Weekend Rundown IV, V, and VI

Know what happens when you don't blog in a long time? You forget all the little details.... Well that's just fine with me.

Weekend Rundown IV (July 3-5)

Probably the best weekend I've had all summer. Merc came to visit for a whopping 3 days and we accomplished a whole lot of nothing. We did manage, however, to finally make it to the Thai restaruant that's on South Main Street. That's some damn good food there. I had some sorta soup with shrimp and pad thai. She got some sort of chicken soup that had cocunut milk and some other entree with chicken. (Told you I'd forget the details). Her soup was better than mine, even though it didn't have shrimp and the pad thai was perfect. Actually, the whole meal in general was perfect. We also went to see the fireworks at the high school. A sorry affair, but time well spent, even though only ONE of the smiley face designed fireworks came out correctly. Took us forever to get back to the apartment though, some kid (we believe) got hit by a car, four lanes of traffic became one, but there weren't any screaming/crying parents around, so it couldn't have been too bad, right? Also found out that the outlet for Main Street happens to be 460 west, a couple of miles from downtown, so we actually got back faster than going through town and the traffic. We were all ready to go swimming Sunday, but then it rained. I waited a couple of hours and went to check the pool temperature. Just a warning, dipping your hand in for five seconds and saying "Not bad" will get you yelled at, a lot. The water was freezing! Did a few case mods, Merc wanted to learn how to soder (a whole 10 second learning experience) and she finished up my switch. Ended up pissing the rest of the day away, watching some Naruto, yatta yatta yatta, end of the weekend.

Weekend Rundown V (July 9-11)

Didn't do a whole helluva lot of anything this weekend, only have of my computer parts came, so I finished all the sleeving, motherboard, RAM, heatsinks and all that good stuff. Was still waiting on the processor and video card at this time. Picked up some face mask though, so I pulled out the borrowed dremel (thanks Merc's dad) and sanded/brushed all the red paint off my metals plates of the case. Silver and black with blue lighting is so much better than red and black with blue lighting. Finished modding a 3.5" bay to hold the cathode controls as well. Watched a whole shit load of Naruto (prbably 30 episodes or so). End weekend!

Weekend Rundown VI (July 15-18)

After a whole of (what I'll consider) boring NSO, I left the office around two on Thursday to pack up and head home. I had to bring a whole lotta stuff back, like my dad's new PC (read = My old PC), borrowed dremel, anime for Merc to borrow, clothes, laptop, yatta yatta yatta. Took me forever to pack. Short of getting home and putting in my dad's old HD, I accomplished nothing Thursday. Friday I had lunch with Mel, catching up on the good ole times, then stopped by the Jeep and Chevy store to secure letters of recommendations (AKA visit old contacts) Doug and Phil. The stores are a lot busier than they used to be, damn the computer age! Saturday it was off to Merc's for a whole day of ... sleeping and eating delicious asian cuisine (Pho and Peter Pan Buffet, world's greatest asian buffet). Sunday we visited the twins along with a handful of other GLers to see "I, Robot", which is an entertaining, but predictable moving about AI and robots and all that fancy stuff. Then, lunch at Uno's, where the hostess had an ass that stuck out, like, a full eight inches from the rest of her body. Whoa! Not great though *shrugs*. Then it was back to the good ole burg to piddle the rest of the day away on my computer. My brother got me BF:V for my birthday, pretty damn awesome I'll say. The rest of the parts had come in on Tuesday, that's when I almost finished my computer. Oh, here are the specs of my new system, because I don't really know really where to put them:

Thermaltake Xaser III Supertower with 420W power supply
MSI Neo FISR 875P Motherboard
Pentium 4 3.2 Northwood
1 Gig of DDR400 RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS with LiveDrive
Sony 16x40x12x40 Combo Drive
Sony 3.5 Floppy (meh)
40GB ATA100 Maxtor HD (Dual Boot XP/Slackware)
200GB ATA100 Seagate HD (Storage/Games/Etc)

The rest is the stuff from the old PC like Logitech MX Duo, Logitech Z 560 Speakers, and a 19" and 17" CRT.

I'm still going to buy an NEC DL DVD Burner and put it in an internal and still shopping for a nice TV card, but otherwise, I'm done!

Hasta