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So a week into the L4 Lockdown (about two months ago), my desktop decided it was going to have an issue where it reset every 20-30 minutes. I bought a new motherboard, cpu and ram. I spent five hours on Saturday putting it all back together then a further three hours today fixing the "faults". I finally have a working desktop again (pending successful tests...
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"Oh, ahh, whativIbinuptolately? er, ar, I haven't been ignoring youall, honest!" We've been in our L2 lockdown for a fortnight or so now. Essentially back to work with contact tracing. I've been playing Civ6 for lack of better games. watched stuff. Being in an industry which could work in lockdown makes a big difference to what can be done through out that time. Pretty much,...
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So NZ went into lockdown on Thursday (well, Wednesday a minute before midnight). I think it's the right thing to do to get the pandemic under control in this country. By isolating everyone in their homes for a month we can severely limit the infections and identify households where it's been caught without needing to track and trace. It's highly disruptive but not as much...
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I've spent more time on FB than usual in the last couple of weeks. I researched Covid-19 and made a post about the facts at that point and have started updating weekly. It's not really necessary though since WHO update daily as does the US CDC. It just makes it easier on my friends who don't have the time to keep up-to-date.

Other than that...
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Hmmmm.... hadn't been paying attention. So I finished playing the latest chapters of "Breathedge", hit over 1100 hours of Conan Exiles and have started playing The Witcher 3 again, this time on Death-march. I've also bought multiple games under the cost of $NZ20 looking for new/interesting (failing abysmally obviously)

Watched all of "The Expanse" season 3. One of the streaming sites which has been consistently...
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New edition to "Thunderbolt Fantasy", a prelude movie! I didn't realise it until I started watching, I thought it was the first episode in a third season. I actually shouted "That was so F'ing Awesome!" at the end. *sigh* If they do a third season it'll probably arrive in 2022.

So, knowing that I had three weeks at home, I ordered a new a new monitor to make better use of the new GPU and a new computer chair. The monitor arrived on Monday 23 and has been pretty awesome, the chair arrived yesterday, Monday 30. For an expensive chair it's pretty meh, but it's my own fault, it's an "Aerocool" and my subconscious was...
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What a terrible start to my holidays. Didn't sleep well overnight then, when I played a game I hadn't played before, one of its features? effects? gave me a splitting headache and nausea to boot by 10AM. I laid in bed till 3PM afterwards then got up and watched the first three episodes of "The Witcher" because I was still recovering.

I've spent weeks building...
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So over the last three weeks I have bought 9 games, with the exception of one all cost less than $20. One was a disappointment (Atlas) which was ok to play, sucked graphics wise. Five were Spacecraft games. most were early access. One of those spacecraft games I have played 30 hours already, one 15 minutes and the other three not at all. Of the...
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Monday was a nice day, at the start it looked as though it was going to be overcast but the sun broke out of the clouds before I reached Davenport (where I went to visit). Tuesday, it rained all day so I stayed inside and played games. Wednesday, it rained hard and was windy so I played some games and watched all of Season One...
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I've taken a one week Staycation, mostly because I haven't taken any leave since I arrived in Auckland a yeear and a half ago, but also because I need to move a fridge out of temporary storage into permanent storage :). Yes, that's right, I need to move a fridge and decided to take a week off ;). I don't know what I'm going to...
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Still enjoying it. They've done a bang up job of translating the novel so far. I must say that if I hadn't read the book I'd be a little lost as to where it's coming from, where it is and where it's going.

Work has been straight forward. Went on a one-day communications course. Filled out a leadership profile for it. It placed me as...
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