Update

This is just how it will work.
- James

Last week Rocked?

Well, mainly just worked last week. Did go to the Pat Benatar concert sat night at Billy Bob's Texas. Got to see bull riding, drink some beer, and eat some bbq. Had a hockey game last night (we won:3-2).

The concert opened with a band called Hangface. They were pretty good, hard metal. Pat was outstanding, playing a bunch of old favorites and some newer stuff (and even a couple songs that were redone). She still can hit the high notes. Wife was happy.

Saw some bull riding at Billy Bob's (while waiting for the concert to start). Was cool I guess, did not look like anyone got hurt real bad, so I dunno if the crowd had fun. Dunno if I will go out of my way to watch it again, but I doubt I will freak if I had to watch it again.

Beer was cold (and expensive). Bbq just plain sucked. Sauce was water, bbq meat was over done. Note to self: goto Cattlemans before going to BB's next time.

Hockey last night was intense. We won, 3-2, but we took 4 penalties in the last 5 minutes. We spent 4 minutes of that time in a 5 on 3 situation, but I think that worked in our favor, as the other team did not really push that hard until all the penalties were almost over. It was a good win for us. Good news is we finished the first round of games 4-3, on a 4 game win streak. The bad news is we play the 3 teams we lost to next (they all blew us out). Next game is Tuesday, we shall see if we are playing better.

What's going on

Tired. Played 5 hockey games in the last 9 days. Have 9 days off before my next game. We finished strong though, after loosing the first 2 games we went on a 3 game winning streak. Last night's game we had to win in a shoot out (I did not let them score at all, and we got one in on the other goalie).

Monday was cool, my Civil Air Patrol squadron went to tour the wid tunnels at UTA's Aerodynamics Research Center. Got to see some really cool stuff, supersonic tunnel, hypersonic tunnel, etc. Took lots of pics, if any of them turn out ok will post em up.


Wife went to Vegas for a convention Sunday, came back last night/early this morning (picked her up at the airport @ 2 am...).

The Sidekick 3 is available as of today (if you are a current TMobile subscriber). Price is still a little steep for me, being $300 with a 2 year contract. I might have to wait a few months to see if I can get it under $200 (my personal price point on it). Some good sites with Sidekick 3 info:

www.hiptop.com
www.hiptop3.com
www.sidekickiii.com

* FYI TMobile calls it the Sidekick, the company that makes it calls it the hiptop

More nothings

Busy week. Hockey every other day until next Wed.

Bonus comic I found:

http://dndorks.com/comics/2%2f11%2f2002.aspx

The Empty Chair

I dunno what to say. Just check it out.

http://www.kenzerco.com/Operiodicals/kodt/nemptychair.php

To the dump dump dump

The city here had a free hazardous waste dump day (you usually have to pay). Since I had 3+ large sized closets full of old computer junk at work, we decided to have a treasure/trash day at work. We would let the employees take whatever treasure they wanted, and the rest would be trashed.

I setup and inventoried what turned out to be 55 PC's, ranging from one lonely 486 to dual-P3's. Also included were several keyboards, mice, speakers, RAM, UPS's, tape drives, sound cards, video cards, network cards, monitors (CRT's, some 21" too!), and other misc stuff. Some junk, some nice stuff, most somewhere in-between.

Friday was the T/T day at work. People were allowed to select 1 item from the pile, then had to get back at the end of the line. The original line was formed based on how long you worked at the company.


All said and done, I ended up with 24 PC's, a box of misc parts, and some keyboards. I would guess about 3/4 of the stuff was taken. Very nice.

So, what did we do with the rest of the stuff? To the dump dump dump...sorta. I only had my truck (tried to get some others to help, no dice), so I loaded it up with monitors and went to get in line to dispose of them.

The dump day started at 9 am, I got there around 9:15 am. The line was already almost a mile long. Took me a little over an hour to get to the end of the line. The dump day ended at Noon, so I did not have time to go back for another load. At least I was able to empty 2 of the 3+ storage closets.

Hmm, I wonder if any other cities around here are having another dump day...

Sick time

Been a painful week. Sinus problems. Don't want to gross you out or anything. Let's just say it was bad...