Magenta Construction
6:45AM - 5:09PM (34 Hours 23 Minutes)
6:45AM
I have a meeting with this ERPnext developer. I gotta get the outline ready to go. Hopefully, I'll have enough time to at least get high-level stuff ready to go.
8:08AM
I'm taking a few minutes to convert my tasks into to-do lists. I'm gonna try to get Caroline doing this stuff as well, but I just need to put my stuff in right now.
8:26AM
I'm just going to reach out to this videographer guy, the drone videographer, oh shit I'm in the wrong profiles, fuck, to this video guy, apparently he moved to Montreal, but, it's possible, he may still do some work, but he may also know people here.
8:34AM
I got about 26 minutes left before the meeting so I gotta start getting this stuff ready for our meeting.
9:35AM
I am still in a meeting right now.
10:05AM
So I got on the meeting with this guy at 9 a.m. It's now 10. I'm just finishing the meeting. I have a lot on the to-do list Mostly is creating these views And refining them I'm sending him a lot of stuff right now based on just general planning that I've had. It's all kind of Scattered some stuff that I started with Greg I'm gonna try to create a little bit of a concise document and summary of the workflow of what we want to see and Mind dump kind of thing Somewhere Just so that there's a better understanding of What we're kind of going after I I have a good feeling about him. He seems to grasp it very well But we'll have to see Where things go? I definitely want to focus on the fundamental portions of the ERP to get that set up and That's what I told him as well in terms of KPIs and everything else that we can get off that and in terms of You know summaries and analytics that we get I Think that's a lower priority because right now it's just getting people using the system The summaries can be added later, but I don't want to start with the summaries Because if we start working with the summaries right now It's based on the data that we collect and if if our views end up changing Then those summaries will change and it's just adding more time that we're gonna invest and waste into doing this So number one is refine how everything works and then get the summaries and everything off of that after the fact
10:06AM
I do have a lot of work left in terms of doing this kind of planning, but I feel comfortable that he's going to actually help me set this stuff up because he has had experience doing this kind of stuff. So it should be pretty good, hopefully.
10:23AM
I'm still gathering links to send him for all the stuff, my mural planning group, my org chart planning with permissions, my ERP view planning, and my workflow planning, as well as the traverse planning that we do with Greg. I'm summarizing this in a Teams post so that I can keep track in one channel. I'm just taking time to find all these links and share them.
10:27AM
I need to see how to enable anyone with the link to be able to do this and actually while I'm going into the Admin Center I'm going to see if Exchange is working right now so I can add Buddy. I'm gonna have to log in on my work computer probably to do it.
10:33AM
Okay, I changed some permissions in SharePoint just to structure a little bit more security about sharing and enforcing expiry of content that's shared with other people.
10:48AM
Now I tried to get in, and I can't get in, and tried it on the other computer, tried it in Edge, tried it in every different browser, but I can't get in to do anything, so I guess it's an issue that they're still working on. Anyways, let's see if I can get in to it a different way. No, this is only licenses and apps. Can't, no, can't do anything. I have no idea what to do. Anyways, I'm going to keep going with this, preparing the links. I've got to find the workflows that I did.
11:02AM
I still can't find what I'm looking for.
11:07AM
I just got off the phone with Troy, I need to send Raul a vertical horizontal of magenta with magenta color magenta and gray exterior solutions and the T3Con logo, the short T3Con logo. I need to remove Martin from social media and right now I need to download a backup of all our raw footage that they got before they yank us, so I need to hop on that right now.
11:22AM
I'm still copying all the links one by one and from Miro here It's taking a bit of time to Set all the all the passwords here I'm Missing a main one here, and I don't know where it went but I I Got one two three four more to go have to wait for the apps to open up Me What's going on here Okay, hold on Human resources share I'm trying to download Trying to download all these files as well It Would have really been nice to have a heads-up that he was letting him go because now I'm doing like fucking three things at the same time and And it's not not easy to focus on luckily I took my adderall today, so
11:28AM
Alright, I've copied all of them in one of these workboards. I'm just going to see if there's a general plan that we had. Because I feel like there is somewhere. I'm missing a couple main things here, and I'm just not sure where... I'm missing one really big one, and I'm just not sure where it is. I'm missing a very big one. And I have no idea where it's going, or if it's even in... Oh my god, there's a lot more that are not even... Oh my god, there's a lot more that I have to go through. There's a lot of... Holy shit, there's a lot of... A lot of these things. Oh my god. Oh my god, there's a lot of these. A lot of these. Okay, this one's important. Oh my god, I've got to look through a lot of these. It's going to take a while for me just to look through all of these. There's a lot of planning docs.
11:28AM
And my tabs just crashed I do these all one by one
11:43AM
okay this is kind of a big struggle to download everything on this computer now it's slowing down everything that I'm doing there's like hundreds of gigs of files now trying to get this last minute just like it would have been nice to be able to do this overnight I'm gonna have to cancel all these downloads because they're literally bogging my computer down and I can't do anything else but like this kind of stuff it would be nice to have heads up because now like now I have more on my plate now I have to coordinate with this ERP guy get all this stuff ready to go for the ERP and find coordinate with this new videographer drone guy schedule that up with I guess Troy or read him at least and if he's not good make a list of other things which is gonna take a couple hours for me to find and contact and establish some kind of a communication like I need to know what to focus on do I focus on the ERP and send this stuff off because the sooner I do the sooner this other guy could start working on it or do I do this videography do I spend today doing that and then something else comes up tomorrow like it's just I wish like if I had this info overnight at least I could be downloading overnight because now I've interrupted all my searching send this guy stuff this email which I had this meeting with him at 9 it finished at 10 it's 1142 it's already been almost two hours it's gonna be probably two and a half three hours before I could send him this link with all this stuff yeah probably three or four hours because I have to pack up all this stuff just in case I can't even connect to the there we go now it's connecting to the remote computer which one did I connect to shit wrong one all right just these kind of lot this is how the last-minute things happen and what am I to do about it
11:47AM
All right, I connected to the computer board, the main TV board, to download this stuff, because I don't want to tie up my computer right now. Better to do it on this computer than on my computer. I've got to leave this open until it starts downloading and verify it's going to the correct location.
11:48AM
I know Troy needs a logo for Magenta as well, so I'm gonna get those logos and I might as well recreate the brand page so that I have this more accessible in the future. That's gonna be the rest of the day at least.
12:47PM
The download failed for all those files because I didn't accept the thing in time, so I'm literally going to have to wait here and watch whenever it's ready to download to accept them all.
12:49PM
I'm going to try to revoke the social permissions from Martin through here before I do it through the portal.
1:11PM
So, I've been leaving updates here, but I guess I have so much stuff on my computer and my computer's becoming unstable that it's not taking the notes. Anyways, it would've been nice to know that we're getting rid of this guy so I could've downloaded all these files, but that wasn't the case, so I'm kind of rushing to do that, download the files, just in case anything were to happen or they would delete the files or whatever, so that we at least have our copy of it. There's a couple hundred gigs of these files, I tried to do it on my computer, but now my computer is fucked, like it's not, I will need to shut everything down, lose my 277 tabs that I have open with relevant shit that I was working on, I'm going to have to lose it and I'm going to start all over. I've remoted into another computer on the work TVs to try to download it over there. This is now the second time that I'm trying to do it, or no, the third time. The first time I tried to do it, by the time it was done zipping, I thought I could put it in the background and check back at it, and by the time I got back to it, because I was doing other stuff, trying to get this email ready for the ERP guy, by the time I got back to it, the download link expired. So the second time that I went in there, I'm trying to do it, I was trying to do it again, and then, I don't know, my computer disconnected from the TV, and when I got back in, Chrome had closed. So I assumed that Chrome had crashed because it can't download all of these files right away like that, or I don't know what the hell happened. So now I'm literally going to sit here and wait however many minutes it takes, 10, 15, 20 minutes, and I'm not going to move away from this so I can see what happened, and that's the things that happen with IT. Yes, it should work. Does it always work? No. Fuck no, it doesn't work. It barely ever works whenever you need it. Anything with tech is very temperamental. It's not like back in the day, it either worked or it didn't work. Now there's so much...
1:13PM
It looks like the 40 some downloads have started, so I am gonna let it just sit here and hopefully download on this computer and hopefully not crash again. And in terms of my computer, I really don't know what to do because even when I was trying to leave notes from my computer, it wasn't saving them. Meaning that something is completely fucked in my computer right now. And one of my taskbar says it's 1.12pm and the other taskbar says it's 11.23pm. So obviously my computer is not liking what's going on right now and I really don't know what to do aside from a full reboot. But again, that's gonna cost me quite dearly because I have a lot of tabs here open. I'll read some back in a second in the next post.
1:19PM
All right, so all the tabs that I have open so that I remember when this all shuts down. I have the Magenta QR router test page for the admin and user and the general admin open. I have a bunch of tabs open here, specifically for code two, which is email signatures for 365. I believe somewhere in here, I have manage engine over here as well in directory, active directory. So I was looking up active directory management tools, that's going to suck to lose that. And I believe code two has some apps as well that I was downloading to manage active directory and Microsoft 365 users specifically for like folder and user management so that I can keep all that information in the users and create a template for emails. I do see some tabs here for Microsoft help center open as well, probably related to creating email templates, because that's one route instead of paying the subscription that I was going to look down. I don't really want to pay another subscription and integrate this and that's going to take some time on its own. It's going to cost us like 400 bucks extra per year. And then we have dependency on another platform that we need. And there's more set of instructions of how to manage that. So what I was hoping to do is create an email template and attach it to all outbound messages based on variables that are available within active directory for name, photo, etc. I do see another tab here for why stamp, which is same thing, email signature. I do see something here research for what the ideal video length is for engagement. I think that was something I was sending to Martin. I have some icons here from bootstrap, which I was probably using for the admin center and the review 20 deployment guide. But it's not really loading anything. It looks like it was regarding doing it with Bluebeams. I have ASCI docs cheat sheet over here as well, which I need for my documentation that I was doing. I have some bootstrap tables. So probably for that magenta QRTR router. I have something that I was looking up for...
1:21PM
Then I have magmdm.faster.ws, which is Magenta's MDM that I'm developing. It was running an install all modules script because I made things modular. I have a tab open for Microsoft Security Groups. Oh, look at that. I have one personal tab open for myself, Future Tires. I think I was looking that up for my dad. The website is futuretire.ca. I have another one here and I can't even open this. It says update hyperlink column in SharePoint with Power Automate. Okay, this was for when I was setting up the projects numbering automation so that it would automatically create the folder structures in the web drive so that people could organize the projects and bid documents and keep the customer and contact information up to date. I made Power Automate that when somebody adds it, it automatically creates those structures with the proper permissions assigned to the proper permission groups. I have Windows 10 PowerShell to remove bloatware apps. That would be a good reference right there because there's actually some pre-made scripts for AppX and it just has a bunch of lists of names of garbage that I could remove safely. It was a Reddit forum. I'm sure I could find it eventually. There's Luma AI. So I guess when I was talking with the original people who were doing the Blues Fest ad, they mentioned that they were using Luma AI for some of their AI video generation and stuff. I got a call coming in, I got to hang up and then I'll come right back.
1:27PM
Yeah, so I just asked them what kind of AI tech they were using. There's Luma AI. And I see there's a couple other tabs, but I can't determine, can't open them, can't read. Then I was looking up, can you add fields to Microsoft Planner task? And I think I already know the answer to that, so I probably don't need this one. The answer to that would be, well, unless anything changed, the answer is no, unless you have a premium. If you have premium, then you can. But I think what I was looking into is, what kind of licensing would every person need to have Planner Premium, or just people adding stuff, or viewers, or how that would work. Next browser, I got how to autosign in Edge with Azure account, some Microsoft Q&A, and then Microsoft Edge browser policies that I was looking up, and some Intune Edge autosign in. Yeah, so I guess I was looking that up. I think that it actually does that, but I think I was looking at the configuration service policies that are available for Edge. Next one. Geez, there's a lot of them here again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 tabs. Looks like it's a silently sign in users to OneDrive sync app with their Windows credentials. So I'm assuming all these tabs, because I can't read the titles, and I can't switch them because my computer is frozen, probably has to do with the configuration service policies for configuring OneDrive, silently signing in. I think most of that is working properly in Intune. The only thing is that it takes a while for the web drive to sync, like you have to restart the computer a couple times. Then I see another one here. Looks like I'm using ss64.com, which is a reference for how to, for different command line commands that certain programs have available, because they don't usually disclose them or it's hard to find. Looks like I was looking up in another tab here, netsh wlan show networks, probably to do with that Magenta prelog on wireless, MPLW that I was working on, that script. I think I have most of the info, but I'm not...
1:33PM
I have another one that's the Magenta QRTR router in the admin, looks like this is the final version that I was looking at when I was developing it. I have another one, same thing to the QR router, but it's not opening so I can't tell what it is. I have another one, Magenta QRTR to add users, looks like there's a couple other tabs. For Rogue, which is part of ASCII docs for code highlighting, so I was probably doing some code documentation and had to look up how to do source highlighting or something. What do we have here? Then I can't read this, there's another 20 or 30 tabs here. Can you initiate Windows upgrade from PowerShell? So I know the answer for that, but I'm looking for a way around it, which is probably that MAS, M-A-S, Microsoft Activation Script, because any other way won't work. I'm sure somewhere in here there's documentation now that I remember about how Windows licenses can be upgraded, which ones can use command line. So from home you can't upgrade command line to any other version. From a pro you can to an enterprise, or from home you can to education, but we're not doing education licenses, so we don't qualify for doing that. But it does look like it's talking about ChangePK slash ProductKey, which again I think is only available if you're going up to an education version from home, or if you're going upwards from the pro version. I don't know what the other tabs are, looks like there's some activation scripts and licensing information, that's going to be a loss right there. Then I have another for Windows here for doing the Windows edition servicing commands using DISM, D-I-S-M, which is an alternate way from using ChangePK or from using, what's the other one, there's a VBScript version of doing the ChangeKey as well, I forget what it is. Then I have one, two, three, four tabs here because I found a really good reference from Merrill Fernando, looks like he has a lot of apps developed for Azure, Entra, Defender, Intune, Microsoft 365, MyPages, and it looks like for example under...
1:40PM
God, I hope all of these are saving. So in the next one, I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 tabs here that looks like I'm looking up how to run a PowerShell script without displaying a window. That was regarding, I think that was a startup stuff when it's running in user context, but I don't think that there's a way around that unless I run a VB script, but then we don't get the feedback from Microsoft Intune, like the fail codes wouldn't, they won't propagate through as anyways. But I think it's just when the computers were starting up, first loading, it was showing that PowerShell script and shit was running in the background and it might take some time and a few user exits. So I was going to try to hide that. And there's a couple ways to do it. But I think if you do the window style hidden, it does not necessarily work. And there was, it looks like there's another tab, how to hide PowerShell windows, PowerShell gallery, there's something ps2exe, I assume that's a PowerShell to exe compiler. I don't know if that's a good idea, because then antivirus might detect it and block it. There's something here that says Intune backups part two user something, I can't read the rest of it. Deploying ps scripts as Win32, can't read the rest. Some GitHub repository, probably had some good shit. Then there's configuring SSO and SCIM for Bluebeams to those tabs, I am pretty much done with those, or I could find the reference link for that anyways. The next tabs are talking about Windows Store apps, how do you uniquely identify an Apex package? I don't know why I have that. Either to be able to do some kind of installs in Intune, oh, I see Apex package information in Sway. That's when I was adding all the bloatware and stuff into the database. Probably just looking stuff up, but I just ended up relying on AI from my IDE to do that. Then I have a couple tabs here, I don't know how many, like 10, 15, probably 12, 15. Windows add network scan device PowerShell script WSD, I guess I was looking for a WSD way to add network...
1:43PM
Alright, this is the last set of tabs. So there is using PSADT to bring systems, I don't know, PSADT, I'm assuming that's scanner related, trying to automate adding that scanner within Intune. I might have to rely, I think there's a couple here, searching, search tabs open, probably regarding, probably regarding, I think the consensus was in this case that I have to use, I might have to use Canon's utility to do this, which is going to suck because then that's more software to install and more shit that can go wrong. And I don't know if I can configure that through command line. So it's going to be another learning curve. But to add a scanner, like you'd figure is easy, but it's not. So I have like, I don't know, 10 tabs here, but looking that up, so mostly about the scanner that I have to look into. Those are all the tabs that I have open in Chrome. And then in Firefox, I have draw that IO open here. This one's actually not crashing. So hopefully, it can be recovered. But this is the QR router diagram that I made. And then the other window that I have, it's ERP pre planning, draw that IO, I have a workflow map open here as well, I have traverse open, which has all the magenta standard operating procedures that Greg and I were working on to create the workflows, I have a Microsoft Teams version here, I have my custom view planning open for the ERP section. And I had the admin center open Microsoft Admin Center open, I don't remember all because I was trying to get into Exchange EOP Admin Center to add Dylan to the info app, but I can't do that. And then I have some boards in Miro, and I'm gonna try to zip through these and finish this off before the computer crashes. But there's a couple other ones in Miro, I'm gonna have to go through and send to this guy who's doing the ERP. I'm gonna look through them later on. So I'm gonna put this system in reboot right now, because nothing is working. And hopefully, these tabs end up coming back for me when it restarts. But if not, then so well.
2:20PM
Bluebeam just emailed me they need some information. I'll be listening to what I told them.
2:42PM
2:43PM
I don't I don't know what to do Troy is freaking out right now Because Vlad set something up for Procore Everybody knew that they shouldn't be setting stuff up. Everybody knew that they should be going through Master account holder I Believe he's emailed me they need information I Just I don't fucking know anymore I have to look up fucking logos had to take Martin off of social media have to download fucking shit tons of shit my computer Fucking froze. I'm getting pretty fucking pissed at all This shit is falling on me Troy's sending me a fucking message saying how many times are gonna trip over the same fucking car I didn't tell them to fucking set up Procore. Nobody fucking talked to me. I'm getting fucking pissed at this, too All this shit is falling on me. I haven't eaten fucking breakfast lunch haven't taken a fucking shit today or fucking yesterday I'm fucking pissed. I Need more fucking people to do this. This is not a one-man fucking thing
2:44PM
Like, so many fucking things I do, so much fucking time I spend on this, there's always fucking something. If somebody doesn't appreciate how long it fucking takes to do this work, because they don't know about it, that's not my fucking problem. This is the amount of time it fucking takes. Everybody fucks shit up, I have to fix it, I don't want to do that. That's not what I want to do. Fuck's sake, man.
2:44PM
Like I'm beyond fucking pissed
2:53PM
Anyways, looking up these fucking logos, and I doubt we even have a fucking vertical one. I really fucking doubt it because I think Michael created that somewhere. Fuck's sake. I don't even wanna fucking do this shit anymore. Logo, Magenta logo options, ESP, okay. Yeah, so anyways, I guess I'm still recording, but Jordan never sent a vertical version, which is what I thought. The only vertical versions that we had were the one that Michael made for the logo slam in Chrome, and the metallic vertical one that I made for something else. I don't even see the magenta colored one in here actually, so I don't know if we modified that. But those were the original files that we received from Jordan, and there's only a couple different versions of it.
3:01PM
I found the logos in Troy's email. I guess he tried to forward it to me at some point in time, but the attachment didn't attach with it, so I never had a copy of those. Now that I have a copy of these, I will prepare them in PNG format and send it off. I'm opening up my graphic tool, and I will export them.
3:03PM
Adobe Illustrator is just opening up right now, so I've got to wait for it to load. Because that file format is a PDF, not vectors. And now my fucking window is crashing. Was generated by a newer version of Illustrator. Would you like to import this file? Some data may be lost. Okay, then import them. There we go. That's a really small fucking version. Oh, it's a vector. Okay, good. Alright, so... Okay, I'll export them now.
3:16PM
All right, I did the magenta ones, now I'm going to do the T3-Con, where are these? It's done in a newer version of fucking illustrator, great. Oh my fucking god, can I import this here? No, cannot import. Okay. I don't know how to import the T3-Con. How can I open it with an older version? Can I open it with Photoshop? Photoshop. Come on, please, please, please. Yeah, okay. It's not going to be a vector, but... Come on, big money. Let's see, if I was a graphic designer, I would have the software to do this, but I am not a graphic designer. Yeah, this is not a fucking vector, I don't know how to fucking copy this vector, because I can't... Got to look up a tool online now. To convert an ESP. Okay, I can do this, create a new file. Sure. And then I could paste it inside, apparently. Where is... No, it's a fucking raster, oh my god. It's not a real fucking ESP, are you kidding me? It's not a real fucking ESP, I don't know what to fucking do now. It's just a linked document, that's why I need to convert it to an older format. Okay, I got to figure out how to do this. Because I'm not a fucking graphic designer. I'm a fucking programmer, I build fucking apps from new, not dealing with old people's shit. I deal with database administration. I don't do this shit, graphic design and fucking programming are 100% different fucking things. Just like doing Intune, it's completely different, all of these fucking things are completely fucking different. Running fucking wiring, completely fucking different. ESP importer. But I don't fucking bitch and complain, usually. I keep it inside. Because wherever there's a will, there's a way to try to get something, a solution. And I don't bother other people with it, and I don't tell them I have these fucking problems, I try to find solutions instead. So I don't bother fucking trying. But maybe I should just everyday fucking overwhelm him with all the shit that I'm going with, and then he's going to understand how much work I do. And then he's going to be fucking stressed...
3:28PM
all right yeah that's set up, I gotta close all these now before my window crashes I gotta connect to viewer sorry to 325, I haven't even fucking eaten yet, I'm fucking burning out now and I have so much more to do, I still have to fucking take this guy off our social media fuck's sake man okay all the other files are still downloading another 30 minutes so it should be done see if I was a regular employee I would have already punched out 8 hours was 41 minutes ago but instead I put up with yelling and everything else coming at me for doing my fucking work I never treated my guys like that and I don't wanna be treated like that I'm honestly putting so much fucking work into this and like I have another thing to add to my to-do list take a look at Procore have to find a spot somewhere in my available time to deal with that, but that's okay just another thing on my list check out Procore anyways I'm gonna I guess start the email app back with Bluebeams but now it's the end of the day so they won't get it until tomorrow so hopefully nothing goes wrong with Bluebeams by by tomorrow because then guess what I'm gonna get yelled at again because it was my priority but then I had to send fucking logos out but everything's always gonna fall on me
3:36PM
I'm going to send the email to Raul instead because Troy can't attach him from his phone. Okay, I just don't know if he needs to... Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul. Okay, I'm going to send the email to Raul.
3:39PM
Alright, that email's sent. Now I'm going back to this Bluebeams... Bluebeams thing. I'm going to close this down because it's going to... ...bog my computer. Okay. Okay, going back to the Bluebeams email to send them their response.
4:00PM
I'm just checking over the provision logs that they want me to send to make sure that there's no sensitive information, and then I'll send it to them. I'm just checking over the provision logs that they want me to send to make sure I reviewed it. I've attached it to the email. I'm just going to finish writing the email.
4:48PM
I just sent the email to Bluebeam. I don't know what this is, but... I need to find out what this Procore thing is about, and I need to remove Martin from social media stuff. So I'm going to do that while I'm logging into Procore right now. And I have no idea what this is. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. I'm gonna have to read through this all. Actually, I'm probably gonna have to call them. Hmm. I'm gonna write them an email right now, I guess, to find out. Hmm.
4:54PM
I submitted a support ticket to them. Alright, now I'm going to go in and try to find where to remove all these accounts.
5:08PM
I just logged into the other computer looks like all these other things ended up downloading see 46 items yeah and then 23 gigs oh no Google oh you're fucked man I gotta compile everything together now fuck me that's gonna take oh it's gonna take fucking time to do that oh I'm still recording anyways so I just had to make those changes add that to my to-do list I'm gonna have to do a tarball probably upload it to SharePoint as well right now I just have to extract I'm looking to do today's five o'clock are we done I've already done know how long but 12 hours no 10 hours 10 hours 17 minutes I'm I'm gonna finish for today I'm just gonna let this finish extracting and disconnect from the from the computer actually you know what no I'm done for today I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that I'm just gonna change this I'll have to do it tomorrow I have the copy anyways I'm gonna change the download folder back to back to that okay that's done hmm okay and remove Martin but after everything that I had to do today I did not get a chance to do anything with the ERP again guess why because shit just came up and that's what fucking happens every fucking day so tomorrow hopefully I will have time hopefully and all I'm doing is summaries I'm not even doing any work in the year I'm just doing summaries and I can't even find time even just to find links and get all that stuff ready and sent in like I just need more fucking help that's what I need want to move stuff around with all the stuff that's going around call other people to help or I could just adopt the mentality that I don't give a fuck about anything else except for the ERP and let everything else go and when things happen just say it's not my fucking problem you made the problem you fix the problem I could adopt that mentality maybe I should but either way I don't see a situation of winning and I don't like that so anyways yeah I I don't know I don't know I don't even think that draft that I started writing in the morning let me check I don't even think that...
5:10PM
all right no other emails so great okay nothing else okay I'm done I I'm done for the day I can't think straight anymore oh that's what I wanted to do check if I got messaged me or not you did not last he sent to me at 1113 yes no problem we do specialize in this field send me your email I'll send you some construction concept we've done I'll search your socials web and figure out a plan sent that at 1113 and at 1153 yes I gave him my email Conrad at magenta conness it direction dot-com yeah so that email is correct and so I'll just wait patiently because that's what this whole game is about waiting for people to get back to me
5:13PM
No, it's all done. It's shutting down for the day. I'm going to shut down my other computer so it doesn't kill my electricity bill. And Exchange Admin is still not loading. I'm not sure if this is going to record so I'm going to leave it in another message again.
5:13PM
I just shut down the work computer, and I just checked one more time to see if exchange admin is loading, but it's not so I'm gonna have to look at that again tomorrow and see if that works and if not guess what I will have to reach out to Microsoft support and be at their mercy and Whatever speed that they work out because that's the regular speed of IT not my speed. I should slow down and work at their speed Anyways I'm not in a good mood right now, so Don't really like being undervalued for the amount of work that I do But anyways, that's it for me today
9:07AM
I was working on the ERP summary in the morning, forgot I had to send an email to Jordan to get these logos touched up, so I'm going to prep the email, probably would be just as quick for me to do it myself, but we'll let Jordan do it, so I'm going to write in the email now.
9:29AM
Alright, I sent the email. I'm just going to make a quick preview for Troy of the changes.
9:34AM
Alright, I sent him the previews, so I'm going to leave that in his hands.
9:37AM
Just got off the phone with Troy so he clarified that actually it should be not white but yeah cut out and then that it should be constructor so I'll update that.
9:44AM
Alright, that email is done, and now I'm going to go back to the ERP while I wait for those to come back to us. Oh, um, you know what, I gotta fucking delete, oops, I gotta delete these fucking things because I'm getting these annoying fucking notifications all the time by email from Magic Media, for fuck's sake, every morning, and I don't want to get them back. Alright, those are deleted.
9:48AM
I'm going to connect to the other computer right now, to the TV, and I'm going to see if I can extract all the files now that it's during the day, and just try to organize them in a way because Google fucked everything up in the download, so I need to reorganize things because it's a big fucking mess, oh fuck, thanks Google. So first I'm going to create a duplicate of the backup drive, so I'm just going to create a copy, I'm going to let that run in the background because I don't need to be watching that, but I will just leave that kind of running in the background, and I'll keep monitoring it and then once it's good, then I will organize the files.
9:56AM
I received an email from Bluebeams, apparently it's in beta stage now and the two are not compatible. They say it will be fixed within the next month, so I'm going to go into Bluebeams right now and do as they suggest, well remove the provisioning and assign the licenses manually.
10:05AM
Ritalin just messaged me and said she has a problem with her Bluebeam. Coincidentally, I got an email from Bluebeam as well, that they have disabled SCIM on my end. So now, I have to rush in a last-minute thing. Instead of doing this yesterday, because by the time I sent the email yesterday, they were probably closed, so they got back to me this morning. If I would have done it maybe a little bit earlier, they could have done it yesterday, and when everybody was gone, I could have done these changes. But, this is the way that it is. So, I have to deal with it now, and hopefully she, Ritalin, is the only one who lost access to it.
10:09AM
Alright, Rodalyn keeps messaging me that she's having issues, and I'm trying to make these changes, but it's going to take me some time, and probably it might even take some time for the license changes to reflect as well, so she may be down for... Hopefully it won't be long, it'll take me half an hour to do these changes. But then I don't know if their license will propagate immediately, or if there's going to be some time, which is again why I wanted to target it yesterday so that this wouldn't happen. Because I know that they take time to reply to this stuff, and then when they jump on it, they jump on it. Troy's calling now.
10:12AM
Alright, I'm going to start doing that now. Troy just asked whether Jordan got back to me yet. The answer is no. It's probably going to take him a couple of hours before he gets back to me, and then by the time he has it done, it'll probably be end of the day maybe. That's my guess. And he asked if Bell replied. It didn't, but I have a task here to follow up with Bell if they haven't gotten back to me by lunch.
10:14AM
I'm going into Admin Center, or I'm going into Azure Portal actually.
10:19AM
all right that's done I'm going to go into into the org admin I'm gonna assign these I'm gonna edit them all I guess one by one I gotta modify them no I can't even can't even make the changes if I wanted to oh I can't actually there's a glitch and doing it that way but geez no there's a bit of an issue bit of a fucking issue here actually cuz I can't assign the licenses maybe I can okay I did that and I just gotta figure out how to modify plan save changes okay it seemed to do that and now the last one what one two three four five somehow should have been applying okay oh yeah cuz there was three and there's three left okay so I did what I had to do and the org admin to apply the licenses look like there was still an issue and editing the users one by one but I found a different way to go around it
10:20AM
I'm just writing them an email to let them know that I have done that. And, yeah. I'm just going to write them an email letting them know, but I think all the licenses should have been applied. I'm just refreshing to check. Yep, that is correct. And I'll let Rodlin know as well, right after this email is sent.
10:35AM
All right, I have sent them the email back. It also seems that my user has changed from IT Admin to Org Admin. And in their documentation, I remember reading that if that happens, I should let them know, because it should switch back to IT Admin so that the SSL ends up working. Otherwise, there may be issues with SSL. I'm just going to reply to Rodalyn now and let her know that it should be resolved, and maybe she has to restart her app.
10:40AM
All right, Ritalin seems to be back and working. I'm gonna check these files, okay, so check this off of my to-do list, and I'm going to check this off of my to-do list, and I'm going to check this off of my to-do list, and I'm going to Alright, so I'm extracting all the data, duplicating the content, so now I'm just gonna organize all these files that he did and verify them with the Google Drive that they did to organize it, yeah, so they're all in the proper categories, folders.
11:01AM
Just got off the phone with Troy. We're going to leave the black in the middle of the t3con logo because yeah, it does look better Especially like on white letterhead. It makes it more clear and distinct More people are having issues Daphne had an issue. I guess she didn't check the group chat that I sent, but she restarted it and all is good now I'm extracting the files one by one There's gonna be a lot of images that I'm gonna have to or a lot of them that I'm gonna have to try to add in there bit by bit They find a place for them manually where they belong so it's gonna take a Little bit of time And Jordan got the logos back So I'm just gonna look over them make sure that they're vectorized correctly There was something else There was something else that I needed to do, and I know I forgot what I needed to do Anyways, I'm just extracting all of these All these things right now, so whenever I'm done that should be very soon Then I'll go ahead and match everything up. I'll download all of these logos and I Don't know if I'll have time to work on the logo guys, but Mostly I just want to focus on one thing right now just to get these videos backed up
11:06AM
I'm looking at an idea how to Redo the brown brand guide anyways And they've stopped working there For fuck's sake men All right, how will we do this brand guide How will we do this brand guide this is white version, I'm gonna make it I'm gonna design it right now real quick The interface with the different options I'll create a new channel for this just to keep it organized. This is gonna be dev brand guide It's not gonna be an IT It's gonna be a dev Brand Standard I Create a channel When that channel is done I Will create a Draw I own to plan this out At least so the idea is there And this is You Interface planning I'm still extracting on the side here while I'm doing this I Just can't do anything that I'm gonna focus on Really hard while extracting this because I have to keep track of the progress. So I'm doing something Light in the background as well, which is this brand guide because that's like second nature to me
11:08AM
I don't think the channel's ready yet, because it's not letting me, uh... Oh, no, it should be ready. I'm clicking... I'm clicking to do it, and it's not letting me.
11:11AM
Draw.io doesn't seem to be working in Teams, it shows up here but I can't seem to add it right now, so I'm just going to work on it in Draw.io for now, and then I'll worry about it later. All the things are extracted, so I'm going to try to take a pause on this and position all the files where they should be now.
11:14AM
This is going to take a while because there is 49 items that I have to go through one by one, go in the OneDrive, find out where they go, watch the video in OneDrive, watch the video on the computer, and see if they are the same because Google kind of renamed it so. Check that they are the same one. They kind of do the same thing. And then make sure that it's missing, in fact, in this folder. I don't know why that one was in there, but sure. But yeah, about at least a minute apiece.
11:30AM
I copied over them now I'm just going through the folders one by one just to make sure that there's nothing missing in here because sometimes maybe Google doesn't do a good job and I like to make sure that the work that I do I check over so if anybody asks I put my name on it and I am guaranteed that it's correct and I also want to see what's in here so just so that I'm aware and I'm just checking to make sure that each folder has the right amount of files in them nine files so I'm just going to do this a couple more minutes but it's what I need for my peace of mind to make sure it's done right
11:30AM
and we seem to be missing one here so
11:32AM
Yeah, under the June 18th, 2025, 585 Holland, there seems to be a video missing, so that's why I checked my work, because somebody else would have just trusted it, and I know how technology works, and I don't trust it.
11:32AM
Looks like we don't have permission to view one of these.
11:33AM
It could be the same as the other one, but I can't see the file information, so... Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's just a recap.
11:39AM
Okay, I'm making a tarball of all the files right now, and then I'm going to gzip it.
11:42AM
Alright, while this tars up, I am going to work on this interface for the brand guide.
12:05PM
They just finished tarring, so I'm letting it g-zip right now.
12:14PM
Alright, I have a plan for, uh, this, uh, logos and icons. Um... Yeah, so, I'm gonna make it in a bit. Um... Hmm, actually, I kinda like this better. We have the variation. We have the variations. It should go to a new page. And then... We have the variations. It should go to a new page. It should go to, um... Uh... And then it should have... Uh, it should go, no, it should go to here. Uh, logo. And then... It's the only things that change. The sizes will all be displayed there, it'll just be the background. And then this one. Default copy action. Oh, I'm still recording.
12:31PM
All right, I have an idea how I'm going to change it. I kind of want to work on this ERP views, so I'm going to put this on hold for now, because I don't want to pull up my IDE either. Yeah. I haven't eaten, actually. You know what? I'm going to look up if that phone number was from Bell that I missed a call from. It says that it could be a scam. I'm just going to try to call the number. Sorry, what is TSI? Okay, I'm not sure. Okay, thanks. Sounds like some kind of a phone call center, so it's not Bell. I'm going to hop on the phone with Bell right now and just go make a quick snack to eat while I wait for the GZIP to complete. And then when I get back, I'm going to decide where my mine's at. If I'm going to do the brand guide to get this shit organized, or if I'm going to do the ERP thing. I think the ERP thing is better so this guy can get started on it, but at 12.30, I don't know if it'll be worth it to do that. What else do I have? Review logos that Jordan sent back. Okay, call Bell if they don't call. See if we're still using Bookstack. I should probably just revisit the Bookstack. Extract all data, so that's going right now. Extract all the content. Verify the files. Organize the files on a local copy. And I'm creating. Create tarball. Create GZIP. Create tar.gzip. Create ZIP. This is in progress right now. Upload to SharePoint. Find a nice spot. Put this on my computer. Okay, so I could either work on the ERP or these logos. Would I realistically be able to code this by the end of the day? The answer is most likely yes. But I think I should focus on the ERP. So I'm going to focus on the ERP. I'll get on the phone with Bell right now. I'll get on the phone with Bell right now. Go make a quick snack. And then I will... Oh, shit. The pin. I need the pin. I think that was two for internet. You now have seven options. To find out about Bell's internet, TV, or home phone services, or to order them, press one. So I'll be on Bell right now. And see what I can get. And make a quick snack.
12:31PM
in approximately three minutes.
12:33PM
Alright, I'm just on hold now. It says 3 minutes, so that shouldn't be too bad. I'm going to go make some food while I hop on the phone with them.
2:13PM
All right, so I feel like that was a waste of an hour and 45 minutes trying here to With Bell I finally got through to Operations And They wouldn't give me a contact number back I have to call through the same same fucking channels all over so it's gonna be another hour on the phone I'm gonna have to spend to do this shit Because I need Rommel's number To give to them. They're the account number for the Bell, which I remember Troy was looking at before Off this phone and Rommel said that yeah, he sent it to He sent it to Troy and and I asked him if he could send it to me and he's just say I don't have time for this right now and All right, well, that's it so Kind of want to know where where my day gets lost and where these things fucking shred my time this is this is one of those things where I spend this time on the on the phone waiting and you know, obviously something is necessary and I Was a step closer and now I'm not a step closer. So That's that's where my day goes dealing with this kind of stuff. So I'm gonna put this on hold until I hear back From Troy with the account number and then I could finally call and then then I'll have to be go through that same ring around and see if I can escalate to a case manager and Then get transferred to plan facility development team And And Do another hour and a half on the phone three hours will be wasted today two or three hours will be wasted And that's where my day goes
2:27PM
All right, I finally got it, so I'm going to crawl back again right now and work with that. Here we go again.
2:36PM
I'm on the phone again with Belle right now. I got an email from Procore customer support, so I'm going to email her back with what we need to set up these accounts properly.
2:45PM
All right, so she confirmed that it was cancelled by the 25th, but apparently that pair is active so I don't know if somebody else signed up for service and They stole the line right in between then which very Unlikely but possible or if it just didn't update so Anyways, that was a pretty useless conversation. They said the same thing. They're gonna have to update the the back-end So I'm gonna have to hop on the phone again probably and try to I need to try to weasel my way down to Different department there Somebody who's actually gonna be able to do something. So I'm gonna have to keep calling and trying to get through But it's blocked because of fiber shortage, so
2:58PM
Okay, I just sent the email back. It looks like they have three options. One way is collaborating with the contractors who invited us so that they create profiles for our points of contact. Seems like a lot of work. The other option is if our team was interested, be able to obtain a license for our team's own Procore account, manage our own directory and access levels. And the third option is specifically for bidding and tendering. They have a regionally based free account for clients in the U.S. with tools and options specifically for pre-construction process. Let's see if I can get her on the phone right now, actually, because that might be an easier way to deal with it. But I'm waiting for a call from Bell. I just got some kind of a call from Bell saying that they're escalating it, so it's good that they're calling me back at least. I'll call them right now just to see because it might be easier on the phone.
3:53PM
Alright, so, quite a bit done. I got off the phone with Procore and I figured I'd have to do this. First of all, our company information is completely not correct. I'm going to come in here, I'm going to add a master account holder. It looks like Cole set something up before. Oh, it does not allow me, oh, here we go, add a user, magenta, master, oh, I'm sorry, here we go, add a user, magenta, master, oh, I'm sorry, here we go, add a user, magenta. So I've sent for master account holder, I've set that up and I am going to eventually remove Cole from here as well at magentaconstruction.com because he should not be in here. I'm going to adjust our profile so we're not in Illinois or San Diego and then I'm going to invite a bunch of other users. And we'll get this a little bit cleaned up and I have a meeting with somebody else at Procore as well.
3:56PM
At the same time, Bell, while they called, while I was on the phone with Procore, Bell called. Finally, somebody from back office has reached out, and I was able to talk to them and explain everything, and the situation from all these fucking idiots that I talked to could have been so much more easier to do, to deal with, but they didn't make it easy, because the left hand doesn't talk to the right hand, and finally I got a decent guy. So apparently, for some reason, they originally set up the rental as Unit 2, and Ramil's trailer at the back was Unit 3, and there was a cancellation pending as of June 25th, but the line hadn't been released yet, and further to that, when we set up this new line, it was being set up as Unit 2, by the sales guy, and so there was a conflict on the Unit 2, Unit 2, because you can't have a single line go into two units. So there was two things actually blocking it, there was a PF blocking it, and then there was a shortage of fiber, and so they couldn't actually assign it, because of two issues, one that there was two Unit 2s at that place, and the other one that there was no active fiber. So even though when I called, and the last person that I just spoke with said that, okay, even, you know, yeah, now I have this account number, and yeah, okay, so we've taken this line off, and we're marking it as not in service anymore for Unit 3, Ramil's place, there was still a conflict of the Unit 2, two Unit 2s, which is not possible. So this guy, now that I talked to, finally he said that he will change the original order, the 1009, he's going to change that to Unit 1, he's going to leave this new order as Unit 2, and then he's going to cancel, this, like, relieve the line off of Unit 3, because it was, even though it was June 25th, the line is still technically assigned, and it probably would be for a month or two months or whatever, because now what they would end up doing is, you know, when somebody cancels, they're going to call you, and they're going to say, hey, do you want to...
3:56PM
I'm also cleaning up a lot of stuff with this so forth
4:25PM
I am just correcting our profile information on Procore. I am going to add it to the master account holder, I have that in my password manager as well.
4:45PM
Oh yeah, Exchange Admin is working, so I'm gonna add Buddy into Exchange Admin now. Delegation. Oh, looks like Dylan was already delegated for InfoRat. Okay. Okay.
4:52PM
Yeah, it looks like Dylan already had access, so I just let him know that he already had access. And it looks like all the zip files are finally made. So I got to figure out how to move all this stuff into the cloud and where to do this. I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that a different day because it's a Friday. That's five. And how many hours have I done today? Nine hours. Nine and a half hours. And what else didn't I get done today? Review the logos that Jordan sent back. And then I need to put them, ah, fuck it, I don't want to open up all that stuff. Book stack. So extracting this, I've done 8 out of 11 tasks, and ERP meeting. Still need to do all that planning. It's going to have to be a Monday. So I'm going to set a reminder, save. Meeting me on Monday, oh, 8 a.m., or is this 8, 8 a.m.? I think I finally did this. Maybe I can just show them, make a diagram, print, comment, install. Okay. Set a reminder, we are the 25th, so August 25th, 9 a.m. Okay. All right, that's it for today, I think. I'm going to check my emails real quick before the end of the day, and that's it.
4:58PM
Just looking at how to move all these photos into SharePoint. I'm going to have to do this on Monday because I have to figure out a spot. It's going to be on our web drive for sure. Uh... I just don't know where. And who I'm going to give permission to. And I'll have to reorganize. This stuff a little bit. I'll think about that over the weekend.
5:03PM
Okay Yes, do you know what time Yes, can you make sure that the technician calls before they before they show up over there Please call that number current right customer request. There is overhead power line fiber people from telephone to the house Yes Yes, please yes Yes Nope that is It's a Monday July 28th 2025 between 8 to 5 p.m. And the technician and the technician will contact 6 1 3 2 4 0 7 9 4 7 before So that somebody can be there perfect. That would be great Thank you very much Okay, Bell just called back you heard it on the phone Monday July 28th 2025 Everything was resolved. All they need to do is talk to me All they needed to do is talk to me I don't even work for Bell I Don't even do fiber optic network installs for them somehow I could figure this shit out and they were just twiddling their thumbs for three weeks I do know a lot of stuff that I'm probably not supposed to know but I do know it somehow and All they have to do is just listen to me because I mean I can I Don't know point people in the right direction, I guess But That now I forgot what I was working on before they called oh, yeah, I was just having my to-do list
5:08PM
Alright, so Monday hopefully I'll start off making this summary for the ERP so the guy can get started.
5:08PM
That's it from me for now.