Atomictumor

Man, I’m coming up with such generic names for post titles.  Lame, lame, lame.

So, its late, I should be asleep, but I’m going to hammer this out first.

Pigpen and I headed out to Best Buy to get an IDE harddrive, because I’m a big sissy and didn’t want to figure out how to load an SATA master drive on an Asus motherboard (as things turned out, it was a shrewed move on my part), and to Office Depot to get a power supply, on account of Best Buy was ripping me off for inferiority.  And Office Depot was across the street.

As Pigpen and I went into the store to get the one powersupply I saw earlier, a guy got in before us (Pigpen, in case you didn’t know, rides everywhere on my shoulders.  He likes the whole being 9 feet tall thing, and I like the exercise, and having the boy close, and being able to move at ‘long pace’ speed).  This guy managed to grab a salesman and beeline over to the power supplies.  Uh oh.

By the time I got there, he was telling this story about how he got an emachines computer, and apparently it had a bad supply.  I was standing there beside them, kinda willing them to go for another unit.  After a few minutes of them talking and me not being noticed, and since nobody had indicated that particular one, I interrupted “Hey, sorry to interupt, but do you mind if I snag that guy right there?”, indicating the unit.

Woot for being assertive.  Then I waited 10 minutes for an empty checkout line.  Which illustrates the difference, and the reason I wanted to shop at Office Depot rather than Best Buy, because at the latter I waited 10 minutes IN the checkout line.  My eye did not start twitching, for the record.

Pigpen was hungry, despite having supper an hour earlier which he undoubtedly didn’t eat, but he was being SO good, so I bought him some chick-fil-a.  He wolfed it down, and we headed home, where he fell asleep in the van like a good boy.

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Putting MastaG’s mighty computer together proved to be difficult.  I got the processor installed, the ram in, the power supply hooked up, the MB standby light came on, all systems go, push the button, nothing happens.

I double checked the wires, all good, still nothing.  This prompted about 20 minutes of taking things off and putting things on, until we (Dad and Senior Ploof were out there helping) discovered that the friggin case had a shite wiring job.  Once we corrected the wire connected to the switch, it was rocking and rolling.  Then I had to put everything back together, which was another 10 minutes, and after fiddiling with the keyboard input, which required some jumper resetting for WHATEVER reason (last Asus I buy), it was booting to the hard drive, and installing Windows XP.  By now, it was 11, and everybody else was in bed.

I installed the OS, turned it off, boxed it up, and stuck it in the Blueberrymobile along with the tons of lumber for the kids bunk bed set, for journey tomorrow.  At 7 o’clock.

Which leads me back to now.  Why, when Pigpen is asleep in his own bed next to me, when I had a shitty nights sleep last night, when I was up until 2 the night before, why am I typing this now?

Well, I guess some questions remain unanswered, eh?

See you folks tomorrow, tho I don’t think I’ll have much time for a’postin…

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