yup, I’m still here
wow, i just had the longest post ever and I somehow manged to delete it. so i’ll recap… Went to that concert in chicago on saturday, and minus a little ticket snafu at the door, we got in and the show rocked! Great bands… Blind Guardian and Symphony X. The crowd was totally into it, and well, just goes to show they should tour the US! This one guy that I stood next to is from chicago and was whining about how he lost his job and was making fun of all the metal nerds. He’s pretty cool though, for a hesher! Actually, he’s a friend of mine from chi-town and it was great to be able to hook up with the dood. He’s good people. This was their first tour. 
The drive home was okay too. went with Todd and Mike. Got home by 2am! Gotta love those early shows.
So, sunday was a lazy day, finished up the computer upgrade. Did some laundry, watched the Packer game, made some chili… I basically traded some stuff out of the old computer to make it like faster n stuff. New motherboard, processor, heatsink/fan, ram and motherboard. A nice fresh clean install of windows on a new hard drive, and it’s all good. Windows Files and transfer settings wizard helped with IE favorites, and settings in a few applications. VERY Handy, saved a bunch of time, that’s for sure!
So, now I have… geek out time:
Shuttle Ak35GT2/R Raid motherboard (thanks ang!)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU
2, 256 MB Samsung True PC2700 DIMM DDR RAM
Thermaltake Volcano 6cu+ Heatsink Fan (this baby is LOUD!)
Matrox G450 Dual Head AGP Video card
2 19″ Samsung SyncMaster 950b Monitors
Soundblaster Live MP3+ Sound card
Altec Lansing 3 Speaker (with sub) system
NEC USB 2.0 PCI Card (3Com pc webcam lite, sandisk compactflash reader, visioneer 4400 scanner and handspring visor neo cradle attached)
Leadtek WinFast 2000 XP TV/FM Tuner / Capture card
ModemBlaster 56K
Adaptec SCSI (Zip Plus Drive attached)
Netgear 10/100 PCI NIC
Inwin Full Tower Case w/ 3 80mm Sunon case fans
450Watt Power Supply
3.5″ and 5.25″ floppy drives
Lite-On 24×10x40 CDR/CDRW drive
Lite-On 16x DVD / 48X CD-rom LTE-163 DVD Drive
Teac CD-540e CD ROM
45Gb IBM 7200 RPM Hard drive
60 Gb Seagate 5200 RPM HD
80 Gb Western Digital 7200 RPM HD
80 Gb WD 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache HD
HP Deskjet 540 (my oldest system component!)
Logitech Internet Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer with Intellieye
WinXP Pro (SP1)
WHEW! I think that’s about it. Yup, geek here, and I have a geek computer to prove it!
As for monday… back to work, busy day, and then no boston public, so yeah… had my show, and at the end of the year, the trade magazines take off a few weeks, so no charts to make, or report or anything, it’s freeeeeee form! yay, so next week, and the two after that, the “mosh pit” will be muy fun!
Work last night (tuesday, yeah, it’s wednesday and i’m posting) was good, kept busy, people eating at the bar, that’s always good for tips! Work during the day was busy too, makes it go by quickly! And tonight, i made it home in time to watch the osbournes… much better episode than last week, did some laundry and worked on sportspl.com and yup, even some pool on yahoo! And now, here I am, posting, the same post again, as for some reason I messed it up the first time!
thanks for reading!
Fantasy Hockey Update: Been doing better lately! I’m now in 3rd place, and it’s been working out a little better, making some money, points, and the like. Good stuff! 1st place seems a bit out of reach though… but the season’s only 1/2 over!