2024-02-15:

Fri:
Oh boy, necromancy! Yes, Gina wants me to dig up the rotting corpse of Gabi, may the Allfather rest her soul, and reanimate it using the blackest of magics that it may shamble to life again! Despite it being completely dropped from being made by the manufacturer we somehow have to make it keep working with 8.0? How about.... NO.

Tried to do it. Every single thing about it doesn't work. The unit gives an error on boot and gets a different IP address, so I don't think the certs will work. The server part gives an error when I try to bring it up. The new "weblet" just gives a white screen and then an error. Yeah, such a great and stable product. No wonder it sold so well. (They company sold like 2 copies of it, because voice control of things............ doesn't work! You would think we woul realize that by now. But no. We keep trying it. And it keeps not working.)

Otherwise nothing new at work. Didn't write a chapter either. Whoops. Where did the time go? Oh reading a story? That makes sense.

Super nice out, like 62? Sunny?

Did the shopping, saw my parents.

Came back here for game. Got through part of it. I guess physical objects can have humanoid souls now, who knew? If it wasn't bad enough people wander around confused as ghosts and make trouble, now we have to deal with inanimate objects doing the same. We aren't sure what to do with her. A ghost usually wants something, like revenge or whatnot. What does a ship want? And we only have the ship's wheel, it was wrecked 300 years ago. We can't find out what happened to it, or install the wheel in a new ship. So we're a bit stumped on that one.

Sat:
Checked sites while I ate breakfast.
Cleaned up.
Went for a kitty walk as it was still nice out. I'm sure he appreciated it.
Got the last feathers I needed for my new ship. Started it building.
Made lunch.
Dad came over to watch Doctor Who episodes.
After that, had dinner.
Then did Xbox with the others. I finally got the part made and started assembling my new ship. 3 days... that's how long it will take. Sigh.

Sun:
Made a pie.
Posted my demongate high series on the site, as really who is going to buy it? Now all my works are up there. Hurray?
Did my reading. Took even longer than usual because some jerk went and posted a whole bunch of chapters. How rude... I would never say to the person writing a story I enjoy so I get to enjoy more of it.
Did some Sunday things because I figured I would get home late, which I did.
Went over to watch the big game, which was very, very close. It even went into overtime! But the Swift team won after all, yay for the team!

Mon:
Strange. A suspicious number of cars are missing from the parking lot this morning. What could it mean? Even Christina is out today. Odd.
Started the day with a possible solution to our onedrive issues. One test later and we see it is not the solution. Neat.
Also does Karen want me to test every possible versalink model? Yuck, no thank you.
And Don is messaging me for some bizarre reason these are not his projects, he has nothing to do with them. So why is he so worked up about it? Let us do our jobs, Don, we know what we're doing we don't need you right now.
Ah, Karen does not want me to test every versalink model. That's good.

Did proofreading. Found 2 things I want to fix. One wrong word and one formatting issue.
I only got 1/3 the way through it though.

Came back here, worked on that a bit more I think I'm 1/2 through it now. Tomorrow should finish it off.

Checked sites. Had dinner.

3 calls, sheesh. One lady was fine. The deaf guy I may go there Wednesday if he doesn't get what he needs at the Apple store, something about word, yuck, and one guy that just needed to put the new password into his email in good old windows live mail. But at least I didn't have to go anywhere.

Tues:
The now typical onedrive meeting today. I didn't have to say anything, it was basically "we haven't heard from the people actually doing the work so we have nothing to tell you." Sure.

Answered some questions about my test cases. To development. Go write your own, our test cases should be completely separate.

Otherwise finished the last proofread. Made the final changes. When I got home I ordered the books.

Otherwise not much new at work.

Bit of snow here, some places were supposed to get a lot.

Oh Christina was back, she seemed fine.

Checked sites, had dinner. Then xbox time.

Wed:
Got the next chapter written. Getting close to the castle.

Also maybe getting close to an answer on the cert thing? We accept a cert we shouldn't, maybe? Don't know.
Nothing on gabi, please decide we can't support this anymore so I can get the machine back? Thank you.
Otherwise no meetings. No haul either, the stuff that should have been there was not. But the next stuff is dated for Friday. We'll see. Nothing in either place, I checked. The bins weren't empty either, when did it get taken away?

Came back here, checked sites. Then went out for my 5:30, the deaf guy and something about office. Yippy.

He had just gotten into some weird mode that took one click to get him out of. Now he did want to print this thing, and let me tell you I don't know if he made this resume or what but it was messed up. Text boxes everywhere, any modifying the margins messed it up completely. Neat. I mention that because it had --- no margins! So the edges were all cut off. And modifying them was impossible because he was basically trying to use word as if it was indesign or something. No works.

So finally I showed him how to save it to PDF which would of course ignore the margins. Then print it from that and scale it down to 90%. That worked. Thanks for offering that printing option, WORD. Oh wait you didn't.

So that didn't take tooooooo long.

One call here, he wiped his machine basically, and now it's coming up with a password he insists he didn't put on it? So he can't get into it. He's just down the street from work, so I'll go there tomorrow.

Had dinner.

Here's something amusing. Frontier emailed me about updating their phone service to 100% fiber, an email designed to trick me into getting their internet service, which I do not want. It was coached as like, oh, you have to do this. No, no I don't. A technician will need to come to your home to connect you to our new network. As part of the new plan you will receive internet. No, no I won't. You will keep your copper lines right there, where they belong. But that's not the amusing part. That's this line right here: "A more reliable phone service." Really? How so? I don't think my phone has ever stopped working in the 20 years I've lived here. However, with this new fiber deal and here's another direct quote: "Frontier fiber-optic phone service, including 911 service, requires electrical or battery backup power to function. During a power outage, you may not be able to make calls, including to 911, without backup power for the Residential Gateway and/or the Opt/or the Optical Network Terminal (ONT), or an alternate means of calling"

Sounds to me like this is less reliable, not more. But perhaps Frontier is republican, where less is more, and more is less, and you can't take yes for an answer? Perhaps, perhaps. Needless to say, that was tossed.

Thurs:
Going to get busy at work, but not today. Tomorrow I have plenty of stuff to do. A Kevin request to scan to TIF (who even does that?) and check the dimensions of it. Some specs came in for the yubikey project so I need  to look them over for the test cases, and I need to get two of them ready for another team.

Today was the usual meeting, more work on the cert stuff that trashed the machine because a newline isn't going to be the solution to anything, believe me. Nothing new on Gabi.

Finished the next chapter. Only a couple to go, maybe?

Oh I did get one bag of chips in the trash. Yay? Also a very large piece of metal for my father and two tubes for a bird to chew up. Yup, not bad.

But why one random bag of chips? They aren't torn or open, and the date is way in the future. Very odd.

Went to "accidentally put on a password or whatever" guy. The usual tricks do still work, so I was able to get it off of there. I don't know what he did, some stuff was gone, other stuff was fine? No clue.

Came back here. Snowed. It was snowing pretty hard actually. Had to brush off the car at work and second work.

Checked sites, ate dinner.

Looking ahead I'll go to the store tomorrow, see my parents. Probably no bank yet.

Do my list of stuff as above, I should be able to do it all in one day, none of it is that complex.

I'm not sure we're doing game, Sean's mega-game is coming up Saturday so I guess we'll see.

Have my parents over. Otherwise not many other plans for the weekend.

That is seemingly about it. I'll see you all next week.