2016-10-07:

Fri:
Took a look at the new code and realized there was a lot of stuff not covered by the specs. Like there's a whole field in there they don't even mention. What's it for?

Also I couldn't get it to work, it just gave me a mySQLDate error or something like that. So I could only get so far in trying to do stuff with it.

Came up with a bunch of questions for things we might need to test. Even found two typos in stuff supposedly already tested. So nicely done there.

Not much else to say about work we did watch the demo of the new features. They hilariously locked themselves out of the account somehow so that was fun.

Went to the bank, went to go buy ingredients for the tasty dessert item I had but could not find graham crackers (either whole or crumbs) or the whipped topping I was supposed to get. Sigh.

Got the crackers at Aldi instead. Also the fake sugar I use. Grr…

Then over to my parent's house. Their wi-fi camera cards did indeed stop working, so thanks for that eyefi. They released a tool to make them work locally, but it works on 10.10 and up?? ugh. So as no other card was as convenient as that, they get to plug the cameras in now. Sorry about that.

Also fixed her speakers and showed m mother how to print envelopes.

Back here at 8:00 I made phone calls. After putting in Anniversary Edition one guy's quickbooks crashes when it opens now. Well done. And I get to go see the guy I print the books for Sunday, he's having email problems? But that should be quick.

It was then 9:00 so I checked my sites, got ready for tomorrow, and that was that.

Sheesh.

Sat:
Fairly good day. My 9:00 had her machine in a box, with no table to set it on so we had to use the box itself as a table, and it was pretty well taken over. Mbam didn't take too long to run thank goodness, and it was back to normal when I was done with it.

Of course, I got a call from her later in the day that it wouldn't start up now. Wonderful.

But that was later. I came back, worked on the dessert a bit more, and then went out to the 12:00. He admitted to opening one of those fake "invoice" emails, which apparently was causing his machine to blue screen with some sort of DLL message. I despaired of it working, but ran the sfc command on it anyway. Good news, it worked.

Answered some other questions for him, and that was that.

Got back here about 2:30, watched the next Andromeda episode just to see what was coming, still don't know exactly if I want Susan to go after the bones, and left for Sean's.

Watched an odd supernatural type movie, and they made characters for my manifestation game. We even got through the intro so progress was made. Excellent.

Sun:
Did a bunch of reading in the morning, so I can get this book my mother gave me back. Then did some cleaning.

Out to see the book guy. Somehow lost his yahoo password, and had phone numbers in the recovery part he insisted he never had. Sure, dude, sure.

I looked through his keychain and just started trying every password in there, and hey, one worked. Nice.

Of course there was book nonsense. He wants ten more copies. Well, as I'm not a print shop, I'll get to them, eventually.

Back to cleaning, it was getting a bit rough around here.

Set up the laptop with the SSD, got windows installed on it. So that's done as windows update was just sitting there doing nothing.

Got a bit more christmas shopping done, and sent my list to my mother.

Thought I would get to bed early. Seeing as I was falling asleep in my chair reading. Shouldn't have bothered. Grr.

Mon:
What's this, actual work, at work? Too bad it came so late.

Anyway, did some more test case manipulation, thought about game stuff, and finally got software loaded. By someone else, and on some weird larger printer in the other lab instead of the smaller, newer printer in ours. But hey, what can you do, right?

Worked out what my SNMP stuff was doing wrong- have no idea. But the command works from the linux box, so that's a plus. Chris showed me that, as well as setting me up more accounts on the various authentication/authorization servers. And now I know these things are different. Don't ask me why, or how, but they are.

Thanks Chris, for providing the training Xerox can't.

Got through a few of the test cases. Won't get through many more tomorrow, I have meetings for like four hours. Three in the morning, one in the afternoon. Which is super great. I have two weeks to test and half my days are meetings.

Set up the PC for the lady I was at Saturday at 9:00. She got her new table in, so I put that in and moved the PC to it.

Then came back here. Started putting the PC together as the lady has made up her mind and wants it.

Also the dentist guy NOW wants an SSD, instead of doing it before we set the machine up, as I suggested. Baka. So I ordered that for him.

Talked someone through making their printer print in color again. Well, I took their machine over. Loving that Win10 printing architecture, you betcha.

So I have jobs almost the rest of the week. One person coming here tomorrow.
Tomorrow a machine that "won't go off the gateway logo" and Wednesday someone coming here. Then Saturday dropping this off. Yes, it's still only Monday folks.

Stopped at Lowes on the way home to get a new toilet flapper. Mine was totally warn out and I figured it was the cause of my leaking noise. Even got the one with the silicone sealant and new ring. Popped that on.

Noise continues.

I guess it's my float, then? Whatever they call that part. I was right, it is a float, and mine is a fluid master type. It seems they're adjustable. Guess I'll have to look into that, and if it doesn't work, talk to paw about getting that there newfangled thing changed.

And now it's 8:30. Guess I'll read a bit, no sense trying to do any writing at this point. Still not sure what I even want to do, truth to tell.

Tues:
Very busy day today, for once. In between four hours of meetings, I managed to get 95% of the testing for the first feature done. A few things failed, so I have to talk that over with Sue about writing/not writing bugs up. There are still changes coming apparently, which is somewhat concerning.

But we went through what the AT&T demo was going to be, in other words what slides are going to be in the presentation. And went over the last of the CWW test cases.

My two workmates have been tasked with a bit of another project, rebooting it over and over? So that should be fun for them.

So it's finally going someplace. Tomorrow I'll finish up the last few test cases, SMB stuff I didn't know how to do but I think I know where to go. But are the accounts the same? I don't think so. Chris to the rescue there. Then see about cleaning up the CWW ones from the meeting.

Managed to save the PC I looked at after that. Wasn't sure I was going to, figured after being left on for 24 hours it would have cooked itself. (The heatsink was totally clogged up) But I cleaned it out, reseated all the connections, and it came back. Neat.

Got back here, ate dinner, checked my sites, and ate dinner. Made calls, I got the enclosure I ordered so I'm delivering the laptop to the far away lady Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow is the job here for the Mac guy with the backup disk that apparently isn't mounting, and Thursday is some other machine just down the street he says needs to be cleaned out. Looks like I'm going to be working Sunday this week.

Yay.

Did some more reading. Finished it about 9:00. Decent!

Ugh, it's a new month isn't it? I need to do paperwork.

Not tonight!

Wed:
Another fast paced day at work. Even with nearly two hours of meetings.

Worked a little on the test cases, had a "review" of the test cases, and we went through the shortest one and about two or three of the next one which took an hour and a half.

I got some more test cases out of it, and Chris looked into some things about logging in afterwords.

So didn't really get much testing in, because I was working on putting the test cases in the others had suggested. Tomorrow we're getting a demo of the clone feature so that may answer more questions, or perhaps generate more of them?

Came back here, cleaned up the kitchen for the guy that was coming. Checked my sites, did a bit of writing.

He brought his time machine disk that disk utility wouldn't repair, and Disk Warrior said was too new to fix? Odd, the file system in Mac OS X hasn't changed in many years, not until the new one from 10.12. And he's still on 10.10 so it isn't that. Weird.

No calls, thank goodness, so none to return tonight.

Did some writing, but then got interrupted by a man who clicked on an email attachment and got hit with a crypto ransomeware. Fun. He had a backup, but I found a tool that would decrypt the files, which I figured would be faster than trying to use the crappy win7 restore utility. So that took about an hour. It was fortunate he had a backup, the tool needed identical files, one encrypted and one not. So I pulled one from the backup, let it look at them, made sure it worked, and let it go to town on the entire drive.

And then I went to bed! Yay!

Thurs:

It has been a pretty long day. Mostly because of the latter part, but we'll take it from the top.

The machine I had reserved for three days went to someone else because that's lab etiquette. You don't take a machine for extended periods. But that was the only machine I had software for, so I couldn't test today. I did work on test cases of course.

Apparently, when this other group makes code they have to send to a more local group who looks it over? So that grinds the process to a halt, and makes it harder to do anything with it. Personally, I don't get it. Finish coding the software, build it, then get it to me for testing. Don't bother giving me incomplete stuff that's not going to work anyway.

But we did reserve some machines, for two months naturally, because screw lab policy, right? Yeah!

Saw the manufacturing area, part of it anyway. Had to walk there to get to 207 for a short (very short) demo of one of the new areas of code. Turns out I had a few assumptions wrong, so I also managed to change those test cases to be more accurate. Go me. Even managed to make my way back, alone, and with my no sense of direction weakness, that's an accomplishment all by itself.

I took some screenshots of stuff I had found and in my meeting with Sue went over them, and she agreed everything I had found was a bug. We're not sure if they want bugs written yet, remember it's incomplete software! So she mailed some people to see what they individually wanted. Because we can't all do things the same way, or whatever.

Then having left a bit later then I had planned, I went to my after work, work. This was the most ancient PC I had seen in quite some time. It was running XP SP2 which gives you some idea, and it was a 2.0 ghz Celeron with less than 1GB of RAM.

After I tediously sat and ran MBAM and such I asked if there was anything specific. He claimed to not be able to delete anything in his email (which took a few minutes to recall how he actually got into it, why yes he was over a million years old, why do you ask?) I finally opened it and avast was squawking about certificates or something. It wouldn't proceed even when I manually added them, so I (tediously, again) took it out. That let his 2000+ emails in (He hadn't actually opened it in more than a year!) and while this happened, I downloaded panda antivirus. Whoops, it needs SP3.

So it was now 2.5 hours since I had arrived, and I had stopped caring. I'll care, deeply, passionately, about anything… for a maximum of two hours. Then I'll stop. So he gets to run without an antivirus. I chucked his 2GB worth of deleted items, told it to empty the trash when closing to avoid the problem in the future, perhaps? Compacted his mail, and that was that. Why are you even bothering with so old a system? You obviously don't use it!

A few calls, york asking for more RAM but I doubt that's what they need, and yet another person unable to articulate their issue. Something about firefox? And a certain website? So I have four places to go Saturday. Yay, working from 8:30 to at least 4:00. Just what I had hoped for.

No wait, what's the opposite of that?

Looking forward, possibly going to the bank tomorrow, but as far as work goes I should have a machine to test with so it'll be back to that. Then shopping, and going to my parent's house for yum yums and mouth speaking.

No reaction to the <secret project> so is that good or bad?

Whoops, was that a clue to the <secret project>? My lips are sealed.

Have to go there early too, give them a "present."

Nothing from Sean, so probably not going there. Maybe the latest Star Trek movie with my father? Who knows.

So that's this week. Picking up steam I would say. But what gruesome machinery lurches to life because of it, one wonders?

Crap, totally forgot to print the proof copy of the book for the book guy. Doing that now.

Did I mention I'm not a print shop? And that I hate windows?I know it's those little tidbits that keep you reading, so I'm throwing them out there again.

Have a good weekend, folks.