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  • ๐Ÿ”— So You Just Found Out Amazon Is Greedy

    There wonโ€™t be mass cancellations of Prime over ads in Prime Video because it is too integral to your life.

    I guess I’m one of the rare people who doesn’t have a Prime membership…? They try to hook me in with free trials from time to time but I always cancel it just before renewal. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ We just don’t like the waste that is Amazon’s shipping practices… ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

  • Finished reading: Aster Fall by David North ๐Ÿ“š
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    The second of the series, this picks up right after the first and the main character (and secondary ones) progresses (it is LitRPG after all) nicely, setting the stage for bigger progression in the next book.

    Book cover for Aster Fall.
  • Merry Christmas everyone! โ„๏ธ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿปโ˜ƒ๏ธ

    Gif of the Golden Girls, looking out onto falling snow, from behind a window, with the words โ€˜Merry Christmasโ€™ at the bottom of the image; the Gif is slowly zooming into a closer view of their faces.
  • ๐Ÿฟ For our last movie of the night, weโ€™re watching Make the Yuletide Gay. As with most LGBTQ movies made in that era, it isnโ€™t the greatest of movies but it is our Christmas Eve tradition. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŽ„
    โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

    Movie poster: Make the Yuletide Gay (2009).
  • ๐Ÿฟ For the second viewing of the night, weโ€™re watching the Holiday, one of my absolute favorite holiday movies. ๐Ÿฅฐ๐ŸŽ„
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    Movie poster: The Holiday (2006).
  • ๐Ÿฟ This movie has grown on me since last year, Spirited is kicking off the movie viewing experience of Christmas Eve. Three stars…but that might change once this movie is over. ๐ŸŽ„
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    Movie poster for Spirited (2023).
  • Happy Festivus! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ„
    I hope every enjoys the airing of grievances, I know I will. ๐Ÿคฃ

    Image of George Costanza from Seinfeld on a 'Human Fund' card.

    (Side Note: I’m only awake at this ungodly hour b/c I took a friend to the airport. โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒบ)

  • Migrated 18TB of data from one server to another and even though the โ€œnewโ€ server has redundancy, Iโ€™m still hesitating to click โ€deleteโ€ on the old server… ๐Ÿคฃ

  • Dear Apple
    I’m pretty darn sure you know that I keep marking emails with “Payment Completed” as spam, esp when they contain image attachments and ask me to contact the support team (with a very odd URL) if I have concerns. Perhaps you could just block them moving forward?

    Thank you,
    Unhappy Geek

  • So, I did a thing last night…I finally moved to a new server case. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ“ท

    Photo of a tech mess: two computer cases (one horizontal on the floor with open wires exposed and the other vertical with wires poking out), parts on the floor, three computer fan boxes, screws everywhere...on top of a grey/white carpet (the carpet is on top of a hard-wood floor), with a Christmas tree in the background (presents under it), and a couch on the edge of the upper-right side of the photo.

    It took far longer to get started than I though it would and I ended up with a bloody hand (it’s a very nice case but that metal is sharp ๐Ÿคฃ)…and I haven’t installed case fans yet but…the server is back online and running!

  • ๐Ÿฟ Ended up doing a double-feature tonight and watched the Christmas Setup, a lovely holiday movie. ๐ŸŽ„ It’s sappy but I do love seeing LGBTQ movies hitting the mainstream. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
    โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

    Movie poster for The Christmas Setup.

    Plus, it has Fran!

  • ๐Ÿฟ We watched a Christmas Story tonight. ๐ŸŽ„ It isn’t my favorite movie but my Partner loves it, so every year we watch it.
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    Alternative movie poster for A Christmas Story.
  • House chores are done for the day, now off to Costco. Fingers crossed I spend less than $100 today… ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป๐Ÿ˜†

  • It’s hard to stay up all night, running around the house, keeping everyone up… ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ˜ผ๐Ÿˆ

    Grey cat sleeping in the sun, curled up into a ball, half on a white chair and half on a red plaid blanket.

    I guess I have become a crazy cat person, all I seem to do lately is take pictures of Alex. ๐Ÿ˜น๐Ÿ“ท

  • Finished reading: Battlefield Reclaimer by David North ๐Ÿ“š
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    This book, a re-read for me, is the first book of the Guardian of Aster Fall series and in my opinion, sets up the universe for said series rather nicely. The character development is decent and the RPG improvement system is very cool.

    Book cover for Battlefield Reclaimer