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06-17-2025 at 11:38 AM.
06-17-2025 at 11:38 AM.
The Amazon Basics AA/AAA batteries work ok for me.

Opted to bike in today. I think this is my first Tuesday ride of the year.
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06-17-2025 at 03:27 PM.
06-17-2025 at 03:27 PM.
Coworker/Mr.Wizard got me a good bit further along today. He added a LOT of stuff about which I had not a single clue, all of it related to his recent re-abstraction of several general routines. The good news is, I'm to the point of unit-testing and debugging code changes, and hopefully will have the worst of it completed by mid-day tomorrow/Wednesday.
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06-18-2025 at 08:37 AM.
06-18-2025 at 08:37 AM.
We finally got some rain today Happy

Also, had an unusual occurrence at jam on Monday. Previously we've had zero carbon fiber instruments present, but a traveling friend of an irregular participant was there with a carbon fiber acoustic guitar, and a newer jammer was there with a carbon fiber violin they were borrowing from a friend to test out. My first time encountering the latter. So just an interesting coincidence to go from zero to two in one day.
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06-18-2025 at 09:57 AM.
06-18-2025 at 09:57 AM.
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We finally got some rain today Happy

Also, had an unusual occurrence at jam on Monday. Previously we've had zero carbon fiber instruments present, but a traveling friend of an irregular participant was there with a carbon fiber acoustic guitar, and a newer jammer was there with a carbon fiber violin they were borrowing from a friend to test out. My first time encountering the latter. So just an interesting coincidence to go from zero to two in one day.
Does seem rather coinkydinkal, don't it? Scratchhead

VF worked an extra hour last night, saved all his work, left screens open to continue this morning. Bright and early, went to laptop/keyboard/screen:
a) IT downloaded an update overnight, logged me out.
b) logging back in started up the Windows Antimalware Client and OMA-DM Client issues again. They fire these up upon user login.
c) Wasted thirty minutes with Help Desk attempting to create a case.
d) Upon re-opening screens from the night before, encountered stupid configuration problems where there were none before.

Was today Monday again? Did nobody think to warn me? Annoyed
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06-19-2025 at 08:48 AM.
06-19-2025 at 08:48 AM.
Monday 2: This Time It's Personal Cool2
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06-19-2025 at 09:25 AM.
06-19-2025 at 09:25 AM.
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Monday 2: This Time It's Personal Cool2
Oh, it WAS. Annoyed Fumbled a couple of GIT commands due to impatience. Lost hours of work from yesterday afternoon. Reworked it this morning, and caught up before lunch time. The good news is, yesterday's work involved hours of re-learning the very complex environment the hard way. Once the code was working, the re-learning stuck. This morning, it was just a bit of debugging and a lot of unit-testing/debugging, with no re-learning needed. This was the hardest part of the most complex data ingestion, and it's 50% done now. Getting the other 50% done this afternoon should not take nearly as long, as it's extremely repetitive and very similar to what was developed yesterday.

In short, major f-up late yesterday, pretty much caught up this morning, should be good later this afternoon.

Monday2 - The Reckoning EEK!


Yup, down to the last 15% of the worst effort, and a lot of that will be unit-testing and validation beyond what's already been done.
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06-19-2025 at 04:52 PM.
06-19-2025 at 04:52 PM.
Willow is out of school for the summer. She just stopped by to ask if I would go downstairs and look at what she made. I recently re-constructed a box fort for her, she had made a big pile of all her stuffed animals in one corner of it, and then she took a running leap and jumped into it gleefully. Apparently she's been doing it for a while. Kinda envious laugh out loud
Quote from VorlonFrog :
Oh, it WAS. Annoyed Fumbled a couple of GIT commands due to impatience. Lost hours of work from yesterday afternoon. Reworked it this morning, and caught up before lunch time. The good news is, yesterday's work involved hours of re-learning the very complex environment the hard way. Once the code was working, the re-learning stuck. This morning, it was just a bit of debugging and a lot of unit-testing/debugging, with no re-learning needed. This was the hardest part of the most complex data ingestion, and it's 50% done now. Getting the other 50% done this afternoon should not take nearly as long, as it's extremely repetitive and very similar to what was developed yesterday.

In short, major f-up late yesterday, pretty much caught up this morning, should be good later this afternoon.

Monday2 - The Reckoning EEK!


Yup, down to the last 15% of the worst effort, and a lot of that will be unit-testing and validation beyond what's already been done.
EEK!
Glad you got the slog mostly knocked out.
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06-19-2025 at 04:57 PM.
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Willow is out of school for the summer. She just stopped by to ask if I would go downstairs and look at what she made. I recently re-constructed a box fort for her, she had made a big pile of all her stuffed animals in one corner of it, and then she took a running leap and jumped into it gleefully. Apparently she's been doing it for a while. Kinda envious laugh out loud
Aren't we all kinda envious? Did she get to jump in big piles of leaves last Fall?

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Glad you got the slog mostly knocked out.
Oh yeah. Thank you, Miz Frogge!!
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06-20-2025 at 08:16 AM.
06-20-2025 at 08:16 AM.
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Aren't we all kinda envious? Did she get to jump in big piles of leaves last Fall?


Oh yeah. Thank you, Miz Frogge!!
She does her best with the leaves, but there's only one tree in our yard that necessitates raking, and the pile doesn't end up all that big. She did make a "leaf angel" laugh out loud
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06-20-2025 at 02:13 PM.
06-20-2025 at 02:13 PM.
Finished up the last of it this morning, had three minor/stupid issues to resolve. One was stupid, two was stupid, and three was resolved by my wizard teammate, but I understand what he did to resolve it, so I confirmed something.

Found out the hard way (stupid item #2) that Power BI doesn't respect the "Sort by Another Column" button on the GUI design page. But if you go into "Table view", and do the same thing, it actually applies it properly. Seems like someone forgot to update all the code, some where.

Saturday morning: Got the Keyless Entry circuit board out of its plastic shell hidden behind the rear seat air conditioning vent. What demon from Hell designed that installation sequence needs to be summarily dispatched back to the recesses of the hottest regions. Also found out, the antenna and circuit board are a single piece. There is no external antenna, like earlier years. Since it could not be a heat-related connection issue with the antenna, it must have been a heat-related connection issue with the multi-wire connector connecting the circuit board. I relocated the balky board into the occupant-accessible area (VF doesn't keep much in the console, just one power cord, a mini-MagLite flashlight, and a couple of ball-point pens.) If it's gonna be problem again in the near future, I'll have to get a new board and have someone with the equipment pair it to the car's ECM. (Shout-out to @DC)

Took the car out this afternoon to the big orange box store for HVAC air filters and wasp/hornet spray, then to the grocery. Seems it's still an issue, the car doesn't think the fob is present, unless and until I place it over the RFID antenna on the circuit board in the console. It seems the other half of this RKE system is situated behind the drivers-side rear seat. That will be coming out tomorrow morning, to find whatever may be the issue there.

Sunday morning: Bottom rear seat, no problem. Four bolts at bottom of rear seat back, no problem. Six bolts at top of seat, across the top, from within the trunk? Annoyed Got both the bottom and back out, no modules to be seen. If anywhere, it will be in the rear window tray, with so much other stuff. However, that being stated, a decision has been made. It's time for a new-to-me vehicle, sometime in the next several weeks. If this one insists on continuing to be an issue every time I open the drivers door to start the car, it's going to be a parts vehicle for someone else.
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06-23-2025 at 08:15 AM.
06-23-2025 at 08:15 AM.
Certainly seems like a vexing issue to deal with essentially every time you want to use the car!
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06-23-2025 at 08:35 AM.
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Certainly seems like a vexing issue to deal with essentially every time you want to use the car!
While that is certainly a primary issue, it's not the primary issue. That honor rests with GM, as they've never identified the definitive cause. They suggest RF interference from 12-volt USB chargers and cell phones as the likely causes. It seems this same issue plagued Corvette C6 owners whose cars used the same hardware. Since it was introduced in 2006. Mad
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06-24-2025 at 07:54 AM.
06-24-2025 at 07:54 AM.
Here for day lily pics Bigeye
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06-24-2025 at 08:31 AM.
06-24-2025 at 08:31 AM.
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While that is certainly a primary issue, it's not the primary issue. That honor rests with GM, as they've never identified the definitive cause. They suggest RF interference from 12-volt USB chargers and cell phones as the likely causes. It seems this same issue plagued Corvette C6 owners whose cars used the same hardware. Since it was introduced in 2006. Mad
That's... not inspiring look around
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06-24-2025 at 09:37 AM.
06-24-2025 at 09:37 AM.
Speaking of not inspiring, entering another test cycle with clients, which means re-connecting our test environments. Previously I had put together a text file with instructions for them, after many sessions it seems that was not simple enough, so I put together a slideshow with 27 color glossy 8x10 screenshots with circle and arrows and highlights to walk people through it, and still... I have to explain every step on the phone "okay, now open the user record, and update the password"
Literally step 1, any ServiceNow admin on the planet should be update a user's password without any muss and fuss Ranting

But on the bright side, management on their side took notice and said "so... this seems pretty straight-forward, we'll see if we can get permissions to do it ourselves and maybe we don't even need a call for this"
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