And we just discovered that we have two pigeons in the attic. They were trapped when the soffit was fixed. The plan is to catch them in the squirrel trap, and then let them fly out.
I wrote my 10000th fox message on UA today. Chatter messages count separately.
At SFBC, Nick was tasked (by our project manager) to go check the wireless network in the building, by carrying a laptop around the building, floor by floor, and testing the connection wherever he can. He promised to do that. Westat extended the deadline for the 2006 data to 15th of january 2008. Now that's a touchy question... the shitheads from SHET have already lost the position of chosen processor of data for the regulatory body, now the official agency for that is Westat (for whom I also wrote an export, and they were very forthcoming, they sent me a seedee with their app, completely opposite from these [guys]), but a contract is a contract, and SHET always had better lawyers than programmers, so they still collected and checked the data from our clients, then repackaged them and passed on to Westat. So I had to suffer them for many a year, instead of having Westat and me eating from each other's hands. Alas.
Later a word came that the one E.W., the main programmer in SHET, lifted anchor. Guess that's why he went to such lengths at asrm... and why we had to pursuit Richard to pass the specs for the next version of export, because these guys don't talk with programmers, only with customers. Which is why they sent, wait for it, the programmers' manual (!) to him, and the installation seedee, which he then sent to us, to see what's wrong, why won't it install. This I wrote back (with screenshots, which I retell here):
It creates a desktop shortcut which points to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ART\Office\msaccess.exewhich is a very improbable location for Access. For instance, on my machine the location is
"f:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE". The setup could just have just created a shortcut pointing to an Access database and left the system to use whichever version of Access is installed. It creates the "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ART\Office\" directory but doesn't put any files in it.
it passes these parameters:
"C:\Program Files\scuw2k\SCUW2k.mde" /wrkgrp "C:\Program Files\SHET\shetecure.mdw"The first file is installed, however, the second isn't. And the application will not run without it, even if actual location of Access is used in the shortcut. It reports the second file is missing.
Any attempt to run the app without any parameters beyond the /wrkgrp yields an error message about missing permissions for the first file, see with your admin. It expects the application to run in
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\"without ensuring that the directory exists in the first place. It is also quite unclear why would an application create two directories for itself and then run in another application's directory.
If these are the files we waited for whole month, then I am seriously disappointed. I thought we had an obsolete version of SHET, which didn't work, but then we'd get the latest which will. Now it seems this IS the latest.
In short, I can't get this to work. If anyone can, let them let me know.
(see how politically selfrectified I am, „if one can, may they all let me know“)
Nina is with my folks, brought the 5000$ I sent to dad for the fucken terrace... for though we fucked Prletić away, he took the locksmith guy from the vineyard for the metal construction, and the Sejini's older grandson, and I exactly knew how they'll skin him. He said I eyeballed the amount rightly. In other news, he says the monthly expense for our house is smallish, about 1000 dinars, what with insurance. The insurance made me wonder, but then okay, we had theft, guess that's against that. Only in 2018* I'll learn what kind of insurance that was.
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* this time I let „only [time clause here]“ stand so, becuase it's true in this case. I didn't know before, and I didn't have to repeat, the knowledge is still in my mind. Translating „tek tada“, which means „as late as then“ as „only then“ is wrong in many, many cases. Factually wrong, or at least superfluous, e.g. „I bathed only at nine last night“ makes it sound as „I usually bathe at least three times a night, but last night I did it only once“.
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