Wagon Dead?

It was last Sunday, I didn't wake up that morning (late) looking for car problems...but they found me. As I dragged myself out to the wagon and got it and put the key in and turned the key....it cranked....and nothing! My dad came over and looked at it, he thought it might be the coil, so we went to advance auto (autozone didn't have it) and picked one up and came back and installed and no! Reading in the Computer Codes chilton book there is a way to get a code for what is wrong with it...we haven't tried that yet. Could it be that my poor station wagon has keeled over? kicked the bucket? gone on to the great junkyard in the sky!?!?! Our time together was so brief, I need more time to get to know it, it had so much to live for! So many plans for life, and now it might all come apart. It's only sixteen years old! That's like...::computes the figures:: sixteen human years!!!

Darts + Pool

The time is a quarter til 9:00, I say goodbyes to the people in the instant messaging world, close up shop and drive to work to try and get some computers done before monday. Saturday morning I leave with my family for Rockingham, NC. My cousin and her family are moving down for New York and we are going to meet them there (and my aunt and uncle who are helping them move). As I pull into the driveway I say my boss's brother-in-law's car in the yard. Going in they are standing around the pool table talking. They ask me if I want to play a game of darts, I accept, (we call "brother-in-law" fred here out) Fred makes me a Irish Whiskey and Coke drink and we play a few games of darts. I was second the first time, third place the second game. I'm getting better, I only hit the wall twice this time. and *most* of my shots hit the board. As the second game was coming to a close my boss's kids came in. They wanted to play pool, my boss and fred didn't. So I played with them the rest of the night (I walked them across the yard to their house at 1:00AM) It was really fun, his kids are really cool ( they are like end of middle school/high school age).

Random Happenings

Yesterday I was flying down a H14 in Greer and this Cadillac with old people in it pulled out across one lane into mine where they preceded to do the speed limit…or something along those lines, I had to come out into the lane width median and go around them (that or slow down a lot, not nearly as dramatic)

That was on the way to my parent’s house, there my mom, dad, and neighbor and I went to the Corn Festival (they decided to hold it in Greer this year) It was okay…the girl at the homemade ice cream trailer was really cute (good ice cream too!) Not much to really say, the show band that was there rather sucked…REPITITION SUCKS!!!

Diablo II Battlechest also came in yesterday (mom bought it for me so I’d stop playing it on my brother’s computer) So that took up a bit of the night.

I went out to CompUSA this morning after breakfast to get an Apple Keyboard (that’s the name, I looked under it and checked…it’s also a female) The new white ones that are really nice to type on, them… So on the way, in the Beetle, a line of us cars get stuck behind this really slow dump truck, I’m about the fourth one back. The minute we had a nice median/turn lane, I passed the whole lot of them….from my legs to my hair I had this tingly nervous feeling after that…it was cool! Back at CompUSA though, I also tried out the ibook’s keyboard, and decided that if it came to it, the keyboard was at least useable.

Back at home, about 1:30, my mom IM’s me and tells me to pick up Daniel (aforementioned brother) and bring him to work and she’ll meet me at the Salvation Army around 2:00. So after dropping him off I go out to the Salvation Army and look around, mom wasn’t there yet. Managed to knock over a keyboard or two from the wagon of them (stupid stockers!) Of course there were no decently priced computer parts of interest there, most of the thrift shops around here are starting to suck about that. At one point a really cute girl in black clothes started rummaging through the computer parts (!!!!!!!!) So I made my way back over there, try to act like I was looking at the computers (which I failed at having seen most of these computers and parts for months now because no one wants to spend $149.95 on a 486) Here I managed to knock over another keyboard, making a nice loud noise…she walked to the other side of the store…and soon after left…(☹)

Oh, and my boss went on a week vacation to Indiana, so I’m like acting CEO and crap…which basically means that that lovely 7:00AM phone call of “Good Morning! Guess what!?! My computer won’t boot, and right before it did, outlook crashed and wouldn’t open and smoke started pouring out from the box..is that bad? Anyway I need it working by 9:00AM, KTHX bye!” o.O

Up and Running Update

Fadumpt (er, the person fadumpt, sites still down) is officially up and running again. I had some issues with some ram (yeah, I found out it was the ram much later…) but now I’m up and going again complete with OS X Tiger (w00t). So right now I’m still falling in love with OS X all over again.

Honorable mentions for this update (as I remember them) include a new window a/c unit (the old one died) that doesn’t cool (hello home depot)

I’ve also entered further into geekdom recently with the taking apart of a laptop display case to change a cracked screen, and yesterday taking apart an HP (almost completely) to try and find why the backlight was sporadic and it worked great after I put it back together (worked great equals it actually worked and the backlight issue seems cured (wire creep?))

I went to see Herbie: Fully Loaded this week, it was good enough (beware I suck at reviews) I didn’t find myself hating lohan for ruining a fine line of Herbie Classics…so it was a good movie. What more do you want out of me! Go read a real review, you didn’t come here for the review anyway!!!

The day after going to see that movie, my mom calls me at work and tells me that my brother’s friend just IM’d her saying that a bunch of daniel’s friend were going to the movies and I needed to take him and his friend across the street. The movie was to be War of the Worlds. So cutting to the chase, we get there rather late, and Daniel’s friend sticks us in the front row, granted the place was packed…but still!! So we are sitting there staring up at the screen, and stuff blowing up right in front of us…an interesting experience…Later we found the rest of his friends and they said they could hear Billy (the one that came with me) shouting at the screen over the explosions. This area also includes one of the 2 hugs I received this week :-D the other was the day before at wal-mart from a hot girl I knew in high school.

I’m gonna stop here, it’s 2:30 in the morning, it’s hot (even with that frikken a/c running!!) and I need sleep, night people!