This image was taken at the pool of a hotel we always stay at when visiting Singapore to attend the Formula One Grand Prix each year. It's nice, not too expensive and well located to the F1 track and Clarke Quay. I used the word surfacing in the title so drew a parallel to the swimming pool and water...You know, surfacing from beneath the water, but it has no real relevance to the post.
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Go to the range and shoot some guns...That was my Sunday morning plan formulated within my mind on Friday afternoon when I wrote my weekend post; An unstructured weekend was the overall plan...A plan to be unplanned as such...Although range-time was on the unplanned plan. Alas, things don't always go to plan and even unplanned plans go awry, so...No range-time y'all. Not even a bit.
On Friday night as Faith, my long-suffering wife, (suffers because she has to put up with me) declared that she would like to reorganise and arrange my office.
Oh really? Rearrange my office huh? This what I thought, but didn't voice it...I'm not that stupid.
She had decided that this would be better there and that would be nicer over here and this other thing would be good if it was there and so on. She worked most of Saturday and so Sunday, my range-time, was declared by the boss-girl as office-rearranging day. I'm a good husband and so I don't complain. Too much.
To make the changes we had to pick up a couple things, power adaptors, an extension power cord and a couple other small things so went to the homemaker centre on Saturday afternoon.
On the way Faith asked how my computer was going, a five and a half year-old MacBook Air laptop.
I told her it was going like a wizened 100 year old incontinent, dribbling man on a concoction of various Benzodiazepines and opioids including Valium, Xanax, Librium, Oxycodone and Fentanyl...That is to say, slow as fuck. Indeed it has been dying a slow death for the last twelve months and I have been putting off replacing it.
Why, I asked as concern for my computer has never been high on her list of priorities.
Maybe we should get a new one considering the end of financial year sales, she declared nonchalantly.
I looked over at her concerned she had gone stark raving mad but she looked the same as always, no madness evident to my, admittedly, untrained eye.
Had we won the lottery and I was unaware? Did she rob a bank? My mind wondered, but it seemed she simply wanted to take advantage of the end of financial year sales.
Ten minutes later we were in conversation with a ten year old computer salesperson who was talking about RAM and Gig, i5 and i7, processor thingamygigs and naming different brands like Apple, HP, ASUS, ACER, Lenovo and Microsoft. I didn't understand a word he said because he seemed to talk like he was on 30x speed but I narrowed it down to what I thought would suit my needs now and in the future and puled the trigger on it.
I am now the owner of a Microsoft Surface laptop with the 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, 256Gb memory and 16Gb RAM. It's fast. I got $620 off the retail price, which was cool, and have the ability to tax deduct it so it worked out fine. We got our other bits and pieces and headed home.
I spent the rest of Saturday setting it up which was reasonably easy, but getting all my hive and crypto stuff working, and the computer set up exactly how I wanted it took some time. It was quite fun, not frustrating at all, and now I'm writing this on my new computer Surface thingamajig.
Sunday dawned, that day of days, when my office would be torn apart. I made breakfast, watched half of a documentary on The Templar Knights, trying to delay the inevitable, and then around 9am we began.
By 1pm we were done. I sit here now in my newly-configured office and, whilst I'll not admit it to Faith, it really is a much nicer layout giving me more room and ease of use. OK Faith, you were right.
In between all the moving I had to message some bro's at the range that I wouldn't make it and got called many unsavoury things because of it, however sitting here now, in my office, I'm glad we took the time and am glad I didn't whinge to Faith about the effort it would take.
When we got done, after lunch, I sat back down to do some more surfacing on my new computer and am liking it more and more. (I love it really, just playing it cool.)
Setting up this computer has been a pretty easy process which I didn't expect. In the past it's been a quagmire of bloatware and programs I had no clue about what they even did; There was none of that this time. I'm pleased to have shifted back from Mac to Windows and considering that I don't game or watch videos on my computer I think it'll be fast enough for what I do: Hive, banking, email, Excel spreadsheets, crypto-trading and the like.
Anyway, have you guys got any computer stories? I know when I posted twelve months back about looking for a new one a few chimed in with suggestions and a few have built some pretty nice rigs since then. Horror stories, good stories, or even stories about how you're keeping your current rig alive...They're all welcome.
I hope y'all are deploying the weekend with vigour and getting after something that makes you happy, keeps you positive and energised. Drop a comment and I;ll get to it in between building Lego, which is what I'm off to do now. My unplanned weekend continues...How's yours?
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