The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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.

Are you fucking serious? / Blogospheric Naval Gazing

Forget the XBox One! Give me the box it came in!

xboxbox

Seriously… what the hell? They’re selling on ebay for almost if not the same price as the damned console.

ebayboxes

The scary part? People are bidding on these. Either people don’t know how to read an entire sentence, or they want the special shiny packaging… Either way it’s weird to watch.

All in an Overlord's day / Work

Happy Thanksgiving! Thank god it’s not Black Friday

Worked a small shift today. It wasn’t crazy busy though I did get quite a few surges from time to time. It was mostly people window shopping for Black Friday. Thank god I won’t be participating in that. Not working, not shopping. I refuse to partake in anything Black Friday unless it’s online. You can’t get trampled on the internet, though you might bring websites down in large surges. 😛

Speaking of Black Friday I was catching up on my RSS feeds and came across this video. Made me thankful that I live in a small town. Seriously this looks like something out of Left 4 Dead 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xL8rE9DT4g

I loved the comments for that video. I agree that this sort of thing makes us look horrible. We act like a bunch of fucking savages fighting for so called “good deals”. Trampling and shoving each other because the device/appliance/scarf/whatever has much more value than the person you knocked over for it. We shouldn’t be allowed to encourage this kind of behavior. Seriously if you’re the kind of person to behave like that I hope someone’s stiletto pierces your lung. It’s the fucking hunger games.

Oh well… Enough ranting. We all know that most corporations over here are too busy rubbing money on their tender nipples to give a flying fuck. I might as well enjoy this Thanksgiving special. I feel old for watching it. I remember when it was brand new. 🙂 Good ol MST3K: