Year in Review

So I was going to do a year in review post, but so much bad shit has happen within the last couple weeks to me and those around me that I decided I didn't want to depress myself before the holidays.

Spring Cleaning in the Summer

I just got rid of an extremely old laptop - an IBM ThinkPad. I'm not sure what model it was, but it was a Pentium 75 with 24 MB of RAM running Windows 95. It had a floppy drive and an external parallel Zip drive, I guess CD drives weren't popular then. In addition to that, I ripped out my old internal Zip 250 drive from my Linux box and dumped 20 zip disks that were collecting dust. It was a total pain because Ubuntu would only recognize a zip disk at boot time and then I couldn't eject a disk until it was in restart mode. Of course when I attached the drive to my old windows box, it worked fine. Its kind of funny when an OS released in 2001 worked better than one released in 2006.

The linux box is next to go, its an Athlon 1.2 GHz system with 768 MB of RAM. Its a full tower with a pretty weak graphics card and a tiny hard drive. I'm going to fully wipe the hard drive and reinstall the latest version of ubuntu since I don't have copies of XP laying around. If anyone wants it let me know otherwise its going to a local computer store. The windows box will be after that, but I have to clean it up and get rid of its graphics card, it draws more power than its power supply can handle. Which causes it to crash when there is heavy graphics work like 3d games.

Update: I also have an old Palm Tungsten E if anyone wants one.

Big Stack

So I was playing a little bit of Texas hold'em yesterday and I was doing ok until the friend that rode with me got a little sick. Knowing that time was against me I decided it was time to use my hurry-up offense which is coincided with me getting a bunch of good hands. I was on a roll and quickly became the big stack at the table and then everyone decided to cash out. Another hour and I would of had everybody's cash. At least I still made money.

Rough Month

Thank goodness June is almost over. Its been been an emotional roller coaster caused by the actions of friends and family. Besides that I've had numerous and expensive car issues. I want a new car, but I'm holding back beause I really need to move first before I take on any more debt. Which of course brings up my long commute to work (140 miles round trip). It really hasn't bothered me until this month. That two plus hours everyday that I could be doing something else plus I'm in an awkward position in my social life too. I can't do too much down in Richmond cause I need to get home so I can leave early to get back down there. But there is only so much to do in Fredericksburg on the weekends. And I've already blown off two parties down in Richmond cause I don't want to drive down there on the weekend. Plus I've been extremely unlucky this month. Earlier this month I locked myself out of my house, I could of drove to my parents (I had my car keys) to get my spare, but I was in a hurry so I just kicked the door to the garage in (I have a little bit of an anger issue). So now I need to fix that.

But it hasn't been all bad. I finally had some time to work on my website and I have a little bit of freelance work coming my way. At my company's quarterly meeting pretty much every project shown I had a hand in. Getting credit is always a nice feeling; especially since I don't brag about my work enough. And I'm sure some other good things happen, but I can't think of anything else at the moment.

P.S. Yes I have notice that a lot of my posts have been complaining about driving and working late. Work isn't bad its just that the drive compounds any late nights at work.