Took the girlfriend to a burlesque show last night and I swear the women in the crowd screamed louder than anyone at any of the metal shows I’ve been to recently

This is a dell so I might be able to find a replacement pretty easily. I’ll have a look, thanks

I got some second hand at an acceptable price. This laptop doesn’t need to be super spec’d out because aparently the battery is beginning to go on it as well

I saw this come up on the work Instagram account as one of those fake news/facts page posts. I thought those posts were just completely made up

Finally got some more RAM and extra storage for the girlfriend’s laptop. Probably not the best deal in the world if i really hunted around but it’s done

Just when you thought you didn’t need more gear, someone releases the Frog Pedal

https://youtu.be/knLrktd34Dk

Gotta say, work is not very good at product launches. They’re the sort of place that only puts out something new every 5 years or so but this has been a real hodge-podge.

When I worked for the world’s largest instrument manufacturer we would sometimes have 3 product launches in a week, but they were bad at launches in their own way. They’d announce something then say stock wouldn’t arrive for a couple of months. When stock finally hit stores we weren’t talking about it because we were preparing for the next product launch.

Convinced the team to go to a nice winery for a tour and lunch because why not? There is every possibility we could actually do something there so you could say it’s justified. They were impressed at the very least

These days you can buy a game and it doesn’t even come with a disc. Or it might, but it’s just the licence for the game and you still need internet to actually download it.

I’m thinking of switching my big PC over from Mint to Bazzite. I just haven’t been happy with Mint’s performance on some games, but the laptop has worked well.

I also like the extra WINE options I get between Lutris, Heroic, the WINE GUI launcher, and a few others. I’ve spent some time on MyAbandonWare and I’ve been able to get some of the oldest and most unsupported games working on there

For a while I’ve felt like I’d rather fuck around with plugging my laptop into the TV and dealing with the audio issues that can crop up than ever turn on a console.

This was reinforced a while ago when my girlfriend broke out her old disney infinity stuff for the kids. She had to sign in to her PlayStation account just to play local coop, which then forced a bunch of system and game updates. Truly a terrible experience.

Aside from the audio devices being annoying, the laptop needs to fully turn on before it will detect any other audio devices, Bazzite has Just Worked and I’ve been really enjoying it

I get cash out after trivia because it’s in a small town where an ATM is actually conveniently down the main street. I’ve decided $130 is a good amount to get out because it gives you four twenties and a fifty.

$180 would also be good for similar reasons. Those flat amounts that just give you fifties are too annoying because it’s still too big an amount to break on smaller things and when I’m getting close to spending $50 I would probably lean towards using my card anyway

To scoop the coffee of course

I hope it went well. You can always be a solo team, but have your name ready as it’s the first thing they’ll ask and few are prepared

Back to Trivia today. I was going to start earlier but had to sort out some family medical stuff. I swung by to drop off the gear and it looks like the numbers are going up. It will be interesting to see what the crowd is like today

I’ve had that happen. The picture card that doubles your mult at the first face card, and the hanging chad that retriggers your first card. You’re just stacking mults feeling like a god and then you get to the boss blind that debuffs face cards and the whole thing falls apart

And how you’ll level up hands and chop up your deck to the point it doesn’t even feel based on poker anymore. Then you throw a whole run because you feel like you should be playing the originally higher scoring hands when really pairs and high cards are the way to go

I feel like the closest I can explain my current social media strategy is like when you happen into a pair centric build in Balatro. A pair scores higher than a full house and it kind of pisses you off it works that way because it’s so stupid

A guitar from somewhere like big w wouldn’t be worth it. You’d be better off getting the cheapest guitar from an actual music store or a second hand beginner’s guitar from an actual music brand

A late nap meant a late night then an early morning from a kid really going through it. Today is going to be a tough one