MaximumRD

Makes it easy to chill out. 

Pretty ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

Blood work is routine for me, too. I have a rare genetic condition from birth, called congenital factor S deficiency, which causes my my blood to clot too easily. So, I have to take blood thinners to survive.

Funny, I didn't find out about it until over four years ago. when I had a pulmonary embolism. Fortunately, I caught it in time with no damage anywhere in my body. So, I know medically how it is.

Wow Degas glad you caught it on time and are aware now! Yep all we can do is adjust our life style and try our best. 

Yeah. Only 400,000 people worldwide have the disorder. One in 20,000 people. I am lucky to be still alive. But, I am otherwise in very good health.

Here is the forecast for my location...looks very similar to yours.  I was just commenting how low our power bill was going to be this month as the whole HVAC system has been off for several weeks now.  We'll turn it on for Tuesday though 🙂

As they say in the 8th grade yearbook, "Stay cool".  

Happy new year.  I appreciate you and your posts very much!  Keep on truckin'. 

Happy new year, Max!  Whatcha mean putting up with you?  Its me y'all have had to put up with. Look forward to what all stories we have to share this year.

Eek…

Well, I think you will be OK. That does look painful. Take care. :O)

I hope it clears up soon! On the bright side, you have instant special effects for your next video!

Thats nasty 🤢

@RickR
Fair, I had PS2 back in the day and so have much more history with it. As well having the entire PS1/PS2 library playable including literally tons of great titles that never made it to Xbox. I love that history and would not change a thing, would have LOVED to have seen many of my favorite PS2 games that never made it over on the OG XBOX for sure. THAT SAID, since I didn't have it back in the day I am hoping to test the Xbox and all the games I pulled out of storage recently. I have two original consoles, they are modded to boot backups and though I do not have many original games I have a number of demo discs as well as a binder of copies so I may hook it up to my trusty old 14 inch CRT and dig in! 😉

Oh yeah, that sounds like fun.  And I hope you share what you find here. 

My own personal experience has been that the same games on XBOX are improved.  They look better to me.  Examples:  the GTA series you have, and any of the Need For Speed series.  PS2 can look blocky on those games, but the XBOX is smooth and always looks good. 

Still, I have a PS2 out and play it pretty often.  XBOX is put away in storage.  Why?  I think it's because the XBOX feels more fragile.  The hard drive might go bad or something.  And it's bigger and noisier.  My PS2 is the slim model, and I think that's the absolute pinnacle of "small yet functional" design for video games. 

Heh I got the original PS2 style and also a slim and I agree, I am still impressed with just how tiny that thing is, fortunately I got the slim when I was doing better financially as I bought it of I guy who did really good work installing modchips. Now, I have not tried it in a while but that little slim PS2 seemed to boot just about any PS1 or PS2 backup I would throw at it, hopefully that is still the case. I really love the look of the PS2 slim silver color model but mine is just that basic black. My other PS2 is the first system I ever "modded" myself, early days of PS2 tricks so I replaced the systems shell with one that had a "fliptop LID", that along with a set of SWAP MAGIC discs allowed me to boot with an original game, stop the disc spinning after the bootloader, life the lid and switch it with a burned game on DVD-r media, close the lid and continue booting the copy 😆 man I thought it just didn't get any better, well until modchips hit but I had no skill to install those myself. Definitely the Xbox is bigger and noisier for sure, I think both are still working fine, they definitely had a graphical boost but to be fair they were literally locked down PC's that I am sure Microsoft were knowing full well they could put slightly better GPU power in it to out do the PS2. 

I remember when you got that Caanoo and the OpenPandora and how exciting that was!

Very cool I wanted the Game Park handhelds, but too pricey for me back when they released. I don't remember the Open Pandora though. Only up to the Canoo. I was doing development for the Gameboy Advance when the first GP handheld came out, so that was interesting it was similar, but a bit more powerful. 

FleshChasmer is a great game for the hardware. 

I think I will always keep 1 VCR, I don't know, I have this worry for some reason I will want to record on it specifically to create something with that VCR effect, though I plan to get rid of most tapes, which seems difficult here for some reason, I don't want to pay and I don't want to end up in landfill, not sure allowed to throw in garbage? Nobody seems to want to accept used recording tapes 😜But anyway, as I was saying, yeah keep one VCR and oddly I have a few multi-packs of UNUSED and SEALED Fuji and Maxwell tapes because they were left downstairs (we have an "area" downstairs where fellow residents just leave things they think others might want) so if I DO want to record something on VHS I have nice unused tapes. I am always torn letting things go but also can never resist items that meet two criteria 1. Free 2. New. 

I know those feelings so well!

On the pre-recorded tapes, my local library took them to sell in their little store.  A thrift store took the sealed blank tapes.  And sadly, the tapes with my recordings on them all went in the trash (I did recycle the cardboard sleeves). 

Funny story:  Just yesterday, my son was in a panic because the power cord to his laptop was broken.  No problem, I pulled out a shoebox full of power bricks and cords and found an exact match.  So it's good to keep some things sometimes, as long as there is room to store them.

Yes! I LOVE that feeling, the SONY VAIO laptop I found, it is ancient and slow but beautiful, the only thing was, no PSU sitting in the electronics bin with it, no problem, I had one that I snagged ages ago, the exact spec model, I was pretty damn happy about that! 

Dang.  R.I.P.

I really liked him in the Mandalorian, but now he’s no longer with us. RIP

Love a freshly prepared Salmon! Looks good.

Yup! That's salmon alright. Great fish to eat.

Happy birthday :-)

Thanks guys!

Happy birthday MaxRD!

He's been in so much. RIP

No, no, no, no. Praying for her.