Ok, we can stop panicking now...

The power is back on. Now to turn the AC back on and go back to bed... 

A nice warm day....

It's going to be a nice warm day today. I was all set to chill in my air conditioned room. And the power just went out... 

So this past weekend…

I was at work this past weekend, and I got a text from the Mrs. Fields store owner. One of our early morning regulars passed away July 3. RIP Duane. You will be missed.

Yesterday’s experiment….

Ok, I just had to try Windows 7 again. I thought I’d have better results with an MBR boot drive than a GPT one. But with my other hard drives being GPT, I was having issues. So yesterday, I did a complete external back up. Then I booted off the Windows DVD and went straight to Diskpart, and used the ‘clean command to wipe everything completely. And I was able to initialize my ssd as a MBR drive and I installed. And then when I went to set up my other hard drives, I realized the problem. The windows installer had initialized one of my hard drives as MBR as well. Apparently Windows 7 doesn’t really want to recognize m.2 ssd’s. Learning my lessons from previous attempts, I went ahead and put the Windows 10 DVD back in, and it’s back to the drawing board….

Sometimes, the only you’re going to learn is to go ahead and make the mistake. But that’s why we have backups…

Hooray West Indies!

West Indies won the match Sunday morning. Next match in the series starts Thursday morning. And I will be at work all 5 days…

Just finished reinstalling all my software yet again. Between Epic, Steam, Origin, Uplay, Gog, and Amazon, I have way too much crap installed on my computer. But all I seem to do is play Flight Simulator X. On August 18 (my birthday btw) , they will be releasing Flight Simulator 2020. I think I know what I’m getting for my birthday. And since it’s being initially released through the Microsoft store, it’ll be a good reason to keep Windows 10 installed for more that a week. Speaking of which, I had a hunch about why I kept getting bluescreeens in Windows 7, and looked it up. Though about trying it out again. But in the end, it was going to be the same thing, and I’d end up wiping everything and starting over for nothing. So I left it at that.

And the winner of the match is...

So last night/this morning I've been watching the first day of the West Indies/England Test match. Abs the winner of the match so far is the English weather. Start was delayed due to rain. Abs they've barely been able to get in 4 overs. They're now on their second rain delay.

Hooray West Indies... 

Ok, so it's official, again...

Tried Windows 7 again this morning. Abs it lasted all of 6 hours. After the first round of updates from Windows Update, it bluescreened on the first reboot. Lesson learned, back to Windows 10. At least I know it works... 

Happy Birthday, Sir Richard Starkey!

Ringo Starr is 80 today. No real reason due me to post this, I just wanted to post some good news in my blog for once. 

Ok so while I was dealing with other issues this morning....

(Note: see the last post).

So, while I was busy dealing with the mess I made of my tower this morning, I checked my phone and noticed 3 emails from Bealls Florida. Somebody had used my name and email address to order some shoes to be shipped to Ocala Florida. I did not recognize the credit card number in the order, so I gave them a call. A 35 minute phone call later, abs the order was canceled, my name and email were purged from their system, abs the store credit card that was used was flagged as fraudulent.

Not a way to start the morning.... 

Here we go again

Again I fell to temptation and put Windows 7 back on my tower. I thought I could get around my issues with bluescreens and reboots by making my ssd an mbr formatted drive. Turns out, that while Windows can work with it, you're SOL with Windows 7. But the damage has been done, so I'm going to give it another try. I figure I'll be back to windows 10 and square one within a week, most likely 12 hours.

And international cricket returns tonight, with the first Test match of West Indies at England. Hooray West Indies... 

I wanted some pizza a couple of weeks ago…

I came home from work, and I was hungry. So I pulled out my phone and ordered some Domino’s. Actually, I was on the bus, but I selected future delivery and I was home by the time the driver delivered. When I was ordering on the app, I noticed that there a was pay with PayPal option, so I tried it. I signed in, selected my checking account, and placed the order. Got a confirmation email indicating that I was paying with PayPal.

And then the driver came, and said that I still needed to pay. Apparently I was never charged. I didn’t have the cash on me, and I’m not going to take stuff that I didn’t pay for so I declined the order. And I then called the store back, and explained to the manager what happened and I then paid for my order with a credit card. Basically because my ethics and my conscience answer to a higher authority. And I did order it, so I’m obliged to pay for it.

So that was the end of that. No use in bitching out the store personnel since this was beyond their control. But I took it to Twitter. I messaged Dominos with all the details, and I just wanted to know why they’re not taking PayPal when they give it as an option to pay. And their response was to just ask me for more personal info that they don’t need. I also called out PayPal, but I’m not going to bother with their response as they’re just a ‘bot. Dominos just doesn’t know how to read…

So last Saturday I again ordered Dominos. This time, applying the lessons learned in previous weeks, I paid with a credit card. Driver showed with and extra order of cheesy bread and a Diet Coke, saying that his manager added these because of the problems with my last order….

Moral of this story: Never use PayPal for ordering takeout/delivery and always tip generously….

3 years ago yesterday….

3 years ago yesterday, I was at my previous employer. I got The Phone Call to go to the office. Getting fired sucks. But I’ve landed on my feet, and within a month and a half I was back to work (with my current employer). But still not a fun experience….

12 years ago today….

And 19 years ago today, I moved. The first time I moved was from Meridian West Apartments to The Hamptons. Literally just across the street. Bigger apartment. Rent was about 1.5 times what we were paying. And my room was smaller. Less than a year into this apartment, I was diagnosed as a diabetic, I had lost my job, and I had lost my health insurance. But I overcame.

Twelve year ago, I moved into this apartment with my brother. This move was literally from one building to another. I’ve lost two jobs since moving here, but I’ve always landed on my feet. And I still have health insurance…

When I moved in here, I had T-Mobile for phone service. In 2012, we switched to Sprint. Due to a recent merger, we’re back to T-Mobile….