Yikes
Didn’t realize it had been that long since I last updated. Sorry about that. Let me try and cover a bunch of topics in one post:
Sports: My tips sites are doing great – my NBA Tips site is at 14-4 for the season so far, or 77.8%. NFL is at 34-25 or 57.6%. I’ve also been making arrangements to go to a lot of sports games lately. I really wish I lived in a town with some actual big sports teams as I would so get season tickets for everything. Shit, I’d even sit through the Toronto Argos every other week. I went to Leafs vs Senators on Tuesday in Ottawa which was fun, and this Saturday I’m off to Toronto to see the Leafs vs Capitals, then the next day it’s Raptors vs Magic. Got a ton more basketball & hockey games lined up, and also going to see Patriots vs Bills on Dec 20th I believe which I am pretty pumped about.
Books: Haven’t been reading much lately. Read Filth by Irvine Welsh for about the 9th time – seriously his best book bar none, and I highly recommend it. I read that again as he brought out a kind of sequel to it in Crime. Just started that – it’s starting a bit slow but hopefully it will pick up.
TV: Haven’t watched much lately. Started going through Family Guy as I bought the box set of that like a year ago and it’s been sitting gathering dust. I’ve probably only watched about 20 episodes of it in total, so it is nice to go through it one by one. The early episodes are quality – not so sure about the later ones, but I did catch one on TV last night(where Stewie was in the future and saw the older Stewie) and it was pretty lame.
Video Games: Haven’t played much Xbox lately, which sucks as I’ve got an achievement challenge where I need to get more gamerscore points than another person. He’s currently at 62,865 and I am at 60,076. I did beat Harry Potter the other day – I think it’s Order of the Phoenix but it might have been the other one. Either way it was shit. I tried out Chronicles of Riddick today but sad to say it was too hard for me – that was a bit depressing. Granted I was playing it on hard, and with the achievement challenge I have it in my head I have to rush through games, and that really isn’t one I should rush through, but MAN did I ever suck at it.
Hopefully I find time to play games this week. I have a whole stack of games that I’ve either bought/rented and not played, or played a little. Games that I have to go through include Godfather II, Lego Indy 2, Blitz 2, Bionic Commando, COD 3, COD WaW, COD MW 2, Cars Mater National, Monsters vs Aliens, Bolt, All Pro Football 2K8, The Incredible Hulk, Bakugan, Ben 10, Fantastic 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Virtua Tennis 3, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Mini Ninjas, PGR 4 and probably a few others I can’t remember off the top of my head. So yeah, lot of fucking games to play – just have to sit down and do them.
Work: Had a lot to do since I got back from Edmonton, and did it all. I’ve got one new site that is almost done(I just need a couple of articles to add to it, a caricature and a header) and I’ll post it here – it’s a pretty neat site and fun to work on. Other than that, I’m basically in vacation mode until the end of the year – I basically work just whenever I feel like it now – some days I do fuck all, other days I will be like “Yeah I want to do that today” then do it. Fun way to work, and I may just continue like this for the next little while.
Alright, I am off to do a few things then play Modern Warfare 2!
Update from Twitter
On the train to ottawa – off to watch leafs vs sens tonight. Let’s go over 6!
Update from Twitter
New PAB Article – Time Management & Productivity: https://bit.ly/2dDgaP
Hi!
Been a hell of a crazy week. Had the computer problems, then I was in Edmonton over the weekend, and a zillion other things going on. Will check in soon!
Fucking Computers
Well I finally got my new computer today, and everything has turned to hell since. Wonderful.
I had everything backed up and prepared, so around 9pm tonight the process began of unhooking my old computer, and hooking up my new computer. I opened it up, took out the packing stuff, had a quick glance around then hooked everything up. That was a pain in the fucking ass as I can’t move my desk, but I finally managed to get it done.
I boot up, and I get an error that it can’t find a system disk. I thought Windows 7 was meant to be pre-installed on it, so I was a bit concerned. However I put in the Windows CD and booted up from that to do a fresh installation. Well, that did not work out well at all. Once it got to the part where I choose where to install it – I couldn’t. The SSD wasn’t showing up, and I was unable to install it on the regular HD as its letter was X:, and Windows will only install on C:.
So I checked the BIOS and yep – not detecting the SSD. Fuck. I spend awhile googling, trying things and nada. This was meant to have been tested before they sent it out too. There’d been an issue with an Intel SSD Firmware update a few days ago which toasted a ton of SSDs. The theory in my head was that after testing it all, they decided to give me the new firmware update but never tested afterwards and it had bricked it.
So after a couple of hours and no luck, I started thinking about what the problem could be. It seems whenever something fucks up, I always forget the simple problems. I look at what the bigger issues could be, rather than starting from step 1. So after debating with myself, I start the chore of unhooking it to open it up – and sure enough, the SSD just wasn’t connected. Yay! So I connect it back up, and on we go…..
Or not.
The first issue was when I boot up, the monitors turn off. Oh, wonderful. Boot into safe mode right? Well unfortunately another problem, which was it didn’t recognize my USB Keyboard. Seriously. In 2009. So fucking retarded. So I go in the basement and dig out the PS/2 Keyboard, wipe the dust off and hook that up. I get into safe mode, and it is set up to run the whole installation process. Okay, no problem. So I start that up, and it reboots itself once, then does some shit, then reboots itself again….
and I am back to the original problem with the monitors turning off. I boot into safe mode and “setup is preparing your computer for first use” but OH WAIT Windows cannot complete installation in safe mode.
At this stage I have absolutely no clue how to fix this. Yay for Windows 7! It’s bad enough that I’ve been awake for pretty much the last 48 hours due to Mason being sick as all hell, now I have this wonderful stress to deal with. Sigh.