Author: Mike
Published: February 14, 2023
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.
Author: Mike
Published: February 13, 2023
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.)
Author: Mike
Published: February 12, 2023
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.
Author: Mike
Published: February 11, 2023
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.