Same. My unplayed list of games is what I plan on doing when I retire. When I can sit down and concentrate on something without someone pinging me on teams…

How hard was it to get off the avocado toast?

It doesn’t have to be all profit, sometimes you do what you can to help the kneedy.

Sounds like you are pretty handy.

Busy. Maybe it’s a time constraint and not willful ignorance as others are suggesting.

That’s brilliant.

I am popping it in a microwave silicon popper. Does a great job popping, but I might have to go back to the oil method and a metal bowl. Thanks.

I had no idea that existed. Thanks! I am going to order some.

And does it just stick? If so what’s the trick? I pop my popcorn, and it must be some crazy salt resistant mutation. I have ground the salt up in a blender, bought the popcorn salt, etc and it’s like the popcorn has some defense mechanism.

I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX.

I once accidentally deleted all of our production portal apps in AIX. That was entertaining…

How about a “timing belt”?

Tater Tits ^tm

Well, it’s been a blast. Pun intended.

“But my name is Carl…”

Thanks. I might have to ask about that.

Aww. Thanks. Yes, I can’t watch when I have blood work done. I don’t get much sleep the night before, and while I am pretty sure I don’t have anxiety, I think I had an anxiety attack the last cat scan I had. They had to try a second time to get the iv in, and I went into full meltdown mode. Pretty sure I know what event in my life caused this, and there’s nothing I can do about it now. I have tried lots of things, keeping my mind occupied, headphones, breathing, it’s all out the window the minute they start wiping my arm with the alcohol. I know it’s irrational, and it hurts more to sub your toe, but something in my brain just goes apeshit when the needles come out. It really sucks.

I had a Sony 1x burner with scsi connector. I still have some new 1x cdr’s somewhere. I remember my work buying a box of them at what I recall were $20/disc. A box of 100 was a serious chunk of change. And even at 1x I had to have a dedicated pc to burn them. Nothing else could be running especially a screensaver, and if the stream of data was interrupted you had a nice new coaster.

“well this will last me forever!”

Same exact thing we said when we got our Atari 800 up to 64K of memory.

Pretty sure I still have the zip drive. It has a scsi connector, but pretty sure there’s a scsi card in there somewhere too. They were only popular for a small slice of time. Just like those mini tape drives with the cartridges that were about the size of a tictac container. I probably have that too.

I have the same fear. Watching the news during covid was horrible.