Shopping

There Was Much Shopping

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Went on a digital shopping spree today! I have a new chair coming in the mail, among plenty of other purchases that it will feel like Christmas for days. While I’m waiting for the chair I did get my chair pad in the mail the other day. So far that seems to help alleviate pressure in my tailbone. I’m still making sure to get up and stretch though, if anything this whole thing has taught me the wonders of stretching.

Another item I’ve been enjoying is an articulating arm for my Linux Surface Pro. I liked it so much that I decided to buy another one for the bed for easy reading at night. I’d say all in all it has been a productive weekend; a complete 180 from last weekend… and may I have many more. 🙂

Monday Evening Open Thread

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I spent my last day off sleeping through a rainstorm, animating in my pajamas, cooking in my pajamas, cleaning up around the house in my pajamas, shopping for mood lighting in my pajamas. I was very productive in my pajamas!

In the next few days I will be receiving some mood lighting, courtesy of the Amazing Zon. I’m getting tired of waking up and blinding myself with light in the cold dark hours of the morning. I’ve been lighting a candle every evening to provide a nice warm ambient light, but with summer and potentially warm temperatures looming around the corner I’ve been pondering alternate lighting solutions. Perhaps I’ll post pictures when everything arrives. 😀

Meanwhile, in the present; I have another SFM render going for my latest nightmare inducing/induced adventure. It’ll keep me nice and warm tonight! I think I might even put the 24/7 4K fireplace livestream on for additional ambience… Yes, this is real. I’ve already used it once when I had to do an overnight render and wanted some nice ambient lighting. It was funny waking up and seeing people talking in the chat.

Anyways… Open Thread!

Furniture Chess

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Not much to write. I got all of the lipsyncing done on what I’m calling “Project Apple Institute” (does not represent final title). I’ll clean it up a bit tomorrow and start on animating the rest of the body.

I’m also in the market for a new dresser and bookcase. My current bookcase is stuffed full of books ranging from science to cooking, and I’d like to trade my current dresser for something a little more horizontal. A former co-worker of mine was also kind enough to donate an Asian themed 5 tier corner table that she had no use for.

I also need to go through all the shit I’ve collected throughout the dawn of time, and pick what to keep and what to toss. There are so many things that I just don’t use anymore, or have no need for. I’ve already thrown away a few things; like my old ghettoblaster, and a couple of dead lamps.

It’ll give me an excuse to make room for some more modern swag.

A Game Of Musical Hard Drives

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I’ve been playing with 8TB of disc space today. I’ve been transferring my primary Steam drive since early this morning in alphabetical segments. I have almost every single part of my library installed on Windows (which makes it equally handy to just copy games over for quick Proton tests, life’s good being your own Steam game repository for other computers on the network) and it takes awhile to move 2TB of shit into a 4TB space, currently on the letter T as I write this.

I’m going to do a little digital house keeping and rearrange my drive structure, take out two of my 1TB drives and replace them with two 4TB’s, and just use 1TB drives for hot swapping or OS tests, any other mad act of science I can think of…

The rest of my day has been pretty quiet and mundane, the weather has been keeping me indoors sipping tea poured from my flowering teapot. Been awhile since I’ve had a flowering tea, its creme brulee green tea, highly recommend it.

Also would like to mention that I think I’ve confirmed that my crashing issues are the power supply. We plugged my Vega into my Dad’s gaming setup and it ran with flying colors. Played for well over an hour without a single crash or screen tear. He was happy for more than that reason though. He’s still on an x58 chipset and my RX Vega64 ran in his system without choking, apparently it is possible depending on the motherboard and BIOS you’re using. He updated his BIOS recently and it gave him UEFI support, which I think made it possible to run my GPU in his system. Yesterday was a good day all around, and it’ll be better when that damned power supply shows up, here’s to tomorrow I guess.

I also got some more of my Christmas shopping done. I’m thinking all that’s left will be gifts of the digital variety…

 

Don’t pay Newegg for fast shipping

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I recently wrote that I ordered a power supply from Newegg, and that I paid a little extra for it to arrive early. Unfortunately it hasn’t arrived yet, though I can’t say that I’m entirely surprised. Ever since Newegg was sold off to the Chinese market they just haven’t been the same quality. One of the largest complaints that I read about was paying for fast delivery and still getting it later, late enough that they should of just stuck with the cheap or free shipping. At the same time I also heard other people claim that they’ve gotten their packages on time, sometimes earlier than expected… so it’s more of a gamble if you think about it, which isn’t exactly a great business model to have when your competition offers better shipping service.

I’m pissed to have paid for the additional service and not get my item on time, but at least I’m more privy to how Newegg conducts their business, and will be less likely to use their website anymore. it looks like from now on if I need to order an emergency item I’ll have to depend on Amazon Prime or a really good Ebay seller. I used to use Newegg constantly when ordering parts, now I’ll only use them if they have the cheapest deal and I’m not in any hurry to get it.

If you have nothing nice to say, start an Open Thread

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I don’t know what it is, but it seems like the more I work with the public, the more stupidity I seem to see on a regular basis. Today I had to explain to an old woman what “style” meant because she was confused and agitated when she saw two USB flash drives with the same storage capacity that were the same price, but (GASP!) were two different colors! Oooohhhhhhh! When I told her they came in different styles she had to ask me “WHAT DOES STYLE MEAN?!?!?!” which was rather fitting because her clothes suggested that her question reflected her fashion intelligence. She ended up buying one, but wanted to confirm that either one would work… as if color makes all the difference.

I tried going back into Windows to continue working on my video, mainly just extracting particular audio bits… but I got distracted by Halloween shopping on Amazon. I think I have an idea of what I want to wear with my mask this year. Perhaps I’ll try again on my project tomorrow… kinda kicking myself, because everything I did could basically have been handled under Mint these last two days. But that’s fine, I played Doom 2016 on my laptop in Mint during lunch today, it runs perfectly! Now if I could just figure out how to get it to see my mouse on my Desktop I’d be able to actually play it.