Fortnight since last post ? What's occurring ...

Hmm, I don't usually leave it this long between posts !

Thumbnail first ... someone found this one and posted it on one of the discords. I may stand accused :

Credit to the artist as always, although I don't have a link as I usually like to put on.

I sadly haven't put any Lego together since the last post but I do have that Porsche sitting waiting. Sometime ... soon.

It's been a pretty busy fortnight at work, with a couple of away trips. So last weekend was very definitely a recovery/breather as was this weekend (and I'm missing words again which is another sign of tiredness with me). I was away for the first Wednesday and Thursday and also for the Monday and Tuesday of this week just gone.

I have good pictures too ... which I can't show here because they give too much idea of work away. Locations and places, things like that. However, one of the trips did see me near one of the hardware techie stockists and I acquired the latest techie morsel that will go in to Meltdown at some point :

There we go. More examples of my techie graveyard of bits that are scattered around the house.

From left to right, we have :
Seagate ST32130A 2GB conventional hard drive
Western Digital Caviar 60GB
Toshiba P300 3TB

I've long since discontinued the use of the 2 on the left but the one on the right is an upgrade that will be swapped in for a 1.5TB drive that's being pretty pushed for space with some of the newer games with more pictures, textures and data. The 1.5TB drive is 8 years old now, I think the one on the left might be around 20 years old, maybe more.

The 60GB drive probably belonged to Godzilla, which was a couple of machines ago and had a companion iPaq called Godzookie, which I used as a satnav for a few years. They've kept the same package over the years, with all 3 of those being in a standard 3.5" box. The interface has changed though, with the 2GB drive needing some special measures to access the whole of it. Those special measures were unnecessary for the 60GB and the 3TB uses a different type of cable.

Be careful taking your Godzillas on the ice.

Yep. Busy couple of weeks, with even a couple of overnights in a hotel. Mustn't forget the chargers next time though. Oops ! It was ok, I have an iPhone and Android charger lead in the car so I was able to charge everything up off my home laptop.

Hotel internet is pants. As was the attempt at doing internet off the 3 mobile hotspot. Oh and then there's Microsoft stealing your bandwidth for windows updates first chance it gets. You can set your connection to metered which means it holds off a little but ... new internet connections default to unmetered which means Windows thinks it's time to grab the stuff.

Talking of trying to watch stuff ... I tried to start watching someone new on the Hotel Wednesday, 3 internet couldn't cope. She's "HelloitsKolo" on the twitch and there's a link over to the right. Another person who plays a lot of Elite Dangerous. I haven't done much in that over the last couple of weeks, I've been feeling a bit too blasted to play. However ...

That's coming in to land at Fowler Legacy, picking up supplies to help out the latest Generation Ship to be found and added to the game. More pics of that one when I pay it a visit.

One thing I've learned ...

Some of these logs (not this one apparently !) have audio attached to them too ... I shall have to go back and revisit some places I've been to already.

Other stuff ...

I've kicked off another Motorsport Manager campaign again, this time in the endurance racing category. I'd achieved what I could with the sportscars and the endurance racing is more of a challenge. There's been a couple of races so far and my people are doing ok. I'm in the process of changing around the drivers at the moment, as there is a Fitness attribute that matters a lot more in the endurance racing because it determines how long each driver can stay in the car. More fitness, more time in each stint, less time lost in the pits.

And there may well have been Stellaris happening again. Patches have been coming thick and fast lately. I have a Fanatic Purifier race that's going to destroy the galaxy (may well do that as something spectacular in the end) and I'd quite like to complete that game before the next expansion hits because it could well shake things up again.

Other news - birthday happened again !

I didn't travel like I usually do because I needed a quiet weekend this weekend. It even got to me thinking that Friday morning was actually Saturday due to a little confusion. Oops. Managed to get in to work for 9.15am (almost an hour later than usual) and I have 3 days worth of flexi credit to use up so ... didn't matter in the end.

There's also the Xmas market opening up in Bristol again ... last week. No cookies !

Alas.

May have to go farther afield for cookies.