"F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 10/25/13, 12:59 AM, wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 00:46:43 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

She has 799 doors with whining residents behind every one of them., 7
swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, 2 bocci courts, 11 lakes with pumps
and aerators, 3 commercial kitchens, 2 dining rooms, 2 bars , a fairly
large IT system, 4 large HVAC systems and several smaller ones, 10 ice
machines, 4 gates and 22 bathrooms.

There is always something broken.



Better your wife than me. I don't have the patience required for that kind of job.

Growing up in a town with lots of Italians, I learned how to spell
"bocce" as "bocce," but the "bocci" spelling works.

Here's a little video on the game, for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhN6S-1urM

I always saw it played on formal hard-surfaced indoor and outdoor courts,
usually by older Italian men dressed in suit coats and pants, but with
their neckties removed and, if it was warm outside, their suitcoats removed, too.

That is not the way you see it played in parts of Italy. They will lob the
ball 20' in the air to knock other balsa away, etc. and I saw working
class people, so no suits and ties.