The rough was dealing with another roof leak, which was found & plugged as best as possible during a rain storm, and then losing nearly all of my work time in the process.
The good was just about everything else. Family evening was really wonderful, and getting everything else done went fairly well but just not a lot of downtime – just consistently moving between tasks. Some server work got done, but still have to add a few more that I queued up over last week, but that I can worry about this weekend.
It’s going to be a very long week ahead. Y’all kick tails and have a wonderful Monday & week!
I’m going to open with this article from the wonderful folks over at MassivelyOP and my only remark to it (and for anyone, and I mean anyone) who knows me is this, and forgive my vulgarity: Good. Fucking. Riddance. I have been very loud about how I absolutely loathe the modding community in Final Fantasy XIV, and seeing this coming to an end is nice to hear. Not Sorry.
With that rather out of characteristic vulgar quick-rant out of the way – it’s still pretty chaotic on the RL side, with me certainly bringing more work home for the weekend. Not as much, however, so I’ll hopefully be able to dedicate a little bit more to relaxing – there will be some server work too, which is always fun to do. Biggest hurdle now will be addressing what needs to be done, and very quickly, soon thereafter we get over a machine being down.
Hopefully everyone’s Friday goes wonderfully, and y’all have a weekend to match!
My concern about how this week kind of ballooned overnight with the project escalating into something far more obscene. My bigger concern is if any of this will overtake part of this upcoming weekend, which already has plans involving family. The work/life is really starting to kilt to levels where I left the industry the first time and that’s not good.
Hoping to swerve the course at least a bit today and tomorrow in hopes of it being a bit better. Ended up pulling yet another skilled injury the other day (if you know me, this is par for the course) which has made things a little bit more comically slower, but it is recovering just fine. Hoping dearly that this will all come to some sort of head right before Labor Day Weekend.
As for Labor Day Weekend itself, I might have mentioned visiting ‘home’ where Aiki and I started out in our adventures through Eorzea, but that might just depend on how things are going. The Rising Event comes back the 27th, which means the long ‘lost’ Aryiah will be visiting after being absent for almost a year. It would be nice to hang out at the Moonfire cruise ship sometime over this upcoming weekend (or Monday) with some/all of EOCA, but realistically I keep seeing that idea fleeting with everything upcoming.
Hopefully I’m incorrect to some capacity, but just have to see. There is a level of guilt that I’m continued to be reminded about throughout – it’s been linger a long time now, which hasn’t helped things, but not anything I have time to really address (or even explain) at the moment. Just have to keep moving forward.
Anyrate, y’all have a wonderful Friday Eve! Y’all got this!
While not necessarily a negative, but there has been some work ‘bleed over’ into the weekends due to an overwhelming amount of work going on. It wasn’t overburdening, but just part of the weekend ordeal.
Overall, it was a pretty decent one – got some tasks taken care of while dealing with the usual weekend routines and maintenance. The NAS has been cleaned up and reorganized as well – including remote access, which has helped in regards to getting into it from work.
Started to watch the new season of Wednesday since I caught up for now on Strange New Worlds. I think this part of Wednesday is fairly short, so once that’s done, I’ll head back into Strange New Worlds. Some media server work in there for good measure and a little bit more crafting progress around Eorzea. With Moonfire Faire happening, it’s taken a little bit of all our time up.
The next couple of weeks are probably going to be absolutely chaotic, working on a semi-big project, but hopefully won’t take away too much from here, or personal life – we’ll see.
I.. uhh.. Sorry y’all, kind of been distracted and pretty busy. Everything is well, and the past weekend was good. Patch 7.3 was cleared in its entirety at this point in time and was a pretty enjoyable experience overall with really only one semi-sour spot happening. So all in all, I’d give this Patch start the best of Dawntrail thus so far.
Got to get back to it, but happy Wednesday! Halfway there now, and y’all enjoy the Moonfire Faire! It looks really fun (I mean, it always is) so head on out to Costa del Sol for some fireworks, new party barge and goodies alike! We’ll check it out over the weekend.
Midweek and I am so behind on rest; very much no rest for this Viera.
Just more long days, but the cousins got their chance to head into Patch 7.3’s MSQ last night and thankfully finish it. That’s not to be taken as it was disliked, quite the contrary, just due to weekly planning it would have off-kilted the rest of the week.
Aiki and I are up tonight to blaze the Trail of 7.3, which then just leaves the new raid for the tail end of the week. Weekend then will just be clearing up all of the items we normally do, but missed throughout the week. As for the weekend, probably a nice and actually for once, relaxing one.
Kind of a quick one, but this past weekend was a really good success. The system upgrade/change to Linux went almost near darn perfectly, so now it’s just refining settings and learning a lot more about it now. Even got a few Windows games to run within it just like they would normally do so under Windows itself.
Watched more Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and kind of just meandered around Eorzea, so it was a pretty good balance of productivity and relaxing. Not as much sleep as I would have liked, but the accomplishments with the system more than makes up for it.
Happy Patch 7.3 Eve y’all and Happy Monday! Kick lots of tails this week! Y’all got this!!
Happy Friday y’all! Almost the end of another long and weary week. Hopefully everyone’s has been going well!
Usual weekend routine coming up, but along with that going forward with another system overhaul (hence the farewell notion). These usually are kind of a bittersweet process, and this one is not different as this system in particular has been running pretty much the original of itself since I built it right after my life’s hard reset over 10 years ago.
So, even with it being a good transition to continue operating, it is kind of also sad to see it’s current form go. Depending on who’s reading this, that might either sound silly or relatable – guess it just depends on how it’s looked at, and either way it’s fine. Ideally done to a point before dinner Saturday as well, and that should be doable.
Not much else really planned but being around Eorzea a bit more, possibly some Forbidding the West time depending on how I feel. The big 7.3 patch next week (and it looks CHONK) should be good, as long as I can keep my frustrations with the player-base down to a minimal that is.
Kick tails today, and have a wonderful weekend y’all!
Kind of a delayed start to the reset week last night, but for good reason – was working on a small semi-emergency project in the home office that just took a bit longer than I was anticipating. I have no idea why I do that still as every project always goes way over time-budgeted.
Probably going to pull the trigger and initiate the next task this weekend, but try to weave it between miscillany tasks around Eorzea and the Saturday Dinner Evening routine. It kind of has to be done by said dinner, otherwise it may end up being a repeat of last weekend, which I absolutely do not want to happen again for a very long while (or Labor Day weekend, whichever).
Not much else, just going through the days. Still trying to get a timeline for the rest of the year at least penciled out, but with Hurricane Season looming, it could end up making it look like a bowl of spaghetti again like last year.
Time will tell, but in the mean time, y’all have a wonderful Wednesday!
Now that I’ve gotten a bit of rest and reverted back to the weekday schedule, hope everyone had a lovely Monday!
The weekend was 50/50, well probably more 75/25 (good vs rough). The NAS showed up early so I was able to get that together, which was actually really good since that took a lot longer to set up than I had anticipated it to. Mostly on the settings side: the actual getting it up and running was a breeze. It’s something I should have done years ago after Vladimir passed away. Better late than never for certain, but with this, I can continue to either go Windows 11 (Rufus or not) or Linux Mint depending on scenario – and I only have 2 devices left thankfully. However, I fear the Home Office overhaul is coming up sooner than later.
The rough patch of the weekend was trying to outroot a syncing issue across devices, that just didn’t make any sense and I spent way too much time into the early morning hours trying to fix it. I never really did, but I ended up with only 3 hours of sleep because of it, which caused a huge rush of frustration at myself to stay awake. It was really trivial in the overall scenario of things, but when my determination goes into something, sometimes I have a hard time stopping until all conclusions have been exhausted. I think I would have been less frustrated if I wasn’t working so much these days.
Started watching the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season 3 as of this writing), and it’s so good to be back! Missed the show and it’s been a blast thus so far! When it’s all said and done I’ll be a bit bummed to see it go, but Starfleet Academy does look pretty good from the trailer.
“This is how I died.”
OmOneko has been 100% completed: all achievements, all routes, and all endings good, bad, and indifferent. I really enjoyed the entirety of it and really am excited to see more of this world’s universe in the future. Some of the indifferent endings were pretty comical, and boy howdy the bad ones are very much that. Team Clawdia all the way and no one can stop me. They also have two soundtracks from the game(story?) available, for in which of course I’m going to get those and have them on the media server – they’re really good.
That should cover it for now, last week before Patch 7.3; let’s make it an awesome one, and y’all have a wonderful Tuesday!
I’ll… make remarks throughout the week – so no Monday Morning Recap. The weekend had a huge hit, and a fairly big miss. The miss is kind of overshadowing the hit unfortunately.
Hopefully y’all had a wonderful weekend, and here’s to just such a week ahead! Kick lots of tails!
First and foremost, happy Friday y’all! Hope everyone has had a wonderful one this week!
Mostly just the usual here, a lot of busy and a little sleep – still trying to work on that one but eventually I suppose. Aside from the usual Final Fantasy XIV weekly routines, been slowly reading OmOneko either to unwind or to get the evening started up.
OmOneko-wise, last night I cleared another story path’s route, but kind of both unintentionally and intentionally got to a point that I probably should have waited until I finished all three paths. Will probably try to make this a major objective for this weekend as I’ve really been engrossed with the setting and the characters – assuming what minor project tasks I need to address don’t take too long.
Final Fantasy XIV-wise, we’re pretty close to being as ready as possible for 7.3, which drops in about 2 weeks now. From what I’ve seen on the trailer, looks to be pretty climactic with what’s going on so far and the new Final Fantasy XI raid appears to have us going to at least San d’Oria, Qufim, and Delkfutt’s Tower while also dealing with a couple of familiar faces from Aikirees’ First Life. Will be interesting to see what else in there awaits, and the story itself.
Well, back to it, but y’all have a very wonderful day and weekend ahead!
I catch myself asking this from time to time, and probably other folks & friends do too: ‘Do you do this on purpose?’
The short answer is no; sometimes yes, I’ll get on a roll with working on tasks/projects and just want to keep up the momentum, rest be darned. This time, however, I had to really reconsider if this was what I wanted to do. So basically, instead of the big finale home project being planned for early next year, that’s more than likely being pushed out till early spring.
The reason for this is to do some much needed work around the home office and get everything ready for end of October as I thought I was doing alright. It’s not a huge undertaking but it’s something that I should have probably researched a lot better shortly after Vladimir passed away. So, now it’s just all rubber-banding back to now where it kind of matters. The nudge for all this came from a (albeit minor) data loss scare, which also happened 3 years ago. The one 3 years back wasn’t too rough thankfully, but still – this needs to be addressed as some of my hardware is really aging out now.
It’s really not a major delay in what I had planned, but does take away from more recreational time that I thought I would have in the fall on top of long work days. No rest for this Viera I suppose.
Y’all have a wonderful Wednesday! Kick lots of tails! Y’all got this!
I could have sworn I talked a bit more last week – was it really that much of a blur!?
Well aside from that, the weekend was a mix of hazy resting, and working on smaller tasks. Saturday I did tinker with the server a bit, and finally cleaned up the trains to get them moving again. Forgotten how much I enjoy them rolling around their circuits. Dinner’s movie was another Studio Ghibli movie: The Cat Came Back, and that was great.
In between that and just usual weekend tasks, playing a game Sirena recommended ‘OmOneko‘ on Steam – well started it over the span of the previous week, but got into it a lot more over the weekend. I’ve gotten engrossed into the story paths and the universe it has built, and mostly overall been really enjoying it.
Just wish I did get a smidgen more sleep, but that’s par for the course for me I suppose. A little Final Fantasy XIV in to take care of some loose ends before reset, and we’re now just in the last couple of weeks before Patch 7.3 kicks it up again. Like it’s been, might be quiet here or more blogs like these, it just depends.
In either/any case, y’all have a wonderful Monday and week ahead! Kick so much tails! Y’all got this!
I know it’s only been two weeks, but it really has felt like forever upon landing home last night, taking care of the usual evening routines and then just… nothing but relaxing. With the borked system fixed (mostly, to a point of content), and the other one humming away, it was just a rather nice relaxing evening of just Horizon II: Forbidden West and catching up on some videos.
It was also a double-edged feeling, but the ‘sad’ part of said feeling never necessarily lasts due to lack of time to perceive it or just it fading fairly soon after it appears. It might have just been a combination of letting it be ‘held’ up with everything always moving so fast, or thinking about Vladimir again after listening to some nostalgic songs. It happens, and it’s fine for the most part.
Back at the usual today though, but I might, might, just be able to have a similar evening stretch out for an afternoon Saturday right now as I don’t think there’s anything on the Horizon (not meant to be a pun) that needs to be addressed. Possibly some more server work, as I’ve neglected adding more goodies to that for a bit now, or perhaps looking over the poor trains again. Guess I’ll know more as the week unfolds. I know there are bigger projects looming ahead, but maybe taking a bit of downtime voluntarily would be good.
Kick some tails today y’all! Have a wonderful one!
All the planning and research last week paid off as with the additional time being the weekend, getting the borked system up and running back to normal went a lot smoother. There’s still some minor issues (one I had to put a ticket into because my backup service just wouldn’t work) but aside from those, it’s pretty much about back to where it was before all of this happened.
Ultimately ended up learning a lot more about the software that was originally on it, and what it all did, but even with all of the weekend time, it was still a very time consuming process. Saturday movie was Back to the Future: Part III as planned, and that was a really fun time. Hadn’t watched Part III in a very long time, but can appreciate all of the references and nods in it far more than I did in the past.
Not much else aside from that, just in the ‘waiting room’ for Patch 7.3 now – not exactly where I was planning on being (as opposed to 6.3 and 5.3), but it’ll work out. Still really busy and just tired all of the time now, but still have to keep fighting the good fights, no time for extra rest.
I think this weekend I might just attempt to get some extra rest and not try to pull another all-nighter trying to fix something. Happy Monday y’all! We got this, kick lots of tails!
For whatever determined reason that got into my ears last night, decided to give messing around with the poor system-in-progress, and… progress was made! It’s not entirely where it was yet, but it was a pretty good leap in the right direction.
I just… really can’t afford to lose much more sleep, so might (should) just table it until Saturday where can spend the afternoon bonking at it with the assistance of other systems around the house. Weeks are still pretty hairy and doubt that will let up, so… really just need to get a bit more rest.
Boy howdy did I underestimate something that should have been a simple and straightforward process. To sum up the last 48 hours, I attempted to get another system onto Linux, which was ultimately welcomed with an absurd amount of resistance due to the amount of sole proprietor drivers & software, that I decided to take another route and head back to Windows… where a lot of the same drivers either didn’t work or are a pain to hunt down even on the manufacturer’s website.
It’s been a slow recover, and I’ve lost a lot of sleep due to it. With the days being so long it’s… been interesting. I doubt I’ll try to move the needle in any way until the weekend, but in the meantime I’m going to research why this isn’t going as smoothly as it should. I think thankfully this is the last major difficult one (it is a laptop after all) before messing around with much older desktops.
I am going to be so wiped out this weekend from work, the stress of this, and lack of sleep.
Any rate, we all got this; let’s give it our all! Have a wonderful Tuesday!
While it wasn’t fully planned, this weekend was pretty productive. One project I’ve been holding off on for years now was rearranging my office’s closet as it had become a game of Jenga whenever I needed something in there. After a whopping 12 hours and a hardware store visit, it got done. I did it over Friday and Saturday to not end myself trying to do all of it in one session – this was a wise idea.
Albeit a bit sore from standing most of the weekend, but I did get in some relaxing too: watched the first two Back to the Future, and will probably watch the 3rd one this coming weekend. Previously (the weekend I got back from my trip) watched Paddington in Peru and I give that 11/10 definitely recommend. The Paddington movies are all super wholesome and this was no different.
Next project(ish) is addressing Windows 10’s end of life on my systems that cannot proceed to Windows 11. I have a couple remaining, but the biggest hurdle is retrofitting a couple and building one that can out of parts since I have to have the primary office PC be Windows due to Adobe. Once they make a port for Linux, then I’ll have almost no reason to continue with Windows aside from some gaming that hasn’t jumped yet. Steam has helped a lot in this regards, but still need to do some testing – a lot of this is uncharted waters for me.
I don’t know if there’s to be much posts this week as the entirety of the weekend was chock full of doing things and tackling projects, but might be some blerps here and there as to how the week itself is going. Haven’t forgotten about the Status of Things, but just need a spell to think about that.
I think that’s all I got for this Monday’s recap; hopefully not fully quiet here all week, but that’s really going to depend on how it goes, and it’s going to be a really busy one again! Y’all kick tails and have a wonderful Monday ahead! Y’all got this!
Wanted to work up a new ‘Status of Things,’ but time has eluded me. Getting back into the swing of things from the trip last week, and it’s mostly been good. The mindset is there, but the body is having a little trouble readjusting – shouldn’t be but a bit longer and with it being a long weekend ahead that will help.
That ‘Status of Things’ might go out tomorrow, even with it being a lot less critical than the previous ones, but it’s just been too busy to put the thoughts into words; probably next week at the earliest.
Not much else right now, y’all have a wonderful Wednesday! Halfway there, and y’all got this!
