| Feb. 8th, 2006 @ 03:47 pm Lemme see, this about sums it up. |
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Current Mood:  apathetic
Current Music: Sounds of the G5 and my fan.
Lets see here. Time for an update. WHeee. So, last night I went out to pick up my free macs from some dude in Hillsboro. He had a bunch of mac stuff that he wanted to get rid of. Soooo, I stopped by and picked up a pretty awesome score. I got the following:
Macintosh SE (floppy, 1Mb of RAM, 7 Mb hdd, heyboard, mouse) works great, games and all.
Macintosh Plus (floppy, and that's it, well came with KB and mouse too, untested at this point)
2 printers
Miscellaneous harddrives and parts and some extra software too.
Good stuff. I brought it into work today, lets see em give me shit about a computer that is over 10 years old.
Went home on my lunch today and picked up the volvo as well as Ben's mail. Figured it was about time to drive this thing. No heat makes it a pain in the ass, but it was a cool, clear day today, so no worries. Might take a look at it this weekend. Ken suggested when I called him that I put some penetrating oil on the fan shafts where they go into the motor to see if it could be freed. Not sure I wanna try that, fear of a fire foremost in my mind. It drove ok. The smell of gas is almost completely gone, being replaced by that old volvo smell. I'd know it anywhere. Drove ok, all the way out to get Ben's mail and back. I got to the Nike parking lot and pulled in and the car sputtered and died. I checked the fuel, still good, then hit the key again, it turned over fine, but would not start. I opened the hood and found a loose connection near the battery crimped it better with my leatherman, and plugged it in and it was good to go. Lets hope that is the end of that problem. Costing into the Nike parking lot is not fun in any way. Got some stuff (mail), details in an email later on.
Bronco has been doing very well. I fixed most of the wandering steering problem, so that's a good thing. Drove to James' first Boy Scouts meeting this past monday. Took CHristine and her two kids because they were having more car trouble (I say more because 2 weekends ago, they had their anniversary and their car died on them downtown and I had to tow them all the way back to Aloha. That was fun). Anyway, 5 people in the rig is more than I have had before, but three kids fit well into the back. Of course we were also listening to my freshly installed stereo. I tell you what, tunes are a good thing, I didn't think I would miss them, but I did.
Work is still work. These people expect miracles, but continually give us crap raises no matter what we do or how well we do it. I do at times hate this company. Oh well, its work. And I do like 3 weeks of vacation a year. I am on MH2 and mostly not the IMAC coordinator anymore.
James is doing well. He is finding some fire in himself, he kicked someone the other day because they were accusing him of stealing something. Got caught at it too. Oh well. Oh and while he was at a friends house spending the night, they were caught searching for "Hooters". This turned out to be James' idea, but he swears he was looking for the menu. Uh huh. I don't believe that at all. He is still doing ok in school. Baseball is starting soon. I plan on practicing with him this weekend at my parents house, or maybe at the school if its raining. I can't wait, its always been fun to do. Reedville is a good orginization. He's now a Boy Scout. He will cross over when one of our scout dad's returns from Iraq. But while waiting he and the other boys from our group (from Tigers all the way up) are all there and can get started with the merit badges and other stuff. They do a bunch of camping and hiking and family stuff and skiing too. Quite the group. Man they are busy. In a few weeks they will be having a automotive campout. THey will stay at the scout leaders house in his barn and learn many things about cars. Maintenance mostly, oil, diffs, transfer case, plugs wires, tune-up, etc.
Jared. My favorite basket case. Double ear infrections, amoxicillin (makes him crazy I swear). He still runs to me yelling daddy daddy daddy at day care. I like that. He also still likes to sit in my lap while I play WoW and watch "bad guys" as he calls it. He's doing really well with the potty training thing. I can't wait for that to be done. That boy has no problem getting in the middle of things and saying what he thinks about what you are doing. I was yelling at James for not doing his homework and trying to be sneaky and make it so I wouldn't find out (this isn't the first time on that one) and Jared walks up and started asking me what James did and then telling me not to yell at him. Kind of takes me aback when he does. No fear I guess. Strange kids. They must get it from their mother.
Lets see. Me. Hmmm. Uh, still playing WoW. I am still planning for the boomershoot. I have to figure out how and what I am going to fit into the Tahoe. I think I will move the tire to the roof and strap it down and then I should have plenty of room inside to put what I want to in there. The biggest I worry about is the awning or canopyor whatever you call it. Its the largest and heaviest thing I have to take. Of course that and the rifles and all the other crap I have to take with me. Well, I don't HAVE to technically, but it sure is nice to have when its sunny out for shade or moreover for when it rains if it does. ANyway, that's about it. Guess I better get back to work. |
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