2016-02-12:

Still, with that accomplished most everyone will move to 4.0 and more people than myself can start shaking out bugs. Of course I would have only needed maybe half the week to finish the major services, as I've done about half of them so far.

Bought groceries, hey, they had salad this week, how about that? Brought my ink in to Staples and saw my parents.

Sean said tomorrow is off, but next week should be good.

Came home, made my 5 calls (ugh) and watched Gabriel, movie 3 of the 3-movie collection. One call for Sunday, just hooking the new printer up for the guy I worked for last week. We'll see what calls tomorrow brings though. Still, should be a somewhat quieter Sunday than last week.

Sat:
Pretty decent day. 
Returned the laptop, then tore the top off another. I see now what HP was thinking with the stupid bezel. They wanted you to tear the whole top part off the laptop and go from there. I tried before, but it didn't want to come. You really had to yank on it to get it to come off. But it did.

Back for lunch.

Went to the Nielsen house, took care of various issues for them, like running Mbam and putting the printer on their machines. Would have sworn I had done that before, though. Weird.

Then a short job just down the street, some programs were insisting she didn't have a printer installed. I erased the three phantom copies she had (some network, some not) and let it pick it back up again. That did it.

Tested all the PS 1 controllers in the big box, only one was questionable. Some of the games don't have manuals, one hung up so that's out. Others like "the chess master" I'm pretty sure aren't going to sell no matter what I do. But I grouped like together and we'll see if I get any action on them. The incomplete ones, like Frogger 2? I don't know.

Cut my finger a little using a razor blade to scrape sticker off a controller. Stupid.

Sun:
Very quiet today! Amazing.

Spent the morning listing stuff on ebay and watching episodes of Dominion season 1. Simultaneously, even. Got up the PS1 games, and a bunch of controller lots. Now that think about it, probably should have done the controller lots in a more staggered fashion. Whoops. Too late now. At least they are each different.

Ugh, you should see my living room now! Actually, probably best that you can't.

Did my paperwork, I'm down $60 or so from last year.

Went out at 2:00 to set up the guy's printer, that went fine. His stupid RR modem insisted his wireless was both on and off, so I reset it back to the default name. Hate those things.

The guy was around so I put in the modem for him. He has the phone service, so he just keeps the equipment he has, but stops paying for it. Still haven't figured that one out.

Back at 4:30. Started watching Elementary, the last of the stuff Sean gave me before. It's pretty good.

Not many calls, didn't book into the week for once. Just tomorrow, a new setup. Hope it doesn't take two hours as always…

Mon:
Brought a monitor in and shoved the printer that I sit next to over so I would have room for it. Great idea, it has made my life much easier. And my "roommate" was off on another machine because his isn't going to 4.0 so it was also much quieter all day today. Amazing. Day flew by, let me tell you.

Did some copy stuff, putting some new test cases in (that all failed) around the new custom tray stuff.

Then on to administration which I got more than half way though. Go me.

Then out to do the setup. Went fine, just very, very, very slowly. I loathe machines without SSDs, I truly do. "Oh, you have four processors? Great! Watch them sit and do nothing as the HD churns away doing the most simple of tasks." And I thought the one she wanted had more than 4GB of RAM? Guess not. Stupid pcs.

Anyway, got home about 7:30, thanks for living a half hour away, and made phone calls until 9:00. Walked some people through things, set up some stuff to order for a guy, and got a roku back online.

It's now 9:15. Can I do anything for myself tonight? Oh, nope, still have to place that order! And I haven't even gotten though all my monday websites yet!

aargh.

Tues:
Another fine day of testing completed. Got through all the administration stuff, even talked to the SE about some test cases. He needs to get me a tool do verify some of them.

So nice with my hire buddy at the other end of the room. So quiet, no interruptions, bliss.

Had the meeting in the morning, spoke about various things, like timers and how staples is getting the software.

Day went pretty quick. Starting boot up and recovery I think tomorrow? I forget now. Oh well.

After work job wasn't as bad as I feared, heck mbam didn't find a single thing. It just took 40 minutes to run. They had mcafee which I took off, hoping it would help. Then defender wouldn't turn on. Then I got it on and it wouldn't update. So great! And of course their machine was an old core 2 duo trying to run Win10. The 32 bit version of Win10, mind you. So forget 1/4 of your RAM, I guess.

You know, Apple went to 64 bit with a passion. Like, even their PHONES went to 64 bit which is just crazy, right? But here's a laptop, struggling along with more RAM than it can even access. And that stupid grinding away, seemingly doing nothing but at the same time getting nowhere. Love that. And it wasn't slow enough to make me think "maybe the HD is dying or something." No, it was just fast enough to make me want to throw it across the room, but not say "this is obviously broken."

Got home at 7:30, made my… one? How did that happen? Phone call. I… I don't have anything for tomorrow at the moment? Wha?

Wild.

Ordered a battery, checked my websites, I could even get in an episode of Elementary tonight. What a marvel.

Wed:
So, I'm saying I'm in the lead, or anything, in bug reporting, with 334 total reports. I'm also not saying these are the current numbers:

RZ 334
CH 291
AD 282
JW 276
PL 84
GF 80
JB 6

Oddly, JB was moved onto our project only one month after myself, so one has to wonder what, exactly, Xerox is paying him for. Anyway, I didn't say any of that, but there it is. I mean it's not a competition, is it? No, it's not. But they do tell an interesting story, don't they?

Anyway, more bugs found, more test cases made, all that sort of good stuff went on today. Once again all by my lonesome. People wonder how I find so many bugs. Then I see three people standing there talking about cars, or dogs, or what have you, and they have their answer.

Looked into a text expansion program today too, was tired of copying and pasting the same text over and over for bug reports. Now I can type a few letters, and magically what I need to be in the field is in the field. I do so love technology.

Went home early, did not eat there, as I had no evening appointment today. And I did not book one for tomorrow, either. Huh. Only the one call, the lady from yesterday has a RR modem with router, and oh look, it lost wireless. What a shock. She asked if it would be easier if I talked her through it, and I had to honestly say yes, it probably would, because I know what I'm doing.

But I still recommended she call them, see what they had to say about their equipment not working. The more calls they get about their crappy equipment, the better I say.

Watched a bunch of elementary, thank you universe, needed that.

Now to check my websites and get ready for tomorrow. I have a ton of "fixed" bugs I started going though (spoiler, the ones I looked at late today were not fixed at all. They still exhibited the exact same behavior. Nice effort, India) So perhaps some will be fixed? Who can say. Then more copy, as that seems important.

Then back here, see what calls I have.

Thurs:
Turns out, not any! Nice. Another evening of working through the stuff Sean gave me. But I get ahead of myself.

Well, I say not any. I have been called by Buffalo, "customer support" a 718 number and "out of area" an 800 number. Yesterday it was "NY, NY" a 347 number and "out of area" a 631 number and Troy NY a 518 number. What the actual freak? Are PHONE scams really so popular nowadays? Everyone has cell phones which should include caller ID. Who picks up if they don't see the person's name matched to their own address book, to say nothing of out of state callers like this. Six in two days? Goodness!

Wait. Hold everything. Proofreading this I had a startling thought. Who has land line phones nowadays? I'll tell you- old people. People who did not move to cell phones, and even my parents have moved on to not having a land line phone. So I'm talking older than them sort of people. People who are easiest to scam, in other words. Is that why so many calls? Because there's a higher chance they won't talk to someone savy enough to ignore them? It is an interesting theory, isn't it?

Got through a bunch of the now "fixed" test cases assigned to me. Many of them actually were. Some of them were not. Some actually revealed other bugs. I loved closing one and then opening one to replace it.

Would have gotten though more, but had to spend some time showing developers that yes, there really is an issue here. Oh, it does something different for you? You'll show me? OH, it's doing the same thing I said? Isn't that interesting?

Senpai came and congratulated me on passing him in bugs written. Wow, to get noticed twice… I'm blushing.

Meeting was canceled today too, oh well I guess?

Still all alone in my corner, and my clock was not as easy to read as I had hoped. It shows up well enough if you light it up, guess I'll just have to smack it when something interesting happens. (That's how you turn the light on it)

No job today, cold, cold, cold, and it's going to get colder. A lot colder. Did the driveway.

Then watched more Elementary. Not much more to go.

Not sure if we're on for Saturday, and of course the shopping and ugh only four checks this week. Maybe I'll go, maybe not. Going to my parent's house a bit late, and of course I forget to take a picture to post what I made my mother for Valentine's day. Came out okay too. Well, maybe later.

I did get the cable modem and splitter in the mail, but no answer at the number, not even a machine to talk to. Odd. So maybe I'll brave the negative wind chill saturday and put it in?

Otherwise, bit more testing tomorrow, and perhaps to a very quiet weekend. I deserve one, I think.

Been thinking about more Susan chapters, I haven't written in some time, I do miss it. I'm pretty sure I know how I want the next two worlds to go. Two! I have some great plans for Susan, I'm itching to get them down on paper. Aarg!

Other things I think about: Losing nearly $1000 to the stock market. And shall I ever dance in the vampire bund?

See you all next week everyone, bundle up. Unless you don't need to, of course.