Called John to get his system back, but he wanted 1:00 so I had some time. I was going to call Carl in the morning, but listening to his message to get his number, he said he wasn't going to be around after 10:00, so I held off and made the dessert instead. Then at around 10:15 he calls me. Huh? So I called him back when it was done and went over there. There were about half a dozen wireless networks over there, sheesh. Run some cables, will ya? So I got flash installed and libreoffice and whatnot and that was that. Went to buy the ingredients for the salad, then over to take a look at this Dragon NaturalySpeaking problem. It would open, but when actually listening it would crash with a visual C++ error. I tried upgrading the C++ runtime (because that's the first thing the user would do, because of course they know what a Visual C++ runtime is) but that didn't help. Of course it's version 6.0 (current, 11) so the website was no help. I did stumble across the fact there was a 6.1 upgrade someplace, which I finally found and applied. Seem to clear it right up. Tried the Dell website to get their laptop they wanted like a month ago, but it just sat there and loaded. And loaded. And loaded. Guess Dell didn't want our money after all. 

At that point it was 1:00 after all I so dropped off John's system and got mine back. No trouble there. Expect he was all "oh, shouldn't I pay you more?"

 

PROTIP: When someone gives you a bill, you pay it, thank them, and send them on their way. You don't try to force money on them. Because that just makes them feel a lot of bad emotions directed at you. Seriously, pay the amount, "thanks again" "goodbye!". Is that so hard?

 

Sure, I stayed at his place for like two hours trying to work out what it was, but I failed, didn't I? That time was wasted. It didn't help in the least. And putting the part in took about fifteen minutes, tops, afterwords. So should I really charge him for three hours? Maybe that lawyer would have, but losing his machine for a week and even then not knowing it would be okay was a pretty big inconvenience, and really, his machine isn't worth three hours of work.  It's almost 6 years old. It's junk. Money should never even have been spent on it. But he wanted to move forward with it, so did he really think I was going to charge him all that?

 

Came back, had lunch. Debated doing the next layer on the garage doors, but by then it was about 2:30, meaning it would be 3:00 before I got set up, meaning it would be 6:00 by the time I finished, which was too late. So I just worked on the Carlita story some more.

 

Couple of calls but it was just questions I could answer over the phone, so I have absolutely nothing going on tomorrow either.

 

Except painting! Guess I'll just do that all day?

 

Did some firefight, got some challenges.

 

Still on for game tomorrow, the Perfect Horizon game my character has thus far been pretty useless in. Abel wanted to join, I wonder if he shall. He's an okay guy, but he's an odd bird, and that's in comparison to me, so you know that's saying something. 

 

Of course, if I become the standard of behavior for the entire world? Well, that's a scary world to live in, let me tell you.

 

One last thought on Transformers 3. I was thinking, I bet if the remaining cybertronians just said, you know what, 99% of our race is dead, our planet is a lifeless ball of metal in space, there's no point in warring any more, we're disarming our weapons, will you (humanity) help us to rebuild our planet in exchange for some of our technology? We would probably have said yes. We're that kind of people, right? But nooooo we've got to have plans to bring the planet here? and turn humanity into slaves? Just ask us! We'll be glad to help! Silly robots in disguise.

 

It's July now. Heather's birthday soon, wonder what she wants? (hint, hint)