20250314-1429. Welp, today was busy and weird! Firstm, I got a quick inspiration to get up and hose down the downstairs windows! I heard the winds a blowin’ really hard! That’s when I thought to myself that I should hose down the four windows and one backyard sliding door downstairs; because the strong winds could dry faster the water droplets from off the windows/door!
I’ve been meaning to get this semi-annual or whenever this task completed because I did NOT like looking at the dirt/dust upon the window sills and hard-water spots upon the acrylic windows!
So that task probably took about one-hour or so. The wind was blowing strongly that my wide-brimmed hat blew off of my head and landed on a patch of yellow flowering/ground cover oxalis! After removing the heavy-duty hose from the main backyard faucet, I was struggling to reattach that hose to the secondary backyard faucet leading to the alley way and out the front driveway.
But I soon found out that after we had taken a good six inch off our land to install OUR hollow-block/redwood fence structure (due to that damned/godless coocoo-headed Ilocano nicknamed Lolita who refused to pay half her share of installing a new fence line), I could barely see my second story bedroom! There was no way for the hose to reach that height. I gave up and was disgruntled and removed the hose from the secondary backyard faucet to the main backyard faucet. Maybe, one day I could force myself to hose down three remaining eastern-facing windows: one downstairs and two upstairs.
Then I hosed out the 96-gallon/maximum 336 pounds/green-colored yard trimming cart; because some of my damp yellow flowering oxalis were stuck on the inside. Then I went about hosing the backyard from other dirt/debris from the surfaces of our almost completely paved backyard, in between the crack and crevices of the inclined paving of our street-side alleyway, plant life forms such as fallen dried/wet leaves and spider webs along the base of the house and our HUGE Carrier air-conditioner.
Yeah, that’s a huge property: two backyard faucets and one HUGE machine. Sheesh. And it’s all mine, err, for the both of us.
Next on this sh-t list of craploads, I’ve discovered that I needed to Submit a Request to obtain an Upgrade software version for our expensive 8K camera facing our driveway, which we replaced due to the stupid godless Lolita living next door to us. Whosoever is still allowing her to live next door to us is our enemy. End of rant.
So that took awhile. In between navigating my folders and files to find out our driveway camera’s Model Number and Serial Number, I had to keep track of the restoration team for the paving work done in/around our easement area/gas main.
On/about 1050 PST, my elderly father reported to me that he watched from my OLD upstairs bedroom eastern-facing window, a gray-haired guy parked in front of our home for a couple of minutes, emerged from his beige truck, walked up our driveway, took some photos of the areas of concern, walked away a bit, then turn back to eyeball other concerns and then walked down the driveway and into his truck and drove away.
My dad thought that he had removed the materials left behind. But as he struggled to open the stuck alleyway wooden fence door and as I physically grabbed hold of his left foot to prop up the fence door to help with the space allowance of sliding the stuck lock/latch and finally opened the fence door, I took a photo of the back of my dad’s head which was shielded against the strong wind with his black hooded jacket and the areas of concern as proof that the guy did NOT remove the materials left behind.
I meant to send a text message to BW, the customer outreach specialist for Northern Central California of PGE dot com. But I was too tied up going back and forth from the garage where our driveway NVR is hooked up to a small Colby television monitor, where I took images of the Current software version and Upgrade version, which failed to Upgrade.
So after I submitted my request, I noticed that my request displayed a status as “Solved”! But as soon as I read the email, the instructions were clear that I needed to submit correctly another request to the “independent separate tech support systems in headquarters and America respectively!”
I made sure to copy the script/text after years of experience that toggling back and forth would be more difficult has I NOT taken notes! I then pasted the script/text for this correct help desk system.
But I had difficulty sending to small images that were less than 500 KB in size. I had to unplug two devices that were hooked-up to my Ethernet connection. This might have slowed down sending two images, which lost connections several time! The two devices were displaying my cameras, which kept glitching!
I had difficulty here also: I had to open-up two images via the Preview app for macOS; because my stupid Adobe Acrobat app for macOS did NOT display correctly/showed the pdf files, which had lines and lots of blank empty space!
I wanted to submit two images to show the before snapshot of attempting to upgrade the software version and the after snapshot of how the status result failed!
When that task of submitting a help desk ticket request was completed, I had to covert and edit the six photos that I wanted to send to BW of PGE. BW then replied to my text message and was relived that the job was completed. This task was easier and I finished this task faster than the previous task for geting the Upgrade software version of our driveway camera.
So now it’s time to take a break and feed my dad his late lunch after he completed walking outdoors, doing outdoors exercises in the backyard and doing more exercises indoors.
End of message 1506 PST.
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