Core Values, TV, iOS 13
By Derek | September 19, 2019
Just realized I forgot to post yesterday’s update. Sorry!
A good Thursday. (19th)
Regular work day. Rackspace announced their new Core Values today. They are a distillation and simplification of the previous set of Core Values. I think it’s a good step forward.
Today, I learned that the Sony PS4 doesn’t support 5GHz wireless. That’s awful. I guess Sony assumes you’re going to plug it into ethernet? For the record, the XBox One supports 5GHz wireless. I am disappoint. (Sources: PS4: https://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Hardware_Specs XBox One (first edition): https://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/Xbox_One_Hardware_Specs )
Watched a bit more Agents of Shield season 3 today.
Upgraded my iPhoneX to iOS 13 today. Smooth as silk, and dark mode is very nice. Many apps already had it, but now they follow the system settings instead. Neat.
Our nieces’ kids got to play some Epic Mickey 2 (two player) on XBox360 today. I think they liked it. I keep forgetting that I need to by some wireless Wii or WiiU controllers for my WiiU. I have Mario Kart 8 on there (latest) but not any extra controllers for it. I think they’d have a blast with it. XBox360 gets the most use because we have a ton of controllers for it.
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Lunch, Robotics, Python
By Derek | September 17, 2019
A good Tuesday. (17th)
Had lunch at our normal weekly spot, Smokin Joes. Yummy BBQ Frito Pie.
Tuesday’s are our regularly scheduled Vex Robotics homeschool sessions, but today we also had a family come over early to look over the Wonder League Robotics Competition. https://www.makewonder.com/classroom/robotics-competition/ The WL stuff looks neat, so we decided to offer it to our homeschool families, we got another parent volunteer to coach/mentor, and we already had purchased the robots a few years ago.
My younger son has martial arts every Tuesday and Thursday, so we dropped him off there, because we had to go set up for my monthly MeetUp. I run a monthly MeetUp for beginners to Python programming. I was able to run that meeting, without too much difficulty.
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Food, TV, RackerGamers
By Derek | September 16, 2019
A good Monday. (16th)
Pretty relaxing day.
We went out to eat lunch today, had some great Greek food at Papouli’s.
I started watching Agent Carter season 1. I like it.
Did a bunch of work for RackerGamers, we got our Game Day t-shirts ordered, and worked on getting quotes on some other swag to sell. We hope to have some really cool stuff this year!
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Games, TV
By Derek | September 15, 2019
A good Sunday. (15th)
Went and drove around for a few hours to play Pokemon Go Community Day for September. This month’s Pokémon was the Turtwig.
Watched some Agents of Shield season 3.
Played some Borderlands 2. I picked “The Handsome Collection” up on a sale a few days ago for $6, it’s back to $60, so I figured I’d play it. It’s quirky and funny. Also, the boss fights are very hard.
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Work, TV
By Derek | September 14, 2019
A good Saturday. (14th)
Regular workday for me, working on my main project.
Watched a couple of episodes of Undone with Jill. It’s certainly intriguing. Completed Daredevil season 2. Agents of Shield season 3 is next.
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Tired, Groggy, Comfy
By Derek | September 13, 2019
Tired Friday (13th)
Didn’t sleep well last night. I wasn’t in any pain, just couldn’t sleep. I’ve never experienced insomnia before, but I would say this is kind of what it feels like. I think I slept maybe 3 hours.
Went to work (WFH) but was having trouble focusing so I called in after a couple of hours and went back to bed. Slept pretty well for about 3 hours, family and house guests did a great job of staying quiet for me.
Once I woke up I was still kind of groggy, so I decided to just read a bit and then watch some YouTube videos that I had saved on my Watch Later list. I prefer to save videos that “might” interest me on that list, instead of watching them right away. Sometimes you get sucked in and can watch hours of YT — but I find that if I add these videos to my list, and come back to them, sometimes I don’t really care about them enough to watch them. Here’s one that I did watch, and thought it was pretty great. Even if you’re not an Apple fan, if you’re a fan of adventure you’ll like it: https://youtu.be/5yZuaAQKnkY
I also read about a new Amazon Prime show that will be debuting today, supposedly it’s filmed in San Antonio.https://reelgood.com/show/undone-2019 The trailer looks pretty interesting to me, I like stories about time travel.
This evening I played a couple quick rounds of Apex, and then switched over to Star Citizen.
I’m fairly comfortable sitting in my office chair (with a pillow under me), I can play for a few hours at least. I do notice that sitting up straight (as opposed to the recliner that I’ve been in for nearly a month) makes me a bit tired after a while. My next doctor appt with my surgeon isn’t until the 25th, I’m hoping he’ll consider me good for some physical therapy, or at least let me start doing my regular stretches and daily workout again.
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Work, RackerGamers, TV
By Derek | September 12, 2019
A good Thursday. (12th)
Today is one month since my surgery.
Regular work day. Getting spun back up on the main project I was working on before I went out for surgery. Also getting spun back up on the secondary part-time project I was working on before.
Worked on several things for RackerGamers today, ordering some custom dice to sell as swag and getting the new t-shirts for Game Day (Nov2) quoted and purchased.
Got to watch a couple more episodes of Daredevil season 2, of course it took me ~5 hours to watch them, cause I tried to watch them during work…
Let the kids play Xbox 360 once I got off work, so I could go in my office and play Apex Legends. Played a few rounds as Wraith, then switched to Gibraltar, so I can start learning a second.
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9/11, Frost Bank Time, Work
By Derek | September 11, 2019
A good Wednesday. (11th, never forget, where were you?)
Had a conversation about old stuff. Old stuff including making phone calls for directory assistance, movie times, etc. Then we remembered Frost Bank Time. Turns out, it’s still going. Seriously. 80 years and still going strong. ( https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article/Frost-Bank-time-keeps-on-ticking-after-14073926.php ) (210) 226-3232. So, of course, we had to call it. We introduced our younger son to some crazy old stuff today. I added to my phone’s contacts. You know, just in case.
MacRumors dropped a 7 minute video summarizing the Apple Event yesterday, if you don’t have time to watch the full event.
Regular work day for me.
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Apple, Frito Pie, Robotics, RackerGamers
By Derek | September 10, 2019
A good Tuesday. (10)
Went to bed too late last night, so got up late. Watched much of the Apple Event before leaving the house for our weekly Tuesday lunch.
New iPhones, new Watches and an updated iPad were announced, as well as clarifications & pricing on a couple of new services from Apple — AppleTV+ (tv shows & movies made by Apple Studios) and Apple Arcade (monthly sub for 100+ iOS, iPad, AppleTV & Mac games). Neat. Yep, I’m that guy who still gets excited by Apple Keynotes.
Lunch: BBQ Frito Pie. Yum.
This afternoon our weekly robotics club met for the first time this season. We had some good interest from a couple of new families.
After that, no stopping, rolled right into our irregularly scheduled RackerGamers board meeting this evening. Got some good stuff done, including working out a few first steps towards our annual Game Day (Nov 2nd).
Was nearly ready for bed, but had to play a couple of rounds of Apex.
Got around pretty well today, even navigated the stairs three or four times. It’s getting easier.
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XBox360, XBoxOne, Walker
By Derek | September 9, 2019
A good Monday. (9th)
Watched the kids play Xbox most of the day. Played some with them. Goat Simulator, Castle Crashers, and some Aegis Wing. They like the 360, because that’s the console we have the most controllers for, so four people can play at once.
I did have my younger son help me set up my Xbox One for a few minutes, but we ended up taking it down because of the controller situation. I only have two controllers for it.
I’ve been getting around without my walker pretty well these days. Still mostly staying homebound, but I’m moving around quite a bit.
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