It’s been a hot minute since I’ve turned on my Xbox One S. Yesterday I decided to fire it up and see what’s up. I kind of been meaning to, just because DOOM ETERNAL is now on GamePass so I wanted to check it out. To my surprise, I was offered their GamePass ultimate subscription, 3 months for ninety-nine cents. It was a very hard decision 😅.

I downloaded DOOM ETERNAL, STAR RENEGADES and STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER. Star renegades is a game I have in my Nintendo Switch’s wishlist. Almost every indie game I have on the switch is included with GamePass and still, I buy them for the Switch. I don’t know why but i prefer to play these on the Switch. Anyway, I downloaded on the Xbox as a trial, kind of thing, I have played about a good 10-15 minutes and I liked it. Doom, I played for like 10 minutes and uninstalled it, it just didn’t click, not sure why.

Today I spent a couple of hours with Star Wars and so far I am having a good time with it. Feel more like I am playing a game like Uncharted, which isn’t a bad thing to say. Not like I am a huge fan of the uncharted games but seems similar.

Oh and also downloaded NEED FOR SPEED HEAT, I’m a sucker for the need for speed games. I haven’t played yet, I just figured I will be playing Star Wars for a wee bit.

Yesterday I had an appointment at my local Apple Store. I don’t k is if I had mentioned this on the blog but I may have dropped my iPhone 11 to the ground (again) and this time it cracked the front screen. I had my appointment and got to the store and something very bizarre, very Orwellian.

Orwellian" is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society

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(By the way, thank you to Martin Feld for “introduce” me to this term, I had never heard it before and had to 🦆-🦆-go-it)

It wasn’t an opened store anymore like we are used to.

It looked more like a fort. You can’t walk into the store anymore. Instead, you’re greeted with this wall and windows.

(These aren’t my local stores’s but same)

Macrumors

Apple is trying out a new retail store experience that puts express pickup of online orders and Genius Bar appointments front and center, while keeping customer and staff safety paramount during the ongoing global health crisis.

Again, it was very bizarre but I understand why. Especially here in Idaho where COVID cases are skyrocketing.

That being said, it was the same welcoming experience as far as the service went. However, they did not have the part for my phone, thus, it had to be ordered and I have to stop at the store again at a later date.

I cannot remember some of the details or the circumstances but I had this interesting dream last night. And I only remembered having this dream just now because I was scrolling to my micro.blog timeline and saw a post by Monsieur Jack Baty (a.k.a. @Jack) and I immediately remembered 😅

I was back in Puerto Rico and my grandparent’s house (on my mom’s side) and we were having the typical Christmas family gathering. All my uncles , aunts, cousins, and family friends were there. A Christmas party as it was in the late ’80s and ’90s, although it was as if it was this year, 2020. I remember I even had my Olympus camera with me and my friend Krissana was helping me clean it because for whatever reason it was muddy. I vividly remember my Granmpa, may he rest in peace. Ever since he died, about 7 or 8 years ago, I have only dreamt about him twice. It was nice to see him. Why Jack made me remember my dream? Well, he was in it.

At my grandma’s house, she had her house (obviously) there was the Bohío (or a hut) large enough to host family events. There was also the outside kitchen, where all the magic happened, her business was pretty much catering, thus the outside much bigger kitchen setup. That outside kitchen was also “connected” to a large rudimental dining area which was then connected to her garden. She had tons of different plants, but the most I remember were her orchids and her anthuriums or Laceleaf plants. She loved them anthuriums and she had all the colors possible.

As the gathering was happening and people were all around, I remember Jack walking out of the garden and yelling at me “you have good people to take good portraits of here, don’t waste it” 😅

That is it, that is all I remember about the dream.

Thanks, Jack

Lost my wallet, again. Well, not quite but almost.

Today we were getting ready to go on a quick stop to the pharmacy. When I realized my wallet was not found. I started looking at the usual places with no luck. Kept looking for a while when I started panicking a bit. Oh no, not this again. Last time was a nightmare.

I started tracing back my yesterday’s steps. When to my local grocery store, bought a few things, got back to the car. Then I went to the pharmacy, remembered having my wallet by the passenger’s seat with the card I was going to use, sticking out for fast easy access. Paid for my prescription and drove home. Put my wallet and everything else on the kitchen table as usual and that was the last time I had seen it.

Today I had my prescription still at the table, even the card I used to pay for it but no wallet. After an hour of looking around, I found it, underneath a bookcase, a very random and unusual place. Our theory, it was Luna, she probably was playing with my wallet by the manger we have setup.

I am gonna have to start creating a habit of putting my wallet in my backpack or somewhere out of Luna’s reach 😅