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Thoughts on the Weekend

  • Girlie Bear went with her JROTC class to clean up Churchill Downs after the Oaks and Kentucky Derby.
    • Talk about scared straight.  After cleaning up the detritus of a few thousand drunk, rowdy, over-fed, and over-sexed bluntskulls may have turned her off of partying for life.
    • She wasn’t half as excited to go on Sunday morning as she was on Friday night.
  • Moving half a ton of concrete and limestone is easier if you do it a hundred pounds at a time, but you’re still sore and tired afterward.
  • Of course it was raining all weekend.  Doesn’t everyone build garden beds and retaining walls in the rain?
  • It’s the first week of May, and I’m still heating up the house using the fireplace.
  • Apparently my bet on the brown horse in the Derby won again.  I really ought to actually put down some money one of these years.
  • I think Irish Woman has it figured out.  She points me to a product she wants, I go to Amazon and order it, and it magically appears on her front step in two days.
  • It must be love.  I turned my back on Irish Woman while she was using a shovel and was annoyed with me, and I never feared for my life.
  • I can’t wait for the NRA convention next year.  I miss my tribe, and it sounds like everyone is having a grand time handling hardware, meeting new people, and laughing at hippies.
  • Louisville people:  There is no reason to drive in either a suicidal or homicidal manner just because the sky gods chose to bless us with rain for the past day or so.
  • I like living in the future.
    • I can upgrade Irish Woman’s iMac from 1gb to 4gb of ram (quadruple what she has).
    • If I wait until my warranty is up in December, I can upgrade my Macbook from 2gb to 8gb of RAM, and if I upgrade the OS, to 16gb.
    • Irish Woman’s move from 4gb will cost $80, a move to 8gb on my Macbook will cost $62, and the 16gb upgrade will cost between $150 and $200.
    • For someone whose first SERVER had 128mb of RAM, which was an upgrade from 64mb that cost my employer an extra $5000, this is head spinning information.
by daddybear71 on May 5, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on May 5, 2013

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  1. Bryn, Isle of Anglesey's avatar

    Bryn, Isle of Anglesey

     /  May 6, 2013

    Ah, dinosaur recollections….. In 1982, I had to co-sign a departmental requisition which doubled our HD storage to…… wait for it….. 20MB (yes 20 MegaBytes). Cost? Oh, a mere £2400 sterling, or about 9 months wages for me at the time..

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  2. 3boxesofbs's avatar

    3boxesofbs

     /  May 7, 2013

    My first home PC had a whopping 40 meg hard drive with half a meg of R.A.M. and it was a ‘speed demon’. 5 years later I went to work for a company that had 2 PCs (rest main frame terminal) in the entire plant.
    Couldn’t figure out why I was the ‘local computer expert’ until I learned I was the only employee with a home PC at the time.

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