Today I broke 500 geocache finds in a little more than a year! I celebrated by buying myself a slushee after my 501st find. The day before that I celebrated my 496th find by stuffing my gob with dairy products. Specifically, maple bacon ice cream and blueberry gelato from Ed's Real Scoop in the Beaches. It was about 30 deg C out there this weekend, feeling like 34. I built a lot of character.

I also cleaned dust out of my laptop. Did I mention it's almost six years old now? I'm very proud of this too, but I might need to replace it sooner because I've been experiencing some stutter. Stutter is indicative of GPU overheating and the blob of dust I pulled out of the radiator is quite small.

So I posted the current tentative parts list to ask the internet where the money should go - the budget is $1500, but through using last-gen parts and "spare parts" and surplus office supplies we've only been able to spend about $1100. Leaving $400 to spend on... ??? Justin suspects that it should go for a better WIFI card or video card, I think a bigger HDD might be nice (or also an SSD). Part of this problem is starting from scratch - means I also need a screen, case, etc, speakers, etc... instead of just trying to figure out where the bottlenecks are.

OTOH I might just be overthinking this. All I REALLY want is to play some games at 1920x1080 with a bearable frame rate. And some future games too.  I don't care about blocky faces, ugly trees, and "dangling objects." I'd be so happy if Geralt could run relatively smoothly while having more texture than a mannequin.

Hmm. I also got my dad chocolates for Father's Day. We ate some duck. Duck is my favourite animal to eat, I think.

Speaking of duck - I saw this article in the Star about a retired restauranteur passing on his legacy for peking duck with extra crispy skin. Too bad the chefs are from Dailo and Jacob's Steakhouse - not exactly as cheap as a standard Chinese restaurant.