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There’s a funny T-shirt in this somewhere, I just haven’t sussed it out yet LOL 😂

Oh yeah, I installed fresh Tiger on a 800Mhz 17" iMac G4 this morning. This is one of those macs that took a tumble off my a wall mounted shelf when its support failed, so Im glad it survived LOL. Its DVD drive is acting up however so I will have ot get into this one and replace it with one of...

I was back at repairing my boys MX25 2009 9,1 24" iMac. They were trying to play DVDs and ran into some problems: A.) It would eat the dvd but would not play it and B.) it would not eject it back out. This is the machine I replaced the DVD drive a few years back when its original died so was...

Last night I made braised beef (think rich, velvety red bourdeaux wine beef bourguignon) over buttered Pecorino egg noodles. Man it was good LOL. My oldest ate left overs for breakfast, so I know he was a fan as well but he is a big beef lover like my Dad is. Man it was good :)

Well like any true glutton for punishment, post ugly crash healing (literally 3 months in of healing) , I have found my invincibility goggles and am now once again impervious to such things and scoff at the idea of injury and as such have negotiated the purchase of a XL frame Trek 820 hard tail...

Conversely, I guess I can offer those up here too but I assume everyone here already has all the retro Mac they can handle lol. S&H might be a bit steep but I’d box one up good n tight (take the legs off, lots of foam etc.) if anyone is looking for a QS in cont US. I’ve pretty much got most of...

Having the Herculean task of puting everything back has given me a great opportunity to create a “free pile” . Essentially stuff I will be giving away at the free tables for the upcoming September retro computer fest in my town. I wanted to open up my office with less clutter so this is going a...

Hasn’t really changed much from march for me. Typically I ask Alexa to play two things in the kitchen - Yo La Tengo or evening Jazz which I did switch it up from mellow jazz. My wife will stream country music but inevitably it morphs into hillbilly hiphop which causes me to throw up a little in...

Yanno as of late I have been listening to a ton of Flake Music which was the band that was the fully formed Shins before they called themselves the Shins lol.

I’ve really liked it for a number of reasons. The quality of the material has been fantastic - Of all the floating floors I’ve done, this pressed composite material has been the sturdiest. It also cut very cleanly with zero chipping on my circular table saw with appropriate toothed blade. It has...

Got my music gear/amps etc back in and some more of the bones in place. Changed it up a bit and I’m happy with the new placement of my stereos and a few of my amplifier&cabinets. This is the fun part I guess lol. It’s curriculum night for my kiddos so I have to stop for now and will pick up...

Reinstalled my shelving and desk that I had to disassemble to get out of my room. Starting to recognize my office :)

Put in a cable routing pass through. I may double it with a second as I have 9 different consoles & a mini I connect to it so that’s a lot of cables for a single gang pass through.

Yikes! Im glad it is up and running and working well for you after all of that :)

Horribly painful and frustrating situations like this have made me a bootable back up junkie LOL. I see it was hardware related for you but still, all the back and forth installing os & apps eats up so much time. I myself haven’t done anything really computer related. I did remodel my office...