My office announced a new WFH benefit a second one worth Rs 12k, but the clause was that, this shall be provided only upon purchase of an entity for the WFH aid. And if a person leaves an organization before 1 year, he has to pay it back.
I was initially hesitant to buy something, but then, I thought, what if I buy a new monitor, would serve 3 purposes altogther.
- Monitor with HDMI output aids in PS4 gaming.
- Bigger monitor aids working environment.
- Can run - deskop + office laptop + PS4 all three simultaneously.
So got myself a 25 inch LG monitor worth Rs 12.5k. It definitely helps me in PS4 gaming!
These days, apart from my routine office work, a bit of reading and few other things, I do also play on my PS4. The time spent on my PS4 was a bit less over the last year, owing to lots of things, one of them, being,
- the need to sit in front of monitor already for work, PS4 needed extended hours of time in front of monitor, which I felt drove me away a bit.
- monitor - I had a difficult time connecting my monitor to PS4 as it never had a HDMI input, and my PS4 had only HDMI output, I needed to convert HDMI to a VGA input and that converter had a power adapter add on, this HDMI output from PS4 also carried sound so needed a Auxillary cable which went from (HDMI to VGA) converter into the speaker.
- playing racing games on a PS4 controller without steering, I felt uneasy and cumbersome.
With all these hindrances of plugging I could not play as much as I wanted to. But then, recently I purchased a new game Dirt 4, but never mentioned why I did purchase the game.
I generally watch quite a bit of videos on youtube, about food, PS4 games, few on racing etc etc.
Youtube, prompted me a video on my recommendations which was new and it was about a F1 driver, driving BMW M4 on Nuburgring in Germany.
The driver was none other than Robert Kubica. The video was special and very special indeed. It prompted me to go back.
Robert Kubica had a horrible accident where there was a major impact to his right hand.
He made a come back to F1 which can be considered as an epic one, not that he went on to win etc etc, but the spirit of fightback he brought into the game is just immense.
If someone can come back and drive an F1 car with a hand injury, I felt, this man knows no excuse.
[You can read about Robert Kubica's rally injury on the internet]
I realized all of the above mentioned points of mine, were just a stupid excuse. I purchased a dirt 4 game the very next day of watching the video and I started playing, and in few hours, I got good hang of it.
Though I cannot drive cleanly in any of the stages, in the rally game, I usually end up winning with some damage on the car, but thats okay, I am back to playing!
Before ending the post, my heart felt respect to Sir Robert Kubica, Keep inspiring!
Cheers,
If you want to watch the video - its over here below.
The last post of mine was a month back where in I was attempting to open my laptop to disconnect the keyboard, so that, I can start to use it again. I was under the impression that the keyboard was faulty.
I had failed to open and as I had plenty of things on my mind, I left it as it is where it was and now almost a month later, I come back to it to see what best I can do with it.
Co-incidentally, I do have a desktop computer which has windows vista which is equally unused and now all the softwares over there are outdated and it needs a fresh OS installation to just make it usable.
So, considering, I do not have a bootable USB having windows 10 OS, I thought of asking a professional to do the installation in exchange for some money which would save me time. The so called professional who I was in touch absconded at the last moment, may be, because this whole exercise was not so profitable for him. He might cater only to big business now.
So, I thought until, I find a new vendor or bring in a bootable OS myself, let me make try my luck with the partially opened laptop.
And voila, I had it partially opened, partially detached the keyboard with one screw still sticking, and when I boot it guess what happened, the beep sound vanished and it successfully booted.
Though the keyboard does not work, as I type this from the same laptop, I am using a USB keyboard, which works out like a charm.
So, I am back in business :) at least until the time this laptop boots up and is running... I got loads to write and a month pending in a year. Let me try to write as much as I can.
