When It Rains, It Pours

First the Dyson vacuum bit the dust. Yesterday my computer flaked out, problem with the memory cards I installed last week/month/year whenever. Last night the trash pump started making ugly noises. Got on the phone this morning looking for a replacement pump. Talked to people working for small companies in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas and every call was as clear as a bell, not like when I try to talk to someone in some giant soulless corporation like a credit card or drug company.

I just replaced those memory cards, so they should be around here somewhere. After precious minutes  of rummaging around last night, I was stumped. But this morning I had a flash that they were in a stack of boxes stacked on top of my miniature tool chest in my office, and sure enough, there they were.

You know what ChapGPT is going to be used for? Answering customer service calls for giant soulless corporations. Most people like to talk to other people. Only a small percentage of people prefer reading. Answering calls from customers takes time, and time is money, and most of those phone calls are just nonsense, requiring only a tiny bit of information, information that is totally inaccessible from the outside, information that is stored away in some data base, but only trained operatives are able to enter the sacred chamber to retrieve the required data. Yeah, that's what AI is going to be used for and it will mostly work, but when it fucks up, which it inevitably will, it will be impossible to fix.

P. S. Remember this? 

“Doctors are taught 'when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras,' meaning a doctor should first think about what is a more common—and potentially more likely—diagnosis.

The trash pump wasn't making the noise, it was the adjacent sump pump. It's a tall pump and it had fallen over and the float had gotten stuck against the side of the bucket. Question now is, why did it fall over? Must have been Russian disinformation. The sump is totally dry, like there hasn't been any water in there for years, which indicates that all the work we did to mitigate water seeping into the crawl space actually worked. Amazing. Good thing in any case, a new trash pump was going to cost me $500.