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stormdogI haven't managed to write here for a while. Let's see if I can remember what happened.
The mouth pain was not actually an infection. It turns out that because the extraction was a little difficult, I ended up with a bone fragment left behind that was slowly working it's way to the surface. Having made it, it was coming through my gums. The dentist was able to remove it fairly easily and it's been much better since. It would have come out naturally in a few days, but I'm much happier with it having had a shortened stay.
While searching through The Home of the Underdogs for a game that I vaguely remember hugely enjoying on the Commodore 64 (but I can't remember what it was called, who made it, or even most of what you were supposed to do. It's an 'I'd know it if I saw it kind of thing'), I found another one that I remember. Did any of you ever play Drol? My parents had a ton of games that they'd downloaded from BBSs or copied from friends scattered around on low density 5ΒΌ" floppy discs. There are probably dozens and dozens of games that I'd like to find and play again.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
serinthia gave me a copy of the whole Arnold Commodore FTP site archives a while ago; one of these days I'll find time to poke through it.
I've spent some time over the last few days trying to make a Proliant PIII server work for Dwarf, whose GX110 that I gave him a few years ago (originally surplus from my company too) finally died. I realized, in the process of trying to track down the damn drivers to let the Windows 2000 server installation process see the Smart Array 352 and attached RAID-5 volume, that I really am getting tired of fixing old computers. I'm happy to keep working on my own (and more than happy to keep refurbing and Ebaying hardware that work is giving away) but I'm not nearly as enthralled with the idea of having racks and racks of hardware sitting around as I used to be. My interests are moving on to other things.
This weekend was great! Our Rockford friendsabrinageek had just gotten back way early that morning from her trip to New Jersey, so she came over to join us for a trip down to the Mitsuwa market. We met up with posicat, tybis, and samiitiger on the way and all massed into Cattech Black Ops 1 to hit the highway.
While there, I ate a fresh red bean paste bun from the bakery that was just really good! So good, in fact, that Andrea, after listening to me rave about it, bought another one (plus a curry-bun for her) to give me for breakfast on Sunday morning. It was pretty good then too! I also picked up four buckets of Udon noodles. Two of them were the kind I'd had before, in blue buckets, and two of them were labeled as Katsuo Udon, in red buckets. I figured I'd try two of each even though I had no idea what katsuo was. (I just figured it out today through some Googling; it's a sort of fish.) I had udon for lunch today; the kind without the fish. That was pretty yummy. I'll update you tomorrow on how the kind with fish is. I wish I had bought some packaged red-bean buns to take to work too, but somehow I bet the fresh version was just much better than they plastic-sealed ones would be.
After Mitsuwa, we went to Chang Jiang buffet for a really good dinner. It's one of my favorite buffets and, it being down south of me a ways, I don't get there much, so that was fun, even though I was kind of hoping to have some tempura at the Mitsuwa food court. After that, we all headed back north, Sabrina with a large bag of pocky and other goodies in tow. (She let me try a green tea pocky; that was surprisingly good!) We split up at Posi's place, and Andrea and Sabrina and I all went back to Kenosha. In the car, windshield wiper fluid inadvertently got all over Sabrina's leg, so we took off her pants and washed them. (Yes, Andrea provided her with an alternate pair to use in the meantime.)
Sabrina ended up staying the night and in fact, didn't leave the house 'till early afternoon, although as it happened, she had to come back after leaving the first time; Andrea and I started working on the basement and the first box we pulled out was full of Amiga stuff! We called her, found that she had stopped at the Kenosha Goodwill, and had her come back to take more goodies to go with the Amiga hardware I'd given her a while ago and help empty our basement at the same time! Win-win!
We also spent some time hanging around the living room and browsing through real estate listing online. I had the chance to talk to Sabrina about how financing went for her house. That was enlightening. I don't know a lot about the process since I've never done it before. I'm going to talk to my parents on Wednesday about how buying their house went too. I'm really excited about the idea of moving in the fall after we save up a nice down payment. I have to admit though, that the idea of moving right now flitted through my brain after seeing this listing. We wouldn't even have to buy; they're offering the property for sale or rent, and the rent would be less than we're paying now! It's a house about as big as ours, but it's on a half acre of land and has not only a garage, but a small barn! I would so so love to have a little bit of land like that. It would be good for dogs, and good for me. It's something I'm definitely going to look for when we start searching in earnest. It looks like something that we could reasonably manage to find in the Bristol area. We're both leaning toward Bristol for a couple of reasons, largely because it's a little more rural. We could have dogs and I could operate a smithy without worrying as much about neighbors.
Andrea and I spent a while after Sabrina went home going through boxes from the basement. We got through about ten or twelve of them and made a significant dent in one of the bigger piles. I want to get the basement cleared out not just so that we have less stuff to move when we do, but so I can have some room to set up DDR, and have a work bench for doing Dremel work and stuff like that. We got a lot done, found some really interesting things we'd forgotten about (like the bottle of Scooby-Doo bubble-bath that Andrea bought at the K-mart just across the way from our apartment in Michigan with the intention of giving her two-legged puppy a bubble bath grooming, but we never got around to it 'cause the bathtub was just too small), and I ended the weekend feeling very contented and pleased with the progress made and with time spent with friends.
Anyway, I could go on, but I'm just finishing up installing Dungeon Siege (mocha_mephooki lent me a copy!) so that I can install and play Ultima V: Lazarus, which I'm very excited about, especially after reading all the words of praise on the game's site. Plus, I need to go do a little more laundry. 'Till later.
The mouth pain was not actually an infection. It turns out that because the extraction was a little difficult, I ended up with a bone fragment left behind that was slowly working it's way to the surface. Having made it, it was coming through my gums. The dentist was able to remove it fairly easily and it's been much better since. It would have come out naturally in a few days, but I'm much happier with it having had a shortened stay.
While searching through The Home of the Underdogs for a game that I vaguely remember hugely enjoying on the Commodore 64 (but I can't remember what it was called, who made it, or even most of what you were supposed to do. It's an 'I'd know it if I saw it kind of thing'), I found another one that I remember. Did any of you ever play Drol? My parents had a ton of games that they'd downloaded from BBSs or copied from friends scattered around on low density 5ΒΌ" floppy discs. There are probably dozens and dozens of games that I'd like to find and play again.
serinthia gave me a copy of the whole Arnold Commodore FTP site archives a while ago; one of these days I'll find time to poke through it.I've spent some time over the last few days trying to make a Proliant PIII server work for Dwarf, whose GX110 that I gave him a few years ago (originally surplus from my company too) finally died. I realized, in the process of trying to track down the damn drivers to let the Windows 2000 server installation process see the Smart Array 352 and attached RAID-5 volume, that I really am getting tired of fixing old computers. I'm happy to keep working on my own (and more than happy to keep refurbing and Ebaying hardware that work is giving away) but I'm not nearly as enthralled with the idea of having racks and racks of hardware sitting around as I used to be. My interests are moving on to other things.
This weekend was great! Our Rockford friend
sabrinageek had just gotten back way early that morning from her trip to New Jersey, so she came over to join us for a trip down to the Mitsuwa market. We met up with posicat, tybis, and samiitiger on the way and all massed into Cattech Black Ops 1 to hit the highway.While there, I ate a fresh red bean paste bun from the bakery that was just really good! So good, in fact, that Andrea, after listening to me rave about it, bought another one (plus a curry-bun for her) to give me for breakfast on Sunday morning. It was pretty good then too! I also picked up four buckets of Udon noodles. Two of them were the kind I'd had before, in blue buckets, and two of them were labeled as Katsuo Udon, in red buckets. I figured I'd try two of each even though I had no idea what katsuo was. (I just figured it out today through some Googling; it's a sort of fish.) I had udon for lunch today; the kind without the fish. That was pretty yummy. I'll update you tomorrow on how the kind with fish is. I wish I had bought some packaged red-bean buns to take to work too, but somehow I bet the fresh version was just much better than they plastic-sealed ones would be.
After Mitsuwa, we went to Chang Jiang buffet for a really good dinner. It's one of my favorite buffets and, it being down south of me a ways, I don't get there much, so that was fun, even though I was kind of hoping to have some tempura at the Mitsuwa food court. After that, we all headed back north, Sabrina with a large bag of pocky and other goodies in tow. (She let me try a green tea pocky; that was surprisingly good!) We split up at Posi's place, and Andrea and Sabrina and I all went back to Kenosha. In the car, windshield wiper fluid inadvertently got all over Sabrina's leg, so we took off her pants and washed them. (Yes, Andrea provided her with an alternate pair to use in the meantime.)
Sabrina ended up staying the night and in fact, didn't leave the house 'till early afternoon, although as it happened, she had to come back after leaving the first time; Andrea and I started working on the basement and the first box we pulled out was full of Amiga stuff! We called her, found that she had stopped at the Kenosha Goodwill, and had her come back to take more goodies to go with the Amiga hardware I'd given her a while ago and help empty our basement at the same time! Win-win!
We also spent some time hanging around the living room and browsing through real estate listing online. I had the chance to talk to Sabrina about how financing went for her house. That was enlightening. I don't know a lot about the process since I've never done it before. I'm going to talk to my parents on Wednesday about how buying their house went too. I'm really excited about the idea of moving in the fall after we save up a nice down payment. I have to admit though, that the idea of moving right now flitted through my brain after seeing this listing. We wouldn't even have to buy; they're offering the property for sale or rent, and the rent would be less than we're paying now! It's a house about as big as ours, but it's on a half acre of land and has not only a garage, but a small barn! I would so so love to have a little bit of land like that. It would be good for dogs, and good for me. It's something I'm definitely going to look for when we start searching in earnest. It looks like something that we could reasonably manage to find in the Bristol area. We're both leaning toward Bristol for a couple of reasons, largely because it's a little more rural. We could have dogs and I could operate a smithy without worrying as much about neighbors.
Andrea and I spent a while after Sabrina went home going through boxes from the basement. We got through about ten or twelve of them and made a significant dent in one of the bigger piles. I want to get the basement cleared out not just so that we have less stuff to move when we do, but so I can have some room to set up DDR, and have a work bench for doing Dremel work and stuff like that. We got a lot done, found some really interesting things we'd forgotten about (like the bottle of Scooby-Doo bubble-bath that Andrea bought at the K-mart just across the way from our apartment in Michigan with the intention of giving her two-legged puppy a bubble bath grooming, but we never got around to it 'cause the bathtub was just too small), and I ended the weekend feeling very contented and pleased with the progress made and with time spent with friends.
Anyway, I could go on, but I'm just finishing up installing Dungeon Siege (
mocha_mephooki lent me a copy!) so that I can install and play Ultima V: Lazarus, which I'm very excited about, especially after reading all the words of praise on the game's site. Plus, I need to go do a little more laundry. 'Till later.
