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Meineke finally finished inspecting my car and gave me the run-down on the initial repairs needed to get it up to a “reliable” position:
BRAKES: $557
($69*4) Rotors
$62 Front pads
$59 Rear pads
$160 Stuff I didn’t write down
ENGINE: $459
$74 Valve Cover Gasket
$20 Oil Change
$150 Plugs & Wires
$55 Coolant Flush w/new radiator cap
$160 External Drive Belts
There was more, which [...]

Geez, there are alot of services in Windows Vista that just help themselves to an automatic startup…
Tablet PC Input Service: It’s not a tablet PC. Why, then, do you assume I would want the services of a Tablet PC input device I don’t have? Seriously.
Diagnostic Policy Service and Diagnostic System Host: Both “enable problem detection, [...]

As implied in the Title, my 1TB Hard Drive arrived yesterday and I’ve finished reassigning drives and moving my files around. Haven’t quite figured out what the M: drive will be assigned to, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something.
For those of you who are counting, the formatted space totals 3,409.37GB (3.33TB)! So far [...]

As implied herein, the 1TB drive has arrived. One QuickFormat later, I started reassigning my drive letters. They go up to M:.

  Need I say more? I ordered a 1TB HDD yesterday to replace two existing 500GB volumes which are both full of “Public Domain media governed under the Fair Use Act; which appears similar to a television show without actually being a television show”.
I ordered it 18-20 hours ago, and it’s “out for delivery” [...]

Already this car is causing me headaches. Sure, it’s fun; but is it economical?
Arguments for “No”:
- Down payment split across six weeks; six payments of $500. Last chunk of the “financed down payment” coincides with first real payment. I make $980 a week, but I’m taking this Thursday off to yell at the trash men [...]

The site was down for two days. You may have noticed the errors. Y’see, what happened is that I got a package via FedEx. New stuff doesn’t combine well with my inborn need for instant gratification (Thank you, Internet Age). The package contained a motherboard (Asus M2V) and CPU (AMD Athalon 64 4200+ Dual-Core; what [...]

The server just got a new old secondary video card (ATI Radeon 9250). It’s not great, but it has eliminated the artifacting I was seeing in the old ATI Radeon 7500. Maybe the old one crapped out because it lost its heatsink a few years ago; hard to say. Regardless, that’s why the server went [...]

So, I took my first road trip in the new sports car. I went up and visited Dad, then took a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park. Evidently the toll station is closed at night and I can “please proceed” for free. So J and I went up to Long’s Peak and may very well [...]