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badgopher: “No, you’re still having to figure out how to support Windows XP on modern hardware. ” In 2012 I drove up to the Fry’s Electronics (RIP) in San Marcos to buy a USB floppy drive for some work nonsense, commemorated above, and stopped off at...
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No, you’re still having to figure out how to support Windows XP on modern hardware.

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In 2012 I drove up to the Fry’s Electronics (RIP) in San Marcos to buy a USB floppy drive for some work nonsense, commemorated above, and stopped off at the Best Buy across the street to buy the last, dusty box of (neon!) 3.5" floppy disks, and kept both around as nostalgic artifacts long after their purpose was served, so this morning, looking at that stack of floppies that fell out of 1997 or whenever, I’m like, wait, I have a Mac (since we were a Mac household back before it was cool) and a USB floppy drive (and the appropriate dongles, naturally; and didn’t I see it in that drawer a couple months ago?), I might be able to see what’s on those!

The drive wasn’t in the drawer. Or the 5 around it. Or the other 2 it might have been in. Or the cabinet, or one of the storage boxes in the closet. Nowhere.

Then I realized the last place I saw it was in the box of stuff I dropped off at Goodwill (since Goodwill does electronics recycling for the stuff they can’t resell), from last year’s big clean out of all the drawers and cabinets and storage boxes.

So.

That’s how, why, in this, the year of our lord two thousand twenty two, a full decade after the last time I made this ridiculous purchase, I bought another USB floppy drive.

for the chance to maybe see if there's anything interesting on those disks curiosity killed the cat etc.

According to the time capsule that just landed on my doorstep, my parents cleaned out the filing cabinet.

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Contents includes:

  • A lackluster progress report from my 7th grade English teacher
  • A stack of 3½" floppy disks, contents unknown
  • Air travel artifacts from the late 90s
  • A handful of 30-pin SIMMs labeled “1mb” and “4mb”, used
  • The mouse pad from my first job
  • A bunch of 10th grade English assignments, for some reason
  • A photo of what appears to be an elementary school event with “Feb 1992” printed on the back
  • Bank statements from the savings account I had in high school, back when banks used to pay interest on savings accounts
  • A bunch of love letters from ghosts, mostly in greeting card format
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badgopher

I got the date wrong on my calendar and missed last night's Maren Morris concert and now I'm bummed.

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Okay, so she’s playing Hollywood Bowl on October 13th and Ticketmaster had a couple good seats left and I figured yolo I guess and bought them, plural, because Ticketmaster is the worst, so it looks like I’ll get to see her on this tour after all, yay, but like… do I know anyone on here who can use the other ticket?

free to good home
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Huffing and puffing though C25K training and I see a man sitting under a Jacaranda tree, working away on his laptop.

“Huh, kinda reminds me of - JAMES!”

Spontaneous @badgopher run-in with hugs makes for a great start to the weekend.

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I look up from some cloud deployment analysis thing on my laptop and there’s someone standing on the path next to the tree I like to hang out under on sunny afternoons, and they’re looking at me, and I’m looking back, and I think, or maybe I say, “hey, I know you!”

:)

Last year I got my covid booster + flu shot at the same time and it was a non-event so I didn’t think anything of getting this year’s bivalent booster + flu shot together. That was Wednesday afternoon. Thursday morning I had Regrets, but the worst of it passed in a couple hours, once the coffee + acetaminophen kicked in. This morning I was perfectly fine.

Demi Lovato is touring her new album, but the closest she’ll get to here is LA on a Wednesday, and I’m decidedly too old to pull off that commute for a concert on a school night. So I bought a ticket and booked the rest of that week off work because I am decidedly old enough to pull off that kind of nonsense.

And then I remembered my horrible idea from a few weeks ago and confirmed that Chvrches is playing in Seattle that Friday, so…

The other day I finished Carrie Soto Is Back and it was fine, but I spent most of the book thinking about the few years I was kinda into following tennis, and wondering why I stopped. Tonight I think I figured it out and it is the most boring reason.

I had another thing sketched out for this spot but I can’t remember what it was, so let’s just pretend it was something droll and get on with our day. Deal?