Author: Shawshank

I’m just a 40-something bearded guy trying to get a fresh start.

They’ll never know you’re just a bagel

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Good morning, my friends. It’s Monday morning, and it snowed just a little last night. I shovelled off the lanai this morning. it’s also a little brisk out there. It’s our week for a bit of a cold snap. It’s currently 0°, but it’s -11° with the wind. Oh, and that’s in freedom units. For °C, it’s -18°C, -24°C with the wind. Thankfully, there’s no plans to actually leave the house today.

I think possibly, we’ll do the same thing as yesterday – watch some TV, and then take a nap. There will probably be a nap, there’s something that I wanna do tonight before going to sleep to get up for work. I wanted to do it last night, but we were both wicked tired. I was falling asleep a little as we were watching some TikTok’s. So yeah we’ll have adventures tonight.

Like I said, we didn’t do a whole lot of anything yesterday. We did the weekly chores, and then turned on some nature shows, and fell asleep with two kittens all curled up on top of us. I had hoped that I’d be able to nap a little longer than I did, but maybe today we’ll nap a little longer.

We got home from Shady Acres, and I was looking for something to watch. I stumbled upon Chicago. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen that, so we both snuggled in to watch it. It’s a good entertaining story.

So it’ll just be a great relaxing day here. Brunch, and naps are on deck for the both of us. I mean the cats are always down for a good nap, they’ll be happy when we snuggle in. Hell, they’re already snuggled in here.

Happy Sunday Monday everyone.

Continuing on with No Man’s Sky

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted about No Man’s Sky. I actually uploaded these pictures, probably about 3ish weeks ago, and them promptly forgot to post the next time we went over to Shandy Acres for Sunday dinner.

So yeah, this is my current ship. I bounced around with one or two others, but I found I was having to acquire more and more launch fuel. It was quite frankly, annoying. I knew I had to find a Class ‘S’ ship with solar sails. The solar sails recharge the starship launchers. Finally, I found another one.

It was kinda annoying switching ships, I had dumped a lot of credits into the old one, but I hated how it looked. This one is far more elegant.

So yeah, this is the newest Theseus. I’m slowly switching out all the substandard parts to fully a class parts.

In order to pay for all this, I’ve been doing a bit of pirating. But I’m a pirate with some morels. I don’t go after the freighters, just the cargo pods that float next them. After I’ve plundered all the cargo pods, I’ll warp back to my “home” system. Then I’ll hit up the space station, and sell all the pirated stuff. Then, I’ll buy what I can there, and sell it in my base in the pirate controlled area.

I’ve been making some bank.

Also to help with making some money, I have a fleet. I send 5 ships out on the longest expeditions I have access too, and they will bring me back around a million or so credits once a day.

Last week I think, I added 5 more ships to the fleet, bring the number of ships up to 10.

I like this game. More than I thought I would. I don’t have it on the easiest setting or the hardest. It’s perfect for when I don’t have a lot of brain power to expend on it. It relaxes me as well.

They danced through the day and into the night through the snow that swept through the hall

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The morning came very very early this morning. At one point I thought I heard Chaucer getting sick. I yelled out, and immediately fell back to sleep. I’m a terrible kitty dad. I think I got up in the night to go to the bathroom, but I’m not too sure. Maybe. Maybe not.

It’s a mystery.

But we’re all up now. Chaucer is on Crystal’s blanket, which he’s kind of taken over. Pippin just jumped up and is totally comfortable on my lap. It’s been colder her, and she’s always trying to jump and snuggle in my lap.

It’s not that I had a terrible sleep, it just was broken up m, by waking up, and all that jazz. I was a little tossy turny. I don’t think I was too warm, just up pretty early, and just dozed mostly. I think I’m gonna try and possibly nap this afternoon. I’m of a certain age now. I guess we nap now.

But first, coffee.

Everybody knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in school

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Here we are again. It’s dark, and the coffee has been brewed. Welcome to another day in the life living in TinyTown. We’re both awake, and it’s dark out. I got up sometime in the night to go to the bathroom. I refused to look at the clock, telling myself that if I don’t open my eyes, I’m still technically asleep. I got up and made my way to do my business, and made it back into bed.

The next thing I know, the alarm is going off. I had Steelers Wheel stuck in my head. You see, Crystal was telling me little known trivia about well known movies before I went to work yesterday. I guess it stuck, because I had Reservoir Dogs stuck in my head. Yep, Michael Madsen dancing in the warehouse. Good times.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. We were pretty steady until about 7:30-8. That’s perfect because around 8 is when the closing stuff starts to get done. We managed to get everything done and 100%, then we left. It was a good shift, time passed pretty quickly.

I brought home a hot chocolate, and surfed Reddit while Crystal kicked some ass playing Hades. She’s really good at that game. I think I’ve seen her beat it once or twice, so at this point she makes it look pretty easy. After she stopped playing, we looked at some TikTok’s for a few, then climbed into bed.

Here we are now.

It’s gonna be a lazy weekend. The scheduling gods saw fit that I should have the weekend off, I don’t go back into work until Tuesday. That’s nice. So we’ll be heading out for date night this evening. And I’ll pop over to the little grocery store to grab some hash browns and bacon for brunch on Monday. Other than that, it’ll be a quiet weekend.

So let’s get the weekend started! Happy weekend internet friends!