February 2022 archive

We now have a gaming and streaming desk!

Even though our washer… continues not to work as it should (and the decision is soon going to have to be made whether to try to replace individual parts in the hope that we’re able to figure out, and replace, what caused it to stop working, or just get a completely different one), our gaming and streaming desk is now put together. All I have to do is reorganize the wires at the back of the desk a bit better than they are and I think I’ve got everything on it that I need to have on it, let alone satisfactorily. And then there’s the more minor issue of making sure that the desktop is completely loaded, because although it is still impressively fast it won’t load the most recent version of Windows on it, and there are certain things that I’ve been able to get this one to do or load onto this one when it ran the previous version of Windows that… wait for it, that one gives me grief on, even though they are roughly comparable. I suppose I’ll find out the majority of it later…

Knowing us, in the interim we’ll probably have to buy a new washer though. This thing seems like it’s kaput.

We’re on day two of the washer going kaput.

I was in the process of washing things in my bedroom when the washer mysteriously stalled on the wash cycle. I came to check on my laundry about an hour after I’d put it in and it was just floating around in the basin because the washer, for whatever reason, refused to drain it. I wound up having to get those things out by hand, wring them out, and then put them in the dryer while the washer had to be emptied by hand.

In the interim, I’ve been setting up our Twitch account. I just have to set up the gaming desk that I got to replace the old, creaky desk that’s… been there, more or less faithfully, for as long as my youngest son has been alive. Then comes grappling with the microphone that I bought that came with no instructions. That one should be fun. If I can, and if I can’t get disability for myself, I’d love to turn this into something like a day job that covered our expenses working from home that I could do on days that I felt good (and I mean, just maxing those days out). I just have to get this up, off of the ground, and start streaming at some point…

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