Soloing in WoW Again

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Mount HuntingI keep saying I’m done with World of Warcraft.  I keep emailing Blizzard that I want to no longer deal with skill and class changes.  That I’m fed up with costly expansions and collectibles with extended subscriptions.  Then I find myself bored with grinding in Elder Scrolls Online.  Even though I still find ESO far superior to WoW, I can’t stop wanting that charm I once had.  Plus I love collecting mounts and achievements.  So I sign up again and BAM!  I’m back at it.

I even spent money on the extended subscription plans, expansions that include all the bells and whistles and boosting all my toons to level 70.  It’s a good thing I have a good job so I can afford all this crap 😂

I keep hoping someday I’ll finally drop Invincible…  Someday…

It’s a good thing I can do all this on Linux 🐧

Hell I think all my games play better on Linux than they ever did before I made the switch!

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My New House

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My HouseSo late last year I finally bought a house of my own.  By myself.  Just little old me.  In years past when I was with someone, it wasn’t the same feeling as it is now having a home all to myself.  To be honest it’s a weird feeling.  It’s not like renting an apartment alone.  This is mine and mine alone.

Complete freedom to do as I wish.  No one else to consult about decisions.  Certainly not from lack of others around me giving me their advice whether I want it or not 😠  The feelings I have about it are refreshing to be sure, yet unfamiliar.  I really don’t plan on doing much with the outside of the house.  But the interior is basically going to be completely changed in one fashion or another.  This was a rental and many things are slap together patches or inventions.  I have plans to reverse the shoddy work and make it look contemporary.

Bathroom will get new toilet and replace the tub/shower combo with a large shower.  Replace mirror with medicine cabinet.  New sink and counter.  (not currently pictured)

Kitchen will get new appliances (already replaced the refrigerator).  The cabinets will be painted or replaced with new.  New sink.  Paint or change wall board and paint the walls.

Need to put in a new furnace and hot water heater.  Shock my well.  See if my septic needs work.

The over all color scheme will be satin white walls.  Silver carpets (standard in living room and bedrooms), Berber in dining room and entry way.  As well as the music studio.  Linoleum with a silver/gray pattern in the kitchen.  Unless I can find the same flooring that’s in the bathroom.  That would be cool.  It’s a gray wood laminate.  Ceilings and window frames will all be dark gray (matching the curtains) with white ceiling fans.  None will have lights except the dining room.

Major work will be the replacement of the exterior doors.  I want a classy front door and remove the screen door so it can be not look ghetto from the street.

The breezeway will have the sliding glass doors removed and replaced with just walls.  No windows in that room to help with sound dampening.  Being a drummer is loud.  Interior sliding glass door will be replaced with a wall and door.

There’s a metric ton of work to be done and it’s gonna take years.  Even longer if these damned cold days never end.  Why did I move back to the land of ice and snow?  I freaking hate snow and cold weather.  I don’t motivate will in the winter.  I digress.

I’ll make new posts with pictures as I get things moving along 📸

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I’m Not a Console Gamer

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Not a Console GamerSo my venture into owning a console hasn’t gone well.  Try as I may, I just can’t get into using a controller over a keyboard and mouse.  I’m able to play casually, but can’t get the control or accuracy I have grown to love from playing on my desktop or laptop.  While it’s cool to sit in my easy chair and see things on a big screen TV, I just can’t fall in love with the way that plays.

As far as my Steam Deck goes, I love it!  I really do and I will likely keep it.  It’s convenient to take with me when a laptop isn’t justifiable.  Such as waiting for a doctor appointment or when my car is in the shop for medial maintenance and simply need to kill a couple of hours.  Or even visiting relatives that I’m not real into seeing.  Like Christmas gatherings 😉

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OMG Surveys!

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SurveysI just got a request from a major hardware chain to give a review and survey of a 24″ x 24″ hunk of plywood I bought. Basically scrap wood I didn’t have on hand for tossing under something and basically never looking at it again.

It’s a piece of scrap wood that I picked up cheap.  But because I claimed my military discount, that means they have to ask me about my purchase and urge me to give them feedback on it.  I could understand if it was about something expensive I bought or installation they performed for me earlier this year.  But a scrap of wood?

This is just a drop in the amount of “attaboy” seeking nonsense these companies are looking for.  Hell every time I use my maps on my phone it asks me how was your trip?  With a 👍👎 response option.  Like what?  Unless they do me like Google used to do, by running me through a golf course on a golf cart path, I really have little to complain about as long as I got there.  I’m not about to pat them on the back for every successful delivery I make or every business I try to find.

It’s become silly.  Every app I use wants a review.  Every product you purchase sends an email or letter in the mail asking for a survey.  Every time I refill my prescriptions via the mail, I get a survey in email links and letters if I don’t respond quickly enough.  Enough already!

What’s next?  Will the annoying GSTV at the gas pump start asking how your fuel fill experience was?  No…  I suspect it will be soon filled with, “you should be driving green in an EV”.

Listen companies.  If I have something good to say, I’ll email you.  If I have a complaint.  I’ll call customer service.  I’m not about to fill out a survey every time I use a tissue to blow my nose!

And Oh My God!  When you do call or email someone, then there is a survey asking how they did.  Surveys are becoming like advertisements, you can’t bloody escape the damn things!  Stop already!

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Dating Apps Suck!!

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Dating Apps SuckMaybe for the youth, dating apps have some worth.  Clearly it’s not for folks over 35.  Hell dating in general in later years sucks completely.  I remember the days of my high school years.  When I saw someone who caught my eye, all I had to do was build up the courage to ask them out and see where it goes.  It was all butterflies and good feelings mixed with a touch of anxiety.

In later years, it’s see who’s cat-fishing who.  Digging through endless emotional baggage and now it’s a horrifying mess of body-count.

But it gets worse…

The apps I have tried recently, nearly all of them locked me into a closed world of only people my age and older.  I’m not now or ever been interested in women older than me.  I could easily go for a woman 5 – 10 years younger than me.  But those options were not made available at all.  Even if I forced the search functions.  It’s like using Pandora or iHeartRadio.  I listen to one or two pop-punk songs and then I’m forced into acid rock of the 60’s and 70’s.  At least Spotify has never done that to me.

But…  It gets even worse…

In Michigan, especially the northern areas; all the profiles read the same for the main part.  Loves the outdoors, country music, camping and fishing.  Nothing I’m into.  That sadly has been a struggle all my life.  Which is weird considering my favorite pop-punk bands are as old as I am.  Yet finding a girl into that in Michigan is nearly unheard of.  And what the hell are women between 45 – 60 doing with small children?  Single moms that should be grandmothers by now have small kids at home.  I’m not about to raise another mans children at my age (54).  I’m done with that.  That’s not including women who still have their kids living with them.  Yikes I’m not about to play the game of lets be quiet because your kids are watching a movie in the next room.

But… 🙄  It gets so much worse…

The amount of emotional baggage of women my age on dating apps is astounding.  I’m sure I have some too, but the insane baggage and obscene requirements these women have.  Must be 6′ 1″ or taller.  Must make 6 figure income.  Must be in good shape.  Well, I have 2 of the 3 requirements.  Though it’s silly to make such requirements.  Especially since half of the girls I meet my age already have dentures.  I don’t.  They outweigh me now that I’ve left my fat days behind me.

My PRS Tremonti SE

My PRS Tremonti SE

Still… 😨  It gets worse…

I’ve heard the term “hitting the wall”.  Women these crap apps show me are either fake as fuck.  (Botox and Plastic Parts)  Or they not only hit the wall, but the wall hit them back.  This is what I get to choose from?  I still look good for my age.  I work hard now to keep my value physically, emotionally and I don’t want for anything.  I’m not rich and never will be.  But my bills are paid and I have my affairs in order.

Which is why I had hoped for a better experience with dating apps.  So I uninstalled them and will start going out in the real world.  Besides, I’m not looking for a future wife.  I’m more looking for a friend with similar interests and if it blossoms into love, then great.  At my age, I’m not getting my hopes up.  Honestly I’ve made peace with being single from here on out if need be.  I’m rather happy with my life.  Just not dating apps.

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