Jan ’08 25
- On the road to Branson. Just leaving Sonic after having breakfast. #
- At the rest stop just west of Rolla. Very cold and windy. Can’t wait for the weekend warm-up to get here. #
- Best… Hotel… Room… Ever! Upgraded to condo at the Hilton Promenade. Huge, comfy, home away from home. #
- Fastest restaurant ever. We ordered no more than a few minutes ago and our food is already here. Looks yummy. #
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Jan ’08 23
- Waiting for the train to head down to the auto show. Heaters on the platform… Great idea. #
- Car show was disappointing. The Dodge Journey was supposed to be there, but apparently it didn’t make it.
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- Walked over to Lumiere Place, the new casino, for dinner. Trying the Burger Bar. #
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Jan ’08 22
- Just registered for TechEd 2008, June 10-13 in Orlando. #
- Day old movie theater popcorn… Nearly as good as fresh movie theater popcorn. #
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Jan ’08 22
K’s new iMac arrived today. We would have had it yesterday, but I had it delivered to the office and we were closed for the Martin Luther King holiday. Still pretty amazing that the system went from Shanghai to St. Louis in four days. We’re lucky if we can get first class mail from here to Moline in four days!
We’re in the middle of copying her settings and files from the old iMac to the new one. Impressive to compare the two iMacs. The new one is so much thinner, and the larger 24 inch display doesn’t hurt either. Have several days of getting things tweaked and moved around, but it will be well worth it. Here’s a photo of the new toy.
Of course, if we’re upgrading the Mac then I need to see about upgrading my system. I have a Dell XPS 400 I bought almost three years ago. This was the first name brand name PC I’d bought in years, going back to my Gateway 2000 486DX-33 I bought in the late 1980s (complete with VESA local bus graphics… remember those days?). It has been a great box, but I’m getting spoiled at work with Core 2 Duo systems, so it is time to break en the piggy bank and build a new system.
Tangent alert! Remember when Computer Shopper was a 600+ page tome, the definitive guide to anything and everything having to do with PCs? I miss those days. Sure we have all this info on the we, complete with scores of hands on reviews to help identify what works and what doesn’t. But with Computer Shopper, in an afternoon you could be completely cat up with what was out there. Now with the web, you start looking for a case, then for a video card, and then you’re watching a video, and before you know it, 8 hours have gone by and you’ve forgotten what it was you were looking for in the first place!
Anyway, here’s what I’m going with in my new box:
I’ll reuse my hard drives, TV card, DVD burner, and monitor. Christmas in January! Now if retailers would just start getting the E8400 in inventory….
Jan ’08 21
- The iMac is now in Earth City at FedEx. Only a few more miles to go. #
- Enjoying day off by going to see There Will be Blood. #
- There Will be Blood… Very powerful film. Daniel Day Lewis was amazing. #
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