I’ve been maining Linux now for several months now.Mostly I think this post is going to be to remind myself the apps and programs and workarounds i’ve found and been using.
OS: CachyOS Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma
I’ve been using CachyOS dual booting with Windows 11. So far I’m only using Windows when I’m streaming or when I want to play certain games with kernel level anti-cheat that hasn’t been moved to linux. So basically Call Of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Battlefield RedSec. Streaming has also been smother in windows just for the main reason the screen capturing doesn’t seem to be quite as graceful in CachyOS yet. As soon as I feel like i’m not loosing too much performance though, I’ll be switching. Currently I’m 2 PC streaming so really, I could switch back and forth midstream since the other PC is the one doing the actual streaming.
Saturday we had a bit of a Christmas celebration in Muskegon with most of the family. I had to get up early because I had to get a couple things for the kiddos still so I was at Target by like 8am. Luckily I found some cool stuff for them, and I was able to get to Muskegon early enough to get them wrapped. Mom made bbq meatballs and rice, I brought a vegi tray and dip, and we also had chips and a fruit bowl. Oh, and cookies w/ whip cream. I had to go pick up pops from the assisted living center. Thankfully that went pretty good. He had a good day which I was also really thankful for. He had a good time although there were a few issues as I was dropping him back off.
Tequila night in the discord went pretty good. We played a game called “Crime Simulator“. It started out a little bit rough because only Sher and I knew how to play it, but then it got a lot more fun and we all had a really good time. The plan is to play it again — hopefully lolol. We’ll see how that goes. It was Sher, Nikki, Jake, Sarah, and myself. The game itself is only for 4 players, but we used a mod to have more and it seemed to work just fine.
I started a paper 5 year journal today. It’s a Clever Fox 5 year journal. Today’s entry: Well, new year new log. Let’s see how this goes. Ate super bad today. Had Burger King for lunch (double whopper) and Taco Bell for dinner. Stream went well. Got a few missions in Arc Raiders done and then some PvP. Snowy today. PT tomorrow for shoulder, then work.
My sleep has been really bad because of my shoulder. I haven’t slept much more then an average of 4.5 hours a night. Most nights feeling like much less.
Mike and Wai joined me for stream tonight. We played Arc Raiders as stated above. I was down to 2 missions, and was able to FINALLY finish one, and then it opened up like 4 more. After that we did a buncha PvP. Did mostly really good. Only 1 non-exfil due to other players. We DID have a non exfil due to all of us dying to a fall. grrr.
Anyways. I have physical therapy for my shoulder in the morning and I took a sleeping pill to hopefully get some good rest.
Work was really long today. I ordered Culvers delivery at work since the cafe was closed. Then I ordered cottage inn pizza for dinner, because it’s friday and why not. Snowy weather today.
So I discovered / remembered that many of my blog posts were exported to Tumblr. So i managed to import a bunch of them. Lots are broken because the photo’s I had are all gone and the galleries they were in gone. But anything that was just thoughts and text probably made it. Maybe. Mostly. Somewhat.
Anyways. Here we are. Back in black, or something.
So I posted on Facebook the other day that I had my first puker in the Jeep. You’ll find that story further down. You can also wander over to [Ride Share Life] to see it over there. But first, we ventured down to Art Prize last week. Or maybe it was the week before. It’s all been blending together. Here’s some of the photos i took.
Art Prize was ok this year but I really feel like other years have been better. It will be interesting to see what the switch to every other year for Grand Rapids will bring. I was kind of excited about this because I thought it would bring even more people to Grand Rapids, but then I found out that it’s not really going to be every other year. In the years that it’s not in GR, it’s going to be in Dallas TX. I can’t seem to actually VERIFY that on the ArtPrize website, but I only skimmed it as that’s just too much to ask. On one hand, it could be good because being in a different part of the country will greatly increase the exposure that Art Prize gets and thusly increasing the entries in each city. On the other hand, it could cannibalize the number of entries that would come here. It remains to be seen what will happen.
So I finally had my first puker the other night while driving. I knew it was going to be an interesting ride just by the fist 30 seconds of the guy getting into the car. He gets in and, immediately, while his three companions are getting in the car he starts telling me that we’re going to bring him to his apartment and he’s going to prepare a drink and then we’re going to go to the Hookah Lounge on Fulton. He is, of course, 3 sheets to the wind at this point so it’s hard for me to exactly understand what he is asking of me. Finally his three companions have gotten themselves into the back seat. The one directly behind me decides that in order to convince me to bring them to the guys house and then bring them to the Hookah Lounge she’s going to start flirting with me. She starts going on and on as I’m driving telling me how cute I am, and how my pink shirt brings out my eye color. At this point the guy is on his cellphone talking to somebody rather loudly, the girl is behind me is trying to smother me in affection, the girl in the back middle is loudly telling me that this is Grand Rapids and nobody follows the rules when driving, and the girl in the back passenger side is starting to say roll down the window I’m hot, roll the down the window I’m hot, over and over. Now this — this is where I went wrong. The warning signs were right in front of me. Flashing in front of my eyes like a big bright neon sign. Flashing saying “roll down the window”. But of all the voices in the Jeep at that moment, hers was drowned out. We pull up to the apartment and the guy in the front seat starts pestering me again about bringing his drinks with them to the Hookah Lounge. I’m letting him know that I’ll be more than happy to bring them to the Hookah Lounge, but there would be no drinks coming along for the ride. At this point I start to hear the dreaded sound. I turn around, and the girl that was hollering for the window to be rolled down because she’s hot, is in the back seat puking all over the door, the window, outside the door, and all over the seat. She finally got out, turned around and puked on the outside of the door. Meanwhile dude decides he’s done with it all and tells me to forget going to Hookah Lounge. The middle girl gets out leaving me and the crazy girl that was sitting behind me in the car. Amazingly, she’s still trying to get me to bring them to the Hookah Lounge. I’m like, “dude… your friend literally just puked all over my car. My night’s done, I’m going home.” At this point she’s telling me that the dude is rich and he’ll pay for the cleaning if we bring them. I chuckled to myself, because ya… he was going to pay alright. Finally I got them all outta the Jeep and headed home to get the car cleaned as much as I could at that time of night (2:15am) and take pictures of the damages and send it in to Uber. By the time I woke up, Uber had already charged the guy and forwarded it on to me. Fun times.
I’m almost finished with my re(re)watch of Enterprise. I’ve got to say, after having watched almost all of it again, that I really enjoyed this series. It does get rolling rather slow, and the time travel shtick in the first 2 seasons feels rather over used. But then the last 2 seasons roll out and man, it’s good. Currently playing as I’m typing this, I just finished up part 1 of the Terra Prime stuff. After I finish Enterprise I’m gonna have to catch up on Walking dead seeing as Rick’s last episode was tonight or last night. Gonna have to see what that’s all about.
Anyways I suppose I should probably go to bed since it’s somehow reached 4am.
So I posted on Facebook the other day that I had my first puker in the Jeep. You’ll find that story further down. You can also wander over to [Ride Share Life] to see it over there. But first, we ventured down to Art Prize last week. Or maybe it was the week before. It’s all been blending together. Here’s some of the photos i took.
Art Prize was ok this year but I really feel like other years have been better. It will be interesting to see what the switch to every other year for Grand Rapids will bring. I was kind of excited about this because I thought it would bring even more people to Grand Rapids, but then I found out that it’s not really going to be every other year. In the years that it’s not in GR, it’s going to be in Dallas TX. I can’t seem to actually VERIFY that on the ArtPrize website, but I only skimmed it as that’s just too much to ask. On one hand, it could be good because being in a different part of the country will greatly increase the exposure that Art Prize gets and thusly increasing the entries in each city. On the other hand, it could cannibalize the number of entries that would come here. It remains to be seen what will happen.
So I finally had my first puker the other night while driving. I knew it was going to be an interesting ride just by the fist 30 seconds of the guy getting into the car. He gets in and, immediately, while his three companions are getting in the car he starts telling me that we’re going to bring him to his apartment and he’s going to prepare a drink and then we’re going to go to the Hookah Lounge on Fulton. He is, of course, 3 sheets to the wind at this point so it’s hard for me to exactly understand what he is asking of me. Finally his three companions have gotten themselves into the back seat. The one directly behind me decides that in order to convince me to bring them to the guys house and then bring them to the Hookah Lounge she’s going to start flirting with me. She starts going on and on as I’m driving telling me how cute I am, and how my pink shirt brings out my eye color. At this point the guy is on his cellphone talking to somebody rather loudly, the girl is behind me is trying to smother me in affection, the girl in the back middle is loudly telling me that this is Grand Rapids and nobody follows the rules when driving, and the girl in the back passenger side is starting to say roll down the window I’m hot, roll the down the window I’m hot, over and over. Now this — this is where I went wrong. The warning signs were right in front of me. Flashing in front of my eyes like a big bright neon sign. Flashing saying “roll down the window”. But of all the voices in the Jeep at that moment, hers was drowned out. We pull up to the apartment and the guy in the front seat starts pestering me again about bringing his drinks with them to the Hookah Lounge. I’m letting him know that I’ll be more than happy to bring them to the Hookah Lounge, but there would be no drinks coming along for the ride. At this point I start to hear the dreaded sound. I turn around, and the girl that was hollering for the window to be rolled down because she’s hot, is in the back seat puking all over the door, the window, outside the door, and all over the seat. She finally got out, turned around and puked on the outside of the door. Meanwhile dude decides he’s done with it all and tells me to forget going to Hookah Lounge. The middle girl gets out leaving me and the crazy girl that was sitting behind me in the car. Amazingly, she’s still trying to get me to bring them to the Hookah Lounge. I’m like, “dude… your friend literally just puked all over my car. My night’s done, I’m going home.” At this point she’s telling me that the dude is rich and he’ll pay for the cleaning if we bring them. I chuckled to myself, because ya… he was going to pay alright. Finally I got them all outta the Jeep and headed home to get the car cleaned as much as I could at that time of night (2:15am) and take pictures of the damages and send it in to Uber. By the time I woke up, Uber had already charged the guy and forwarded it on to me. Fun times.
I’m almost finished with my re(re)watch of Enterprise. I’ve got to say, after having watched almost all of it again, that I really enjoyed this series. It does get rolling rather slow, and the time travel shtick in the first 2 seasons feels rather over used. But then the last 2 seasons roll out and man, it’s good. Currently playing as I’m typing this, I just finished up part 1 of the Terra Prime stuff. After I finish Enterprise I’m gonna have to catch up on Walking dead seeing as Rick’s last episode was tonight or last night. Gonna have to see what that’s all about.
Anyways I suppose I should probably go to bed since it’s somehow reached 4am.
