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Car maintenance and I are strange bed fellows. I really don’t believe in regular maintenance since everytome I go to the garage, they find things that are wrong. In my mind, if I don’t know it’s broke, then my car is running at 100%.

So today I take my car in for an oil change since I am leaving for a week long business trip to New Yorm next week. I get the oil changed, and then on the way home, the alternator decides to take a crap. I know this isn’t true, but in my mind, everything was fine with my car before I got my oil changed. Now instead of just being out $30 for an oil change, I get to pay another $250 for an alternator.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: machines and I DO NOT get along.

I turned on my PC for the first time in almost 2 months this evening. I was greeted with a nice black screen telling me my installation of Windows XP, which worked just fine for over a year prior to me shutting off my tower, was corrupted. Needless to say, I was quite frustrated and pissed off. After about 20 minutes of trying to get the system to work, I reached my breaking point and had somewhat of a hissy fit about how much Windows sucks. It’s exactly because of shit like this that I originally switched over to using a Mac full time 20 months ago. I don’t have enough money to go out tomorrow and buy a Mac Pro (I wish!), so I am going to make my own.

Tomorrow night, I am going to pull the boot drive from my PC and replace it with a blank drive. I am then going to make the attempt to install OS X Leopard on my PC. I tried this before a few years ago and it didn’t quite work out, but I am at my wit’s end with Windows. In fact, if this works like I think it’s going to, I think I might install OS X on my laptop as well. Granted, either way my tower and my laptop will be dual boot systems. There are certain things I do that sadly, I need a Windows environment for. But since I cannot afford to replace all my remaining PCs with Macs, I’ll just have to turn my remaining PCs into Macs. It’s shit like this with Windows that makes me turn down PC repair jobs when I get offers.

Paging Dr. Hackinstein…

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Last night at work I was having an admittedly bad day. I just did not want to be there and was very disgruntled. I met my wife for dinner and vented to her about my frustration. My frustration came from the fact that with my schedule I seem to be doing nothing but close lately. My wife, always trying to be the bright star in my gloomy night, tried to cheer me up. And as usual, she did manage to cheer me up. I went back to work not thinking about how much I did not want to be there, but what I would do when I got home.

As I walked around my departments, I let my mind wander. I used to do this years ago when I was working in hardware, and used to come up with some great ideas this way. Anywho, letting my mind wander, a random thought came into my mind.

“I miss being a tech-head”

My tech-head days have long been behind me ever since we closed i/o Computers. I took a beloved hobby of mine that I really enjoyed, tried to turn it into a profession, and in doing so, totally soured my hobby forever. I promised myself right then and there that I would not do that again. Only one question presented itself now.

“How?”

I wasn’t sure. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to do something that would make money. If I did something to try and make money, there’s that pressure to make said money. I was looking for another tech hobby. Again, I came up with nothing. That is, until my buddy Jerry texted me around midnight tonight. He knew nothing of what I had been thinking about. In fact, only 2 people knew what I was thinking about and that would be my wife and JP. However, not knowing what I had been thinking about for the last 24 hours, Jerry seemed to not only find a solution, but sum it all up very simple. Here is his text message in its entirety.

“Growing Up Geek?”

Prefect! It’s a property we created and abandoned. It’s something I loved doing, and something that was not revenue driven. To me, this fit the bill. So, we texted back and forth like all good geeks do for about 20 minutes and tried to come up with something resembling a plan. Right now we have come up with this: we want to do it, we just need to figure out a time good for all of us. We said we might try and record this weekend, but again, we may or may not. This was the main reason we stopped recording back in February. We just couldn’t come up with a mutual time & date to get everyone on Skype at the same time.

When I asked Jerry what made him ask about Growing Up Geek, he said he just listed to the last episode we recorded, and really missed it. In fact, I am listening to that very episode on my iPod as I type this, and I am laughing my ass off. I so want to start doing GrUG again. And we will, one way or another, in the words of the venerable Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “Make It So”.

This is a post about a would-be post. I did have every intention about making a nice, long post tonight about a few things that are on my mind. Then I put in the 3rd season box set of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Yeah, should have written that post before Star Trek.

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