And The Past Is In The Past!

I guess it is time to dump the contents of my MS Works blog onto the actual blog.

Here we go!

Remember That Night

This is me, writing a blog entry in Microsoft Pocket Word on my HP Jornada 728 HPC.  I must say that typing is somewhat cumbersome on the tiny keyboard and the screen is kind of crap since the backlight appears to be shot, but using outdoor brightness settings might be the solution for that one.

Anyway, I’m mostly doing this to test the syncing capabilities of this 20 year old computer and Windows 10. Also, because what better way to start off 2022 than by composing a blog entry on a piece of hardware that debuted in 2002!

I installed a copy of Windows XP in a virtual machine hoping to get an old copy of ActiveSync working, but Windows Mobile Device Center detected the thing after like a week of looking. 

Whatever, I’ll take it.

Now You’re Just Somebody I Used To Know

 

Tired Of Lying In The Sunshine

Thought about going for the good old one word post of “blargh” or something along those lines.  But nope. 

Not today.

Granted, there won’t be much more of substance in this post.

Maybe I’ll draw a picture or some crap later on.

Just to put me right

Just To Put Me Right

Went to the hospital.  Apparently my insides are all kinds of inflamed due to the sickness. 

The fix? Take Costco-esqe quantities of ibuprofen, sleep, don’t do anything requiring chest muscles for a few weeks.

Shiny.

Well, not working…The bills that does not pay.

*shrug*

So here we go.  Either I will get better or I will lose my job.  Cannot wait to see how it plays out.

And Be Back To Work Before Two

I haven't been to work for over a week now, and the only thing I can think to ask about it is "I wonder how my 4 O'clock friend is doing?"

Why Can’t We Be Friends

Today has been a day full of surprises.  I ended up getting the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack…Mostly so the wife could play Golden Axe.  I’m also typing this into a MS Works Word Processor document that is being saved to the cloud…That is a slightly weird thing to me.

Anyway, back to the Nintendo.

Last month they added Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games to the online offerings.  

 

Along with some sweet, sweet controllers that I cannot buy right now, mostly due to them being out of stock.  I was originally going to wait until March whatever, my subscription renewal date to sign up and buy the controllers, but we ended up going ahead with a few months early.  So far the Genesis games seem to all work with no real sort of drama.  Unsure about Nintendo’s offerings, but time will tell.

Granted, I have been playing an awful lot of Zelda on the NES and SNES the last few weeks.
 

 

I will stand by my initial declaration that the Nintendo Switch is the best way to play games you already own…In some cases, games you’ve owned for decades.  

Pumpkins Scream In The Dead Of Night

 My bloggery composition routine(?) has altered somewhat substantially over the years.

I started this blog on Diaryland.com, eventually moved that to Livejournal.com.  From there my original LJ became something of a thing for my insane thoughts and I created a different one to be somewhat more reasonable.  From there I moved to Blogger.  After several years of that, I moved everything to WordPress.  

It took a long time, but I was able to pull all (I think) of the DL posts over to LJ.  Then I moved it all to Blogger and from there Wordpress.  It was somewhat time consuming to get everything moved over and, for lack of a better word, rebranded.  But eventually I pulled it off.

As for the actual composition, originally I was using the built in online posting stuff.  I tried a few offline clients for LJ, but nothing really ever worked out well for me.  Eventually I came across Windows Live Writer and got back into things.  That one was discontinued and I switched to Open Live Writer.  It never worked as well as I would have liked it to, but that may have been the computer rather than the software.  It was nice being able to double post on separate blogs from one app, but I have since basically abandoned the Blogger site in favor of this one.  I am now uploading from the WordPress app

But! But! But! I am actually keeping a running log of posts I am working on (outlines, actual posts, just general notes) in a text file in Microsoft Works Word Processor 9.0.

Yes. I said that.

 

 

Works 9.0.  

Why? Why not!  It is a fairly lightweight program, uses an obscure file format, and, frankly, because I like it.

Once I get this done, I will copy and paste it into the WordPress app and set it free!  Will I do it today? This one, probably.  I have several other entries in this file to finish, and many more ideas, so there will be many posts that end up showing up later than the original dates, but I am posting them based on dates I started to try and keep things in the correct sequential order. 

It’s Not The East Or The West Side

Just read a brief article about the “Bigger Luke” Star Wars fan theory…

In response I’m going to tell you the joke that never gets old.

Ready for it?

Here it is!

People.

There’s A Voice In My Head That Drives My Heel

Today we went to Yellowwood State Forest, which we do about this time every year.  Brown County, Indiana in October is always very visually appealing due to the forests and everything doing their autumn thing.  One year the weather was dreary, so I was the idiot doing my photography in black and white. (insert link to previous post/photos)  Today I decided to do something I’ve never done before…I equipped my bag with nothing but DSL’s (Nikon D3100 and D3500 and a Canon 40D) and Automatic lenses.

Nothing manual.  At all.

I will say this, I felt like I had virtually no control over my visual compositions.  Point, click, let the camera do the work.

I was not a fan.  The way I tend to use the light has been described as “interestingly awesome” by more than a few people and automatic settings just do not allow that kind of customization.  The camera captures what it sees in the way it thinks is best.

Which is fine. I would guess the majority of people who take pictures of things want to have an image that is more or less how it actually looks so they can have an accurate memory.  I take pictures of nature, primarily, and I try to go more for feeling.  I can go out on a dreary or rainy day and get something that is visually striking:

 

 

On a day where the sky is as dreary and gray as this:

 

Manual settings on a digital camera are a must for me.  There was just something too sterile about this one:

 

(Canon 40D w/Canon 35-80 automatic lens)

Versus this:

 

 (Nikon D40X w/Maybe my beat to hell Spiratone 135 manual lens).

But that is just me and I am weird.