This has been a slow (and very welcomed) weekend. Not much going on, save for:
Saturday:
- Finished off the first campaign on Majesty for Android.
- Traded in my Wii at GameStop; It was worth $36 in store credit (with double trade-in value).
- Had lunch with Brian and a few of his friends; they were discussing EverQuest, XenoMiner and a few other geekery related subjects- very enjoyable conversation.
- Wandered around Frys; bought a cheesy Puzzle Expedition game for the 3DS. It was a pre-owned game for $10- and I guess it was almost worth that amount. :)
- Started reading book 11 of Wheel of Time series- Path of Daggers.
- Tried to port my blog over to SquareSpace; no luck.
I concatenated all of my other blogs to WordPress with the intention of migrating over to SquareSpace. The import hasn’t worked right and WordPress actually seems pretty decent (save for customization costing $30/year). - Played MineCraft
- Setup my Telescope and took several dozen Moon shots with my Canon T4i; it was a full moon. :)
Sunday
- Worked out with Shannon
- Downloaded EverQuest II- which I purchased years ago and is now free to play- and played for an hour or so; made it from level 1 to level 5. Queued up the 14GB full game download.
- Found the Ender Stronghold in my MineCraft world and dropped right into the End Portal room. I now need to find ten (10) more Ender pearls to make enough Eyes of Ender to activate.
- Went to see Diana’s new house. It has a Brinks alarm panel and a SimpliSafe alarm system. The later seems to be an inexpensive alternative to the Brinks system…
- More MineCraft
- Purchased XenoMiner
- Tried to get a few shots of Jupiter through the scope; no luck with the Samsung NX100, a 16mm eyepiece and an Orion variable tele-extender.
I have been looking at the NinjaBlocks device but it looks like they are selling when they have enough to make a batch of 1000- and the next order ships in March… It appears to be a Raspberry Pi with a 433Mhz shield and in a cool case. Seeing as how most of the 433Mhz functionality is duplicated in either x10 or zWave (or a multitude of other devices) I am not sure if I want to try yet another system. If this would tie into the SkylinkHome wireless devices it would be very cool (as they have not released their gateway hub as of yet)- but I don’t think that is the case. There are too many similar function but protocol disparate devices… :(
…and I am still waiting on my Mavia from Mavizon to ship… :(