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Saturday 15 November
2014
Saturday - OTR, down in San Diego (Vista, actually).
Friday
- OTR, down to San Diego.
Thursday 13 November
2014
Thursday
- So, I decided to head south, and spent a lot of the day just cleaning up around the house, and doing various chores.
The
Explorer batter was dead again. I recharged it, but I need a new
battery or something. Sears said it was fine, but then they have a
vested interest in it, and the pro-rating for the remaining life would
be an expense for them.
I had two credit cards that needed to be
reset, some sort of fraud on one that I noticed, and the other just
came from the company saying that it was because of "outside issues"
and just precautionary. I'm waiting for the one card to be sent, and
for some reason the initialization process failed on the other. Hmmm.
Anyone
who has been watching the state of the Internet and security knows that
it is completely messed up. I tell friends, but then I see them using
their mobile phones for banking and such, obviously they don't realize.
Ah well.
Wednesday 12 November
2014
Wednesday - Not much to say, working away on things.
The
leaves are changing, and starting to fall, it's that time of year. I've
cut the watering back, but it's still warm enough during the day that I
need some water, every 2nd day seems OK. The tomatoes plants are dead,
but the peppers are still hanging on a bit.
I may go down to San Diego for the weekend, a friend is having a birthday, and his wife invited me.
Tuesday
- Veteran's Day.
This is the 100th anniversary of WW1, and no one that fought there is
still alive. I doubt there is even anyone alive that remembers it, as
an adult.
As someone once pointed out the original name of
Armistice Day was better, because they whole damn thing had to be re
fought in WW2. Ah well. And, as someone else said, it's where the
19th century died, when dreams of knightly personal glory and valor
were replaced by the nightmares of trench warfare, and
anonymous mass death. But maybe that's the silver lining, that the
horrible thing called War was finally seen by those 'back home' for
what it was all along.
We learned it once in the United States, in the Civil War, but had forgotten it 50 years later.
It may be necessary, it may be right, but it should always be the last resort.
It's
a bit depressing. It's also the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall: European leaders commemorated but, somehow, Margaret Thatcher and
Ronald Reagan's names didn't come up in their speeches.
I tried to put my flag out - the wind was gusting to 40mph and bent the pole.
Monday
- Another warm and sunny "walk to school in shirtsleeves" day, so S and I did.
Class
was short, a video and the instructor going over a project. We put in
an hour of lab, and now have over 24hrs each. Lab's getting busy - lots
of people waiting for an open terminal. There was an instructor in the
lab going around making sure people were doing graphics art stuff and
not just surfing Youtube, as it's not an "open lab" but is rather
designated for the computer arts department. I could have finked on the
noisy people next to me using Word for a language class project, but
didn't....
Afterwards S&I spent an hour getting straight with Apple. It was a bit confusing, because they had not rolled over the old Task Mechanic individual account but rather my old individual account, into the corporate account.
The registration wizard wasn't letting us get past the first screen,
saying we were "inactive". Finally we spent some time on the phone with
registration support and got it all straightened out, supposedly.
And so we don't have to pay $99, my old payment is good for another six months...
I'll
try "provisioning" sometime later this week, putting a trial version of
the app on my iPad via iTunes. Supposedly the process is better, but
the holdups and lack of transparency in the registration
process don't inspire a lot of confidence in the more difficult code
signing and distribution tasks. I did it before and it was a PITA.
Book #46 was The Night Circus,
by Erin Morgenstern. Entertaining! It was a twenty-five-cent yard sale
find that I lugged to the coast and back without reading this year.
Sunday
- Sunny and warm again.
Daylight savings time has started, a while ago, but I'm still waking up early. It feels odd for it to be that dark out at 6am
I did mowing, front and back, and vacuumed the downstairs and
staircase. Suzy was hiding under the bed, so I'll do the bedroom later
this week.
An
issue arose a while back, a 5psi discrepancy between my two tire
gauges. There has been a bit of wheel squealing when turning into
parking spots in the Explorer, so I guessed the lesser reading was
correct, but overinflation is not the sort of thing you want to rush
into. I borrowed R's gauge on Sunday and checked, and it pretty much
agreed with the LP gauge, so I put in more air all around. This should
help mileage and tire wear.
I did a bunch of reading for
the app, on queuing animation blocks and other technical stuff, but
mostly stayed away from the keyboard for the weekend.
