2024-06-06:

Fri:
Finally did the demo. There was a bit of a miscommunication. But it worked out in the end. I thought, in my that's-so-illogical way of thinking that us doing the demo together would be, you know, us... doing the demo... together. Like, in the lab. Like he would watch me do the demo, perhaps provide his own commentary, and approve it. But he didn't show up by 10:30 (a half our late) so I just went ahead and did my best efforts. I had email and teams turned off so they wouldn't pop up during recording. I later learned at 10:22 he emailed me "are you available for the demo?" Uh, yeah Joe I'm here in the lab waiting for you. So I guess he just wanted to like see my scren remotely while I did the demo? Thanks for making that clear big guy. Anyway, I had the file and watched it. Uh, why is the audio and video so out of sync?
Had to slow it by 83% percent, so dumb. I guess my recording software recorded the video and audio at different "framerates?" So I had about a minute of audio after the video ended. Great, just great. Thankfully we have Macs in the office, I was able to use iMovie (hey, remember that????) to separate the two tracts (windows movie maker couldn't do it) and then selectively slow the video track by 83% making it match up again. Ur the best windows, how do people using you get anything done? You suck.

Otherwise just reading. Good haul, missed the second part it was gone but I went right away. Sigh.

Did the shopping, saw parents.

Home for sites, and then did game. We got out of the spirit world market with the needed item. We only have one more item to go. So I should be able to finish my second talisman and finally fulfill my role as the main attacker. It took long enough.

Sat:
Did the outside stuff. So many weeds still! The pile is growing.
Moved a couple of berry bushes around, getting rid of more of that yucky ground cover and putting tiny bushes in their place. Grow my pretties! Grow and produce yummy berries for me! The ones I planted in the temporary area are still going strong, so I think next week I'll move them into place. More yucky ground cover plant dug up, more berries. Sounds like a win to me.
That took a good part of the morning. I was cutting weeds out of the front area so that added some time.
Then sites.
Reading.
Lunch.
Oh right, I didn't have to go to Yahoo guy, he called at 10:30 PM last night. Said a frontier tech called him? Uh, no, I don't think they do that? Why would they do that? But he claims his email is working again, which okay but Frontier doesn't maintain their email server anymore it's all done by Yahoo. So can they even influence Yahoo? I mean I suppose they could but the whole thing is very strange. He also said the tech said he was "hacked" and is "taking care of that too," but again, how would this person know? Whatever, it saves me 40 minutes of driving and trying to deal with this guy in person.
Paperwork type stuff. I never did the paperwork for two months ago, but there were only two things to enter. There was twice that many for last month. Ooooooo. Raking it in.
Cleaned up the house.
Did a kitty walk. Though it's more of a "kitty finds yummy grass to eat" than a walk. He does a lot more standing around and trying to eat plants than walking. But you know what I mean.
Reading.
Parents came. Only one movie left. I suggested TV shows next? Or figuring out some movies they wanted to see I could look into... legally... acquiring. All very legal.
And then xbox.

Sun:
Did the front lawn, it was nice and cloudy but still a bit humid.
Sunday readings.
Then more readings for the magic system. I may not get much more out of the story at this point. Humm. May start writing the rules up sooner, rather than later. I think I have a good handle on the way this writer did things, and my system isn't a 1:1 emulation of it, but certain ideas are valid and I want to represent them.
Did Sunday stuff like watering the plants. Next week I'll trim the connection and everybody will be on their own. You may recall I have only a few left to put in pots, the ones that were upside down. Not sure what I'll do about them.
Got ready for tomorrow.
One call, just a guy needing more google space. So we purchased it, and I started backing up his pictures. His documents and desktop was already backed up by onedrive. So he's pretty well covered now.
Rained a bit today.

Mon:
Looks like a cloudy week, may be up in the low 80s later too.
Rain is good for berries, I approve.

Not much exciting going on at work again. Now that we're past the D7.8 release it should be fairly quiet.

Worked on the Building Block Magic document pretty much the whole time. Got several pages done. Could be fine, maybe not. We'll have to see how it goes.

Got back here, took a kitty out.

Checked sites, ate dinner. One call, left a message.

More reading until Xbox with the others.

Tues:
Only real work thing was helping the developer guy reproduce two of my bugs.
We did of course have the three meetings. Two with Joe, and the onedrive meeting that went nowhere because I guess the guy that was supposed to be there wasn't. So we're meeting again Thursday.

More writing. Got the skills mostly done. It's going well, shaping up I think. I'm leaving some of my ideas out, because it's more of a template now but I am going to do a "sample world" showing how I use the process to create a somewhat unique magic system for a world using the ideas. So that'll need to be done.

Huge haul, overflowed the box. Barely got it all in the bag to bring to my parents.
It was a day early. I didn't expect it until tomorrow.

Went to see them, then came home. No calls.
Went out with a kitty, maybe rain the next few days? Nice out today.

Then sites, eating dinner, and getting ready for tomorrow. Then xbox.


Wed:
One meeting today, part 2 of the spec review, the one I had to leave early the last time. Riveting stuff, let me tell you.

Finished a first draft of the rules part. Still need to add the tables and sample spells but I started writing up a use of the rules to create a new magic system.

Helped Adnan a little, basic computer stuff, nothing major.

Came back home, was checking sites, and lost power. Got it back maybe 2 hours later? Fun stuff. Ate dinner. Took a kitty walk, it was a bit wet outside because it rained a few minutes but he didn't mind. No eating grass today though.

Finished checking sites. Then reading.

Thurs:
Pretty busy today, but mostly meetings. Oh yeah caught a mouse last night too.

Dropped Oliver off at 8:20 to get his urine sample, had to leave him.
Was late to the meeting, but it was just everyone complaining about the new requirements for users and domains and whatever that Ken is totally against in any case. The others agreed. So there wasn't anything I needed to say.

Met with the OneDrive people to do the upgrade. It went fine, they kept going on and on and on about cars instead of doing, you know, the install which should have taken 5 seconds? It was lunch time, please get on with it. Finally the guy copied all the files and they tried it. Whoops, looks like their stupid Azure is messed up, it won't let them on. Let this be a lesson to you. Don't trust Microsoft.

Good luck figuring that out, suckers. Not our fault this time.

Ate lunch finally in the middle of that, as they were looking at Azure and I was like "I'm out of here." Right after that went to pick up Oliver and brought him home. She said he was a good boy.

Had another meeting with the OneDrive writer, to tell him of the "good" news.

Then the status meeting, and plants. I then worked on a setup document for USDA to make our new feature work. Because that's my job, documentation. I do it all, I guess. I stayed late, why I have no idea I was just proofreading the magic system. Yup, main text is all done. Just need to proof it a whole bunch.

Came back here, did a kitty walk. Then dinner and sites.

One call, didn't reach him yet.

More reading of course.

Looking ahead I might get a haul tomorrow, we'll see. It's the right date for it. Not sure work wise, nothing major is near that I know of. More proofreading. Oh yeah, another meeting with the OneDrive people, not that I can really contribute anything. Don wants to take Christina and myself out to lunch. Hope we get back in time, nudge nudge, wink, wink! I really hate onedrive. I'll have to go to my parent's house in the morning, drop off the new little one. The traps have been tripped for days but nothing came of it. Why are you still in here little ones? Go outside and get yummy things to eat and have little mouse babies. Don't stay in my walls.

Then shopping, seeing my parents, and then back here for game.
Saturday is the Pyre game, maybe we'll get through this curse business? Eager to see what's in store for me.

Otherwise I have plenty to do. Replant those berry bushes after ripping up more of that nasty ground cover leaf. Cut the back lawn maybe. Unscrew the dehumidifier and see if I can figure out why it's noisy again. I know I did it once, but I forget what I did. Maybe I just tightened it? Do you like tight things? I think most people do.

I'm sure the solution will come to me, as it did before. Maybe I just oiled it. I never did find my oil can, the one I used on the sewing machine before Mom found me the new one. Where could I have put that thing? Weird.

Got in touch with the guy. He called me. Ugh, laptop with maybe a bad LCD? I really hate changing them. Like, a lot. But that's future Robert's problem. Saturday. Oh well, at least I'll have Sunday all to myself.

Almost Father's day. See you next week everyone.