The Good Stuff
- I recently got back into collecting Magic cards again after about a 27 year gap, and so far it looks like it’s just as addictive as it was back in high school! Except that it’s so easy to buy cards online now, I’m literally getting orders every few days for the half a dozen or so sets that I decided to start with!
- I also started building this giant Lego Mario set from Bricker Builds, which I bought the instructions to a year or two ago when they were on-sale. It’s a tedious build when you’re acquiring the bricks separately, but buying everything direct is upwards of $1,500 so Bricklink it is! The last thing I did from them was this big Super Mushroom, so it makes only sense that we add something to eat it. 🙂
- I’m also trying to use this free time that I have to clean up the house in general, which is challenging while I’m in the middle of it but admittedly it still counts as a “good thing” when I’m done.
- My twins turn 9 years old tomorrow – crazy how the time flies!!!
- Not working has also been pretty nice, too!
The Challenging Stuff
- Literally both of our cars are currently having issues. The van is doing this bizarre thing where it randomly turns itself back on after you turn it off, then just toggles the accessories over and over all night long until either the battery dies or it drops low enough to trigger the alarm. Obnoxious either way, and I just know it’s going to cost a fortune if I end up having to take it to the dealership to fix.
- As for the car, there’s a little plastic pad on the backside of the brake pedal that keeps the brake lights off when you’re not pushing on the pedal and eventually they wear down. I tried replacing it sometime last year but could only get the pad halfway in … and apparently it finally slipped out! There’s no way I can bend to fix it now, so hopefully the mechanic doesn’t gouge us too bad for the five minutes it will take to put in a new one…
- I still haven’t 100% solved my one server’s issue yet, so it’s running, but it’s very noisy! Even with the CMOS battery replaced, it doesn’t like to reboot without wiping it via the jumper, so at this point it’s either a bad component or the entire board is bad. This is a pain because while it’s technically up right now, it has to go down during the BIOS update I need to make to fix the loud fan controls … and also, I can’t seem to connect to it through the BMC tools to apply the update, either, nor can I apply it via USB. It’s just being a pain in the ass and I’ve been ignoring it in favor of the car issues lately because it’s hot as hell trying to work in that closet anyways and right now I’m out of ideas aside from stripping down all of the components and testing it one at a time, which sounds incredibly tedious.
P.S.
- My kidney is doing great! I’ll post more about that soon, but no real complaints or issues in that area!!! 🙂