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Masse in the Clouds

We slept in a little bit today, but I got up with Summer when she took Muad’Dib out. I made some coffee, and showed her the Steam Frame. She actually got into a game before I did, and started playing PUNCH FIT in the living room. It looked like she was enjoying it, so I tried it out for a couple jabs and had fun. It was nice, since I hadn’t had any luck with anything else I’d tried on it at that point.

A while back, Netflix invited me to preview some unfinished content, so Summer and I sat back and watched a movie that was available. They put a watermark over the screen with my email address, which was a bit distracting in some scenes. Otherwise, the movie was terrible. We just couldn’t relate, or even understand who the target audience might be.

After a while, Eaddie got up and left to spend the day with friends. I cleaned up a bit, Summer went to the gym, and I got dishes done and took a shower. Summer brought Little Caesar’s home for a late lunch afterward, so we ate and then got ready to go to Mt. Nebo for Brass in the Clouds.

We picked up Dad and made it up the mountain to a massive crowd. We couldn’t see the band at all where we were sitting, so I guess if we really want good seats, we need to be up there for lunch. Muad’Dib was a pretty good boy and did reasonably well off leash when we were in transit. I kept him on the leash while we were seated so he wouldn’t get bored and wander off.

It was dark by the time we headed home. We dropped Dad off and I got Summer inside so she could go to bed. I finished putting together a shoe bench and eventually got to sleep.

Completed!

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PL-Seas

I got out a hair early this morning and had a pretty relaxing drive in with my last breakfast burrito for the week. I planned to go up to the mix room to hook up to the PLCs, so I cued Charles up for that. I had to leave Muad’Dib in my office, and I went up to meet Charles, who had trouble getting his laptop on. It seemed like the battery was just bad and reporting a bad status, but I had mine with the software I thought we needed.

It took me a while, and eventually Charles left me up there to do my own thing. I went through three different versions of the Crimson software, and couldn’t get it to connect over a direct USB connection. Strangely enough, when I finally got it to connect, I discovered I could have done the same from my desk.

I went back to the office to tinker with it some more, and spent all day pretty focused on that project. I completely forgot that they were providing boxed lunches from a local burger fundraiser, so we went downstairs to eat with everyone crammed around the little breakroom table. I didn’t really get my fill, but Summer wanted to go to Brown’s for dinner, so it worked out well.

The afternoon was super quiet because I was there by myself for the last couple hours. I eventually got my configurations that I wanted to push to the Red Lion controller so I could monitor the PLCs, but I didn’t want to do it at the end of the day on a Friday. I ended up getting locked in, but we made our way out and got home through some pretty fast, but still annoying traffic.

My Steam Frame came in, but I had to set it aside to take Summer to dinner. Muad’Dib waited in the car, and we both filled up pretty quickly on a mound of fried food. I wasn’t as impressed today, but I’d also had worse. We came back home and walked Muad’Dib up the cul-de-sac before Summer went back inside. Then I took him on a run to my parents’ house.

Mom had a bunch of basil for me, so we picked the leaves off of that for pesto. Then Muad’Dib and I made it home to put Summer to bed. I unboxed my Frame and tinkered with it on the couch for a while, but I never actually got to play anything at all. The UI seemed a little goofy, but I had zero experience with a full VR headset outside of the old phone boxes you could strap to your face. I couldn’t get Rocket League to run, so I ended up downloading a bunch of other free VR tools to try later.

Eaddie came home pretty early for a Friday, but pretty much went straight to bed. I started to feel pretty exhausted, so I didn’t stay up late.

I’ve been Framed!

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Modbus?

I felt myself get warm and cozy this morning, but I fell back to sleep and woke up just minutes later from a super deep, dream-filled sleep when my alarm went off. I remember finding a clam in a small grotto, but then being in some weird, dark alley or basement area with my buddy Brandon, talking to a vendor selling a variety of large mussels to eat. I felt like I was having to wake up from the dead, and crawled around on the floor to stretch and try to wake up.

I got out the door a little later still, but had time for a burrito. I realized it was a mistake to sub cheddar for the nacho cheese, because the hot, melty, gooey breakfast burrito was way better. We made it to work after fighting traffic that wanted to come to a complete stop on the onramp.

I was pretty excited to get into PRTG and my PLC project again, but of course the more I learned, the more I discovered that every path I had taken over the past couple days was probably wrong. Furthermore, I had asked Charles’s vendor buddy about the Modbus protocol when I first started, and he replied that the controller didn’t support it. Now that I understand a little bit more about the different components, I feel more confident in saying he was wrong.

We went to Taco Bell for lunch since we hadn’t been in a while, and then it was a long, dragging afternoon. The drive home was pretty easy, but the car wanted to take the second exit instead of the third for some reason. I couldn’t tell if there was backed up traffic or something, but I didn’t fight it.

Summer was hungry when she got home from the gym, and wanted to get some Chinese. I had a big lunch, and suggested the Spices food truck instead of a buffet. She jumped at the chance, so we loaded up and went to eat at the picnic tables there. Muad’Dib was laser-focused on the cat and kept trying to chase it under the truck, so I had to zap him several times. Sometimes something just gets into him and he goes out of control like that, and I have to assume the cat said something ugly to him.

We shared some noodles and I had a little cup of soup. Then we took Summer home and went on a run in the dark. Dad gave Muad’Dib a bunch of spaghetti noodles, and we eventually made it home to get ready for bed.

Wrong so many times I became right again.

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Bloody PLCs

I had a rough start this morning, but not as rough as Summer. Autumn called her around three in the morning, crying about unbearable abdomen pain. Summer told her to call the emergency room if it was that bad, and then drove to Clarksville to meet her there. She didn’t get back home until after noon.

I managed to get out in time for another breakfast burrito, then made it to work for our first staff meeting in a couple months. As usual, I had been fretting a bit about it for nothing. It was fairly short with a couple new projects to work on.

I spent most of the day trying to learn a way to pull data from a PLC controller to dump into PRTG. It can’t do it natively, but evidently there may be a way to do it through another container I could spin up on my Docker VM. We took a break for some Sonic, and then I actually built out the tool, but couldn’t get it to connect to the PLC before quitting time.

I told Summer I wanted to make sure she got a good dinner when she got home. She had gone in to work for a bit after getting an afternoon nap, so we stopped by the lube to see her on the way home. Once we got home, I had to get cleaned up before she got home, and then we ended up going to Ridgewood Brothers.

It was super nice outside, so we had a good time at the picnic table. We ate too much, and then came home to drop Summer off before Muad’Dib and I did a quick run around the neighborhood. Dad got home just after we got there, but Mom didn’t wake up from all my banging around. We didn’t stay long since it had already gotten dark.

There was a bit more cleanup since Eaddie left food in the trash and we got ants again. Summer went to bed, and I finished up early.

red red red

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Taco Tuesday

Hard to believe it, but for as many times as we’d been to Taco John’s on a Tuesday, the title wasn’t taken. We left a little early so I could pick up a breakfast burrito, but their terrible app had them walking it out to me about ten minutes late. We got to work nonetheless, quiet as ever. Shane hit me up early about the approval process I built out, so he got to test it for me. There was more to do with it, but as usual, the problem is deeper than that.

Between permissions structures and the network, I feel like my work will never be done. Maybe that’s good. Who’s to say. I bounced between a few things throughout the day, then went to Ortega’s by myself I thought the girls downstairs might want to go this week, but nobody said anything. While I was there, Nicole spotted me from across the restaurant and came to say hi. She was out on maternity leave forever.

The afternoon dragged a little bit. I was there a little late, but made it home easily. Summer was home a tad early, and then Eaddie came home for a bit. I got a big package that was supposed to be a motorcycle stand, but ended up being a case of 192 one-ounce amber glass spray bottles. I took Muad’Dib for an early run, took my parents a solar light, and then made it back home before dark.

Eaddie took off, Summer went to bed, and I did my usual cleaning up and prep before bed.

Lace ’em up!

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MisgAIded

I spent all day fighting with Power Automate to get my approval process working, and a big part of it was broken because I had the wrong email connector. For some reason there was no warning about a certain v3 connector that simply wouldn’t work, and Copilot kept telling me to try fixing it the wrong way. Finally, Gemini set me straight and I had it working by the end of the day.

Somewhere in there, I took a really late lunch. We were headed to Sonic, but the app wouldn’t let me submit my order, so I ended up at Wendy’s instead. I refused to go to Sonic without being able to redeem my rewards, and Wendy’s had free chili. I ate fairly light and then finished up the quiet afternoon.

Summer was having a dumb day and wanted a drink, so I stopped by the liquor store for her on the way out of town. When I got home, I started prepping sandwiches for us, and we had a nice dinner of pesto chicken on pretzel buns. That cleaned up a lot of the leftovers, which was great. Then I took Muad’Dib on a quick run to try and beat sundown.

It was still pretty dark when we got back. Summer settled down for bed and I cleaned up and prepped for work before crashing.

60.1%!

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Clacky

I did a whole lot of typing today.

We went to Wendy’s for a free cheeseburger, Sonic for some free cheddar peppers, and Casey’s for a free slush. Then the afternoon got quiet as everyone upstairs left.

We stopped by the lube to see Summer since she had to close. Then I got home and discovered that Eaddie’s trash had collected ants again. Then I saw the front door was left ajar by about six inches. It looked like she didn’t even pull it shut when she left around two.

Summer came home and we had another fight about it all while she was trying to cook some ramen. I eventually just had to walk away and came back to her sitting in the floor, so I got her up into a chair and fed.

I stayed up late doing as many reviews as I could, but I just kept losing energy.

48%

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Always Write

I had an anxiety attack in the shower this morning, which again seemed like the first in a little while. I took a muffin to work for breakfast, and I knew it had just gotten ants around it before I put it in the fridge, so I ignored the couple dead ones that were in the box. Then, after I took a bite, I saw one of the crumbs wiggle in the box. It was so tiny that I couldn’t tell if it was a caterpillar or a maggot, but I spat it out regardless. That left me pretty hungry all morning.

I was put in Vine jail last night, so I couldn’t see any products except for what came across my Vine Helper feed that was still loaded. I couldn’t load a new page, but I could see what was coming in. I spent a lot of time writing reviews between other projects, trying to catch up after all those phone cases I ordered.

Later in the morning, I caught David and asked him to walk me around the plant to see where the PoEs were for the camera system. I’d love to redo all of that since pretty much everything had been run separately without a master plan.

We went to Arby’s for lunch to try the ArbyQ and the steak nuggets. Both were pretty middling, but I got my fill. The afternoon went by fairly quickly, and then we got stuck behind some annoyingly slow, left lane-hogging folks on the way home. Summer skipped out on Sip + Stretch, but originally said she still wanted wings. By the time we got there, she had changed her mind about that too. I ended up warming up some rice and chicken for her, and then for Eaddie when she came home briefly. I had a little bit myself to clean it up, and then I took Muad’Dib on a run.

It got dark super fast. I thought we left early enough to get back before dark, but we did not. Mom had a little bit of spaghetti squash for me to clean up with vinegar, soy sauce, sriracha, and beef jerky. Then we got home to get ready for bed.

Wake me up when September ends.

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But Did You Document It?

I took my little baby bottle full of creamer to work today, and after we got there and I shook it up, it leaked all over the place. When I tried tightening it down, the threads snapped off of the top part of the lid, so then I was stuck with a full, broken bottle all day.

I contemplated wiping my phone again, but I think I finally got most of my text messages transferred through. I hate that Google Fi doesn’t keep all of that in the cloud any more, and that was a big part of why I switched to them in the first place. Now with RCS encryption, backing up and restoring is a lot more iffy.

Eaddie called me pretty early in the day, trying to get tickets to see Harry Styles. If she had told me they had an Amex presale, I could have found my card and gotten her tickets easily, but instead she missed out because my card wasn’t in the stack on my desk where she could find it.

After that, I was fairly focused on a couple of projects. I keep bouncing between different things that all ultimately rely on big network changes, so I think now is the time to start building out new subnets and VLANs. I broke out NetBox yesterday, and continued documenting things there today. Hopefully with that, along with my “little friends” as leadership like to call them, I can get things migrated smoothly.

We had Sonic for lunch, but I forgot to redeem my extra snack, so I gave Muad’Dib some of my ice cream. The carhop actually offered a pup cup, but then didn’t return with one. Then when I unwrapped my burger, it had no tomatoes or pickles instead of extra, so a different carhop brought me a cup full of them. That actually made the burger way better, so no complaints there.

The afternoon was more focus, and then we got home a little late. I installed a different phone mount in my car, then warmed up some leftovers for dinner. I also made some fresh rice, so the girls could eat when they came home. I was glad that they finished up the rest of the stuff Summer made a week or more ago. I cleaned up the kitchen, then took Muad’Dib for a run. It got dark fast, so we only popped in to see my parents for a moment.

When we got home, I cleaned up some more and took out the trash. Then I gave Muad’Dib a long-overdue bath while the girls lounged. Summer went to bed, and I was up late catching up on a few reviews and then prepping my stuff for work the next day.

Believe it or not, jail!

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Recovery Nightmare

I never could have imagined that upgrading from a Google Pixel to another Google Pixel would be such a terrible experience, but here we are. I had my new phone set up with the out of box experience, and it was clearly missing media from text messages. I got to work with both phones in tow, and eventually gave up and factory reset my new one, then set it up again from scratch without doing a recovery. I tried doing a setup with a different kind of restoration, but that didn’t go as planned either. I ended up factory resetting a second time and using a third party tool to restore text messages instead.

What I thought might take a couple hours ended up taking more than half of my day at work. I ended up skipping lunch because I couldn’t use either of my phones. I could have left them and picked up some food without it, but I just worked right through lunch instead.

It wasn’t even done when I left to go home. I made it all the way home and changed out of my work clothes, and then it finally said it was done. It recovered way more, but I still found the last week of messages gone. It got my super old messages and media, but I didn’t have any messages since last Wednesday. It made absolutely no sense.

Summer was home, and I was starving, so we ended up going to Cicis for a cheap dinner. They weren’t super busy, but the bar was mostly empty. They kept pizzas coming out though, and we got our fill. Afterward, we went to Walmart to pick up some vitamins before coming back home. It was dark, but Muad’Dib needed a run, so we went to my parents’ house and then around Promenade.

I spent some more time getting my new phone set up, but I still wasn’t convinced that I wouldn’t want to just wipe it and start over again anyway. I just can’t decide which partial failure is best, and I’m tired of settling.

That excuse doesn’t fly!