Opening Day is in the books…

The Mariners won. King Felix won. Ichiro is back in a Mariners uniform. ITHey’re now 1-0. YOu can define an enitre season off of one game, but things look s good for the Mariners. And this is The New World Order (Mind-Control Divison), so keep your AFDB on…

Would someone please remind me?

Would someone please remind me that the next time I decide to try something different with my tower (i.e. a different version of Windows like Windows 8.1), I’m going to end up putting the previous version back on my tower again? On the bright side, this time it only took me a week from the time I formatted my hard drive to the time I finished installing Flight Simulator X. But because I have a laptop, I’m never without a working computer. I even have a Blu-Ray and TV tuner for it. In fact, this post is being written on it.

But all is well for now. Everything is restored to my Tower. Again. At least until the next time….

So what all happened last night.

Get home from work. Park the bicycle. See that my new printer was delivered after some issues with UPS (but I’m not going into my issues with UPS tonight). So I set up my printer, and install the software for it on my tower. Then I went to bed. A couple of hours later, the coughing started. No sleep, just coughing. So, at the ass-crack of dawn this morning, I decided to call out. Being a diabetic, when I get sick, I get sick, and I wasn’t going to be in any shape to go to work. So, I stayed home and chilled all day. The cough has settled down, and I should be able to return to work tomorrow.

Rather frustrating….

So, last week, I decided to install Windows 10 on my tower. Everything was going well. I reinstalled almost every program. And then it came time for Flight Simulator X. The initial install went well, activating without issue. Then I installed the Acceleration pack. And that’s where the issue came up. I could never get it to activate. I’m sure if I kept at it, I could eventually solve it, but I decided to fuck it, and nuked my sytem from orbit. Again. So, I back to square one.

But I did get a new printer this week. A Canon Pixma MX 922. It features all the bells and whistles. Duplex printing (and scanning, too). And it can print CD/DVDs. But I got it mainly for the scanner (since I already have a color laser printer that does duplex printing). My HP printer that I had before could no longer stay turned on, so it had to go.

A new trick I picked up last week….

Last week, I decided to go with Windows 8.1 over Windows 7. Don’t ask me why, but at least I had a recent back-up available. So I pulled out the restore DVD set, and wiped the tower. Then I upgraded immediately to Windows 8.1 Pro. Then I installed all the updates and patches and debloated (this is an OEM system restore rather than just an OS installer). Once I had done all this, I then installed all the apps from the Windows Store. And there are a few apps that are only available on Windows 8.1 and not Windows 10. Anyway, I had this all done, and then I came to my senses and realized what I had done. But I was too lazy to just up and wipe my entire system again. So I put the Windows 10 USB drive in and did an upgrade install (something that I usually avoid like the plague). The upgrade install went without a hitch. And afterwards, I realized that I still had those Windows 8.1 Store apps that I normally wouldn’t have in Windows 10, and they still worked.

Sometimes, you can get away with just upgrading…

No more MC Hawking…

And Lo! The Flying Spaghetti Monster has reached forth with his Noodly Appendage and has called home Stephen Hawking. May he spend all of Eternity frolicking among The Beer Volcano and The Stripper Factory. Ramen.

When I first got my library card, one of the first books I checked out was A Brief History Of Time. He advanced the human knowledge, and still made it accessible to the rest of us….

You’re not supposed to panic on you day off…

Day off today, as was yesterday. I turned my alarms off (they’re on my phone). So, my phone was showing my next alarm on Wednesday. When I woke up this morning, I just saw the Wednesday on my phone, and realized that I had overslept, and was going to be seriously late for work. So, I was panicking. And then I realized, ‘What happened to Tuesday?’. I finally had to ask Alexa what day of the week it is…

You’re not supposed to panic like this on your day off….

So, there was a shift in my schedule last week…

Instead of getting off at 11, I’m now getting off at 10. Still ride the bike home from work. And I’m still full-time. There has been another shift. My weekend has gone from Tuesdays and Wednesdays to Mondays and Tuesdays. Except for in a couple of weeks, when I’ll be working a split weekend, but that week, I’ll be off for opening day of The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). So I have that day to hide in my room with my AFDB on.

Shiny side out, people…

Some creative scheduling….

Yesterday and today are normally my ‘weekend’ from my $dayjob. But Monday night, I got a text message asking if I could cover for a co-worker at Mrs. Fields. So that was one day off gone. Then on Tuesday, the store owner asked me to come in for an hour. So there went my entire weekend. But the owner got creative with the schedule. He would work open to close today, and I would close last night in his stead, so my co-worker could have the day for a family event, and I could salvage my weekend.

So today is my only day off this week. Agenda: stay in my room, watch tv, turn the heat up, and possibly do laundry….