2024-10-31:

Fri:
Mostly just working on the dungeon stuff for next season.
Didn't know if we would have time to start it after the big fight.
Probably not, at the speed the game usually moves at.

No more haul yet.

Some developers came to talk about a project for 7/25. Uh, there's no statement of work, no specs, it's 9 months away, what exactly do you want from me?

Shopping. Saw my parents.

Then back for game. Didn't go exactly as planned, my big fight at the end got short circuited when someone activated the bomb sitting there way too early, but events were set in motion for season 2. I sort of wanted it to be more of a victory, than just "boom" as it was his last ditch desperation move but he didn't get to do anything. Oh well, plans fall apart, planning is essential.

Sat:
Did the cleaning.
Checked sites.
Worked on Mizzy's gift. Humm, the mix has large rocks in it. Large for my application that is. I guess that's how it works. I substituted them with sand. We'll see how it works.
Ate lunch.

Job at 2:00. That was a slog. It kept BSODing, which is a verb now. I had to eliminate the usual suspects, as his mcafee expired who knows how long ago and mbam found 90 things. It wasn't crashing in safe mode. Of course you can't uninstall in safe mode because MS knows how to program things! Finally I updated the BIOS as suggested for the BSOD reason. Ran 20 minutes after that. Boom. Done. Why did it even need to be done? I don't get it.

Did the Sunday readings. Yeah yeah, but I want to finish the book tomorrow, so it's right into it in the morning.

Worked on the cover for the book. I think I got something I'm happy with.

Now I just have to finish it. Thankfully most of it is already formatted. Thanks, past me! We've got this on time for sure.

Parents came for movie.

Then did Xbox.

Sun:
Writing. Finished up the book! Put the text into the scribus document, and looked it over. Have to do a check or two, so it won't get "done" by tonight but tomorrow or the next day for sure.

Sean says no game this week, so I have two weeks to get the System book done finally. That would be fine with me.

Checked sites, did a few other things, nothing really great.

One call. Just a few minutes on the phone. Nothing major.

Got ready for tomorrow.

Oh and the cement stuff seems to have worked. I'm painting it blue, I think that'll look fine. I just have to get some paint, for the main part, though maybe I could paint them with a brush? Actually I probably could. Huh. I must have some gray paint somewhere.

Sent mom my current xmas list. Don't judge us I can already hear christmas music on the radio. Shhhhh can't you hear it? You can, can't you?

Mon:
Good thing I checked it over several times. I kept finding words like
this.

I had to fix. But it's done as it's going to get. Anyway. Got the latest OneDrive, so I did another 80 minute test. No issues. Don wanted it loaded on one of the little machines. The 150 page job took 28 minutes. So glad our machines are so powerful.

Had a meeting with Joe about XDM and IdP. I contributed. A little.

News in Apple land. And I'm not just talking about the M4 that's coming out this week. iMac first I guess. I'm looking forward to the mini. Anyway. Several days ago I found a sprouted seed in an apple. Yes, from the fridge! Weird. So of course I planted it. Nothing Friday but today when I went in, it had 2 little leaves! Neat!

Voted. There was a line, I was surprised. It moved quickly enough but there was still a line when I left so it must have been constant all day. How about that?

Then to good will. Got a few goodies, including a cool Mac collectable.

Came back here. Checked sites.

Uploaded the book and ordered all the copies I need of both.

Was going to do some Shantae but Sean wanted to do Xbox.

At least I got some more of the map explored.

Tues:
New Mac Mini! So tiny.

Did writing, got almost a whole chapter done. Did a USB test that took half an hour, at the request of the developer on the case of the bug I wrote about the device not doing the job at all. Would you accept a half an hour scan job? I wouldn't.

Got a good haul. Saw the guy pushing the cart towards the place. Went back and found more stuff in there. Huh. Glad I checked.

Otherwise just thinking about Minis, which I might want and how to put it somewhere a cat can't lay on it. Tinker has gotten into that spot now, it used to be only Oliver.

Went to second job. Got her trackpad all fixed up, finally. Finally.

Came back here, checked sites. More thinking about mini, and monitors, and cables I need. It wouldn't ship until next week anyway, it's fine. Don't have to order it today.

Two calls! Double the fun! The first lady says her ipad isn't taking touches for the pin. Wonderful. But she has a second one, we can probably just wipe it and / or move her account over to it. Not too far from home, I think I can bring my parent's their stuff and get there by 4:30.

The second is way out by Sean's. Registry issue at boot. Always a pleasure, MS. Never change.

Made the orders. I have a few ideas for the space.

Xbox with the others.

Wed:
Couple of meetings today, one of my very own.

Let's see, there was the JBA length test, which may be scaling down. The customer just wants one thing, and we were going nuts trying to do all things. Maybe just giving them what they want, and not breaking stuff, is the way to go?

Next was OneDrive at I think the actual customer site? The original one? I don't know. Didn't help much but I was there!

Then my meeting with Joe and Tim getting some answers (but not many!!!) on the next test. He's not sure of how some things well be done either. Uh, whoops I guess?

Otherwise did a little writing. Not much, finished the previous chapter and started the next. And I thought I could get this done in the next two weeks? Ha!

Did a setup for the color test, printed the "before" sheets.

Straightened up my Ethernet cables with a box I found.

Went to give food to my parents, then out to iPad lady. Ugh. Of course we don't know any passwords. Her iPad I guess uses the fingerprint thing (why? She's 93 years old and lives alone. Is she afraid someone is going to steal it?) which upon reboot needs some different code than the usual iPad password? Huh? Of course it can't be reset externally. You can only wipe the whole thing. Of course she has 2 factor on all accounts (and doesn't know her email password, or apple password) so everything goes to the iPad we can't get into.

I did finally stumble across her apple password in the disorganized mess that was her "filing system."

So I saw she had a fairly recent backup, and started to wipe it out. The software was going to take 7 hours to download.

I drove home, plugged it in to my Mac, and it downloaded in, no lie, 3 minutes. Frontier? YOU SUCK. How does she even still have DSL service? Ugh.

So it's all restored now. Only took 2 hours there and another few minutes here.

I'll bring it back to her tomorrow. No calls today.

Checked sites, had dinner.

Discovered whisky. Not the drink. It's an easy way to run windows games on Mac. I tried Shantae on it. Runs perfectly! I don't have to power on my huge PC anymore just to play that game. Neat. Got a little further.

Then went to bed.

Thurs:
The usual meetings today. Except Ladan was there so they basically talked about money and Versalink stuff. Not our stuff. Whatever.

Made more prints for the color test.

Then worked on the book. Got a chapter done and started the next. 10,000 more words or so to go. I can see the end from here actually, I think it'll be just about right. Great!

Dropped off the iPad, came back here. Checked sites, had dinner.

No kiddies yet, but it's only 5:30.

I did get one group.

One call, weekend is basically shot. 12:00 over by Grandma's old house. Unspecified issues. Then at 4:00 (a half hour away) the reg guy. Then at 6:00 (down the street) is Sean for game. I guess I can go home between those two, get something done.

Otherwise looking ahead we see not much in store tomorrow. Oh, got lots more food so I'll bring plenty to my parents. More writing probably. Bank. Shopping. See my parents. 

Sunday the reading, painting Mizzy's gift. Sculpting the last piece? That's probably all I'll have time for.

Stuck in Shantae near the end. A timed dungeon? Ugh.