Uber-spies Have To Do Everything Themselves

A moment of silence, please. I want to welcome Ranger Buddy to the dark side. The man had to do his Continuing Education class for roofing and he'd run out time to attend a class. So. He has to do an online class.

Bwahaha.

This is a man whose New Year's resolution is not to use a cell phone (he hates them). He's never done anything on a computer before except to turn it on and off ONCE in the last decade.

I cannot imagine him sitting in front of a puter screen for 15 hours, scrolling and clicking. Of course, he's broken it down to three hours a night to get the two courses done on time, and every day he's cracking me up with his tales about trying to navigate the site. He's tossing in lines like:

"I'm ready for some chat room chitchat with my buddy list now."
"I've going home to burn some CDs so I can play on my MP3 while I IM my teacher."
"I'm adding that site to my Favorites."

Let me assure you, he has NO IDEA what he was saying. He just knows the lingo, but it's funny to hear the lines coming out of the mouth of a man with tar all over his hands. Oh yeah, his wife is going to let his big digits on her precious computer longer than neccessary! LOL.

But you know, it's hard to fathom that I once lived without computers/laptops. That I spent over thirty years living quite happily unconnected by wireless-wires. What did I do in those days? LOL. I also didn't have a cell phone till five years ago, when I needed to be connected to my agent. Now, that thing is stuck to my tool belt like a necessary tool.

Ranger Buddy HATES cell phones with a passion. It's killing productivity, he says, and I can't say I disagree with him. I look around me at the construction site and just about everyone is talking on their cell at one time or another, standing there, work stopped, yakking away. And nothing gets done.

And of course, don't start him raving by saying that you can get things done with a cell phone. He's got another point. People here in construction just calls someone when something needs to get done...and nothing gets done as the task is transferred from call to call. Example...roof needs plumbing pipe boots. In the old days (ten years ago), I would yell down at the superintendant and he has to write it down in his book and then go get them because there is NO handy cell phone. Now, he calls the plumbing contractor who might be on another job in another city and forgets about it. Then plumbing contractor will call somebody his end and mention it. Then somebody will call the plumber on the site we're on and ask him whether he has it. Plumber on site stands and talks about half an hour, then tells us on the roof that we have no lead boots.

Of course we don't, I* was the one who yelled down in the first place! By this time half a day has gone by. Start process again. Same round of calls. Plumber on site finally tells us, yes, he will call and ask someone to bring us some boots tomorrow. Tomorrow...of course, no lead boots. My smart suggestion to Ranger Buddy: "Let's call the superintendant!" LOL.

I wonder whether uber-spies have the same problem with chain of communication?

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