So, our Asus laptop failed. It looks like a problematic harddrive, eventually not detected by the bios after not booting many times after I forced restarted it while taking a long time to restart installing updates. Trying to backup the harddrive (that was taken out by the kind service center guy), bad sectors wer found in a “hidden” partition. At least I got to do a backup after leaving the drive connected to the pc via esata. The usb interface took so long…though the esata connection took a youtube video’s length, too.
Oh, speaking of external drives, I was amazed that my father got himself an external harddrive.
Ryzen 5 was launched and is currently available in the local market…but has to be bundled with an MSI or ECS motherboard. That sucks for me because I’ve gotten myself some ram, a week before, and a motherboard, just before I found out about that. I’m now waiting for unbundled availability or will have to resort to expensive measures. *evil laugh* but of course, I don’t want to go through the expensive measure of buying an building a Rzen 7 system to sell at breakeven or probably less.
My father’s MyPhone MY32L’s screen got broken last month, I think. I finally had it repaired with a black front instead of the supposed white. It looks good so I think the hassle of going to mcs earlier than I could have picked it up and returning the next day to actually get it is just fine. I also got to buy a tempered glass screen for the first time though that was for papa’s phone. I’ll see if it is a good moving forward thing.
Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ended and I had mixed feelings at it endings. It was a satisfying series, though, all-in-all. The void would have been filled by Shingeki no Kyoujin S2, but I’m still waiting to watch. I did give some time to catchup with DCTV shows and The Big Bang Theory. It kinda helped that the shows had a couple of weeks off so I’m back on track with those shows. I’ll catchup soon with Shingeki and Agents of SHEILD as well as completing Iron Fist. I’m wondering how SHIELD ties up with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, or if it does.
Speaking of movies, mhae and got to watch Power Rangers earlier this month. It was fun.
I realized that the DC Collectibles has 7” action figures and that the DCTV subline is more or less in that scale. I’m passing on the Arrow Flash 2-pack available at playgiantcollectibles at glorietta. Seeing it in real life, I don’t know, I don’t think I’m really an meant to be and action figure collector afterall. In fact, I still have my MAFEX Wonder Woman LBC-boxed.
As for collections, I did some updating on my anime shelves. I finally put the eva portraits and revoltechs to their display place. My werstern/american shelves aren’t assembled yet, so the transformers (technically, japanese, but not anime) are still on the right side with the anime figures. Maybe
MP-36 Megatron has been released and it’s nice seeing Alexis post a couple of pics with that and MP-10. After restraining myself from ordering for 40days, I think I’m going to start purchasing the Megatron 2-pack to go with my G1 and DOTM Optimus Primes.
Also after 40days, I communicated with the Lego Double-Decker Couch seller. After a couple of weeks, he’s found the set and is ready to transact. I’m looking to get the set this coming week. I’m counting that as an April transaction. Megs will be my May transaction.
I have no other toys/figures/collectibles in mind. Looks like I’m finally closing my collecting…until further retriggering of interest. Ack, just remembered the gundams I have to build. So, no purchases planned after May, but I still have to build some gunpla before finalizing my display of a decade (well, less) of collecting.
So that’s April in Geekery for me. Those were quite some updates. Hoping the loose ends this month would be closed by next month.
