Monthly Archives: February 2019

Angela, Chess

Not any phone calls or texts finally

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This last week went wonderfully. No phone calls from Angie, Andy, Mary or LeeAnna; no texts nothing. I hope I’m done with all their crap.

Last week was fantastic. I was able to get the DRDI workflows working with only one hiccup but was able to do a search and find the error. It seems that when you create a flow with flow.microsoft.com and you make a change to an action it sometime, not always but sometimes creates a data type error and you need to delete the action and redo the action. The error will then go away. I have not tried this but will shortly.

The new DGT chess board, clock and pieces are fantastic. I wish the SquareOff board was as nice as this is. I also found out what DGT stood for, “Digital Game Technology”. The quality is great of both the board and pieces are great, the clock seems a little cheap only because the brains are based on the raspberry pi and with that board being so small the clock feels like there is nothing there but it works great.

The board also came with a CD with the installation files and a copy of Fritz14 but I was not able to install anything with the CD. My computer does not have a CD reader and the external one I have would not read it. I brought it to work and downloaded all the files to my OneDrive and I will try to load from there when I get home. I’ll try on the Surface Pro 3 here at work first. With this software I should be able to play using the board as an input device and the software will show the moves. Should be able to analyze games and train with this program as well. I think it was $700.00+ well spent. I’m considering purchasing a Bluetooth version of the board as well.

Angela

I’m sure it is my fault

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Where did everyone get the idea I have all this extra money I can just give away?

Starting last week I had a text from Andy, Angie’s son. He needed to talk to me asap. As it turns out he wanted some money. I’m not going to use the word ‘borrow’ some money because he has never paid any person back he has ‘borrow’ money from. He wanted $2,000.00. What the hell? These people think I’m made of money. I told Angie ‘no’ and she went ahead and told him I would and has been waiting for me to sent the money.

I gave in and finally sent them $400.00 and thought that would be it. I could finally rest and be finished with these people.

Saturday I received a text from Mary, a mutual friend of mine and Angie’s. Since I have Angie blocked from any communication with me via text, phone or email she had Mary text me telling me she needed $250.00 now and would explain later. Well I gave it to her, not expecting any explanation because I won’t listen to any and she should now know I’m done with her and her crap.

Yesterday I received a next from LeeAnna, Andy’s wife asking for money, giving me some sob story that they think Angie has been lying to them and want to work with me only and leave her out. Well, that tells me she has taken all the money and they have not received anything. I don’t know what the heck is going on and all I can do is tell them I don’t have any extra money to give away and please don’t contact me again.

Another phone number to add to the block list.

Miscellaneous, Tello by DJI

First Week Back

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Last week was the first back after my Vacation back home in Seattle. Started off with greater than 400 emails to look through. I had a Microsoft Flow set up to forward all work emails to my Gmail account enabling me to address important emails as they came in but I wasn’t online constantly so I still had a bunch to read when I got back.

Supply Chain again is going to miss a cut in point and all indications show the components (Aileron) was tree’d into the bill of materials last April. For a couple of days during the week we (Manufacturing Engineering) was being asked to drive demand for the old part numbers. Needless to say I told them to pound sand (not those exact words) but we did find another solution which accommodates all of those involved in this fiasco.

This particular issue resulted in many emails with some quite high level people making some very stupid suggestions. In the end my boss thanked me for the support I gave and let me know how valuable I am to the organization. The final meeting I had was with our manager and the Program manager hashing out what we needed to do to get things workings. That meeting went very well and made the week fantastic.

Elton John Concert 2-9-2019

I purchased my tickets for the Elton John concert on Saturday 2-9-2019 this weekend and looking forward to that. After I purchased my tickets I realized that his album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ was the first album I played on my stereo.

T. G. Vacation

One of the guys here at work is on vacation for a week. Dan went first with two weeks, I went second with two weeks and he is the last to go for a week. It will be a quiet week thank goodness.

Osmo Pocket Testing

I did some testing with the Osmo Pocket last Friday and it was perfectly timed with the latest firmware update from DJI. I set the Osmo pocket up on a tripod with the iPhone wanting to test the object tracking function. I placed my Tello drone at my front door, started it up and had the Osmo Pocket tracking its flight around the living room. Looking fantastic then realized I forgotten to start the freaking recording. I was also having problems getting the drone pared with the remote controller. Having said that everything worked great while I got the recording started while I was flying using the phone interface instead of the controller. This Friday I’ll get the remote working again and do some more testing.

Tax return is in!

I filed my taxes Monday afternoon, the soonest I have ever filed and on Friday the first of February my federal taxes were deposited into my account. Now the question is… what toys do I want to buy or am I going to use this as part of a down payment on a house. Decisions decisions….