ANA Y5 D60

Silence.

Our fucking DTE bill went up $100. I knew I had been too nice on the AC this summer. Back to 75 it goes. Use a fan. 

Did my demos yesterday. I think they went over well. Need to pay bills. Going to be broke in 10 minutes. Fuck my life.

ANA Y5 D59

Screaming

Fighting network issues. My laptop doesn't want to behave right now. Because at work I connect via a dock which I left there and now it's yelling at me on this network. Fuck me. I have a demo to two plants and 15 people at 2pm today too.

I got everything working and looking good yesterday which is what led to today's demo. Lots of pressure on me now to deliver. Scary. But I am up to the challenge. I hope. 

ANA Y5 D58

Screaming but faint.

I bought a new sound machine and I think I found a setting that helps. While it is still screaming it's a light scream today. Not the horrible scream that makes me want to kill. This is the low level mosquito scream. Annoying, but ignorable.

I hit a major milestone at work yesterday. I managed to get my app to work on an HMI. I had to wire it up myself too. I was so proud of it. I still need to tweak things today, but the fact that I made it work is huge. It changes things. 

Had leftovers for dinner because I was just too tired to cook. Went to bed at 9pm. 

ANA Y5 D57

 Still screaming. Fuck me.

ANA Y5 D56

Back to the screaming. Joy.

We took Sandy to the lake yesterday. We had a great time. She wasn't sure at first, but she got into it. We then spent two hours getting her dried completely. Made cheesesteaks for dinner.  

ANA Y5 D55

Still quiet. With the exception of 90 minutes yesterday I was quiet. It was nice. Let's see how long today lasts.

Cleaned the house. Did laundry. Made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. 

ANA Y5 D54

FINALLY FUCKING SILENCE.

After a week I get a break. I need it. I stayed up until 2am playing a game last night. So while I only had 4.5 hours sleep, i feel the most rested I have in days.

I did it yesterday. I talked to the test bed and got it to read tags. Took all day but was worth it. Next up is sending that to my data schema, then returning the results on the display panel. But that's a monday thing.

Made salmon cups last night. They worked. Streamed live, then played a solo game.

Laundry and house cleaning today. 

ANA Y5 D53

Seven fucking days straight. You know the irony? I woke up at 1:30am with indigestion and my head was silent. I should have fucking stayed up.

Spent five hours yesterday installing Rockwell software. Finally today I can try and make things work. Let's see how that goes. Made nachos and tacos with pulled pork last night. Live streamed with some co-op gaming with C. Went to bed. 

ANA Y5 D52

Still going. What is this day 6? Fuck. Just stop already.

I have a test bed sitting next to me right now. Like 5 people helped maked this happen yesterday. I am excited to see if I can get this talking to my stuff. Finally playing with some hardware. This is neat! Am making progress at work, Got an official project name too. Have an ADO meeting today.

Had leftovers for dinner. Took dog for walk. 

ANA Y5 D51

Scream

It wouldn't let me create under my other account today? WTH?

Busy day at work. Got pulled into meetings. Got some hardware. Finished my data dictionary. Ordered pizza for dinner. 

ANA Y5 D50

Still screaming.

I did some research yesterday. My ears may be because I am fat. Seriously. Blood flow and all that. So now we lose weight and see if it goes away.

Did a good amount of work yesterday. Did my first plant level demos. Wrote a data dictionary.

Made chicken for dinner. 

ANA Y5 D49

Scream

Laundry. Cleaning. Gaming.

Sunday in a nutshell. 

ANA Y5 D48

Scream.

Frustrating day yesterday. Head hurts. Kid is doing better. Went in for follow up and eye looks good. Just needs to recover. Made fish and chips for dinner. Streamed for about 4 hours. Went to bed. 

ANA Y5 D47

Back to screaming. Some day I would just like two days in a row. Is that asking too much? Just two solid days.

Kid's surgery was a "success". They ended up doing a band over her retina as it has a high success rate for someone her age with a much less intrusive and restrictive recovery time. They also took a laser to her other eye to reduce the risk of this happening again to that one. 

Did some more work yesterday. Fridays are turning into "documentation" days. Good use of my home time. I captured a ton of information to share with people as this is a growing project. Made burgers for dinner. Inside as the AQI was still well over 300. It was 744 on Thursday so down a bit, but not enough to be safe. Neither of us could breathe well. 

Chore day. Woo. 

ANA Y5 D46

Silence. Will take it.

The Canadian wildfires are really affecting us. The air outside smells like a campfire. Nothing but smoke for miles. I felt like I was back in SoCal all day. Any time we tried to go outside we couldn't breathe. It's bad out there.

In bigger news, the kid is going in for surgery today. Her retina has detached in her right eye. She is having a gas bubble inserted which will push it back into place. I am freaking out about this. I will know more later.

Had more traction at work. Now have direct IT support and them wondering why I am not in their group. Very surreal. This whole week has been surreal.  

ANA Y5 D45

Screaming bad this morning. Really loud and painful.

This was a good week in office. I got a lot done. Got traction on my project. Got multi department exposure. Have more meetings about deployment today. All to be ruined by my stupid head. So tired of it. Just want to rip it off. 

ANA Y5 D44

Silence. Power out. Typing quick before battery dies. BIG day yesterday. Much done.

ANA Y5 D43

Silence.

Back in the office yesterday. I took for granted how quiet it is working or being at home. So many beeps and boops and noise all day in the office. My head was killing me all day. But I did manage to get through multiple meetings and social encounters. I built a new app. I got a PM assigned. I survived. Made chicken cheesesteak for dinner. 

More of the same today. 

ANA Y5 D42

 Screaming

Of course my first day back in the office and it's screaming. Why wouldn't it be? At least my last off day was good. I had a good quiet day. Recorded videos, did laundry, played outside, mowed the lawn. I was productive and calm. Now it's all gone. 

ANA Y5 D41

Silence. Broke yesterday around noon. Had good sleep last night.

Cleaned the house, did laundry, had hair appointment, made Korean style ribs for dinner, did a 3 hour stream. Good way to end my vacation. I am actually looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Weird but true. I'm excited to get back into writing my code and making a difference. Today I am doing C's laundry, putting my new tags on, and maybe mowing the front yard. 

ANA Y5 D40

Still screaming.

Hearing aid appointment was a bust. The amplification did nothing and the "masking" was just low key pink noise. I don't need to spend $1500 for the same thing I can make in audacity and hear on earbuds. At least it didn't cost me anything.

Hair appointment today. 

ANA Y5 D39

Screaming.

Well today is my hearing aid appointment so we will be able to see if I have immediate relief or no. Moment of truth.

Didn't do anything yesterday. Almost done with vacation. 

ANA Y5 D38

 Head is still screaming. Day two. Thankfully I have hearing aid appointment tomorrow.

Took a drive to Holt and Mason yesterday. Scouted out potential areas for us to live. Got a list of names of realtors. Had pizza for lunch. Came home made chicken caesar wraps for dinner. Did a 3 hour livestream. Went to bed. 

ANA Y5 D37

Back to screaming.

Meh they took yesterday off. I had a good birthday. 

ANA Y5 D36

Silence.

The best birthday gift. Yep, it's my birthday! I did manage to stay up until midnight. Woke up to four birthday greetings. Three new steam games as gifts too. 

Yesterday was good. I went to my hearing test at 6:45am. Good news, bad news. Good news is my hearing is just fine for someone my age. I have perfectly acceptable hearing loss, minor, and at the upper end. Exactly what I should have. Bad news? My hearing is just fine. I do have an appointment for hearing aids on Friday but the audiologist said it's a 60% chance it will help with my issues. They do a 60 day trial so if I don't see improvement, I can return with no issues. Fine. I will try. 60% is the highest number I have gotten so far. 

Dinner was incredible. I am literally still full. I had to stay up last night just to let my stomach settle. Everyone was on time, we all had a good time, and I got a book and a charm bracelet with some cute charms. But I seriously can't eat anything all day. Not if I am going to have cake tonight. 

I have a dentist appointment at 11, pick up the cake at 1pm, and that's it for the day. Two friends are coming for cake tonight.  

ANA Y5 D35

Still screaming.

This is the one day I wanted silence too. I have my hearing test in 2 hours. Maybe it's good? I don't know. All I know is I am tired of it.

Made a 12 hour pork butt. Ran errands. Played games. Watched a movie. Tomorrow is birthday. 

ANA Y5 D34

Scream. Came back noon yesterday.

Shitty day. It got really bad from noon until bed. still screaming. need more sleep. fireworks going off all damn night long. just a complete waste of a day. 

ANA Y5 D33

Silence, day two

It doesn't feel like I am on vacation yet. It just feels like a Saturday after working from home. We have to see how monday feels.

Went to the grocery store yesterday morning before it got over 100. We had thunderstorms last night which seems to have "broken" the heat. Only going to be 80s today. The bigger thing it did was not let the assholes shoot off fireworks last night. I would love for a second day of rain. So sorry, all your events are cancelled. Bye bye.

We had pizza for dinner. Chilled out. Played some games. Went to bed around 1am. Nothing but my normal saturday chores on the docket. Laundry. Cleaning. Existing.  

ANA Y5 D32

Silence

Welcome to day 2 of my time off. Technically it started at noon yesterday. I did do some work in the morning. Tried to add a feature to my apps. Got blocked by internal security. Oh well, I tried. Left around 1pm to go to my appointment. Was there until about 6:30. Here it is in all it's glory:

 

 Very happy with it. Came out exactly the way I wanted. Got home around 7:30 with Bonchon. We ate, watched some TV and went to bed together around 10:30. Today I am going to the store and that's it. 

ANA Y5 D31

Faint, but still there.

Alright, let's catch you all up on a bunch of stuff. I know my posts haven't been very enlightening lately. This is the problem with getting up at 4:30 three days a week. I just don't have the time or energy to say a whole lot, but I also refuse to miss a day. Too many years of this.

This week I have made two AI driven apps. I finished the first one on Monday. It's a Maintenance Assistant aspp. You choose your location and it shows which machines need immediate maintenance and which ones are about to fail. This is the first one I demo'd on Tuesday to the EVP in the morning and my boss in the afternoon. Both were absolutely impressed. So much that they both said I earned taking all of next week off for my birthday. They were blown away that I accomplished what I did in 10 weeks. At the same time, I am also working parallel tracks with the data team to get the back end schema built to drive this and the second app.The second app, which I finished yesterday, is a troubleshooting app. Starts out the same, pick your site and building, then you pick your machine, describe the problem, and it returns troubleshooting tips.

The end result from this week is the EVP wants a PM assigned to me, my boss wants it deployed for plant managers to start looking at it, and I have been added to the agenda for multiple meetings to share it company wide. All in all, pretty big hit. Makes me feel good especially where I was in those first three weeks where I didn't feel like I was getting anything done.

At home, I am stressed about bills, about C's job, about not enough sleep. The only one of those I can do anything about is the sleep. I went to bed at 8:30 last night and got nine full hours of sleep. I needed it. I was exhausted. Now, today I go until noon, then off for a new tattoo. Then I am out of the office until July 13th. I will catch up on the sleep part.

The YouTube channel is going strong. I have 16 subscribers, 50 videos. I will be adding many more over the break. I am prerecording content plus planning on going live. There, now you're all caught up. It's been hot as hell here and it doesn't break until tomorrow. Staying inside as much as I can. Monday is birthday dinner, Tuesday is birthday. On Monday I am going for a hearing test and Tuesday the dentist. But I still get the rest of the week which will be nice. 

ANA Y5 D30

Scream scream scream

Yay me.

Almost to the finish line. Presented my prototype yesterday. Was a big hit. Very happy.