Thoughts and ramblings of an ex-Londoner in Cambridge.
And today, Louise is helping me try to repair my dead M15X. It’s tough using an ancient HP laptop when I have a quad core i7 Alienware sitting idle… We have cleaned up the CPU and GPU but now we need thermal gunk and gunk-proof insulating tape to put it back together and test it. Oh, and if it works, I’ll need to buy a new hard drive for it since I re-used the old one… oh well.
And it comes as no surprise that the delivery via Yodel, with a deliver-by date of two weeks from now, arrived before the Parcelfarce delivery, ordered before it, with a “Guaranteed next-day delivery”.
Oh well, at least I now have a waterproof jacket… (at least I hope it’s waterproof)
It’s funny how sometimes you can write daily as the ideas flow, and at other times, you’d love to write, but have nothing to say. I’m not one of the people who has an author’s mind. I can’t discipline myself to write a novella every time I set hand to keyboard, and I’m not knowledgeable enough about politics to write political rants and journals as some can. And so I’m left with just writing whatever comes into my head at the time, and hoping that someone finds it worth reading (or at least mildly entertaining). (more…)
It’s been fun so far, at least mostly. I’ve had Louise with me all weekend and she’s been wonderful.
We started Friday evening in the Euston Tap with drinks. In the end only 5 people showed up but was fun nevertheless. Most of us are also Ingress players so we claimed the local portal for the evening. Entertainment was provided by a high level Resistance player who goes by the handle LeJean, who tried (and at one point almost succeeded) to take it – though we did have a secret weapon in reserve, and later by a newer player Londonlime, who made a much briefer effort. Thanks to Geekylou and AgroKK for the defence. (more…)
May I present my newest ship, the Romulan Republic Warbird “Enlightenment”, a Ha’apax class advanced warbird (aka battleship).
I started playing again last weekend, when I saw they’d made Romulans a playable faction. It had been a while and I got to Lvl 40 yesterday which while not the end, does give me my “final ship”, at least without paying real money in their wonderful pay-to-win model.