FRI 03/13/26: Activity Log (AND NOTES...)

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized waiting Quickbooks work

• JOEL trip to Bay City to stay with surfing friend through weekend; surfing and also necessary distance in light of TOMMY recent claims of possibly "breaking down the door" when I was unresponsive to his knocking at my office door for a few minutes. NOTE: the TOMMY/JOEL personal space topic is something that I suspect will become more acute as HTIRE business slows down and he is at the house more. In light of this, I've returned to my typical habit of rigorously keeping our sleeping schedules inverted which is a practice I've employed with great success over the past few years as a means of gauranteeing myself a definite, unmolested 5 to 8 hours every day to see to personal business without always having to expect banging on my door. I'll be writing a proper page/article about this topic and others that are becoming notable of late as he is spending more time here at the house. But simply returning to my legacy/regular habit of working from 9PM to 4am each day is immediatley the most effective at locking in the vital personal time I need (and he needs for other reasons). He has also been bringing up marijuana a lot lately. Any time there's an article or news piece on the subject, he's very quick to hollar out to me to come watch and then begin espousing the dangers and damage that smoking weed can cause. The call outs to me are very targeted and of note and of course, it indicates some odd suspiscioun on his part. As I've discussed all over this blog and my main site jbhfile.com, one thing is a constant with my father and in regards to our relationship: he is always in need of mental stimulation and at the same time, has zero hobbies or subjects of interest with which to engage so he invariably falls back to age old habits and suspiciouns around myself and such are never positive. In short, he constantly thinks I'm "on drugs" ... "drinking again!" or "smoking weed". It's like something that is engrained and a carry over from child hood years. Personally, I love the whole legal marijuana scene and follow it closely. I think it's a good thing that the use of the material/substance is becoming less offensive in a cultural regard but I myself do not partake of the substance either for recreation or for therapeutic means as it's not a productive option for me (too strong). So I have not partaken of "the dank!" for over three or four years now. Add to that the complications around possibly having to do a drug test for any (HOPEFULLY) new job opportunities and abstaining from such is even more wise in my opinion. But the fact remains, whenever he is here and I am here, the only thing his mind has to gravitate to is me so the more I am out of sight or otherwise engaged elsewhere, the better. My recent trip to Bay City over the weekend was an example of the various means I employ to keep distance between us during our mutual waking hours. And the hard inverted schedule method is even more useful as it squarely puts my work hours within the time that he is sleeping. Furthermore, my hope is to be employed /somewhere/ soon and during the same evening/early morning hours if possible.

MON 03/16/26: Daily Log

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized waiting Quickbooks work

• Mailed two new work invoices to CLYLE at TGS

• Inputted waiting Quickbooks invoices/bills/payments/deposits

• Phone call from TOMMY to pick him up at shop around 11am so that he could bring his Audi up to shop to do work on it (rotate tires/etc.)

• Second phone call from TOMMY around noon letting me know he was bringing his Audi back, too big to work on in garage. And that he’d need a ride back to shop. Gave TOMMY ride back to shop after he brought Audi to the house.

• Per TOMMY instruction created $XXXX.XX cash register invoice to cover a recent deposit that needed invoice-description in Quickbooks; made note to contact ACCT to inform of somewhat unusual process

• TOMMY request to review random Insight Software data breach notification to determine if it is of consequence; determined data breach was non consequential and left note on TOMMY desk informing of such (no financial, tax or medical information breached)

• TOMMY request to fix email on persona HTIRE laptop. Login was throwing it’s usual, monthly verification. Email logins are generally automized with browser keeping track of the password for subsequent logins but Yahoo and other similar providers will enforce a routine check despite browser password managers as a matter of protocol.

• Logged on to TOMMY personal travel/work laptop and changed his password to something more recollectable than the random string of cryptic characters it had been for over a year; 

• Verified new TOMMY yahoo email login information and functionality of browser

• Printed two TOMMY small yahoo email login info strips with his login name and the current password. Laminated both email login strips. Left one strip on TOMMY desk with note that he could keep it in his wallet.

• Taped second laminated TOMMY email password info strip face down on free space up top of his laptop near keyboard with a note to “FLIP UP” so that he could flip the note up any time he’s at his laptop and see his login name and password for future security checks by yahoo’s email system.

THUR 03/12/26: DAILY LOG - Other Notes...

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized waiting Quickbooks work

• Inputted latest Quickbooks work ensuring that all invoices/bills/etc. From the previous month had been completed so that ACCT could begin his work

• Assisted with TOMMY shaving/cutting of hair 

• Assisted with TOMMY cleaning and rebandaging of recent surgical wounds

• Had moment with TOMMY. I was engaged in office with headphones on, working on audio projects and doing benchmark/game testing/stress testing of hardware. Heard distant banging and thought it was from within the stress test/3D scene I was rendering. Went on for five minutes till I realized it was TOMMY. Opened door and claimed I had not heard due to headphones.
  
  He was in need of having his bandages changed in advance of the morrows doctor appointment. While bandaging, he claimed that he was about to “break the door down” because he didn’t know if I had had a stroke or was somehow incapacitated.
  
  This was immediately alarming as there is no need for him to think such things but it’s also not an exaggeration as he would do just that. So I am re drafting the nuances of tenant landlord law that clearly define periods when a forced entry scenario is okay.
  
  I told him that there may be times when I’m in my room working or otherwise engaged for days at a time and that he would be out of bounds to do something like breaking the door to my private space if I did not answer calls/knocks within a couple hours.  The law clearly supports this and I’ve cited it to him on numerous occasions.
  
  He is having frequen skin surgery for cancerous lesions and is in a high state of need in regards with assistance to the dressing and redressing of the recovering surgical sites which I am happily assisting him with.
  
  But this does not preclude the inappropriateness of believing he can “break down the door” when his tenant simply does not answer for two or three hours, even a day. Said tenant is busy, in other words and I also calmly informed him that the correct thing to do would be to phone me because even though I may be involved in a personal project, I would  nonetheless answer my phone. Especially understanding the distress he’s currently in and with obvious need for physical assistance with his recovering surgical sites. Again, something I am very happy, even proud to do.
  
  But I have to present legally /presentable/ data before things progress to a critical point, for instance, him literally breaking down my door because I do not answer it due to having noise cancelling headphones on, working or otherwise engaged at times for up to 8 to 10 hours at a time.

• Furthermore, I’ve made plans to stay Friday through Sunday with a friend so as to give him a bit of space and to “brute force” the point that there are times when I am simply unreachable.

MON 03/09/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized waiting Quickbooks work

• Verified new email confirming storage space payment (auto)

• TOMMY request to review CAP BANK beneficiary document accuracy/details; noted major errors; informed  TOMMY. TOMMY request to then phone CAP BANK rep and discuss what he is wanting to do; clarified issue with bank rep; finalized call with confirmation that TOMMY intention was clear and received word from rep that she would be sending a redrafted document for TOMMY filling/signing.

• Drove to HTIRE customer location off Sheldon road and assisted TOMMY with unloading x12 11r22.5 tires for installation on mobile home

• Rec’d JOEL phone call from old HTIRE employee wanting assistance with fixing/renovating his laptop computer; new OS install and configuration; purchase of new OS license key.  Friend said he’d get back to me

• Informed TOMMY of issue with ETX PARTS invoices he provided. He had provided the OG invoices along with the actual payment checks; apparently forgot to deposit or otherwise just attached checks to invoice; 

• Went to WF BANK and deposited the found checks per TOMMY request and into HTIRE bank account

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FRI 03/06/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Inputted/paid all Quickbooks work

• Drove to HTIRE customer location off Sheldon road and assisted TOMMY with unloading x12 11r22.5 tires for installation on mobile home

• FIVE/SIX hours working on JOEL workstation/restored from earlier image/began updating and resetting environment to current day specs

• Several hours hardware work on JOEL workstation, troubleshooting recurring GPU issue. Isolated the issue to a damaged (new!) 12v rail BeQuiet! Single ended power cable. Found older 12v single ended power cable, cleaned with contact cleaner, treated with DeOxit D5 and installed. Ongoing, months long issue was solved.

THUR 03/05/26: DAILY LOG

 THUR 03/05/26

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Inputted/paid all Quickbooks work

• Received and filed various TOMMY tax/bank/investment statements via snail mail; filed in TOMMY office filing cabinet

• Logged on to Harris County tax office and paid TOMMY outstanding 2025 property taxes for HTIRE via HTIRE CC XXXX

WED 03/04/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• AT SHOP from 8am to 2pm covering for TOMMY/out for personal reasons

• To JOEL bank for deposit

• Organized waiting quickbooks material and mass of tax/property documents addressed to TOMMY that were recently received via mail

• Quick physical notes on any items needing direct attention/payment

• Several hours JOEL personal research/study/conversation with technical friends/persons.

• Several hours working on JOEL online publishing efforts; layout adjustment/plannning/how to frame daily blog posts vs proper pages/etc.

TUE 03/02/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Received NTW 02/26 statement, noted negative credit balance. Saved digital PDF to vendors folder on cloud server

• Organized waiting Quickbooks work

• Logged on to FoodBank and canceled JOEL Tue night volunteer work; too sore from gym/training. Picking back up THUR and weeks following

• Three hours zoom meeting with JEN Fidelity rep discussing TOMMY slight redistribution; discussion of Deferred Annuities, current CD/bond market and extensive discussion of how BOND/CD mutual funds operate (same as stocks essentially).

• Drafted prelmim distribution w/ focus on primary annuity and traditional for TOMMY present

• Full back porch clean/trash removal/sweeping 

• Washed JOEL clothes and dried

• Full JOEL space clean with prep for slight re arrange on back of full lunar eclipse!

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MON 03/02/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Inputted waiting invoices/bills/deposits/payments in quickbooks

• Prepared customer outstanding monthly statements and saved to individual PDF binders.

• Emailed all customer statements to customers payable departments

• Phone call/TOMMY request to find Audi lug nut plastic cover removal tool; found the tool and ordered via TOMMY XXXX acct.

• Printed Audi lug nut tool invoice and left out for TOMMY review

• Scanned/marked paid recent CoH water bill/stored on cloud server in PDF format and filed hard copy in TOMMY office file cabinet

• Conv with OCN/Forum friend re: optical drive. Found old optical drive and sent shipping costs for donation drive.

• Signed up for volunteer work at Houston Food bank Tue 6pm to 9pm and Thur 6pm to 9pm

• Traiils from 1pm to 3pm for un

• Received HTIRE ACCT monthly invoice for Feb 2026. Logged on to Intuit payment portal and processed payment via HTIRE XXXX account. Printed payment receipt for TOMMY reference and saved invoice/payment receipt as PDFs/stored on cloud server.

SUN 03/01/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Received GEXA energy monthly bill; printed/noted still under credit kWH point (1000kWH); logged on to GEXA energy and paid outstanding balance via TOMMY XXXX acct. Printed payment confirmation and filed hard copy in TOMMY office file cabinet

• Received Kingdom Storage payment (auto) confirmation email; printed and filed in TOMMY CC #XXXX office file cabinet folder

• Request from TOMMY to assist with how to log in to his FIDELITY account; assisted at TOMMY workstation showing where previous errors were (looking at old 2FA messages instead of the latest sent). 

• Time spent once logged in to TOMMY Fidelity account showing how to easily check positions and monthly dividends as well as how to quickly see 7-day yield on primary positions

• Time spent in AUDI showing TOMMY how to reset mileage for short/long term trip meters/USB audio etc.

• Shopping for JOEL groceries

FRI 02/27/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized new/waiting quickbooks work.

• Inputted new deposits/invoices/bills/checks etc. in Quickbooks

• Phone call from TOMMY requesting I research a randomly discovered, new (ATLAS) financial advisory company that specializes in Annuties, long term retirement, etc. Noted details and did light, beginning research on the company/companies, mostly identifying which of the many that respond to that query/name are what TOMMY is interested in.

• Multiple ZOOM meetings, typical friday political work

• Logged in to TOMMY/HTIRE Galena Park ISD portal and paid HTIRE annual/2025 taxes via HTIRE SW VISA CC. Printed hard copy confirmation and filed in TOMMY office cabinet. Saved digital PDF confirmation binder to household/office cloud server

• Logged on to EXACT SCIENCES payment portal and paid TOMMY outstanding balance (MED PROCEDURE) via TOMMY DISC 4141. Printed and filed copy in TOMMY file cabinet; saved digital PDF and stored on cloud server

THUR 02/26/26: DAILY LOG

• cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

• Organized new/waiting quickbooks work.

• Inputted new deposits/invoices/bills/checks etc. in Quickbooks

• Reviewed GOOSE CREEK ISD / HTIRE annual tax statement; drafted short explanatory note for TOMMY so he would understand it’s simply due to public schools being partially funded by business owner taxation (equip/assets needed to do business). Emphasis on the statement being his responsibility and not property owner. Informed that I could pay at his discretion.

• Cut front/back yards, did first of spring weed eating/trimming across both back front of house and yard boundaries, blower work to clean dust off cars and ego lawnmower as well as across front/back yards. Folded stored ego mower

• Reviewed volunteer opportunities local to home address. Created volunteer profile with Houston Food bank (Portwall address) and familiarized my self with upcoming and regular weekly volunteer hours/shifts. 

• Scanned/archived new Stellar bank monthly statement and filed in TOMMY personal office/file cabinet

• Filed scanned copy of Goose Creek ISD tax statement and filed in TOMY personal office/file cabinet