Jennifer's 365 Project

We took a long walk this afternoon at Millennium Park this afternoon. I'm not actually a fan of the park, but it's a change of pace from the parks that we normally walk at. Most of the path is open. There are hardly any trees that actually cover parts of the path. I'm assuming because they leveled virtually all of it when they were building the park.

Anyway, it was a good long walk around the mini-lakes and we both managed to get sunburned. But it was worth it. I miss weather in the 50s and 60s we should be having this time of year, but I guess 80 degrees is better than 30 and snow.

It's been a few weeks since I've launched and spent any time in Guild Wars 2. Sometime between then and now I've been experiencing a strange issue. When the game launcher would first start, it would immediately crash and telling me there was a load handling issue. Essentially it was this message.

So I tried a few different things. I tried re-downloading the software and running it normally and I continued to get the same error message.

Strangely, like in the forum post mentioned above, if I ran Guild Wars 2 in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode, the game would launch.

I rebooted and tried a few different things and no matter what I could no longer get the game to run normally on my windows 7 machine.

Then a few hours later - no issues. Now it launches just fine without having to be run in compatibility mode.

So...that was an annoying thing to troubleshoot that occur and resolve itself with no real action on my part.

Sometimes the cat is determined to snuggle, despite what you want.

Adam and Comfort are in town on their way to ACEN. So what better opportunity is there to see a comic book movie?

So we headed out after work and met Dan, another awesome friend of ours, at the mall to watch Iron Man 3. Then out to a restaurant to deconstruct the film and discuss our likes and dislikes.

It's a beautiful day and an excellent one to take a stroll downtown while on lunch.

As we were leaving for C2E2 a few weeks back, Chris accidentally cracked the touchscreen part of his 7 inch tablet, rendering it unusable. So when we got home I did some research online and saw that you could purchase replacement screens.

Fast forward to a few weeks later and the screen has finally arrived. So Chris and I spent a little while this evening dismantling the tablet and replacing the screen. Even though I have smaller fingers, I'm less steady with small parts, so it's great that Chris has an easier time snapping things in, like the horribly obnoxious plastic piece that snaps the ribbon cable down.

Aside from that small piece of plastic, the replacement was pretty simple. Since it's just a screen that rests on top of the LCD, it's pretty easy to remove and replace.
Soon Chris was back up and running on his little Onda v701.

My parents came out this year for Mother's Day. It's kind of a pity the weather wasn't as nice as it was earlier this week, but at least it wasn't raining.

So I grilled some chicken outside and we hung out in the kitchen for a tasty lunch.
After lunch everyone too a quick break to check and interact with social media...
 Then it was on to gifts!
We also took a walk at the local park. Their dog Dayzee really enjoyed all of the new smells. We have a lot of different wildlife here so I'm sure she enjoys taking in all of the new smells.

It was a great visit and I enjoyed seeing everyone!

Sometimes the squirrels outside like to climb the screen...because they can.