Toys

Got my new PC yesterday. Spent the balance of the evening loading programs and configuring stuff. That's going to be a process for a while. Probably won't take as long as last time. This PC is ridiculously-faster than the last one. Now to budget for a new laptop...

Signs of Old Age

• You thank the liquor store clerk for carding you.
• You get "Senior Singles" spam.
• You feel weather in your joints. For real.
• You look at some modern trends and think "what the fucking hell?".
• You stop getting shocked by seeing grey in your hair.
• You can't eat the crap you used to eat.
• You can't drink the swill you used to drink.
• You remember commercial jingles for products that are sold as "vintage" in specialty sites on the Internet.

Moons and stuff

• How are we not dead yet?
• Does anyone else think "Skynet" when you hear about Amazon delivery drones? Is it just me?
• There's a new TV show - "Intelligence" - coming out about a superspy with a chip in his head giving him super hacking powers. Wasn't that "Chuck"? And what the hell is it with the brain-implant-super-chip meme?

Also: Moons!

RIP Nelson Mandela

Rest in Peace Nelson Mandela. You will be missed.

Infodump 2889

• I neglected to post anything as a follow-up, but I have dodged jury duty again. YAY!
• Goddamn cold this morning. Had to find a scarf and bust out a wool hat. Oh the humanity.
• About 3/4 through "This Book is Full of Spiders". David Wong remains insane and awesome.
• The Holidaze are upon us! Things to do: 1) Avoid malls. 2) Avoid "The Little Drummer Boy" song. 3) Avoid Xmas specials. 4) Watch the credit card glow.
• I keep looking for a full moon to explain or justify the amount of crazy I've been encountering lately, but I think I'm looking at the wrong cause. It's December. That's reason enough.

Excitement! Fun! Jury Duty!

The exciting and fun part is that I don't have jury duty... at least in the morning.

Never ones to completely let people off the hook, the court has me calling in later to see if I have to make the trek in for an afternoon appearance. I'm hoping to dodge the bullet.

In other news, I've got the PC working completely now, save for one program. And I just learned that a recent Windows change means that the program is no longer supported for Windows 7, so that's that.

To take advantage of the Cyber-Monday deals, I bought a new desktop anyway. I figure the old one is working fine, but there's damage that's eventually going to erode performance. I can already tell it's a bit more sluggish than it was before the power supply crapped out. Never hurts to have a backup.

Gettin' a mite cold in the mornings now.

My new hobby...

... is reinstalling a corrupted program on a dodgy computer and having it fail 'cause I can't completely uninstall the corrupted program.

The fun is non-stop.