2024-02-29:

Fri:
More proof reading, up to the 1/2 way point.
Not much work wise, spoke to Gina about Gabi. Oh and did the monthly server check.
Got some new Gabi stuff I'll try Monday, and the developer lady is coming back to see me.

Did the shopping, saw my parents.
Back here, put stuff away, checked sites.
Then did game.
Didn't get through it, we're still moving the ship around. As usual we either over thought it, failed rolls so the plot didn't happen (uh, like, really Sean? In that case this is your fault) and we were just about to like teleport to America and start tracking down people with other parts of the ship when Sean was like "let's dial this back a bit" and then we got attacked again by a million demons. We have seemingly gotten away or at least changed venue via teleport but we have no idea where we will arrive because Sean hasn't thought of it yet. So we'll have to see next week.

Sat:
Mostly just played video games.

I finished the one RPG and started the next one from the same company. It's not a sequel, apparently. The last game was left open ended but this has nothing to do with it. Odd.

Then xbox with the others. Got my guns up to level and got more Wisp parts. Well, two more. There is still one more to go, but it's not even a rare drop. And I have plenty of relics that may hold it, so chances are good I'll have wisp prime soon.

Sun:
Did my readings for the day.

Then was reading a web comic. Somewhat like "the gamer" but not as good, story wise.

Then more RPG, after I got ready for tomorrow. Turns out one of the members of my party was faking the whole thing. Yup, apparently working with the "evil" lady to corrdinate the attacks on the town. Now, here's the thing. If she was training the rest of the party for something she knew was coming, that would have been questionable but acceptable to a point. She wasn't. She just wanted to play the hero. Now of course the game goes on, I know the truth, but my party members don't. So it's a little odd to heal a party member I already know has betrayed me.

Yup, a nice relaxing weekend all around. No calls, thank you!

Mon:

Got right to work on Gabi stuff. Loaded the new weblet, it solved one problem (the network error) but added a new one (the onscreen buttons don't work) so well done there. The D8.0 we're trying to test was unaffected.

Met with the gabi lady for an hour, showing her the things I discovered. Was also told we can't talk to the gabi company and get any help on the server issue, so really we're screwed. Can this project die now, please?

Did more proof reading, I only have 7 chapters to go.

Tomorrow I'll work on onedrive stuff more, we have another supposed fix for the large file problem. Yay?

Came back here, no calls, checked sites, had dinner.

Played some of the game. Oh right, I did order a 2009 MacBook Pro for a guy for $50 because that's way easier than disassembling his to try and fix the wi-fi module. Honestly, it's a 15 year old machine give it up.

Also one guy called. Printer issue, so he said. His printer was on the wi-fi, and everything I printed was just fine. I don't know what he was doing. So it was a half hour of nothing. neat. Always love that.

Tues:
Quite busy today, with all sort of old things. I got a new action to test a bug I hadn't written by Gina so I had to do that. If you have one login method, and change it for another, and why would you, that second method doesn't work. Now it does yay!

More onedrive and gabi stuff. Increased the timeout they wanted me to. Didn't help. What is taking them so long to fix this problem? It's been weeks. It's bizarre, it really is.

Don talked to us about machine resets.

Joe sent me information about a project he hasn't really talked much about. It looks pretty huge, I mean, like, really big. Like several smartcard tests rolled into one, plus a bunch of UI changes. Do we really need yet more ways to authenticate to a device? We already have like 8 of them. Why do we need more? It boggles the mind. I'm not looking forward to any part of that project, from making the test cases to running them. It's going to be awful. I sent him a bunch of questions.

We had the onedrive meeting, nothing to report on either side. So glad we have those.

Finished the proofread. Now do I turn it into an actual book or not? Hummm.

Came back here, no calls again yet. Checked sites, had dinner.

Eventually Xbox with the others. Got the part I needed! Wisp prime here I come.

Wed:
Work wise, got the solution to the cert problem, of course he didn't like the first machine I gave him, oh, it's arm I prefer x86. Oh, okay, let's just get a whole new device ready for you, then. But at least his solution worked.

Also the log server was down or something so they wanted me to download the log from the device I used before where onedrive didn't want to scan on D8.0. Today it worked just fine. I did some timing tests, or that is to say some more timing tests, because I'm sure I did some before I just can't find where I put the results. It was the same, no difference between USB and onedrive.

Got a few things in a haul, but missed the main part somehow. The stuff for the 27th was still in the case last night, but today it was gone. The garbage was undisturbed. Where did it go? It was just snacks later, and one lonely pizza.

Joe didn't get back to me about my question for the mega project, so thanks there.

Looked at a Kevin request, he wanted to talk but "had a meeting in 3 minutes" so, okay? I figured out what the customer wants though and sent it to him before I left.

Came back home, checked sites. Ate dinner. No calls again.
Wind though. Plenty of wind.

Got ready for tomorrow, read the latest comic more.

Then more game playing.

Thurs:
Wrote two half chapters. How does that work you are probably not asking? Well, as the game is coming up I figured I would get caught up. But events proceeded a little differently in the novel than in the actual game so I had to continue on that track a bit. I wrote the first half of the first chapter, detailing our trek into the sewers, which hasn't concluded yet. Then when we come out of the sewers, the events of chapter 2, which happened in game before the sewers, happen. But that was only a half chapter as well. It just flows better this way, we wouldn't have made the town wait another day or two to get the sewer cleaned out. Okay we would have we're lazy murder hobos but this makes us less that.

Work wise, had the usual status meeting. Today was the big day for layoffs, one SE in our group is now gone. Christina was doing one project with him, I was doing the ldap log stuff. So that'll be someone else now.

Joe wasn't at the meeting and hasn't gotten back to me about my questions, so that's a thing.

Oh and more stuff was added to D7.8 so it has ... 8 things in it now to test? In about a month, with three releases? Yeah, that's getting delayed.

Not much else exciting. Cold and snowy, but it didn't accumulate too much. I did start reading the book I left in the middle of. Need to get back to finishing that!

Looking ahead, the usual tomorrow, shopping, and seeing my parents.

More reading, I doubt I'll get any new chapter written but you never know. We're having a meeting with Don to discuss the upcoming release, see what models we're going to do and such. Should be a real hoot.

Over the weekend I'll need to do my annual sales tax calculations, don't want to stiff the state on their $100 or whatever it is for this period. Gonna be a lot I betcha.

Have my parents over for movie. That's about the only plans. March now. Can you feel spring in the air?

See you all next week.