The story continues…

March 31st, 2003 | by Sean |

I’m back in lovely San Luis Obispo. I drove back last night and after much swearing and aggravation (otherwise known as the 80 corridor between Sacramento and the Bay Area), I have arrived safely. So, three cheers to that.

My Trogdor tee-shirt came in, complete with a bucket of coasters and quick-remove tattoos.

Mom gave me her spare 45G drive over break. I figured there was something wrong - but all the SMART tests are checking out and the disk formatted OK. I had to remove the floppy drive (good riddance) to accomodate it in the last remaining 3.5″ bay.

I thought I had a lot of storage, but this bozo just got some new crappy hard drives with huge … caches.

I cleaned the shower today. Not to undercut David, who did a fine job, but the management (!= David) thinks that the black nasty goop that develops on the shower surface sticks to the soap scum on the bottom (unbeknownst to us - about the soap scum presence). Scrubbing bubbles all the way for soap scum removal.

The Kings lost rather depressingly last night in Detroit. They held a nice 21 point cushion throughout the game, but took a collective dump in the 4th quarter and let it slip away. It’s not going to affect the Kings’ overall standings this year or playoff seed (which … is roughly the same thing), but was depressing.

DirecTV is beautiful. Dad had satellite installed and finally got rid of the cable company. Why must they raise rates each time the Sacramento cable market changes hands? We are now quite happily internetted with DSL and televisioned with DirecTV. The builtin TiVo in the DirecTV receiver is highly awesome too. And all this comes at a cost savings of ~$20/mo.

My first-choice gas station was absolutely jam-packed or something today. Like a night-club in a city with an actual night-life. I had to go to backup station - which was not only 4c/gal cheaper, but empty. I haven’t filled gas at a non-first-choice station in about 3 years.

The bill for the last blurb was exactly $30.00 for a full fill.

Right now, I’m going to ask Billy Joe-t if he wants to go play racquetball tomorrow morning at about 8. His response will follow right here: “uhh, tomorrow morning?! I could conceivably go. Why?” He seems to think it (he) will “suck balls” because he’s “out of shape.” I can totally understand.

I need to buy a bike. Should I spend $200?

  1. 3 Responses to “The story continues…”

  2. By One and Only on Apr 1, 2003 | Reply

    Spend what you need to to be perfectally comfortable with your bike, go to the bike store (there’a one on Monteray) and talk to the guys, try them out and think about it.

  3. By Ryan on Apr 1, 2003 | Reply

    You know I’ve got big…caches ;). Just for the record, to ensure the maximum amount of jealousy possible, in the very near future, my main storage machine will have a root hard drive of 40 gigs (ATA 133, of course), backed by /three/ 120 GB ATA 133 drives, with a beautimous 8 megs of cache :-D.

    Like how I used your word Sean? :-P

  4. By Goat on Apr 1, 2003 | Reply

    Yeah Ryan… but they’re Western Digital =)

    A bike won’t be the worst $200 spent, not by far. Especially since $200 usually nets a pretty nice bike. w00t!

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