TV, Goats, DCU
By Derek | September 8, 2019
A good Sunday. (8th)
Our family friend helped us get the guest room TV mounted on the wall. We bought it from my parents when they moved to AZ last year, but hadn’t hung it up yet. Now it’s done. Then he packed up and headed out. He’ll be back sometime next year, we think.
Our niece, who’s selling her house, came to stay with is for a bit. Her kids and dog are all here, it’s been noisy but fun. Got to hang out with the kids and play Goat Simulator for a while. Hilarious.
We got a new dryer today, but we’re not ready to install it just yet. We think it has a side port, or is convertible, so that we can finally push the dryer back against the wall like it’s supposed to be.
Started a DC Universe character on Switch this evening, just to check it out. Seems ok, but I really can’t wait to get back to playing Star Citizen regularly.
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Work, SYNCH
By Derek | September 7, 2019
An ok Saturday. (7th)
Worked today. I’m still on my Wed-Sat schedule. Had some issues with a machine I was working on… something that should have taken about 3 hours ended up taking almost my whole shift, and I work a 10 hour shift. It’s a good thing nothing else critical popped up. Got it done, though.
Watched some Synchronizerz fool around on the newly released star ship in the game Star Citizen. That’s the organization (think clan or guild from other MMOs) I belong to in game and we were celebrating reaching 1,700 members. Pretty amazing. The new ship is very cool, as well. By the time I was done working, the event was over, but apparently subscribers get access to the newly released ships for the first week they are available, so I was able to log into the game and play around with one for a couple of hours before bed.
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Work, Big Lou’s
By Derek | September 6, 2019
A good Friday (6th)
Worked today. Getting back into the groove of it.
Pretty quiet day. Not too much going on.
Dinner tonight at Big Lou’s Pizza with some friends from work that have been out of town for a while. Good fun!
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Work, The Orville
By Derek | September 5, 2019
A good Thursday. (5th)
Worked today. Finished working through my email backlog.
Watched The Orville, season 1. iTunes had a $5 sale on it a while back, I’ve been wanting to watch it. It’s not a true comedy, but it’s not really like Star Trek, either. It definitely has some funny parts. Brannon Braga executive produces it, and at least one episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes. It was very good.
Didn’t do much else today.
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Work, Email, Pokemon
By Derek | September 4, 2019
A good Wednesday. (4th)
Today was my first day back at work. Doctor has me WFH for 3 weeks, pending evaluation.
Mostly worked to catch up on email. I was ~1500 emails unread, I work 4 days a week, I was out for 3 weeks… so, about 125 emails a day behind. Got through many of them today.
Went for a drive this evening after work. Played some Pokémon Go.
Tired.
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Wife’s B-Day, Frito Pie, Mexican
By Derek | September 3, 2019
A good Tuesday. (3rd)
Was my wife’s birthday. We went to eat our normal Tuesday lunch, BBQ Frito Pie. I split mine with our family friend, since I can’t eat a whole one anymore. That’s a good thing, right?
After lunch, another friend joined us, and we (myself, younger son, and two family friends) played 4 player Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 for a couple of hours. That was completely awesome. So much fun learning the characters “synergy” moves with the other characters.
For dinner, we took my wife out to her favorite Mexican restaurant. Was a good time.
Once we got back, we (two family friends and I) played Mortal Kombat 11 on his gaming PC with two XBox 360 controllers. Very cool. I’ve never followed the MK series, but the graphics are very good, and of course, the fatalities are amazing. We played a bunch of 1v1 local, then tried a bit of online, got owned and decided to play some Story mode. It’s got a decent story, so far.
Going To bed “early” as I have work first thing in the morning. I’ll be WFH for the first 3 weeks, then pending doctor’s orders, allowed to go back in.
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Loafing, Music, MUA3
By Derek | September 2, 2019
A good Monday. (2nd)
Holiday for most everyone else. Glad y’all joined me in loafing. ?
w00t! Apple has recognized me as the “manager” of Digital Penguins, my one-man band. Give it a listen, if you haven’t. https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-first-album/1328491670
Watched a bit more of Daredevil s2 today.
Played Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 with my younger son and our family friend for several (more) hours today. We nearly had all six infinity stones.
Noticed that I walked across the house once without my walker. Didn’t even realize it, until I went to go back, and found my walker not there. It’s good, I mean, I’ve been practicing, so yeah!
Went to our nieces house in the evening to hang out.
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MUA3, TV
By Derek | September 1, 2019
A good Sunday. (Sept. 1st)
Pretty much played Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 all day with my son. Seriously, ~9 hours straight of it. Made some good progress. Unlocked something like 20 of the characters. Gonna get RSI if I’m not careful. ?
Watched the final two Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. That finishes up season 2, and the series.
Kinda just took it easy for the rest of the evening.
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MUA3, Nostalgia
By Derek | August 31, 2019
A good Saturday. (31st)
Watched a bit of Daredevil season 2.
Watched a bunch of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with my younger son. It’s not currently available for streaming. We finished season 1 a while back, so we’re watching season 2.
My 2nd Pro controller, PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controller came in for my Switch, so I went ahead and bought Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance 3.
My son and I played that for a couple of hours before bed. It took a few hours to download, while we were watching Avengers.
I remember my older son and I played MUA2 a ton on XBox360. So. Much. Fun.
Our family friend jumped in for a few minutes, using the dual joy-con adapter, too. I think I need to get another set of Joy-Cons for is to be able to play 4-player.
It’s a 4 player local Co-op game, like they used to sell on Xbox and PlayStation, but now for the most part they don’t. “One game+one console=one player” seems to be the rule these days. Not to mention games cost $60 a pop now, and they hold back some stuff… or maybe just release the game early so that they can sell you DLC later.
Might be why I’m spending more time with the Switch, these days. Almost every game is multiplayer local, in some form or fashion.
Ah, nostalgia.
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TOOL, Timeline, Walking
By Derek | August 30, 2019
A good Friday. (30th)
Watched my younger son play some Galaxy on Fire on his iPad, then watched a movie with him.
The new TOOL album, Fear Inoculum, came out today. https://music.apple.com/us/album/fear-inoculum/1475686696 Listened to it, I’ll have it on again when I go to sleep. It’s a bit more mellow than previous albums.
Finished Jessica Jones season 1. Up next, Daredevil, season 2. Also went ahead and wrote up a blog post on the remaining Marvel stuff… the list I had before was incomplete. https://dereksblahg.net/2019/08/30/mcu-timeline-2019/
I’m working on walking more than previously. I go back to work in just a few days.
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