Up and coming

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:37:15 GMT

Did I just order another external hard drive? Yes! This one is a 20TB that was on sale for $229 (not bad, considering it was $50 off), and it would replace not one but THREE of my older externals that are currently and quite precariously perched on top of my PC. [This is the main reason I let the cats on the desk but nowhere near the hardware. They've knocked them over before.] I figure it's worth the price and I'd feel safer having all this stuff on newer drives, as these are at least five or six years old last I checked, and they've gotten a lot of use. I figure this will be my birthday present to myself, heh.

The downside is that this will make three somewhat chunkier drives taking up space, so I might want to look into some minor desk rearrangement. It'll definitely mean less wires though, and that's a good thing. Maybe another riser for the main monitor, which would give me a bit of space underneath for things like my journal and art stuff. Something to think about, anyway.

Meanwhile, the new year is going as expected. Which is to say, a few bumps in the road but otherwise bearable. New Year's Eve was a LOT busier at the day job than predicted, and we were sadly understaffed due to multiple call-outs (legit or otherwise), so I was exhausted by the end of it and slept through into the new year, only woken up once by local neighborhood fireworks. The following day I did have another minor dust-up with a coworker which eventually involved management that led, much to my lack of surprise, to nothing. At this point, though, I've decided that was the last time that would happen. And the next time it did, I would escalate up the chain of command. [And possibly involve the union rep -- who does not get along with main boss at all.] I've decided that 2026 is The Year of No More Personal Bullshit.

Point being -- I'm in charge of my life here, and it's about time I followed through with it.

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Chill time

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:57:56 GMT

After three straight days of weird work hours (short afternoon shift followed by midshift to 8pm followed by morning open till 1), I'm glad to have tomorrow off to relax a little bit before I do my Friday-Saturday early opens. Other than doing the grocery shopping, I don't have too much else planned. I'd like to spend a good couple of hours on MU4 as I have a few ideas I want to try out, but that's about it.

Meanwhile, I had to waste an hour or so this afternoon due to a Windows update that somehow made Chrome inoperable. Apparently it has to do with an add-on that's causing it to crash when Malwarebytes is running? Either way, I reversed the update and it's working just fine. I figure I can wait on the updates a bit until they have a patch put in. We shall see.

Other than that, it's been a busy but productive week, so I can't complain. :)

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Drunken Owls and Other Delights

Up and coming

Chill time