So, I had a birthday last week….

Monday of last week was my birthday. Received well-wishes on Facebook. Brother/roommate made a pot roast Sunday night. And there was a store-bought coconut cream pie. There were no birthday presents involved, but they weren’t necessary anyways (since my birthday falls during peak back-to-school season, many birthdays’ presents were actually just school supplies growing up, but given the household financial situation, it was what it was….)

But I digress. I did have to buy myself something. My keyboard had developed a habit of random keys getting stuck, necessitating a hard reboot of my computer to straighten it out. Taking a look at it, it was time to replace it. But Logitech has apparently disco’ed the Wave keyboard that I’ve been using for 10+ years. So, it’s time to get a new one. I got the Logitech MK 710 combo.  It’s not the Wave MK 350 that I’m used to, but such is progress.

Yes, I know I took the pledge to not buy anymore upgrades to my computer, but this was a USB item, and it can be carried over to my next computer, when the time comes….

Then End Is Near….

So my vacation is about to come to an end. I think the most ‘vacationy’ thing I did were the naps. Sometimes all you need is some extra sleep to recharge. But for now it has come to an end, and when I wake up tonight, it’ll be back to work as usual….

Vacation: Day 4 Report:

Just did laundry. Hopefully the last of the Adulting to be done for my vacation. Aside from the laundry, I didn’t do that much. Well, there was that nap I took….

So, what all happened yesterday….

Vacation, Day 3. It was also my birthday. Responded to the well wishes on Facebook. Sister came over, and we went out to lunch, I chose food court teriyaki. Then another Target run, and a trip to Wally World. And then I went to bed.

Oh and Sunday night, roommate made a pot roast. Really good. He also got a pie to celebrate my birthday. But per tradition, he has to eat the entire thing, so I’m not going to touch it….

Vacation: Day 2 Report, Part 2

To continue from the previous post, while finishing up the Tower, also watch some Footy (apparently that’s what Australian Rules Football is called). Watched a little bit of NFL pre-season. Watched some circket.

Speaking of Football, I deliberately wnet to bed way too early on Saturday morning, so I could  wake up early and watch some football. Saw 2 games.. Next time, I’ll keep the normal circadian rhythm and DVR them.

Yes, I should’ve written this in the morning, but I was too busy going to bed.

The Mariners are going to lose the Little League Classic. Because I’m watching the game….

Vacation: Day 2 Report, Part 1….

Finished putting my tower back together. Back in the day when we used to install all of our games from (CD/DVD)Roms, I accumulated quite a few. Enough to fill up a 72 cd wallet. Plus another one for drivers, backups, and other programs. And of course there the few items I had to keep in the original jewel cases because of product codes. And being the digital pack rat, I had to reinstall everything every time I wiped my system. Which was quite regular since I liked to tinker.

And then my motherboard gave up the ghost in 2014. This was when I bought my HP tower. With it came Windows 7/Windows 8.1/ and eventually Windows 10. And they were all 64-bit OSes. And The Anti-Christ disabled secdrv.sys so a good chunk of my games wouldn’t install, and if they did they wouldn’t run. My workaround at the time was to use a Windows ME/Windows XP virtual machines (at the time VMWare player already had 3d acceleration supported). Eventually I started acquiring my games digitally, through Steam, then EA Games (Origin at the time), Ubisoft Connect, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Sometimes I was able to digitally acquire what I had on CD-ROM (like my Star Wars games). And some I just gave up on trying to get them to work.

But recently I’ve been finding success with getting my 16-bit installers to work with Windows 11, finding co-cd patches, and using dgVoodoo so now most of my old games can now be played. Even on Windows 11. Which is how I now have 4 different version of Monopoly and 2 Battleships installed. I think I only have 4-5 CD-Roms that I can’t figure out. Yet.

Vacation: Day 1: Report….

So, I made a Target run yesterday. Then went to bed. Woke up, and saw the Seahawks game (they beat the Kansas City Assistant Managers). Continued to redownload my Steam library. And I put my AC back up. What had happened is I took down my hose Thursday night, as the weather forecast said it was going to rain quite hard, and I have a preference for fresh air.

At the time, I feel the need to make a confession. I was supposed to work Thursday night, but I called out. All I’m going to say is that this was a sick day, not an extra day of vacation….

Vacation: Commence!

Ok, so my vacation is starting. Agenda is to put the computer back together after nuking it from orbit Monday night (see the previous post or two about that). I’ve made a Target run this morning already, and make be making another run later. Tomorrow, it’ll probably be a trip to Wally World. And the main agenda will be to sit on my ass as much as possible while watching foot ball and Cricket (with the NFL preseason, The Hundred, and the Caribbean Premier League going on right now.

Vacation: Commence!

Choked On An Update….

So my computer was running pretty fine. Or so I thought. Then I fired up Android (I still use Windows Subsystem For Android, downloaded from here). And Google Play wouldn’t work. Ok, So I redownloaded the current version. And no dice. Ok, I was thinking about a system wipe anyway, so I nuked it from orbit Monday night. And yesterday, when it came time install WSA, and lo! Google Play still didn’t load. Some swearing and Googling ensued, and discovered that it was a bug in the July update. And a rather complicated workaround. But, it got fixed. And more importantly, I just verified that it still works after the August update.

And at one time, I was going to try and not nuked my system from orbit this week….