2024-06-27:

Fri:
Almost got the chapter done in the morning, but just didn't have enough time.
Left for the picnic, got there first actually. I didn't panic, I recognized the place from last time, so I knew I wasn't in the wrong place. And I was proven correct just minutes later.
Had some food, then wandered off to find Adnan who demonstrated his impressive fishing technique by catching the cutest and tiniest fish in the water. Poor little fish. Hope he's okay, after having that hook in his mouth. And suffocating for 15 seconds, I'm sure he was looking forward to that in his day. Also got to hear about how thick his fishing line was, how lazy he was for not changing it, how the bait was bad (he took a bunch of corn out of the salad) and possibly more I'm not recalling at the moment. And you willingly do this activity?
There was a container far below me in the water, something that got knocked off the dock we were looking at probably. Tried to get a long stick and get it out of there. I made it worse, not only did I not get the container my pen fell in there. Sigh.

I'm a terrible person. Sorry Earth-chan, I tried, I really did.

Helped with cleanup, we left about 3:00. It was hot, no one wanted to do lawn games. But then, does anyone really want to do lawn games?

Stopped at home for ice as I had been given the leftover food, did the shopping, went to the bank, then brought stuff to my parents. We had picnic leftovers.

Then back for the rest of episode 1. Got through it, so it's on to episode 2.

Sat:
Went to see laptop guy. Yes, his machine won't run Win11. Barely runs win10. It has an SSD, why is it so freaking slow? Took his desktop apart. Some old Win7 system originally. Didn't want any of it. Thanks, but no thanks. Got a call from the vet's office while there, Oliver now goes in at 9:50 on Tuesday. Maybe x-rays as well? Hang in there little guy. He will eat Churu, if I sort of follow him around once he loses interest. Maybe a treat or two? But that's it.

Cut the front lawn while it was still somewhat cool out.
Checked sites, had lunch.
Then did the weeding. Some berries are getting red!
Finished one Emberhaven chapter before leaving. There's still more to write, I got up to the point my curse was gone. Now we need to do the lamp oil business. Well, there's always tomorrow.
At Sean's we had some yummy orange ice cream like stuff, pizza, played a weird game about wavelengths, and then the dragon equivalent to wingspan. I didn't get last, but I didn't win either. Oh well. Alyx didn't come, they were dealing with a not-feeling-good-doggo. Hope your doggo is feeling better, Alyx!

Sun:
Did the morning readings.
Berries are getting ripe! They must have ripened in the last 25 hours. There's not a lot, but they are out there.
Windy day. Very windy in fact. My berries will blow away at this rate.
Finished up writing what I have for Emberhaven. We're right at the point where we confront the cultists stealing the lamp oil. I'll be ready for the... [checks notes] we're not doing it until the 20th? That's a whole month away!
Still, with both stories up to date the only thing I'll have to worry about at work tomorrow is, well, work stuff, if any, and coming up with some plot for this week's game. So I feel I'm in pretty good shape.
Wait, no, I just realized I'm not in good shape. I still have to write up what happened in the first episode of the pony game. Shoot. Oh well.

Got ready for tomorrow.

One call, someone that, at 10:10 this morning deleted their downloads folder out of dropbox. Completely. Like, not in the trash, it was just gone. How? But that's when dropbox said it happened, I showed him. This was the guy I just went to see yesterday. So thankfully we had the backup from the other device. I guess dropbox doesn't keep backups for free users like it does for paid ones. Whoops. Otherwise he would have been out of luck. How did he even do this?

Mon:
Still pretty windy, and it won't be in the 90s again this week.
Worked on the shelves so I could put the picnic stuff in the cabinet. Got that done so it's all safely stored. I am now the picnic stuff master I guess.


No work, D8.0 thing is still a no-go so I just did a lot of writing. I now have 2 chapters of the pony story and am caught up on Emberhaven. I also worked out the next pony adventure. I think. Good amount of running around, some challenges, should be okay.

Good news on the oliver front. Found a worrying amount of poop on the living room floor in the morning. When I got home he ate 5 greenies, 4 chicken corks, a churu. The most I've seen him eat at one time in a long time. Maybe that is all it was. Despite him getting his medicine every day without fail. Maybe I'll increase to 2ml? I mean I give him fiber treats for goodness sake.

Still the vet called, doing an x-ray Friday. So it'll be get up at 6:00, get him in the crate at 7:00, go over to feed everybody at my parent's house, with him in the bathroom for an hour, then x-ray at 8:10. It can work.

Did xbox with the others. Got all the parts we needed for the new warframe and her weapons!

Tues:
Went into work, had the morning meeting.

Left at 9:30 to get Oliver. Took him in for his blood work.

Then back to work. Did some proofreading.

Another OneDrive meeting, but they won't be there for 2 weeks. Wrote up two bugs. One I noticed they were experiencing, and the other issue they already know about on Versa just on Alta. I was pretty sure fixing it in one place would fix it in the other. But sure, write it up so they know I guess.

Got different food for Oliver. And more Churu. He's lost another pound. See if I can get him eating stuff.

Checked sites, had dinner. No calls. Brief rain on the way home.

Xbox with the others. Tomorrow I will have had the bolt for 3 years. No major service either. Nice!

Xbox with the others. Got some things, just waiting for them all to build, now.

Wed:
Tried to do the rest of the D8.0 tests, but discovered I couldn't. I can log in with the stupid MS app thing but the tests I still need to do are all card related! Whoops!

Did more proofreading. Some thinking about Friday's game. Oh, got a huge haul, 2 boxes worth! I'll have salad for a bit as my parents are gone, but I'll bring them a bunch of stuff probably tomorrow. Made a schedule for the next 4 days. It's going to be a bit complicated.

Not much else, no meetings today.

Back here, checked sites, did more reading.

Going to be early.

Thurs:
Had the usual meetings today. Then Joe sprang a nasty on me. He wants me to do a full test (and then some honestly) on that new plugin I got. Neat. Every family of Versalink? Primelink too? All the old cards? Just exactly how little do we trust this thing written by the people that made the cards? And he admitted they already did their own testing too. Sigh.

So that'll be started tomorrow. So fun. Gonna be so fun.

Worked on the building block magic document a bit, put in some sample spells.

Went this morning to feed everybody. Even got to pet Penny for a bit, but not Jingles. Saw outdoor kitty, did the usual stuff over there. Taking the tree down that cracked will be $3,000!!!

Nothing much else exciting. Got a few pictures and a map ready for tomorrow's game.

Brought some food over to the house, and came home.

Checked sites. No calls again, thank you.

Did a bit more game prep, putting stuff into Roll20.

Debate tonight! I'll see about watching at least the first part of it. You never know I could change my mind and decide I'm voting for Trump!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah


No.



Moving on.


Have everything planned out for the next few days. Bringing Oliver over to my parent's tomorrow, I'll just put him in the bathroom for an hour. Then to the vet. I forget when I can pick him up. Do they do the x-ray right away? But they have to sedate him right? I forget how that works. Then starting Joe's stupid test. Shopping. Then doing game.

Then over the weekend maybe doing the lawn, but for sure picking berries, doing the weeds, making a pie, cleaning the freezer out, and thinking about christmas gifts.

That should do it for this week. Almost July. Day off next week! See everyone then.