Category Archives: Angela

Angela, Carrie Mattern, Miscellaneous

Carrie will be here tomorrow!

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Yes, her panic attacks aside Carrie will be flying in tomorrow. I will meet her at the airport and stay home the next day as well just so she gets used to being here and I just might kiss her a little bit.

Had to do a little cleanup during the weekend because of this freaking cold or whatever it is.

Quick edit here. Carrie is on her way. I finished cleaning up in the this morning, it is now Tuesday and have things pretty much ready. She called me a bit ago and she missed her flight. I am quite sure this has her completely frazzled! She will be just fine. She knows I’ll be there when she arrives. She won’t be here till midnight now, five hours later than she should be but all will be ok.

Angela, JavaScript

How to make her stop

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Yes, I’m talking about Angie. She won’t go a couple of days without trying to contact me. I told her that I was not going to answer anymore emails. In fact I told her I was going to automatically delete them. The problem is before they get deleted I’m notified of them on the phone or iPad.

Finished 50% of the JavaScript Beginners class with Mosh. I completed the set up of my new computer in about five minutes and hit 100 straight days on the Chessable.com site.

Today I also won another game of chess playing Black. Playing Black is much harder than playing White but it also presents such a beautiful game. In war games with Glenn when I was younger I always did better when I was playing a defensive game. With Black you start out playing a defensive game and them need to try and turn it around into an offensive game when the time comes. This is the challenge and it is fun.

Angela, JavaScript

Happening all over again

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Angie is getting me down. They all are insanely emailing, texting and trying to call and get more and more money. Now I get an email form LeeAnne because she has set up a ‘GoFundMe account’. The reason she stated was to fix up her house and get it ready to move into otherwise they would be homeless. Well, that is the exact same thing I was told at the beginning of all of this when I finally gave them around 3,400.00 over a couple of months. This, is the proof I needed that they are all liars and thieves. I wanted to go onto the page and out them but I’m taking the high road here now and just ignoring them.

New toys coming today, a NUC7 Core i7 low profile computer kit. All I need to do is provide the memory and SSD, both of which I already have. I’ll be putting everything together when I get home and playing the rest of the weekend. I’ll take some pictures of this little thing when I’m done.

Oh, on another note, I have now moved into the downtown offices. It will take some getting use to but I think I’m going to like it. The one down side right now is calling the guard every morning when I get there to let me in. It’s a bit of a pain but a small one.

Signing off for now.

Angela, Drones, Mavic

Bit the bullet for code training

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One of my favorite instructors on Udemy advertised a new batch of training materials with other trainers creating the “Ultimate Tech Career Toolbox 2019” with thousands of dollars worth of training materials for 239.00. If I had not waited a day I could have saved another 40.00 but I flinched. Looks like a great deal and help toward my goal of the residual income for retirement.

Now I need to spend quite a bit of time downloading all the content. I’m going to put it all on a stand alone drive just for training etc.

Angie kept sending Money requests and on Tuesday I had 14 for a total of 8,800.00 and 40 rejected phone calls. They want me to make a house payment for them plus give money to Andy so he can go to his new job. Angie then tried to call twice with someone else’s phone and when I would not answer I got an email tell me to ‘Turn the f…king phone off’ I said fine and two days later I complied with her request.

Last night I gave LeeAnne 100.00 so Andy can go to work and start getting a paycheck. She then proceeded to ask if I was going to help with the house payment. Andy should just ask for an advance on his pay to get himself out of the situation they have got into. I’m done with them.

Friday afternoon, before the sun set I had a fantastic flight with the Mavic Pro. About 20 minutes long and I’ll do some editing in Camtasia and Premier Pro for experimentation and learning these two pieces of software. I know Camtasia but not Premier Pro. I’ll also throw the video clips into After Effects as well and see what I can come up with. It will be fun.

One thing I need to do is change the maximum flight distance for the Mavic Pro. I keep running into that and then because I had such a great time I forget to change it.

Angela

Time to say good bye

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It took three years but I’m finally saying good bye to Angie. I have blocked all the phone numbers she has tried to contact me with. Including all of her kids and mutual friends. Carol knows better than to call and ask for money and I’m pretty sure Bobby will not if she tries to get him to call or text.
I have not blocked or set up any rules for email but if I get any from her that will be next. I’ll have anything transferred to trash and create a work flow that will send an email right back to her with a statement that her emails are now going straight to trash and that the email she just received was automatically sent and don’t try to respond to it.

I purchased an iPad mini 4, iPad mini holder for the controllers for the Spark, Mavic Air and Mavic Pro Platinum.

Good weekend was had by all.

Angela, Mavic

And what do you think they did?

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Yes, they asked for the last 800.00 that I was supposed to give them. Angie had never told them I was not going to give them any money. Well, I gave them the 800.00, asked when I could expect to see this returned and she said ‘When I get my tax return.’ I feel it is a bunch of bull shit and do not expect a fucking thing. Sorry for the language but I am tired of that entire family.

New drone

I bought a DJI Mavic Pro Platinum with the remote, five batteries charger and hard case. Have way decent price as well.

New Scam

I had a new email scam this weekend, one involving my phone. Same bullshit as before. I deleted it and will leave it at that.

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.

Angela, DJI Spark, Tello by DJI

I hope it is finally over

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I have spent the last 21 months trying to get Angie over the “I want $X.XX and I want it now”. I went ahead like I said and gave her 8,500.00 to pay off her car and all the stupid loans she had plus pay for her fathers tomb stone and let her know she can’t ask for anymore. Well since then she has gone off the deep end and every time she asks (yes, she has not stopped), she asks for four to five hundred at a freaking pop. Finally I just told her I’m not paying you anymore, stop asking. Her next response was “Would you turn this phone off please”. Wow a please out of her and needless to say I said ‘No, I have to pay for it anyway’ and her response was ‘Well I most likely will turn it off’. Go ahead I say. Now, the next time she talks to me in a couple years she can not say I turned off her phone. She also can’t get married to get another phone because she never got the divorce she said she would get. I have not heard from her in a few days and that is still not enough.

Now, Vitals this week, better than last:

  • Resting Heart Rate: 69
  • Blood Pressure: 128/78 (No bike last week)
  • Weight: 241 (Going down)

I have been on a non exercising trend lately and I think Angie had put me in a depressed state. I didn’t want to do anything but buy toys and lay around. Specifically I did not want to get on the bike. Last week screwed up my streak for the year which upsets me a bit however this week I’m back on the bike and will be getting out of this depression.

I was completely out of my routine for the last month at least and now have started again and adjusted a bit. Getting up earlier, around 2:00 to 2:10 in the morning instead of 2:30. Last week and so far this week it has made a big difference.

New toys:

I purchased a DJI Osmo gimbal camera which takes great buttery smooth shots, a GoPro Hero5 which is leaps and bounds over my other GoPro and I will receive a new label maker Friday to attach my FAA registration number on the spark.

The remote controller for my Tello arrived and it makes a huge difference, much easier to control. The last three of four flights I have made I have not crashed at all and I finally received my 15″ landing pad.

All of that should make me all set to go fly! I have a flight plan set up for Sunday barring any weather changes.