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Everyday I'm shovelin'
Mar. 1st, 2021 04:48 amIdeally, I would have had Nozomi inspected by now. If I try to do it during the week, work keeps me too busy; if I try to do it on the weekend, we get snow or ice or other crapsicles and everything else that comes from a raging case of skyarrhea. It's all according to plan; which is to push the inspection due date out of winter.
Each year I set aside and plan on using about 3 days of time off for weather. I'm up to 2 days, so it's within expectations. Last winter I didn't use any (almost used one though). I get a bump in vacation time later this year anyway.
Model train layout progress has stalled out for the time being. I'll get back on it at some point, probably in the next month. Anyone who's built train layouts knows it's never a fast process anyway.
I thought about building another computer, to work as an HTPC, assigned to the living room. I tried doing something like that back in 2013, when I built a computer for the express purpose of being a full-house music player. That computer then had a few things added to it, and when I moved, that computer went into a room upstairs. It still has music playing as its core function. I'm going to use it until I can't.
On one hand, I already have enough computers, and the main one I'm currently using (also from 2013) to download torrents and watch video files with is so over-built it'll be more than enough for this task for at least another 10 years, or until it explodes. On the other hand, I already have a lot of the important supporting hardware, so all I'd need to do is add the CPU/mobo/RAM/SSD/OS and I'd have something that could do the same thing but with much less energy.
There have been a lot of changes since 2013. Such as, the advances in on-board video are enough that I don't really need a discrete video card for watching video anymore. Good, because finding video cards these days is almost impossible (damn buttcoin miners). Secondly, having a home server means I don't have to put big hard drives in every computer. Instead I can just put in an M.2 SSD about the size of a big stick of gum, something big enough to boot from (and fast enough to get to the desktop in a matter of seconds).
Had to fix my recliner. The one I've had since 2003, and it was kind of old even then. My mom bought it at a yard sale for $2 and gave it to me when I moved into my trailer. It's seen better days. I leaned back, heard a bad sound, and felt the chair shift a little. Normal people would have just kicked it to the curb and bought a new recliner. But we all know I'm not one of those normal people. So, a bit of disassembly later and I determined a dowel pin broke and it could be repaired, and was able to fix it with some lag screws. Far less than the cost of a new chair. I'll take that win. At least until the chair suffers a more catastrophic failure.
Oh yeah, some of the anime reviews I was talking about are up.
http://www.cardboardshrine.com/articles/anime-reviews/10/february-reviews
Each year I set aside and plan on using about 3 days of time off for weather. I'm up to 2 days, so it's within expectations. Last winter I didn't use any (almost used one though). I get a bump in vacation time later this year anyway.
Model train layout progress has stalled out for the time being. I'll get back on it at some point, probably in the next month. Anyone who's built train layouts knows it's never a fast process anyway.
I thought about building another computer, to work as an HTPC, assigned to the living room. I tried doing something like that back in 2013, when I built a computer for the express purpose of being a full-house music player. That computer then had a few things added to it, and when I moved, that computer went into a room upstairs. It still has music playing as its core function. I'm going to use it until I can't.
On one hand, I already have enough computers, and the main one I'm currently using (also from 2013) to download torrents and watch video files with is so over-built it'll be more than enough for this task for at least another 10 years, or until it explodes. On the other hand, I already have a lot of the important supporting hardware, so all I'd need to do is add the CPU/mobo/RAM/SSD/OS and I'd have something that could do the same thing but with much less energy.
There have been a lot of changes since 2013. Such as, the advances in on-board video are enough that I don't really need a discrete video card for watching video anymore. Good, because finding video cards these days is almost impossible (damn buttcoin miners). Secondly, having a home server means I don't have to put big hard drives in every computer. Instead I can just put in an M.2 SSD about the size of a big stick of gum, something big enough to boot from (and fast enough to get to the desktop in a matter of seconds).
Had to fix my recliner. The one I've had since 2003, and it was kind of old even then. My mom bought it at a yard sale for $2 and gave it to me when I moved into my trailer. It's seen better days. I leaned back, heard a bad sound, and felt the chair shift a little. Normal people would have just kicked it to the curb and bought a new recliner. But we all know I'm not one of those normal people. So, a bit of disassembly later and I determined a dowel pin broke and it could be repaired, and was able to fix it with some lag screws. Far less than the cost of a new chair. I'll take that win. At least until the chair suffers a more catastrophic failure.
Oh yeah, some of the anime reviews I was talking about are up.
http://www.cardboardshrine.com/articles/anime-reviews/10/february-reviews
