Friday, February 9, 2018

History Shows Again And Again

Here is to 2018!


Hopefully I can manage to accomplish writing something here every day.


I have a bunch of Windows screenshots to upload from something or other, pictures from the Zoo, saw a movie and hopefully something about the most dubious video game purchase I think I have ever made.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Pigs On The Wing

Today's weird shipping:


The phrase "A pig's ear" comes to mind.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Into The Distance A Ribbon Of Black

Started playing with the Windows Vista Longhorn Post Reset betas today.  Ran into some issues in the install, but here is what I have so far:

Bios date set to 2/5/2005, IDE controller for 25gb hard disk and CD-ROM.

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As you can see it did not care for my storage configuration in VirtualBox.  Going to have to figure that one out.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

I Hear The Birds Sing In The Afternoon

Today I made quite possibly the most dubious video game purchase of my life....
I snagged a PXP3 Slim Station 16 bit handheld from Wish.com.
The thing has Mario and Link and Donkey Kong on the promo picture but the reviews imply it is mostly a bunch of Sega games...
This is going to be interesting when it arrives in something like a month.

Monday, January 29, 2018

And His Fist Be Ever Ready For A Knock Down Blow

I snagged a copy of Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season (Star Trek: The Next Generation) from my local library.

I really enjoyed reading the @tng_s8 Twitter account, so I figured the book was worth a read. The first few episodes were enjoyable.  Eventually I  will finish it.

 

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Turn Up The Spotlight One And All

We decided to take our child to the Indianapolis Zoo today. 


We decided to purchase a membership which basically means we can come and go as we please for the next year. We plan to take full advantage of it.


There were not very many animals to be seen today, sadly.  But this is what you get in the middle of January.


























Monday, January 1, 2018

Begin Again

Today is the first day of the year 2018.

I make no resolution.  I will, however, make a goal...My goal is to post something here every day this year.

Be it a random photo from my day, whatever random rambling that went through my mind that day or something from a writing prompt, my goal is to post something here.

For this particular blog, 2017 was my best year (45 posts with plenty more holes to fill in!), but I'm hoping to do better in 2018.

Let's do this!

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The Sugar's Only Sweetness

My local (Stabby/Shooty) Kroger has been undergoing a remodel.  Don't know how to feel about product placement sometimes!

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Forget The Hearse 'Cause I'll Never Die

In case anyone was wondering, here is a small selection of my Christmas Music playlist from work.

Saturday, November 25, 2017

She Left Me Roses By The Stairs

Today was a bittersweet day...






It has been an extremely long time since anyone other than myself has done any work on this old thing.  Probably the last time was when the transmission crapped out in 2008. 

But since I'm moving in like two and a half weeks, it kind of needs to be transportable.  The ignition system is super sketchy.  I suspect some idiot of a college kid tried to hotwire it this past summer.

Ah well, we shall see what it ends up being.