So my lovely-young-bride of 34+ years is finding out. Not that she’ll ever get “old.” To me at least. She walked into another room while I was talking then complained she couldn’t hear me.Welcome to My World.

Forgot that I was a member (in good standing) on the Steam platform. Was weeding out my logins and passwords yesterday and found the entry. Hey, didn’t I pay for a few “games” on that? Yes. Yes I did.

So I logged on using this ACEPC mini-computer and installed “Universe Sandbox,” a Universe sim, and spent a couple of hours lobbing meteor’s at Earth. Cool! Got a “not enough video memory so will be running in lower graphics mode” error; but it worked just fine and really looked good. You could see each explosion from each meteor (if they’re big enough. The meteor, not the explosion. Nevermind.).

Then I set it to downloading and installing MSFS X (10.8 GIG!). Took all night but finished up about 0800. Installed and runs nice. Graphics look over 10 years old(which they are) but it runs pretty smooth. X-Plane 10 is next!

That I barely believe the “News” anymore is well known and I tend to research stories through multiple sources  before making up my mind. So, this morning I was reading an article about Cheryl Ladd complaining about always having to wear bikini’s for Charlie’s Angels. So I searched “Cheryl Ladd Tiny Bikini.” When SWMBO saw my screen it was tough getting her to believe I was researching every possible angle of the story to get to the truth of the matter.

Gee, what a rough life.

In my efforts to make my life easier I quit Social Media (FB, Thumblr, GAB, etc). Now I’m in a quandary of what to do with olddocking.us. I originally set it up for my family to upload and display their old family pics. They aren’t interested. Not sure if I want to continue it or just rely on Google Photos; where you can keep your originals free. Easier to share too. I just don’t know. Every time I mention getting rid of stanking.org SWMBO goes ‘But, mah mail!.”

WHO released new figures recently. Seems approximately 750 million folks World Wide got the Covid. Approximately 1 million died from it. That’s 0.13%. Same as the seasonal flu. Democrats fooked us over for the flu. Are y’all paying attention yet?

I swear. When I see people outside walking along by themselves and they’ve got a mask on, I really want to stop and bitch slap some sense into them. Not that it would do any good. I saw a guy peddling his bicycle the other day with a mask on. Dipshit.

I like to show folks in Walmart just how good their masks are with an “Old Guy Fart” when I walk by them. If you can’t smell that, you’ve got a good mask on.

Wanted to clone my Linux computer boot SSD to a larger SSD so I rebooted into Clonezilla. Which I’ve used hundreds (ok, about 20) times and had no problems with. I know what I’m doing. (He said as he stepped off the cliff…)

Set up the source drive (120g ssd), destination drive (250g ssd) and continued. After about 8 seconds Clonezilla told me it couldn’t make a partition on the destination drive. Wha?

So I took the Clonezilla drive out and rebooted. Except it wouldn’t boot. Then it’d boot but reboot. Wha?

So, wound up just replacing the drive and reinstalling Linux xfce. Replace the broken cd drive at the same time. Rebuilding all my software/e-mail, whatever now. Oh, the Joy! Amazing the number of programs I install and use.

Nice out today. Got up on the roof yesterday and got the pole down that was holding my 2-meter antenna at one time. It’s now a cross-member on the top section of my tower ready to fly flags or hold a long-wire. Both probably. That’s all done and my neighbor (the one that bought the 12-ton man-lift “cause I needed it.”) is going to bring his man-lift down next week and help me put that last section up. That’ll be fun!

Otherwise, ssdd around here.

Just tried to make a political comment and failed miserably. Having a hard time with the Democrats/Liberals and the things they’re doing to make President Trump lose this election. Our society has gone so far down the rabbit hole these past 15 years or so. I’m expecting a LOT of violence when he does get re-elected. I just wish we could fight fire with fire. Maybe if we let folks know we won’t stand for their bullshit and will actively fight back they’ll settle their asses down. Someone is going to have to hurt, and hurt bad, for them to get the message.

But we don’t see them in our neighborhood. They know some of us have diggers and lots of property…

Just set up fstab for my local and network drives. Forgot the credentials file. Samba & cifs-utils working. All the directories made locally. sudo mount –a worked! Cool!