2020-11-05:

Fri:
Got through one model of the new software build. Christina took the other, as I was going to do two. Had a bit of trouble with one card, only it would not give me the path for scan to home. Turned out I missed the @* in the LDAP query. So, why just that one card? Further, why does one type of machine need that, and the other doesn't? It's so weird.

Otherwise, not much else. I did set up the machine and provide directions to Gina so she can do her stuff with the altalink in back.

No new problems found so that's good, I don't think we'll have to do more for this card thing. Should be a major boon to card using companies. Saves everybody a lot of effort.

My gas gauge was down to half again but putting gas in it stopped (I put in $6.66) and I still "need" a quarter tank. I think it's busted. Weird.
Did the shopping.

Went to see my parents, no Gabe yet. Got a floppy disk, and they decided no movie this week. As I won't see them next week (if we do the Saturday game) it'll be awhile because they're working at the Shops a bunch early November. You still have to get me your Christmas lists though.

Came back here, put stuff away. Checked sites. No game, so got ready for tomorrow. Worked a bit on the next chapter, it's slow going I haven't even got back to Lysanias' action yet. Sheesh. I'm not writing out what's going on with the others, just what he's doing. Learned that the hard way, with the books before this describing everything was just too painful. I just need to see if somebody doesn't make it. Samantha almost got killed, again. That poor woman!

Sat:
Today was sort of terrible.
1st one was supposed to be "come set up my printer." Short, easily done. Right? Nope, it turned into "oh setup my whole new laptop." Uh, no? That's at least an hour job and I have two more places to be this morning. So I told her I would come back. I set the printer up though. She went and got a box of cartridges for it, there were 5 in the box, but her printer takes six. Are you really printing photos, so often that you need a printer with 6 cartridges? What a waste of money.
2nd one was the gaming PC I recently reloaded for a lady. She sold it- and now it seems completely dead. I changed everything in there, the power supply, the video card, moved the RAM around, reseated the heatsink (that giant thing I was complaining about before.) Nothing. It turns on, just doesn't do anything after that. I just went through it and made it all nice and pretty. What happened to the dumb thing? After an hour I gave up. Nothing I coud do. So frustrating.
Passed book guy, could have brought him his printouts. I had checked it, but was like, no, I'm not going near there, right? Wrong. I was.
3rd one was "I see the bars" which was really "my lcd isn't working." Guess how it went wrong- not a desktop! Laptop. I guess I should have specifically asked, but I didn't so that one is partially on me. Still, would it have killed him to say "my laptop screen has..." I don't think so. Got the number off it. I left it dissassembled as I have to go back, he later called me that he turned it on and it was working fine!!! After, of course, I ordered the pannel. Great, another one for the box that I'll never use and one day throw away. Neat. Maybe he'll buy it as a "spare" I don't know. Didn't call him back, I just couldn't handle it.
Went home, ate lunch.
Back to first one. Set up laptop. Office 2003? I guess it works, though Outlook doesn't save where she leaves off so she has to open her gmail portion and then the inbox. Well, that's what you get for using 17 year old software I guess.
Finally home at 4:00. At least there was some small bright side- no other calls today.
Ordered LCD. Put checks in.
Did the leaves for an hour- figured I might as well. There were not many, and tons more had blown down by Monday, but at least it'll be a little easier because of the work I did today.
Watched a few episodes of Supergirl while I waited for anyone to come looking for candy. Almost 8:00 and no one yet.

No one came. Played some Shante and got further, but now I'm stuck again. Looks really good in 4K!

Sun:
Did some cleaning, like I mopped the floor in the kitchen and did some laundry.
Listed the projector on ebay. It doesn't go for much, but if I can get my money back for the brand spanking new freaking bulb I bought because I thought I would need it, and make a little on the unit itself to pay part of the cost of the TV, eh, why not? I don't really see any need to keep it around. I don't have any wall space anywhere big enough. Now to deal with the monitor as I didn't sell the one. I have them all over the place now.
Did writing, finished up the battle and took the alien into custody. He has some info for them not not really enough. Space travel especially across star systems must be extremely complicated. It's hand waved away in nearly all fiction but really, your target isn't in the place you see it because it's light years away, so you have to figure out how fast it's going in relation to you, then aim for where you think it'll be by the time you arrive. Go faster or slower than that calculated value and you've missed it completely and now have to try again. I'm not actually sure how they're going to get there. He doesn't know his "home coordinates" any more than you, reading this, do. If you got dropped off on some alien planet how would you explain to the natives there how to get you home? You couldn't. Same with him. Lysanias may be able to look into his brain and see his home town but he certianly can't teleport there, and the ship with the computer that held the coordinates left weeks ago. Maybe Pythia can tell them?
Played more Shantae, got unstuck and moved to a new island.
Hail!
Not for long, but there was some. Going to be quite chilly the next few days, busted out the winter jacket.
Got ready for tomorrow, turned the clocks back so I would get more sleep going into Monday instead of stupidly Sunday when I can sleep however late I want anyway (like who came up with that idea of Sunday anyway?) and went to bed.

Mon:
Fairly busy today. Had a meeting in the morning about the test results from before about the contactless card readers and what it all meant. He wanted another test done, to see what ATR string was being used on the contactless card method, so I had to set that up. The D5.3 machine wouldn't let me log in as root, which was a real treat, so I finally moved over to D4.0. That did, and I found the ATR string! Oh, and I had a tutorial about log levels and other command line tools available in the system. Probably more detail than I ever needed, even if he did say Chris used some of that stuff regularly. But I digress. The card did log in with D4.0, using the new "just do it" menu option and adding the string to the file. It took, uh, way too long? But it's a start.

Otherwise, more work and not writing. The list is down to like 8 things, and 3 of those things are D5.4 things that simply can't be done. Neat.

Went to see dentist guy. Put the back of his LCD panel on, and his touch sensor didn't work anymore. Neat. I hate everything. He wanted to hook up a bluetooth speaker to his TV so he could listen to it in another room. He has a TV in 3 rooms. Needless to say, that TV doesn't have bluetooth. And why would a TV have that anyway? The speakers are supposed to be right there. Not half the house away. Sorry, four rooms. The kitchen, his room, upstairs, and I'm pretty sure around the other side of the stairs upstairs. What room are you in that doesn't have a TV?

Came back here. Checked sites, oh and it snowed today by the way. It didn't stick around, surfaces aren't cold enough but it gives you a nice preview of what's to come. Lots of leaves down after the wind and the raining and the hail from yesterday. Doesn't even look done, which is good, I guess?

One call, the lady from Saturday I went back to twice, some rant about how I was totally right about something and she was going to call me later. Okay I guess? I mean I know I'm right but what the heck are you talking about lady?

Called LCD panel guy back, he still wants to change it out. I'm fine with it. No other calls, so maybe I get to come home (in the dark, sigh) directly from work tomorrow.

Got ready for tomorrow, perhaps doing stuff with the crew, unlike last week?
Nope.

Tues:
So the plan for today was to load up the new version of the voice stuff and give it a whirl. Guess what didn't happen today? Exactly. I loaded it, but when I plugged the unit into the network again it got a different IP address and wouldn't connect to the server. When this usually happens with the other system I send it a reset and add it back to the server. Well, the reset code doesn't seem to work I found. So then the "left to go vote" and didn't come back all day so nothing got done. Thanks, voice guy!

So I put together a little "studio" for Louis to come and film the copy app stuff, got that machine ready. He came at 2:00, left just as I was so I'll put it back the way it was tomorrow. No big deal. Not like I have anything else to do. Oh, more voice stuff on the way so maybe I can do all that finally.

Otherwise very important work stuff, and not writing, obviously.

Came back here, did the front lawn because why not? Didn't take long figured I would get 'er done for today. Though it's supposed to be nicer the rest of the week. 20 degrees warmer, even.

Checked sites, dinner, just one call, carpet guy (is his still carpet guy??) and printers? He has a couple of printers, how many printers do you need, dude? I'm going there Thursday, he didn't want tomorrow. Fine, I won't come tomorrow then.

Got ready for bed and more Borderlands with the crew. Huh, this'll be the first borderlands on the new tv right?

Thought a little bit more about the earring Lysanias got for killing Sangray, poor guy, shot in the back and then cut in half with two swords. I forgot he put up a bit better fight with Susan, but he had just lost his other powers by teleporting to where Lysanias was, and hadn't had a chance to reconnect yet. Maybe I should rewrite that and give him more of a chance? Hummm...

Wed:
Had the meeting with the voice guy, he got the new software loaded so it would at least connect properly. Sadly, both he and I are having the same issue, that is, it no works no more. Gives an error that the action isn't allowed. He thinks maybe the time change did it? Stupid time change. As it worked before that and nothing else has changed. He was going to look into it more.

I did what testing I could, which wasn't much. Email hung completely, fax didn't work, and secure print release did the same thing where it worked once and then not again. Nice. Hey, your software is crap! Fix it!

Nothing for the original voice project, he says he figured out the empty queue thing, he's going to put together a demo. Why not just put together getting me the software so I can just try it myself?

So that was the morning, oh, and I picked up after Louis and put everything back where it belonged after the filming. Hope he got what he needed.

Wrote another chapter. Did not rewrite, forgot about it honestly.

Came back here, one call about printers. Cleaned up the back yard, despite not even a quarter of the leaves having fallen yet. On my tree, anyway. The tree in the way back is all down. Then put up my Christmas lights! Yup, it was so nice out and I had the time, I did it. What of it I could, two strings flat out don't work any more. Sigh. Maybe I'll find a loose bulb but rust, rust is the enemy.

Checked sites, still don't have a new president yet, so many red states. Who looks at the last four years and says, "you know what,  I would really like more of that please. Oh yes, Mr. Trump, lie to me. Lie to me you big, orange brute. Show me that picture of you in tennis shorts again, you wanna be dictator. Rip those kids away from their parents, oh it makes me so hot to think you did that! Cheat on your wife with a porn star and then pay her off I wish I could get away with that like you did." etc. etc. Who does that?

Did the haunting a couple times with the crew, cleaned out my backpack so I can actually start picking stuff up and finish off buying my SDUs.

Thurs:
The usual meetings today, no news from the voice people so I guess they're either having trouble tracking down the issue or they lost power again or something. Watered the plants. That's about it, nothing really exciting.

Went to set up the printers. They actually didn't give me any trouble at all, I was in and out of there. For once, I almost seemed to know what I was doing.

Came back here, watched V for Vengeance. If you've seen it, you know why I watched it today. If you haven't then perhaps you should. It's the way your world is going. Do we have a new president yet? *checks google* Nope. Looking at the map, it's so weird. The edges are mostly blue, and the middle is all red. How does that work? Shouldn't be almost random? What spell makes the middle of the country vote Republican? So weird.

One call, the lady I set the laptop up for wants me to put the old one back. Huh? I mean what did you expect when you bought a new windows PC? It's going to be the same as your other windows PC that's right next to it. No really, what did you expect?

So I have two for Saturday. I'm going to try and get urine from cats in the morning, we'll give them a bunch of salmon water and hope for the best. They're only open until 12:00 so... We'll start early, I guess. Then appointments.

Tomorrow no parents or game, so just work. I'll get groceries of course, maybe gas though it hasn't moved past 3/4 of a tank all week. We might do video game stuff just not RPG stuff tomorrow.

Then Saturday I explained, and hopefully a quiet day Sunday. Maybe I'll go down and put the LCD in, but that could wait until Monday too, right?

Checked sites, got ready for bed. Two more Thursdays until Turkey day, hope you have your turkey hat made. What, you don't know about the turkey hat? Where have you been?

See you next week!