Allergies Suck

Spring hates me. Understatement of the season. I'm pretty sure I sneeze more than my entire office combined. If I don't sneeze at least once an hour, assume that I died in a tidal wave of support tickets. I should be recording LPs right now. It's basically my trademark that I'm wasting here. Though, Mesk would likely argue that my trademark is either being RIP or laundry.

Lightbulbs also apparently hate me to as I have made three explode simply by turning on the lights in the past couple months. Either I'm cursed or we have really poor quality lightblubs in the house. That said, according to YouTube commenters I sold my soul to the devil to make Diablo 1 work, so maybe that's the problem.

Mad Max: Fury Road - I can't remember if I did this one before, but I watched the movie again recently and I really love it.

Pacific Rim - Quick! Go watch/listen before YouTube strangles the life out of it! Too bad about the audio blips in between tracks though.

Lord of the Rings - Ooooh I found a really nice compilation. Fun fact: I own that poster in the background. Mildly awkward story about how I got it. However, this isn't the time or place to tell that story, so I'll let you all make up your own story.

My friend wrote a book and it is now published/released! Between Fire and Pines by Kathleen Sawisky is now available online through Amazon. You can find it here: https://www.createspace.com/6226638

I think she's also got a contest going to win one of her books for free if that's more your cup of tea: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/fc18c34d940eff6a/?ref_=tsm_4_fb_h_o_li_r#ln-ln

Also finished Legend of Korra for the first time over the past couple of days. I think I have my favourite scene from it. I enjoyed the whole series quite a bit, but this is the only part I actually went back to watch again immediately after seeing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmmP4uHRmkk

It's right up there with my favourite scene from The Last Airbender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8aLRnd80k

I think you may be able to determine the sense of humour I have based off these clips alone...

Shouting and Shout-outs

I cannot begin to describe my hatred for Tableau. Every time I use this program there is an endless struggle with the formatting and maps. I really just need to take a crash course and just sit down and learn how to use this effectively, because so far I'm just using what's been given to me and I keep having to come up with dirty little tricks to get it to work in my favour. I'm not sure what changed since last time to make it so I can't refresh all extracts at once. I didn't do this report last month so something may have been adjusted without my knowledge. The good news is Argentina isn't disappearing. The bad news is Tableau hates Cameroon. Oh and Japan. Japan was a problem last time. Maybe it's included in another filter list for some strange reason...ah hah! Why is Jersey AND Japan included in South Asia? I don't recall doing that. Wait why is Jersey included in North Asia too? WHO MADE THESE FILTERS? Oh yeah...

It's okay, I found Japan. I still have no idea what happened to Cameroon though. It's fine. I cheated either way.

Noooo Russia you're too big. Also how did Algeria get included with Eastern Europe? I swear it's, not me for once. It's the list I was given. How...? Okay whatever. Congratulations Algeria, you are now located in Eastern Europe despite actually being in Africa.

As for the actual built report, China somehow broke. Wait...how did the number of active users exceed the total users. What snapped in half? Oh god...

Also, fyi, if you're running a report and it takes 7 hours, maybe consider that you have accidentally entered the year as 2015 instead of 2016. I have no idea how it ran when the start date for that period was before the start date of the previous period. With all the things that have broken for less...THIS ran the full way through.

Civil War is out this weekend and a friend got tickets so we're going to see it. Figured I'd reflect that in my soundtrack Thursday.

Captain America: First Avenger - Have fun getting track 26 out of your head.

Iron Man - I just love how all pre-existing full compilations have ceased to exist thanks to YouTube's copyright rampage. There was another big one recently and now there's companies claiming on behalf of other companies. It's confusing. And annoying.

I have some shout-outs to a few people here. Right now on the Legends are Gaming website (http://legendsaregaming.com/) they're finishing up a week of streaming (mostly Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft) and are currently in the middle of a Diablo 3 giveaway! Check out this link if you're interested in winning a copy of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls. You should be able to find all the links to LAG's YouTube etc. on the previous link.

My friend and fellow Extra Life player Kathleen is publishing her book! Last I heard it was almost ready for release (she's writing the blurb on the back). I will post an official link to where she'll be selling it online, but if you want to learn more for now, check out her GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/fireandpines

PS - This blog should really just be renamed "Schwa's Adventures with Macs and Reporting: A Saga of Occasional Lost Laundry." You'd have to dig through a lot of confusing rants to piece together the context.

PSS - I forgot to press "publish" yesterday.