2022-02-17:

Fri:
Worked on a mower! It was next in the list of Back 4 Blood objects I took screenshots of last week.
Actually found the mower, it's part of of a graphics package that the Back 4 Blood people must have just bought. I was searching for the dimensions of it to get a sense of how big to make the cube and spotted it. Weird.

Here it is.



Interestingly you can see the importance of texturing to a model. Here's the official model without the textures


And it turns into this with the texturing


Comparing pre and post texture mine doesn't actually look that bad! I didn't realize the lights were that shape until just now, the angle I had them at made them seem like solid glass, but they're actually concave. Oh well.

Work wise got the D7.6 machine working again, Christina killed it. There's a special file you need to have on the USB drive to make it work right so I figured that all out.
Otherwise not much else exciting.

Tractor Supply was out of cat food. As was Aldi for like the second or third week a row. I still have plenty but I am about to open the last set of boxes I got. Am I going to have to go down there every week now? I guess I could just go to Pet Smart.
Went to the bank. Again with the people I've never seen before. What the heck?
Then my parents, got my hair cut.
Came back, did game. Went fine, we talked philosophy with a "bad guy" and moved to the next encounter. Something about our classmates spacing out and being unresponsive so we need to check it out.

Sat:
Made brownies for the game tonight.
Worked on the stupid printer that got dropped off. Can't save it. I cleaned out all the ink that seemed to be sloshed around on the inside, then tried a test copy. Ran the cleaning routine several times, no help there. And it was all messy inside again. Leak? He wants it back for some bizarre reason, and is still concerned with the ink "freezing" out on the breezeway so I can't just leave it back there. It seems to be from the Vista era so it really needs to just be recycled. And don't get an inkjet the next time, okay?
Cleaned up.
Watched more SHIELD.
Went to game. Went okay. No combats, just following clues and discussing things. Hopefully I got enough notes to write it up. Eh, I can just make it up if not.
Left after that, Mizzy was going to bed.

Sun:
Big snow, it was really coming down all night.
Paperwork from last month, less than 10 jobs done so why did it seem like I was always running around and talking to people on the phone?
Decided against pie, with the leftover brownies and other treats from my mother, I won't need any pie on top of that. So I'll make then when everything else is eaten up.
Having finished SHIELD I started Supernatural.
Did the driveway, put the new belt on which worked great. We got a good couple of inches out there, which was all nice and fluffy at the moment. So it didn't take too long to do. Sun was in and out after that, which was nice.
More Supernatural.
Sunday stuff in general.
Then getting ready for tomorrow and watching the Big Game. You have to watch the Big Game!
Lots of injuries, at least I thought so. But the one team pulled it off in the end and won.

Mon:
No 3D today, worked on the next chapters. There was a lot of talking and making decisions so I didn't even finish.
Nothing new came in, work wise. so nothing exciting there.

No calls when I got home, either. I do have to wonder what happened to dentist guy, did he ever get his iPhone/Apple account straight? Believe me, if I never know that's fine too.

No more snow in the afternoon, so didn't have to do the driveway. Guy came for the printer. Toss it.

Ate dinner, checked sites, more Supernatural. Ordered a PC for the lady from yesterday.

Tues:
Worked on finishing the chapter, it took two whole chapters to get through what we did that night. But that's done for another week, as it'll be the 26th when we meet again.

Then worked on the next 3D model, a garbage can. Again, doesn't seem that complex but it actually is.


Then came home. A light snow was falling while it was sunny. Neat.

Checked sites, ate dinner. No calls again thank you whatever force in the universe is making that happen.

Wed:
But it didn't hold, as there was a call today. A guy setting up a printer and doesn't know what a telephone cord is. So I get to drive 25 minutes over there. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Nothing new came in today so I worked on the phone.



Took me all day, don't know how video games can have thousands of assets. I mean sure, there's a whole team of people that's why the credits are so long. I guess that helps.

Warm(ish) out today, snow is almost all melted off the roof.

Came back here, finished Season 14 of Supernatural, started 15. Ate dinner, checked sites. Did the one call. That's tomorrow.

Not much else exciting today.

Thurs:
Rained all day today.

Worked on two things today because they were quite simple.




Look at that chair. Look at it! I would sit on that chair for sure.

Also worked on characters for the next book should I decide to write it, just to make characters with the "shonen" system.

Otherwise attended the meetings, watered the plants.

Went to printer guy, plugged his printer in and straightened his machine out a bit. He switched the mouse button functions, and tried to make the text bigger in a dumb way which I corrected. No troubles there.

Came back here, no calls, checked sites and watched videos.

Then more Supernatural.

And now comes the forward looking part. Probably nothing new in at work tomorrow, so I'll finish up those characters and maybe some plot?

Shopping, no bank, maybe check the tractor supply store for cat food? Shopping for sure. Seeing my parents. No miracle game, Jon is training people at his job and won't be back until 9:00. We may do a movie or talk about the new system if I have questions. I don't know if I'm doing the job the lady called me about last week, I'll have to see. But I am going back to the lady and show her how to do an attachment and such on Sunday. Hopefully won't be too bad.

Other than that, hopefully finish Supernatural once and for all, and try to stay warm.

So I'll see you back here next time, the second month is almost over.