I think I still have some Mandrake install discs somewhere!

In my parent’s area, where it’s like 40 people per square mile, yeah it’s perfectly safe. It’s a hard mindset to get out of for me, I live in metro Detroit now. My neighborhood is nice, low crime. Good school district. We leave our house unlocked for short periods, like going g to pick up our kid from daycare or taking a walk to the park. Sometimes it gets left unlocked accidentally overnight. Nothing has ever happened.

I also am in the habit of never locking my car. There’s nothing in it, except my daughter’s carseat and some quarters for the Aldi carts. Only once has anything been taken, and that was in a mall parking lot. They stole two throw pillows, and a warm coat. I can only assume it was a homeless person, so I’m not even mad. At least with unlocked doors I don’t worry about my windows being broken.

That looks pretty nice! Next time I play around, I’ll have to try that. I’ve got Cinnamon dialed in pretty well at the moment on my main desktop. And I finally got LXQt, Openbox, and Picom to a state I’m happy with on my turd of a laptop. Can you put the panel on the bottom?

No, no. The Daycare director married her first cousin. She posted all the sordid details of their fights and drama to Facebook. Where she was friends with daycare parents.

A friend of the daycare director asked her if there wasn’t somewhere else she could vent to, perhaps her pastor, instead of airing her dirty laundry on social media.

The daycare director replied that her pastor does not like them because of how closely related they are. Upon further digging in her post history, we discovered that they are first cousins.

Bonus drama. They split up, she moved back to PN, and she dated a different cousin.

The director of my kid’s daycare friended my wife. Turns out, her fb feed had a lot of posts about her marital troubles. In the most recent one at the time, another friend of hers commented something like “is there anyone else you can talk to about this instead of posting it all over social media? How about your pastor?” To which she replied “our pastor doesn’t like us after he found out how closely related we are.”

That’s how we learned she married her first cousin.

Ring-a-ding-ding, baby.

Where have I seen this before? Was it Star Trek TNG? Fringe? X-Files? Man, this is really familiar. I seem to remember it not turning out well for the courier.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

I’d take one of those. My P4 is only 3.0 GHz.

My parents had one with “points of interest” pre-programmed into it. Tried to go to a casino, ended up at an abandoned barn.

I’ve been using it on my phone for a few months as a trial run before putting it on my PCs. I like it a lot so far!

I actually just used it this weekend! On my airgapped Win XP machine. College vibes, very nostalgic.

I need NX. If we could get that working, and if IT let me have Linux on my work PC, I would be so happy. My CAD station runs considerably worse on Win11, and the drivers for my favorite spaceball don’t work on it.

An under sink filter system has been one of my favorite small upgrades for my house. I always have a metal water bottle with me, and for longer times away I have a big metal half-gallon insulated jug.

I just picked one with a nice screen, didn’t connect it to wifi, and set it to turn on to the last used input. Bam. Dumb TV.

No passport, no real id. Good thing I don’t go anywhere.

Bet he doesn’t know how to use the three seashells, either!

The nice thing about Mint is that there’s no hardware requirements for thigh-highs. You can just wear regular socks.

Just get rid of half of it. I love “fall back.” I hate “spring ahead.”