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Ebenezer’s guide to Christmas

What do you want?  I’ve spent over 2 hours trawling one of the biggest shopping websites in the world and I still can’t find something I actually want.  Bah humbug to it all.  Why do I have to force feed myself reasons to be jolly anyhow?

What’s really important is being around people who actually care about my existence.  Besides, the things that give me a real buzz cannot be bought with a civilian security clearance or are too elite to be on any retail shopping outlet.

December 25th, 2017 Daytona Beach (destination not reached)

7 ways to sidestep Santa mayhem – online and offline

Give small but niche token gifts
Use a daily cash envelope system
Use Load-up cards only
Carry a food flask so you don’t eat too much
Talk and Dream about Summer 2018 holidays
Grab the designated driver card to avoid drinking
Downgrade to a “dumb” phone…Text and Talk only

Run out of Pyridostigmine

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Upgrade it, Patch it, Break it

The classic dilemma for patch management is when to do it and what will it break.  Especially, when dealing with Operating systems you run the risk of the application you’ve been using for decades suddenly not working (not supported).

This issue is bad enough when doing the upgrade for yourself but when you do it on behalf of a client you run the risk of being the root cause of the problem.

The latest MacOs upgrade is not compatible the Outlook for Mac 2013 (version 15.3), which was released October 2014….WTF.  So now you have to spend time and money on an upgrade.

Always plan your Technical upgrades

The best practice is to run a compatibility test on all applications especially business-critical ones. But why haven’t two of the biggest software vendors in the world built that into the OS upgrade process to at least notify the user?

Money talks louder, so shut up and buy the Office365 upgrade

Meanwhile, I try to keep my head straight and get totally distracted by just looking out the window.  Austria is a great place to avoid mass marketing but dammit this has just pushed me back into my one-track mind.

Everywhere I look….

What was the approval process for a company to register and pay for this domain and then actively market it?

So much for Global Thinking

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Getting into the role

Spent the past few days really getting into the Fallout 4 role play.  My character is pretty young but I’ve developed enough to explore the landscape without dying every two minutes.

Fallout 4 landscape is massive

I’ve figured out how to Platinum Trophy hunt in Life is strange without messing up my choices.

Life Is Strange™ Taking pix all over the place.

My StarWars Battlefront re-training is pure fun after I figured out how to get the free DLC content with $6 ultimate version.  It caused a hard drive issue with 2 instances of 40+ GB taking up valuable space.  My disk version is now redundant and can be archived.

Still, I’m running a horrendous Kill Death ratio of 10% in multiplier mode but it feels good practising with offline AI enemies. Map knowledge, weapons and skill access is critical to success. Most players I’ve joined have weapons I haven’t even tried out much less mastered.

Anyhow, my primary objective is just to be ready for the Part 2 Beta.

 

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™- Ready for Part 2

Need to upgrade my HeadSet for StarWars

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Fatigue report

40 hours ago, I was on Miami Beach. Now, I’m in Austria shivering and suffering from extreme weakness.

Not sure if this is MG or transatlantic travel fatigue. Either way, I’m gonna take the last remaining  Mestinon® and try to sleep it off.

08:25 The soles of my feet are cold. No typical MG symptoms though.

12:41 Slept for a few hours, body temperature running high. Gonna take some regular headache and fever meds.

14:01 Took some Advil and some Mestinon®…still feeling weak.

God Bless America

Didn’t practice the Candy Dance while I was in Florida…oh well, next time.

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Child’s Play

11:00 – I got sick of dealing with update problems and latency just for a child’s laptop so decided to kick out Windows 10 in favour of any Linux OS.

It’s been a while since I’ve had to mess with laptop operating systems and ran into a MotherLoad of installation problems. 

17:56 – Still trying to overcome a looping problem of “OS not found” WTF.

20:16 – Finally got rid of the troublesome Windows partition and Ubuntu seems to boot up fine and running like a Leopard.

21:08 – Firefox on Ubuntu not compatible with Netflix….Are you fucking kidding me right now?  Error Code: F7344-1204

22:08 – Install Chrome via Command Line and it worked with Netflix

Difficulty level – positivity impossible for your casual end-user

The ultimate tester will be the child herself