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Reply 60 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Who works on a Saturday? jk

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Reply 62 of 146, by bjwil1991

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I used to work on Saturdays. What do you do at work and what's your occupation?

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Reply 63 of 146, by oeuvre

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video editing for live sports, mostly cutting highlights and game archives for NBA, NHL, UFC, etc.

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Reply 65 of 146, by jxalex

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bjwil1991 wrote:

I used to work on Saturdays. What do you do at work and what's your occupation?

While I had a normal sleep then it was electronics. Now I still do the same, but cant accept that force for work between 9-17.

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Reply 66 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Another weekend coming up:

Thursday night (added this just in case): testing a recently compiled BIOS for my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus
Friday: bill paying and possibly taking my car to the mechanic to figure out why the P0446 error keeps coming back
Saturday: funeral and my sister's b-day
Sunday: laundry day and watching American Football as well as AFV

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Reply 67 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Another weekend is upon us:

Thursday night: watching the Packers vs Seahawks game
Friday: work, bingo night, and figuring out where the firmware ROM is on my CR-563-B CD-ROM drive
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, and video/photo shooting of the CD-ROM drive in action
Sunday: laundry day

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Reply 68 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Weekend coming up:

Wednesday night: figuring out how to fix the Pentium OverDrive 83 CPU
Thursday: Thanksgiving lunch/dinner, Black Friday shopping, watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and watching football
Friday: work on my car (needs a new gas cap and filter since the cap has cracks on the O-ring gasket)
Saturday: my parents 29th Anniversary (possibly going to Flint for the train ride, but, I digress)
Sunday: laundry day and watching some football.

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Reply 69 of 146, by Qbix

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No special things related to thanksgiving here as it is not celebrated in my country.
So work and maybe some debugging on dosbox.

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Reply 70 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Weekend plan:

Friday: nothing in particular, except for testing a few things here and there and buying a replacement motherboard
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, and replacing the gas cap on my car
Sunday: watching football and laundry day

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Reply 71 of 146, by jheronimus

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Okay, here's my plan.

Friday: going to see Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch — there's a thing here in Moscow where you can see recordings of British theatre plays in cinemas;
Saturday: close my credit card, replace the couch in my living room, then go on a date, preferably to a bar of some sort;
Sunday: chill, mess around with my latest Slot 1/Voodoo 2 SLI build. The case it came with turned out to be a pain in the ass, so I might rebuild it from scratch. Also, ordered the SLI cable from eBay, because for the life of me I could not build one. Broke five floppy cables trying and finally gave up. There, I've said it 🤣

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Reply 72 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Another weekend coming up:

Friday: my brother has dance that night and planning on swapping the shorting board with a new one
Saturday: bowling, picking up someone, and patching the exhaust on my car
Sunday: laundry day

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Reply 73 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Another weekend:

Friday: swimming lessons-ish and planning on testing the firmware BIOS I made for my CR-563-B to see if it indeed works
Saturday: working on my car (exhaust needs to be patched, the clamp for the coolant hose needs to be replaced, and the fuel filter needs to be changed), and possibly going to a computer store to purchase an NVMe 500GB SSD, the PCIe to NVMe M.2/M.2 SSD card, and a heatsink.
Sunday: laundry day
Monday (Christmas Eve): spending time with the family
Tuesday (Christmas Day): spending time with the family and opening presents

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Reply 74 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Another weekend, another steaming head.

Friday: getting new tags for my car and a new water pump (steams up)
Saturday: replacing the water pump, bowling, thrifting-ish, and grabbing lunch
Sunday: laundry day

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Reply 75 of 146, by oeuvre

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I have zero plans this weekend, which is nice. Except working tonight and tomorrow night 😒

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Reply 76 of 146, by AlaricD

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I was going to apply Kapton tape to the outer fog lamp lenses of my friend's RX300, and replace the bulbs (he'd insisted on trying the Hella XY bulbs instead of just treating the lamp itself to make it yellow) with quality HB4 bulbs, but it's raining cats and dogs and may do so the rest of the weekend.

I might also try to go antiquing or something, too.

On a computer-related note, might play Ark: Survival Evolved. Been a while since I've played.

Reply 77 of 146, by Almoststew1990

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Tomorrow I'm getting some tyres fitted on my car. Cheapest price is booking through a generic website which gives me a morning or afternoon slot only. I get the confirmation email... 8.30am 🙁

No other plans really. Try and sort out my latest PC.

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Reply 78 of 146, by meljor

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jheronimus wrote:

Okay, here's my plan.

Also, ordered the SLI cable from eBay, because for the life of me I could not build one. Broke five floppy cables trying and finally gave up. There, I've said it 🤣

I had the same issues making those cables. I ended up ordering the connectors from china, 10 pieces for 2 dollar/euro's. Made my life soooooo much easier 🤣

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Reply 79 of 146, by bjwil1991

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Friday: getting ye olde Socket 754 board out for my Windows 98SE machine or the Pentium 4 system that's been sitting in my car for 2 weeks since my VooDoo2 card never liked VIA chipsets and attempt to replace the water pump on my car before the deep freeze
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, and picking up my dad from the airport.
Sunday: laundry day

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