Happy B-Day to you, good sir og madam.

My happy day: Day off from work and playing Skyrim for 6 hours and collecting my bike that had been into shop for maintenance.

To reflect this awesome B-Day milestone, I give your comment here an upvote as a virtual present from me.

Finally tried linux after putting it off for a long time and worked really well :D

I booted it from a USB and played around with it, watching vids and such. I went with Mint META but i think i also wanna try Ubuntu since it looks really cool :P. For some reason though the touchpad wasn't working. My laptop was recognizing input but i couldn't use it anyway. Mouse worked fine so it didn't bother me that much, but i hope if i boot it again sometime it will work, if not, i guess i'll look into it.

Recently got back in to gaming this year after a three year hiatus. It definitely feels great to be back playing AdventureQuest, Morrowind, Diablo 1, and Grim Fandango (to name a few). I feel as if a piece of me had been missing kind of without gaming. I've got a big project coming up in 2025 so I might have abstain again a bit longer though, I'm afraid. I'm just hoping after that (and soon) I can *fully* reintegrate in to this hobby again!

My best friend appears to be coping with his diagnostic much better than I thought he would. Makes me happy to know that he's carrying on with life, such as setting up his Xmas tree and making plans to visit me (and some mutual friends) for New Years. :) We continue to chat and laugh, like we normally do. He proved to be so much stronger than I gave him credit for and he's definitely much stronger than I would have been in his shoes.

Visited my best friend, yet again! :) Spent the weekend finalizing his Xmas tree with more itsy bitsy lights; hanging two newly-framed art prints on his wall; preparing a zesty orange trifle from Trish Deseine's dessert cookbook; unknowingly attending an experimental industrial live band concert where the singer kept screaming diabolically into his microphone causing us to laugh to the point of dying because we were on our third Amaretto sours; cooking a basic red wine lamb stew from a Jamie Oliver recipe; enjoying many brief sunny but frosty walks about town; binge-watching Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen on Netflix; dancing with his cat to groovy Christmas lounge beats! :P She loves it!

Currently on a long bus drive in total darkness engulfed by the fragrance of someone's smelly winter boots. I'm less happy about this little part. xD