The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Black Friday: The After Math

I’m kinda bummed. I ordered some stuff either on black friday/cyber monday and most of my stuff still hasn’t arrived. Although one thing did arrive today (which I ordered two weeks ago) and it arrived with someone elses order. Yeah, I got their invoice and address. I’ve contacted the company (World Market in this case) and am waiting for a reply back. One hell of a mistake too man, someone ordered three glass pillars and the shipment is worth $119.

Then of course I ordered a R9 290 a few days ago via TigerDirect (selling my 6950 and decided to upgrade) and my payment STILL hasn’t been processed. I have lots of stuff I ordered two weeks ago and the only thing I got was that stupid package today, plus my new CPU and two hard drives. What the hell? Did NewEgg, WorldMarket, TigerDirect etc etc pull a Wal-Mart and deliberately under staff themselves? This is bullshit! This is grade A 100% bullshit. Of course I’ve received emails from places like NewEgg saying “Your order may be slightly late due to the volume of Black Friday”. No, I think companies are deliberately under staffing their employees and it’s causing trouble for the few people who are scrambling to get anything done, and the customer waiting on the other end. I didn’t have problems like this at any other time of the year, so why now? I’m not the only one complaining about slow mail. There are lots of people out there who have ordered new parts and presents and the services have been slow as hell.

I regret waiting to buy that card. I didn’t expect the latest coin craze to cause such a drought on the GPU marketplace. I never could have predicted litecoin.

All in an Overlord's day

Sunday Morning Open Thread

I decided not to post anything until today as I felt at the start of my weekend any of my posts would have been more incoherent than usual. I was extremely exhausted. Instead I focused on getting some new programs running under Linux (which required some compiling and searching for the proper dependencies). One of them is a screen recorder. It’ll help me with some future linux themed video projects.

Speaking of projects I should work on a couple more at some point. I wanted to push out some but the holiday season has really been busting my chops. The first thing I did Friday morning was not move at all. It was cold out and I hurt in my everyplace. But at least I’ll have a nice paycheck, which this week won’t be as nice.

Goodbye

R I P Bobbi

I had a hard day at work today. It was insanely busy and most of the time this evening there was only one person running everything upstairs due to lunch scheduling and calling people to backup check. That wore me out royally… then it went from bad to worse. Our cat Bobbi passed away today.

I knew she wasn’t much long for the world, she had what was called “Manx Syndrome”. It’s a birth defect that some manx cats are born with. They have fewer vertebrae which leads to early arthritis and loss of bowel control. For the last few years she has been having trouble getting around but didn’t show any signs of distress. Despite her problems she was a happy cat, always mewed and was very protective of our younger cat Stewie. Tough one too. Only 4 pounds and she could scare off a giant pitbull.

I was told that she passed away on top of one of our new flower pots (similar to the one in the picture). She always liked to sun bathe in those. We think she died in her sleep. So if it’s any kind of bright side she at least died doing what she liked, and I can have peace of mind knowing that she doesn’t have to suffer with those problems anymore.

Goodbye Bobbi, you’ll be missed.

All in an Overlord's day

Looks like I’ll be getting some upgrades soon

Someone we know in town is looking to upgrade to a more current system build compared to their current single core setup. They want to go with an i5 processor. So I’ll be selling them my old motherboard, processor, GPU and one of my hard drives. So now I have an i7 2700k coming in the mail. I’ll look into GPU’s in a couple weeks. I’m interested in the AMD R9 290 and want to see how the custom fans help with performance vs the stock cooler. I can’t wait to see how that performs in gaming under both Linux and Windows. It would be nice to improve OpenGL performance under Linux and get an even better framerate with newer games under Windows.

Work

Open Thread

Survived day one. It wasn’t too bad. Would have been better if we weren’t deliberately understaffed, but whatever. I came home and made a bread salad with some pancheta and turkey with a matcha latte. Turned out nom. Sadly I didn’t have any leftover. It was too good. Now I have to contemplate what to bring for lunch tomorrow. Probably another turkey sandvich and salad.

Should probably update stuff on my laptop too. I logged into Steam today during my lunch break and so much stuff wanted to download. I did manage to play some Shadow Warrior. I hope they make a Linux port of it. It’s hella fun to play.

All in an Overlord's day

All rested for a busy week.

If anyone is trying to catch me it’ll probably be hard until my next weekend. They actually gave me a 40 hour work week! Time to save up for Christmas and earn back what I’ve already spent. 😛 I have my lunchbox packed and I should probably charge my laptop overnight. It’ll help keep me sane during the Christmas rush.

Are you fucking serious?

Slept in on Black Friday

I slept off a good turkey coma. Woke up today with feeling happy that I didn’t have to endure this kind of shiz:

That was all to be expected. He got kicked out because he wasn’t buying anything or attacking anyone! I like how the cops didn’t do anything either. How is this even fun?

And finally a fight over a TV…. a fucking TV.

Of course. Right now as I speak I am shopping around online for some cool deals. Unfortunately Newegg doesn’t really have anything spectacular. But I am getting some nice presents from places like World Market and Amazon. I think I’ll hit up ebay next.

Gaming

Garrys Mod and Linux… still needs work.

It’s weird. I can play Source games fine, but Garrys Mod? It still isn’t ready. I even tried setting graphics to lowest of the low and it still lagged like hell. Playing multiplayer made the client even more slow. I guess I’ll be checking back in on it whenever it updates to see if there are any improvements. Maybe after I update to the next kernal (I noticed they pushed out another one recently) I can give it another shot. I haven’t heard anything spectacular about it when it comes to graphics though.