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  • Day of frustration, nope. Shall be day of success!

    I am on borrowed time today. I have critical deadlines in multiple areas. So? My subscription for a development tool isn’t working and customer service isn’t available for another half hour. Ugh, there was more but my mind just went blank. Stress is high but I will not let it get to me. Today will be light and fun and full of success despite any obstacles thrown at me. Online banking giving 500 error. Subscription for my primary development tool reporting expired despite receipt of renewal. Nothing is working!

    Cannot even get my bluetooth headset to stay connected to the computer. I need to walk away from tech today but I need to be on tech today.

  • The Anxiety Prayer

    Give us this day our daily Xanax
    To sedate us from irrational outbursts and tears
    And lead us not into stressful situations
    But deliver us into mild sedation
    For thine is the powder
    Pressed into pill form
    For calm and calmer. Amen.

  • Fountain pen world problems

    I awoke this morning thinking “I need a new ink color” which led to “I need a new fountain pen!”

    (I don’t really need either)

  • Any .NET advice for this?

    Maybe you .NET experts could give me a shove in the correct direction.

    I am still trying to resolve this error: "Error: Sys.InvalidOperationException: ‘DocMapUpdatePanelId’ is not a property or an existing field."

    My ReportViewer won’t function and I’ve narrowed it down to system.web.extensions. I am using Framework 4.6.1 and should be using system.web.extensions 4.0.0.0. The references show it as 4.0.0.0 and when I try to add the reference I get a message that says “system.web.extensions is already referenced” I cannot remove the reference either.

    When I look in the GAC, I do not see 4.0.0.0 but instead system.web.extensions 3.5.0.0.

    I am working with Visual Studio 2017. I have installed all updates. No amount of uninstalling and reinstallng via NuGet makes a difference. Adding and removing dlls from the bin directory makes no difference. Solution has been cleaned. Temporary files have been cleared repeatedly.

    Going to the forums with this results in a bunch of guessing, or silence.

    Pretty sure I’m in Hell.

  • So excited that I’ll wait

    I have all the parts to build my new keyboard. I am on a pseudo-vacation this week. Building and programming the keyboard was one of my intended projects. At the airport, my 12-year-old son asked me not to build it because he wants to help. You can darn well bet that putting that keyboard together can wait a couple more weeks!

  • File under data is beautiful

    Finding this information made me particularly happy.

    https://www.fmwfasteners.com/blogs/faq/pilot-hole-data

  • “Oh, could this get any worse…”

    There is either some tragic social commentary OR some hilarious jokes to be made about this.

    View post on imgur.com

  • They put a lot of effort into this

  • I am on a not-a-vacation

    I have taken a week off from my day job. Well, next weekend, I will be in training for 3 days so it is not exactly a full week (9 days if you count weekends on either end of a ‘vacation’) and while technically the training is for the Boy Scouts, it is leadership training that is supposed to be on par with Covey Leadership and other corporate training. Plus I have homework to prepare for the weekend of training.

    I had really hoped to have this week to work on the house and perhaps travel to visit with relatives or to take Amy somewhere special. Alas, today is Sunday, and while I am very relaxed, I am sitting at the computer to do some work for my day job (the one I am on vacation from) and for my evening and weekend job (my freelancing). Adulting is hard.

  • And then it got real

    You know the programming is getting intense when the incense comes out.

  • Turbulence

    It is a beautiful Sunday. I could easily spend it just being outside. Instead, I will be on the computer all day. I am making good progress but want to make better progress. The potential to allow stress to get out of hand is high but I’m staying frosty.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Evan: "Daaad, I know how to brush my teeth. I’ve been doing it for 12 years."

  • How Cards Against Humanity spent the Black Friday money.

    Karlee, Holly, and Maria 🙂

    https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/

  • Happy 16th Anniversary to My Wife

    16 years of amazing adventures with Cathy and so many more adventures to come.

    Married - in Gatlinburg!

  • I use the Adobe Creative Cloud

    I like Adobe products. I pay for the Adobe Creative Cloud as a means to get my work done. So I want to learn a little more about Adobe Captivate. I type "Captivate" in the Adobe Create Cloud Apps search bar. It takes me to this: