Ted watching the rain.
Last real day of work tomorrow.
Mainly meetings. Monday is do nothing day and Tuesday is the last day. Catching up with people Tuesday for lunch.
It’s almost over.
Thunderstorm just rolling over the village, but the house battery is fully charged and I need not fear the inevitable power cut.
Submitted another assessment, and passed the two I submitted last night. Phew!
Gotta wait for the quizzes to open, and complete the last two assessments on WHS, and I should be good.
I really hope I hear back about that job I interviewed for on Tuesday. I’m trying not to think too hard on it, just remain hopeful but not dwell. It’s so hard because I’d freaking love it. Argh!
Good luck! It’s their loss if they don’t contact you :)
🤞🤞🤞🍀🍀🍀
1st decent-ish haul, bit late:
Many more on the way (hopefully).
Gorgeous colour.
they look great 😊
Happy to get a few this year lol. Last year was a write-off.
They’re so pretty! 😍
The rain has stopped and best sky pretty I’ve seen in a while
Today I am trying to cut as much dairy out of my diet as I can. Just to see how bad this intolerance/allergy really is.
Otherwise, weight loss continues. clothes getting baggy. 😊
I hope you find what you’re looking for. 🙂
I should go in for testing like miss seagoon did 😵💫
Listened to a podcast about a guy who pretended to be a Saudi prince and defrauded people out of millions of dollars. He managed to access a credit card with a limit of $200 million and no one really knows how he did it.
people voted for Trump, nothing astonishes me any more
If you’re attractive, friendly and confident I bet one could do all sorts of crazy shit tbh
Someone’s playing guitar real late. It’s pleasant though. Twangy, slow, country/blues-esque tune, a lilty voice that’s too faint to make out.
It’s a vibe and I’m vibing
Good morning Melburnians. There will be sunshine, wind, rain, possible storms. A little for everyone today.
Have to head back to melbs on PT… bugger.
Luckily the trains have roofs. You’ve got this.
Good morning. It’s will be an interesting one for sure.
Definitely a hold on to your hats kinda day.
Just booked flights back to Perth for first time in about 6 years. Family excited. They come over here a lot so I haven’t been totally neglectful but yeh haven’t been back since pre COVID
This is great news. 😊
Waking up at 530 completely refreshed is not usual for me.
Things of note today
2nd last of current role. Tidying up some things for handover and that’s pretty much it.
New AC game out, which shall be purchased swiftly
My new cannabis script is arriving at some stage.
Gonna be a good day
New AC game out, which shall be purchased swiftly
NOOOOOOO. Read a review or something first. People have got to stop giving ubisoft money if the game is shit. I stress the IF there. If its good go nuts! Took me ages to get my wife to see she was in an abusive relationship with AC games. She hate played odyssey and I had to put my foot down after she was yelling at the tv.
I have read reviews and watched gameplay videos over the past while.
Looks better than previous iterations.
And honestly, I’ve enjoyed each AC game to some extent. Valhalla was a low point for me, but had fun at the start. Mirage was decent, with a fine story.
By all accounts this one is an improvement over the previous RPG ones.
Valhalla didn’t gel with me for some reason after awhile, maybe it was the itemization.
I can’t say I’ve been following Shadows but I have heard about the twin protag thing and I’m not really sure I’m so keen on it being a dual protag game.
I’ve got Xenoblade Chronicles X today to pick up, I think Shadows can wait for a discount or something.
I’m actually looking forward to the dual protagonist thing. Syndicate was fine with it, but the characters were too close to each other. This one offers two very different gameplay styles.
From what I’ve seen combat is better then before and actually requires a bit of skill. They seem to have taken cues from Ghost of Tsushima.
In any case, got nothing else to play at the moment, so this should do me nicely. I’m off work next week, so can fully immerse myself in it.
I’ll keep my eye out on Shadows as I do love the Japanese setting. I’m hoping we’ll see Ghosts of Yotei later this year somewhere.
Let me know how Shadows go after you’ve had a good play session or two out of it.
Will do. I’ll probably post my feelings and experiences later today, or tomorrow.
GOY is my most anticipated game this year (I’m pretty certain it’s a 2025 release).
Hoping AC is big and decent enough to hold me over until the official announcement for the other one.
Well that didn’t take long to escalate.
Apparently there’s going to be a day 1 patch due to complaints about shrines and temples.
"The day one patch will make tables and shelving located in in-game shrines indestructible and will reduce non-essential depictions of bloodshed taking place in shrines and temples. In addition, when attacking unarmed NPCs, there will no longer be depictions of blood. "
i want mcdonalds for breakfast tomorrow. i hope the weather allows that.
Luckily macca’s have roofs.
with bacon?
Yes.
The breaky wrap is back if you want to eat something in the car
There was 6 lamb chops. Theoretically 2 each but they were so good and the kid took too long to get to the table that I declared “there’s only one chop each” and wrapped the other one up for the dog and I to share for ron.
AITA?
P.s. Don’t worry. She won’t starve. I gave her more vegetables and she didn’t even mention how delicious the chop was. Only mentioned how good the mushroom was.
YTA. making the poor dog share a chop when you have already had your share. Shameful.
Thought as much. I give him a bit of mine and he didn’t even chew. He better not blab or he’ll get zilch.
I give my dog a steak on his birthday. First time I cut it up and it was gone in seconds. Now I give him the whole thing and he chews on it for half an hour.
I’ve seen my dog swallow a whole chipolata. It wasn’t pretty.
save one for me i will write a poem to celebrate it
No can do.
Not Happy Day
Lamb chops = happy day for me.
No lamb chops = Not Happy Day for us
Lamb chops = Not Happy Day for the sheep
Mehhh
I got very lucky with my tech support session yesterday. I just had to set up a scanner, which could have been simple enough, but the laptop wasn’t connected to wifi, nor was it picking up the hotspot from my phone.
Fortunately, the laptop was old enough to still have a disc drive. So I was able to install the drivers from the disc that came with it instead.
Every house with those demon driveless devices should have at least one usb cd/dvd rom. People mock the humble optical drive until the shit hits the fan, then they roll around squealing
I have one of these. I also have a usb 3 1/4 floppy disk drive, do I get bonus points for that?
Those floppy drives are mad useful when you do a deep clean and find Ye Olde Shite. I’ve still got one kicking around, amazing how many times it gets used once people realise you have one
I don’t have Ye Olde Shite, those li’l guys are in current use here. My sewing machine uses them for design files, so they are my link from the computer.
PII-200 running dos 6.2.2 and win 311 with a working 3.5 and 5.25 drives for retro gaming here :)
fuck all network capability tho, so I keep my USB floppy handler for anything I snaffle from the net
I have a zip drive which I proudly display at the back of a cupboard somewhere.
Used to be used for a medical practice where they’d send disks up to Syd. every week for back ups.
It worked in this case. But it was so weird with this laptop, it wasn’t picking up any wifi networks. They had an ancient laptop at home as well and that one was connected to the wifi there. I was even able to connect the printer to the wifi via WPS. This laptop was picking up nothing. I was ready to drive down to the nearest Jaycar and pick up an ethernet cable.
I think I assume to much of a tech competence baseline in these sessions. At first I was worried they wouldn’t be able to login to the laptop because they bought it a while ago specifically to scan photos and hadn’t touched it in years. I should ask people to have their diaries with their passwords handy, make sure they can login to the devices and accounts they want to work on, and I should bring a couple of common cables just to make sure as well.
My older laptop stopped working with my WiFi at some point, I had to buy a wireless dongle to work with the newer wifi equipment.
That’s what’s so weird. This laptop isn’t ancient but it couldn’t find anything. The older laptop looked like it was from 2009 and was connected to the internet
what os on the non-ancient laptop? I’m guessing some proprietary wlan handler that windows is having a bargy with
It was out of the box Windows 10. It seemed like a mid-tier laptop for the time, I can’t remember brand. These people probably just go to JB Hi-Fi and buy a $500 laptop when they’re on sale so I haven’t seen anything too exotic in my support sessions so far
I plugged a leftover usb sata hdd controller into an internal cd-rom drive to get USB CD action a few months ago. Kinda surprised, kinda impressed.
nah that’s all standard connectivity.
What was insane was watching a friend with a busted touch screen on his phone attach a fucking computer mouse via a USB to micro USB adapter cable in the charging port and use it like that for a couple months
