Welcome back everyone. I didn't make any notes for Friday so it must not have been too interesting. 

 

Saturday I set up a new laptop. Then down the street to the second iPad. Oh right, friday I looked at an iPad that was "refurbished' but acted as though the screen was getting random inputs it wasn't actually getting. Creepy. So he went down and replaced it. In the afternoon, delivered a printer to someone acting very strange, not at all like themselves, and then over to game. We got through the "history lesson" for the magical overflow guy and beat his inner monster by dropping it on it's head. Protip: Can't beat that monster? A long fall probably will do the job for you.

 

Sunday: More borderlands 2, thundercats, and gift working on.

 

Monday the normal shopping. Then a checkup job. In the afternoon I went out to Honeoye Falls for basically no reason. She wanted her computer to print to the printer on the other side of the store, but from what I could tell, it already did that. Weird. It was "shared" so I just stuck the IP address in and made it print direct. Oh well.

 

Finished Sean's gift, well, got it wrapped anyway.

 

When I woke up Tuesday Squeaker was limping around here! Took him to the vet and said it wasn't broken, just his shoulder. Got some pain medication for him. He's fine today (Thursday) but better safe then sorry. Got to my 10:00 late. Set up a router and replaced a HD with an SSD. Protop: apparently some laptops have two "turn off the wireless" switches, not one. What an… advanced design. Went over to the "other" hotel I work for to clean out a machine. One person had outlook, but somehow had used up the activations for that copy. Huh? So I ordered them a new one. Surprisingly, it came today, from CA, first class. How is that even possible? That was tuesday. They put it in the mail and got it to me first class from CA in a day? I can't pay for overnight shipping that amazing. Weird. Also sold them that USB 2 card I've had kicking around forever. Got a major component for giftmaking and experimented with Neil's gifts. Want to get his done first in case I run out of time, as he's the only one I see like twice a year. I think it went.. okay. Given my ineptitude. Just have to make the box!

 

Wednesday, just setting Bert's new router to 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.2.1. Challenge. Made enormous strides on gifts, I made the box for Neil's and let it dry overnight, and started painting Mizzy's. I think they'll get done! But could they have been done better… with more time?

 

Realized why I like fantasy style paragon games over sciFi style paragon games despite an equal amount of love for both types. Extra Credit, a great weekly video… blog? sometimes about game design pointed out the difference between Japanese characters and American ones. Look at Mega Man, Samus, Goku- their weapons or powers come from within. They are a part of the character. Now look at Master Chief. His weapons are just guns he picks up. His being strong or fast he didn't work towards, he was augmented to be that way.  That's the difference. In a technology game anyone with the cash can buy anything anyone else has. I always feel less in control, or that I have less options for dealing with things because all my character's power is external to themselves. I told Sean about this after a space combat. These huge ships were slugging it out but I felt disconnected from it because all my character did was "press a button" to make the guns fire. I didn't know why I felt that way but now I do- any character could have done that. There's nothing special about him or the skill he was using. In fact the first officer had to come and help him because he couldn't "push the button" fast enough to make the ship fire "both" types of weapons. (This leads into another discussion about "why isn't the computer doing all this?" that we won't go into)  Contrast that to Demongate or Pyre, where the power you have is something you work for and is a part of your very soul. There are certain things each character can do that no other character can do. That's what I most like: being able to say "I can do this if you'll do this other thing I can't do." Being able to point to a specific thing and say "that's it, that's why I like playing this type of game way more then this other type" is an interesting realization. 

 

Whew, that was long. Today I did two jobs. Talking to someone about what new Mac to get, and sold them some RAM for their current one (which she wants to keep) and then trying to straighten out a new Win8 system. It finally started acting okay once I got Norton taken off, but sheesh.

 

Did more painting, looked at a laptop that was dropped off.

 

Let's see, no game Friday *boo hiss* but Saturday we should do Shadowrun again. Have one job for Saturday and I'm seeing Stewart tomorrow at the office. Might get over to the hotel to install Outlook… saturday? It's not really on the way to Sean's but it's closer then I usually get. Maybe I'll just go tomorrow, I haven't decided.

 

It's 11 days until Christmas. It'll only be 4 when I do this again.

Weather has been pretty good, it was even sunny the last two days.  

 

I guess that's about it for this week. Not too much to complain about, I guess. Comes from not doing too much work?