Kate
@geekate
Aging software engineer, gamer, musician, weather nerd, wife of Rik from @riksrandomretro.com and mother of 3. Here for retro gaming, weather, local connections, synth music, general geek stuff and nostalgia for the chronically online. 📍 Omaha ❤️ Sweden 🇸🇪
Not quite the highest temp my home station has clocked this year (had 104 on the 20th) but splitting hairs at this point 🫠
I feel like this message is unnecessarily hostile. I just need a reminder to do it, not a lecture. I already got the memo.
“Hmm not very windy here yet, rain’s still coming straight down… let’s check the veloci-OK THEN time to close the window” 😅
Closing this out with another not-so-retro Rik: 2012/2014/2016. By the time the third kid comes along you're too tired to game for a while; had to pass the baton to the next generation. @riksrandomretro.com
A little less retro today as this is from 2010. But it features a much younger Zoe! Think she was about a year old. She's been @riksrandomretro.com's PC partner from the very beginning
Video of the components from the PC build shown a few days ago! So again July 2004. @riksrandomretro.com still having trouble remembering the exact story around him getting that 9800. The joys of aging....
Vanilla WoW. Think this is how @riksrandomretro.com and I spent almost all of our free time in 2006. (For the Alliance, btw)
Figured I should probably put myself out there as well to be fair. August 2004 - this was the first time we met in person after meeting online a few months earlier.
A twofer today - left is July 2004, right is December 2005. No idea the specs on these builds or whether he still has any of the parts; you'd have to ask @riksrandomretro.com himself.
We don't have many prior to about 2004 but once we got together we were just so happy to have somebody to geek out with that we took lots of pictures of stuff we bought. Such as this wonderful pic of the slim PS2 we got in October 2004 with his hand for scale because HOW DID THEY MAKE IT SO SLIM lol
More random retro Rik! March 2006: we somehow scraped together enough cash to buy a 360 and a copy of Oblivion. And believe it or not @riksrandomretro.com is 24 in this picture, even though he looks about 16 haha
So @riksrandomretro.com is in Sweden for a couple weeks and I'm feeling kinda down, so I thought in the meantime maybe I'd share some random retro Rik! This would have been summer of 2005 - check out that shiny new PSP
Behind the scenes (and through a window) from @riksrandomretro.com’s stream tonight
I… feel like this would not really help against hail? Even if somehow the wind didn’t blow them off, I can’t imagine a thin later of blankets would actually offer much protection - but maybe I’m wrong? Any thoughts? @serwewx.bsky.social @caitlinharveywx.bsky.social @jimphillips.bsky.social
@serwewx.bsky.social what’s the difference between “Sunny” and “Enjoyable Sunshine?” 🤔