15-I-2008.
Thirteenth... I uploaded to Jan's server a pack of fox intellisense scripts, to be used by whoever wanted them. He, at least, adopted one, important, which inserts a comment with signature and timestamp into code, which is needed like bread and comes very handy later when the cause and time of a screwup are to be sherlocked out.
At SFBC, Jiang reports that they acquired an Ivos machine, so the interface for it should be installed asap, which would make the data from it should find their way to a patient's file (a misnomer in the computing context, dossier would be proper), automagically, as if on a computer. Luckily, the thing was already written, Norman is in charge of interfaces, just needs to be installed and charged for. But Jan was busy on the day, the real estate agent was coming to see about selling his old house (so he's already moved into the new one), but they scheduled the talk somehow anyway.
The said SFBC has its portal for e-commerce, which regularly spams Firriver's email address with its shit and attempts to turn its business partners into a family, cozy little company in the corner... What a diarrhea I feel like getting from that kind of bullshit.
Nina went through an all-afternoon ordeal with her car, replaced the starter twice. Firs she took the spare she already had, some old one, and when that one wouldn't, a new one. And still no go. Turned out it was the cable from the battery to the starter was kaputt, which I noticed almost by accident, because it's in a sheath. She took the Corolla to go to work today, and the cable will be fixed when it be.
The application for embroidery robot changed owner, it's not a ClickToStitch anymore, it's a Floriani something, no extra charge. Amazingly, instead of simply trying to squeeze out his investment, the new owner went into investing more work into it, and over time the application got faster, easier to use, despite becoming able to do more things. A miracle.
Go is in Seattle, and there was excitement on friday - her car arrived (without a scratch! Just a bit dirty :). The trucker was a Russian.), so she looked for a parking spot all evening. Called me to find her on the map, just like Nina led us before, or we led her and Nina when they traveled around... My location is so and so, find me on the map, check for any nearby landmarks I can use. We led Nina like that when she was buying trousers, and her in Orlando when she was looking where to buy something to eat. And now we were looking for a [parking] garage. Then she got lost (not too far, two miles north) so I oriented her to drive back to the hotel. Eventually she ran out of time and paid the whole night parking at the hotel.
On sunday we talked for almost two hours - her mobile being for free on weekends. Ricardo stays in Orlando until further or he finds a job in Seattle. Him I charged with checking the parts for Lena's next machine. I already picked a mama board, processor, cooler and whatever else, he just needed to check if any of those could be replaced with a far smarter choice, something better by half, for up to 20% of the price (or cheaper by that margin).
Her job is the same, just better - these guys know the rope, their games are more diverse, and in them there's more room for imagination and creativity. At the EA she had to make faces looking like existing ones, the clothes to be near perfect replicas of what they already wore - and her characters were players and coaches, because she was working on some simulation of the american so-called football.
What she's about to work on here is I don't know what, just know it's happening in Las Vegas. The characters would be gamblers, croupiers (or whatever, fuck the french academy), tough snouts from security, hookers, waitresses, adventurers and petty criminals. Will be interesting.
Our phone didn't work from last friday to this, which was a bit strange, seeing how cable and internet run on the same cable and worked all in sixteen. Eventually found out that the plug fell out of the switch box, where the signal is split between phone and cable/web. So TV worked and phone didn't.
Actually, had to check for the TV separately, because we seldom turn it on :). This year we watched one hour of it. Whole? Not really, turned off the sound during commercials.
Fourteenth. A typical snafu when a customer tells you „this came here and vice versa“ - what other way around, what else was involved? Luckily, this one was made by Suez, so whoever will solve this can ask him. This area was usually Jan's domain, the treatment detail petty stuff. This picture, however, was on my plate several times, I made two-three versions of it, even in svg format for the portal, or a version whereby we'd have two of them at the same time, to flip between or to overlap and compare (e.g. current cycle with a previous one). It's very screwy, because the little screen space needs to fit all of meds given, with dates and dosages, and various findings, and ultrasound results, what with follicles each time, left and right separately. And then there's a minor screwup in some special case, which one needs to locate and fix.
Had to get up early today, as she overslept and didn't get Lena to the schoolbus on time. Nina should have worked from home today, but she didn't wake up for 6am either, so Ender would drive her to work. Her car is still unable to start, because of that cable.
I had to drive Lena to school, and for once I got into a true traffic jam. Of course it's concentrated around the school - school is the source of it and it's the first day of the semester. Entering the kids' parking, I had to brake to avoid hitting a girl who was just exiting, and got slightly rear-ended. I asked the kids to pay me 50$ and no questions asked - no names, no police, no paperwork. They seemed happy with that. We'll see whether the money actually arrives. I don't really care. There seems to be a new sound from the rear when I brake, like two beer bottles knocking each other once shortly. maybe it's time for a new old car.
Trying to clean out the duct from the washer-dryer, found remains of a birdnest. Not sure whether we actually got it sufficiently cleaned. Seems we managed to get some of it out. The trouble was that the hot air from the dryer didn't get out, so it percolated in that niche, and the thermostat for the house heating is nearby, so it'd be flooded with warm air, measured the air as warm enough and turned off the heating. (found this in an email to Marinko).
Finally mailed that check from astrology.com - it's sitting on my desk since friday.
Officially, today I made the dcLog.prg, the current version, for Feds. I did have some versions before, of course, in my own libraries.
Mentions: dcLog.prg, Ender Aquila (Ender), Feds, Firriver Fertility (Firriver), fox, Gorana Sredljević (Go), Jan Brenkelen, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Jiang Wong, Marinko Protić, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Norman Shen, Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), SFBC, Suez Lima, in serbian
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