Cold and clear again, warming later. Had a beautiful sunrise yesterday. Orange, pink, blue sky… chilly willy though. Should be the same today. Mid 70sF in the afternoon, maybe a bit more. I’ll take it.
After the sunrise, coffee, and getting the kids out the door, I did auction stuff, office stuff, and fell down a rabbit hole with some genealogy stuff online. I was mildly interested, now I’m mildly informed. The biggest change is how much more stuff has been digitized and is available online. Some of it, maybe most of it, is volunteer driven too, from what I saw.
In the afternoon I did small things around the house. Several projects got minor attention and moved a tiny bit forward. I’m avoiding big stuff. One of the projects was recovering and repurposing D1’s old chromebook. It’s much more possible, and straightforward than it was a couple of years ago when I last looked. But it’s also far too much messing around when I’ve got a stack of other lappys that I can update or put new OSs on easily without jumping through flaming hoops.
It’s a shame that schools are buying stuff that has no residual value and pretty much has to go into the landfill after only a few years. The kids don’t really need more at school, but the example it sets is bad.
Today I’ll do a couple of pickups. And more small stuff from the list. I want to keep moving, even if it’s slowly and in tiny steps.
Because that’s how you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.
Always be working. And stacking.
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As long as the kickbacks aren’t exposed, everyone is happy, except the taxpayers and the environment.
Happy Tuesday, all!
Best wishes to Mrs Ray for her surgery today, and for a fast and full recovery.
Up at O:dark-thirty. Hard to be Mr. Denis, and thanks for the well wishes.
I’m not really sure what benefit it is to get the credit monitoring. But it’s free for a year, so why not enroll?
You should have a freeze on all three major credit bureaus at a minimum. Also consider freezing the Lexis-Nexis report but that has side effects when renewing insurance. Get the report from Lexis-Nexis. It is
amazingdisgusting the amount of information and the sources for the information. There is data on mine from emails that I never had in which only the name matches. I am in the process of disputing the information from those sources. There is even one item that is simply “H”, my middle initial.Off to the hospital in a few minutes. Will take the MacBook with me to pass the time. She is scheduled for 6:00 AM, after which I will head to Chick-Fil-A for some breakfast as there is no use waiting during the prep, which takes about two hours.
The wife will not be able to bend her back for several weeks which means I will have to wipe her butt for her. Oh, joy, and TMI. Sorry for that.
A desktop from one of the warehouse clubs is not going to be top grade hardware regardless of the name on the case.
Seeing that BluRay and even DVD RW drives are suddenly unobtainium is concerning. It isn’t just those components either. All of the pieces necessary to build a PC at home are suddenly disappearing unless you are intent on building a high end gaming rig.
I don’t think the issue is the Orange Man’s tariffs either.
No physical media, of course. The studios and manufacturers have been open about that distribution channel for entertainment and software going away. IIRC, Sony doesn’t even make blank recordable BluRay media anymore.
Nintendo may backtrack about producing game cartridges, but that is only after a brutal Christmas season where the Switch 2 didn’t sell in numbers expected.