The Continuing Adventures of a Modern-Day Husband / Dad / Geek-Guy

I click next, and I see Windows shutting itself down, on my gigantor ancient Dell PowerEdge 4400, for the very last time. My LogMeIn connection drops.

A few minutes later (anybody ever watched an SBS box reboot? Yeah, they take FOREVER!) I swear I can hear the UPS upstairs actually breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Now to clean up the AD metadata that now lives on my SBS2008 box. Yeah, I know I’m a few years behind the times. Bite me.

When asked to decide what we were all going to watch while we ate dinner tonight, I found myself DREADFULLY excited to find out what musical misadventures the Fresh Beat Band would find themselves in tonight.

I can’t tell you HOW disappointed I was at the “Kiki & Shout Sing a Duet” episode that followed.

*shudders*

are some more damn arpeggios.

arpeggios

Don’t get too excited. It’s a little two-minute intro thing that may or may not ever evolve into a real song.

So, I gotta say.. While I certainly didn’t get my G73 for playing games, specifically (but rather because it was an incredibly economical way to cram a quad-core powerhouse + 8GB of ram into a laptop), I have to admit… Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum is like “playing” an interactive graphic novel, in ALL the best ways. Wow.

And really, it still makes me giggle like a schoolgirl to finally have a system where I can play CS:S in full HD (1920 x 1080) with all graphics settings on maximum, and pulling somewhere around 210fps.

*insert more giggles here*

Tee hee heeeeeeee!

Got my new baby yesterday.. made sure the first thing I did was start on burning the recovery DVDs.. Notice that’s pluralized. I can’t believe that it takes 4 DVDs to recover Windows + the Asus bloatware, but hey, it is what it is. Still, it was a bit finicky, and it took so long to build the .iso files and burn the recovery DVDs that I ended up having to leave the office with it still burning the 3rd disk. It REALLY didn’t care much for burning the DVDs while being moved, and after it puked on Disk 3 twice, I gave up, killed the recovery builder, and restarted it when I got home. I passed out cold while I was waiting for Disk 4 (of my second attempted set, now) to finish. Thankfully, the recovery builder also does a data verification on every disk before it gives you the OK for it, so I’m pretty sure my new set is solid.

This morning, I test-booted the first DVD, and let it run it’s course, and when the system prompted me for Disk 2, I was comfortable enough to kill the test recovery. As much as I might like to “behave myself” with a work machine, I couldn’t handle the idea of my main system running Windows 7 Home Premium, even if it was the 64-bit version.

I pulled out my 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise installation disk, and installed that in record time (this is a quad-core i7, w/ 8GB of RAM, remember), and am now waiting for it to reboot after installing the first round of Windows Updates.

I can’t wait to see how this monster scores on the “Windows Experience Index”.

01/06/2011 4:22 A.M. Out For Delivery

*singing*

I got a feeling…

That tonight’s gonna be a good night..

That tonight’s gonna be a good night..

That tonight’s gonna be a good good niiiight!

*points*

*points back at “01/06/2011 4:22 A.M. Out For Delivery”*

*nods*

*big stupid grin*

*does the “Happy New-Amazing-Laptop Dance”*

Oh, man.. this is such a sad moment… the last half of the last graham cracker.

Now wtf am I supposed to do?

*sighs*

*crunch crunch crunch*

…

*screams*

Hmmph. Chrome OS. Who knew?

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