2024-03-28:

Fri:
Did the one device, no problems there now, so that's at least one test we know we can fully do and not worry too much about as the other features are added to the code.
Found another story to read. It's about a lady taken to another world and given the ability to eat just about anything including sticks, then lay eggs incorporating anything about what she's eaten into new bodies that all share a hive mind.
Got much work for Monday, stupid exchange and making some test cases. Kishor wants me to figure out the exchange powershell errors to make changes to the server, a feat I doubt I will be able to pull off. I did try, after all. Gina finally got the specs (at least some of them) so I can start making the last of the test cases for D7.8.
Shopping, saw parents.
Came home, no game.
Checked sites, did my own game.
Then a bit of xbox with the others.

Sat:
Snowed, but it wasn't too bad. Not enough to bother with cleaning out, I'll just let it melt. It's going to get warmer again reaaaal soon.
Got monitor guy set. Odd, but I guess it is the monitor. Just switching the plugs made mine come on right away, but his stayed dark. So now I have a busted monitor to take care of.
Came back, played more of the game.
Then left for Sean's. No Stan, he's not feeling well. We got through Snarly's dragon hunt. We couldn't help him because "reasons" but he managed it without a scratch. Go little guy! We're now on the trail of the "flying creature" in the area the townsfolk are worried about, and it seems to be Gloom related activity. Great, more cultists...

Sun:
Went to see mac guy. You know what his "problem" was? The thing he couldn't articulate? He had made his firefox window really small. Yeah. That's it. That was his whole problem. You couldn't just say "I get a firefox window but it looks really small?" Really? really? That's interesting. I showed him how to make it bigger again. Why isn't there a minimum size to the window anyway? It's dumb you can just "roll" it up and make it basically invisible. It was 5 seconds of work, 40 minutes of driving. I really wish VNC still worked over greenlight, it would be so much easier.
Checked sites.
Then went to do taxes. Didn't take too long, and as usual some things went into different places and I had to "pad" the numbers just a smidgen and take out the deductions for the expenses because I had once again lost money on the whole thing. So I got it to $34 profit. Neat. Burn it to the ground.
Came back home, finished up the game I was playing. I didn't like the final chapter. You had to go back and forth rewiring robots, but the clues for the rewiring were on the other ship. The two main characters had no communication so how was this being done? Up until that point the solutions were fairly logical and separate. It felt like the characters were solving their own problems with what they had on hand. But the third chapter felt like I was solving their problems for them. It was weird. I used a guide, it would have been completely annoying otherwise and I just wanted the game over.
Started my zombie skyrim run. At least I think? I installed Special Edition so I didn't mess up my vampire playthrough not that I'm ever going back to it? Bit tricky to get the mods working and I don't think I did? Ah, but I think I did later. But my difficulty slider is gone, for some reason. I wanted to try "survival" mode but every place I started I was basically getting killed in one hit by everything. Neat! I finally remembered there's a difficulty setting and went looking for it. The better UI mod (and you really need it, the original inventory system in skyrim was awful!) seems to make it go away. So I have no idea what it's set to in that game. Sigh. Is everything way above my level for some reason? Ugh. My summon was getting taken out in one hit too, not sure that's how it's supposed to work. Not sure what I'm going to do about that. I last tried the "shipwreck" start but I'm inside what appears to be an upside down ship, and with survival mode on the cold water kills me before I can even exit the ship. Nice. Even holding a torch I don't warm up? Great, thanks that's a great system Skyrim. Maybe turn that off to escape and then back on? There's still the "camping" option I guess.

At least the load times are pretty non-existent now. That's a plus.

Mon:
Great haul again! And stuff is dated for tomorrow? The salad looks good but I'll probably compost it, I don't know how long it's really been there for. Sigh.
Got started on test cases. Realized it was an ugly mess because Gina has not told me anything about what the project is trying to actually accomplish nor have I been given visual specs to know what the website changes are. There is no change tracking in the specs, I think the changes for this project were made last year, so I have no idea what's relevant or not.

After that was a demo so I watched that instead. The device they used was in my lab and I figured the developer guy would be done with it so I ran most of the tests on it. Whoops, he started using it again, so I got off. Got it mostly done though.

Went back to the test cases, after emailing Gina of course. I think I've at least got some handle on it based on what was written so I came up with 40 some test cases. It's a start.

Gina messaged me later "oh I saw that note that I haven't read hey do we have the ancient (it's like 8 years old at this point) visually impaired system around the lab somewhere? No. Why would we have such a thing? She loves her ancient projects, Gina does. Thankfully she didn't insist I start setting one up. We hardly support the devices it was attached to at this point.

Went to good will, got two things. One super cute thing I don't even want to give away!

Then bought nasty fiberglass insulation to finish the upstairs with. Got home, put it up. Realized I bought waaaaay too much because I am dumb and don't know the difference between inches and feet. I knew I needed 80 inches per section and there were 3 sections. (turned out there were 4 but I digress) The roll was exactly the width and 34 of something. 34 FEET. Whoops. I got 4 of them because that's what fit in the cart and I figured I would start with that. Turned out I only needed one for the whole thing. Oh right, I should have multiplied 80 * 3 and then divided by 12. I'm so dumb.

I'll keep another roll, and do the other crawlspace as that's getting pretty nasty as well. So I'll just return two.

Anyway, it's all done. The plastic is all up in there, it looks great. Now for the floor part.

Checked sites, ate dinner. Oh yeah, most of the snow melted, it was nice and sunny today.

Bit of skyrim. It's not the same mod, his mod was reporting the day, and saying how bad things were getting. I haven't seen one undead, of course I picked the slowest option for growth maybe I should have picked a faster option. There were not many "in between" though it was either "mankind is already doomed" or "you won't see one zombie for weeks." Hummm... At least I'm not dying every three seconds now.

Tues:
Three meetings today, and a nice haul of a box and a half of stuff. They're making it up to me I guess. My freezer is so full I couldn't put it all in, and brought a bunch of stuff over to my parents after work.

First meeting was with Don, about test plans for ancient projects done by Chris to give another team making a new device but only the color version? I have no idea what they're thinking. Anyway, one is totally pointless and the other can't be found, at least of the ones he wanted me to find.

Then meeting with Joe, status on the upcoming project.

Tried to get the latest files from the FTP site all day, but while it would let me on, it wouldn't let me enter the directory. Huh.

So not much else. The third meeting was about the USB hub, they're moving along with it.

Saw my parents, gave them food, took the 2 rolls of insulation back. Then back home for dinner, and sites.
No xbox, Mizzy is away. Did Skyrim instead. No zombies yet.

Wed:
Spent a lot of the day doing the card reader test, now that we have most of the files, and the FTP server was back.

Had a meeting to get some questions answered about the upcoming cloud work.

Could not do a test of the LDAP stuff because that feature seems to be missing in the latest build? Christina noticed it, I confirmed it on another model too. It was there, upgraded, then it wasn't anymore. Whoops.

Went to see the guy and get his form or whatever he wants me to do? I have no idea still what he wants. He wasn't there. He was at Wegmans. Sigh.

One call. Didn't reach her.

Thurs:
Untangled Gina's answers to my questions and wrote up the rest of the test plan, at least so far as I can with incomplete information.

For one thing I still have no idea what it'll look like. For another there are other specs coming I think? And third I'll need to use some tool I've never seen to test the data structure we're putting in place. So a lot of it was "use tool to do this" sort of thing. But at least it's progress. Of a sort.

Wrote the next chapter of the Emberhaven story in the afternoon.

Worked to see why the card I loaned a guy didn't work. It was a cert issue, because of course it was.

Got the sheets from the guy I didn't see yesterday. He wants a printout! Ah. I can hand him that. No problem.

Came back here. TV guy down the street is complaining about it again. He's second in line I'm not going anywhere this weekend. I did reach the other lady. Apparently her bank accounts were targeted. The odd thing is her venmo "card" was first? How is that even possible? She claims not to have been scammed and the money just vanished into thin air but who knows if that's true. Well, that's Monday's problem. TV guy can be tuesday, it's just a TV.

Talking about the future tomorrow is the usual work. Next haul? The date is right we'll see what happens.  It's already tumbling out when I open the freezer maybe I'll bring some home with me. I'll do the shopping and go to the bank. Drop stuff off at my parent's house. Put stuff away here, grab my Mac, head to dinner we're meeting at a place only 15 minutes away. But then going to Sean's I guess for game. Honestly I could just go home, still do mine remotely. I guess we'll see.

Then saturday I'll want to do the insulation in the morning, get that done. The second part the first part is all done. This is the bonus room. Then at some point in the afternoon which is unclear at the moment go back to Sean's for more game with Neil and Alex is coming. No other response, Stan is a no go. Not sure who else would really come. Maybe kate and adam but no, please no not the child.

Then sunday doing my reading and heading to my parent's house for lunch and Easter funtimes with bunnies. I assume there will be bunnies.

Then back here, Sunday stuff like cleaning the mouse cage and getting ready for April.

That's about it for March. See you next week.