2023-03-30:

Fri:
We got a fix for the onedrive bugs, so I checked that out. They seem to be solved, let's not do any more testing so we stop finding bugs! (This is the Trump method of testing)
Made and tried to start working on the ARM cases. There's a lot of them. Like 7 printers, both PLC and PS drivers (and why is that still a thing again? We don't have this on Mac, so clearly it doesn't need to exist. Yet it persists in the windows world. Why?) but at least once I have the files I can bang them out in short order. Get ready for a lot of coloring pages I guess. I couldn't actually do it because the drivers don't have the "right" kind of signing and I need to run a command to get them to install but the "secure boot" won't let me. Dude it's a VM. Stop doing stuff that has no impact on security, MS. None. It just annoys people.
Did I do anything else? Nope, I guess not. Just ARM stuff and not getting anywhere with it. Seems about right.

Did the shopping, got cat stuff, and saw my parents.
Home for game, we defeated the fox guy behind all the trouble but are no closer to unraveling why it was done. Also, he run away. Silly fox, you should have just taken me up on my offer to repent your actions and do good in your life. Now we will have to beat you up again as a reaccuring character instead of having wacky adventures as a sidekick. Anyway the plan seems pointless and random, and must be part of a bigger scheme. I mean they were mining for gold that wasn't there, no amount of magic is going to fix that. Sooner or later the bills would have to be paid, and the work would stop. I can only think it was some kind of test to see how riled up they could get the spirits of the place to get, and what they would do afterwords. See how powerful they could be when motivated? Otherwise, yeah, not sure. Maybe it'll come out in the end though. I did get a new companion I can summon out of the whole thing. Very sus, probably won't. He said he would help, but demanded I hand over any and all magical artifacts we find for his trouble. Uh, that doesn't sound greedy at all. Oh he says it's to keep them safe and out of the wrong hands, which may be true, but if so don't act like a mob boss fitting me with cement shoes while offering your help!
Started the next adventure, tracking down a 20 year old adopted boy for his ghostly mother. We think we've found him, and Neil's character is posing as his mother which will have no repercussions whatsoever once we meet. None. Clearly the thing to have done.

Sat:
Put up the new bathroom decoration. Looks good there, welcome to you new home little mermaid!
Cleaned up, parents not coming tonight though.
Checked sites.
Did some Legacy.
Then some RCG2.
Then some reading of Marcy's journal.
Then it was time to go.
We started our next mission, but have barely even gotten into the city really. We're currently hiding out in the sewers, like the true heroes of old. Wait. I learned that these "elders" are basically everywhere, so I question the wisdom of even doing anything here. Even killing the ones "ruling" this city, a thing a holy man such as my character isn't comfortable with in the first place, more will just be appointed by the ones left in other cities. Nothing would change. We're hopeful there's some kind of demon still hanging around but apparently this all started hundreds of years ago so has probably just been self perpetuating. I'm not hopeful about actually freeing this planet from tyriny. I mean the resistance group has been trying for all these hundreds of years. So I guess we'll see once we get up there what the real situation is.

Sun:
Researched a way to keep the kids out of the stove as I discovered in getting their next bag of dry food out they discovered it and tore the bag to pieces. If it's stale it's your own fault, kids. I decided on a piece of glass set over the hole will be sufficient.
I also looked at the pipes. The exhaust pipes on the furnace have holes in them. Neat. And the neatest thing of all was the big pipe not being totally shoved into the hole on the column. Has it just been exhausting into the house for goodness knows how long? Also, those pipes get hot as I discovered trying to tape up the holes. Why am I losing so much heat out the top of my house? So when my father next comes over he will have to look at the pipes and tell me what to buy. Alternately, I could probably wait until spring when it's not running, take the pipes apart, and see exactly which sections to replace and then bring them or make measurements or something and get what I need that way. How are they rusting out anyway? Are they not aluminum? I shoved the big pipe in as best as could (that's what she said!) but it's not great. I need a longer pipe, really. (That's also...)
Checked sites.
Did a bit of Legacy, but mostly Lower Decks, as Sean gave me S2 to watch. In trying to solve the latest "puzzle" in Legacy I realized their design is not great, and also something quite important. The enemies scale with your level. More on that in a moment. I solved a puzzle in a very bizarre way because hitting the so called "switches" with spells doesn't actually activate them. No, you have to use the basic "spell" which I remind you doesn't exist in the HP universe. Because they don't go around killing people in the forest, but I digress. I was like, "no, that can't be what they intended..." I hit the so called switch with every spell I had and nothing happened, totally forgetting about the basic one I had. I mean in my mind, if it's a switch hitting it with a spell that makes things get pulled towards or pushed away from you would do it, right? Right? Not so much. They made it so only the "basic" cast would trip the switch. Which in my mind is very dumb. So I hopped through the weird "portal" they like to use, carefully moved along the edges of it, and jumped to the other side bypassing the developer's "solution" of rotating the floor, because who would think of floor rotation when standing in a room? I mean I have a broom, for goodness sakes, let me use it! Oh, and here's another complaint. Use mechanics in the same way. I came upon another "portal" and all of them were used up until that point to progress. You find a portal and you go back and forth through it (for reasons) to reach the next area. So I figured this one also must be passed through to progress as well. There was the high ledge, there was the box. Nope. Watching the video (after like 10 minutes of dicking around with the thing not being able to pass through it no matter what I did) it turned out it was to just get the "treasure" (i.e. Random Item) from the box and then you leave. I was trying to get over the barrier or something, having gotten the treasure 9 minutes and 30 seconds before. Why did you design it this way? Keep it consistent at least! After beating up the big boss for minutes on end I went back to the movie to see if the other guy had so much trouble with it, was I playing in the "wrong" way? He didn't seem to, though the boss still took a pounding. Figured out why! His boss was level 18 while mine was level 30. Neat. But damage doesn't scale up that much, that I could see, so I was dealing with a boss more than twice as difficult. No wonder I had such a slog. The first game I ever ran into that did this was Lunar. Great game otherwise, but that enemy leveling thing sucks. I remember cheating so hard to kill the final boss. So hard you guys. Don't do it. (Oh go ahead and cheat, more power to you, might as well do it when you can.) In Legacy or any other game. If I've put time and effort into exploring (you know, the thing you make us do with these stupid invisible pages and statues, and hidden rooms, and on and on and on) and that makes my "levels" go up, let me steamroll the enemies. If I run into problems, let me grind a few levels and come back and stomp all over them. It's a single player game. Let me play it how I want. Don't make me come back to find the bad guy is now somehow stronger as well. How is that a power fantasy? It's not. And it makes leveling useless because I might as well not have bothered, if I'm going to have more trouble with a higher level enemy than a lower level one, I'm going to artificially keep my levels low in that case once I realize this. I mean, right? Of course! It's dumb. And I hate it. I did enjoy throwing the stupid statues off the platform instead of outright beating them. Luring them to the edge, freezing them, and then shoving them was quite enjoyable. Byeeeeeeeeeeeee! Enjoy the climb back up, losers! OH and here's another stupid thing I noticed. I was sneaking around and was able to use my instant kill spell on the statues. Because I guess they can see and be tricked by me sneaking around? Sure. But then later I did the same thing, and it didn't give me the prompt. So wait, you clearly allowed it over here (points) but then went out of your way to code that out as a solution over here? (points again) What sense does that make? Again, let me play how I want. If you're going to reward stealth and give me an instant kill for getting behind someone, (again which makes no sense the magic wouldn't care how you use it, Hermione wasn't "behind" Nevil when she used the spell on him) then let me do it everywhere not just in some places. Changing the rules mid-dungeon just makes you look like jerks, and physical reality just doesn't work that way, breaking immersion. I was so annoyed when I snuck around and it didn't work. Like, so much.
What I did like was the mods I put in. Standard stuff. Shorting the skirts, lengthening the hair. I was pretty bummed with how short all the hair options were. Oh, I know why they did it. With all the robes and scarves and boots you wear (wait boots?) it would have been a clipping nightmare trying to physics enable all that. It would have clipped all over the place, no one wants that. So all the hair options are short. Well, I wasn't going to settle for that! So I waited for modders to fix it. Turned off the robe and put on a necklace instead of the scarf. Now I have proper hair. Tifa's hair, to be exact. Yes, that Tifa, from FF7. At least that's how it's billed in the mod description. Man, I need to finish my playthrough of FF7 Remake. Now that has some nice mods, talk about shorter skirts... What was I saying? Mods, right. Shorter skirts, longer hair, and silencing a ton of dialog I've heard a million times already. Now, no longer will an  elf tell me I should be proud of all the potions I've made (I haven't, I don't use them) or have to ponder how inconvenient travel was before some stone head apparently invented floo powder. Good stuff.
Got ready for tomorrow. No calls, but going to fan guy.
Then did warframe. Still no relic we want.

Mon:
Ken had to mess around with settings because I couldn't reach the secure boot stuff at my "level" so I waited until that was done and got busy with the million of prints I have to make. It went a lot faster once I had all the files made. Of course something had to go wrong. I sent a test page to one of the newer devices and it was fine. I started to send more jobs figuring it would take no more time than the previous tests. Whoops, all the jobs went into pause mode, and the printer is... demanding... paper it already has? So weird. Okay, I guess. I tried a few things and moved on. I have many more printers to test so if that one model is skipped it's probably fine. But the driver is so far okay. It, uh, prints out pages when I hit print. Yeah, pretty exciting, right?

Did that all day, am I even half done? Sigh.

After work job was fine, put his two new fans in. As they were green LED and his case was already green LED it's pretty bright. He said it had been acting fine, so it really was just the fans and probably overheating. His CPU fan is a dinky little thing honestly. It must be counting on the two case fans to really move the air.

Back here I finished up Lower Decks. That cliffhanger though!

Made my call, but her machine was fine. Checked sites.
Started Prodigy. And believe me, only one of the characters (maybe) qualifies for that moniker.

Tues:
Finished up the printing tests. Had to reload the one device to make it print again. Just an upgrade didn't help. Great software, hope we're shipping it soon.
Had an hour meeting with the level 3 folks about what to do with stupid YSoft.
Had the new card demo, it was fine.
Hopefully done with the driver stuff, I've covered all the models. And if they come back with the YSoft stuff I did being adequate, it'll be over.

Checked sites, ate dinner.

Then xbox with the others.

Wed:
Not much to talk about today. Moved some new printers in, got them powered on.
Looked at test cases but I pretty much had everything in place.
Did not get a new gabi software as promised. Aw, too bad.
Yeah, pretty boring.

Came back here, checked sites and ate dinner. Then more Legacy. Sort of out and about in the world now, forget that school stuff. Right? Right.

Nasty weather. It was green out one minute, suddenly boom it's covered with white. Glad I wasn't out in it.

Thurs:
And so we lose another. Ted is retired now, he's cleaned out his cube and will turn his laptop in tomorrow. We'll probably "soon" lose Karen and Joe.

Anyway, did I accomplish anything today? Eh, probably not? Meetings of course. Showed Louis our new machines. Put many bottles in the cans for kids cans. No haul still. The food section is pretty empty too, odd. Oh, I did get and install and test the gabi thing. It does work better, but it still can't search the address book consistently. Sigh. He's going to look into it. At least it let me log in!

Went to see Ted off, a lot of people came he's been there a long time. Very noisy, not really my place. Came back here.

Checked sites and videos. Let's look to the future.

Not sure what I'll accomplish tomorrow, but I'll do the shopping, maybe remember to use my gift card this time instead of forgetting like a dummy it was in my pocket. Probably no need to go to the bank, but I'll see my parents. Then back here for game. We're getting Stan back! He's healthy enough to play from his hospital room it seems, so he's taking over our youngest member who was an NPC. Maybe he'll want a talisman?

No calls so nothing for Saturday. I'll have my parents over.

And what's this? Our former pres is getting indicted? Over something? Anything? At long last? I mean his lawyer is already in prison for the thing he did. What other evidence do you need to put him away as well? Let this be only the first, please, please get this man behind bars already. The harm he's caused our country and the world will be decades to fix, long after he's finally gone. He needs to pay.

And on that note, that hopeful note for the future that maybe we aren't on the worst timeline only worst adjacent, I say to you, see you next week.