day-2-day

So I’ve been waiting for something crazy to happen to me so I can blog about it. This hasn’t happened. I have been thinking over and over about something cool to blog about. Again, hasn’t happened. I have come to the understanding that I have become old and or boring. I don’t really do anything. I get off work and de-stress. I hang out with my buddy cjos because he lives about 4 blocks from me.

My girlfriend and I have been putting our little apartment together one thing at a time. We got a book shelf, we got a storage unit. Things are coming together. I find myself having spare time now that my girl is gone back to school this means she has homework and stuff to do. What in the fuck do I do with myself?

I have been looking around and trying to improve as much of my tech stuff as I can. My download box has been giving me trouble. I have moved it to our server room and am waiting for it to fail. It’s on our big UPS so power is rules out. If/when it stops working I will moved the monitor down to it and find out what in the hell is happening. If it’s a blue screen or a system hang I will re-seat the ram. You might be wondering about software, simple. It doesn’t have any. It’s a little XP box that boots up and runs SABNZBD. This little guy was my Dads old workstation. It got replaced but I thought maybe it just needed a reinstall. The problem seems like it’s more than that. Depending on what happens I will just replace it with an Atom mini box. I think I’ll splurge and get the better one that’s a dual core and has 2 ram banks that way I can use SABNZBD’s extra memory add-ons and get my par checks and unrars done fast. Meaning, if I need to download a new episode of True Blood, it’ll unpack in a few mins. I like to go from download to watching in fewer than 4 mins. That’s the goal.

I’ve also found out that XBMC on windows is fucking crushing. I need to get an MCE remote so I can use it correctly. Then maybe buy some tuner cards so I can use the PVR shit. It also has a SABNZBD download add-on that will let me download TV shows from XBMC. That’s fucking sexy.

So I’ve been busy….I guess.