site-related techspeak, computer crap, other technical garble not of interest to the general populace.
Here in Ohio, I like to remind people that the last snow often happens on or around my birthday, in late April.
Surprisingly, even though Aaron’s birthday is well within the range of first-snow dates, he said he couldn’t recall it actually snowing on his birthday before this year.
After watching one particular episode of his favorite cartoon, Connor asked 1.) if this game was for real, 2.) how do you play, and 3.) could we get it?
I gladly ponied up for both the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit and the Young Adventurers book box set from Amazon. Strike while the iron is hot!
I’ve never played D&D before, although that’s only because I never had a group to play with (or maybe no one thought I’d be interested, so I never got invited to join). If Connor wants to play with me and his dad for his first campaign, one of us grown-ups is going to have to DM… and there’s an awful lot of rules to absorb.
Even though I kind of wish we could game with an experienced DM instead of going it alone, I also hope this is a fun thing we can do together as a family.
Except Aaron and I can’t seem too excited about it, or Connor won’t want to do it after all…
Even when all I was doing was typing into a search field, the lag between keystroke and display was amazing and infuriating. The only processes that Task Manager showed as consuming my CPU and Memory were Windows Defender and Google Chrome. I tinkered with the settings for Windows Defender. I installed a free antivirus instead. No change.
It had been like that for weeks. I had stopped using my 3-year-old Dell Inspiron desktop except when absolutely necessary — like for syncing my iPhone, or interacting with a website with a craptacular mobile version, or writing a blog post longer than I’d want to tap out on my smallish Bluetooth keyboard.
Yesterday afternoon, Aaron suggested I try a clean install of Windows. I’d been thinking along those lines myself, so it didn’t take much persuasion. Sure, that meant that the things I’d wanted to get done on my computer would be put off until later (No, I still haven’t finished my 2021 Year In Review) — but, honestly, not much was going to get done, anyway. Not in the state it was in.
It took surprisingly less time and angst than I had thought.
As of late yesterday evening, my computer was back up and running with a clean install of Windows 10 — and was once again bogged down by Defender. BUT! Over the course of today, I installed Google Chrome, WinRAR (to decompress all my saved installer files), my free antivirus of choice, and iTunes — and everything seems to be performing normally again.
I’m going to keep a close eye on things as I reinstall applications over time — I’m looking at you, Adobe Creative Cloud — to see if any one app brings things grinding to a halt again.
Cheaper than buying a new computer, that’s for damn sure.
Hi! My name is Connor. I am a kid and this is my video game blog. The topic today is Super Mario Odyssey! I started playing near the end of December. I have 38 hats, 37 suits/outfits, 50/52 captures, 34/43 souvenirs, 81/82 music, 721/1000 moons, in balloon world I am level 33 with 36146 total coins earned, and I’ve beaten the final boss 7 times. My Nintendo Switch friend code is [available from my Mom]. PLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE FRIEND ME!! So anyway… I will blog again next week Saturday morning. Friend me plz byyyyeeeeeeeeee!!!
P.S. PLEASE FRIEND ME!
Well, I kinda borked my mobile layout for the time being, but it’s not like many people are going to notice.