Tiny PC

That’s a 3″ by 5″ index card sitting in from of my new desktop computer, a Kamrui CK10 mini PC with a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 processor.

It sure is tiny!

I’ve only spent a couple of hours actually doing stuff with it. I’ve been a bit under the weather this week—not COVID!—and avoided getting into setting this up.  That was an indicator according to Karen that I really was feeling bad.

I had already started rearranging my space in this room before the old computer died. I continued with that a bit when I felt like doing more than chilling on the couch sleeping or binging on Dare Devil, The Defenders, and Jessica Jones.

Windows 11 is going to take a bit of getting used to but it doesn’t seem too bad so far.

I was able to use the hard drive from the old machine in a flat docking station that is actually larger than the PC. Unfortunately, I think I may have to buy new versions of a couple of programs that I used somewhat frequently, either that or find something to replace them.

New “Desktop” PC

A few days ago, my seven-year-old “desktop” PC stopped working.

I’m pretty sure that it was just a power supply problem but given that the average lifespan for desktops is 5 to 8 years I decided that the money it would take to repair the old one would be better spent on a new machine.

I wanted something with a smaller footprint.  Unfortunately, that had been the goal with the old device, too, but I didn’t do my homework and ended up with a much larger tower PC than I desired.  It was so large that to keep from cluttering the top of my desk, I suspended it beneath.

The PC I decided on certainly has a smaller footprint—5 1/4″ long, 5″ wide, and 2″ high—but when one thinks of the computing power that goes into a small laptop like the Dell I am typing this on, that’s not all that amazing.

I’ve not set up the new PC yet.  Unfortunately, after I ordered the machine, I started feeling sick, enough so that I don’t feel like getting into the nitty gritty of getting all of my stuff back up and running and enough so that I needed to do an in-home COVID test—fortunately negative.

I didn’t lose any data or files with the old machine dying.  I spent about $30, including taxes, for a flat docking station that turned the 2-terabyte drive from the old machine into an external hard drive.  (The docking station is actually dimensionally larger than the new PC.)

Good News!

I’ve been feeling crappy for several days now.  I figured it was just a cold, but decided to do a COVID test.

It’s just a cold.

First Post—here at michaelgoad.com

It’s not my first blog post—not by a long shot.  I’ve been blogging on and off since 2004, at least.

This site will have a blog and oh so much more, hopefully.

I grabbed the domain name michaelgoad.com quite o long while back.  I guess I had some idea of using it as a showplace for my photography—or some such thing.

But while that never came to fruition, I’ve kept the domain name, just in case I might want to use it someday only to find that someone else had grabbed it.

My name isn’t all that common—try doing a search for Daniel Smith or John Jones—though Michael is reasonably common, there is only one Goad in 31,102 in the United States. Still, I’ve run into a couple of other Mike Goads.

Given that michaelgoad.net and michaelgoad.org are both available, hanging on to my dot com domain name isn’t that big a deal.

This post gets the site up and running without that lingering Hello World blog post that so many would-be bloggers never get past.