2021-01-21:

Fri:<br>

    Helped with determining if barcode reader could be used with equitrac

    instead of the usual prox card reader. In essence they do the same thing,

    spit out a number that is compared to the known database. So in theory it

    should work. Guess what. It didn't.<br>

    Not much else.<br>

    Went to bank, I can transfer IRA into CD IRA. Think I'll go shorter term

    this time, maybe 2 years, than I can keep making new CDs rather than letting

    5 years of money sit at .1% interest. Good plan. Not that either interest

    rate is high enough to really make me anything, but what else can I do?<br>

    Got paid, don't think I have a 401k, my calculations bear that out. See

    Tuesday for more info.<br>

    Oh, and no answer to "do I have a 401k and how do I know what you're taking

    out." So thanks A+.<br>

    Saw parents. Got food.<br>

    Came back here, sites.<br>

    Spent an hour on the phone talking about new vs moving stuff she's still

    using some old XP CAD program she won't give up. Sigh. I'm heading there to

    move the stuff.<br>

    <br>

    Sat:<br>

    Cleaned up a bit, got rid of old phone books, I mean come on! Why am I

    keeping these things? Straightened up the kitchen where they were, it was a

    mess in that corner.<br>

    Sites, videos.<br>

    Figured out how to enable SLI on my video card again and use both displays!

    I had an HDMI splitter that sends one HDMI signal to two sources. It was

    being used before to send the Xbox output to the monitor and the projector.

    So I just stuck on the PC instead. I don't need dual displays that was just

    awkward. But one display shown twice? Yes, that could be useful. Okay, the

    monitor is picked up so we're at 1080p instead of 4k on the TV but I was

    upgrading from a 720p projector. I get a better framerate this way, both in

    lowering the resolution required to display, and by throwing my second video

    card at the problem. Suits me. Upgraded my drivers and played some more

    River City Girls.<br>

    Had lunch and played some arcade games. Yeah! Haven't done that in forever.<br>

    Left for my 2:00. This worked out for all involved, as when I plugged it

    into my Mac his drive worked just fine. So I plugged it into my laptop PC.

    And it worked just fine. Now I was confused, and plugged it back into his

    PC. Where it worked. Just fine. So what was the original problem then? It

    wasn't loose, the machine did know it was there. So weird. So then I wanted

    to get his backup working. And here we run into an issue. Event Viewer was

    full of "nah, not gonna do it bruh." Thanks for bringing something so

    crutual to our attention. Oh that's right you didn't. So I formatted the

    drive to try and make it start over. It would start to run, not give an

    error, and act like it finished just fine. Stupid thing. So I just turned it

    off and put the seagate backup software on there. Whatever. It was copying

    his document folder so apparently it was happy! Got back at 4:00. He called

    the next day to say the backup had run, and we checked it and yes, the

    expected folders were there. Whew. Thanks for nothing, MS.<br>

    <br>

    Played more River City Girls, got to the final boss room, but didn't go

    forward because I didn't know how much time I had. Not much, as it turned

    out.<br>

    Did an event in Borderlands with the crew, which we didn't really complete

    sadly. It was on the hardest difficulty and while Sean made a valant effort

    he too was overcome in the end. Defeat!<br>

    <br>

    Sun:<br>

    Beat RCG for the second time, yay!<br>

    Started playing the DLC for Control, got into it, and moving email lady

    called to remind me "weren't you supposed to be here at 1:00." AARG I hate

    this crap!<br>

    So I went out there (at 2:00), to move her email to another machine because

    she's paranoid about it (you read about the job earlier) but it wound up

    being Ellen 2.0. Oh, how do I make a folder. How do I move things into a

    folder? Oh my goodness you people really? <br>

    So when I got home (at <em>5:30) </em>I changed my phone message! My rates

    are now $50.00 for a repair job, $40.00 an hour for tutoring. Because this

    is insane. You have had the modern computer as early as 1984 or as late as

    1995. That's at least 26 years. There are now people with kids four-six

    years old who have never lived in a world without the "modern" computer.

    Think about that. You should know, by now, how to make a folder and how to

    file things in the folder. Really! You should.<br>

    Got back, worked on the backstory for the superhero game as Sean was asking

    about it.<br>

    <br>

    Mon:<br>

    Wrote up the whole backstory, answered the questions they had from last

    night.<br>

    Played some Control. Got through the first DLC, which I enjoyed. A good

    amount of content, and some more information about the Oldest House as well.<br>

    Sites, lunch.<br>

    Then played Battleborn until 5:30 with the crew, for the last time. Got more

    than half way through. Well, to be clear we're playing the entire campaign

    for the last time, so that wasn't the last time we'll play it. I hope that's

    clear.<br>

    Then got ready for tomorrow. No calls today but did have one from yesterday.

    He of course wants me to come over, and he's a half hour away. He wanted

    Wednesday, so fine..<br>

    So I called LCD lady for tomorrow, and may I remind you she too is... half

    an hour away. Neat! So much driving. Thanks for working out so great,

    universe.<br>

    <br>

    Tues:<br>

    The lady from A+ wrote me back, on... a... Sunday? Odd. Anyway, sent me the

    link to get my pay stub, and yes, as I expected the math worked out

    perfectly no 401k. But her second message was I don't get that until 2/1 so

    huh? Hokay. Sure. I guess that's fine.<br>

    Did a bit more of the barcode stuff for Kevin and looked at my pay stuff now

    that I had it.<br>

    As I had gotten no answer for the voice or the celiveo stuff I emailed them.

    Tried some more celiveo stuff on my own. Figured out the command line tool,

    directions for the win! No help. Whoops.<br>

    No help with the voice thing either. Sigh.<br>

    So I made character concepts for the game and thought about plots.<br>

    <br>

    Left there, went over to put in the LCD. It was the right one! Yay! I'm

    keeping the old one, she said she never saw it again but used it only

    sparingly. So who knows if it's broken or not. No really, can you tell me

    who knows?<br>

    <br>

    <br>

    Did sites, videos, made my two phone calls. Booked Thursday for some general

    stuff, and Saturday for more general stuff. <br>

    Thought we might do some Battleborn but then we didn't? So I talked to

    another lady who couldn't demonstrate any of the things she said she had

    seen in the past. That was 40 minutes. Sean wants to do Battleborn at 7:00

    tomorrow and as you know I have the 1/2 hour away job so hopefully it won't

    take more than an hour because in the best case that's 6:00 leaving me an

    hour to make calls, eat dinner, and get ready for Thursday. Best case. I

    guess we'll see what happens.<br>

    <br>

    Almost 9:30 now, maybe I'll check some sites for the game as I'm not

    starting control this late.<br>

    <br>

    Wed:<br>

    Had some actual work today. Not much in the morning. Did get in touch with

    the celiveo people they want a meeting tomorrow at 9:00. Great I think to

    myself. So he sets the meeting up. For 8:00. What? I think to myself. <br>

    <br>

    At around 12:00 Don is like "hey can you test this thing that comes out at

    like 2:00 that we need tomorrow?" Uh, what? So we're giving companies random

    daily builds that haven't been tested, and then they find bugs in them

    making us look bad and then we have to scramble around to fix them and then

    test the fix in two hours on two machines? Uh, no? That's not how the

    process should work, friends. <br>

    <br>

    But we each took a machine, because he wanted the fix checked on the old

    build (why??) and the new one. I left with Christina finding a bug she was

    talking to Don about. He called me and I was like hey, I thought it was

    fine, she did this weird thing and it did this other thing talk to her.

    Which was completely true.<br>

    <br>

    Helped Adnan a little reloading a machine.<br>

    <br>

    So hopefully we'll get celiveo straight tomorrow and can take it off the

    list. Meeting day! <br>

    <br>

    Went out to Henrietta, solved his problems (barely) and made it home with

    one hour and ten minutes to spare. Ate dinner, got ready for tomorrow, had

    one call- oh, your iPad has a password screen and you claim to never have

    put one on? Sure, I believe you. (I didn't) You'll need to restore it. Oh,

    you can't, because you don't have iTunes? Let's download iTunes. Oh, you

    can't, because you have Win8? Super! An hour later 10 started installing and

    I got off the phone.<br>

    <br>

    It didn't matter, we were going to play battleborn but the servers couldn't

    be reached. Sigh. So we did nothing.<br>

    <br>

    Checked my sites, now that I had the time. Made sure I was ready for

    tomorrow. <br>

    I think I completely forgot to get my mail.<br>

    <br>

    Thurs:<br>

    There was no mail to forget.<br>

    So I got to the meeting on time and everything went great. We turned off

    ipv6 on the server, and that allowed the box and the printer and the server

    to play nice. Good job accounting for that, fools. Turning ipv6 on the

    printer probably would also have worked. Why didn't it try one and fall back

    to the other? Don't ask dumb questions.<br>

    <br>

    So I signed off thinking everything was fine. Had the normal meeting which

    ran long, and went to do 8 different things asked of me. I took traces of

    login to contrast with the failed D5.4 login, which they think now isn't

    Kereros, it's part of the username getting whacked off when presented to the

    system. Makes sense.<br>

    <br>

    Then I finally figured out how to make the virtual printer and download it

    and install it (oh goodness I hate this stupid product) and submit a print

    job and... the printer can't talk to the box. Suggestion: sync again? Okay.

    Ha ha, it won't sync again. You've got to be kidding me. So I have another

    meeting at 8:00 with them tomorrow. Neat.<br>

    <br>

    Had the other meetings, revised my super hero point system, (I mean did

    other work related tasks that escape me right now!) and watered the plants.

    <br>

    <br>

    Went over to see yippy dog lady, petted her little dog, and answered some

    basic questions. Like hitting the print button on a site not printing the

    whole freaking site. And pinch and zoom. Yeah, that's the stuff.<br>

    <br>

    Came back here. Answered questions in discord about super hero stuff.

    Checked sites. Got ready for tomorrow.<br>

    Played some warframe, to get through the tutorial and to a place I can join

    the others on missions. They're so far ahead of me in level I don't know how

    I'm not going to be slaughtered but maybe this game works like Borderlands

    and each person gets a scaled enemy? <br>

    <br>

    Talked to iPad guy, apparently win10 didn't take, what a shock, (it is odd

    though) and of course he didn't know what the error was because "it

    disappeared" sure it did. So I'll just pick the thing up tomorrow on the way

    to shopping. He wants an SSD installed anyway so I can try out my new drive

    copy gizmo. Neat. <br>

    <br>

    Speaking of tomorrow, let's put the celiveo thing to rest and do... other

    work. Yes. Muchly other work.<br>

    <br>

    Then get gas, see my parents, get food. Not in that order. No game, we may

    start the superhero game next week though.<br>

    Neil will be here, that's why. We may try Battleborn or do Warframe

    Saturday.<br>

    I do have one job so far, and of course iPad guy's stuff. Otherwise let's

    stay in and stay warm!<br>

    <br>

    Hope you're enjoying the new administration, and there's only a week and a

    half of January left. We're getting through it!<br>

    See you all next week.