2022-07-21:

Fri:
Broke software, neat.
Spent most of the day with the busted software. It doesn't work in the exact way we need it to work. Was it tested at all before leaving Fuji? We don't think so. Spent a bunch of time verifying that it didn't work in the way we needed it to work. At first I thought maybe the printer wasn't reading the card right or accepting the reader so I reconfigured it to log in another way. The card reader worked. So it isn't that. It's just not accepting the card beep and doing the thing it's supposed to be doing. 3 bugs written, had a meeting about it.
Made a build of my iSort to give my parents, they can sort through the trailcam as a test. I need to think of more tests myself if I want to release it.
Did the shopping, saw my parents. Shoot, I forgot the TV I wanted to see if they wanted. I put it by the door, I'll remember it next week. Went home, put stuff away.
Did game, another easy one. My plan actually worked, and as the "big bad" was foolishly working alone we nabbed him and everything was put to rights. Go us.

Sat:
Cleaning - dad is coming over to finish up the Doctor Who for this year. I guess it's not episodes yet, just three "specials," two of which I now have. I mean they're just episode length, uh, episodes. Nothing special about them, really.
Picked berries. Still haven't filled up my small container. I hope next year is better.
Weeds - totally dug up a bunch of the side. That was the major effort of the day. All weed roots gone, soil turned over. A bit of that old plant food sprinkled around. So that space should be ready for planting. Got too hot, came in to cool down, waited until sun was on the other side to continue. Filled up my cart with the weeds. They can't be composted or anything until they are all dead. Too risky more will grow from the roots if I make dirt out of them. These stupid leaf things must be destroyed!
Paperwork from last month. Not much of it, so that went quickly.
Lunch
More outside work off and on. Planted some berries and put a stick there so I would know where. My whole "use egg cartons" didn't work this year, maybe this will work better.
Ordered 150 small plastic pots. I have plenty more spider plants to make they have babies all over the place. Both here and at work.
Got my hoses hooked up and watered the newly moved plants. I hope they do better now that they'll get some sun, and that they survive the process. Left that going about 20 minutes. I took them from a few places, mostly in the shade that's why I think they didn't do too well this year. Not enough sunlight. Hopefully they survive the process, and then next year grow a lot bigger.
Found that keyboard I was looking for. Gurr or sigh? I forgot I shoved in into the cabinet Squeaker always tries to get into. Maybe he was trying to tell me all along. I have a bunch of stuff in there. Well, the keyboard I ordered was only $13.00 which seems very low so it could be crap or I don't know stolen but he had lots of them so who knows? This one is a lot quieter than the other one. At least I proved I did have it, I'm not crazy. Honest!
Dad came over for Dr Who. So no mention of the universe being destroyed? None at all? Huh. Seems like an odd thing to just brush off.
Then we did some risk of rain. Or at least, that was the plan. The glorious, glorious plan. But Sean was like "let's do some warframe first" and so that's all we did. Oh well.

Sun:
Picked a few more berries and found 4 more bushes to move. There were more on the edge of the driveway and so not really in the ground at all. Just in the dirt that's accumulated. Everybody survived the night, they don't look too wilted in the back!
Also found 6 tiny althea plants in the same spot. Put them in my one big pot I have left until the smaller pots arrive.
Pulley replacement parts were back in stock for my snow blower finally, so I ordered one. Hopefully it solves my slippage problem and I can use my snowblower this year. I'll need it next week or something, right? Winter? It's coming on right? Of course if it doesn't I have no idea what to do about it.
Checked sites.
Watched more futurama, did I mention I got series 1 at good will?
Checked out a new gravity puzzle game on Xbox. Has some very weird "rules." Like why can't I carry an activated box? I have to set it down, then activate it. Why can't I activate the anti-gravity properties of a box and then push it? Why do I have to knock it with another box like it was a billard ball? If I can't negate gavity for any old object is it really the gloves I'm wearing or am I just flipping a switch in the box? They make a big deal out of the gloves in the game but what are they really doing? If I am just flipping a switch in the box is that really all that useful? Why build all these "portal" style obstacle courses when clearly there is either box red, box blue, and box gravity on or off? I guess with enough of the boxes you could make a train track and a floating train? What more information is being gained through knocking these boxes around? How are all these force fields being generated? I can walk through some of them, but not carry a box through them? My clothes go through so it's not diallowing inorganic matter. But others I can't, they can't be passed through at all. These are force shields and probably far more interesting to any military than boxes with a slight magnetic charge that makes them attact or repell other, similar sized boxes. Why does disabling the obstacle course auto generate an email to some other facility, and why does my character decline to do so after hearing this, despite knowing the extra time it will take to jump through the course's hoops likely means her cooworkers, who are stranded in the snow some km away, are more likely to die? Am I still in the past, or did getting sucked into the crystal at the beginning start a time loop? Am I still playing the tutorial or is "this" i.e. reaching my co-workers the game? So many questions.
Got ready for tomorrow. No calls the whole weekend. Bliss.

Mon:
Rain! We finally got some good, long term rain. Keep my plantos alive, rain!
Pretty boring at work. Nothing new related to the issues we wrote up so did they look at it at all on their Monday? Doesn't seem like it. I figured a lot more back and forth once I got in given how important this one project is but no, nothing.
We did have a meeting about the stupid embedded fax, again. At the last second, 3 minutes after it would have started, because Gina moved it because she's out tomorrow. Seemingly another "yup, here's what it does all right." So? One of the people even gave voice to the "what exactly are we doing here? Haven't we beaten this to death? Stop making these stupid charts and just fix the problem. Or decide we're not going to fix it." I silently cheered that guy on.
I did get a new haul. Another box full, including 2 big salads and 3 small ones. Plenty of new sandwiches, I was getting low on them! Brought some to my parents along with the carrots and big salads.
Had another meeting, a new feature about cloning Versalink features. That went on for an hour. Still no work on the Versalink issue. Strange.
Came back home, checked sites. One call, and the guy with the battery as I got that. But I don't have his number, I just replied to his email. The one that called has a full C drive.
Got ready for tomorrow.

Tues:
Christina made some progress this morning, as there was a plugin we didn't try. The one we are never supposed to try. She tried it. It worked! We aren't sure why, it's for a very specific use case but it at least allowed us to test the rest of the day. We found a few more things. The user doesn't time out, for one. I wrote another bug too, I forget what it was now.

Anyway, most of the day spent on that, I'll do the iPad stuff tomorrow as I guess it's in now.

Then went to see the full HD guy. It wasn't full. I don't know what message he was seeing. Came back home.

Got my keyboards, they are what they said they would be. Odd. Typing on it now. Seems fine. Let's hope it doesn't break.

Checked sites, had pie. Got ready for tomorrow.

One call, the rug guy I've worked for since forever. He wanted to know why spam filters were catching his spam like email suddenly? Uh, maybe because it's spam?

Wed:
Set up the machine for the airprint tests. Wrote one bug on it, but it exists in the earlier software (which I may remind you is also unreleased) so who knows if it will ever be fixed.

Had a meeting about the bugs for the prox card login stuff. Amusing to watch us and Fuji go back and forth over a 13 letter string in a text field. Just put it in there. They claim we didn't exactly have the request in the right place and we say we did. Strange.

Not much else otherwise.

Came back here, got ready for the guy to come at 6:00 for his battery change. Checked sites, had pie.
He came. Wanted to know why the bill was higher. Uh, because instead of a ten minute job of changing your battery, you had me look at your ancient parallels installation with window XP and other nonsense which took an hour. I told him straight out, the $20 charge was for changing your battery. You've been here asking stuff a lot longer than that. He's going to mail me a check. Not hearing from him again would also be a fine compensation. Jerk.

Thurs:
Meeting day, had the usual onedrive meeting and the now hour long bugs+status meeting.
Helped Boris get smartcard working so he can look at a customer problem.
Did some work on the tray bypass, showed the developer how it still didn't work, and answered a question on a previous bug.
Seems that's about it.

No calls again, thank you very much. Froze my berries, two bags of them and had to go out and pick the last little bit to get the 5 cups. I may get a few blackberries but for the most part they're done. Hopefully next year is better. The transplanted ones look a little sunburned but they're still alive.

So tomorrow, not looking at too much to do. Shopping, oh and I'm bringing some dirt and some pots, they're smaller than I would have liked but okay, there's plenty of spider plants I can get set up over there.

Seeing my parents, and then the Miracle game.

Saturday is going over to Sean's, for the Embers game. Then Sunday, resting up from that I suppose.

We are speeding into August, but it looks like we can enjoy one more week of July together. I'll see you back here then!