Author: rihahn
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Of roofs and rent…
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The new lease for the townhouse arrived the other day, because I have to give them 60 days notice. So I need to accept or refuse the new lease by…
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Happy Holidays!
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I walked over to the local Village Inn to get a little outside time and to pick up my breakfast. With the zombies and all, even at T-minus-5 days until…
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Watch Band
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And last but not least, my custom watch band arrived this evening. 2-day delivery took two weeks thanks to the USPS — but the band is really nice and even…
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Atari
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My 1-of-6000 Collector’s Edition Atari VCS 800 arrived today. I got it all set up and played some Asteroids and Tempest with the roommate, which was tons of fun. The…
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Update…
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I’m on “vacation”, which just means it can take 30 minutes to an hour for me to get around to the current world-ending problem at work. My roommate also starts…
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Cyberpunk
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So, CDProjectRed’s “Cyberpunk 2077” released a few days ago. I’m an old fan of Cyberpunk, from back in the late 80’s when it was a tabletop roleplaying game from R.…
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Shipping And Handling
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I’m still waiting for my new Apple Watch band to arrive; apparently the USPS is having some problems and packages are backed up nation-wide. The website says it’s still on…
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3, 2, 1 – Lunch!
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It’s been a few years — five in fact — since the infamous Bigfoot of fast-food last roamed the Rockies. Of course I’m referring to the McRib; McDonald’s here today-gone…
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End of year bonus
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I got my end-of-year bonus, and that handily paid off the M1 laptop and the bespoke case I had made for it. The case arrived last evening, by the way,…
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Winding down the year…
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Welp, here we are — December 2020. TDay is now firmly behind us, Christmas is still ahead of us, and the long shadows of winter sunshine makes for short days…
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Server Shenanigans
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Not a lot of updates this week mostly because I’ve been pretty busy with work. Right now I’m front-loading the setup hours for a test that requires five 2012r2 servers.…
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Post TDay Post
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My four days off went better than they usually do in that I actually took four days off. I was technically at work until about midnight on Wednesday working out…
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Update…
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Here we are, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a 4-day weekend for me starting tomorrow, so I might actually get a chance to muck about with the new…
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PowerBook 5,3 (Special Project Update)
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My PowerBook G4 has been under the proverbial knife getting all of the worn parts replaced with new old-stock parts — which is a nice thing about the older laptops;…
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Lockdown Update
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As of Friday we’re back to March lockdown levels: Just when things were starting to feel ‘normal’ again… And in case that wasn’t enough, this morning at 9am we all…
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WinDos Tehn
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As you can probably tell from ye olden journal here — I’m primarily a Mac user. I also spend an unhealthy amount of time in various flavors of *nix, which…
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Holiday via UPS
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While I hear that celebrating Thanksgiving is frowned upon these days for reasons ranging from ‘catching a case of the zombies via direct eye contact with someone’ to ‘some people…
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1990 – 2020
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Four decades of Apple laptop in one photo, which also covers all of the major hardware versions; 68k, PPC, x86, and M1. What a long strange trip it’s been.
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MacBookAir 10,1
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After what was undoubtedly a harrowing trip from China, my new M1-based MacBook Air arrived today. By now there are countless reviews of the M1 architecture available online, so I’ll…