2023-06-01:

Fri:
Worked on the gabi test, I think it's adequate for what he wanted. Basically just logging in and then putting the machine to sleep to see what would happen. It came back up fine. Figured it would. I'm leaving gabi set up someone wanted to do a demo, but remotely? Uh, don't think that's going to work. But it was supposed to be this week and she never emailed me again. So do you need this or not lady?
Worked on the story, no writing, just putting things in order and finding out how I wanted to go forward. I hope to get the game finished over the weekend so I can plan out the entire rest of the story.
Went to the vet, no troubles there.
Went back to work.
Then shopping, the bank is closed until Tuesday, they're getting ready to open the temporary office for the remodel.
Then saw my parents. Helped cover the sale stuff, they decided to have a sale.
Came back here. Sites, putting stuff away.
Then did xbox, no game as Neil wasn't available this week.

Sat:
Started taking the PC apart before I left.
Went over to my 10:00. As I expected, nothing too crazy. Looking at his wife's ancient win7 machine, took a lot of old stuff off of it like Quicktime for PC yes that's how old it was. Still had VNC on it, remember those days?
Stopped at Wegmans to get new Oliver medicine. The stuff I had was recalled.
Got back here, finished up the build, turned it on. It's alive! It works. Even put my water cooler back on it, after changing the bracket. It's a little jankie but not too much. How you bolt it to the motherboard is different you're supposed to use the included hardware but the MB makes that impossible. I managed to do it, just in a different way. It's pretty tight so I think it'll cool the thing just fine. Ate lunch while the files copied. Why does it keep dropping the drive? Sigh. I tried two different USB ports, but it still kept just going away and I had to plug it back in and hit "retry" on the copy. At least it did keep track of where it was? Still.
Got the data copied. Played some Legacy. So many dead ends in that game. Ugh. Hit another one. Mission after mission to get bits of canvas and all we get are memories we've already seen, and a useless picture as Isidora's painting is already destroyed. I mean, sure, we see her talking to he goblin about setting up the repository. But that's not new information, we've already see them. How about her aruging with herself about giving in to authority and stopping for now or moving ahead because she believes she's right? That would make more sense. She claims "its power can be used for even more good" but that "good" is never specified. What good? How? When? You're just storing this "byproduct" away instead of using it, why? The entire thing makes no sense.
Plus Sebastian is running in two tracks, like there's two of him. He's going after this relic thing, and saying I can cure Anne myself. But he doesn't wait for me to try and cure Anne, he just goes ahead with his own plan. It's dumb. So a lot of that has to change.
Anyway, less load times and smoother frame rates are looking good.
It's funny, I saw as high as 400mb/sec transfer, but a share of sub 1mb too. So dumb.
Cleaned up in case my parents come over.
They did not.
Watched a movie, as it is movie night after all parents or no parents, or at least part of one.
Sean wanted to do Xbox, so we did a little War Ring. I mean Elden Frame. I mean warframe. Then Halo 2.
Haven't won it.

Sun:
Did the yard work. Moved a few more tiny berry bushes. This year looks good, there's tiny flowers already. Come on, bees and moths! No grass cutting this week. Next week for sure.
Checked sites.
Had lunch, finished the rest of the movie.
Watched another, I was on a roll.
Had dinner.
Got ready for tomorrow, a day off! Yay!
More reading.

Mon:
Finished what I wanted to see in Legacy. Never heard the pump on my water cooler before. I do now! I added another fan to the case, just to try and help. I wonder if it's not really rated for that "modern" a processor? Well I mean it does work, it didn't hang or anything and I played a fair amount. I just want to keep it as cool as possible. Heat really does come off the thing. Thanks, intel. No wonder Apple dropped you, more "modern" processors must be worse still, I can't imagine how they're kept cool.
Had lunch.
Went back to skyrim for a minute, had to figure the controls out again. Load times weren't bad, finally. I may go back to it after I finish River City Girls 2 and FF7 Remake. Not that the load times were what made me stop, by the way. But I have paid for DLC I never did in that game, maybe now I can do so.
Did reading, checked sites. This story was started 3 years ago, and there's a lot of it.

Tues:
No haul. The coolers were empty. Odd. Did they get cleaned out Friday and the bags were changed? Oh well. The odd thing was, it was empty when I left too. Like, empty, empty. Anyone looking for food today went away disappointed. Very odd. Someone got rid of stuff, but didn't add any new stuff? They lost a whole day of sales? Very odd.
Had the morning meeting. No Joe meeting, like I said before.
Otherwise not much going on work wise. Still waiting for a lot of things to come in.
Day went pretty quick otherwise. I got the rest of the Legacy story laid out.
Then I worked on my optional rules. Sean was nice enough to throw my old inDesign file into a more recent version of the program and then save it as an intermediate format, that I could open in Scribus. There were still problems, so I ended up basically cutting and pasting things I wanted into a new document. Still saved me a lot of work. Added the new spells in there.
And then came home. Had dinner, checked sites. No calls.
Did more work on the optional rules. I noticed some errors, like it switching from Arial to Times partway through. What the heck? Fixed that all up, which is annoying because when you do that, you lose bold. Why? Keep bold.

Wed:
Added a few more spells today.
No meetings, but I guess a feature has been ported to the trunk. There was no action in the backlog for this so I didn't know it was even a thing. I do now. So I'll do that tomorrow. I plan to use a machine already set up for it, so it should go quickly.
Finally wrote another chapter in the Legacy saga. Rescued Sebastian and Archie in typical fashion.
No haul, but the food is back. I got a salad, somehow. A type I've never seen before. Where did it come from?
Came back here, it's finally getting warm out.
Checked sites, the usual, and did more reading.

Thurs:
Had the usual afternoon meeting.
Got through the D7.8 test after some nonsense. One device gave me a serial number error despite the other devices I had used for the test previously still working (to some extent) so it should have been fine. The second device I tried would not show me the right log in screen. I checked the third device that I hadn't updated, it worked fine. So I knew it wasn't the app. Finally found it, the DNS settings were different. Honestly, the whole thing is so fragile, one little thing out of place and nothing works.

That took the bulk of the morning, despite the actual test, once it got started, taking only an hour or so.

Tried to test the weblet that Gina installed, but it was the old version.

We'll have some test tasks to do next week. Testing a bug and fix, and something about delegate printing I know nothing about. Should be great.

Wrote a diary entry for Aerith and part of a chapter. Just the beginning part, actually.

Came back here, one call, but she had already solved it. I'll have to do paperwork, all those three jobs I did last month. Hey looks like I've had fiber internet for 5 whole years. And not one price increase, spectrum. Neat. And I got the bolt in 2021 in June so it's been two years with that. It's flown, really. Father's day.... hummmmmmmmmmm. Any ideas?

Need to get the car inspected, and that recall thing done this month.

So what's closer to the future. Usual stuff tomorrow, I'll actually go to the bank this time, they should be open. Shopping, seeing my parents. We'll see what we can do of the tasks. No game, Stan is not available.

Then the weekend, normal stuff. I'll cut the front lawn, do any weeding and moving I need to do. Nothing too big planned. Maybe do some River City Girls 2, get that closer to finished. I've not been to every map yet, it seems like a bigger game.

Did more reading, this is a long story.

And that's it. We're in June now. Have to start working on Christmas gifts!

See you all next week.