A couple of bombings here and there….

And violence is still evil. Especially in the name of religion. Need I say more?

More on this later. Perhaps…

It's late but it's here...

Blu-ray burner arrived today. Should've come yesterday. But whatever. According to what I can figure out, it went out for delivery yesterday, but all I saw tracking it online was that 2 notices were left at 2 and at 5. I was here both times, and no one came by. Probably somebody wasn't doing there join at the postal service. Maybe Amazon should ship Brown. Or better yet, have Office Depot deliver it...

Hello World, for the umpteenth time....

Day two of my weekend today. Absolutely nothing planned. Aside from flashing Marshmallow on my phone today. While I did make a donation to the LeeDriod project last week, I've still decided to go with the VenomROM this time around. Mainly because it's what I've been using since I upgraded my previous phone to KitKat, and I know how it works. If it doesn't work out, I still have my copies of KitKat and Lollipop on myth phone, as well....

Edit: didn't go that well. Ended up inadvertently deleting the Google Play Services framework, so I just decided to wipe and go back to Lollipop. Easily done since I have ROM stashed away on my memory card....

A freak shaving accident.

As you can see from my profile picture, I have a goatee. Not anymore. Today is Sunday. My day off. A recovery day. A day when I can shower and take my time at it. But before I shower, I decided to shave this morning. Which meant trimming the goatee. And guess who didn’t notice the setting on the trimmer until he made the first pass with it. Oh well, I thought. I’ll just trim it down to peach fuzz, and grow it back. So after I did that, I was defining the edges when I took too much off. So, long story short I had to shave it all off. It’ll grow back though. Just give me a couple of months…

EVERYBODY PANIC!

I am cleaning my room today. I never clean my room. I don’t know how long this will last, but for your own safety, stay away….

Edit: I put a stop to it. My room isn’t clean, but there is a lot less garbage in it now. And I found my checkbook…

Happy Thursday!

All I'm going to say about today is that I don't drink, I'm not Catholic, and I'm not really that Irish*...

Happy Thursday, people....

*in a Facebook post last year, I had said that I'm not Irish, and a cousin reminded me that I have Irish ancestors, among others....

Beware the idiots of March

Today is the Ides of March. Those of use who spent high school English reading Julius Ceaser know that today was when he was assassinated. But before that, a soothsayer warned him Beware the Ides of March.

So, today is the Ides of March. It is also Super Tuesday. With all the stupidity going on, I have to warn: Beware the Idiots of March….

Making the best of past mistakes….

After writing about the mistakes I made yesterday, I realized that both Nero and Cyberlink both support Blu-Ray. And I got the Ultra/Platinum versions (not the stripped down OEM versions that come with your hardware). So I can can go and order a Blu-Ray burner from Spamazon, and I can get the cheap one that doesn’t have any software. So I ordered one. Hello two-day free shipping (I sill have Amazon Prime)…

It was still a mistake, I’m just making the best of it….

Another day, another windstorm...

Been in a spot of wild weather this week. Started right when I got off work last night, with wind. Lots of it. Then throughout today, we've gotten even worse winds. So far, my power hasn't gone out. But I left for the company meeting an hour earlier than I planned, just to make sure that I'm there on time...

If your have to go out in it, drive carefully. One person has been killed already...

So I made a mistake the past week.

I’ve used Nero for the longest of times. It just works. Though I really don’t have to burn DVD’s anymore. Anyway last week, I finally bit the bullet and ordered Nero 2016 Platinum from newegg. I also ordered CyberLink PowerDVD as well. Big mistake. I guess I didn’t look close enough. I thought I was getting a burning program. But I just bought a $99 DVD player.  Of course after I ordered it, I saw Power2Go for sale at Wally World, and so I ordered it. And they were all delivered on the same day. I just installed everything. Nero was installed first, and it went in with no issues. My only complaint with it is when I buy the ‘Platinum’ version of software, I don’t any ads for the next version. I thought I was getting the next version! The Cyberlink software was installed next. Activation went without a hitch. Again, I don’t like getting hit with demo offers when I’m buying ‘platinum’ or ‘ultra’ versions. But what can I do? They have my money, and the software is non-refundable. So I just have to eat my loss and learn my very expensive lesson. And even though I bought PowerDVD, I still have to install VLC Media Player…

I should’ve stayed with Nero. And to rub salt into it, both of the CyberLink products are on sale as a bundle for even less than I paid for them….

Four Letter Word!

So I got sufficiently tee’d off at my tower last night to just wipe it. Normally this wouldn’t be that big of a problem, as I have a 2 TB usb drive now for file backups. But I just realized that when I last restored my Firefox and Thunderbird application data, I ended up erasing it from the backup. So I’m now swearing up a storm. Though I still have my previous backup (that was on another drive). I’m still po’ed at it though.

And did you know that the control userpasswords2 trick that work in Windows XP will also work in Windows 10?

A supposedly lazy Sunday morning….

A broke a rule in this house this morning. The first one up makes the coffee. I was up first, but I didn’t make the coffee. But I did buy doughnuts….

It’s not really a day off today for me. There is a work function tonight that I have to go to, but I still have tomorrow off, so I don’t have to concern myself with turn and burn. Normally I’d be pretty tee’d off about have a day off pulled out from under me, but this is one of those ‘good’ meetings where the bonuses are passed out. And they’re feeding us, too…

Three times…

This weekend, I started with my computer running Windows 7 and my phone running Kit Kat. Friday night, I had finished updating my backup for the Tower (application of lessons learned long ago) on my 2 TB usb hard drive. For some reason, I thought it would be cool to put Windows 8.1 back on my tower. So I pulled out the system restore kit that I burned right when I brought my computer home, and I proceeded to wipe everything. After installing Win8.1, I then proceeded to update it. Over 3 GB’s of updates. And then I went to restore all my documents. But somewhere in all this, I realized why I really didn’t like Windows 8.1. So, I pulled out my Windows 10 usb thumb drive, and wiped it again. This time, I immediately went to download the 1511 update. Afterwards, I was installing drivers (all while watching Mythbusters wrap up). And then I decided to try an reinstall the SecDrv driver. Big Mistake at the time. A few minutes later, I was installing another program, and windows installer wouldn’t work. So I said fuck it, and I wiped my tower again. For the third time. This time, I didn’t dink around with the SecDrv install. And I finally got a semi-functioning Windows install. I suppose I could have gone back to 7, but that would be no fun. Besides it’s easier for me to Netflix and Hulu on my tower from Win10 than Win7.

I started this weekend with KitKat on my phone. I then gave Marshmallow a try. And I didn’t like it. So I went back to Lollipop. This wasn’t as big a deal as it is for my computer, as my phone’s memory card has enough space on it that I can keep multiple ROMs on it….

In all this, did I mention that I got a ‘new’ printer last week. My mother gave me her HP OfficeJet 4622. Like my Lexmark, it supports Wi-Fi printing, it’s a multi-function printer, and it has individual ink tanks. But unlike my Lexmark, it also support mobile printing. I can now print from my cell phone….