el rinconcito

Yesterday, I was sure my hard drive was failing, but it seems OK now. I'm keeping an eye on it.

Why not use that as an excuse to buy some fun geek stuff. I went and got a 750GB hard drive and a USB enclosure. At some point I'll just install the hard drive internally, but for now it will be a portable backup storage device. My first computer hard drive years ago was 1.5GB, and I paid a princely sum for that. I remember the excitement when I got a 7GB one. Oh, I'll *never* use all that! There were terabyte drives looking at me from the store shelves today, but I got the 750GB. I'll *never* use all that! I got the usual Western Digital. Never had nuttin' else.

Below you'll see the sexy sleek black drive enclosure. Then you'll see the partition being written. I'm just doing one big partition for now to use it as backup storage. Later, if I put it into "production", I'll divide it up into swap and ext3. Geek fun on a Saturday night. Now I just need some geeks to play with.

Here's the new patio I've mentioned some previously. This is where the drink sippin' and grilling will take place all this summer. Usually we go to Mexico every summer, or burningman, but this year the patio took the vacation money. We'll have to get some torches and make a little Tiki bar. Then we can pretend we're on vacation every weekend. Everyone is welcome to come along.