Went to a Trenton Thunder game last night and realized how much I miss watching baseball. Carolyn, Avery, Delmar and I went to see the Thunder play the Portland Sea Dogs the double A team of the Red Sox. It was fun just sitting back in the warm evening and watching Americas past time. Del and I had some good conversation and a good bear and food. The Thunder lost, but the fireworks display was good I think they could have had a better set of music played during it but it was good. The nice thing about minor league baseball is the players are still playing of the love of the game and not the almighty dollar yet.

Working on getting a game plan together for the XP upgrade and am realizing that we are going to need to also upgrade the servers to at least Win 2K to get most of the security benefits of XP. This is going to put a whole new crimp into my plans. So more research today and maybe a quick escape today to enjoy the great weather that will probably only be around today and then back to rain tomorrow.

Thanks to Arcterex I took the geek test.
Results were: 31.75542%-Total Geek

Is anyone supprised!!

Took the family to see Bruce Almighty it had it moments and was a good break from the action movies I have seen in the last few weeks.

Made some back end upgrades to the journal with a few hacks to make it easier to add entries. Planning on spending the weekend just working around the house and vegging out. Got gaming tomorrow night at Del’s. The other want to do an all night of gaming so that should be interesting.

Got around to shaving the bed room door down so it opens and closes with out sticking and making a ton of noise when ever anyone enters or leaves the room. I also had to move the strike plate up so the door would latch. I have had to make a lot adjustments on this house on stuff the previous owner did. I think he used about 2K lbs of nails to make his repairs and additions to the house.

Well back to building stuff.

What a long week it’s been. My car has been on the shop 3 times since Monday. Last week I took it in to have a recall taken care of and the timing belt replaces. When they got under the hood they informed me the head gasket was leaking so I had that replaced as well to a grand total with tax $1,460.00.

So I am driving back from Woodbury and the check engine light comes on. Now me being the techno geek that I am I find out the blink codes and determine that the computer is saying I had a miss fire on one of the cylinders. SO I take it back to the dealer and say this shouldn’t be happening since I just had the plugs and cables replaced at the beginning of the month. Now my service center philosophy is be nice to them and they will be nice to you and give you fast and friendly service. So Steve the mechanic who did the timing belt/head gasket work took the car into the garage as I waited (just to let you know if you actually wait for the car they work on it right away). So in about 10 min he drives it back out and tells me he has fixed the problem. The connector that plugs into the coil pack from the computer was cracked and he replaced it no charge. So I jump in the car fire it off and the check engine light comes back on and the engines missing and bucking. So back inside have Steve come back out take the car back and fix it again. This time he has the shop foreman take it for a test drive and then give it back to me. I jump in and away I go back to work with no problems. I get back in the car at the end of the day fire up the engine and guess what…check engine light’s back on and the engine is miss firing and bucking. I nurse the car back to the service center and drop the keys back on the counter. The next morning I wander back to the service center to find out Steve had to replace part of the wire harness that goes to the coil pack from the computer. It seems he accidentally pinched a wire when he was replacing the head gasket. So no charge to me and I still have about 82 days left on the warranty.

The weather is starting to get to me. It’s not the rain that’s bothering me. It’s the gray skies and cool temps that are making me feel lousy. So till next time…..

Well last night I proved my geekiness to my family and wife. After a lot of hemming and hawing I decided to go see the Matrix: Reload a day before general release. Delmar and I went and hit the theater at 9 to get tickets for a 10 or 10:20 showing. Was it worth it? I use the line I use from my Top Gun days…”when’s he get back in the plane?” The Action scenes were great but there was way to much talk….it was like being in a philosophy 101 class. There were a few scenes that we both thought could have been left on the cutting room floor and added to the directors cut release. But it was fun to be able to say I saw it the day before it was really released. Of course now I have only had about 4 hours sleep and I have no coke at work so it’s going to be a tea kind of day.