📺 DEC 31 22:56

Completely satisfied with the ending of Stranger Things. I look forward to being able to watch it again with my younger daughters in a few more years.

🍿 DEC 31 22:53

Watched Fantastic Four: First Steps with most of the family, and it was a big hit with Mary and the girls liked it as much as I anticipated so that was pretty cool.

📺 DEC 31 18:53

Watching the Stranger Things Finale until tonight's family festivities get underway. It's off to a pretty good start.

🗄️ DEC 30 09:47

Last (remote) workday of the year. Just cleaning out my inbox and doing some routine path management tasks after a week away from the office.

⛏️DEC 29 21:45

Tracked down my first mob spawner today on my second go around. The first skeleton spawner I went looking for was a bust, but the spider spawner was where it was supposed to be. Building an XP farm tomorrow.

⚽️ DEC 28 10:28

Spurs pick up a big 0-1 win at Palace. We really needed those 3 points and really should have had at least one more goal.

⚽️ DEC 28 10:05

Richy has a second goal disallowed for VAR.

⚽️ DEC 28 09:13

Archie Gray just scored his first goal by redirecting Richarlison's header in the box. 0-1 Spurs.

**** ⚽️ DEC 28 09:00 Not loving this Palace game so far, other than the fact that it's still 0-0 and we had a VAR disallowed Richarlison goal.

📺 DEC 27 21:34

Enjoying Stranger Things S5E5-6 tonight after not being all that enthused to start them up again. They've been better for me than at least one critical review I read indicated. The reveals have all been pretty cool and I like all the new characters.

⛏️DEC 26 16:02

Ultimately found Miniature shader's water rendering too translucent by default, but it is tweakable. Complementary with the Potato profile has a decent average FPS on my iMac and I definitely prefer the default water.

⛏️DEC 26 10:17

Miniature shader really impressed me with how well it worked while keeping FPS around 60 on the MacBook Air. I want to give it a try on my iMac as well.

⛏️DEC 26 10:10

Started down a Minecraft shaders rabbit hole yesterday. Got Complementary working on my iMac, but the FPS drop is significant and Prism launcher managed Minecraft seems to get more confused by my dual display than regular Minecraft. Also experimented with an M1 MacBook Air and found Complementary to be reasonably playable with the Potato profile.

🎄 DEC 25 16:46

The budget AMD RX 580 GPU that I asked for for Christmas is a pretty dreamy upgrade for Minecraft over the previous one in the PC tower . Once I got some of the video settings sorted out it checked in at 200+ FPS. Very curious to see how it looks with some shaders installed now.

⚽️ DEC 24 20:03

Surprise gift of the night was a 3D puzzle replica of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium from Mary!