Well, I completely blew my sleeping early routine on the second day. I'll try again. It really helped me feel better. The last few days have been awful for me. Will try to actually post some updates later today.
02:07 [ posted by Dennis ]

Hello folks, sorry I haven't been talking much. I spent all day playing around with my IBM PC AT. Installing MS-DOS 5 and playing some old retro games that I grew up with. Then I went into installing Windows 95 on an 133Mhz computer for some 3DFX games. Lots of fun.

Anyway, I promised myself I would try to go to sleep earlier for my health. Time for sleep.
00:09 [ posted by Dennis ]

Hey guys, so I've been spending a lot of time getting this deskcam to be live instead of just an image I take and upload every once in awhile. I will not be doing this with my webcam area just yet. The deskcam is an old Python script an old friend made. I did a little reconfiguring and seems to be working well. The deskcam takes a screenshot and displays the image only when it's requested, instead of a nonstop capture. Great for bandwidth if that's still an issue in 2020.

I have Neko running around my desktop as well which is fun. I missed ScreenMates. My retro computer is running Windows XP and I'm typing this in a DOS version of Corel WordPerfect 6.2.
14:49 [ posted by Dennis ]

So, funny thing. My previous note, I typed about safety on the plane. While it is as safe as it can get, that doesn't mean that you are in the clear. Apparently, someone on one of my trips tested positive for COVID-19. I'm not quite sure what flight it was, but I have a feeling I know. I received a call from my airline telling me that they are grounding me for 2 weeks with pay, and if I have any symptoms to use the protocal in place we use. It's crazy. I lost two trips out of it, but I'm happier to be on the ground and quarantined, than not know if I have it as well and spreading it. So, the only thing left to do is wait. :)

I hope everyone is keeping safe out there. Thanks for visiting this relic of a page. If I keep updating this thing it will start to look too modern haha. I do need to get rid of the tables though and use divs instead. We shall see.
19:22 [ posted by Dennis ]

Currently on my flight to DFW, so far so good. It’s a little strange not having to wake up super early for work like my last flights. Nikki had a dinner party with a few friends last night and I checked in to hope she had a good time and she said she it was the worst night ever. I asked what happened but she didn’t really respond. So I told her if she wants to talk about it, I am here. But she didn’t respond. I was kind of expecting her to tell me what happened, but I guess she doesn’t want to talk about it. Running through my head though for some reason. I’ll try to let it go. Just hate seeing her upset.

Flight has been good so far, but kind of busy. We don’t do a beverage service anymore, however, we still have to answer call bells which most passengers on this flight are touching by accident. Still, we have to get up and answer them. Good stuff. I still get questions from friends if it is safe to fly, and while most would say, “NO!!! Stay home!!!”, I would usually agree if you don’t need to be somewhere. For those who need to see family for a certain reason or emergency, I would say it’s pretty safe. We have hospital-grade HEPA filters with high velocity air circulation. It takes only 2 to 4 minutes for the airplane to bring in and remove old air. So basically, the plane is constantly bringing in fresh air. You don’t get that on a bus, or train, not to mention a restaurant or grocery store. Touch points have been minimized, and I’ll say the cleaners do a great job getting the plane as clean as possible, but it’s still best to bring your own wipes and sanitize your area. As long as people are wearing their mask, and we are making sure of that, it’s as good as it can be.

I think I’ll leave it at that. Hope every one is having a good day
15:48 [ posted by dennis ]

I finally got Windows XP working on my computer. Everything looks fine. Just tweaking some things here and there, and of course, making sure the OS is as secure as it's going to get with no more support. Boy, I forgot how slow 56K modem speeds were. This is top level nostalgia, but it's kind of funny the pain I put myself through. I just wanted to do all of this again to remember the times that were not great, but better than 2020. I was in High School when I made this page. I was a senior. Wait, actually I think I was a junior. The webcam image that is showing as of this post is from December of 2001. I was a senior then. I remember it all now. I'm happy to get back to coding simple stuff. I guess now that the site is kind of where it should be except for the links and little things, I can start updating about my day to day. So I will do that in my future updates. Thanks for reading.
02:03 [ posted by dennis ]

I think I'm going to take the jump to Windows XP! I hope my computer can handle it though. I managed to snag a copy. It's good news because a lot of the software I'm trying to use isn't compatible with NT 5.0 anymore. I haven't eaten today, so I'm trying to work out what I want to eat, but I did have a yummy coffee. I may make another one. I hope everyone else has a good day. It's about to rain here. I'll see you on the other side. Hope this install works.
16:11 [ posted by dennis ]

Site is coming along nicely. I know it's terrible, but that's why I love it. I used to spend hours after school learning new things to show off on my little page. Now I'm just doing it over again 20 years later for nostalgia. I am currently waiting for film to develop so I won't be able to update the Cam section until I can get a self portrait out of it. Still drinking my coffee that I made around 2pm or so. It's still warm! I'm trying to make the best use out of my small desktop screen here on Win 2000 Pro. I'm trying to remember all the software I used to play with as a teenager. I think I'm going to try and load up a DOS game or something. Have a good day!
16:36 [ posted by dennis ]

What a long night! I've been working on this little site for hours in Windows 2000 Pro. I can't believe I'm still up. I wanted to correct a few things, and then got sucked into HTML and CSS. Even though this site was from 2001, It's exciting me to play around with code again. So, I'm going to work on that next. I do need to rest though, so I'm going to head out!
01:19 [ posted by dennis ]