Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Mail Call (of sorts) Tuesday: Birthday and Father's Day gifts

 This is a bit late, but one of my birthday gifts finally came in.

Dungeons & Dragons books

I got the three core D&D 5 books in Spanish. I have been taking Spanish all year and wanted an RPG to read. So my wife an kids got me these. The Player's Handbook was back ordered and I just got it. 

Now to practice my Spanish some more!

For Father's Day, in addition to having some of the best smoked food and strawberry pie my kids have ever made for me I got this ridiculous toy.

3.5" Floppy drive

Yup. A 3.5" USB floppy drive for my retro computers. I have to decide now if I want to mount it or leave it free to use elsewhere.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was my Birthday!

 My oldest spent his day off smoking ribs and brisket for me.

Smoked Meats!Smoked Meats and a potato

My youngest made me a strawberry pie with strawberries picked from my wife's garden.

Strawberry Pie

I also picked up some D&D-related gifts for myself. A Hellfire Club t-shirt (from Stranger Things).

Hellfire Club t-shirt

Custom Skylla figure

And a 6" custom Skylla figure.  She looks pretty good with the rest of my Skylla figures and minis. 

Skyllas

I got some other stuff too. A new hard drive for my computer project. A new Dremel for various projects around the house.

Speaking of computer projects, my new one is taking a bit longer, but I am getting there. Had to remove the old CRT faceplate so I can replace it with an LCD.

TRS-80 Computer rebuild

Still debating which OS to go with on this one.  I kinda want to go with Ubuntu Linux.  My CoCo uses Debian Linux, but I am betting I'll have the processing power to go with Windows.  Either way, I really want a program language IDE on it. Maybe Python.

So Happy Birthday to me!