Father's Day Postponed

Father's day came and went without a peep from the kids. What kind of unfilial children do we got here? Later in the week, Kit Kat came over and said they could take me out to eat. But it would be a delayed celebration. She asked me to pick a spot. Initially I said Fuddruckers in the city.

Momoko thought the trip to Fuddruckers was too much. Kit Kat did not think so. But I did choose Arby's instead. I wanted to try their new steak and cheese. We scheduled to go today. I called Little Kat 5 minutes before our trip. No answer. He did eventually wake up and be ready by himself. He drove me to Kit Kat's apartment.

I thought I could then hope in the back seat so we could have Kit Kat with us. Little Kat said his back seat was too full. Kit Kat would have to drive. Her navigation took us the long way via highways, which were backed up for some reason.

The steak and cheese was not tiny and some Tiktokers have stated. Little Kat got the Reuben. I planned to purchase two apple turnovers to go for Momoko and myself. They only had cherry ones. I passed. We stopped by Kit Kat's apartment on the way home to see her cats. They liked when Little Kat picked them up.

PC Troubles

I was doing some work with my desktop computer. All of a sudden, Windows file explorer would not work. I killed it and restarted the application. Still would not work. Okay. I guess I needed a full PC reboot. Problem is the machine would no longer boot up.

I tried a Windows repair. It said it could not repair Windows. Something fatal must have happened to Windows. I really needed the data off my PC. All my job search data was on there. I need that daily. I thought I might be able to take out the hard drive and put it in another working PC.

Google AI recommended I do take out the hard drive. But instead, I should just connect it to something that would link it to a USB port. I was going to buy such an adapter. I asked Little Kat for advice. He said he had an advanced solution. We took out my hard drive. He then put it in some enclosure that had a USB connection. I was able to copy my files to our family computer.

I ordered a minicomputer to replace my desktop. I have copied the crucial files to my new computer. I had trouble installing Microsoft Office. It said I used up all my copies. And I could not make a call to resolve that. I ordered a new copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate. Hopefully that will come soon.

Job Search

I was working on a project at work. We do software maintenance. The yearly option for the contract was coming to an end. Usually, the customer just turns us on for another year. This time around they said they were not renewing. In theory, some government people could take over. The hope was that a new system would be in place. Then they would not even need maintenance for the old system.

The money on the end of the project was tight. I was forced to take some vacation days. Our company is working on the replacement system. I thought I could slide to that project. My boss said he could see me working there for at least a couple weeks. I was only given one week. Then I had no project. The boss said without me, they could not deliver. So, he tried to get me to come back for a couple weeks to wrap up. He was only able to get money for a week and a half. After that, I am again without a project.

I am looking far and wide. Applied for 7 jobs at the company so far. Couple of them rejected me. I think my best bet is to go outside the company. I found one that pays even better than my company. They gave me a link to an online assessment. The company running that was unable to process a copy of my ID with a picture taken from my video camera. I went and tried to get a scanned copy of my ID. By then, the exam got disconnected.

Eventually I got the company to request another exam for me. At first, I was taken aback. It wanted me to code in the JavaScript programming language. Don't think I have used that for 14 years. I did find a way to switch it to python. There were only 4 questions on the exam. They all required writing a program to pass all the tests. I got the first 3 questions right 100% passing all tests. I did not have enough time to finish the last one. It only passed 4 out of 10 tests.

I was supposed to have an interview with my recruiter at the company today. He said he had to cancel because I failed the assessment. LOL wut? I got an 85%. Maybe because they offer so much money, they require 100% passing. My recruiter told me I would need to wait 6 months before they would consider me again. Back to the drawing board.

Portable A/C to the Rescue

A friend of the family had her A/C system fail recently. She has a geothermal one. The repair guys said the required part to fix it was on back order. Although it is still spring, the weather is getting hot. The friend and her cats were suffering in the hot house.

Momoko suggested we could loan a portable A/C to the friend. Little Kat used to use a portable A/C in his bedroom. It has since been replaced by a mini-split A/C. Little Kat dug the old portable out of the closet. He located the accessories. Then he gave them to our friend.

The friend called and said the unit was blowing hot air. We had a second unit in our home. But we sort of hard wired it into our dining room window. Little Kat was able to disconnect the hose leading to the window. But he was too busy with friends to deliver the unit.

Momoko and I drove to our friend's house. Momoko made me stand the unit upright in my car. I carried the thing up the stairs to the master bedroom. It was a huge room. I swapped it for the broken unit, which I took back down to my car.

Initially it was 83 degrees in the master bedroom. After an hour, it was 78 degrees and falling. I hope the cats know to come upstairs to the master bedroom to sleep tonight. I figure by midnight, it should be 68 degrees or lower.

McDonald's $4 breakfast meal deal

 

Our handyman was coming over this morning to finish up some work on a bathroom fan. So, I ran out early to get McDonald's. There were a lot of cars in both drive through lanes. A truck with stuff sticking out the bed was in the left lane. I went right. The car two ahead of me took forever.

I planned on getting the sausage McMuffin $4 meal deal. It comes with a sausage and cheese McMuffin, a hash brown, and drink. I chose a large Coke no ice for a $0.50 upcharge. The person taking my order was slow and seemed distracted. When I got to the window to pay, they thought I ordered a biscuit. I corrected them.

When I got to the second window, they handed me a biscuit. I told them the sandwich was wrong. They then proceeded to give me a sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin. I did not complain. I found a bonus of an extra hash brown in my bag.

All in all, it was a hassle to order. But I got two bonus items in the end.

Getting Rid of the Chaise

Momoko said she needs more desk space in her study. It is time to get rid of her chaise. I recall having a really hard time getting it into her study. So, this weekend I decided to cut the thing in half. I turned the thing over to get access. I put two boards underneath to protect the carpet.

I used a chainsaw to cut through. It took a while to get all the way through. Some steel wires popped out. A lot of fluff fell on the floor. I called my brother. He said he could be home in 10 minutes to help carry the stuff out. We started with the biggest piece. It was half a chaise, but was hard to get through the doors.

At first we put both halves in our carport. But the big piece was sticking out. So, I moved it to the patio outside our sliding glass door. There was one square cushion that came apart. I ran the sweeper when we were done removing the chaise. There should be a lot of room for another desk, or at least a longer one.

Introduction to KATSEYE

Momoko and I watched a series on Netflix called "The Debut: Dream Academy". This was an 8 part series of hour long shows where they found the members of the band KATSEYE. The training was based out of Los Angeles. They weeded out a girl or two, ending up with a list of 20 candidates.

One of the first people to be booted was Adela, a strong blonde singer from Slovakia. She did not fare well with fans. I thought the judges would overrule the crowd voting. However, they sent her home early. I thought she was the best singer in the initial group. Her dancing skills were mid.

Then they started adding new candidate girls even as late as 12 months into the show. One was Lara, a girl from LA who was Indian. She made the final list. There was another girl I liked named Emily. She was a short blonde girl good at dance. She made it to the final 10, but was but when they determined the final group of 6.