Monthly Wrap-up
Its been a busy last couple of weeks and I really haven't had much in the way of time to spend on the blog. I will try to fill ya in on details.
Mayo...May-ay-ay-ooooo....
There was not much drink 'o rum in this month. We began having warmer weather which kick the lawn into somewhat of an overdrive. Kris decided to give Jacob the opportunity to do the lawn mowing to make a little cash. Originally, Jake was going to go door-to-door and mow lawns for cash. The idea was that it would keep him out of the house, busy, and away from his sister.
As usual, Jacob decided that he shouldn't have to do anything, but that he should still be paid for nothing at all. He weaseled out of mowing the lawn, leaving it a mess for almost a month. When his mom finally had enough and told him to mow with our antiquated (Vintage 1970) lawnmower, he immediately claimed it was out of gas and he couldn't do anything. But, he managed to mow one line across the backyard to make it look truly pathetic.
Nice.
Sunday, Jake and I went out to finish up the yard. I mowed and raked, and he through a hissy fit and complained the whole time about how horrible it was that he was being made to do yard work. Little bastard.
Airsoft-o-rama
I went to the Memorial Day Airsoft game. It was pretty nasty out with bugs, sweaty temperatures, and more bugs. Later that evening we were treated to a hellacious storm complete with hail, high winds, and more hail. It was lovely.
I am down to one AEG - G36k, two GBBs - WE 1911 3.8 and a KSC USP .45 (in pieces), and yada yada. I am awaiting Jason's good graces on reassembling the KSC. If its finished, I may order two additional magazines for it. The gun appears to be in good order - at least all of the parts were there. May big fingers made reassembly almost impossible. Plus, after a few hours, I just didn't want to dink around with it and risk losing parts.
I don't know if I want to attend the Freefall game this summer. I do have a few items to buy if I am, but I just don't overly feel like airsofting this summer. Maybe its burn out or just not really being interested these days. It happens.
Computer work on the morrow....
I bought a copy of Dungeon Siege off Amazon for a measly $10. The game works beautifully on the thinkpad and ever more so on the desktop. But competing with Kris for time on the computer can be rough. Its easier just to plunk down witht he Thinkpad and play int he kitchen away from TV and kid noise.
I ran across some random parts I want to toss into the computer. These will be the final upgrades until I (1) build a new desktop or (2) buy a new laptop. Right now, I'm somewhat leery of building another desktop computer.
3.2 Gig P4 - I found this on eBay for $35 shipped. This would completely max out the specs for this board. It would also give me that much mroe "uuumph" over the current 2.6 gig proc. i could then transition the other procs down - Jake would get the 2.6gig, and Annie's computer would get the 2.4, replacing the sluggish celeron she has now.
120Gig HDD - I found a SATA for $45 shipped, again on eBay. This would replace my now failing 20gig drive. Yeah, I know the 500GB was supposed to do that, but its getting much better use as network storage. I also have a second 500GB identical thats sitting int he case, disconnected. It is a secondary backup with a complete backup of my OS. Yeah, very nice. Add that to my external 160 gB drive and we have just shy of 1.5 TB in storage.
Another Gig of RAM - My system is currently running 1.5GB of RAM. I can max it out at 2GB. I'm not all that happy with this board. 2GB of RAM seems like almost nothing. I am running XP Pro, so even 1 gig of RAM is nice, but 2 Gigs is nicer.
The nice thing about running a DDR2 machine is that you can max RAM for less than half of what you would spend on a DDR machine. Another option would be for me to buy a newer 478 socket DDR2 board. It would give me options such as PCI-e and a max of 3GB of RAM, but I wouldn't be able to put a dual core proc in there. In actuality, I am awaiting the Quad Core's drop in price. Once I can get one for less than $150, I am going to build a brand new machine.
Otherwise, I am still looking at simply buying another laptop, such as a Compaq or HP with ATI or nvidia GFX. As long as the card is 128 - 256MB, I would be interested. And the system would need at least 3GB or RAM.
if I had a good $2000 at my disposal, i would likely ditch all of the desktops and everyone would get a laptop. That would drastically reduce problems in the network and logistics side of running it. But I'm not a business and don't have that kind of money floating around. :D
Mayo...May-ay-ay-ooooo....
There was not much drink 'o rum in this month. We began having warmer weather which kick the lawn into somewhat of an overdrive. Kris decided to give Jacob the opportunity to do the lawn mowing to make a little cash. Originally, Jake was going to go door-to-door and mow lawns for cash. The idea was that it would keep him out of the house, busy, and away from his sister.
As usual, Jacob decided that he shouldn't have to do anything, but that he should still be paid for nothing at all. He weaseled out of mowing the lawn, leaving it a mess for almost a month. When his mom finally had enough and told him to mow with our antiquated (Vintage 1970) lawnmower, he immediately claimed it was out of gas and he couldn't do anything. But, he managed to mow one line across the backyard to make it look truly pathetic.
Nice.
Sunday, Jake and I went out to finish up the yard. I mowed and raked, and he through a hissy fit and complained the whole time about how horrible it was that he was being made to do yard work. Little bastard.
Airsoft-o-rama
I went to the Memorial Day Airsoft game. It was pretty nasty out with bugs, sweaty temperatures, and more bugs. Later that evening we were treated to a hellacious storm complete with hail, high winds, and more hail. It was lovely.
I am down to one AEG - G36k, two GBBs - WE 1911 3.8 and a KSC USP .45 (in pieces), and yada yada. I am awaiting Jason's good graces on reassembling the KSC. If its finished, I may order two additional magazines for it. The gun appears to be in good order - at least all of the parts were there. May big fingers made reassembly almost impossible. Plus, after a few hours, I just didn't want to dink around with it and risk losing parts.
I don't know if I want to attend the Freefall game this summer. I do have a few items to buy if I am, but I just don't overly feel like airsofting this summer. Maybe its burn out or just not really being interested these days. It happens.
Computer work on the morrow....
I bought a copy of Dungeon Siege off Amazon for a measly $10. The game works beautifully on the thinkpad and ever more so on the desktop. But competing with Kris for time on the computer can be rough. Its easier just to plunk down witht he Thinkpad and play int he kitchen away from TV and kid noise.
I ran across some random parts I want to toss into the computer. These will be the final upgrades until I (1) build a new desktop or (2) buy a new laptop. Right now, I'm somewhat leery of building another desktop computer.
3.2 Gig P4 - I found this on eBay for $35 shipped. This would completely max out the specs for this board. It would also give me that much mroe "uuumph" over the current 2.6 gig proc. i could then transition the other procs down - Jake would get the 2.6gig, and Annie's computer would get the 2.4, replacing the sluggish celeron she has now.
120Gig HDD - I found a SATA for $45 shipped, again on eBay. This would replace my now failing 20gig drive. Yeah, I know the 500GB was supposed to do that, but its getting much better use as network storage. I also have a second 500GB identical thats sitting int he case, disconnected. It is a secondary backup with a complete backup of my OS. Yeah, very nice. Add that to my external 160 gB drive and we have just shy of 1.5 TB in storage.
Another Gig of RAM - My system is currently running 1.5GB of RAM. I can max it out at 2GB. I'm not all that happy with this board. 2GB of RAM seems like almost nothing. I am running XP Pro, so even 1 gig of RAM is nice, but 2 Gigs is nicer.
The nice thing about running a DDR2 machine is that you can max RAM for less than half of what you would spend on a DDR machine. Another option would be for me to buy a newer 478 socket DDR2 board. It would give me options such as PCI-e and a max of 3GB of RAM, but I wouldn't be able to put a dual core proc in there. In actuality, I am awaiting the Quad Core's drop in price. Once I can get one for less than $150, I am going to build a brand new machine.
Otherwise, I am still looking at simply buying another laptop, such as a Compaq or HP with ATI or nvidia GFX. As long as the card is 128 - 256MB, I would be interested. And the system would need at least 3GB or RAM.
if I had a good $2000 at my disposal, i would likely ditch all of the desktops and everyone would get a laptop. That would drastically reduce problems in the network and logistics side of running it. But I'm not a business and don't have that kind of money floating around. :D
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