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Gimme Chimi

I had a much better start today, but still felt tired. David emailed before I even woke up to say he was having monitor issues, so I had to check that out first thing. It ended up being a bad cable and a bad adapter, but I got him sorted. Later on I got a call from Shane about some HubSpot stuff. As I expected, they did not have a way to do what we wanted natively, without custom code.

I met Summer at Ortega’s as she was on her way back from Little Rock, and we got our usual server. He was so excited to see us that he shook my hand, and then made me a custom plate with a chili relleno, tamale with extra beef on top, tostada, chicken quesadilla, and then an extra chicken chimichanga on the side. He just patted me on the shoulder and left me to it, so I wasn’t worth much the rest of the day.

The afternoon was long after an early lunch, but we persevered. Summer finished work at home, so we found her in front of the TV. I wanted to go swim, but she was in the middle of her show, so I spent some time vacuuming up moths and caterpillars that had overrun our pantry. Once she was done with her show, we went to my parents’ house. Muad’Dib did a great job running over and then got really playful around the pool. I spent most of my time going around scrubbing algae, but had plenty of time to play with Muad’Dib too.

Muad’Dib was pretty wet by the time we got home, so I gave him a nice, long, overdue bath. That got me a bit behind in cleaning up, so it was late to bed.

Creepy caterpillars!

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Taking Requests

Starbucks had a deal, so I stopped in to grab a wrap on the way out of town. They were out of sriracha, which made the fact that nobody greeted me either time I walked into the store feel that much worse. We got to work and I jumped into my Dell SSO project briefly, but then switched gears to figure out the Admin By Request deployment. Evidently it just let people do whatever they want by default, but I figured out how to require authorization pretty quickly.

Casey’s had a surprise deal on wings, so I grabbed an order of boneless and bone-in, which were both heavily breaded, but still reasonably good. We ate that in my office, and continued tinkering with a desktop candidate for Heaven until it was time to leave.

The afternoon had been really quiet, so it was a pretty relaxing ride home. Summer went home early with a multi-day headache. I asked if she wanted to assemble a side table that had just been delivered, with the intention of putting it by the garage door for all the dog stuff, batteries, vallet, and other miscellany. She did eventually start that while I went to take Dad to the other house.

I had gotten an alert early in the day that there was a leak at the old house. Dad went over to investigate, and had eventually found the shutoff valve right by the house. Luckily, the water meter wrench I took him the other day included a petcock key that fit the handleless valve by the house. From the sound of it, though, we figure it’s in the yard somewhere. We left the water on at the curb to check for leaks later, and I dropped him back off at his house.

Summer was still working on the side table, so after it cooled down a bit, I took Muad’Dib for a run to my parents’ house. I started warming up the fish soup, we made it the long way around the block, and got back just in time to eat. We got home well after dark, took out the trash, broke down the recycling, and crashed.

Take it to the limit!

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Lawn Boys

I felt like I slept okay, but the day sapped me quickly. I was up first, and tried to keep fairly busy. I warmed up the last of the pasta for Summer and made myself a sandwich out of some rye bread I found in the freezer. Then she went to the gym and I cleaned up and had a shower. I felt a bit worse after that, which slowed me down for a while.

Summer mentioned wanting the lawn done, so I texted Kevin to have him come by at his convenience. He and Matthi took care of the old house, and then came over to the new house. Dad texted that he was going to have a kid from church mow their lawn instead, so Kevin asked for $100, then backed down to $90 for the two they did, but I gave him the full amount.

I was up wandering around the house and cleaning up all day, so I was feeling pretty tired. Dad said they had fish soup, so I tried running Muad’Dib over on the Onewheel later in the evening. We got a couple blocks down the road and the board died again with a reported 35% battery. I carried it most of the way home, and then we drove over to eat.

Dad was out watering plants while Mom finished up inside. Then they both came out while I was sat by the pool with Muad’Dib. Once I realized how late it was getting, Muad’Dib and I went in to eat, and then headed back home. It was a short night after that.

Sleep it off.

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Come Here, Rood Boy

As I went to bed last night, I saw a notification that the air conditioner at the old house wasn’t working correctly. It wasn’t cooling for the past day, so I alerted Dad and went to sleep. He went over this morning to check it out, and called Rood only to get the same advice that I expected. They wanted to blame the thermostat or the scheduling on freezing up the unit, and then said they couldn’t get anyone out until Thursday or Friday. He called Roy’s, and someone was out the same day to add some refrigerant.

Back in my world, I got back into my Traverse import, and finally got the data points that I needed. Of course now it’s up to David’s AI-built OCR to translate that into something I can actually import. I met Summer for lunch a little bit early, and later got a call that my car was finished and ready for pickup. Anneka tried telling me I owed more than twice what I expected for the hood job, so I had to go home and send her the old quote I had as a comparison.

Summer mentioned something about a phone interview, but had literally no information about it or where it came from. The minute she said “sales” I knew it was going to be an unreliable lead, but that upset her. She’s verbalized her dislike of sales in the past anyway, so I think she’s finally just at the point in her current career that any kind of hope at all gets her excited.

I had to get my loaner to the wash for a good vacuuming before I could return it. I asked her to help, which also seemed to annoy her. Luckily it cleaned up much easier than either of us expected. We got home and I took Muad’Dib for a run. He led most of the way, and cut the run a little bit short. Then Mom hosed him down a bit because he was hot, so I had to brush him out when we got back to the house. Eaddie and Eli were holed up for most of the night. Summer went to bed, and I got there just as quickly as I could.

GTFO

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RESET ALL THE THINGS

We were a little behind today, but I had time to get things ready for our staff meeting. I felt like I did okay, and then I spent the entire day working on the Aiphone gate stuff. At one point, David and I walked out to the front gate and looked at the control box out there. All of that stuff was Avigilon, but it was still useful to tinker with it a bit.

I had an anxiety attack about half an hour before I left to meet Summer at Ortega’s for lunch. Then I finally perceived some luck in the afternoon. I ended up factory resetting both the master controller on Heaven’s desk, as well as the relay control module. I really thought I had something, but by the end of the day, Heaven’s phone still couldn’t call the stations.

We left a little late, and made it home just moments before Summer pulled in. She took a cool bath, and I finally made it to Leonard’s to pick up an air filter. The house took forever to cool down, but I wasn’t sure if it was from the away temperature being high, or if it’s just been running non-stop and couldn’t keep up.

Muad’Dib could have handled the store a little better, but he was excited about a new place. He was super high energy all evening, so I took him on a late run straight to my parents’ house before it got too dark. He ran nearly the entire way there and back, which was pretty intense for how miserable it was outside.

We made it home and I juggled chargers, since Summer made it home with under 10%. Fortunately I charged extra last night, so I had a little more than usual when we got home. I rummaged through the freezer and found some buns that I could use to make a sandwich for tomorrow, and then wound down for bed pretty quickly as the air finally started to feel a little cooler.

Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter

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Gatekeeping

My shower wasn’t great this morning, and I almost wished I had just left the old, broken head in place. When I finished, I bent over to dry off and then pinched a nerve in the middle of my back as I tried to stand back up. I was hunched for the rest of the day from that, and I could barely move without tweaking it.

I realized after we left the house that I forgot my breakfast, so I survived the morning on coffee alone. At least I remembered to bring my leftovers for lunch. The first thing I fought was actually the broken maintenance network again. This time I tried changing some STP priorities to see if it would prevent the far point-to-point from tripping the port.

The rest of the day was spent digging through and documenting the security cameras and gate system. Heaven mentioned Charles doing something on her phone that caused the front and rear gate cameras to become inverted, and I could never figure out how or where that might be set. I spent all day tinkering with settings, but never heard anything back from Fleming about what the old password might have been. I had finally given up on trying to recover anything from the non-wiped equipment, but then I couldn’t seem to write new configurations over them, so tomorrow I’ll still be stuck working on that.

I left work late again after messing around with the relay portion of the gate controls, then made it home through heavy traffic. I quickly fixed the leaky shower head and bruised the bottom of my foot in the process. Summer got home moments later and took a shower. I made her a sandwich and had some more Long John Silvers myself. A bunch of the lunch meat went bad, and I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to buy so much in the first place. We ate, and then cleaned up a bit. Eaddie was already gone to work the conference, so Summer had to finish her laundry for her.

Summer was dead tired from working in the heat, and I could still barely move. Leonard’s was closed, so I couldn’t go get the air filter we’d been needing for a few weeks. Muad’Dib hadn’t been run in a couple days either, so I decided to take him to the Neighborhood Market to get rid of some recycling. One of our neighbors had a car in the driveway with a trunk that was open the entire time we were gone, so we stopped by on the way home to knock on the door. Someone turned on some lights, but we never got a response, so I considered that the extent of my neighborly responsibility.

We hobbled home and went to bed.

Meet prep!

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Lefthandyman

I woke up surprisingly early this morning, but put myself back to bed since Summer was still out cold. We eventually got up for some brunch. She made herself an egg, and I had some Long John Silvers. I had some coffee and sat with her on the couch for a bit, tinkering with the Steam Machine. I got some laundry going, and she went to the gym. Eaddie got around and eventually started cleaning up her areas.

I kept going all day long, barely stopping, but didn’t have a whole lot of good to show for it. My biggest project went off the rails because I thought it would just be a simple power outlet replacement. I figured Eaddie’s bathroom socket was the culprit, but after I pulled it, I still had no power to the lines coming in there. I checked our closet receptacle and found that it was the end of the circuit, so I went back to the bathroom.

I ended up pulling out the outlet and both wall switches. One was just a switch for the heater and had no power coming in behind the switch. The other switches in the two-gang box had three lines coming in. I eventually worked out which was the power in, and then the other two were just lines to the light and the vent fan. There didn’t appear to be another line going out to the outlet, so that whole project was a wash. I did learn that the fluorescent light in our closet actually worked though, and just needed bulbs. I’ll have to see if I can find LED alternatives for it, otherwise I’ll end up pulling the whole fixture for some better lighting.

Summer got home and mowed, then threw together a quick pasta dinner for the three of us. I got the new shower fixture installed, but not at all to my liking, so that will have to be swapped again too. By the end of the night, I ended up using the new diverter with the old shower head and wand, but the diverter itself seemed to be inhibiting some of the awesome water pressure we had gotten used to.

I finally took a shower, Eaddie finally finished all of her cleaning, and Summer made it to bed. At least there was some success.

Back to work!

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Rally-Ho!

I didn’t sleep in much today because I wanted to get some more work done. We spent a lot more time than I expected out of the house yesterday, and I still wanted to get some movement on the dining area and entryway. Summer got up while I was putting some things away, and got upset with the way I asked her to continue passing through while I was in the middle of the hallway. She made us some eggs and sausage for breakfast, but I could tell her mood was declining. She got ready for the gym, and we finally had to have a talk about it before she left.

Eaddie finally got out of her room and we chatted for a little while before making a plan to attack the dining room. Summer came back from the gym and mowed while Eaddie and I moved things around. I showed her how to pull the light switch off the wall in the shed out back, and we fixed a flaky connection there. She continued carrying things outside, and then I nearly broke the ceiling fan trying to get to the light bulbs. I ended up taking it down completely to fix later.

Muad’Dib had been hiding under the bed all day long, so I thought I’d try and take him out. I guess he kept hearing things in the distance that I couldn’t hear, because he was skittish the whole way to my parents’ house. I let him inside to hide under the dining room table while I helped put away the pool cover bags and mounted the filter fountain in the pool. Then after a quick swim we headed straight home at a hurried pace, especially after someone set off a mortar shell just a block away.

Eaddie and Eli were holed up watching a movie and Summer was headed to bed, so I took a quick shower and wound down quickly myself. My feet hurt pretty badly from being on them so much this weekend, and someone kept setting off fireworks well past ten, so hopefully Monday will bring a reset.

Owwww.

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Reviews R Us

We managed to get out a couple minutes early today, so it would have been a good day to pick up breakfast, but I brought a frozen grilled cheese and banana instead. Eventually I’ll run out of sandwiches, but until then, I’m still living off of Two Rivers.

I had a couple phone calls, but nothing too pressing. I just kept tinkering with my new test VMs and Intune, with a Wendy’s break in the middle.

Summer was home a little before us, and she and Eaddie had gone through a bunch of stuff Eaddie “shopped” from Autumn’s hoard before she moves into some place she’s paying her father to rent for her(???). Summer and I ate our leftover Pasta Grill, and then we sat down to do a ton of reviews on the clothes and things I’ve gotten her on Vine.

As it started to get a little darker, I took Muad’Dib on a run. I ran the hose out from the basement but completely forgot to turn on the sump, so after we visited my parents and made it back home, I had to kick it off. I did at least figure out the garage door remote situation, so that was a win. I stayed up a little late cleaning up and finishing the basement, and then it was off to bed.

Make something up if you have to.

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Drain It Again

I woke up around four to swap chargers and then had trouble getting back to sleep. We both met our charge limits, though. It was another quiet day at work. Summer had a meeting in Little Rock, so we met for lunch and I let our usual server pick my plate. Summer barely touched her food, so I ate the rest of it instead of ordering more myself.

The afternoon was a bit more productive until quitting time. About halfway home, there was a semi wreck being cleaned up, and then traffic was backed up going the other direction for miles. We got home without incident though, and I charged a bit while I waited for Summer to get home.

I had a bunch of Vine stuff to sort through. Summer was hurting when she arrived, so I ran her a bath and then had to start draining the basement again while I took Muad’Dib out for a run. He was very slow in spite of how nice it felt outside.

We visited my parents for a bit and helped Mom pull her water hose while Dad got Muad’Dib some leftovers. Then we made it back to the house and the water was still going. I waited for it to finish, then cleaned that up, had a salad, and raced for bed.

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