Ok, today's agenda....

Normally, I sleep during the day, and I'm up at night, because of my work situation. But due to taking a sick day Sunday night (funny really want to get into that here), I got most of my day off chores done a day early. So last night,I decided to take a three hour nap. End result: I have a day off on an actual day. Normally my Tuesday morning errands are done as soon as the buses start running in the morning. But today I'm going to take my time, start out late (for me anyways). First stop, Puyallup...

Snow…

I should’ve titled this post ‘Cocaine…’

Anyway, the white stuff came down last night. Actually it started early Monday morning (and since I work overnights, to me it was evening). Anyway it wasn’t really sticking yesterday. That much. When I woke up last night, it was sticking. And it was still snowing. For most of last night, it snowed. I stayed home, ordered pizza, and watched AB De Villiers make his Big Bash League debut (yes, I like T20 Cricket). Then I played some Flight Simulator. And it still snowed. Sometime last night, I also decided not to make my traditional Tuesday Morning Trip up to Mrs. Fields. And I also decided my traditional errands that I normally run today can be put off as well. It’s my weekend. The roads are treacherous. I’m staying inside.

20 years ago, I bought my coat from Target (or was it Mervyns?). I’ve had other coats since then, but I’ve always used this one. Until Friday night, when the zipper finally broke. I tried borrowing one of my brother’s coats (props to him for literally offering my anything in his closet, save the one he was wearing at the time). I’ve order my replacement coat (from Target, naturally), but it’ll be about a week before it arrives. Correction: UPS says it’ll be here Friday.

But for now, I’m going back to staying indoors….

Finishing up my holiday shopping….

Yes, all the Christmas presents that I bought were given away. But, on Christmas Eve, I took a look at my finances and realized that I could now afford something that I’ve been looking forward too for a while. When I built my computer, I spent the most money on as much motherboard that I could afford, and put in a lower end CPU. Christmas Eve, I realized that I could now afford an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. So I pulled the trigger. And I also upgraded the RAM to0 (I’m now at 64 gB). Yes, I know that my components are a couple of years old already, but I’m not going to spend 4+ figures for top of the line parts, only for them to be obsolete the next week. Well, not obsolete, but still the deprecation in price will be worse than a car.

As for performance, the best stress test, I can think of is Flight Simulator X. So I crank up all the display settings to their respective maximums, and I still got a decent framerate. But then again, some would say that it’s already obsolete, but it works even better than I had before, so Im not goin to complain…

Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, 2019 Edition

2019 was a trip. In no particular order,  here’s what happened…..

• Took about 2 weeks from my regular day job to cover the owner’s vacation at Mrs Fields.
• Discovered Willow TV, and the sport of Cricket in general.
• Built my first PC from scratch. And I just upgraded the processor (but that will be an entry in an of itself).
• Bought 4 pairs of shoes, all at once.
• Bought a new coffee maker. I usually do it by the k-cup, but there are times when a full pot is called for, and this one does both.
• Experienced new levels of frustrations with UPS.
• Decided my cable service needed to be adjusted. This led to multiple visits to the cable store, 2 tech visits, and now I can no longer use the TV tuners in my Tower and/or my laptop. But my internet service is now much faster, and I can admin the Wi-Fi from my phone.
• Got ripped off at Jack In The Box. Complained. Got 2 form letters, and a not-so-subtle SLAPP threat for my efforts.
• Discovered UberEats. It’s pricy, but then again, I can have Shari’s delivered….

A lot did happen this year, and I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s to 2020….