2022-03-31:

Fri:
Busy today, got the next D5.6 build in. Did the ID card copy test again. Seems fine. Christina got the other test done so I don't have to worry about that when she's on vacation.
A bit of writing and fighting with stupid Kofax to get the needed serial number. Hey companies, if you don't sell your product anymore, just unlock it to run forever or whatnot. You can do that, right? No support or anything, just let us use it.
Returned the cards too, my badge does work over there. Weird.
Did the shopping, bank, dropped stuff off. Aldi was out of salt. How is that even possible? Fake sugar I can almost understand but salt? It's one of the most common things an the planet. We've got oceans of the stuff. Deserts of the stuff. I mean I know it has to get here but it's just odd to think about. I still have some, I only use it in my pie crust and even then only a sprinkle so it's fine it's just so odd I mentioned it.
Back here, got the laptop in, looked it over so I can trade the woman who just can't handle the display being 1" smaller than before.
Also got in the RAM for grandpa's old PC, but I'll look at that later.
Found out my dashcam wasn't recording anymore because I wanted to look at a near collision. (not with me, it was the car ahead of me, both sides were rushing a light and the guy in front of me was turning left.)
Installed Tiny Tina's Wonderland.
Checked sites, ate dinner, and did game. We got yanked into an adventure in punching stuff. I punched stuff! I did good. We were helping out an angel and had to fight some demonic robots. Luckily my metal nature spell could hurt them where my usual electricity spell could not. But the robots got punched, the guy controlling the robots got punched, everybody got punched.

Sat:
Cleaned up a little. But only a little, didn't want to go overboard this week.
Started my handbrake queue, it's been building up for months. It took until Sunday to work through it, shrinking blue ray sized files down. Even on an M1 it was a lot of work. But my shrink folder is finally empty. But I figured as I would be gone part of the day it was time to get that done.
Put the drive in the all in one from my grandfather, got it up and running. Didn't give me too many problems. His mouse sucks, it's getting trashed. It double clicks all the time, how did he use this crappy thing? But it's all loaded up and just needs a new owner.
Watched a ladybug episode or two.
Called the vet, they had already canceled the shot appointment for the checkup appointment, which they did schedule. They're on the ball over there! I'll have to leave work an hour early that day.
Ate lunch.
Picked up sticks from the back yard and cleaned up the garage a little. The floor will need a good cleaning.
More ladybug and then leaving.
We got through half the dungeon? It was rather epic though, we beat up some dudes and I raised them as zombies! Then I sent them to attack the next room. But not through the door, that's so pedestrian. I shifted them up to the astral plane, then back down when they were in position. So to the enemies their former companions appeared out of nowhere as zombies to attack them! Classic. Sean is adjusting the difficulty, not putting in all the forces the game itself does, because even one room can take hours to clear despite it being 20 seconds in the world itself. I didn't mind it, we all get to contribute to a combat so it works out.
Then did some Tiny Tina's.

Sun:
Snowing! Yay! Wait what? Snowed all day, pretty hard at times. Yuck.
Mostly trying to finish Miraculous today so I can switch over to the games Sean gave me. Of course I want to finish Control first, and Ni No Kuni needs to be finished I'm not even to the point I'm at when my PS 3 broke down. Games are way too long now!
But I did clean the mouse, check sites, straighten the house up, watched it annoyingly snow all day, and make a few calls.
Finished Season 3. I'll go back to gaming before looking into getting the next seasons. I want to watch them but it must be done.
Going to deliver the laptop tomorrow.
And just answered a printer question for another lady.
Did some Borderlands and went to bed.

Mon:
Had some meetings in the morning, just about the bugs we had written for the ID card copy feature placement.
Nothing too serious.
Then worked on the next chapter. Finished it and started the next.
Still snowing when I got out, it's annoying and keeps coming. It's still not very much but it's blowing around and such. Go away!
Over to set up the laptop, that went fine, only took about an hour.
Then back here. Checked sites, ate dinner, and played some Control. Also figured out a little more about how to most effectively play my Tiny Tina character and looked into it more.
Put an SSD in this lady's old laptop, got windows installed on it. What am I going to do with two laptops now? Ugh, hopefully someone will want them soon.
No calls today, didn't have to do that.

Tues:
Was pretty busy today. Both Kevin and Joe had stuff they wanted me to do, so I had to do it. It's sorta my job.

Testing the card reader plugins, again, even though Christina tested them on like 15 different families of printers. Oh wait, there's another one that so old it's going end of support in a year, but we better make sure it works on that one too! Setting it up was a pain but at least it accepted my clone file.

The other task was trying out every combination of 3 settings, with 4 possibilities, 2 possibilities, and 2 possibilities, to see if we could get the machine to print a certain way. We can't! And really why would it work that way, you would have to somehow send the paper around the print path again after printing, slowing it way down.

So those both took some time. I don't think I did much writing at all.

Came back, at least the sun was out it was still snowing in the morning. Put the battery in the guy's laptop, finished up setting the other one up, it doesn't seem that slow so I don't know what she was complaining about, and eating dinner.

We'll probably do some Tiny Tina's later. We did!

Wed:
Pretty busy today too. Had two meetings, one with Joe about cards, and one with Gina about a new feature from 2 years ago. Right. Very new. They want a test plan but development has just started, there's no spec, and the feature won't be delivered for two months. Uh, why? Anyway, worked on that.

I did a little writing too, the next chapter is almost done but needs a little more.

Came back here, checked sites, ate dinner.

Trying to power through Control.

Thurs:
Fairly busy again today. After the first meeting I went to another lab to try the matrix again on a black and white device. No change. I think Kevin got some bad intel. The printer will deliver face up, but that's if you use the driver so I wonder if it's not submitting the job that way? Probably. In any case, no NVM setting did what we want. That took the rest of the morning.

Had the afternoon meeting, watered the plants, nothing exciting. Tomorrow I have to set up that stupid gabi system again, which will be so fun and super easy and not annoying at all because some random person wants to see it work or something? Will it even work? The voice stuff expired all the time, I don't know if the non-expirering version got installed at the end. I really don't want to have to deal with those people over there. Not looking forward to it.

But I am looking forward to Sunday, when we get to do my taxes.

Let's see, tomorrow is the usual stuff, going shopping, seeing my parents. Then back for game.
Saturday I'll have my parents over. No work at the moment.
Then Sunday is tax time.
Ugh, and estimated tax is due again? I thought I just sent that! Oh, it was in January. Fine.
Gonna play a mess of Control, try and get through it so I can start Tales.
Finished it! I guess I won't need to play it over the weekend. Just as I did - surprise Tiny Tina! So we did some of that.

And it's off to bed, as I didn't do most of my evening stuff before playing.

See you all next week. We're 1/4 the way through 2022, hope it's going well for you. And that's no april fools.