May. 29th, 2007

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For some reason I got a tug to call and check how Smurf is doing (the 19-year-old Chevy Cavalier that I sold to a coworker a while ago). Maybe it was because my mom owned that car before me and because it was so old when I sold it that it had developed a little personality of its own.

I talked to the new owner just now, and he said that three days ago Smurf got stolen. STOLEN??!? After 20 years of service and three owners, this car gets hot-wired and joy-ridden around town. I totally couldn't believe it. Smurf had an adventure!

The owner never expected to find it again, but after three days, the cops located it and it wasn't damaged. On the even brighter side, the owner's new job has worked out (he had been fired from my company about 2 days after I sold Smurf to him and before I had cashed the check - so I never cashed it). So... because the job has worked out he is once again solvent with money to spare, and he can write me a new check for Smurf which should get to me by Friday or Monday (yay extra money, since I just bought Stuff).

I didn't really call to collect from Smurf's owner though. That was just an excuse to call and see how Smurf was, heh.
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[livejournal.com profile] rialian and I went to Microcenter on Sunday to pick up a new motherboard. This meant that we also had to get a new processor and memory, because the slots had changed.

While we were there, we found a 200-gig HD and an ostentatiously obnoxious, shiny black case for a reasonable price, so we decided to be reasonable and use the basic case and disk we already had go for it. To our credit, we did reuse some parts of the old system. Ok, so we only reused the DVD burner. Heh.

Anyway, we got the Stuff home and [livejournal.com profile] rialian spent the evening assembling it, only to realize that the hard disk required an IDE-to-SATA adapter in order to connect the power supply to the disk. Another trip to Microcenter became necessary, which we planned for the following day.

Also planned for that day was a trip to see [livejournal.com profile] fishy1 and [livejournal.com profile] scraun23, who live about a minute away from Microcenter, so it wasn't really an extra trip at all, but still frustrating for [livejournal.com profile] rialian, who had hoped to get the system running Sunday.

It should be known that the home of [livejournal.com profile] fishy1 and [livejournal.com profile] scraun23 is the Land Where Time Runs Backwards.

In fact, they have a clock on their wall which is a mirror image of a normal clock, and it DOES run backwards. While there, the inclination was not to leave to work on the computer, but rather to bring the computer there to work on it. Presently, we called [livejournal.com profile] lyssabard and [livejournal.com profile] tlttlotd to join us in the timewarp. While [livejournal.com profile] scraun23 and [livejournal.com profile] tlttlotd went to microcenter to get a power supply for their house server, [livejournal.com profile] rialian went back to Rockville and picked up my computer-in-progress. Eventually, they all returned, and my computer was fetched to the Land Where Time Runs Backwards. Meanwhile, we'd been joined by a few more people!

So... here we were at this impromptu event, involving [livejournal.com profile] fishy1's magic cider (this batch is even better than the last batch, and continues to get better), my computer, the resurrection of their server whose power supply had gone bad, jewelry-making by [livejournal.com profile] lyssabard, and general deep socializing about Things That Matter. The Force, the Farce, the Music, and the Geek were strong. Games of Go were played. Servers were resurrected. Computers were built. New sparkly jewelry was created.

Such was the environment where The Shiny Teh Shineh achieved Life at about 1:00 am on May 29 2007... We continue to load files and email from other disks - that should be done by tonight.

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