2021-12-02:

Fri:
Did the paperwork, always get unplesent things out of the way first. Wasn't many to put in, less than ten. Looks like this year will be down from last year, so that's a trend that keeps going. Let's push it down even further in 2022!
Package is still "processing" not "out for delivery." Odd.
Put up the tree and the other decorations. Oliver, who likes sitting under it, immediately started having asthma attacks. Nice. I have to come up with something to keep him out of there I guess. He hasn't had one all month, then 3 in the first two days the tree was up? Seems like cause and effect to me.
Did the shopping. Saw a red bolt in front of pet smart. It's the first one I've seen "in the wild" and they pulled out right behind me so maybe mine was the first one they had seen?
Got home, went to get the mail, some random car was out front and I looked over. There was a UPS man. Why... was he just driving a random car? Anyway, took delivery of the mac mini.
So going to shut this machine down and do the move. If you never hear from me again, well, it was never completed. Pity me.
So I'm back, it must have worked, rigth? Mostly. My mail didn't come over AT ALL. Not even the account information. Had to set them up again and try to do an export from the old machine, then import them into the new machine. I got my local folders back, sorta. Nothing but the main folder, because of how weird mail works. I tried exporting the folders but didn't get the sub-folders. And I have sub-folders for some people going back to 2001. The most weird thing is I can see the data, it's been copied. Just not picked up. Huh?
The TV doesn't work, naturally. The adapter works, it makes the monitor go on. But not the TV. In fact it keeps flashing, it's kinda odd. Otherwise, my geektool stuff didn't come over either. Annoying.
Updated a bunch of programs. (I can use blender again!)
My optical audio out works okay.
Okay, the mail thing wasn't so bad. I figured out how to move them, not that it should have been needed, but still. I only have 3 folders with sub-folders, and I could put them into a separate export folder and then import them and move them into position all at once. Easier than the stupid way thunderbird makes me do it when moving from live mail. I'll tell you that much.
It actually seems like the only thing I have to figure out is the TV thing. Huh. Whoops, according to exhibitedge.com "The answer is yes and no. For the record the Display Port signal is not compatible with HDMI." Bummer. I might have to do the same thing I do with the PC, take the HDMI out of the back of the mini, and turn it into two signals. Mirror it, in other words. We can do tomorrow's movie on the PC, it's not a big deal.
Ha! Solved it! The display issue. I ran the HDMI out from the back of the Mac Mini and the PC into the selector box. I ran the output of the selector box into the mirror box. Now I just hit a button to choose between Mac and PC and both can be seen on the TV and on the display. Nice. I even figured out audio is being carried by the HDMI so I don't need the headphone jack plugged in at all. Saves me a cord.
Played some warframe.
Figured out the front audio jack on the docking station, got that squared away, I was selecting the wrong audio port. Selecting the docking station activates both ports, so that's nice.

Sat:
Did some cleaning, major cleaning of the bathroom. Needed to be done.
Messed with the desk. Cleaned it off. Hung the switch on the side of the desk, much easier to access now. Cleaned up the cables behind there, I had some really long ethernet cables back there and switched them out for shorter ones. Still a mess but at least it's a bit neater.
Repaired the wreath, put that up as I realized, whoops, never did that.
Changed the monitors around, the one with the arm is now downstairs. Getting the HP to work with the mini was odd. I think I have it working but it was still strange. Oddly I am using the DVI->HDMI cable that didn't work with the TV. I know! If it works in one place it should have worked in the other. But it didn't. Anyway, it's working now that's all I care about. So I have the better monitor upstairs, and the one on the arm downstairs. It's propped up because it doesn't stay where you put it (probably the reason they threw it away) but it works for me.
Moved the speakers too, they're up in the cubbies.
Messed with the iOS store. The square stuff (that I might potentially, you know, buy?) not to be seen searching for it on the Mac. Stupid. Vay and Lunar are though, so there's that. (They are made by different companies, RIP Working Designs, we loved you!) The app for my library does show up, so that's kinda neat, an easier way to get to that at last.
Still, quite happy with the purchase so far. Everything is very snappy, more so than the old Mac Pro, if you can believe it. I know, I can't.
Did the leaves. It had snowed last night but it was mostly gone by about 3:00 so I went and did them. Supposed to snow more, goody.
I notice all my passwords saved in Safari are gone. It's not some sync thing either, iCloud isn't syncing them. Can't export from the old version in the same way as I can import into the new version either. Huh. I mean I have them written it's just really, really odd. It's like my cookies are gone too. Sites keep asking me stuff they shouldn't be. Gurr.
Did a drawing game with everyone (minus Kate) and went to bed.

Sun:
Cleaned out my keyboard, it was filthy. Pulled all the keys off and vacuumed it. Nice an clean again. Adam last night was "oh, they're like $10 just buy another one." Uh, first of all where are you getting a mechanical keyboard for $10? I think I paid $80 for mine. I've never seen any for sale, even on sale, for that little. Second, why would I contribue to e-waste for a half hour (max) cleaning job? Doesn't make sense. But you see now why we're in the state we're in?
Cleaned up the basement a little bit. Put the iMac I was using away on the table.
Threw away some junk. Moved my lamp upstairs, that sort of thing. Made a pile to bring in to work, a bit at a time, to put in the tech recycling bin. I have much, much more out in the breezeway, I was hoping for another Xerox event before winter but no such luck. Two printers from the guy down the street, a scanner of his, and more. Oh well, they'll get out eventually.
Put the car inside, it was snowing much more than I wished. Don't want to have to clean it off. Plus it'll keep the battery warm from out outlet not battery power.
Finished up Season 2 of Nancy Drew.
Watched a movie.
Got ready for tomorrow.

Mon:
Remote start worked great this morning. Used it before I went out there, car was nice and warm by the time I got in it. The snow didn't stick around too much, but there's still some out there. More to come tomorrow by the looks.
Back to reality, went back to work.

Not that there was much work to be had, as there wasn't. Haven't yet gotten an answer to the question "more testing?" when I asked about the new onedrive app. So they get no more. There was no new build either.

Wrote the next chapter.

Went to see printer lady. She actually had a PCI card providing an actual parallel port she used to plug in an old HP laser printer. And I mean old. Like 20 years old. Crazy. It had somehow switched itself to LPT3 from LPT1 and she said she didn't notice that after looking for herself. So figure that one out.

Came back here, sites, ate dinner, checked videos.

Tues:
Got some work in today. New version of the onedrive app, a version 0.0.8 up from 0.0.6. We were promised a version 0.0.9 but I don't know if it came to pass. A few things were fixed, but I passed on a few notes as well. That didn't take too long.

Came back here, no second job today. Humm, time for paperwork again I guess, it's the end of the next month. And the start of the last month.

Checked sites. Lost another $1,000+ in the markets today. Sigh. Watched videos, ate dinner.

Then did some warframe, actually got the part I was hoping for, at the last second as a bonus. Thanks, RNG!

Wed:
Had some actual work today. John came and said the printer was free, so I set it up for the test no one has talked to me about. Thanks, Karen!
I did the first part, but had trouble with the second. Then I read the attachments and discovered, oh, I don't think this SNMP value actually exists on this model of printer. Trying it was pointless to begin with.
We'll see what she says. Did a little writing too, but didn't get through a whole chapter. It's going to be a combat and I didn't know exactly how to get them there.

Came back here, lost more in the markets, checked sites, ate dinner.

Got ready for tomorrow. Did a bit of warframe, not many missions just poking around at stuff. Didn't get what I wanted.

Thought about the plot, don't know how I want the gang to get their attention. Take over an apartment building? But I need to work illusion in there too. Not sure how I want it to go.

Thurs:
Double the normal meetings today. So lucky for me.
Did a little more on the primelink, looking into the email thing from yesterday.
Did some writing, I had figured out how I wanted it to go last night.
Then a meeting.
Then lunch.
Then three meetings right in a row. Neat.
Did the plants, and came home.

One call, something about hooking up an extender again. Going out there Saturday afternoon.

Checked sites, ate dinner. Didn't lose in the markets today, that's a plus.

So let's look to the next few days. The usual for tomorrow, shopping and seeing my parents. Will I have any work? Not sure, but probably not. Wait, no, I have a test I need to run, trying to reproduce something, I got assigned that at the meeting. So I will have something to do for a bit.

Then game, Sean said he did come up with plot so I'll do the first friday game on the new system. Should work out well.

Most of the leaves are down, it may just be dry enough, though freezing, to get them up on Saturday. I can do that in the morning, the appointment isn't until the afternoon. Otherwise not much else on the plate at the moment. I do have 5 invoices to put in for last month, may as well get that out of the way. Oh, make a pie? Yes, why not? Have my parents over? Certainly. So there you go, things to do.

So that takes us into December. Have you all been good little boys and girls? Don't lie to me you know you haven't.

See you all next week.