LadyCrimson

If he could, he'd have printed 3 of them by now - one for the master bedroom and two for the garage. He has a fan-heater unit in the garage along with a large heated rubber foot mat thingie - I keep telling him to get one of those uber radiant heat lamps like warehouses install on their ceilings - but he hasn't yet.

Comcast Business in my area has been pretty stable re: outages. They still throttle, however. ComcastTV I could do without tho, as I've probably previously said. Especially since it feels like their billing cycle system works out to 15-16 months per year vs. an actual 12. Never tried to figure out if it's really true, but it sure feels that way. ======= Our in-wall heater broke - pilot light refuses to stay lit. You light it, turn a valve back, it goes out again. So most of the time it's been 50F-55F in the entire house the past few days, instead of just my office/gaming room. If you're dressed no big deal but a bit chilly if you're not under blankets for this aging Californian who dislike clothes. Late afternoon enough sun on the roof brings it up to around 65F. But mostly, it's the hubster who's whining since he's one of those that puts on a jacket at the slightest sign of a breeze or cloud. He tried to figure it out/fix it but while he could probably juryrig a lightsaber in the garage, finicky gas furnaces aren't his area...haha. Anyway, power company came out, looked at it for 30 minutes, said "this valve thingie here is probably broken" then further went on that "they're not allowed to fix anything much these days" and to get a contractor. Guess everyone gets sued too often. All righty then.

Hahaha.....why most English teachers didn't like me. I was always of the blue line.

Does having liked/enjoyed something really need justification? We all do it, but I'll never understand it. People are strange.

Awoke at 9am. Housework/beef roast in the oven. Internet surfed. Laundry washing. Old photo albums glanced through. Laundry drying. Old files on the PC browsed. Raked the yard. Don't feel like gaming. More old files on the PC browsed. 4:20pm, dinner's in an hour or so, not quite sure what to do now. Later: probably some movies.

Sifting thru old screenshot folders - I don't even recall how I did this. Some pose mod I guess... He was easy to make fun of. Some weather/sky/storm mod? And this is the problem: every time I think about replaying NV, I remember how many mods I had installed (both others and my own-made) and how long it would take to figure out what's what for a new game and I end up going "nah." :/

Maybe I'm missing something, but somehow highlighting an area and going "click" doesn't feel like painting. Might have made more sense as photography. But it looks pretty and reminds me a bit of the old Myst/Riven concepts. Whether I'd like it or not depends on how well the exploration/crafting is handled. Is there enough to keep my attention or is it going to feel too empty for my liking etc.

I can understand wanting to type a little less letters in text, but what is the obsession with initial abbreviations overall. Always makes me think of Robin Williams line in Good Morning Vietnam making fun of such. It gets a bit ridiculous after a while. :D

Yeah, that's why I don't watch the prime-time network broadcasts anymore. Just saw the end of the biathlon on NBCSN (not SH, the cable guide has a typo I guess...). They still have annoying announcers but at least they don't do that commercial-ly editing/cutaway stuff much since they're not trying to squeeze it all into prime-time slots. At least I have a mute button.

Hahaha! Many US sports announcers are another reason I don't watch sports as much. Never shut up for a second and most of what they say is inane babble.

I still have to remind myself that here, most of the time PoE doesn't mean Path of Exile.

Used to love winter olympics. Don't like the way/style it's broadcasted anymore, typically. But I'll watch a bit now and then. NBCSH seems to have it on 24/7 with some segments supposedly live. Speed skating, ski jumping are my faves with figure skating and luge being sometimes interesting.

(Single-player) Daily Timed Hunt, Jan. 30th - worth 500QP. Most Dailies are 50-100QP so players might average 500-700QP a week. It's 850QP to buy a single Vexxos (a limit-break magic making item that also sells for 500k gil). Player wants 80 Vexxo's. Would take 2 years doing it "legit" via the Daily Hunt. Or... Player can repeatedly turn back the PS4 clock back to Jan. 30th to exploit the game and do only that one specific Hunt 3 or 4 times a day or every other day, which means it might only take 2 months instead. Guess what this Player is doing. Two years, **** that.

I'm just here for the cat pictures. ...although that FO packcow on the ladder is pretty funny, too.

I rented Dunkirk, finally. The start was a bit confusing for me, because it drops you into a few connecting situations with "no warning" and there also were small time shifts, where it took me a bit to realize they were time shifts. But outside of that, a fine film, imo. Hardly any dialogue, a great score, some really good (nearly silent, gestures and eyes) performances from the varied cast. If it has one flaw it is that, for me at least, it doesn't resonate emotionally all that much, outside of the natural empathy/horror of seeing a bad situation in front of your eyes. It's more of a visual and auditory feast, if that makes sense. It does thrill, here and there, especially the fighter sequences. Not your US type war film. Thumbs up from me. I liked it better than Nolan's Batman movies.

Well, I know nothing about any of all that. I'm just your proverbial housewife who goes into the garage, watches the hubster do stuff, asks a few questions, usually immediately forgets the answers, and teases/encourages/chuckles the spouse's hobby. I often do find his thingies interesting but only on a surface level. So I went in today and mentioned these posts a bit, which elicited some longwinded responses which I half-listened to and then I asked him: --"Are 3D scanners expensive?" ... to which he said sure, commercial ones would be, and how his client started using them recently (their use of 3D scanning apparently results in HUGE files that are hard to work with even with multiple GPU's) and then went on with: --"Which is why I've been researching how to make my own." ...that's my hubby in a nutshell. He'll take apart your gizmo to see how it's put together then go out and try to build one from scratch. And he usually succeeds - altho, it's not always the most practical success - but he can still say he "made one, that worked." Hah.

The main issue I still have with controller vs. mouse/KB is the potential difference in inventory management systems. I can't stand giant scrolling lists where I scroll and scroll to get to the one item I'm looking for (and if you exit the list and go back you have to rescroll again) and using the sticks etc. to move items from square to square to storage to square etc. is usually a much bigger chore/more time consuming than it is with a mouse, even with some one-button fast-transfer controller options. (edit - altho this is in part because I'm super-picky about inventory management...) Although the point regarding fast paced/precise aiming etc. is also still true. Ppl good with controllers can be very good utilizing them but still can't beat the mouse for such.

I don't know if I'm using the right terms, it's just what I say. I don't mean write a program per se, sorry. You need a 3D model file that tells printer what to print/how to move to create but you can make adjustments by altering parameters in the software program (of which I know nothing about, I just see hubby fiddling with numbers and text lines on the screen....), to correct or alter to a degree. Making your own model files I guess needs a 3D scanner (?) or digital photos+software help (?) or uh...I have no clue...which hubby hasn't started fiddling with yet. So he downloads other people's object-model files and tests/starts with those. He's still testing and calibrating the printer for accuracy and tech stuff... Eventually of course he'd want to make his own 3D model files "from scratch" for his specific things. If he continues being interested anyway. Judging from the varying quality/accuracy of the models people offer for download, it isn't the easiest thing to do well. Heh.

I would never do this unsolicited with strangers/random online gaming. My husband, on the other hand .... it's a thing, among many other things. And it's glorious.

After printing more legos, spindles, lettered blocks, and various other little do-dads, hubby printed a chess rook, something like this one: Nothing really exciting, but it did have me thinking that oh, I guess I could use it to print out a whole RISK set, or missing Monopoly houses, or other game items like that. Finally, something I might actually use the thing myself, for! He's mostly been using other people's object programs but he tweaks them and is trying to learn how to write his own. I'm starting to think I won't be "seeing" my husband much until summer.

The nice weather continues so I'm off for another walk. Still gets "cold-ish" late night but noon-evening feels like Spring to me. I'm glad the wife's fine, even if the car isn't.

FFXV Pocket Edition: Not playing it myself, screenshotted from someone's YT vid. The chibi drawings of the chrs. make me LOL - but in a good way. Watched the whole 1st chapt., pretty faithful to core questline, looks charming/well done. If they ever do a pc-port of it for $10 or something I'd buy it. Maybe.

So if a Steam game says it supports DualShock controllers, does that mean I can just plug in the controller into a USB port on the PC and the game should see/utilize it, or do I still need 3rd party software or a Sony dongle or some other such?

I don't have a picture (and it would just look like...soup...anyway) but my favorite thing in winter is wonton soup. Chicken broth (less salt versions), a bit of minced yellow onion, some flakes of red pepper, a fair number of small pork/cabbage wontons (sometimes I make them, sometimes I buy this one brand's frozen ones) and a couple chopped up baby bok choy bunches. Sometimes I put in extra baked chicken pieces. Boil/simmer for 5-8 minutes. Try not to burn mouth while scarfing it up. Easy, largely low calorie but filling, tastier and so much cheaper than double-ordering such soup from some restaurant all the time. The bok choy is key, for me - just won't have the right flavor without it in there. Plus it's supposedly a "super food" so I guess that's all right too. Mmm.

**doldrums, SIGH** ...that is all, carry on.