posted by Travis on Feb 13
Had a great day! Emmy and I went and seen “The Golden Compass”. We then went out to dinner at Carrabba’s. It was a really good day! We decided to do an early Valentines Day, but Carrabba’s was actually very busy as a lot of other people seemed to have the same idea. This is the first time since Bleys moved in with us that we went out to dinner or to the movies without him. I actually felt somewhat guilty, but figure for Valentines Day, Emmy deserves my full attention.
We then come home and Emmy gave me a foot rub! Was really nice of her. On the way home we did stop off and get some Ice cream for Bleys. We also picked up some Lottery Tickets and Scratch off Tickets. We gave one to Bleys, and got a scratch off for each of us. I won $4 and Bleys won $25, so he did get lucky for Valentines Day! Better then nothing I guess. 
posted by Travis on Feb 10
So as some might have realized reading my blogs, I have been trying to get in shape. I recently started riding an exercise bike. In January or so I decided it was a good way to start out the new year. I started out riding 5 miles a day for the first month. I do a few other exercises as well. I am doing the curls and shoulder presses every other day or so also. Well, over the last week, I have been ramping it up a bit. I am doing between 10 miles and 25 miles a day now. Feeling pretty good too.
I have learned in the past, if I can make it a part of my daily routine, as long as I do not have anything break it up, I get so I actually crave the workout. I am getting to that point now. I actually WANT to ride. I actually want to do my curls and such. I look forward to getting in better shape!
posted by Travis on Feb 5
Recently, I have felt like gaming. I have stacks of older games just laying around, so I decided to go through and see what I could make run in Wine. I was having limited success at first, but I discovered PlayonLinux which takes care of many things for you. One of the things it does that helps tremendously is create a separate Wine directory like wineprefixcreate. It gives you a nice gui to edit all of the normal settings. I highly recommend using it!
Another thing I have discovered is that many programs run better in an emulated Virtual Desktop. I am really surprised just how many games run. I am actually having as much luck with this as what I ever had with Cedega. I have been using PlayonLinux and choosing Install, Liveinstall and installing the Game. As I am doing a Liveinstall, I have to do the same when I want to add a patch or an addon. Unless the game you want to install is listed in their game scripts.
Using this method, I am also able to install DirectX and do DLL overrides. Looking at the WineappDB you can get advise on what you need to override, and do to make it run. It is much easier then I thought it would be. I have been able to get:
- Battlefield 1942 to run
- Battlefield 2142
- Gearhead Garage
- Simcity 4
- Europa 1400: The Guild
- The Guild 2
- World of Warcraft
- The Movies
- C&C Generals
- Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
- Hotrod American Street Drag
- 18 Wheels of Steel
- Hidden & Dangerous 2
and I am still playing. It is a lot of fun! I am having almost as much fun getting them to run as I am playing them!