Round and round we go

The good

Well lets see, whats new. The holidays have come and gone of course. For the most part I had an enjoyable time. Working for a university does have its perks this time of year.  I got some neat stuff this year: a 22 inch 1080p monitor to sit next to my smaller 20 inch monitor.  I just love multiple monitor setups. It really makes me wonder how I ever lived with just one screen.  To go with that Santa got me a blu-ray drive for my computer.  I haven’t had the chance to test it out yet, but how could it possibly be anything less that totally friggin awesome?  I got the 310 lb upgrade for my bowflex, which means I am getting stronger if nothing else.  It is kind of a decieving name though really cause its only an extra 100 lbs, but it increases the total to 310. Whatev. I have had the bowflex less than a year now, but I can already tell an improvement.  Hmm what else…I got some pants. Everyone needs pants.  I also got a box of gatorade, which I think is pretty cool.

The Ugly

Over the holidays the primary hard drive on my computer went out.  I knew it was going to happen, as I had been experiencing data corruption issues for a while now.  I was hoping to get a few more months out of it though (I’m cheap what can I say).  Because I new the end was so near I was able to get a lot of data off the drive before it went boom.  I may have lost some pictures though.  None taken by me, just images I collect to use as backgrounds on these high resolution monitors (normal backgrounds just don’t do them justice).  I picked up a fairly inexpensive enterprise class drive that should be a little more stable than the run-of-the-mill drive I had before.  So far it is running very smoothly, but only time will tell what happens from here.

Work on the bathroom project continues. The big issue or snag or whataver is that I don’t really have time to work on it all that much.  I am at work during the day throughout the week, and then 3 nights a week I do my bowflex (90 minutes).  Also, since the bathroom is accessible only through my parents bedroom, I can’t work on it when everyone is asleep.  Likewise, my parents would never shower in the other bathroom, so at the end of any work, I need to make sure that everything is already useable for them to take their showers and whatnot.  It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but when you have people trying to use what you are just installing it makes it a little trying.