Confetti

The latest moments in Adults with Disabilities Coping brought to you by the Frustration Lab at the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing

1. Remember the thermostat. Solved! Thank you teamwork! Other people with better eyes interacted with the thermostat enough to figure out that the thermostat was fine; there was a problem in the fan in the heating system! Presto: WorkOrder! Job skill recognized: teamwork!

2. Today's theme material: confetti.
     Confetti filling the bin of the shredder and triggering a red light. The red light said Overload, if one got one's eyes up close and personal, practically close enough to read with one's nose. Off-switch therapy failed to resolve the overload so RantWoman fished around and found the bin full of shredded material. Ahh. Easy to resolve! Cue trash bag. Note to self: see if anyone around can help hold the trash bag while dumping occurs.

     Confetti spilled all over the floor while trying to dump the shredder bin into a plastic bag for disposal.

Ah but the fun has only begun.

Cue the nice Eureka vacuum cleaner.

     Confetti filling the vacuum cleaner enough to hit an overload button if there were one.

Cue some kind of teeny tiny diagram on the back of the canister with thin lines and microscopic print.

Forget that and see what all one can find with one's fingers.

Cue multiple different chambers that need to be located, opened, emptied.

Open the chamber containing the filter a couple times. Then find the catch and open the bottom chamber. Dump a whole bunch of dust and a little bit of the confetti into the trash bag. There is still a whole lot of confetti inside that has not gone anywhere except for some sticking out a hole in the side of the canister.

Reopen the filter space, find the metal handle, pick it up and pull out the the center chamber. There. Direct access to more confetti to dump into the trash bag.

Almost done? Pull at least some of the remaining confetti out of the outlet duct. Put everything back: canister, filter, canister on frame. One more pass with the vacuum cleaner and then pull everything and dump and reassemble one more time.

Job skills recognized. Persistence in the face of puzzlement.

Isn't technology fun, especially with rocking documentation?