2022-09-22:

Fri:
Not much at work, nothing is really coming in officially until the end of the month at the earliest.
Did the latest chapter and a bit, we sort of started the next leg of our journey, at least we got pointed in the direction by the town guard, so I was able to write that part up but we don't know if we're talking to the guy in town, the spirit, both, neither. You know.
Got a haul, thanks Christina for alerting me! She saw the guy at that station and alerted me so they were the freshest I've ever gotten. Mostly sandwiches but a few yogurt 3 salad, and 1 cheese. I checked again on the way out and got a half dozen bottles of Dew and two more chips.
Did the shopping, missed cider until the way out, darn it! And they didn't have lemon juice, but I wasn't worried I had enough of that for the week so next week I hope they still have cider.
Saw my parents.
Checked sites. Made two calls. A setup for the lady that made me sit in the freezing cold to set up her last machine. Great. Not a big fan. And wear a mask? What is this, 2020? My mask doesn't even fit anymore. Get over it.
Then game. The final game for the Miracle Girls. We got the final bracer away from the final guy and beat up the boss who was handing them out to random people. We're going to try the shonen game next time.


Sat:
Straight to work the extra goop on the driveway to use it up. The sun came out and dried it out beautifully by the afternoon. Hopefully the extra will keep it nice, with all the damage the front takes from the plow and ice and whatnot it needs it.
Painted the solid door patch gray. Whoops should have done the whole piece of wood, which means cleaning it off first. Let the paint dry, then cleaned it, then painted the rest. Cleaned the other one so I can paint it too. May as well. Had to be a little creative so the cats didn't get out, but I managed it. Means the front door one isn't getting completely painted but that's fine, the very back isn't the danger point anyway.
Cleaning up.
NMS of course. Worked on the mission for my little drone, who gave himself a name and is helping me build my mech suit.
Took the solar collector down, got the piece of rotted wood off the bottom and cleaned up the mess. I wonder if I should build some kind of legs into it, get it off the deck so it doesn't soak up as much water? The backing is rotted too, maybe 1/4 of the way up? We'll have to saw that off and get another board, but my father says just fix the one piece for now.
Parents over for the monster U movie. It was acceptable.
Game? Nope, Sean was watching a long movie and then had to do the update for the DLC.
So I watched another movie instead. That'll show him!

Sun:
Something to think about:
The nonpartisan firm AdImpact released a report Wednesday projecting that nearly $9.7 billion total will be spent on political ads during the 2022 election cycle.
I think I've mentioned this before the last time I saw the numbers. $10 billion dollars and for what? TV adds? Lawn signs that get destroyed and put in landfills after a month? We cry about "oh it's so tough to fix the environment." "Oh, we can't solve the homeless crisis." "Oh child poverty is on the rise." So fix it. You can't tell me after a very few people spend TEN BILLION DOLLARS to become elected officials (and half of them will fail to do so, meaning $5,000,000,000 went up in smoke for no reason) that we can't solve every problem. You can't say that. We can. $10,000,000,000 solves a lot of problems. We simply choose not to. Instead we, what? Yes, I suppose people are employed filming the ads, and printing up the signs, but not $10,000,000,000 worth. What exactly are we throwing money at here? Not solving our problems! People that spend 10 billion dollars whine about taxes and how their budgets are too small. I don't want to hear it. Not with numbers like that getting thrown around.
Balanced the check book again.
Did the job, it went fine. Didn't have to sit outside, and it only took two hours to do the transfer. I was more selective this time, not getting all of appdata, and used cho easy copy on each folder in turn rather than just trying to drag the whole thing over. She gave me the old laptop (it's not that old) with the busted plastic. Hummm, it's the top part, of course, the harder to replace part. I'll have to look into how to replace it. I'll have to completely disassemble the whole thing but the laptop does work otherwise. I hate to chuck it. Or do I just keep the display off and plug a monitor into it? That could work but who would buy or want to use a hybrid desktop/laptop like that? It does have a full keyboard...
Ate lunch.
Few things around the house, need tonight free for game.
Finished the mission in NMS, but the AI isn't exactly helpful so I'm kind of annoyed I put so much work into it. I put all the sentinel upgrades on my exo suit so it could act on its own. Which I thought meant mining everything in sight or at least helping me in combat if I jumped out of it to double my firepower. I mean come on the tiny drone helps me in combat! But no; The thing just stands around. Fight for me, stupid thing! It will follow me, which is nice, so I can throw resources into it like a suitcase on wheels that is also a robot, but it's so slow it can't keep up with me. Yes, a huge robot and I can run faster than it. Stupid. And everything it touches just disintegrates, so you don't get the resources even if you wanted them. It just smashes through everything. Great. I like the car better. It's faster, the mining beam is eaiser to use because you can see where you're shooting (it's the stupid tall spaceship problem all over again, it's too tall!). One amusing thing was getting the "brain" of the unit. The walker I had to destroy was on a tiny island in the ocean. Barely enough space for it and parking my ship and the old ruin of a monolith that I found there. So I dug a trench around the thing obliterating most of the island, and when I attacked it the thing lumbered forward, fell in the hole, got stuck on the ruin, and sat there while I shot it unable to do anything. Uh, Hello Games? You've still got some bugs to fix if you wanted to take a break from putting out expansions... Don't get me wrong it was hilarious but maybe not what you intended? And against a single target, the stun beam is OP. Just saying.
Ate dinner.
Made two calls, going down the street tomorrow, just to check a machine over. Didn't reach the second guy. It's the guy I changed the router for, now he's realized he can't use his printer. Sigh.
Then back to Alien Fire Team Charlie with the others. We finished 2/3 of it, died to the last part, then restarted but it crashed 10 minutes in. GURRRR.


Mon:
Had some more rain, so that's good.
Work wise, set up the printer that's been in the box for three weeks now, finally.
The guy did get the new device up and running, so I was able to do the first D7.7 test on that one. Got through it.
Had a 3:00 meeting that ran until almost 4:30, thank you for that. Going over the bug for the one drive app, we got through, oh, about half the list. Honestly, maybe companies can do their own testing, then send it to us for a final blessing? Not send us crap and expect us to debug it? Is that a thing? We're not other companies QA departments. We make sure it integrates with our stuff, and that's it.
Got to my second work. Ran a scan, answered some questions, so problems there.
Ate dinner, checked sites.
Made two calls. Made three calls. A lady who "solved" her problem leaving me nothing to diagnose, the printer guy who actually had a printer that was sane and connected to the router right away, and an hour and a half with another guy with a router that was acting up. I guess he hit the reset button but didn't hold it, so it wasn't actually resetting which did do the job. Sigh.

A little No Man's Sky, had to check out that crashed freighter I found. Obviously. Hey, there were two right there next to each other. What is this, the Triangle?

Tues:
Continued the D7.7 testing. Got both other trials completed. Nothing really stood out, both seemed to work just as they had in other products. Which is good, and expected. I found the hidden bypass tray on the color device. Why did we go to such lengths to hide it? Doesn't seem right. Make things in your product obvious, that should be, well, obvious.

No after work job so I came home. Checked sites, ate dinner.

Little bit of Sky, just checking in with my settlers and some inventory management.

No calls, so got ready for tomorrow.
Then won the Aliens expansion. With the help of some robots, that is. Then we did a bit of horde mode with my new sniper shotgun. It would seem to be the perfect weapon for me, but I think the damage could be higher. Basically it's a shotgun if you simply pull the trigger, but it focuses if you hold it down. Not quite enough I think. Still fun to play around with. It's a neat idea.

Wed:
Had two meetings today, one at noon, which was fine, just fine. One meeting about what to tell our "partner" how we would like the bug fixed. I'm not sure we actually decided on anything but more questions to ask them. The other was about the unfortunate new behavior we didn't foresee in messing with the bypass tray message. And again, not sure if anything was decided.

Otherwise not much else. Still nothing new coming in, though our servers did go down because of something they were doing over in building 300. It's the downside to having everything as a virtual machine and in one place. Single point of failure. If they go down, everything goes down. Not a great strategy but it saves us money sooooooo.

Came back here, had dinner, checked sites.
Need to go to bed early, it's kitty sitting time around here. So got that ready to go.

Then some NMS, built a base on a world with a green sun.

Thurs:
Got up and went over to feed everybody. That went fine. Went to work.
Did not get the promised software, they want another week. Fine with me, less releases equals happier me.
But that meant there wasn't much to do.

We did of course have the meetings.

Got a strange haul. A dozen or more bags of chips. 3 honey buns, a single package of twinkies, and a box of chocolate wafer bars. Okay I guess I'll take it? The freezer is pretty well stocked so there should be a nice purge sometime soon I hope. I mean I don't hope, but you know what I mean.

Came back here, checked sites. Videos. Ate dinner.

Getting ready for another early night. Cold and rainy out by the way.  I guess it was down where my parents are too.

Looking ahead not expecting much tomorrow. Christina wants to put both Gabi and some other login solution on a machine at once for some random person? Uh, okay, that's not going to work for one thing Gabi is smartcard and this is prox card. It's so weird.

No parents, duh, but doing the shopping, maybe bank? When I get home playing the second adventure in Monster Hunter Acadamia with the others. Saturday and Sunday feeding everybody of course. Maybe work on the heater, cut the wood and do some painting for it.

Otherwise no big plans I guess. No calls as of yet, someone's been taking care of me. Need to do more printing of course, since I didn't last week. Sigh.

That seems to be it. It's the end of Sept by the time we speak again. And then downhill, only three months until 23. Wow. See you all then.