2020-05-07:

Fri:
Tearing through the testing again, so it's all good. Ran the one D5.4 test I could run, the edge to edge fix, and threw in the white text fix as well just for good measure. It didn't make the printer crash and burn so that's a good sign. It looked identical to the previous results so I call it a win.

Then went on with the card test and the reader test. Having most of the machines already set up for it so I only needed to upgrade helped me get through 4 of the 6 models I plan on testing. I did one "different" machine, a 25 instead of a 00 but whatever. I upgraded the other two I'll do monday.

Made Don a bunch of folders with weird permissions. Hopefully that's the end of that for a while.

And at the every end of the day altbooted the one printer I had killed two days ago to hopefully bring it back.

Left, went to the store, waved at the gas station as I went by, and saw my parents.

Back here checked my sites, and we got through the next leg of the adventure. They're back in space baby, on the road to saving some layenhopt.

Sat:
Sites, videos. Modified the svg so we didn't have to try tracking the paper representation of the orbs. It was getting difficult because I don't actually have anything that can mark on this page I printed. It's mostly black toner so I would need some kind of white marker. I found my gold paint pen some time ago but only in passing looking for something else. I didn't want to tear the house apart looking for it again so I figured this was easier.
Thought about Mother's Day.
The idea I had didn't pan out. Back to thinking.
Cleaned a bit, my parents are coming over for a movie but of course I would have anyway. I mean of course I would have, it obvious isn't it?
Paperwork. Another 4 jobs! Nice. Actually 5, I still had the invoice from delivering the system Thursday but I didn't get it until later. It can go in next month.
Started watching pony episodes. I've had them to watch since 2018 so I figure it's about time to finish that up.
Parents came, we watched a movie.

Sun:
Fairly boring to write about, I just finished up all zillion episodes of ponies. I have some special holiday one to watch that I missed that I found when I was moving them to their rightful place, but otherwise all 222 episodes across 9 seasons are watched. I'll miss you girls! Bring on G5 already!

Otherwise just did the Sunday stuff. Watered the plants, put the comics in but I had to be careful that last shelf was a mishmash of random stuff. As I was looking them over I realized I had put in some twice already! Silly. Went and made sure they were only in once, then sorted out any I had already done. So I only have a few more to go. Fianally back to regular books I guess. I have over a thousand comics. I know, some comic people out there are going "is that all?"

Not much else.

At least it was nice out.

Mon:
That didn't last long. Went back to being rainy and yucky, and there's a freeze warning in effect for tonight. I brought in the little sprouts I took from the pregnant plant at work so it didn't freeze.
Finished up the card tests at work. Then, and this is key, did other card tests at work. I know! See, I was done with the first card tests, and wondering what to do now and I updated some machines with what was the latest current build to see if a sleep bug was fixed. It seemed to be, and then Christina was "are you going to do the D4.0 tests I'm still doing this other thing" and she figured we should do the tests again because it's a new pre-release to fix the bug. So having nothing else to do I did the cards test, the blackboard reader tests, and the edge to edge tests on both models of Altalink.

And now I have nothing to do for tomorrow.
Well, that's tomorrow's problem.

Oh right, the amusing story continues. I had loaded 12120 build but the official release was 12100 build. They rebuilt 121 twice, but then chose to take the first one, not the last? That's weird. So I had to reload what I had just reloaded with an ever so slightly older version which was fine.

Came back here, looked into my Discord problem because of the crashing and the burning. Checked sites. Rick and Morty is back! Yay! Watched the next episode of that, very good! Tried to set up Tinker's vet appointment, but I guess it was too much for them, they're not doing wellness appointments anymore. Ah well. We'll get you later, Tink.

Then spent 45 minutes with a guy on the phone who could get on the internet with his PC, but not on wireless. I got onto his PC, saw his router said it wasn't connected, saw his PC had a real IP address from Spectrum... this all points to it being plugged in wrong. When he finally got it working he still wouldn't admit he had it plugged in wrong, insisting he changed nothing and it was just the reboot that did it. Uh huh. No, it doesn't work that way don't lie to me.

So I managed to get online to play with the others just in time. Push to Talk works in Discord, which is odd, but workable.

Tues:
Fairly boring day, as I expected. Certainly didn't write another chapter! I tried another card on the products I just tested, for completeness. I did a little USDA testing. (testing a patch to make sure a certain screen went away when it should. It does now) I looked at the tablet, but there were no easy bugs I could close and the new version isn't out until tomorrow. Ugh, need something new to do.

Came back here, two calls. Ate dinner, checked sites.

Tonight was a half hour getting someone moved over to Thunderbird, and twenty minutes getting Zoom installed for someone else. Such is life.

Downloaded the other... I mean legally acquired the other Equestria Girls movies for later.

Tomorrow will be USDA so I'll at least have something to do, I should think.

Now what to do for the rest of tonight? Maybe another Future Cop stage? I'm not sure what will happen in the book next, need to think about it. I did another stage. One more to go?

Wed:
Mid week already, how are you all doing out there?

Not a lot done today, we had the USDA meeting but no new software until Friday. Apparently the NDES stuff I talked about is coming back to haunt us, we need it now so I'm going to have to chase down the folks who were "helping" me before, if they're even still around? Yeah, that'll be fun, given how "eager" they were to "help" me out before. That came in at the end of the day. Along with "Test something we didn't do because Kathy needed to do it, in D5.1. That's already shipped. Not 5.3, that we could still actually fix stuff in. Oh, and Kathy doesn't remember how she tested it, nor did she make any test cases, nor can she provide any examples today because of the aforementioned forgetting. LOL. Good luck!"
So I installed the old build (from December of last year) onto a device and I'll try to fight my way though that tomorrow. Honestly, it's shipped. It's out there. Testing at this point is useless, we would have heard if they were a) using it and b) it didn't work. Did he hear anything? Then either of those things is false.

Between the meeting and that? Uh, some work stuff, of course. Lots of work stuff.

Came back here, four calls? Who are all you people? One was just "do you repair cell phones" and of course the answer is no so that's a quick one.
One was the lady I just sold the PC to. She called to tell me her audio program, that I showed her would be empty and that she agreed it being empty was fine, apparently it's wasn't fine. But I found the files easily enough. (This is the one with the 500,000 temp files)
Another wants me to setup her new cable modem. Yuck, but it's Saturday and she's probably safe. It's a retirement home! (I'm going to die, aren't I?)
And I didn't reach Cliff who I feel was going to be the longest. Neat.

Sean wanted to do Borderlands so after getting ready for tomorrow I said that was fine.

The very minute we got into the game he called. Because that's how the universe works. A half hour later I gave up. He can apparently only open some programs. But not others. What? Windows... we need to talk.

Thurs:
Mostly spent today working out, writing, and then performing the tests needed for the copy EIP service changes. I think they mostly pass, there were some "failures" but that may be my not understanding something. I sent the whole shooting match to Kathy to look over. And I'll be glad to wave it goodbye if she says it's fine. Another thing off the list and behind us.

Otherwise I went to several meetings, the usual one at 2:30, and then went around and watered the plants as normal.
Heard about the bird. The one person over in the one section started telling me about it out of the blue. Apparently, wait a second. What does that even mean, out of the blue? The blue... sky? Huh, weird. Anyway, apparently it liked being in one of the plants so they moved it further and further down towards the door until it was out the door. Glad to see it have a happy ending.

Oh yeah, emailed the people "helping" me with the server stuff, we'll see if any respond and provide further "help."

Got home, took a look at the laptop. There's a lot of things not working with this piece of junk laptop. I thought it had an SSD but now, hearing it groan on trying to reload windows I have to come to the conclusion it does not. Maybe the drive is dying? I'm trying an in place upgrade of windows to see if that will make a difference for anything. it's been more than an hour and is only at 19%. Yeah, nice job.

No calls, but got ready for tomorrow. Sean wants to do more Borderlands so why not?
Hey, the PC finally decided to do something and is now at the second 65% mark. Maybe it will finish before tomorrow after all.

So we can talk briefly about the future. Tomorrow at work I'm going to do blah. Who knows. Not me.
Then shopping, getting gas, and seeing my parents. Then home for Sean's game.

Saturday, nothing yet. Sunday is of course Mother's Day and I hope my gift gets here. The shipping date originally said it would come in plenty of time but it just shipped today. So that's not a good sign. Sigh. Anyway I'll go over to see her and have lunch. No flea markets for us this year.

So that's this week. Hope you are all remaining safe and far away from anyone. Forever. See you next week!