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Leaving on the 4th for Tennessee for a month. Was going to be going home after that and working with the guy out of OK, but now that's turned into another month on the road in Alabama and surrounding states before getting back to Texas. Fwee...I won't pass up the chance for more training but it'd be nice to get back already.
Got the place mostly packed, all that's left is mostly electronics gizmos. That'll happen Thursday night, last minute as OH GOD MY DESKTOP. Sadly it'll be getting its own suitcase, just like it came out here, loosely wrapped with leftover clothes.
Some things may not make the packing cut. Humidifier and cheap Walmart pot, I'm looking at you.
But everything is more or less organized and I should be able to make the deadline no problem. It'll be....interesting. Weekends at another Candlewood Suites, riding bitch with the TN guy the rest of the week, probably 4-5 nights in hotels on the road, and all out of my pocket until the expenses hit. Mostly it'll feel good to spend a day on the roads even if it is in a wallowing bitch of a no-brakes agricultural diesel monstrosity. I've DONE my Michigan winter penance.
Car crap...the Z's still mine whenever I can get down there and acquire it, as well as an offer of local storage while I work on it until it's safely mobile, AKA, right in the crater where it's sat for the past 10 years. I can live with that. Jez is still at Forged, they finally have the proper EDIS module and will be trying to get everything running tomorrow. Short of the ignition module everything apparently acts like it wants to run.
Other life stuff...change of plans, as per Z's LJ. Kat has decided not to come down and rather stay in AZ to move back to HI. This was a hell of thing to drop on her kids by surprise, especially the day before Dom's 10th birthday. Naturally Z is upset.
In other news I clock between 2700 and 4700 steps a day around the shop at work so getting my cardio in after work has somewhat dropped in importance. I need to get back on it but.
The new camera, which I notice I was muttering about in the entry before last, works like a fucking champ. It's almost too good. Grammy and I got to see the butterflies at the Meijer Gardens and I actually wound up stopping shooting because it wasn't a challenge any more. It's like the thing reads my mind. Also, butterflies up close are still pretty creepy looking bugs. They're best enjoyed from a medium distance where you can focus on the pretty.
Didn't wind up taking the good gear to Uncle Wally's place--definitely this October when I'm back for training--but I did get a tripod and help with Grandpa K's office computer. XP being EOLed meant he wanted to do the 7 upgrade, which was an all-day process on a original Athlon 64 3200+ with 4 gigs of RAM....AND his essential-for-business software wouldn't run right on 7, so XP virtual mode = 2 OSes worth of patches and having to run a VM to launch it, then--as the printer wasn't supported right by virtualized XP--print to CutePDF, dump a file on the W7 desktop, then minimize back out from there and print it. "For real this time!" Needless to say he's looking into upgrading to a later version of his software that will run natively and in my COPIOUS free time here I'm trying to put together a formal quote for a modest multi-core new system for him that he can just plug the hard drive into and seamlessly transition over.
I've been pushing hard. I could use a break. Maybe an entire day on the road and getting out of this room will help clear the cobwebs.
Got the place mostly packed, all that's left is mostly electronics gizmos. That'll happen Thursday night, last minute as OH GOD MY DESKTOP. Sadly it'll be getting its own suitcase, just like it came out here, loosely wrapped with leftover clothes.
Some things may not make the packing cut. Humidifier and cheap Walmart pot, I'm looking at you.
But everything is more or less organized and I should be able to make the deadline no problem. It'll be....interesting. Weekends at another Candlewood Suites, riding bitch with the TN guy the rest of the week, probably 4-5 nights in hotels on the road, and all out of my pocket until the expenses hit. Mostly it'll feel good to spend a day on the roads even if it is in a wallowing bitch of a no-brakes agricultural diesel monstrosity. I've DONE my Michigan winter penance.
Car crap...the Z's still mine whenever I can get down there and acquire it, as well as an offer of local storage while I work on it until it's safely mobile, AKA, right in the crater where it's sat for the past 10 years. I can live with that. Jez is still at Forged, they finally have the proper EDIS module and will be trying to get everything running tomorrow. Short of the ignition module everything apparently acts like it wants to run.
Other life stuff...change of plans, as per Z's LJ. Kat has decided not to come down and rather stay in AZ to move back to HI. This was a hell of thing to drop on her kids by surprise, especially the day before Dom's 10th birthday. Naturally Z is upset.
In other news I clock between 2700 and 4700 steps a day around the shop at work so getting my cardio in after work has somewhat dropped in importance. I need to get back on it but.
The new camera, which I notice I was muttering about in the entry before last, works like a fucking champ. It's almost too good. Grammy and I got to see the butterflies at the Meijer Gardens and I actually wound up stopping shooting because it wasn't a challenge any more. It's like the thing reads my mind. Also, butterflies up close are still pretty creepy looking bugs. They're best enjoyed from a medium distance where you can focus on the pretty.
Didn't wind up taking the good gear to Uncle Wally's place--definitely this October when I'm back for training--but I did get a tripod and help with Grandpa K's office computer. XP being EOLed meant he wanted to do the 7 upgrade, which was an all-day process on a original Athlon 64 3200+ with 4 gigs of RAM....AND his essential-for-business software wouldn't run right on 7, so XP virtual mode = 2 OSes worth of patches and having to run a VM to launch it, then--as the printer wasn't supported right by virtualized XP--print to CutePDF, dump a file on the W7 desktop, then minimize back out from there and print it. "For real this time!" Needless to say he's looking into upgrading to a later version of his software that will run natively and in my COPIOUS free time here I'm trying to put together a formal quote for a modest multi-core new system for him that he can just plug the hard drive into and seamlessly transition over.
I've been pushing hard. I could use a break. Maybe an entire day on the road and getting out of this room will help clear the cobwebs.