I got stands today to display these colorful stained glass plates made by a local artist. The only problem is the stands are slightly too large for the smaller plates and only stay up with shims 😑

I find it a bit disconcerting how warm high speed USB storage devices get

We’ve been giving thyroid medicine to one of our cats for a few months now. He expects it, and will wait to take his morning nap until we give it to him, but he runs away / clenches his jaw when we give the medicine to him. I guess you can both accept and reject an inevitability

The cats went and cried at my husband until he opened the curtains in our bedroom to let the morning light in 🤣

The A500 mini mouse is a little too close feeling to a vintage mouse. I keep trying to use it like a ball mouse by picking it up and leaning it to the side to move the cursor quickly. I didn’t even realize that was a habit I’d lost with optical mice

With a Lyra 3 and a couple of adapters, my Amiga 1000 has a working keyboard! And it only looks totally ridiculous in the process 🙃

Level one charging is…not fast

A reproduction Amiga mouse for my A1000? Sure, why not 😆

Mi favorita letra mal escuchada tiene que ser “te apareciste esta noche con un arroz en tu pelo”

Trying to diagnose a wired internet connection failure with a tethered connection is like pulling teeth 😑

Formatting floppy disks: Just as slow as I remembered 💾

My Amiga 1000 now boots with a single floppy thanks to kickwork 🔥

Headphones are never where you want them to be

Another 16GB of memory and bright orange screen bezel? Sure why not 🙃

An NEC FD1035 is an obnoxiously tricky floppy drive to lubricate. It doesn’t seem to be possible to remove either the top or the bottom, so you have to use an extra long q-tip from the sides, front, and back of the assembled unit

The relief of seeing water again in the local creek that’s been dry since August just put a smile on my face this morning

She boots!

Yeeesh using Linux as a virtualization host is not for the faint of heart

I know it’s not necessarily rare or unique but the signatures in the top cover of the Amiga 1000 feel special

I am bummed. The PS/2 keyboard adapter I got for my Amiga 1000 just causes it to get stuck in a reset loop when turned on. Back to the drawing board…

When you can smell the ghost of cream cheese past

With baseball being a big part of my healing from a difficult childhood, it’s been really touching to watch Dennis Eckersley’s last broadcast with the Red Sox season closer this evening. Watching games next year will be very different

I got a DIY edition 2nd Gen Framework Laptop so that each member of my family can have their own machine. It is absolutely delightful to get a box of parts and a screw driver with a brand new computer 😊

Schlepped the Amiga 1000 cross country in a checked suitcase. Happy to see it made it without any damage, still in working order. Now I need to sort out boot disks and peripherals…

Ridiculously excited that a friend passed on an extra Amiga 1000 to me. Many hours of fun to come