2024-09-12:

Fri:
Couldn't do the D4.0 stuff, builds are failing. Have been for I guess two days now. Might be something we want to look at?
Got more haul, had to use the big bag to take it away. Still trying to work on frozen stuff here, but I got a bunch of sandwiches I want to eat, enough to keep me almost the whole week. Well, whatever.
Worked on the new spell/item descriptions for the game, realized I hadn't done that.
Went over the episode one last time, feels like it's in good shape.
Not much else comes to mind...

Bank, shopping, parents.
Did the 1/4 pour, we'll see how that goes.
Ran game. Didn't get through it, I knew it would be a long one though. Took a tiny bit of nudging to get them (Sean) to the actual reason they were there, but the plot can now proceed however they want. The decision to set the stage after the defeat of the king is proving to be the right one. They're going to send an army of ponies (and others) to the place to help Amphibia rebuild.

Sat:
Cut the foam so the front door looks better. Stay outside tiny mouses!
Washed the mugs, hesitant to put them back just yet just in case someone starts living under there again. Not sure what else to do with them though.
Worked on the 3/4 pour.
Then on the figure rebuild project. I actually got something I was happy with???? What's going on? Ears and paint look good. Didn't even take me all that long. How about that.
Paid my school tax bill.
Checked sites.
An hour of Alan Wake, I'm halfway though thank goodness, it's not getting better. And I know there's just more of the same awaiting me.
Then an hour of Shantae.
Other stuff, not important.
Oh, I got the latest pour out of the mold, and it came out a lot better, I'm pretty sure. I'll sand it up, as that seems to help even with the spray, but far less bubbles I think. I started a pour for the big piece with the same technique. Hope I have enough resin to finish it. Might be close. Going to pour only a very small amount at any one time, as that seems to be the best way. I'm doing it in very thin layers because the object I'm trying to make has a bunch of "wells" so filling up all the wells means I'm basically just pouring the whole thing in the first place. So I'm trying to carefully build it up in a logical manner.
More Shantae, parents didn't come for movie because of picnic.
Then xbox with the others. Did daily tasks in first descendent and then started the new season of Nightwave in Warframe. We got most of the challenges done!
Was still somewhat concerned my damage numbers were nowhere near what I saw in the simulator. Very odd. I figured this out though...

Sun:
Waking up in the morning. "What if it's proportional damage?" It is. When I test against level 140 enemies I get the millions of damage I crave. Sometimes. Damage is all over the place in warframe. I don't know why. But when I reduce the level of the enemies to what I was fighting my damage is way less. Don't get me wrong it was still lethal all over the place. I'm just glad to have figured it out. So it's a build that does more damage, the more damage that an enemy can take. Seems reasonable. Tested it against Glaive Prime too, and while the Glaive does more AoE it's only about 1/3 of the damage. Good to know. So basically the lesson here is, take Glaive when it's a low level mission with lots of enemies to blow up all at once, kapow! But take Harmony when it's a high level mission and they'll have lots more HP. DONE.

Did the daily readings.
Looked for grapes, not many with all of them ripe yet, but I did get some.
Worked on a few details for the continuation of the next episode. If I read the situation correctly, they're going to return to Equestria soon to get relief ponies and supplies. So I made up some relief organizations they can pick up and ferry over there. Wanted to make sure I knew what each "ruler" was going to say/offer to the other. And now I do!
Played some Shantae. That game is brutal for some reason. Or maybe I'm just rusty on platformers? The last Shantae game I played didn't seem that brutal. Maybe they just uped the heart spawn rate? That would do it, they seem pretty stingy with them in this game. Or the enemies just hit harder or something. I'm doing it, but I'm downing auto potions like it's going out of style.
Ordered kitty medicine refill.
Did more pour. I think I'll have just enough to finish this one piece so I hope it works out perfectly.
Found the closest display stand I could for the two pieces of the xmas gift. Not movie perfect for the one piece but what can you do? Uh, but then my money was refunded? What's going on there? It said it shipped, but then... I'll have to follow up. Sigh.
Got ready for tomorrow.
Finished the pour. Had just enough, and a bit extra to make some "overflow balls" with. I pour extra into my ball molds just to have someplace to put it. Now I have three new blue balls. Some xbox with the others.

Mon:
Resin overflowed a bit? It seemed perfect though? Weird. I can cut/sand it easily enough it's just odd it did that.

No new build over the weekend, so they haven't finished that system yet.

With that, nothing work related to do. Got 2 chapters written. But that's only maybe the halfway point of this adventure, which as you know still must go on! So it'll likely be 6 chapters? Sheesh. But it's important stuff, so that's to be expected.

Rained hard today. There was even a flood warning at 5:45. Here! In Rochester. Bizarre!

Came back home, pulled piece of out mold. Very promising. Need to sand it for sure, but at the moment, looking at it, I'm much happier with it than the others.

Checked sites, ate dinner. There was hail! Actual hail! Not big but still. It was really coming down for a minute there.

Did more writing. Got ready for tomorrow. Called Yahoo guy, it was fine today. Stupid Yahoo. What was it even doing yesterday? Ugh.

Back to writing. Finished the next chapter. The next will be it, will it be a full chapter? Good question!

Tues:
Had some work today. But first finished the last chapter I needed to write. All sewn up for the upcoming adventures. Whew.

The D40. builds are working again so I loaded that. Had a Joe meeting. Had the onedrive meeting no logs yet! Hey why isn't there an automated process for redacting logs? You think if a company (the gobment) had to do an activity all the time (redacting logs) they would I don't know use some of my tax dollars to build a tool to do that instead of one bomb or something. Just an idea. Would it really be that hard to load a list of things to redact and just feed a text file into it and out pops another text file without any of those things in it? Seems easy.

Also got the versalink stuff a day early. Two days early, sorry. Got one model done. Wrote a new bug, a regression I guess, as I marked it passed before. You can select the cert without being in TLS 1.3 mode. That basically breaks the machine. Neato.

Came back here, checked sites, had dinner.

Then xbox with the others. Most of the daily challenges met. If only I could say that about my real life, you know what I mean??????

Wed:
More actual work today. Made some test cases for the new hub feature we're putting in.

Also did the other device we got software for, the cert tests. It was fine.

Did some proof reading of the pony story. Added a few details to episode 9.

And that was the day!

Came back here, checked sites. Ate dinner.

One call, but she said tomorrow remotely is fine. Sure.

Worked on more details for the adventure.

Thurs:
During yet another onedrive meeting where it was revealed the customer probably won't be giving us the logs, and "what else can we do" (the answer was nothing) I pushed back a little and said if my testing doesn't show the problem and their "testing" supposedly does, who are you going to trust. Her answer was "of course I trust the customer." She missed the point of my question entirely and of course everyone else jumped in and moved on so I didn't speak up the rest of the meeting. I  want to address this question quickly: if you have two data points and they are diametrically opposed and you are asked "which is real" your only answer is "there is not enough evidence to say one way or the other." That's it. That's all you can deduce from these data points. In this case, are you in the room when they are "testing" and the jobs are not showing up? No? So how do you know if they're looking in the right place? How do you know they're doing it right? You don't.

There is not enough evidence.

My point of course was getting a 3rd data point, but it was lost on her and the group. Whatever. Oh right, the most hilarious part! We can't do a "live" session with them and they just show the logs to the developer because the developer is canadian. Yeah. You would think we would take that into account when making things we know will be desired by government agencies. And maybe, I don't know, make them ourselves? So we don't have to jump through all these hoops all the time? Also, is there something magical about being a "US citizen" vs a "Canadian citizen" that would make some huge difference? Because I don't see it. Americans can be radicalized just as easily as anyone else. Look at Musk. Or not, that guy has a weird face. Someone get him a razor. You think the world's richest man could afford a decent one, but I guess not. What was I saying?

Had the usual status meeting as well.

Otherwise read over the pony stuff, not much more I can improve I don't think. Did some other reading. Watered the plants. More haul, and stuff is dated tomorrow so maybe even more tomorrow.

Came back here.

Two calls? I have to call three people tonight? Yuck. Reached two. An hour to do a malwarebytes scan? Yuck! Nothing found either, so that was a waste of time.

Other guy was the guy who somehow hangs mail all the time. Mac didn't want to reboot when it was hung either. But we figured it out.

Third person I didn't reach.

Checked sites, had dinner.

Looking ahead, we'll do something at work tomorrow, not sure what. Bring my parents more stuff. Do the shopping, run the next part of episode 7. Depending we may skip 8 and go right to 9, the beginning of the end. 12 episodes total.

Saturday is Pyre, otherwise not much planned. Looking for grapes again. Some sanding? Yeah probably.

Well, September is almost half over. See you next time!