2022-08-18:

Fri:
Tried to load D7.7. Faild. Thanks. Tried it various ways, even upgrading the machine to D7.6 in the hope the transition from D7.6 to D7.7 would be smoother. Nope. It just gives me an error message. And to call my administrator. Sure, I'll just do that shall I? So that testing which I should have been able to finish today is not getting done at all. Whoops. Maybe don't make crappy software?
Otherwise some video games. Yes, bringing ye old DS to work. I "legally aquired" more DS games to load into my "totally legal" cartridge with SD card slot that lets me play them. Don't tell Nintendo, if they care about a product this old that is, and I think they don't.
Bank and shopping, saw my parents. Sale is going well according to them, but didn't sell many plants.
Back here, checked sites.
New build in Tina's with the new character class. Seems to work out just fine. Everything gives me shields back, so every other shot is a 150% ice damage amp shot. Unless I do a spell then every shot is an amp shot. Yes please.
Did some warframe.

Sat:
Thirty five. That's how many small bushes I moved. I hope they all survive the process. Gave them a nice drink after, and I'll water them tomorrow too. It was nice out but I was still sweating. Took most of the morning.
There's larger ones back there still. Harder to move them, not sure if I will or not.
Dug out the tiny, cute fir tree. Couldn't figure out where to put it. Put it in a pot instead. Maybe my parents will have a place for it. Of course if I had a battery powered mower instead of the corded model I could put it anywhere in the back. Oh well.

Ate lunch and checked sites after that.
Then left for game. Met the cute pup!
We got through the adventure, so I have some stuff to write. We beat up some, uh, really big wolves and found a big diamond.
It's weird, in the game before, everyone was complaining my character had an AoE spell but this time I made a character that had the tiniest elemental attack possible so no one could get mad at me for being "too powerful" or some crap. I took spells to buff the others, or make our opponents worse at dodging and such. But a quirk in another spell gives it an AoE effect under certain conditions. And now they're basically begging me to perform said AoE attack every adventure. Make up your minds, people!!!!! Do you want me to be "too powerful" or not?

Sun:
More trees. I moved a few of the bigger ones, but left a few too. Found a few smaller ones I put in the "smol" area. See, on the one side I put the larger trees, but on the other I put the ones with only a few leaves. That way the one side looks nice and full of green. As for the others, I don't know, they're close to berries and I want to see how moving the one biggest one I did manage to dig out goes. If I'm just going to kill it trying to move it because the area is saturated with the roots of that leafy stuff and I can't get them out without damaging them then I'll just leave them or dig them out and compost them. Watered back there again. I'll do it again later too.
Checked sites.
Ate lunch.
Tried to figure out my trackball issue. It's the keyboard? I guess? When I have my little switch plugged in like it was before, keyboard and mouse, (to use the same keyboard/mouse on the Mac and PC) the trackball messes up. It's not right. But when I leave the keyboard off it's fine. Is it more power draw maybe, for the LEDs? It's the only thing I can think of. So I took the switch out. I'll just have to use the wireless stuff when I help people remote using the PC. Weird. Games I usually use the controller for, so that's fine.
Watched the Tolkien edit, or at least part of it. Three moves compressed into one? Four hours long? Sheesh. But it's well done.
I get many birds on my water hole! Maybe two weeks ago now I noticed that after that one rain we had that birds were flocking around my upturned garabage can lid, that I use to catch rainwater for the upstairs plants. This was reasonable, I decided, because of how little rain we've had lately water sources must be fairly scarce. So I started putting the dehumidifier water there, taking yesterday's away every day to dump somewhere on my yard plants. So everybody wins. Today I noticed a bunch of birds making use of it, so they really like it being there.
Did some Risk of Rain 2 with the others, we got killed trying to get an artifact, but it's still a victory. We got Mizzy what she wanted, and unlocked some logs and such.
Then warframe as they hadn't updated Tina's yet, so we couldn't do the new content.

Mon:
Loaded up the new machine so we could do another Gabi test, it's the project that never ends. It took 2 years to finish initially, then I did it in D7.6, and now I get to test it again. I'll be testing this crappy voice software forever, it seems. Yay. At least this install didn't brick the machine, so that's a step in the right direction! But he didn't get me any files, he the guy in control of Gabi on the other end, so I couldn't test anything.
Had a meeting about the onedrive bugs.
And that was that. Work wise. I finished up the last chapter and wrote the next one, which finishes up the adventure we had Saturday. I had two ideas, handing the shield to someone else after casting and putting my power technology spell on the robot so he can fire his laser continuously. Would that work?
Got a haul on the way out. 3 big salad, 4 pasta salad, a bunch of chips, some honey buns, a muffin, some sandwiches, a cheese and crackers.

Not bad. Not bad.

Went to after work guy. Near as I can figure he enabled encryption on his drive when he put in Win11 because I'm pretty sure I took it off the last time I was there. He didn't have anything on the machine but it was suuuuuuper slow. I started the decryption process which went really fast up to the 3/4 mark where it stayed for more than a half hour. II also managed an mbam run, it found 13 things so great job "norton" really great work there. And you pay for this "protection?"
Came home, checked sites, ate dinner. The trees I moved, a lot of them, are very wilted so I don't know if they'll make it. I hope so. Watered them again. I watered them this morning too, it was still wet. Pull through guys!
Got ready for tomorrow, one call, the guy just up the road. Something about a credit card? And his machine not going to sleep. Like I can do something about that? Well, we'll deliver salads tomorrow and go over there. Easy peasy.
We did the final mirror run in Tina's and then some No Man's Sky. I was just wandering around picking up sodium and finding weird alien cubes while the others had this whole adventure in an underground cave with some kinda monsters or something. That or they made the whole up because they got lost and didn't want me to know??? Hard to say.

Tues:
Still no Gabi, my goodness those guys work slow. I tell a lie, he sent the files at 3:00 so there was no way I was getting started on it that late. Sorry.
Otherwise had a meeting about the iOS tray errors, still trying to figure out where the problem lies there.
Won the Mega Man game I was playing.
Made a few changes to the story.
Oh and the developer finally started looking into the D7.7 thing so maybe we'll get some movement on that tomorrow?

Dropped stuff off at my parent's house.
Then put the credit card number into the guy's phone, it wasn't hard.
Back here I picked small grapes, then had dinner and checked sites.
One call, something about wireless.
Got ready for tomorrow.
Did some No Man's Sky, built a hyperdrive but whoops no fuel.

Wed:
Tested gabi, the service that never dies. He didn't send me any new version because there is... no new version? We're still on the last version I tested, what, more than a year ago? Really? There were still some bugs there you know.
Well, anyway, because the machine only has one tray not 5, and can't do OCR (for reasons I can't explain?) some changes will need to be made. But it does work. So I have to give them that.

Otherwise not much else.

Came back here, no after work job. Didn't reach the guy with wi-fi issues yesterday. Checked sites and videos. Ate dinner, watered plants. Still hanging on, but some are still wilted. Drink up little ones!

Talked to encryption guy again. Apparently (after 30 minutes of trying) we determined it did decrypt the drive. And it's still super slow? What the heck? He doesn't have anything on it! Stupid thing, I bet it is Norton somehow. He's out of town until next week, so we'll bash it apart then. Sigh.

Thurs:
Lots of work today, and of course it's meeting day so there was hours of meetings to sleep through - I mean breathlessly attend to.

We got the D7.7 machine up and running, just putting in today's daily build did it, I wonder if there really was something wrong with the "official" build that day. Anyway, with it up and running I could do the bypass tray test. For the third time. For reasons. It had the same bugs, imagine that.

I also did a versalink sanity test, delete jobs on logout, as we got an engineering build of that (for one machine) and figured someone might ask about so even though there was no fixes it too was fine.

Watered the plants.

Then came home. Watered my yard plants, still barely hanging in there.
Checked sites, ate dinner.

Got ready for tomorrow.

One call, he thinks I can help over the phone. I did! Forty five minutes later. Word was somehow printing an extra sheet with document info, and I couldn't find where that option was because there are two places where there are print options. Yes, not one place, which is reasonable, but two. Which is not, by the way. So thanks for that. And his built in photos app, the MS one from the app store, wouldn't open despite me doing a reset, and then uninstalling and reinstalling it. Great! I took it out and just let the old photo viewer open his jpgs. Honestly, the stupid crap MS allows to happen.

And then there was 45 minutes with Ellen, my favorite. She couldn't show me her graphics firefox error message and we suddenly had to build a letterhead for reasons? Why am I being punished?

And didn't reach the guy that emailed me about setting up wi-fi.

So I guess I have nothing for the weekend yet. Having my parents over on Saturday of course. Don't forget the grapes.

So what's coming? Maybe more D7.7 testing, but honestly not much I can test is in there. Won't see my parents, but I will do the shopping and we should do the Miracle game. We left in the middle or actually the beginning of a fight so we'll take care of that.

Saturday, maybe a little yard work. I won't buy the labor day stuff until next week.

So that's it. Barely two weeks left in August. Let the dread begin.

See you all next week.