{"id":35181,"date":"2023-08-25T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2023-08-25T22:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T02:09:04","slug":"four-years-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/08\/four-years-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, four years ago today, at roughly this very time, we cleverly captured The Monster and brought her home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4YearsLater.jpg\" alt=\"Monster, or Taz, posing in the door for her fourth year anniversary\" width=\"750\" height=\"919\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35182\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Though, thinking about it, it might not have been so clever &#8211; it was <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/09\/storytime-36\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far too easy<\/a>, so she might have known exactly what she was doing. After all, there were absolutely no crinkle-ball toys to be found in the parking lot at work, while she has a fine selection of them here. And <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/08\/it-was-a-year-ago-this-very-night\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a sea-turtle bowl<\/a> &#8211; let&#8217;s not forget that.<\/p>\n<p>She has, admittedly, filled out a little<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suspicion.jpg\" alt=\"new kitten looking vaguely suspicious\" width=\"750\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24337\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>She&#8217;s <em>slightly<\/em> more inclined to snuggle up rather than creating havoc now, but only slightly. At times, she&#8217;s quite insistent on biting because she really wants to play rough and the other Boogs won&#8217;t let her. Neither will The Girlfriend, so I&#8217;m the last remaining option<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MamaWontLetMe.jpg\" alt=\"Monster getting in a quick slap fight\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35183\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Even I won&#8217;t let her get too excited\/rough, but I think she needs an outlet too, and she usually knows not to bite too hard. But keeping her claws trimmed is paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Little else going on here right now. Due to warning signs from the workhorse computer, I ended up swapping it out for an upgraded (but still used) one &#8211; I don&#8217;t need all the bells and whistles and nothing I do is demanding, but I <em>do<\/em> need a bunch of SATA ports for the multiple drives. That, however, presented a handful of problems during the switch, including one drive that got altered (for no reason that I can determine) and showed as empty &#8211; it took a recovery program to rebuild the partition table and reveal that yes, it did indeed possess files. This was a few hours of diddy-fucking around, but I will say that it was considerably less of that than any Windows system I&#8217;ve messed with, and while Linux isn&#8217;t any better than Windows in the error message department, once the root issue could be determined, there&#8217;s almost always a readily-available tool to repair it.<\/p>\n<p>[The system is a dual-boot with Linux Mint and Windows 7, because the film scanner only runs on Windows, and upon booting, Windows wanted to download new drivers for every damn thing &#8211; despite the fact that it already had them all save for the ethernet card. Go figure.]<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, play-testing a few games for The Manatee, and tricking out several 3D models for printing and eventual uploading. Been staying busy, just not with stuff that shows here, is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, four years ago today, at roughly this very time, we cleverly captured The Monster and brought her home. Though, thinking about it, it might not have been so clever &#8211; it was far too easy, so she might have known exactly what she was doing. After all, there were absolutely no crinkle-ball toys to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5626,5625,889],"class_list":["post-35181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-monster","tag-taz","tag-the-boogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}