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Fri:
Watched the demo I recorded and made any changes. Sent it to Joe, who came back with two changes. Had to record two new voice clips but they dropped in easily enough. He approved the second one and set up a meeting to show it. Just send it to them, we don't need to sit there and watch it again. It's like a half hour long, man!
Cleaned up and put the machine back. Ah, I can breathe in my area again.
Otherwise pretty slow today.

Saw my parents briefly before they left.
Then got info at the bank about their new "we're charging you $9.95 a month" thing they've decided they needed to do. Love the language the notice uses: "you generally cannot refuse these changes." Uh yeah I can, it's called moving my money to a different bank. Oh, and if your balance is above $0 but below $10.00, they're just going to take the $10 and then overdraft you. Which probably has a fee associated with it. So just when you have nothing, they take the last of what you have and then charge you for the priviladge. So nice. Wow. Much compassion.
Then shopping, and home.
Made dinner, checked sites.
Answered some questions in the discord.
Then got ready for tomorrow.

Did game. Didn't get anywhere really. Just talked magic rules. Sean has issues with the word "create" I guess? So we'll have to see what I can do.

Sat:
Totally cleaned the kitchen again. How many mice do I have in there? A dozen? Sealed up the crack behind the stove. Hopefully that solves the problem.
Did other cleaning.
Vet called, Tinker's blood work is normal.
Drilled holes in cups I found in the work recycle bin to transplant my larger plants into.
Gave Tinker his motorized toy. He actually played with it for some time. Huh.
Put the computer desk back the way it should be.
Did 3 hours of Mass Effect.
Then got the mail. Oh goody, look at this wonderful surprise I have. It's a letter from the IRS saying I owe them $14,000 plus $3,000 interest plus a $3,000 penalty. Neato. So, wait. I send in my taxes electronically in 2022. It takes them 3 years to get back to me but they calculate interest as though I knew I "owed" them this money the whole time. Does that seem fair to you?

Anyway, I think I tracked it all down. Kinecta screwed up. In 2022 it seems they sent the IRS bogus info that I had "retirement income taxable" of $48,070. Meaning I put that money in my pocket. NOPE. It went right into another IRA. I never touched it. So I'm going to have to go down and see my "financial advisor" and tell her to amend that whatever it was they were told that I didn't get that money, and it was not part of my income. Then refute the claim, and provide that statement as evidence. So great.

Parents came for movie. I forgot to point out the desk, and how it's back to looking the way it should. My work should be admired, darn it! For at least 5 seconds. I demand it. Then it's fine don't look at it again.

Then xbox with the others. Sean: "I want to stop at 11:30" Me: "Sure" *plays until 12:00* "Uhhhhh"

Sun:
Fixed the scratching posts on the outdoor playground. 4 pieces of carpet cut, glued, and secured. Nice.
Replated the plants using the new cups I got. In reality they are not big enough. Need to sell them faster.
Then worked on the site. Got the layout for the blog looking good. Oh, and running on my downstairs Mac too! So it's being served in the right way. I just have to figure out how to redirect "localhost" to the actual directory without specfying it in the URL. Right now it needs to be localhost/~username and that's no good. It think? Or can I specify that in some kind of redirect at whoever hosts the name? Got the archive sidebar working as well. It's going to be a slightly more manual process because php doesn't work and I'm far too lazy to make it work. I'll just add the latest entry to an html file it's displaying. The problem is going to be filling in all the links for what has come before. Oh well, it's not hard just a bit tedious. It's just 17 years of entries.

It'll also work a little differently, opening the archive in a new tab. Eh, it's fine. It'll look bad, especially the very oldest entries that were not weekly and had the current format. But is anyone really going to go back that far? I think not. Hummm can't get to it from the other mac, or via the ip address from the hosting machine. "forbidden" message. Always something.

Ate lunch.

Did a magicraft run, as I didn't get to yesterday because of the whole IRS business. Don't know how to effectively use the sword guy I guess.

Got ready for tomorrow.

Got the PC yesterday, so I did the home setup portion. I'm not calling her yet. I have no idea how long I'll be at the credit union in the morning so I'll have to stay late. And I doubt I'll be in the mood. Ugh, we get the "pre-release" tomorrow too. I was supposed to stay late anyway, until 4:30 to "make up" the time I'll spend at the dentist Friday. Everything is dumb.

Did more reading, I didn't finish it earlier.

Then some xbox with the others. Hey we even stopped "early" it was 10:45. Neat.

Mon:
Went in to work because the union only opens at 9:00, because reasons? Got set up there.
Then went there.

Spoke to cute goblin girl! I mean, the girl I want to help cosplay. Anyway. She couldn't help. Offered to email the financial adviser.

Went to work. Christina said the machine she loaded with the new build got a system fault. So I held off. I worked on the Magic Rules.

At 4:00 I realized the adviser was not going to call me so I looked her up and called her. She told me a few things and I ran out to the car to see what forms I had. She said to bring them and she would look them over. I did. She thinks it will be fine. I have the evidence I need.

Back to work. I had loaded the new release as that was the directive. Started my test with the simple, 2 seconds test. Machine crashed? Tried again. Crashed. Pattern. Crash. Wrote up a bug. Sigh.

Got back home around 6:00. I stayed late both to write up bug and make time for dentist.

Had dinner. Checked sites.

Made calls. 3 of them. Lady wants PC tomorrow, all well and good.

Second guy is by Sean's. Wi-fi stuff. I've ordered him a mini-router unit and some hopefully good antennas. We'll see if that solves his problem. I hate wi-fi. Hard wire everything. Even your phone. You heard me.

Then third guy needed his printer driver reloaded for some strange reason? He had already downloaded it, so the work was half done. I finished it off, took 10 minutes. Thankfully, something easy today!

Wrote up letter to IRS with evidence. Worked out where extra money came from. I had another IRA it seems. Weird. My first Xerox employment? Don't know. Showed it added up. Should be good. No idea what address to use. I guess I'll scan it in at work and send it via the website. Seems easiest.

And then bed, it's only MONDAY?

Tues:
Busy today.

Had 4 different meetings. Two meetings with Joe, the first one in the morning about companies buying keys. Not sure why I was there.

The second at noon, everyone's favorite time for a meeting. The usual status of Joe's stuff.

Then the third meeting was right after that. The PJL meeting, but the command he said didn't work did when he tried it in front of us, so there. So he was going to fix his script and try the other commands.

Then at 3:00 the usual OneDrive meeting with the client, they looked at logs. Again, why was I there?

In between all that I got the two other tests done on the 8255. Loaded the software on C8155 which does crash it when I try the PJL commands. Neat.

Wrote I think 5 bugs or maybe 6? Screens that don't look good mostly, the usual stuff.

Scanned the documents to send to the IRS and sent them.

Uh yeah I think that was it.

Set up the PC for the lady. She didn't have much stuff so that went pretty fast.

Back here to eat dinner, it's 7:00 already!

Did some magicraft while I waited for Sean, and then did xbox with the others.

Wed:
More work today, but not a lot. I did the two tests on the other device, pretty much finishing up this release. There are some translation strings I need to check in a later build.

Finished up the pony chapters using the material I had.

Attended the 4:00 meeting about the voice stuff, this time for the remote UI being read by the screen reader. She recommends testing twice. At the local UI and the remote UI. Neat.

Snowed a little.

Back here I checked sites, ate dinner. Alyx came for their book. Did a half hour of Magicraft.

Then bed!

Thurs:
The usual meetings today. OneDrive and status.

I also aided Don in doing his weird scanning stuff, using the EIP tool. Of course, of course, it has to work differently than altalink. It has to. But we found the secret switch to allow it to happen and finally got a scan out of the darn thing. It doesn't do what he wants. It's "too big" for the customer. See at first 300kb was fine and we figured out how to get it down to 100kb on another platform. So now 300kb is too big suddenly. Yes, 300kb. It's 2025 people, we have 16TB single HDs. This trying to shave off a few hundred kb is costing everyone more time and money than it's worth.

Did the proofreading, actually added to the chapter it wasn't exactly done but now it is.

Work wise not much else I think. Need to wait for the translation strings to go in before I can say this "pre-relase" is tested to my satisfaction.

Oh, I opened the door for the guy that brought back our printer. That counts, right?

Watered the plants. Just about a dollar in cans put into the kids fund. Is it really that hard to walk over to one of those things? They're everywhere. Literally down every hall. I weep. Stayed late to help Don, I was going to anyway but it worked out fine.

Back here checked sites. Had dinner.

Got back to print shop guy. Once again unplugging the router solved his issue. Insists spectrum came out but it still didn't work when the guy left? Why would the guy leave if it didn't work? Sounds fishy to me. I suggested a better antenna and USB adapter instead of whatever he's using now.

Put together the next bag of the unicorn. The start of the body. Looking good. Has little tubes and an engine right there on him. So neat.

Looking ahead we are doing game tomorrow. Dentist and dental procedure in the morning. Looking forward to that. Work wise not sure, oh more Don scanning stuff as we didn't get his template thing working. Stupid thing. Otherwise not too much. Doing the shopping. Bank, I only have one check but it's a big one, from the PC system I sold the lady. Seeing my parents.

Saturday I'll probably go over to the guy near Sean's. Take care of that whole mess. Have my parents over. Few around the house things, I've got the start of a list again.

And then Monday we have off. Some Mass Effect perhaps? Oh right we get a new pres, and he's gonna take his hand off that bible (his favorite book) snap his fingers and Q style end the wars (which one? Every one) fix grocery prices, erase trans people, end gay marriage, further stack the supreme court, drill baby drill, send thoughts and prayers, (he won't end the wildfires, too blue) destroy windmills, put every woman in a burka, take away their right to vote, it's gonna be wild. Flags will be raising and lowering, sheep laying down with lions, it be crazy. Can't wait.

That's it. Second week done. Feels like months. Take care of yourselves out there.