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My 12 yo loves playing this Nintendo Switch game Tomodachi Life, Living the Dream. It reminds of of the Wii people you could create on the older Nintendo Wii. She spends too much time playing it so I have to occasionally admonish her for ignoring her homework. It also reminds me a bit about the Sims game from way back in the day. It’s the old gamer in me coming out 🎮

During one of today’s trivia games in the Lobby mini-app, I learned how much I don’t know about art. Some of the questions were about obscure (to me at least) artworks like The Ambassadors (1533), a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Some were seemingly easy ( not really ) just unpredictable like which French sculptor designed the Statue of Liberty. See attached for the answer - which I missed. 😆

This is my 6th attempt at upgrading my blackberry to the highest “unique” status. 5 tries where each attempt takes 5 days. So, this one fruit is costing waay more than it should given that it’s an advertised 40% success rate. This is a catastrophe, or maybe a fruit-tastrope, but I won’t stop throwing resources at it until it’s been fully upgraded! 🫡

Back in the 1990s, I worked for Hewlett-Packard as a reactive engineer. We were basically HP techs who’d go onsite to companies to troubleshoot and do break/fix hardware component replacements on high-availability systems. I specialized in HP-UX systems, digital tape and optical jukeboxes, etc. We covered all of Michigan including the Upper Pennisula. I mainly covered the greater Detroit area and its suburbs. So, most of my calls were out to auto manufacturers (Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (Chrysler). All of their systems and data centers are state of the art environments and at the time, their data centers primarily protected the millions of dollars of equipment with halon fire suppression systems. I’d have to enter those environments with a warning from their sys admins that if a fire broke out, I’d have 60 seconds to get out before suffocating to death. This is how I developed a healthy chemophobia for data centers using such fire suppression systems. 😷

On the way back to LA from Vegas, somewhere along the endless stretch of highway and just before hitting the pocket of civilization that is Barstow, we found this wonderful throwback to an earlier and some would say better time - a restored 50’s diner called Peggy Sue’s. Charming in its non-conformity with malts and root beer floats - we ordered “Buddy Holly Bacon Cheeseburgers”. They had Frankie Avalon Philly Sandwiches and Tina Turner Tuna Sandwiches. They apparently get a fair amount of celebrities that come in for a bite. Just good eats. 😎

I’m at a Fatburger and they have this XXX Challenge where if you can eat the entire burger, you receive a certificate and your photo will be featured on the XXX Challenge Wall Of Fame in the restaurant. Would you eat a 1.5 pound burger in one sitting just to get your pic on the wall? 😳

ITAP of an old stock photo. You have infinite guesses to tell me if you recognize any of these people or the TV show they were in. Hint: This entire family lived on one architect’s salary and could pay for a live-in maid.

Brought the fam and my mom-in-law to see Phantom of the Opera at the majestic Smith Center in Las Vegas last night. We reserved one of the Box balcony rooms and had a fantastic view of the famed chandelier. 😎

Stuck in bad traffic, but this bumper sticker is reminding me that the Beavis and Butthead phenomenon is still alive and kicking. 🙌🏽

My kids keep listening to that Vampire song by Olivia Rodrigo so I started learning it on the piano out of sheer impulsivity. It’s actually fairly simple and fun to play. “Six months of torture you sold as some forbidden paradise I loved you truly You gotta laugh at the stupidity 'Cause I've made some real big mistakes But you make the worst one look fine I should've known it was strange You only come out at night I used to think I was smart But you made me look so naive The way you sold me for parts As you sunk your teeth into me, oh Bloodsucker, fame-fucker Bleedin' me dry like a goddamn vampire” https://open.spotify.com/track/34Xvz2vhxVeHqqfjERBMgv?si=eRjIuaUhTuafMYLm4BEAMg&utm_source=copy-link