> I got this client... (Oy, have I got clients!) He has just
> acquired a 1960 GMC "New Look" super charged 6 cylinder diesel bus. He
Thanks to those who wrote with approximate answers; indeed, there is
key, just buttons and switches front and under the rear hood that have to
be set right. Anyway, it took us fools eight hours to move it four miles,
waiting for the old owner, waiting for this, waiting for that...
You know the saying, "batteries not included"? We got the batteries,
but they died half way there, and the auto "mechanic" on duty at a garage
we made it to, tried to charge the batteries for a few... hours... Till I
came by, suspicious consultant type that I am, looked at the amp meter,
saw it read Zero, noted the cables went to the Load Test portion of the
battery utility truck, not the charger portion, and deduced something was,
um, fishy. (I was just there to do ferry duty, ferrying tools and the new
owner back to his car.) The owner, an electronics tech, hadn't noticed...
Sigh... And I, idiot that I am, wasn't suspicious enough to check on that
from the start. I wasn't in charge... I thought they knew what they were
doing...
I keep forgetting that I am a professional, and they are not. But
checking up on all the little things without making a pest of oneself to
ordinary folks is an art... I usually wait till people start getting
desperate before sticking my nose in to what I knew very little about.
Well, that is the point at which guys like me get hired... I often think
that the most useful thing I do as a consultant, is to simply review what
others have done, and evaluate options they have not considered. Just
about everything else, someone else is better at than me. But somehow,
when push comes to shove, I seem to be the one who finds the critical
piece that saves the show.
How do you deal with competency issues? Or does these things qualify
as basic competency issues? Most of the normal folks just seem to go with
the first thing that pops into their heads, and don't enjoy explaining
their thoughts as my close friends do. I don't think of myself as
exceptionally bright, but I tend to evaluate a few options before I do
things.
Got some pics. Will put them up later, but... they look like a big
aluminum bus. That, and a junk yard of filthy office "stuff" that was
stored inside after the bus was decommissioned from use as a mobile
emergency services office. It will make a nice RV when the new owner
cleans it up. Would have made one heck of a mobile computer center.
(Laughing,) I bet you could have fit a PDP 9 in there. (1970 vintage
minicomputer.)
Oh yes, on the Daily Delta reports on search engine use that I run,
"weather" and "hurricane bonnie" hit the top ten queries on the web for
Monday. Monica is 123rd, and Clinton is down at 201st. Odd
juxtapositions... and reflections on how people think. Sigh...
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