Author: rihahn
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Moving, part two
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Dropped off my end tables this evening and did some investigation on the wiring situation; there are some suspect lights and light switches that I’ll be replacing… I ordered the…
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Strengths and Weaknesses
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Everyone has their personal superpower — and their personal kryptonite; that proverbial Achilles heel that succeeds in thwarting them no matter how they try to work around it. My kryptonite…
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Moving
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I started moving over to the new house on Sunday, and moved some of my more fragile items like framed art and whatnot this evening after work. While doing this…
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One down, three to go…
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Last evening after work I finished the quest chain for “A Realm Reborn” in Final Fantasy 14, so I’m officially back to where I left off in July of 2019.…
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Tax time!
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My W2 arrived, so that means it’s time to break out the calculator and get to doing my taxes… Fortunately I have one of those new-fangled electronic adding machines… Funny…
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Work / Game Balance
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One of the nicer things about Final Fantasy 14 is that you can log in and achieve something without having to block out several consecutive hours to an entire day…
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Update
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I tend to get to work pretty early in the morning; between 0600 and 0630 usually. I blame this on my years in the military, but it does come in…
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Games people play
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After discovering a friend of mine also plays Final Fantasy 14, I dug in and and really played the game for several hours this weekend. While I had started on…
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Time marches on…
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I managed to get ahold of a utility to create watch faces for the Apple Watch, and while installation is a giant PITA, once it’s working it’s pretty keen. Being…
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If it’s “Final Fantasy”, why are there 15 of them?
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For some light entertainment I decided to fire up FF14 yesterday, which was entertaining in a “I should get a dozen levels of EXP for just figuring out how to…
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A cinema show…
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During my walk last night I wandered past the local theater and noticed they were open once again — so that became my adventure for the evening. Over the last…
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It’s simple; you’ve seen what food processors do to food right?
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In general, all word processors are the same; you type, words show up on the screen, some of them might even be spelled right, and if you’re lucky the grammar…
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Good morning, Internet
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This morning is one of those mornings where you can actually see the shadow of the horizon slowly pan down the mountains and across Denver from the roof of my…
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Secondlife Sightseeing
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Back in 2018, the group I ran role-play sims in SecondLife with decided they wanted to play in a futuristic space setting. Of course to do this required a sim…
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Breakfast in the apocalypse…
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With all the flop and twitch going on in the world I took the hint back in March and, over a few months, amassed some supplies in case things got…
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The world according to Microsoft…
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Super busy with a project right now, but while this .iso comes down from Microsoft I just had to post an observation… Microsoft’s “Hyper-V” is their house-brand hypervisor for virtual…
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Moving…
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Today I got to see the place my CFO is offering, and it’s really nice. It’s probably twice the space I have now, with a really upscale layout and killer…
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2021
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Welp, we made it. As is tradition, I was asleep by about 10pm and missed all of the drunken frivolity and fireworks. Today is a day off, so after my…
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Toys
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The holiday season is inextricably tied to toys, and even here in my 50’s I still look forward to buying myself some small totally-useless-but-ultimately-fun item each year. Now, I’m not…