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Kim's coming back from Buffalo tonight. Yay!
The bed will stop being too big, and maybe the cats will stop hating me for her not being here. When she's home, you can't roll over or go to the bathroom without getting a cat in the face, or the ankle, or whatever. When it's just me? Maybe one of four will deign to lurk by the foot of the bed.
If they didn't keep devouring the food and water and filling the litter boxes with toxic waste, I'd never know there were four of 'em in the house. One or two, maybe.
Should be getting the last parts of the Quad Damage set from the FedEx depot tonight - I missed their delivery attempt Saturday, and they never bothered to try and come on Monday, when I was home all day (Monday wasn't some obscure holiday, right? It was a regular business day...? Fuckers.) Big-ass heatsinks require backplane mounting brackets, so it would have been pointless to pre-build the rigs with the stock coolers only to have to tear them down again to remount the coolers.
If nothing else, I know how I'm going to spend my evenings and a good portion of this weekend - swearing at Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and then trying not to spooge all over the screen when I finally get some games installed. This current upgrade, from hardware that's more than three years old to something only a couple weeks/months behind the bleeding edge is going to be one of the most meaningful and dramatic iterations of this since going from a Pentium 133 to a PII 200, or possibly from a single K6-2 475 (yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arcsine, the one you built me!) or PIII 560 to a dual-PIII setup at 900.
Baal's getting an even bigger boost - from a first-gen P4 1.6 and an nVidia 5200 to quad-core goodness pushing 3GHz+ and a 9800GTX. I fear the his brain is just going to melt, or blow the top of his head off. Fortunately, he's usually got a hat on.
The bed will stop being too big, and maybe the cats will stop hating me for her not being here. When she's home, you can't roll over or go to the bathroom without getting a cat in the face, or the ankle, or whatever. When it's just me? Maybe one of four will deign to lurk by the foot of the bed.
If they didn't keep devouring the food and water and filling the litter boxes with toxic waste, I'd never know there were four of 'em in the house. One or two, maybe.
Should be getting the last parts of the Quad Damage set from the FedEx depot tonight - I missed their delivery attempt Saturday, and they never bothered to try and come on Monday, when I was home all day (Monday wasn't some obscure holiday, right? It was a regular business day...? Fuckers.) Big-ass heatsinks require backplane mounting brackets, so it would have been pointless to pre-build the rigs with the stock coolers only to have to tear them down again to remount the coolers.
If nothing else, I know how I'm going to spend my evenings and a good portion of this weekend - swearing at Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and then trying not to spooge all over the screen when I finally get some games installed. This current upgrade, from hardware that's more than three years old to something only a couple weeks/months behind the bleeding edge is going to be one of the most meaningful and dramatic iterations of this since going from a Pentium 133 to a PII 200, or possibly from a single K6-2 475 (yes,
arcsine, the one you built me!) or PIII 560 to a dual-PIII setup at 900.Baal's getting an even bigger boost - from a first-gen P4 1.6 and an nVidia 5200 to quad-core goodness pushing 3GHz+ and a 9800GTX. I fear the his brain is just going to melt, or blow the top of his head off. Fortunately, he's usually got a hat on.
