mean that the purpose of blogs. a few weeks back I started working as a substitute paraprofessional educator at the shocker P [Shakopee] public schools. I should note I'm using voice type on my Android device. So I will bracket any type of changes I make. I probably wouldn't but I really liked shocker P public schools.

I have helped children of all ages from kindergarden through senior year I like it all I've been at five schools work nearly every day I take a day off a week just for me to regroup. I would consider this a career. I am still unsure if I want to be in front of a class room per se but I really enjoy helping kids learn. I'm not sure if they'll be assignments this summer enough to keep me busy I have many other plans two week from my summer other than working including working on a boat, working on a project float and building a campsite. that's all for now more later chow [ciao].

Sphere of Seven

I'm obsessing about the sphere again. A long while ago, I was reading an old alchemical text. There was an illustration of a unique style of globe shape cage. It was made of 7 great circles. I think it was a map of the heavens - ie 7th heaven.  With a bit of time and effort, I figured out how to make one.  I have yet to construct one, but I know how.

Today I was looking at flat pak furniture and housing. These are large projects that work not unlike those snap apart wooden dinosaur models.

So now, I am fighting the urge to make a small scale cardboard model of my 7sphere. The full size would be made out of mdf panels which will be two panels thick, offsetting the seam by one half each arc. Without giving away my design, I think each of the 7 great circles will have an obvious and similar number of segments, each layer rotated one half way round the circle, intersections to be calculated. It is a good thing I received ribbons for my geometry grades.

The purpose of  writing this was to get my brain solving the problem. - It happened. This work is closely related to Buckminster Fuller's Bamboo Geodesic. If that means anything to anyone.
---
and so it goes
###

For more info

1. A mathematician's view of the significance of 7
2. Forty two Flat Pak furniture and house designs
3. Free Spirit Spheres
4. Circle and sphere calculator
5. Means nothing to you?

Fire

I cannot say enough about fire. I arrived in camp pretty late Saturday night, fully expecting to fire up my vintage 425 camp stove and finish the pot of spaghetti I brought along for first night.
Pump pump times 50 and no pressure. So cheese sandwiches.  The next morning I went to my back up plan. Grilling. I grilled hot dogs for breakfast but never managed a good boil for either my coffee or the spaghetti. Back up number two was my bottle stove with fuel tabs. Boils water in a jiffy with sterno, but the fuel tabs fizzled. 
Yesterday after kayaking and swimming at my aunt's nearby lake home, I mentioned my gas pressure problem. She and my uncle lent me some 3 in 1 oil. Apparently the pump seal dries out. Well considering the stove was my other uncle's and was stored nearly 20 years I figured it was likely. Last night I had my spaghetti dinner and this morning i have my coffee.
Fire rocks. I understand what all those cavemen were so excited about.
-Kevin Fillips

Abandoned log house loft

http://instagr.am/p/Kkv9WiGSb9/

tested in the brain

Last week, in a switch, I took aptitude, skill, dexterity, memory, IQ, pyschological  screenings and more.

This is all for my reboot of my career. While my cardiologist is not willing to release me to work, after my valve surgery, she'll consider it.

I am in a vocational rehabilitation program through Social Security and the State of Minnesota.  That's why all the tests.  It was fascinating to see how completely unsuited I was for some of the skills, as well as how I was the "fasted the tester had ever seen" in others. Proof that for this world to work, it takes all types.

One of the tests was a vocabulary test. I had answers for every word but one, the final one.

What I remember seeing was: PILLIATE

In this test, no context or pronunciation was offered.

I focused on the word "pill" and the perceived action of ate.

When I got home, I mentioned the word to my dad. He knew of the pileated woodpecker. I was certain that was not the spelling.

It became an obsession of mine, as outlined in my tumblr.

Better Health, Dismal resume

The Ticket-to-work (TTW)

It is supposed to shrink the rolls.  I have been dancing around with the program for some time, and still do not get it.  The explanatory process is circular.  This points you to that which points you back to this.  It reminds me of looking up "adult words" in the dictionary, each definition  pointing to another unfamiliar word which takes a route round back to the first word with a few stops.

I downloaded the audio file.  It was pleasant enough, just the same information on the web site, read slowly and deliberately.  When I worked in a financial department, I would hear other agents simply repeat themselves when their callers asked "What?" as if the problem was with hearing and not understanding.  Being able to explain something someone does not know within a context they do know is the gift of teaching.  Soap box, off.

If you read my medical blog about my heart surgery experiences and recovery, you may have gleaned that I have many of the symptoms of a healthy person.  It is time for me to try to find a way to support myself without grabbing the government teat.

Last week I had over $7,000 worth of medical tests, simply to confirm this healthiness.  My ssdi check certainly does not afford me the life I would prefer.  But the specter of losing Medicare for a job that may or may not provide health care, is scary./

I am 48 years old.  Prime for re-employment. I would love to be able to get the TTW program to provide back office and confidence building.  Finding the right Employment Network (EN) is like picking a college.  The big key difference is there is not the infrastructure that colleges have for information and recruitment.  To me choosing a network is like a bad Japanese game show.  Push the wrong button, and you get bonked in the kanoidy noids.

The article below outlines my experience with Social Security's "Ticket to work" program

BUSINESS DAY

Disabled, but Looking for Work

By MOTOKO RICH

Published: April 6, 2011

The number of people collecting Social Security disability benefits is rising, and the agency’s Ticket to Work employment program has done little to ease the burden.

More later.
---
and so it goes

K
###

104 year old barge sinks

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/224506/group/homepage/

Did I Ever post this

Self portrait?

Flying

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebUrbanist/~3/mJyPxwRjFQo/

I dream of flying

Short stack

Stacking in Style: New Trend Puts Houses on Houses

Wow-worthy Pet Portraiture

via cuteoverload.com

fascinating

Blog Post #Brandsterbation specifically GE

21518_IB_CAN_EF_0_00023888.pdf Download this file

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80573303

I own this perfectly nifty device, that pairs my bluetooth enabled  cell phone to a landline phone.  Only recently experiencing the POTS landline service while house sitting, naturally I wanted to give it a whirl.  But after a cross country move, I was not sure I had the  manual.

But today, you can find most anything online.  But I thought it would be quick and easy.

First I googled it by name

"Ge CellFusion gateway" I got a bunch of listings for sale for my device.

Predominantly amazon.com - fine, but the big river does not have downloadable manuals.

But I got the model number from that. GE-21518 - Great!

Remembering GE had sold its RCA and GE brands to Thomson, I started looking for Thomson, or was it Thompson? But the exited the consumer electronic business, and changed their name to Technicolor USA.  As they exited the business, the brands got redistributed. Probably by GE.  Consumer electronics, small appliances, telephones and accessories were now handled by different companies.  But t his device was hard to categorize.  It wasn't a phone, it wasn't an answering machine, it was bluetooth, but not computer.  So

I had little luck at Jasco or TTC Tech Usa, the two obvious choices for something.  

Apparently Technicolor (formerly Thomson) runs http://www.homelectronics.net which is supposed to sort through the confusion for you.  But the triage process of sorting out where I need to go got me tot he North American division which was only able to find advertising products for my device, not the manual.  The bulk of the site was having server errors of a technical nature.  I am not sure if it was limited to the time of my three hour tour, or if this problem is chronic.

After a bit, I had a brainstorm.  I will pretend I am from somewhere else, in the english speaking world.  I picked Middle east and found the english manual for my device.  

But should it really have been that hard?

--
Kevin ... K3vin ... Ke7in ... Kev1n2