The MMO I play these days, Final Fantasy XIV, is having a Real Escape this summer, one of which will be in San Francisco. Can I talk anybody into coming along?

Ok, it's as done as it's going to get. The internet connection problems, unfortunately, were never in the box, so I'm going to continue making friends with the tech support guy at the ISP. It does, however, fit reasonably well in the spot where the old one was and the Violet Crumble was pretty tasty.

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Well, it's pretty much done, apart from downloading some things like virus definitions and Lord of the Rings Online needing to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, even though 4.5 comes with the Windows distro disk. Time for Violet Crumble as soon as I can log into either LotRO or FFXIV and crank the settings all the way up. I'll post a pic of the ( Read more... )

Well, the box runs, but getting it to recognize the internet is being somewhat of a challenge. I'm downloading drivers on the old box right now. Also, if you want to take files from an old Win 10 computer, you cannot take out the old hard drive and mount it in the new. I ended up making a run to Fry's for an external drive to copy files and drop ( Read more... )

Having weakened and gone and put down the dough on the video card, I figured I might as well as go all the way to the corner and build the thing instead of waiting for vacation like I'd been planning. It took just a bit over four hours from opening the first box to pushing the power switch for the first time, including a run to Fry's for an extra ( Read more... )

I went back to the computer component center and picked up the last two things I need to build the new box. I'd intended to wait for my vacation in a couple of weeks to put it together. But, you know? Sometimes saying "Oh, what the hell." is appropriate. And, this time, I used the flash, so all the stuff in the box is visible.


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I got the ceramic object I decorated last weekend as part of tersa's birthday party last weekend. Which is pretty cool, as the last time I decorated a food receptacle was 4th grade. Although the proprietor of the place promised it would look great, I'm a little less impressed, particularly that the lovely yellow is almost completely washed out against ( Read more... )

I have a car. This is a lovely thing. It lets me go where I want, even covering a day's walk in a few minutes. However, there are drawbacks to such a device. There is the pollution and the cost, of course, but what I'm thinking about right now is what happens when they break ( Read more... )