And it’s over…

Australia just won the match. It took an entire vacation, but I’ve now watched a Test Cricket match from first delivery to the final wicket.

And I still have a T20 attention span…

The Last Day Of My Vacation.

And I’m currently watching the last session of the third Test between Australia and Pakistan. It looks like Australia will win this one. I also finished rebuilding my computer, which I started when I got home from work Sunday morning. And this time, I’ve made sure to do a back up of my start menu shortcuts (which is why I had to do it, the ones that weren’t in a folder disappeared). Did my laundry last night, so I don’t have to worry about it.

Next weekend’s agenda has been set. I’m setting up my Air Conditioner again. It’s just the beginning of Spring, but I have a westward facing window in my room, and it’s beginning to get rather warm in my room in the afternoon, when I should be sleeping. I could open my window, but Pacific Avenue is a rather noisy place during the day.

But tomorrow it’s back to work. For only 3 days, then back to my regularly scheduled programming….

Vacation Day 4: Report…

Ok, when I started my vacation Sunday morning, I placed a delivery order from Wally World. I placed a drinks from 7-11 via UberEats Tuesday night. And today I’ve just placed another delivery from Target. There are added costs for delivery, but the trade-off is that I can stay home.

Saw day 4 of the Australia vs Pakistan test last night. Between the lunch break and the tea break (yes, in cricket they stop play for tea), I did my laundry for the week.

And I continued reinstalling my software. Wednesday I installed my Origin and my Epic Games. And I cheated. Since I have multiple hard drives & they were being installed to separate drives, I was able to multitask and install them both simultaneously. Last night, I tried that with my Amazon and Ubisoft games. Didn’t go over as well. Several crashes and 1 Blue Screen Of Death. But I got them reinstalled. Next up it was my GOG games library. And now I’m currently downloading my Steam games….

Vacation Day 3: Report

Watched day 3 of the Pakistan/Australia test. Just for the record, I did not know the Test match was scheduled when I booked the vacation. It was just a coincidence. But this was one of my many ‘bucket list’ items: to watch a Test cricket match from start to finish…

I would’ve written this post this morning, but a nap attack and some computer problems led to me retiring early.

As for my computer problems, it just became slow. Nothing would respond. First instinct was to reboot it. But I just had a nap attack, so I was going to bed. So I just turned it off (through windows). And it hung on the shutdown screen. And hung. And hung. So I used the reset button on my tower, which normally overrrides whatever the OS is doing and reboots the motherboard/system. And then I got the ‘no OS’ error from the motherboard. Pulled out my Windows 10 thumbdrive, and attempted a startup repair. No dice. Rebooted into BIOS to boot directly into my SSD (where windows was installed), and my drive wasn’t even there. And then, on a hunch, I turned it off completely. Counted to 3 then turned it back on. And it worked. Installed the latest update from Windows Update, turned it off and went back to bed. Moral of the story: the ‘reset’ button on my tower has it’s uses, but I’m better using the power switch if I need to hard shutdown my system….

My agenda for day 4 of my vacation: Day 4 of the test match.

Vacation Day 3….

It’s starting to get warm here. A sign of the arrival of spring. I think the AC might be getting set up shortly, as I have difficulty sleeping when it’s warm. Got up today and I did not order Uber Eats straight out of bed (a necessity as most restaurants close right when I wake up). It’s a good thing as my brother decided that it was Spaghetti night. He may not believe it, but he is a good cook. Then again I also make it a point to not complain about cooking if I didn’t cook it….

Tonight, it will be day 3 of Pakistan vs. Australia Test 3.

Happy Pakistan Day to those inclined to celebrate it…

Vacation Day 2: Report….

Watched day 2 of Australia vs. Pakistan, Test 3. Well for the most part. I lost cable service during the second session.

I also fixed the issue with my computer losing the desktop icons ( and all the control panel applets). What I did was to simply start off with the previous version of Windows 10. Then I applied my tweaks (using winaero tweaker). And when the icons disappeared, I simply upgraded to the current version, which restored the missing icons…

Vacation Day 1: Report

Saw day one of the Test match between Australia and Pakistan. And I trekked the wrong setting on my computer. System restore hung on me. But I've got backups. But this also means back to square 1. Oh well. I guess I'm ocd that way. It had to be done exactly right, or I'm not going to halt about it.... 

Vacation: Commence!

So a couple of weeks ago (more like 3 or so), I decided I needed some time off. So I went to personnel, sat down at a computer, and booked 3 days off. And two hours later, it was approved. So here I am, with 3 days off in addition to my weekend. And I'm starting it with binge watching Discovery+....

And I should add that I'm writing this from my phone. For reasons, I wiped my computer... 

Day 5, Session 3

Australia vs. Pakistan. It's day 5, session 3 with 10 overs and change to go. Who knew Test cricket could be so thrilling? 

Beware The Idiots Of March!

It is March 15 today. In an presidential election year, this is when primaries are starting, and so you see all the candidates. Hence beware the idiots of march. It’s just the mid-terms this year, Chances are that DC will still remain another partisan farce. So I’m just going to cast my ballot in 6 months and resume changing the channel whenever something political comes on….

So, after my last post, I stayed up all day, tracking my delivery in real time. At about 6:30 pm, my package status was ‘delivered’. I use that term closely because according to real-time tracking, the UPS truck was in the apartment complex right next to me. My roommate (brother) was out in our apartment parking lot taking a smoke break, and he never saw the UPS van. Needless to say, I was not happy. And T-Mobile still has piss-poor customer service. Went to UPS, and they told me to go pound sand. Finally, I went to the Sprint website, and found someone with a clue. They told me to file a police report, par for the course for a $1300 cell phone. So I called the non-emergency number, and they told me I could file the report online. So I did, and went to bed. Woke up to an email from the Pierce County Sherriff with a case number. And my phone. It was delivered. A day after it was marked as delivered. And after I reported it to the police. So I let UPS know that. After another chat with Sprint to make sure that it was kosher, I activated it.

And to think the previous week, I had a UPS delivery with no issues. You’d think that this would be a one time occurrence, but l ordered a wireless charger from Newegg last week, and they shipped brown. Guess what. UPS says it was left at my doorstep, but it wasn’t. My brother was waiting for a shipment himself, and there was no knock at the door. Newegg has my claim, and there is now an investigation. Hopefully a UPS driver gets fired over this…

Arriving tomorrow…

My new phone arrives tomorrow. I already have 3 cases and I’ve ordered an OtterBox for it as well. And since this phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, I ordered a set of Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro wireless headphones. They support wireless charging. But my wireless chargers won’t work with them (because they’re cradles and not lie flat). But another trip into The Drawer found the original wireless charger that I first bought when I originally got the Note 9 (also happens to be Samsung branded…). Yes it’s an older charger, but it still works…

I think a nap is in order so I can stay up all day to wait for the UPS guy…