 Ma. Ma, ma. Ma, ma. Ma, ma. Welcome to the Thursday vlog, and we are with Steve, he decided to come in here, because he was on the floor yesterday after eating typhoon. We just want to show everybody that he is alive. How ya feel, Steve? You know, the monster probably wasn't the best idea. My stomach hurts. He did survive, he survived the experiment. Yeah, the typhoon incident. The incident. Got some Oladine news, I'm still alive. We'll let you decide what oladine means. Exactly. And then we are finally, we got the magical foam on the walls. Foam equals studio. Yeah, and we're all impressed. We all have, how do you say it? Did we ear-sring at night? Well, tinnitus. Yeah, or tinnitus, as some people will say it. So one of us doesn't have it. I was noticing, once you get in the studio and you covered all the foam, you go, wow, my ears ring a lot. Yeah, they really do. They really, really do. But that's all right, though. You know what, we'll flip the camera around like this. And you can see how we decorated the walls. And now we'll bring it back. Like that. Magic. Magic is the last time I remember to edit it. Studio magic. So if magic didn't just happen, all tom's fault. All my fault. So we are doing it today, but we're not sure what we're going to do yet for next Thursday. I'm always planning ahead, seven days ahead, because Microsoft is flying me out to the build conference and they're flying me out Tuesday. And they don't fly me back until Friday. So I don't know, we'll do. We can do a long distance. We can Skype you in. Yeah, Google Hangouts. Maybe do Google Hangouts or maybe me, Steven, Kyle, we'll just do our own. That's fine, too. You guys could just do it without me and I would be fine. Kyle's got things to say. Of course he does. I want to make a collection of Kyle's puns. Because, dude, some of them are really, really bad, but they just, he rips off all the time with some. He makes us pause and stop and think about what in the world he just said. So that's, maybe that'd be a list. We'll give Kyle one of these and we'll get them just to... Just to rattle off. If he could write them all down, the ones he does, like the weekly Kyle pun reading. We should keep track of them. We'll have a whiteboard with all of Kyle's puns on it. That'd actually be pretty good. That would be pretty good. This isn't a Kyle pun, but it's one of my favorite puns that a buddy of mine Russ told me. You ever had Deep Fried Wookie? No. It's a little chewy. Okay. Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, and on that topic. And it's May the 4th. So May the 4th be with you. Oh, right, yeah, right. May the 4th be with you. I loved our 2D2 in Star Trek. Oh yeah, he was great. Yeah, when Gandalf was captain of the Enterprise, it was great. Oh my goodness, yeah. And he would always be like, use the Force, Harry. Yeah. Is there any culture we didn't defend yet? Yeah, we're working on it. Yeah, we're working on it for the future. Do not install Back to the Future. Did you know Rick and Morty is a rip-off of Back to the Future? Of course, yeah, of course, yeah. When I look up Morty and Doc. Yeah, the first time I ever, I was like, did they, I just saw, I just saw, the first time I saw it, I just saw like a screen capture and I was like, did they make a cartoon version of Back to the Future? And I was like, Rick and Morty, what's that? And then I fell in love with it. Yeah, whole another topic. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, on to technical things. I just posted a new Google phishing email which I just posted a video about. Really interesting. I posted, not just, I didn't need to reiterate the news but I posted how you can check your security settings in your Google account because once you get your Google account taken over because this is the way cloud services work, it's not like you can clean your computer or disinfect it. You have now connected your account to the attacker's account system that is stealing all your email addresses and emailing all your friends. Google did shut them down, but it's still a good time to, anytime's a good time to do a security audit. Especially after maybe you clicked on a Google link that said it was from someone and it was all a scam. So yeah, there's that. You could still have things shared with people you don't talk to anymore. You could have things shared with people. You're now enemies with. Yeah. I've had people just randomly share things with me, like folders and things like that. I still have a weird list of things that have been shared. I don't know why. Just maybe because I've been using Google Docs since it came out like 10 years ago. Yeah. People are just like, Tom would like this. A lot of people actually just set theirs to open and use it in place of file sharing programs like mega upload and that now. Yeah. You can actually use it for that and they just share folders or things. So that's always fun. So if you want to share a folder with me, I guess I'll look, depending on what's in it. Yeah. Onto more technical things. It won't stop raining here in Michigan. We've been trying to get some jobs outside done but apparently the weather is working against us. We're probably gonna have to cancel another job tomorrow if the rain doesn't let up because we're supposed to do another wifi, outdoor wifi system for actually, we have more than one client that once when installed, the weather delays are kind of hanging us up. So I got a big box of Unify stuff to program but we can't finish deploying until the weather gets better. So that's kind of something that sucks but that's life. We've been doing a lot more of the wireless deployments. Everyone, we've been working with the wifi company that did the virtual terminals for the carnival. We've helped them out with some more things that's from the time goes to the carnival things. Right. Where big flight broke out, did you see that? Oh yeah, yeah, they had a pretty big. I've saw it, I was like, dang it, Tom started another riot. It wasn't over the wifi, because the wifi kept coming out. No, actually they said in the new story that the one thing everybody was happy with was the wifi. Yeah. Yeah, really. Yeah, let me show that. We will have a grand opening for our new building in how many weeks, Steve? Like after you get back. Okay. Well, you said after you get back because you're flying out on Tuesday, it didn't make much sense to do it. We're trying to set the date. We're gonna have a date set here maybe before I leave. Probably don't want to do it Memorial weekend though. What day is that? That would be the 26, seven, eight, nine. Probably don't want to do it like. Oh, we can do it like the Monday after it gets back. Yeah, you can do it Monday because it's just like the chambers and stuff. So we're working on it. I know people are asking, I have a couple of different news agencies that, hey, I'd like to write an article. We want to make sure everything's finished and everything's put away. We have the studio, but just off screen is a mess that we slid over. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's really not. A couple pieces of foam in a box. It's good to have a big table. The other side of the wall is a tragedy. Yeah, I was very excited to have the largest office in the place until they filled it with a bunch of stuff. Yup. We really need you to move your desk closer to the wall. Exactly, I felt so much like Milton. I was like, I could set the building on fire. We took opportunity to basically go through everything that we ever possessed here at the store, like every screw and scrutinize whether or not we should keep it. And then it's kind of like, this is how it goes. Like we know the goal of this quest. We know the end of the road and the dragon we want to kill. And there's so many side quests like, ooh, look what I found. Ooh, should we keep this? Should we eBay this? Oh, what about all this? Oh, why do we still have this? And then something breaks and then something falls down. And then somewhere in between, we're actually running a business. So, somewhere in between. Somewhere in between, there's a business be run, so there's still billing, there's still, you know, clients that need issues, new deployments. We got my team out right now, is doing another school with putting more cameras in and drilling holes and all the other things. So the business kind of goes on and when there's not clients, we're just back here at it. So it's taking a little bit longer, but it's worth it, you know, because we did not want to shut down because this is also just money flying out of my butt. So, there's a lot of, where's that thing? I just saw that thing yesterday. Yeah. And that thing is money. Money. Yeah. There was money yesterday. Where's that thing? And there's no money today. We had stacks of it, and what happened to it all? It's all gone. So we've been a little bit more on top of billing. Yeah, so. By the way, remind me to invoice the people for the carnival stuff. Oh. They haven't sent an invoice yet. They're carnival, they've already moved on. They're out of town now. We missed that opportunity. You missed the opportunity to bill them. What other exciting things are you going to buy? They did buy a router when they came in though. They did? Yeah. Oh, cool. Excellent, excellent, excellent. That's very good. Well, they did spend some money. Hey, all right. But my tent's been occupied with building my office out, which someone asked me to do a quick tour of my office. Maybe I'll get that done today, so it's pretty brief. It's a pretty small office. I made my office really small. Six and a half by nine, it's a change. Tour of the office means there's my office. I like, my goal is to own a tiny house and just live in a small area. I'm much happier like that. And in a short term, I built myself a really small office. Everyone's like, why don't you need a bigger office? Like, all I want to do is stare at my computer screens and have a couple little things in there. So I have a really small office. And it is, because we literally built and built the walls for it, I truly did design it to be that big. It wasn't like an incident of something that could have been bigger. Well, yeah. You wanted seven by 10, but the studs were at like six and a half and nine foot eight, I think. That's fine. Something like that. Way to leave room for the door to open when we built this. But once we're done, we're going to do a whole, once we're done with the entire T of the building, we'll do an entire one. I probably will do just like my specific office because people want to know about some of the workflow and how I use Linux to process all these videos, which also brings me to being kind of fun. I'm going to bring my camera to the Microsoft Build Conference. They said I got permission to film, so we're good on that. And the only other thing about it is I'm going to be running Linux on my laptop. So I got that to talk to them about, because they wanted to do a Skype conversation today. I already have another appointment at the time when I do Skype, and I'm almost like, you know, you guys kind of let the Linux Skype support flounder. So sorry, I can't talk to you. Oh, no. I kind of want to say that. Well, and here's the thing. Why were you invited to this conference, Tom? I'm not sure. Oh, you know why you were invited. There's a decent possibility Tom doesn't come back from this conference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when we asked, they're just like, Tom, we don't know. Tom, Tom, who? We never heard of Tom. Yeah, they're just like, those guys don't care much for our products. But on a good note, we actually are going to be interviewing some engineers. That's what, I'm starting to, they're starting to get the itinerary together and the schedules together. That's actually what I have to discuss between today and tomorrow with Microsoft over Skype. We just got to get the meeting. They're supposed to send me some agendas, which is pretty cool. So if people have things you want me to ask to Microsoft engineers, email tom at laurancesystems.com. And I will hopefully have time to ask questions. Now, I don't have the list of the engineer's names, but it's going to be regarding any of the Linux services that are running on the Azure servers is something we're going to be discussing with. So it's because Microsoft, as they claim loves Linux, or as I say, they love Linux podcasters. Ha! Ha, ha, ha. So- I think some are on their servers. They're running on Microsoft, right? They're running on Microsoft. Well, it could with all the downtime of Outlook.com. Yeah. Zing. Zing. Anyways. But that's about it. It's been so much work getting this done. I don't have time to get all the other YouTube stuff I want to get done, but that was the goal of building this whole studio out was so I can get a lot more time put into doing more YouTube videos and have an easy place, because one of the problems before was we set up this early in the morning and then we have to move it because we were also using as our tech area. This is a dedicated kind of studio space. Mark, grab the mixer. Mark. My name's Mark, not Mark. I thought I said Mark. That's all right, look at that. You totally said Mark. We are going to be putting in like cool stuff and Mark's got the slide. Be like DJ Mark. Oh, heck yeah. We're gonna drop the next hottest mixtape. Yep, DJ Big Marvy here. Yeah, that's me. Gonna burn the place down. We gotta get our microphone set up and you know, put all this in there. Then the TV's gonna go on the wall and you know, just, we're gonna make this kinda cool. Put your hands in the air like you're just a don't care. Somebody say yeah. So, that's what we got going on but we are excited cause as, once all this gets set up and it can just, you know, we're not moving boxes all the time, we'll just leave it set up, we'll be able to come in here, rip recordings, do some more product reviews, have all the lights set up and everything just ready to go whenever we want. And that's gonna make our workflow so much more convenient cause YouTube's always been the kind of the in between stuff we do between everything, being able to just go with it whenever it'll be great. And I wanna do more drone videos and it's been raining constantly and the drone's just not like the rain. So yeah, that's on our to-do list is get that and get signs on our building and more graphics and. They're coming. They're coming. They're on order. Government. Yeah, government. Yes. Government. Oh, side note cause I'm still getting emails regarding this. So, I'm debating out how to handle this. Now I went and filled out with a leasing company that they had a property inquiry of one of the other property looked at over on King Road. So we filled out with the leasing company. They have a contact us form. No big deal. I put contact us on there. That set off a slew of emails and phone calls. I heard you're moving. So they didn't, they talked around it. I couldn't get a single person who's called or emailed me to answer where they got the lead from. But I already know I only ever filled out because we always dealt directly with the owners of the building. I would go and seek them out so I could bypass leasing companies. This one wasn't as easy so I just filled out their little form online and they clearly have sold my information and decided to give it cause no one else knew we were moving. Like moving companies, painters, everything. Like, oh, we'll help you get that new building ready. We don't even have a building yet when they were calling. Yeah. Alls it was was me filling that out and it clearly set off cause I just got out of email today. How's your new office going? Here's different artwork we have for sale for your office. I mean, they wasn't one like a structured cabling company that called you. Right. Like you clearly don't even know what we do. Exactly, right? Yeah, no, we got that covered. Yeah. Yeah, we are a cabling company. So I'm not thrilled about it because I went and looked again. There's nothing on it. It says they could give my information out which is probably why that these companies won't tell me where they got the lead from but I know cause there's only one leasing company that's Signature and Associates, right? It was that guy? I believe so, yeah. So he's got signs all over the place and it's, he comes like this whole, well that one guy alone we talked to covers like the whole down river area. Everything I see with Signature on it has his name. Yeah. I'm less than thrilled but also maybe I wouldn't mind having some leads for it. That's what I'm thinking, right? Like how did they get this information? No, I'm not super angry. Just throw me the leads too. Yeah, right. But yeah, I just, I didn't see that in anywhere on there. It says when you contact them and we never signed a lease with them because it was well absurd what they wanted for the building. Yeah, that's why they sold it. They're like we're gonna get some money somehow. Yeah, so they make money off selling the list and the lead but they never, we never signed a lease so less than thrilled about that and a big picture of things but still happy that we're here. We like our new landlord, he's great and we've been getting along well. He keeps coming for tours of what we've done to his building and he's been pretty impressed. So. Super nice. And he's a super nice guy. Really is. It's because of how you, I was here one day working by myself and he just stopped when we were getting the carpet done and he just stopped and he goes, I just wanna stop and see how you guys are doing. I go, we're doing great. He goes, well, when are you guys supposed to open? I go Monday with like a couple days from now. He goes, oh, that's great. Yeah. He's just happy. Yeah, he's just a real just laid back. Just yeah, happy dude. He lives in the area. He'll just stop in and, you know, he takes care of some of the stuff around here. He cuts the grass. Yeah, I was walking back from the road and I saw his car with the trailer and there he is just driving around on the lawn mower. Yeah, he owns a bunch of properties in the area and he just goes and loads up the lawn mower and rides around cutting grass and all those different properties and doing the landscaping. Yeah, what when you're retired? That's actually pretty cool. I would totally dig that. How much would you pay a company though to do that versus I'm retired and I got a bit of time in the area? I'll just go, I'll go ride my lawn mower around. Exactly. I'd be paying somebody a hundred bucks, you know, every couple of weeks. Yeah, right? Yep. All right, well, thanks again for watching. We'll figure out what we're gonna do next week or they're gonna do next week because I know what I'm doing next week. Yeah, we'll come up with something. Don't worry. Let's Photoshop you in. We'll get a cardboard cut out of you. Could do that. Yeah. Actually, you know, we'll just check. We just need to. We need to take a check. Oh, we'll talk about that. Yeah. All right. Thanks for watching. Bye. Like and subscribe.