02
Jul
2023

I am almost finally done updating the laptop!

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 154 words

I’m still going to have to get larger hard drives for it at some point in the future, but so far this is progress.

All of his Battle.Net games are loaded onto it and all of the EA games he has are loaded onto it. I’m just shuffling things from Steam around on the three available hard drives, and that seems to be giving me a bit of wiggle room to get all of these games of his onto this computer. His PC game collection has slowly and steadily grown over the years, and I use the laptop for other reasons in the event I need to be able to use — or do something on or with — another computer, so it certainly has its purposes. Bub has known that I’ve been downloading his games onto it for a day now and is happy as long as I continue to do that for him.

01
Jul
2023

I hate how annoying these purchases have to be.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 288 words

I got our gaming laptop back and the keyboard is no longer scuffed! Bub is stoked.

In the interim, I am now shopping around for a three to five-terabyte HDD that will fit inside the HDD bay of a laptop to maximize the space that Bub has to hold games. If these aren’t made yet, I’ll keep my eye out until something gets made that I can improve his hard drive space with. At this point, I might settle for a larger external HD, even though I don’t like the idea of having to hook an external hard drive up to a laptop unless I have no other choice. Admittedly I am better at putting hard drives into desktops than I am laptops, and hooking up external hard drives to… whatever they need to be hooked up to than this, but I’ll manage.

I am also continuing to pre-order games for Bub that will come out around or before Christmas, to cover a few of those purchases at a time per month so that they don’t get to be too much in the last few months before Christmas! Monster has been collecting DVDs to watch in the portable DVD player that a friend of mine was nice enough to gift him, so I pick up a few of those each month with the intent to be able to give him something he really wants for… well, his birthday and Christmas. Luckily some of the more obscure cartoon DVDs that he manages to find through Google or YouTube are available for really affordable prices.

If I can manage to find a larger HDD for a laptop than what we currently have though, I will go on and get it.

30
Jun
2023

Bub is officially thirteen years old today, folks!

categories: personal; word count: 128 words

If I’m not mistaken here, this should be the second picture I took of him after he was born.

I got our gaming laptop back today in addition to the other presents that he was given (and very much enjoyed, to include the cake)! At some point — sooner rather than later, I’m hoping — I can swap the HDD in it out for a 4TB HDD or a 5TB HDD, that way he can have all of his games stored on his laptop and we won’t have to worry about having to connect an external hard drive up to the laptop to hold some of his games so he continues to have access to them. I just have to find one with an affordable price that’s not being scalped.

29
Jun
2023

Counting down from twenty-four hours to…

categories: personal; word count: 126 words

Bub’s birthday cake has already been purchased, and I’ve gotten him almost all of the presents I intend to! (I can’t help it when video games that he would love playing with me have drops at the same time or during this time of year, but he’ll take the W.) Our gaming laptop should also be done having the keyboard replaced due to severe scuff in a few days and I know he’ll be excited about that as well. As the year goes on, and probably closer to Christmas, I do know that I want to drop a 5TB HDD in there — I know my way around hard drive exchanges and RAM upgrades, so that should be simple enough to put in here at the house…

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