I was cleaning up my office recently and came across something I totally forgot about: my trashed Apple Watch.
Continue reading “Ever see the inside of an Apple Watch?”Still here…hunkered down!
Just figured I’d post up a quick update – I am OK and hunkered down. This is beginning week #3 (I think) of being cooped up in the house. Definitely feeling a little cabin fever now, and last week I lost track of what days were what lol!
I have been getting out; in fact I think I’ve seen more of my neighbors and neighborhood (from a safe distance) more in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past 9 years I’ve lived here. I went from driving 60+ miles a day, to using my car maybe twice a week, if that. I have gotten out on the motorcycle, which has been nice to ride around, but the weather has not cooperated much lately. Its been great to walk around the neighborhood during my lunch hour.
In addition, I’ve been on more video calls in the past 2 weeks than I ever have, probably over my entire lifetime. Its interesting how people who were covering up their cameras 3 weeks ago are now defaulting to them being on.
As someone who almost purposely lives under a rock to a degree, I’ve more or less stayed off the news. It’s all sensationalized; and what little I learn via Twitter or via work has been enough to keep me informed.
I’ve mostly been keeping busy with projects, and hope to get some new posts up soon with recent updates. I even got a new piece of Franklin Institute ephemera to post up.
Last but not least – one thing I do know; once this blows over, I plan to hit up as many of those little niche museums as I can. I’ll make a seperate post to call out a few that are within a reasonable distance from the Philly area, but I hope to support them as much as I can!
Busy busy in 2020! Started off with a visit to Magfest!
Happy New Year! I’m frankly suprised it took me this long to put something up for the new year, but I’ve been busy at work and busy at home as well.
First off was a visit to the annual Magfest show in Washington, DC at the National Harbor.
Continue reading “Busy busy in 2020! Started off with a visit to Magfest!”Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Conference Recap and Tips
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, FL. This conference is HUGE – 30K+ people huge, and encompasses nearly everything Microsoft, especially Azure and Office/Microsoft 365. People travel from all over the world to attend, and that alone may be a reason to join in as well; the networking opportunities are huge.
Continue reading “Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Conference Recap and Tips”Cinema I & II Movie Theater – Plymouth Meeting Mall 1992
I figured I’d share this to get a copy posted up here. My sister sent me this since it was shared on Facebook recently, and as a nostalgia nut this is the kind of stuff I LOVE finding. This is the movie theater at the Plymouth Meeting Mall, in Plymouth Meeting PA, likely around 1992 (due to the movie poster you see – the movie was “Boomerang“.)
Life and Lawnmowers and Livewire
As always life gets busy and I haven’t updated in a bit, so I figured I’d get something posted up. Life has been crazy busy lately, with a bunch of traveling mixed in with a bunch of working, lol. Sadly labor day has come to pass, and I didn’t get to Wildwood or many amusement parks this year, but for good reason: I’ve been traveling a bunch this year, and I’ll likely post up some pics and fun things from my travels later on. This week I set aside my nerdy computer things to focus on more gas-powered fun…
Continue reading “Life and Lawnmowers and Livewire”Crazy Weather in PA for 2019!
Figured I’d do a quick post about this with some cool pics – we’ve had some crazy weather right after memorial day that’s not very common in PA. In fact we usually don’t get many (if any) tornadoes, and just last week alone had at least 2 different Tornado “warnings” (not watches, although we had those too). You don’t have to look far for news articles about the high number of actual tornadoes we’ve had this year, but here’s one to check out: https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article231032518.html
After commuting for 20+ years, I can honestly say I’m pretty sure the clouds/storms that passed through last Wednesday were likely the closest I’ve come to an actual tornado. While (as far as I know) that actual storm didn’t produce a tornado, I’ve never seen clouds and weather like what I saw that day, and seriously scanned the road for underpasses and other safe spots in case one popped up. Some scary sh..tuff.
Photo © 2019 JeffG / Junknet.net
Hope everybody stays safe, and don’t do anything stupid when it comes to the weather!
Summer and Vacations and Things
I guess this is more of a personal update, but I’ve been pretty busy most helping out some friends with projects, as well as going on a much needed vacation, that I managed to include a couple of my hobbies in…
Continue reading “Summer and Vacations and Things”Crazy Weekend – Pinballs and Computers and Nerds Oh My!
When it rains, it pours! Not only does that seem to apply to the weather anymore, but to everything else life has to offer.
All of my various major hobbies (at least the vintage computer Stuff, the Buick stuff, and the arcade stuff) all have 1-2 big events each year. The first usually being in the spring, around this time. Naturally this year, they ALL fell on the same weekend, which made it difficult as I wanted to attend them all!
Unfortunately something had to give, and I opted to skip the car club stuff, as not being on Facebook anymore I have no idea what’s going on (they don’t update any other media outlets) so I have no idea if they still attend as a group. In addition, I forgot to get my Buick inspected in time so I would’ve attended with my daily anyway. Sorry fellas!
The other two events were the Allentown PinFest 2019, and Vintage Computer Fest East 2019. I was able to attend these by hitting up Pinfest first on Friday, spent a few hours there poking around, found a few goodies, then left there and headed straight for Wall Township, NJ to help the VCF peeps set up (or if anything at least get in their way), then attended that Saturday and Sunday.
Not only am I exhausted, my car is exhausted, and my voice is exhausted – my voice being worse for wear (great news for some people I guess).
So over the next few days I will try to post up some info about each event, some loot I found at each, and hopefully next year I’ll post up about them earlier so all 3 of my Twitter followers can see them as well.
Last but not least…another cool piece of vintage Franklin Institute ephemera has been acquired, which will be posted up as well. Stay tuned!
Still Around!
Yeah, my initial run of posts has slowed a bit while life gets in the way. Here in the Philly area the weather got nice pretty quickly, and as such, the grass started grow pretty quickly as well. Since nearly all of my yard equipment was down and out from last year, I had to both cut the grass with only my pushmower (not impossible but not fun), while my 32 year old tractor needed a new deck bearing and a new battery. The tractor is back on it’s feet and a week later the grass is already due for cut #2. Geez!
On top of all that, I woke up one morning to the sound of my cell phone going off non-stop. It turned out my Insteon leak sensor was picking up water near my hot water heater. I jumped out of bed and feared the worst, but thankfully found only a puddle under the heater. Without that leak sensor, I would have never known and left for work that day! So score one for home automation, and I now know how to solder (sweat) copper pipe and can say I finally delved into plumbing as I replaced the heater as well as several failing valves with all new ball valves while the water was off.
Next up will be cleaning up the kayaks and putting the racks on the car, after the car gets a much-needed bath as well!