My programmers told me the transliteration engine was ready for testing today, and… it wasn’t. It was terrible. 😕Just a handful of minutes of testing resulted in me discovering several glaring issues, clearly demonstrating that either the programmers didn’t do any testing themselves, or they just wanted to get me something to actually finally produce something after taking about 15x longer, so far, than they said it would take to do the job for me. Or… I’m not on their priority list, or… they really aren’t qualified to build what I’ve laid out for them to build.
Either way, after 7 or 8 months of waiting, it’s a super disappointing. (my brother wrote an Excel macro in probably an hour to do what it’s taken them 8ish months to still… not have right. I’d just use my brother’s simple code, but Excel can’t do it at speed and isn’t practical on a wide scale. So… I’m still… hoping we can get something useful from this programming team.
Anyway, after sending a list of all the issues i found in just a few minutes of testing, I’m waiting to hear back from the programming peeps. I might end up asking for a refund and finding myself starting over. We’ll see.
(sigh)
I fixed two cars today–a 2016 GMC Sierra diesel that needed two batteries and then a 2005 Toyota 4Runner that was stuck in neutral. It had a busted shift cable bushing, and, as y’all are quite familiar already, dealers don’t provide new bushings, so you either have to replace the entire cable or order a bushing from an aftermarket online company.
The cable was special order. The online one takes days; so I rigged up a way to hold the cable in place, so they can at least drive it until they get the bushing from online. I explained how to install the bushing when it arrives, so they’ll save hundreds of dollars. So that’s good for them.
Not much else to say. I’m about the same as yesterday. Not as good as the day before, but not worse. I’m a little discouraged at the division that’s blown up even more with the abortion rulings. So much anger. So much vitriol. So much violence.
Gosh, I want to believe we can come together and respect each other and honor each other despite our differences. It’s discouraging to see what the media serves up to the world as reality.
(sigh)
The vast majority of us are good people who have differences in how we apply our values based on what we believe to be true and best. Does that apply to everyone? (that we’re all good at heart) No, of course not. Some will step over and on others to get what they want. But I think it applies to the majority of us.
I know you’ve read my writings about that many times in the past.
Respect. Kindness. Compassion. Understanding. Patience.
We can do it. We can disagree without anger, without vitriol, without violence. We can even honor and respect each other for trying to follow what we believe is right.
I’ll never forget my experience interviewing the Christian demonstrators outside the LDS General Conference while a student in grad school. I asked to do a project as an assignment for one of my classes where I would interview them to get to know better who they were and what they were trying to accomplish.
Men and women on street corners holding up signs railing against Mormons, yelling that Mormons were going to hell and all that. It was… not a fun atmosphere. But after interviewing some of them, spending quite a lot of time doing it, I came away with a great respect. They truly were trying to help those whom they felt were lost/misguided. It was a sincere effort to do good.
Did I agree with the method? No. Did I agree with the message? No. But wow, what respect I gained that day. People, just like me, trying to do their best to do what they thought was right in the best ways they knew how according to what they believed.
And that’s… beautiful to me. Honorable.
Guns, abortion, pronouns… all sorts of issues of the day.
Honor. Respect. Kindness. Patience. Understanding. Compassion.
Love.
You’re probably already doing this, but I’ll write it anyway: Please, when you hear people rail against others for the beliefs that they hold and the efforts they’re going to to support the things they believe, please, take a different tone, and express your respect for the people with whom you might disagree, respect them for trying to do what they believe is best.
We’re good people. Good people with some differences.
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 