Fair to worse
Sep. 26th, 2005 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearSPent the weekend in PA with my 'extended family' once again. Saturday at the PA state fair was fun (I always have a good time at these things). I saw people from my neck of the woods there, and also spotted a coupla musclebears from a while ago from the weekend at The Woods. Eyeballed a truck that had my lustometer pegged ('06 Dodge Cummins 4wd 4-door) but came away pouting with a bad case of sticker shock ($42.8k! WTF?!?!!). At too much greasy fair food and had my heart stolen by a few puppies at the dog exhibit there. I so miss having a dog calling this it's home. In the meantime I am making do with 4 orange stray cats that called an old wrecked Dodge Shadow their home. The cats are too timid to make contact, yet they hang around the deck and yard all day and night (getting fed table scraps doesnt help matters much) Said Shadow is now downtown waiting for me to tear out everything useable and junk the rest. The thing sat around to over 5 years and all I needed to do to get rid of it was pull the mangled bodywork from around the one tire, add a battery and drive it off as if nothing was wrong. It did get some stares though, as this wreck was quietly tottering down the road with the left read side and back demolished.
Sunday me, Jeff and the entire PA family unit went towatch Jeff's nephew Cole play football. Even though this is elementary school, these kids are serious about their game. This was a critical game, as these were two undefeated teams playing together. It was rough. So rough that one kid had his arm broken, and Cole had to be sent to the hospital by ambulance after taking a huge hit to the head. Jeff rode with him in the ambo along with his mom, and I chased the ambulance to the hospital. This may not be my 'legal' extended family, but I still care about them as if they were (and they for me as well). Seeing Cole out cold on that field made my heart sink, and honestly, made me feel a bit helpless. Luckily, Cole is a tough kid, he's back home now, going to have some time off from playing until he sees his own pediatrician, and by the looks of things, will be back in the saddle in a week. Yep, only a week. That's cool.
Came home to more minor PC issues, so it's settled; construction of the next ridiculous monster PC starts this week. Specs so far:
Athlon64 Dual Core >3800
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI mobo
2 GeForce 7800-series vid cards in SLI
Koolance water cooling
Bigass HDs in RAID0, plus two bigass solo drives for 'data'
Creative X-Fi Platinum sound, plus something else for the studio stuff
other stuff for sure.
Since I cant afford the truck, of course.
Sunday me, Jeff and the entire PA family unit went towatch Jeff's nephew Cole play football. Even though this is elementary school, these kids are serious about their game. This was a critical game, as these were two undefeated teams playing together. It was rough. So rough that one kid had his arm broken, and Cole had to be sent to the hospital by ambulance after taking a huge hit to the head. Jeff rode with him in the ambo along with his mom, and I chased the ambulance to the hospital. This may not be my 'legal' extended family, but I still care about them as if they were (and they for me as well). Seeing Cole out cold on that field made my heart sink, and honestly, made me feel a bit helpless. Luckily, Cole is a tough kid, he's back home now, going to have some time off from playing until he sees his own pediatrician, and by the looks of things, will be back in the saddle in a week. Yep, only a week. That's cool.
Came home to more minor PC issues, so it's settled; construction of the next ridiculous monster PC starts this week. Specs so far:
Athlon64 Dual Core >3800
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI mobo
2 GeForce 7800-series vid cards in SLI
Koolance water cooling
Bigass HDs in RAID0, plus two bigass solo drives for 'data'
Creative X-Fi Platinum sound, plus something else for the studio stuff
other stuff for sure.
Since I cant afford the truck, of course.
