2022-05-05:

Fri:
Wrote the bugs I needed to write.
Worked on making the new card with the new software. I think it went okay? There was an error I had to work around. It was my own fault, but the error of course wasn't all that helpful, nor was looking up the error which put me on totally the wrong track. Essentially I hadn't filled in the email address when I made the user, and the error said nothing about that so I had to to track down what was going on myself. Thanks, MS.
Walked all of level 2 building 207 because I couldn't find the 100s cubes. Turns out if I had gone right and followed the wall from the door I would have been fine. Who knew? Handed the card over, along with my fears that, having made the card incorrectly we will implement the card incorrectly, and then any customers who use it will be very confused about why it doesn't work. So that's a thing.
Bought a black shirt for the party tomorrow at good will.
Did the shopping.
Saw my parents.
Back here, checked sites, got ready for tomorrow.
Tried on the shirt. Cat hair was immediately attracted to it by the strongest force in the universe. The attraction betwene cloth and cat hair. I don't think it has a scientific name but someone should look into it. Then Tales.

Sat:
Did the cooking and chopping for later. Turns out I got way too much. But with all that stuff to eat at work, how am I going to get rid of it? I guess I could freeze the meat again, maybe the onions?
Did some Tales.
Then left for the party. Did a dice game. A bean planting game. Ate yummy food, sorry I forgot the salsa it was still on the counter sigh, and watched a ridiculous but very funny movie.
Something quite fun happened on the home though. Some nut blew past me on the express way, and I mean blew past me. How funny was it, then, that a car was stopped by a police office some ways down the road that I'm pretty sure had the same tail lights? 10/10, would root for the police in that one instance only. #thereisjustice

Sun;
Checked sites.
Watched a movie. Turned out to be surprisingly good. A classic "beauty and the beast" tale, only this time on the internet!
Played some Tales. Having gone into space I now get to go back to exactly where I had been before. Neat.
Got ready for tomorrow.
Two calls over the weekend. Both just questions so nothing for Monday so far.
Then did some Tina's with the others. Opened more sections of the map and found a meteor spell I like better. It's not as strong but I get three of them before I have to recharge it, so that works.

Mon:
Very gray to start our May. Sent my list of bugs to the people concerned about such things, after Christina did. Now time to start the second round of testing, doing everything I did on the b/w machine on the color one. Neat! I lie though, I'm not doing the full test, just making sure the functionality is there.
But I didn't do that, because we got the final release of D5.6 (the final release of the final D5.6 I might remind you) so I did the ID card copy stuff... again. What a shock, it was fine. I also messed with making a card for a guy, but the cards all seem to be read only? I tried a different kind of card and got the cert on it, but can't log in with it. Tells me the server isn't ready or something, some error I've never seen before. But my other card (the expired one that shouldn't log in, go figure) does log in successfully so I did set it up right. Something with the cert?
Also had a boring "demo" of the new embedded fax stuff. That just dragged on.

So yeah, a great all around day.

Came back, checked sites, watched videos, had the last slice of pie.

Tues:
Some general stuff, like helping Dinesh with the card I made yesterday. I guess it's not a PIV card after all but it's all I can offer him at the moment.
Organized my inbox, it was getting out of hand again.
Did some writing.

Came back here, checked sites, videos. No calls. Got ready for tomorrow so I can do Tina's tonight.
I did take a call though, a woman with an expired McAfee of 25 days and her firefox was hanging asking to be the default browser. Of course she was hard of hearing, it took 20 minutes just to me me on her system. 20 minutes of work later and it was fine.

Wed:
Helped move two new printers into the lab, and move the scrap out. One of the new machines was a 220v device and we wanted only 110v because we have very few 220v outlets. As one does in the US. But we did get one at the end of the day. So I'll have to help box the old one up and get the new-new one out.
Mostly writing today. I finished the chapter I started yesterday and a whole one for today. Nice.
Otherwise not much else exciting.

Came back here, checked sites.

Took another call, the same people as yesterday, this guy with a Mac that had like 5 printers on it? I had him remove them all and just put one back.

Thurs:
Meeting day. Had a +1 meeting just to make up for all those weeks of only having the one. It was a demo.

Guy came and took the 220v machine back, I unpacked the 110v machine as far as I could. Testing someone elses' device for Kevin I noticed a bug. Once my machines are up I'll record it and submit it. Make sure to remind me to do that.

Otherwise a little writing, maybe only two pages? I had to proofread the last two chapters I didn't get to do it yesterday.

Loaded the latest D4.0 but then Don said to hold off testing the fax thing until Monday. Suits me my man.

Watered the plants. Had the last salad, which was good they were starting to turn to evil.

And came back here. Had one call today, boo! He was like, what if I came over right now? Uh, no? Who even thinks of that? But of course I said fine, like a moron. His problem was... nothing. Yes, we turned it on (which he said it wouldn't) off again, rebooted a few times. I did update his BIOS so it would stop complaining. He could not demonstrate for me any issue. So... yeah. Go figure.

Checked sites, videos.

Got ready for tomorrow.

Looking to the future I don't think there's any work to do tomorrow but we'll see.
Of course doing the shopping, and seeing my parents.
Saturday I'll need to cut the lawn. As I won't be able to Sunday. It's mother's day so we'll do the usual going to Clarence I expect. Huh is it really an hour away?

Otherwise that's about the first week of May. It's 120 degrees in some parts of India so that's probably fine. The market is down a thousand points so I don't even want to look at today's losses. And Roe Vs. Wade will probably be overturned, the dream of every Republican for the last forty years. Don't worry they will immediately put in place a kind of "universal" "healthcare" giving new parents the benefits other countries enjoy like lots of paid time off, even for fathers, low cost, high quality care including daycare service- one moment I'm being handed something. And it seems they're not going to do that. So increasing the burden on the poorest families yet again it is. Well done, full marks.