A “New” Computer (And an Idiot eBayer), And Weekend B-Days BBQ (Three B-Days, One BBQ!)
My sister’s computer build has gone from a horrible time to a full-fledged disaster (and it’s still going on). Brett Favre is really ticking me off. The pet peeve I referenced last time still beckons to be talked about. The Elton Brand-Los Angeles Clippers saga is getting interesting.
All that being said, I am a lazy bastard after all, so I will blog about one single topic: this weekend’s July B-Days BBQ.
Quick-hitters:
- Oh dear. It appears that that stupid KFC commercial where the blonde ditz declaring that “anything is possible” in this “whole new wing world” is airing again.
So apparently the brass at KFC not only thought the commercial was good enough to air it once…but they thought it was good enough to air it AGAIN???
Yikes.
- Speaking of stupid commercials, have you seen the T-Mobile one where Brett Favre makes a cameo?
Absolutely disgusting. Seriously.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,199. I can’t wait for the 2009 software to come out!
- (The following story is about *a* computer build, but not *the* build referenced at the beginning of this blog entry.)
So six months ago, I got a CPU/mobo combo (some junky ECS board + a Pentium Dual Core 915 @ 2.8GHz) from Krunk in exchange for a super-duper pricey, 23K gold-painted 6′ HDMI cable (no, not really). Three months later, with the parts still sitting in their original boxes, I acquired a 500GB SATA hard drive (for reasons which are not important *whistles*).
This past weekend, I finally got around to hooking up the parts, though I did have to buy a new motherboard; Krunk warned me that the mobo’s onboard LAN port was busted, and I feared that that was going to be the beginning of a disastrous build.
I bought a cheapy ECS board (GF7050VT-M) on eBay for ~ $35 shipped, thinking that I was going to get 25% back via M$’ Live Search cashback (and for the record, I have not yet been able to claim my cash back, but that’s a story for another day). The seller shipped my purchase almost immediately, and because he was located in SoCal, I got my package in two days.
(insert rant)
The motherboard was shipped, IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX, with nothing more than a USPS Priority Mail Tyvek envelope wrapped around it!!! Who the hell thinks that the original box that a mobo is shipped in is sufficient packaging for something as delicate as a motherboard???
(end rant)
Fortunately, the board is working fine, and my system build went without a hitch. I know have 300GB of free space to use for, um, data backup.
If only my sister’s computer build went that well…
- On Saturday, my aunt decided that she wanted to BBQ to celebrate the birthday of her sister (my other aunt on my mom’s side) and another individual who shall remain nameless.
We decided to go to Almansor Park for the festivities, and even though it was really warm that afternoon, it got chilly quickly, so much so that it became a chore to keep the charcoal hot enough to thoroughly cook all the food. We had to go through two bags of charcoal and tons of lighter fluid, but eventually everything got cooked.
Food, you say? Kebabs (New York steak, mushrooms, and bell peppers), chicken wings, ribs, potato salad, salad, celery and carrot sticks, some other stuff that I don’t remember, and of course, a birthday cake.
(In fact, when the birthday cake was ready to go and Happy Birthday was sung, I found out that a third person had a mid-July birthday: “cousin” Darren :P. Three birthdays, one BBQ…talk about saving money!)
EDIT: I forgot to mention…during the day, I was forced into several hours of touch football and my best James Loney impersonation as a first baseman. Boy am I sore today!
Until next time!