2022-06-09:

Fri:
More work on the new software, one new bug written. Then a meeting about stuff.
Spent way too much time at the bank, doing IRA stuff. We're going to consolidate all my 401ks (all both of them) and the IRA I currently have at that bank into one account. So much easier to lose it all that way. HA! It's basically just mutual funds so it's the same risk as my other funds. Which is to say if there's a crash I could lose everything but really, how often will that happen? Twice? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine. Everything's fine. And if I make more than 1% I'll be ahead of the IRA I have now at the bank so I'll be somewhat ahead.
Then saw my parents, helped move a freezer and put the fan in. Still pretty noisy, but it's a PC you can't have a nice fanless design like a Mac.
Renewed my domain name, thanks for telling me it was expired, powweb. So my site became available again.
Came back, did game with Sean. Or not, whoops. Jon bowed out.
We talked about the other game instead. Gave Sean some ideas for the magic system, will he have it solid enough for the 20th? We'll see.

Sat:
Cool out in the morning so I did the weeding. Again, so much weeding. Berries are coming along though, the buds are there, and new stalks are coming in.
Cut the front lawn.
Had the car inspected. Was going to do it next week, but the site I made the appointment on was like, "we'll be happy to have you today" so two minutes after making the reservation I was driving down there. Only took an hour, I brought my book to read so it was fine.
Lunch.
Cleaned up a bit, my parents are coming over.
Finished Another Sight. It had... an ending? It was a short game, only a few hours. And nothing was really explained and the "side with nobody" ending was really bizarre. Like, where did her house go? Why did it vanish? What?
Ate dinner, checked sites.
Tried to get a game CrossCode to recognize my gamepad. Not going so well. Stupid thing.
Movie.
Got turrets in Remnant with the others. That made the boss fight we were struggling with a lot easier. 6 turrets will do that.

Sun:
Realized I probably should have done a fast, low infill version of the first piece instead of printing for 11 hours. Whoops.
Went ahead with it anyway because I don't go back, baby.
Did my paperwork from last month. 6 whole appointments. Nice.
Put more plants in pots. Now I am out of pots, but still have plenty of trees in the back. So many trees.
Print going well.
Ate lunch.
Checked sites. Print still going well.
Played a bit of Crosscode, as I found a controller that worked. Got the part where L2 activates the quick menu. The controller believes L2 is continuously pressed. I'm not the only one with this problem. Why do none of the game pads in this house work with the Mac? Or more specifically this game. Is it that hard? I mean we had input Sprockets to use basically any controller back in the system... 7 days? Eh, maybe 8.6. This seems like a huge step backwards. When I press the buttons in my emulator software they get picked up just fine. So I know the controller works and is picked up. It's just this game that treats them in a bizare way. Lazy, I guess.
Went for a nice walk down the circle. Picked up some garbage but not nearly as much as I expected. Well done, humans!
Print still going well.
Tried to connect my Xbox Wireless controller to the Mac. Worked fine. Crosscode however was still unplayable. So I've got my old (and I mean old as in from the 90s old) mac controller that the thumbsticks don't work. My playstation sixaxis works until you can open the quickmenu and now you're stuck. And the "standard" controller it was like several buttons were pressed. How many hoops do I have to go through to play this game? Why is a controller setup so crazy in the year 2022?
Tried pairing my old wiimote to the thing. Needs some kind of pin number generated from the MAC address backwards? Gave up on that.
Got ready for tomorrow.
Whew, the print came out pretty good. It's a tight fit but I haven't gotten all the support material out yet. "Easy to remove" my butt. I hope I can thin it out a bit more. I think this could actually work! I got the dimensions right! I'm pretty impressed with myself actually. I'll print the back, probably in a lesser quality because it's the BACK.
Remembered I have a PC. CrossCode has a PC version. Now naturally I would much rather play on my Mac, for obvious reasons, but switching over to the PC did allow me to use my wired xbox controller just fine so I played a bit more of that over there. Then I went to bed.

Mon:
A rather nice haul today if I do say so myself. 4 small salads, a large one, and a ton of sandwhiches. So hungry.
Finished up the one feature so we can be ready for the new OneDrive app tomorrow.
We got in a D4.0 build which I had already loaded so I did a few quick faxing tests just to be able to say I did so.
Also worked on getting some D7.6 content tested. Yes, it was a busy day. But that too had been loaded on a device that was free so I just took and ran with it. It's just a port, no real issues we got them all in the older product.
Don't know if the "security scan" has been run on my empty server so I can't install the app should we get it tomorrow. I emailed the person in change of the whole thing, she said she hadn't heard. Great.
Otherwise, had my free sandwich, my salad before leaving, and went to the bank.
We got the ball rolling on my one 401K and she looked at my mutual funds. She was all gung-ho to punch them into her tool to show me how much better it would be for me if I went with her service of managed funds. Sadly, my numbers met or beat her so called "experts" sometimes by as much as 10% in some years. HAHA. Don't listen to financial experts too much folks, when you're dealing with the stock market, it's 50/50 at best so just look at the long term numbers and hope for the best.

https://wealthrisecfp.com/blog/2019/12/6/should-you-let-a-monkey-pick-your-stocks

Went to see the guy down the street. Took care of a few things from him and came home.

Checked sites, had one call so did that.

Then some crosscode. I don't know, even with the difficulty slider all the way at 20% damage and enemy attacks at 50% normal speed I'm still getting my brains beat in by a couple of turrets. Great. I guess this is one of those "git good" games I really don't have time to "git good" to experience. I mean I'm literally doing next to no damage to these things, do I really have to shoot them 200 times each? Really?

Tues:
Spent the day on and off trying to get the onedrive thing to work. The first problem was Ken had somehow put the network to "public" instead of "private" which as you may know really screws windows up. I hate the thing MS does sometimes, you know. Most time, actually. Then I had to punch a hole in the firewall so I could use it off the virtual machine box. Is that what they want the customer to do? Yikes. Then it wouldn't load any printers. Just gives an error. An incorrect error, by the way. One device wasn't working to even talk to, and I realized it was all the printers in that row. I messed with the switch and got them all online again.

Had a sandwich with crackers and cheese. Which one notable exception; no crackers. Yup, a person that bought that package would have been left without the crackers part of the equation.

So yeah, that was all fun.

Stopped at my parent's house to give the salad and some more food.

Then off to see about extending a wi-fi. That worked, and I got his printer hooked to it too. No problem. mostly.

Back here I checked sites, somehow got up to level 99 suddenly in crosscode. And I seem to have max money and a bunch of nice equipment. How in the world did that happen?

Got ready for tomorrow so I could do Remnant with the others.

Wed:
It took some time but we finally figured out why the device registration wasn't working. I was using v1 of the spreadsheet but I should have been using v3. Whoops. With that done I think we have what we need. He had sent me two numbers so we each took one. It's only the first release of three so there are some problems. We noted them down.

Moved some paper around. Had crackers in my crackers and cheese today. Watched a demo of the new feature to add fax to copy only pin, and helped with finding a bar code reader.

Went to see the printer lady. Had to use a USB cable because the router didn't have a WPS button and that's the only way externally to hook up the device. Thanks, Spectrum.

Came back here, checked sites. Thought about dual natured people and their characteristics. Watched eps 1 of Mz. Marvel while I sanded the gift. I think it'll work out.

Made four phone calls. One to Ellen, who wasn't home and was going to call me back. She forgot as it's past 9:00 now. One person I helped scan, telling her what to open. We figured out "attachments" were "links" so the guy isn't having trouble opening attachments. Just links. I wonder if Thunderbird is blocking them? And didn't reach one guy.

 Got ready for tomorrow.

Thurs:
Meeting day. And more than normal. In addition to the usual status meeting in the afternoon we had a meeting about the versalink software we just finished testing. And about the OneDrive app we have now started to test. We have found many bugs with it. Some are of course more serious than others.

I also finished the testing of the Altalink model and moved onto versalink.

But I have yet to tell you the best part of the day. I found another 9 sandwiches in the trash along with two salads. With what I got Monday that's a lot of food. I'll be bringing more to my parents. We can have the salads too.

Went to Wegmans for more fake sugar, as I'm pretty sure Aldi won't have any. Then came home.

Went for a walk, it was nice and cool out so I took advantage.

Got back, checked sites. Played some CrossCode. Strangely the game is far easier now. How did that happen? So weird.

Called Ellen, as she forgot to call me yesterday. No answer. And no answer from the fixit guy. Dude, how do you stay in business if you can't get back to people? Don't you have a time, say between 7-9 where you return your calls for the day? Seems like the thing to do. Odd.

She called back about 8:45. I once again explained how to move her pictures into another folder. And we moved her 4000 emails from last year into a folder. Maybe delete some? I don't know.

The future! Switching over to Versa for the onedrive app tomorrow. What bugs will I uncover next?
No bank, just shopping and then seeing my parents.
Home for game.

A few things on the list for the weekend. Cut the back lawn, more weeding. That will have to be Saturday as it's possible rain for Sunday. I'll have my parents over for a movie. Maybe I'll finally do some more writing, or working on the gift. I have another piece to 3D print so I could start that Sunday. So far that's the big plans.

Guess we made it through the first week of June huh? Keep up the good work everyone, we're all in this together. See you next week.