Monday, January 30, 2006
Hopefully everyone had a great weekend. Mine wasn't too bad. I'll give you the brief overview.
Saturday:
Didn't do much, it was just one of those lazy days. I ate lunch with some friends and went to Fry's. I didn't buy anything though. I've been doing pretty good about not buying a lot of extra stuff. So good in fact that I still have $150 in Best Buy gift cards from December. That has to be a new record or something for me. I did end up going to Fry's at about 8:30pm though...my computer has been having problems. It failed a couple of benchmarks miserably, when it should have done a lot better. I started digging around and tried to eliminate everything and eventually I decided that it had to be a failing HSF (Heat Sink Fan) for my CPU. I went to buy a new one, unfortunately my processor is "old" (Oct 04) and they don't make a lot of HSF's for it. They luckily had one model left and it was pretty cheap. I came home and put it on. It is an ultra-quiet model so it definitely makes Amanda happy. She always complained about how loud my old one is, and truthfully she was right. My computer is darn near silent now. Not only is it quieter, but it is also running a lot cooler. The one bad thing that I noticed when I swapped off the HSF was that I believe my CPU overheated and that it has probably suffered some damage which is why it was failing some of the tests. Uggghhh, I guess that I will have to live with it since it's not cost effective to buy my CPU anymore since they are more expensive than they are worth since they are no longer made. I think that I'll just keep my eye open on a good deal that pops up and jump on it. After I went to Fry's I went on a Bible hunt at some of the bookstores but came up empty handed.
Nothing else really Saturday.
Sunday was pretty uneventful. In the evening we had a going away party for one of the pharmacists that Amanda works with. The little shindig was at Bonefish Grill. I was excited since I have wanted to eat there but Amanda never wanted to. Dinner was great! They had a great drink selection and good prices for those. I had a lemon drop and it was strong! Thankfully it was Kettle One vodka so it was smooth, but man! I had the waitress bring me a couple lemon wedges and that helped the drink.
It was so funny, the waitress came up and was like "Would you like to have an appetizer? Bang Bang Shrimp, Calamari, Crab Cakes, or Coconut Crusted Shrimp?" Tony, the guy that was leaving goes "Yeah, sounds good". Waitress replies "Which one?". Tony answers "All of them.". It was great!
The appetizers were good, the salad good, and my Ahi Tuna cooked rare was awesome! The only bad part was that Amanda and I were feeling festive so we decided to split a Key Lime Pie. About half the way through the pie Amanda said "Is there nuts in that?". She then went into nearly full fledged anaphylaxis shock. We paid the bill and jetted to a drug store as fast as we could. I flew to the CVS and ran inside with Amanda in tow to get some Benadryl. Amanda drank it in the store and then we headed to the ER just in case. We sat in the ER parking long for about 15 minutes to make sure that the Benedryl was working. I wanted to go into the ER so she could get a shot of Epinephrine, but she didn't want to.
She promises me that she'll get one with in the next two weeks.
That was way too scary for my liking...
Today work sucked...major problems with one of our databases. Hopefully it's fixed tomorrow.
Ok, time to do some reading.
Saturday:
Didn't do much, it was just one of those lazy days. I ate lunch with some friends and went to Fry's. I didn't buy anything though. I've been doing pretty good about not buying a lot of extra stuff. So good in fact that I still have $150 in Best Buy gift cards from December. That has to be a new record or something for me. I did end up going to Fry's at about 8:30pm though...my computer has been having problems. It failed a couple of benchmarks miserably, when it should have done a lot better. I started digging around and tried to eliminate everything and eventually I decided that it had to be a failing HSF (Heat Sink Fan) for my CPU. I went to buy a new one, unfortunately my processor is "old" (Oct 04) and they don't make a lot of HSF's for it. They luckily had one model left and it was pretty cheap. I came home and put it on. It is an ultra-quiet model so it definitely makes Amanda happy. She always complained about how loud my old one is, and truthfully she was right. My computer is darn near silent now. Not only is it quieter, but it is also running a lot cooler. The one bad thing that I noticed when I swapped off the HSF was that I believe my CPU overheated and that it has probably suffered some damage which is why it was failing some of the tests. Uggghhh, I guess that I will have to live with it since it's not cost effective to buy my CPU anymore since they are more expensive than they are worth since they are no longer made. I think that I'll just keep my eye open on a good deal that pops up and jump on it. After I went to Fry's I went on a Bible hunt at some of the bookstores but came up empty handed.
Nothing else really Saturday.
Sunday was pretty uneventful. In the evening we had a going away party for one of the pharmacists that Amanda works with. The little shindig was at Bonefish Grill. I was excited since I have wanted to eat there but Amanda never wanted to. Dinner was great! They had a great drink selection and good prices for those. I had a lemon drop and it was strong! Thankfully it was Kettle One vodka so it was smooth, but man! I had the waitress bring me a couple lemon wedges and that helped the drink.
It was so funny, the waitress came up and was like "Would you like to have an appetizer? Bang Bang Shrimp, Calamari, Crab Cakes, or Coconut Crusted Shrimp?" Tony, the guy that was leaving goes "Yeah, sounds good". Waitress replies "Which one?". Tony answers "All of them.". It was great!
The appetizers were good, the salad good, and my Ahi Tuna cooked rare was awesome! The only bad part was that Amanda and I were feeling festive so we decided to split a Key Lime Pie. About half the way through the pie Amanda said "Is there nuts in that?". She then went into nearly full fledged anaphylaxis shock. We paid the bill and jetted to a drug store as fast as we could. I flew to the CVS and ran inside with Amanda in tow to get some Benadryl. Amanda drank it in the store and then we headed to the ER just in case. We sat in the ER parking long for about 15 minutes to make sure that the Benedryl was working. I wanted to go into the ER so she could get a shot of Epinephrine, but she didn't want to.
She promises me that she'll get one with in the next two weeks.
That was way too scary for my liking...
Today work sucked...major problems with one of our databases. Hopefully it's fixed tomorrow.
Ok, time to do some reading.
