LadyCrimson

Nothing special or big name brand, he's not the type for such, unless it became more than a temp. obsession/more than learning. Judging from the boxes he bought this set (maybe a few of the sets...): https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Sharp-Diamond-Sharpening-Stone/dp/B01FPP46W2 As well as a Trend double-sided one (180/600) ... wouldn't surprise me if this one was recommended in some YT video, haha ... I also saw him using very fine grades of sheet sandpaper - I don't know why, probably he was just curious.

I asked hubby to clarify a bit and my mistake ... he said he "probably" wouldn't use it to hold sharpening stones, he just wanted a permanent clamp. eg, he got long-term side-tracked and I misunderstood his verbal babblings. I guess it's one of those "wood working bench vises". Larger than the typical table-surface mounted clamps. Hence, undertable mount. I don't know why he's making 3000000 wood support pieces/making it seem so complicated but that's hubby. I learned not to ask for reasons on anything he does long ago. I figure it's safer. ... hubby likes the journey more than the destination. Thus he will spend weeks/months trying to be a master blade sharpener, get semi-decent at it, then will probably ... never sharpen a knife again. Like how he had a ball making those 3D printers (vs. buying one to just plug in), but doesn't care about actually printing, so now they're sitting on a shelf somewhere. He got into computers for the same reason. "How do PC's work? I must study electricity/physics/whatever and make my own! ... what? Actually using computers? Pfft, boring, I'll be in my secret lab."

Hubby's still obsessed with learning how to become a master blade sharpener (video watching all week, practice, nicked fingers, trying to create/attach the perfect-est sharpening stone holder/clamp to his worktable...) ... that sharpening sound is kind of hypnotic, until its punctuated with a curse or two. Guess I'll make and test play some more 7 Days maps.

HBO Max - "Those Who Wish Me Dead" ...well, that's a stellar cast. I had to look up a couple of the "I know that face" folk but yeah, decent acting choices. Film kind of harkens back to 70's/80's and early 90's thriller/action I suppose. Boy on the run from assassins, forest fire backdrop, danger will robinson. I could've done without seeing Jolie's PTSD flashback bits over and over in the first 30 minutes, I got the point the first time. The young boy actor does well/isn't annoying. Jolie is Jolie. Medina Senghore as Jon Bernthal's wife is the standout in some ways. Anyway, a tad above average for such but not outstanding, entertaining enough while exercycling.

Re: hair - Still can't use a pair of scissors for more than a snip or two. Past few weeks I look in the mirror and have 70's flashbacks. Soon I'll be Cousin Itt from Adams Family, only greyer and a lot more scraggly.

....along with the husband*. *no offense to any of the tidy males out there.

Mobile phone 'net account access: --worked while getting vaccinated (week ago, more or less) --few days ago the signal seemed flaky while watching videos so I switched to home wi-fi --now it won't connect to it at all and I have the little "no access" icon at the top (only wi-fi works) --restarted/rebooted, put it in airlplane, restarted, turned off airplane, etc. --no I haven't dropped it (ever) or used it as a hammer What a piece of fragile expensive junk. Maybe the internal antenna got loose/broke. I guess I have to visit a verizon place and see if they can do something. Edit: or go back to not having one. I think I can live without texting hubby that "I'm done, I'll stand at the corner" if he needs to pick me up or something.

Rewatched Hachi A Dogs Tale. Cried like a baby again. Can't help it. Now rewatching IP Man. I think I remember liking it but I can barely remember now so thought I'd look at it again. 😄 Next morning edit: Yup, IP Man is great. Not just the fun choreographed fight scenes, but overall is a pretty good genre movie. I haven't watched the sequels.

Maybe they pulled a Kirk ("borrowing" clothes from clotheslines) more successfully than Kirk.

It was a bit later, but don't forget about White House Down vs. Olympus Has Fallen. I've heard quite a few ... "debates" on those.

It could've been 60-90 seconds shorter, but it's on point. I chuckled.

"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." -- Kirk, 'Shore Leave'

Ice Age is a generally stupid movie (in a harmless sense), but it had Scrat, so I forgive it a lot else. All the Ice Age movies should just be all Scrat, all the time. Twister is a brain at door OTP popcorn movie. I found it hilariously fun at the time. "Cow!" I also liked Dante's Peak ok - wasn't as fun as Twister tho. But they outdrove that pyroclastic explosion! Movies love heroes outrunning ... stuff! Mostly I just liked Pierce Brosnan at the time.... The other volcano movie of that period - Tommy Lee Jones, Volcano (in Los Angeles!) - that was beyond even my limits for brainless disaster movies, because it wasn't even remotely OTP fun. And it was more "Lava" than "Volcano." Which was boring.

Why does everything in this game want to knock me down and rip my face off? NOT a nice doggy. Pardon me, just keeping the mud off my shoes. ...I got to the train, which is probably about where I stopped originally. I circled around a bit and decided to jump down what appeared to be a 6-7 foot drop to an area below a platform (instead of climbing the ladder like game told me to). Apparently six feet is too high or something and I landed so hard I insta-died. I went "Pffft" and exited game again. 10-15 minutes every day, that's about my pace. Hah.

I woke up at six this morning and it was a nicely pleasant temperature outside. Which means it'll be way too warm by mid-afternoon. I keep looking into low/no carb/sugar snack foods (high protein is fine, high fat is not) because while I haven't been doing it much lately, I am still a severe munchie (vs. meal) person. The past couple months I keep wanting this or that and it's wearing on my brain willpower....Keto diet is low carb concept but I'm not sure I'd care for dried cheddar cheese balls ("Moon Cheese"). Also, they're still high in fat/cholesterol, like cheese. Seems like you may as well just eat ... fresh cheese. So I ordered jerky again instead. Gotta keep looking...something besides dried meat or seedy crackers would be nice, is all ...

I missed the large, center single-cities 7 Days no longer does, and this is even more ginormous, would take forever to "clear out" every POI. Thanks, 3rd-party map generator! I also made the block grid size smaller so POI's are closer together. When you run around ground-level, it feels much more like a city or suburb, to me anyway.

🤔 ... can play as adorable fuzzy creature thing and wear cute/funny hats and helmets (very important!). Can ride/fly on things, flashy combat animations, has a photo mode, enemy design looks fun, loot, quests. But I have ... doubts. We've all been fooled before, right? What I'm hoping for is some sort of weird gameplay mashup of (modern) Fallout-y rpg styling and Borderlands speed but with much more stylized/action combat, or something. I'll probably wait a few days for first impressions (especially re: initial performance/bugs), but ... I bet I'll end up buying it. If only because of the hats.

I haven't played much further (my "wife" is leading me somewhere outside) - the lack of manual saving is annoying me since I tend to suck at these type of games - but I thought this was a good comparison article re: ray tracing in this Metro edition. Mostly it seems to brighten/lighten up areas that used to be dominantly black/dark so you can see more details, notice npc's etc more easily in some situations that were too "black" before. Less noticeable general effect outdoors. I still feel like in some cases it makes blacks look a tad "grey" or at least it feels too lit up for my tastes. I'd probably like it somewhere in the middle. I turned the gamma down a notch or two, seems to help. But it does look good, simply a preference thing I suppose. Anyway ... outside of that article's examples, here's a couple of my own early pics I still had of original, vs. Enhanced: ..according to article, this spot was much more "pitch black/grey", now it's warmer and feels sunlit. And just because:

I think genetics - and being in pretty good dancing/cycling/hiking type shape for most of my first few decades - is the only reason I never inflated to 200 pounds in my later years. For my size I can eat huge amounts before I feel even remotely "too full" - I think my stomach is the size of a large burlap sack or something. Also, I lose weight pretty fast if I make any effort at all. Shoulda been a competitive eater.

Is it wrong that all I got from that posting was "LOL, Floogle, snort, snuffle, giggle." If I was really into those smaller indie type games that one is likely to just play through in a day or two, once and then done, I might like a streaming-game sub for that type of thing, if it meant I could play 6 a month for $10 a month or some such. Maybe. But I don't play those kind of games. Even if I can't or don't care to mod something, I've never wanted my ability to play (non-online-MP) games to be dependent on whether or not my internet connection is working.

This Sat. it was pizza while watching "Unhinged", since it seems to have become an Amazon Prime freebie. I was expecting an older style thriller/suspense in the Falling Down sort of vein, except with less social issue posturing. What you get is a completely over the top violence/action film that starts to border on comedy horror cheese. Mr. Crowe seems to be taking his role very seriously but it's just all so non-stop OTP with nary a breather you start chuckling. Wouldn't have been worth *paying* for, but I didn't dislike it - if ya have nothing better to do it's only 90 minutes and it goes well with pizza. Most people will likely have something better to do, tho.

Eww, Photos app. WPV still works fine. Altho I have no idea if one bought/installed Win10 current version from scratch if one could still make it appear. I'm guessing it would still be there if I installed from my 2019-ish USB win10 stick (I did not "upgrade" to Win10 from any other Win version and WPV was still in the files). (late late edit: 2019, not 2018. Me and dates can no longer be trusted, sigh)) Which reminds me, a forum mentioned an open source viewer called nomacs that I still need to check out. I think I'd still prefer WPV for quick looks but it seemed like decent option if it ever does stop working. Better than Irfan anyway, as a simple viewer+some mild other functions.

Win10 update: ---Oh, ugh, Edge. Command prompt, uninstall Microsoft Edge. Thank you. Side effect: if I accidentally click on one of those "web help" links - and such is always an accident, I don't need their stupid interface weblinks - it just flashes white for a second and goes away. Hahah. ---New systray and taskbar shortcut for blutooth and ... Windows Viewer? ... delete/go away. ---Uncheck "let apps try to make text non-blurry" again. ---Recreate Paint Shop Pro exe shortcut again because Win10 update kept thinking I needed a CD to run it from the old shortcut. wtf? My fear is one day Win10 won't let PSP even run, it is a very old program. ---EVGA Precision suddenly seemed to think I only have two gpu fans, not three. Reinstalled, fixed. ---so far it no longer remembers that I want a different background on Monitor 2 (the TV). Goes back to Monitor 1 background if I turn TV off/on. ---everything else seems the same (settings/how I have it setup I mean) but could be some changes I haven't noticed. At least it didn't go totally fubar. I can now ignore "Check For Update" button again for another year or two.

Well, I updated Win10 (PITA, pffft) ... but I have no visual frame of reference for this game - since I never played it for more than 20 minutes or something - so I have no idea if it looks "better" or not. I feel like some darker early intro bits it looked more washed out than before (black levels). Other times it looks perfectly fine. Dunno. I have it basically "maxed/Ultra" but with DLSS on Quality for 4k/50-60fps. Without DLSS/native-4k, it's around 30-40fps. Basically, like Cyberpunk was (for me), 4k/DLSS etc. performance wise, maybe a bit better than CP. ...if I can make myself play farther I'll try to get some shots of something more lighting/RT heavy, if I can figure out what's supposed to be different. 😋