Look At Me, I'm Captain Suburbia!

I’m mechanically inclined
I’m blissfully insane
I’m rescuing the sacred
From the jaws of the mundane
-- Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, “Captain Suburbia”

In case anyone’s wondering, I’m very much not dead.  I’ve just been…busy.  Really busy.

So, to recap, I bought a house on April 20th.  I finally moved in to said house about two and a half weeks ago.  It’s been kinda weird, too, since I now live in Wheaton, Illinois, known to most at the place where Wheaton College and the Billy Graham Center are.  To me, it’s my hometown.  Which, if I’m honest, is kinda weird, too.  I never intended to move back here.  Hell, on a fundamental level I never wanted to move back here.  Yet, here I am.

I’m still trying to adjust to the notion.  I’m also still trying to get a sense of how my schedule is going to work.  I’ve got some ideas kicking around in the back of my head about what to do with the blog and my writing and any number of other things.

For the moment, though – and especially for the last two weeks or so – it’s just nice to be able to sit on my couch in my house and, y’know, just sit.

But, in case you want to see a few things, here are some pictures.

There’s my car, parked in my garage (this is kind of a big deal to me):




There’s the TV in my office, which may or may not be attached to a NES, a SNES, and a N64.  Are you jealous?  You should be jealous:




And here’s Daisy, trying to eat her way through a chain link fence:


There was a softball game on the other side of that fence.  She really, really wanted to play softball.

Comments

[formerconservative]

Just to make you jealous....

I have a Super NES emulator on my phone! It works perfectly. I've already replayed about 50% of Super Mario World on my phone during times when I was bored and didn't have a book to read.

[Geds]

Man, I am jealous. I found one of those on whatever the Google version of iTunes was called before it was Google Play. It, um, it didn't work. I also strongly suspect that it was some sort of malware or adware or something.

[formerconservative]

SNESDroid is the one I use.

[raquel]

Congrats on the new place and it's so good to see a pic of Daisy!

[Big A]

SNESoid is good stuff, works like a champ for me. I also recommend Gensoid and GameBoid for Genesis and GameBoy Advance respectively.
They're free here: http://slideme.org/user/yongzh and must be sideloaded because the developer doesn't really speak English and couldn't afford to do the tech support on Android Market/Google Play.

Final note: yes, there's an N64oid, no, there are no currently available Android devices that can run N64 games remotely well, it's more like a proof of concept.

[Geds]

Thanks, Raquel. Believe it or not, I had Dizzy in for her yearly checkup on Friday and I need to get a couple pounds off of her. She's at 45.8 pounds, but should be at about 43 or 44, according to my vet. I blame the fact that I spent the last several months rehabbing a house and not, y'know, taking her for long walks.

She's doing really well for a little puppy who nearly got starved to death before she turned one. Right now she's curled up on the couch next to me and looking quite content with her life.

[bluefrog]

I'm a bit late to the party, but congratulations to you and Daisy. It sounds, and looks, like a good life.