2023-07-03:

Fri:
Not much work today.
Worked on the chapter instead. Dean's being super helpful, what a guy.
Then I went to do the shopping. It occurs to me I didn't go to good will this month. Well, maybe I can do so Monday, if I don't have second job.
Saw my parents.
Then came home for game. We didn't start the next adventure, we went on some side quests looking into my character's past. I found my childhood home and my "real" name. Neat. Home was burned to the ground 15 years ago so not much came of it but it's progress. We didn't find anything there, just bad memories, the question his how has a huge plot of land just been ignored in Japan of all places. They don't have land. They have coastline. Oh well.
And we're going to play Wednesday now so Stan can get in a few more weeks before Sean goes back to work. I got the time I needed so I know the spells and increased the ratings I wanted to. So I'm as ready as can be for the next leg of the journey. Finally have a decent rating (the rating I would normally start with) in martial arts and yanked all the points out of useless crap like that meditative bow and arrow skill I was never going to use. And ranged combat. And magic combat. I have useful skills at a 5 like energy boost and multi-strike. Of course Neil's character is now far outstripping me, she has telekinesis now, and her banish ability took out multiple foes while I did nothing last time. So there's that.


Sat:
Heavy rain in the morning.
Cleaned up the house a bit for later.
Checked sites.
Worked on the files for Mizzy's gift. Only 14 hours of printing for this one (estimated).
Left for the job. 10:25. Got back 12:50. Sigh. She didn't have any power cables? What? Why do you need a second printer, you have a printer right there? It's wireless. It's not... I just worry about some people. And why do you need a second PC right next to the first? She had this ancient vista machine that she somehow put a BIOS password on. You have to work for that kind of thing. How did she do it? You can't do it remotely, it wasn't a scammer or anything. She went into the BIOS, went into security, typed a password, verified she wanted it, and now has "somehow" forgotten it? No. You put a password on it. No one else could have. But now it's a brick. So we put another laptop (win11, a crappy one) in its place. Why? It's really no better than your desktop (it has an SSD but it's half the speed Ghz wise) so it's a wash. What will you even use it for? It's bizarre. She has yet another laptop but no power cable for it, so I could do nothing with it. This one we had to steal half the cable from another laptop in the house. Great, just great stuff. Yes, please, move to Texas already.
Ate lunch.
Started the first piece of Mizzy's gift.
Too wet for yard work, it's still dripping a little.
Or raining quite hard, which it's doing right now.
Worked on the story. Yup, at home! Didn't do a combat, thought about it, but it was all a misunderstanding and they talked it out. Whew.
Parents came for movie.
Had 4 calls. What the heck. Made 3 of them, one was just "order the part" for the printer guy a few weeks ago. At least $100+ for a print head. UH, just put that money towards a decent laser printer already and forget this stupid inkjet garbage. I called him to ask "do you want to risk this which I do not guarantee will fix you issue or do you want a cheaper used one?" No answer.
Just doing some calls, 10:00 tomorrow, 8:00pm friday. Yay.
Xbox with the others.
Won Halo 5. Are we going to replay Infinite? It's not really continuing the story, oddly enough. Cortana flies off with a bunch of super weapons and in the next game we don't seem concerned about that. We act like she's dead. She's not. She's over there, making threats about organic life falling in line and, you know, not killing itself anymore. Oh, so unreasonable. Honestly, I would be, like, yeah, you go do that. Bring piece to the universe for once why not?

Sun:
Started the next print. Worked up until the literal last second. Knocked off the bed with only a few layers to go. Sigh. Maybe I can sand it down and fill it, then paint it. It's a mostly hidden part anyway, at least on that side. I could also print just the top part, but then it might not fit? I'll have to see when I get the rest of the parts printed.
Picking more berries. Not many left though.
Yardwork.
Took the 10:00 call, that lasted until after 11:00. Tried to use facetime to do screen sharing, it would have been a few minutes if I could have. It failed. It connected but dropped a second later. Sigh. But we finally found the mail settings spectrum was happy accepting, and turned his toolbars on and whatnot.
Ate lunch.
Started next part.
The front lawn could use a trim, so I did that. It was actually still wet! Wow, not drying fast it was last raining yesterday?
Second part still okay.
Checked sites.
Did reading.
Washed the upstairs floor. Cats, you know?
Only one more part to print. They came out okay. A bit rough on the one, hopefully it can be sanded down, not sure.
Normal Sunday stuff.
Tinker really wants to go out. He's been meowing about it all day. I took for a little walk outside but he says "more dad."
Made my call, set up a router? Ugh, please. Yup, I plugged in a thing! Give me money. But she wants me to come out. Sure, whatever. I'll take your money for plugging in a device. So dumb. Pretty sure the greenlight person would be happy to do it. I mean, come on.

Mon:
Cold section is still empty at work. I still have a lot of stuff but this worries me. Where is my future trash food?
Not much work wise. I did help a guy adding a user and certs to his server.
Otherwise finished the next chapter. They're about to talk to the last angel (in existence?)
Still no food in the evening.
Went to Good Will, found a few goodies.
Came back.

Why do I have 4 phone calls? I haven't done 4 jobs in the last two months. Why do I have all these calls suddenly? I hate it.
One was just printer guy going on and on about how he's not going to be there and totally not answering the question I posed to him. So thanks for that. Just tell me, in plain language, that you want a) a new one for $120 or b) a used one for less and that you accept that you will pay for this stupid part even if it does not fix your stupid printer. That's all you gotta do. Not ramble on about your evening schedule for the next week. I don't have time to listen to it.

Ate dinner.
Started the last part printing. It's only 3 hours, I think I can manage it.
Came out fine. Now to sand them a bit, maybe a bit of paint, and glue them together.
Now for the problem child- Neil. Hummmm.

Calls took about an hour and a half. 20 minutes looking at AOL mail, like I can do something about that. Then 30 minutes looking at space on a PC and making more, and finding out her "5 year old" iMac was really 10 years old. Get a new machine.

Then 25ish minutes on the Dell website looking at options with a guy.

Then someone I didn't reach.

Did xbox with the others. Just some halo achievements, as Remnant 2 wasn't ready. (on their end. It installed pretty quick for me. Ha ha)

Tues:
Food came back! Yes! Yes! Yes! I won't starve, once it gets thrown in the trash. And that date is------- the 4th? Huh? You put food in there that's only got a date of 3 days before you "have" to toss it again? So weird.

Work wise I helped set up a couple of 8.0 devices with smartcard, so a guy could make sure some code was working on them.
One short meeting in the morning, nothing to write home about.

Then worked on the next chapter. They met the angel, and now they're off to talk to some lion birds. It's shaping up, it'll be "long enough" to be a proper book with no issues.

No work so I came back here.

Had dinner, checked sites. Started Remnant 2 so I could get through the "tutorial" and start multi-player madness.

Made my calls. Lady from yesterday, ah good she's got space on her drive again.
And the guy I didn't reach, I'm just checking his machine over tomorrow. No problems. It's just down the road from work, I should be back with plenty of time for game.

Went back to Remnant 2. Finished the tutorial and am now waiting for the others to finish. Only took a little over an hour, not 4 like Sean said.

And Drumph has been indited for a third time! The Jan6 stuff and "we just need to find votes! So legal, perfect phone call." Yeah, not so much. If it's such a witch hunt, get in that courtroom and defend yourself. Oh, we have your voice illegally pressuring elected officials to interfere in an election? Whoops. Go directly to jail. Lock. Him. Up. For the good of our country.


Wed:
Not much at work, even for me. Feel run down for some reason. Had a sore throat in the morning, maybe from coughing? I didn't wake up but once awake I had a cough all day. It wasn't bad, but at the same time it shouldn't be happening.

So I just did reading, no writing.

Gonna be a long day.

Because I had to wait 20 minutes for after work guy to get there. Then I barely got home at 6:30. Look, I don't care that alexa can't print your stupid grocery list. Just write it down, use the technology for the job when it's needed.

Got home, did my stuff and sank into my chair to play the ghost game with the others.

Then I'll have a quick shower and drop into bed.

Thurs:
Worst night ever. Didn't sleep a wink all night. But something did happen, and it was so strange.
So when you go to sleep, you get turned off, right? And then the dreams come. Wonderful movies of color, and people, an cars, and maybe even flying.
But what I got was some weird thing. I would go into this "state" where I saw like text or 2d blurry images. This lasted a few moments. I then woke up, and for some reason I needed to flip over. I just had this need to at least turn 90 degrees. I would lay there and this need would grow and grow. So I would move. And then boom, the same thing. That same "state." Over. And over. all night. I tried sitting up. I tried lying on the couch. Nothing.

Stayed home from work, I'm wiped out. Minor cough, no appetite, and feeling super run down and weird. No runny nose, at least no more than usual. Been sleeping all day. Got up at 2:00 for the meeting though, because I am a team player. Figured out how to do it on the web.

Oliver stayed with me all day. What a guy!

I'll try to stay up the rest of the day, unless I really get whacked. I'll want to sleep tonight.

Feeling a little better? And a little worse. OF course someone called, and of course I called them back. An hour on the phone, some stupid windows problem where an iphone will sync, but it won't show up in the explorer window so you can get the pictures. Thanks! Didn't help her machine was super slow.

Going back to bed now.