Monday, February 07, 2005
MG, you're not working on anything now, are you?
Yeah, Nina, actually I'm just starting that--
Great. I have something I need you to do. Normally, of course, I wouldn't even ask you to do this, but this is kind of an exception. Do you have a cell phone?
Yes?
Have you ever lost it?
Um, yeah, a year or two ago, once.
Then you know that the inconvenience is incredible. An associate of mine lost hers recently, and it really brought it home for me, what a devastating loss of data it can be, and what a horrible waste of time it would be to deal with all those numbers. I must have hundreds in my phone.
Mm hm.
So. What I need you to do, to prevent any disasters, is to use that database program to download all the numbers in my phone and put them nice and neat into a spreadsheet.
Which database program does that?
You know. What's it called. Excel?
Excel can download phone numbers?
Well, I don't know if it downloads them for you, or if you have to enter them in yourself, but same difference. I just need the names and numbers laid out in spreadsheet form.
Oh.
And you know what, MG, I was just going to offer to run down to Starbucks and get us both coffee, but something urgent has just come up. So how about if you go this time, and I'll go next time?
Right.
My usual. Late-morning usual. Not the afternoon usual. And remember, try to get the right amount of sugar this time. And if they don't have the raw sugar, use white sugar, and if there's no white sugar, use Equal. Whatever you do, don't use Splenda. I just found out it's made of bleach.
Um, sure.
Yeah, Nina, actually I'm just starting that--
Great. I have something I need you to do. Normally, of course, I wouldn't even ask you to do this, but this is kind of an exception. Do you have a cell phone?
Yes?
Have you ever lost it?
Um, yeah, a year or two ago, once.
Then you know that the inconvenience is incredible. An associate of mine lost hers recently, and it really brought it home for me, what a devastating loss of data it can be, and what a horrible waste of time it would be to deal with all those numbers. I must have hundreds in my phone.
Mm hm.
So. What I need you to do, to prevent any disasters, is to use that database program to download all the numbers in my phone and put them nice and neat into a spreadsheet.
Which database program does that?
You know. What's it called. Excel?
Excel can download phone numbers?
Well, I don't know if it downloads them for you, or if you have to enter them in yourself, but same difference. I just need the names and numbers laid out in spreadsheet form.
Oh.
And you know what, MG, I was just going to offer to run down to Starbucks and get us both coffee, but something urgent has just come up. So how about if you go this time, and I'll go next time?
Right.
My usual. Late-morning usual. Not the afternoon usual. And remember, try to get the right amount of sugar this time. And if they don't have the raw sugar, use white sugar, and if there's no white sugar, use Equal. Whatever you do, don't use Splenda. I just found out it's made of bleach.
Um, sure.
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