Jessie is slowing getting acclimated. Slower than I'd hoped, but that's just the way it is. She seems interested in the outside, but won't attempt the door to the backyard. She had no problem with the door to the garage. It's not a door problem.
Nooby has had a cough for a few months, I was reluctant to get him into the vet because I didn't know how he would take it. He peed in the carrier and went a little crazy once we got him out of the carrier in the examining room, ran behind the trash bin. I picked him up, held him close and Brian stroked his head while I nuzzled him with my face. The vet had the techs take his blood in the examining room instead of taking him in the back and doing it there. He was a great cat, not a problem. He was wrapped in a towel for his X-rays.
He has allergies, which is why the cough. The vet didn't want to prescribe drugs until the bloodwork came back. He has borderline kidney disease and she wants to see him in a couple of months for a recheck. He'll be on prednisolone and an antihistamine for the allergies.
We've used Gmail for our business mail for years. We have it set up to pull from our domain website. We've been using a thing called Pop3. Gmail is discontinuing that. It was advised to use forwarding from the website but it was hinky. Reply mail was sent to the customer and a copy to us. The return addresses were not correct. I did some research and decided to try Google Workspace.
It took almost a full week and over thirty hours in chat with Google and Intuit. We use an old desktop version of Quickbooks for our accounting. There was a big problem with sending invoices. I couldn't send them from "sales" I had to send them from "Brian" and that just wasn't professional at all. Brian finally told me it would be worth the additional $14 a month to set up an additional user. I spent two hours in chat with Intuit support and the guy was clueless. He kept having me try things that hadn't worked yet, but "hey, let's try this!" and finally said "the problem is you have an old version of Quickbooks, you'll need to upgrade to a newer version to do what you want to do". But, see, here's the thing. I doubt I send fifteen invoices a month. I'm not going to pay $185 a month to send. The online version is cheaper, but I don't want to deal with online. I have what I need set up. Anyway...
I ended up finding out what I needed to use (the app password thing), but then I got locked out of the account and couldn't log back in. So, back to Google support. I never want to do this again. Hopefully, Brian will retire next year and I won't have to.
I did get the new NAS set up. It's nice, not as scary as I imagined. My side of the office is a lot cleaner looking than it had been. Nice. I'm working on getting the movies I've purchased over the years downloaded. It's going to take a while, there are so many.
Other than that, things are just rolling along.
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