It’s that time again; the semi-annual review of the year to somewhat consolidate things into a single post.
2023 was, in most ways, a repeat of 2022; the economy is still tits-up so most of my extracurricular efforts happened around the house – usually involving some computer.
Most of the fun stuff of 2023 was reconnecting with a lot of old computers I’d used / owned in the past:
This led to my working with OpenCore for a couple of months, and that led to turning an old Dell XPS into a Hackintosh – which led to buying a new PC over several trips to Microcenter…
The new PC, which is now an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D running 64Gigs of DDR5 and an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX video card has been pretty great, though Microsoft’s insistence on monetizing all user data regardless of system usefulness or stability really lets it down…
I also bought a new MacBook Pro, and then sold it seven months later… The M-series CPUs are pretty great, though Apple’s insistence on everything being an iPhone really lets it down.
I may make the jump to some *nix variant this coming year…
The birthday present I got in 2023 is still working great though. I’m not sure I can ever go back to simple LCD monitors.
Car-wise, my Chrysler 300 is still doing great – I love the gas guzzling monster and I don’t have any plans to replace it any time soon. And speaking of cars my roommate got a truck this year, and he seems pretty happy with it as well.
Other than that, the level of dystopia in 2023 continues to rise – homeless people setting fire to the forest, my roommate’s truck getting broken into, my office getting broken into… All things that, just a few years ago, were things we only read about as happening on the left-coast.
Let’s see, I also engaged in a little geneology and then attempted a new position at work that didn’t work out – I’m not an actual accountant, I just play one for my I.T. department. So, I’m still the CIO – a position I’ve held where I work for about fifteen years now. I’ll hit my 20 years at the company in 2024 – so there’s that I suppose.
Speaking of 20 years – this journal hit 20 years this year, and the domain rihahn.com hits 25 years in August. I’ve been doing this for too damn long.
Other than that, it’s been a year – much like every other year. I can’t complain much as I seem to have made it to the finish line once again.
Listening to "Gypsy" by Fleetwood Mac