Frankensystem in progress.

[nolawitch58]

It took all morning to run errands. Five stops and four hours later brings us home to begin the build. CompUSA was hard to get out of. Two computer geeks are like kids in a candy shop at a place like that. Also, we stopped at Borders and bought some books. We had to have lunch...sushi, mmmm. The bank took a while because they had only one teller on the drive through lanes. We also had to wait a while for Pete's brother-in-law to stop by the mall parking lot with Pete's boxes of media. All that accomplished, we came back and are up to our armpits in an ATX case.

Pete's old case is some kinda nasty. He's got in in the back of his truck. Originally, he thought he could resurrect the motherboard with some decent cleaning. The case itself is not only rusted, but is also corroded and crudded up with silt. No, that puppy is dead, not merely pining for the fjords.

The weather is spectacularly beautiful. The sun is shining. The air is cool and crisp. What a lovely day to be indoors building a system watching the Big Blue Room from the safety and comfort of home surrounded by computer parts.

Edit: Pete's system is built, tested and fully operational. He can't remember his password. The system booted fine, but he can't get into his files yet. I guess if you haven't logged into a system for two months, you're likely to forget. All that remains is for the system recovery operation, during which he can change his password, and for the hard drive to be screwed into the case. A good end to a day's effort. My pal has a new system and all is well.

Comments

Have fun!

[lab-rattus.livejournal.com]

I did that last week. My stuff was delivered in the AM, was up and running early afternoon. Only cut myself twice. Had a good time though. Still playing musical hardware with the rest of the network, so if you need anything do let me know. Tell Pete Hi.
Miss ya'll.

Lisa

Re: Have fun!

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

We are having fun. If our only stop had been CompUSA, we would have been busy before lunchtime. So far, no casualties but we always leave a blood sacrifice in every machine.

Pete says "hi" and that it's good to be back among the living. I guess Lafayette was even more boring than he could handle.

Re: Have fun!

[lab-rattus.livejournal.com]

I used to have lots of fun in Lafayette. Then again I was in High School and had college age friends there. Damn, did we drink allot of Vodka. I think I broke my arm there once.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Only you can remember locations by where you sustained injuries! We miss you, too. You would love the smell of new components as much as I do (Pete can't smell much of anything...except the grody reek which is now abating near his old apartment in Gentilly).

[lab-rattus.livejournal.com]

Well, I got into mounds of trouble because I was doing something incredibly stupid. I may have been in Georgia though...