izcool (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} izcool) wrote,@ 2008-04-30 22:46:00 |
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New Seti@Home Machine
Well, today, things have been better for me.
The other day when I was at work, my dad realized that the city sticker on the Cavalier was expiring today (this was yesterday he told me this), and suggested that I get 2 new stickers for the Cavalier and the Nissan, to be on top of that before I get into any kind of trouble.
So this morning I went down to the Village of Antioch (town hall) and inquired about buying 2 new city stickers, and apparantly, they signed an ordinance to no longer require city stickers on vehicles that reside in Antioch, as they are tacking a new tax onto the Water and Sewer bills to everyone who lives in Antioch, thereby charging "everybody" for it instead of paying for stickers. I see what they mean by that. But I had insisted that I travel to Chicago all the time, where they're real strict on the City Sticker law. I was told that they didn't have any at the town hall, so I had to go to the Antioch Township building and get them there, for free, as they had other people inquiring about the same thing before. So I went over there and got them, no charge.
While I was out, I put gas in the Nissan, since I hadn't done so ever since I got that car back. My mom had me stop into Walmart to buy her something, which was a Japanese Maple tree. It was around $30.00 (she gave me the money for it) and it was supposed to be for Dave. At the old house in Round Lake Beach, Dave had a Japanese Maple tree in front of the house that he really liked. I thought that was really sweet of my mom to do that.
When I finally got back home, I slapped the 2 new stickers on the cars, next to the old ones. When I see my dad next, he says that he'll take the old stickers off of the windshields, as they're no longer any good.
My dad called me this afternoon telling me a few things. He said that next week, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I might have to work for Sharon. According to Sharon, on those days next week, she has to be at her Condo building as they're doing some sort of maintenance and need her to be able to give them access to her Condo. My dad says that I'll definately be working on Wednesday and possibly Thursday, but Friday at the latest. And, according to her, she'll work Saturday and Sunday for me if I do her days. Perfectly fine with me.
The other thing that he told me is that he found 2 computer hard drives in the garbage at the carwash, along with a card reader and a numeric keypad. According to him, I believe one hard drive is 20GB, the other is 40GB, the card reader has a USB connection on the end of it, and, from what he says, "the numeric keypad is very tough, made of metal and looks like for an industrial use". He says that the 2 hard drives were put into 2 hard drive boxes for new hard drives, both identical, although the hard drives that had been replaced are different. Interesting. He says it's sitting on my bed at his house, waiting for me to work with. My good guess is that I'll put the 40GB hard drive into the eMachines computer that's sitting at my dad's house (in his basement) and I'll probably take the 20GB hard drive and take it home with me. That is, if they work. My good guess is that they do. Still, you never know.
So, I finally was able to do something around the house, for once. I went into the basement and unburied the HP Vectra machine that I wanted to set up for crunching Seti@Home numbers. I wasn't too sure on what I wanted to do with the computer long ago, but I'm finally putting it to use. It fits perfectly on the lower left side of my desk. It's a HP Vectra VL420DT, a desktop PC (not a tower) that has pretty, erm, "OK" specs. I'm sure it'll do fine for Seti@Home work. Pentium 4 @ 1.6GHz, 384MB of RAM, 20GB HDD.
I originally bought this computer at The Salvation Army that's near the carwash. I can't remember what I paid for it, but it was probably some really cheap money.
Later in the evening, as working with the PC got me a little exhausted, I watched "The Matrix Reloaded", which I bought on DVD sometime last week.
The 2nd PC that I currently have crunching numbers for Seti@Home. Sorry about the mess on the floor, that's what I get for living with cats. All that cat fur.
- Mike.
