Last night, I was running on empty. Not having good sleeps for several nights, I was very tired by the time it came for my nightly phone call with RQS. Since I planned to get up and take care of a couple of things before sleeping, I decided to get comfortable on my bed for the nightly call. And shortly after the call, I fell asleep. Did I get in my jammies? No. Did I apply cream to my feet? No. Did I do any of the things in my normal post phone call routine before going to sleep? No! I simply passed out with my phone on my chest. Boy, the waking up at 6 am had me feeling fully refreshed for a change.
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One of the projects I've been working on is to extract a Linux distribution, load it to a thumb drive, and then install it on a 10 year old laptop. And for some unknown reason, I have been unable to do this. It'd be nice to be able to play with Linux on my machine before I toss it out. Sadly, none of the software I have works properly on this machine, and I can't figure out what I'm (likely) doing wrong.
At this point, I'll likely trash this machine because it's too slow for my purposes. Given the age of this machine, its weight, etc., I'll wipe the hard drive and then send it to E-Waste processing. I find it amazing how much E-Waste there is, considering that almost everything we buy now days has some form of computing chip (programmable controllers to CPU's) in its design. (Who'd have thought 30 years ago that we'd have programmable toasters, light bulbs, and microwave ovens, among other devices.)
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Going to game night was a little awkward - in getting out of the apartment. I had piled 5 garbage bags by the door, and could only take 4 of them out. And that was a minor problem for me. But once the garbage was in the dumpster, I was able to get to Yonkers in a reasonable amount of time and play a game. As usual, I lost. But I go there to have fun, and not to be competitive.
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