The VT Boys have been playing Master Mind

The VT Boys have been playing Master Mind this weekend and we had great fun. This was a game we had not played for a long time and even VT Girl No.3 also jointed in and it was amazing she was very good of playing the game.

She won most of the games and one game she had it right in only two go's. Mr.Gadget was also very good and really enjoyed playing it. we also had time to build a new Google Nexus phone dock, which took 3 hours to print but looked very good.

Three weeks ago we build a new computer with some nice specs. Haswell i3 3.6Ghz, 16Gb DDR3 1600 RAM, AMD R7 240 Graphics Card and 120Gb SSD, build in a nice cube style case. This computer is really fast and had a geekbench score of well over 7500.

The VT Boys had a birthday again

The VT Boys had a birthday again this time Mr.Garfield is 21 years old, this is a very special birthday, we all very happy to celebrate with him. Mr.Gadget when't over to see him in Bognor Regis for a few days and they both had a great time.

For his birthday Mr.Garfield wanted a New Nintendo 3D XL so he can play games with his partner, Mr.Garfield gave him a new Hugo Boss watch and a ballon (See picture). At the moment Mr.Garfield is working in a supermarket, but would like to move on and start again in the computer engineering business if he can.

He already has put out a couple of feelers and hopefully he will get to hear something soon, he is working really hard at the moment as his company lost some staff recently.

The VT Boys are complete again

The VT Boys are complete again - a few weeks ago, Mr.Garfield came back home again for a few days to see his family here in Norfolk and Cambridge wish was lovely. He and his girlfriend live in Bognor Regis and have busy lives.

It was very nice to see him and Ella and have spend the Sunday afternoon in Wisbech and Tuesday evenings in Norfolk with us. Mr.Gadget was also present and we had a lovely Chinese dinner for tea.

We spend the night talking a lot and playing with the gadgets we had in the new house. Since then we have been speaking again on a weekly basic which is very nice. Mr.Mac Junior also paid us a visit a few weeks ago and gave Mr.Mac a new Tassimo machine as his one was broken a few weeks ago. Mrs.Mac received lovely flowers. wow big browny point there for him.

The VT Boys have moved house

The VT Boys have moved house and we are all very happy about that. Our new home is bigger and new. Over the last few weeks we have been working really hard to get everything ready. Mr.Gadget was looking particularly looking forward trying the new Fibre Broadband running at a whopping speed of 300mb / 30mb - wow.

Mr.Gadget assisted with building some flatpacks and moving some stuff from the old house, as usual he is always very helpful.

We also looking forward playing with our slotcar game and building new tracks. We had a lovely day with lots of eating and playing with computers.

The VT Boys had a birthday

The VT Boys had a birthday this weekend and Mr.Gadget is 15 years old hooray. It was very nice to have him on his birthday and also for a sleepover. Just because it was his birthday we still had lots to do, as we are moving to a new house later this month.

We had lots of stuff to throwaway and that means going to the dump ones or twice. It was very handy to have him around as he is always willing to help.

Of course we did lots with our computers and Mr.Gadget had some speed issues with his, especially regarding the frame rates in gaming, his machine is awesome, 8 cores, 8Gb DDR3 high speed ram, EVO 850 SSD and NVidia GTX 950 graphics card, however the machine was running slower, we think because of the anniversary update on Windows 10 Pro.

So we copied all the data over to a external USB 3 drive and some to the second internal drive, re-installed Windows 10 Pro and all the drivers and the machine was very fast again. This is how you deal with these things, you just re-install and most of the time Windows is working fine again.

We also upgraded the Windows Machine of Mr.Mac Senior yes you hear it right he has also a Windows 10 machine, we upgraded the graphics card to AMD R7 240 with 2Gb DDR3 VRAM. this Intel i3 is running very nice and even good for some basic gaming.

For dinning this weekend Mr.Gadget has some of his favorite meals, Babi Ketchap and his birthday cake (Flake) and roast on the Sunday,

The VT Boys had to repair a MacBook Air

The VT Boys had to repair a MacBook Air and this is not a easy job as we have found out. When we got the MacBook it had some trackpad issues but only after warming up for a minute or two and the sound did't work.

So Mr Gadget opened it up and looked where to problem could be. First you need to disconnect the battery, then the Flashdrive before you can have access to the trackpad. All looks to be okay so we suspect it must have so water damage. The MacBook works okay with a external USB mouse and we installed MacOS Sierra beta edition which works really well.

We will keep this MacBook Air in out collection and maybe in the future we can get a new logic board for it and repair it.

The VT Boys have been busy

The VT Boys have been busy in the last few weeks. Mr.Gadget had a busy few weekends as he had lots of events with the Air Cadets, Please see picture below.

We also had time playing with our Slot Cars, we have been very creative making new tracks, longer and bigger with more obstacles.

Next time Mr.Gadget will come over for a long sleep over, we are looking forward to it.