Emily and Mike made us veggie tacos made with pinto beans and zuchinni filling, pickled red onions, turnips, and cilantro. They were delicious.

She even got us Paula's doughnuts stacked as a cake for (e:Terry)'s belated birthday.

I hope your birthday was 360 degrees of awesomeness.

We went and had delicious food and cake from Maria.

We discovered Women's Day after dark. it's only a three pages so apparently women aren't supposed to stay up.

Has anyone else been down the new bike lanes on Niagara at night? I rode down last Friday night.

I love the green paint and the general quality of the pavement. Especially compared to what it was before.

But the LED streetlamps are blinding, especially coming on and off the dark streets on the west side. There's no trees to limit the glare either. I really wish they would either tone them down or pick a warmer color temperature, instead of putting a sodium lamps wattage into a white LED. It's really the same problem on Ohio Street too but much less traffic.





Then I saw the giant duck down at Canalside. Even at midnight people were lining up to take pictures of it.


But by yesterday it was already gone ;(
I stole this picture from (e:czarkasm)'s facebook. Who knew it would goatse everyone on the way out?

The new battlestation is complete and (e:terry) is warcrafting. He and I assembled it together last night.

We spent hours debating the parts and I spent hours more deal hunting.

The parts include a

• Nvidia GeForce 1080,
• 4 core, 8 with i7 6700k, unlocked
• Gigabyte motherboard with configurable timing and voltages for overclocking
• A ridiculously heavy but silent case (Fractal R5)
• 16 GB of 3000MHz ram
• 500 GB SATA SSD.
• and a gold level efficency power supply (550W and completely modular). The modular power cables along with the hidden cabling channel in the case made the build amazingly clean on the inside.

I am 100% sure it is complete overkill for WoW (you know it, (e:yesthatcasey)). But maybe Terry will come across other intense games. Or (e:paul) and I can learn how to do some machine learning on the GPU, I could learn how to render something etc.

I have to admit even though it was pricey it was less than a nice laptop, and almost $1000 less then a much less powerful Macbook Pro. It seems like it'd be nicer to use a Linux chromebook as a thin client and have a beefy upgradeable tower to offload intense work remotely.

I installed Windows 10 on it, but left a ~70GB partition for a future Fedora installation - I can't imagine it'll be free for a little bit ;)

Happy birthday to the smartest, sexiest, squiggliest otter I know. Here's to another amazing year - love ya! ?

Hope you had a good day, from the party til we stuffed our faces with cheesy nachos.