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My liege!

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Nog has made an appearance!
 
Follow up last night:

Pumpkin/apple boozy cider (Ace brand), regular homestyle cider, a little extra fizzy water, about a half shot of bourbon ...


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After installing and running Ventura on my laptop for a week or so with no issues, I'll be installing it on my desktop Mac today.
 
Citysnaps said:
After installing and running Ventura on my laptop for a week or so with no issues, I'll be installing it on my desktop Mac today.
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Oh man, I really want to update the Mini to the latest MacOS, the current is ... very ... old. I'd been avoiding it so I wouldn't cause any issues with Parallels, and my Windows development, but that's pretty much done now with the new notebook.
 
I'm still running Monterey on my 2020 MBA... I don't think there's a reason not to upgrade since the few third party apps I have are said to be good to go with Ventura. Still I loathe doing an upgrade and then finding out I'm not happy with this or that aspect of a tweaked Apple program.

Was VERY unhappy with Books dumb-down in Monterey, and can't imagine I will like whatever they've done to that app again in Ventura as they nudge it ever closer to the iOS version, removing functions that worked best on a laptop or desktop screen...​

Oh well. Hoping something else new about Ventura will delight me! Leaving it for after the holidays.
 
Started with some good coffee, doing some work, picking up the pies, taking a bike ride (I think, the weather is poop ...), then headed down to NSB around 3 or 4 to the ILs, hitting up Flagler for Mexican food, and staying over for Thanksgiving :)
 
Met my mother, brother, and sister-in-law for breakfast this morning. Then went and saw Mum’s new independent living apartment. Back to the hotel to meet my kids and get them checked in, then back to Mum’s so my son could see her new place. Then met brother, sis-in-law, and their boys for dinner. From there, visited youngest nephew’s house and met his housemates (the younger of whom looks like a Jason Momoa clone). Finally back to the hotel. Looking forward to tomorrow.
 
ICYMI (as I did). At least Axios (borrowing from the AP) went to the Macy's T'Day Parade so we didn't have to. I always see a few stills of preparations for the big day and then forget to tune in somewhere to the actual event. Oh well. Here is some of what was going on. Somehow Santa Claus sneaked in...

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In photos: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Throngs of spectators filled the streets of New York City for the annual tradition.
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Had to skip Thanksgiving dinner yesterday because of Bronchitis.

Mostly just trying to get around to cleaning up the house while looking for an old retro game that I knew was around a few months ago, and would cost over 100$ to replace these days. Nearly 200$ to get one in similar condition. Figure the best way to find it is to clean up. Worst case, I have a clean house.
 
Nycturne said:
Had to skip Thanksgiving dinner yesterday because of Bronchitis.

Mostly just trying to get around to cleaning up the house while looking for an old retro game that I knew was around a few months ago, and would cost over 100$ to replace these days. Nearly 200$ to get one in similar condition. Figure the best way to find it is to clean up. Worst case, I have a clean house.
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Hope you feel better soon. I cleaned three quarters of my house one weekend looking for an iPod Shuffle that I had misplaced. Started w/ the laundry hamper figuring I didin't want to wash the thing if I'd left it in a pocket. Noticed while I was taking the wash downstairs that the stairwell needed a mopping... one thing led to another... a stream of consciousness spree of housekeeping.... until I ran out of steam and sat down for a glass iced tea on the deck. Yeah there on the table was the fricken ipod.
 
I don’t even know what day it is. Most of the group went to downtown St. Augustine for a self-guided pub crawl. We have no clue when they’ll be ready to be picked up, or what the plans are after that. My husband and I took my mother to one of those multi-vendor shops earlier, and we managed to purchase quite a bit. My brother has now taken Mum back to her place as she forgot all her meds and after 3 days has decided it would probably be in her best interest to take some of them. 🙄 She’s really bad at taking meds.

Hubby and I are relaxing in the room until my brother brings Mum back. At some point we’ll join the drunks for dinner.
 
lizkat said:
Hope you feel better soon.
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I don’t even know what triggered it, but yeah, not fun missing out on meeting up with family for the first time in almost a year. This year hasn’t been great health wise, but in a lot of ways, still better than many for my age.

Still recovering, improved enough that I could go out and run a couple errands. Got some groceries. Picked up an old game from 2001 that I never got the chance to play, and a used handheld for a modding project. Ordered the other parts for the project I need online. Been doing some modding of older game systems the last year or so, and lately have been on a kick modifying old Nintendo hardware. Surprising my soldering skills are better now than in college. Go figure.

lizkat said:
I cleaned three quarters of my house one weekend looking for an iPod Shuffle that I had misplaced. Started w/ the laundry hamper figuring I didin't want to wash the thing if I'd left it in a pocket. Noticed while I was taking the wash downstairs that the stairwell needed a mopping... one thing led to another... a stream of consciousness spree of housekeeping.... until I ran out of steam and sat down for a glass iced tea on the deck. Yeah there on the table was the fricken ipod.
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I think part of my problem is that the last time I was truly aware of what I did with it was in the spring, and it isn’t much bigger than an iPod Shuffle. It should have been with the rest of the games (I have a small bookshelf for all this, or it should have been on the TV console), but it wasn’t.

The other part is that it is still in demand, so if I have to replace it, it will be expensive and I’ll have to deal with the minefield of counterfeits out there these days. So this’ll be fun.
 
Nycturne said:
Been doing some modding of older game systems the last year or so, and lately have been on a kick modifying old Nintendo hardware. Surprising my soldering skills are better now than in college. Go figure.
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Last time I used a soldering iron, I think, was when I put together some Heathkit short wave radio as a kid. I had only done it in response to a dare from some kid down the block, when she and her brother and I were graduating from putting together model airplanes to doing something with more practical application than hanging yet another mobile objet d'art from the ceiling.

I do remember being thrilled as a novice user of that radio to realize I "could actually get" faraway stations. Like from across the ocean!!

My mom was not especially pleased during the 1950s that in the post one day was the consumer-friendly equivalent of a QSL card addressed to me from... yeah, Radio Moscow. They always included in their broadcast the mention of an address to which one could write with details of when and where one had received their signal, and promised that one could expect a "souvenir" postcard in reply.

Heh, could probably have pulled in that signal w/ just the fillings in one's teeth, but I was so excited.
 
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