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Sad News

// February 24th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // News

We found out today that Craig’s grandfather passed away last night. Craig, his grandmother & brother are all taking it as good as can be expected. Craig & his brother feel lucky to have been able to spend some time with him before he passed. His grandfather’s wishes were to be cremated without any services and his grandmother is respecting those wishes. We will miss you grandpa. You will live on forever in our hearts.

Monday.. Monday

// February 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // General, News, Updates

Current Mood: Sad

Oh wait a sec.. it’s Tuesday!! Oops. It has been a long weekend. On Saturday we went to the Auto Show with Katie & Jon. We had a great time. It’s always fun to hang out with them and of course looking at new cars is always exciting, well at least for me it is. I was rather surprised that we got there before the show opened, but was happy that we were able to get in and out before the big crowds showed up. Actually it really wasn’t bad until we went over to the side that had the GM, Ford and Chrysler products. Of all the cars there I would have to say my favorites were the Volvo C70 Convertible and the GMC Acadia. Craig’s favorites were the Lexus IS and the Acura TL and of course we both liked the Chevy Camaro Convertible. I feel in love with the C70 as soon as I sat in the driver’s seat, but since I’ve had an SUV for my last two vehicles I’m not sure how easy it would be for me to go back to driving a car. Oh well it’s not like we are going to go buy one tomorrow.

Grandparents update:
Craig found out on Friday that his grandfather had been taken back to the hospital on Tuesday. He has pneumonia and is currently being “kept comfortable”. The doctors basically gave his grandmother 3 options and none of them seem to have a happy outcome. I will keep you updated if we hear anything more.

Other news:
We’d like to wish Jon the best of luck with his current interview process, even though we know that it could mean driving a few hours away to see them.

Valentine’s Day

// February 15th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // General, Holidays, News, Updates

We hope that everyone had a great Valentine’s Day. Craig & I decided rather than going out we would pick up something on the way home from work, play some WoW and then watch Departed. I still haven’t decided if Departed lived up to all of the hype or not, but it was a good movie. I personally wasn’t at all impressed with the excessive use of shooting people in the head. I don’t mind gore, but it almost seemed like it was being done just because it could be. Ah.. what do I know.. I’m just a girl.

Grandparent update:

Craig’s grandfather is doing better. He was finally moved in a rehab facility, although he is still not walking. Last we heard it was hard for him to take a few steps with a walker, but he sounded much better when Craig talked to him. Not sure how his grandmother is doing health wise, but I know that she is lonely. For awhile she was calling every night, not that we mind, we just feel bad that we aren’t closer to them to help them out.

Other news:

We’d like to congratulate Justin on winning a spot in the City Bowling Tournament, which will be March 10th. His bowling team is also looking at a possible first place trophy. How exciting!! CONGRATULATIONS JUSTIN!!! and the best of luck in the tournament.

Asta la Vista?

// February 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

Current Mood: Confused

Last week we decided to order some hardware for our current computers to get them compatible with the new Vista operating system. We were under the impression that it would not take much since Craig is pretty good with keeping our machines current, just needed a few things for mine, a bit more for Craig’s to move him away from AMD, and 2 copies of the Home Edition of Vista. We were also assuming that the whole transformation would take a couple of nights. Boy.. if we only knew what we know now, we may have waited until we had a few days off. Although I must say up front that the installation of Vista was pretty painless once we got things figured out.

The process started on Thursday night, we had hoped to get the swapping of parts and operating system installation done, then add a few more installations of games and stuff on Friday night before we enjoyed another weekend of playing World of Warcraft. LOL.. if it was only that easy. We started with mine since it needed the least amount of replacements, buttoned it up and set it aside to work on Craig’s. During the installation of his parts I ended up breaking the connectors on one of the hard drives, but it wasn’t enough to make the drive inoperable, so we continued. The next step was to boot the machine and setup RAID, well there was a problem. The motherboard he ordered didn’t support the configuration we were using, so we would need to get a different motherboard for him. We then worked on my machine, booted it up, no post. UGH!! Bad processor we thought, but then we checked and my motherboard was a few versions behind on it’s BIOS so we upgraded it, no luck it still wouldn’t post. We then tried my processor in Craig’s board and it worked. Now we both needed a new motherboard. We called it a night and went to watch some TV.

After work on Friday we drove to get our new boards. We were optimistic that things would go smoother than the previous night, but again we were wrong. Craig’s machine completed without any further issues, mine however was going to continue to be a big pain in the butt. After numerous attempts to install the operating system we have various levels of success. If we got it to complete an install it would lock up trying to install a device causing a blue screen, which sent us back to square one. It was so annoying and a definite test of our relationship. By the end of the whole ordeal we found that along with the original hardware we purchased I would also need a new sound card, video card and memory. Was all of the hassle worth it? I’m not sure yet, haven’t had enough time to check things out. There are a few things that I like that many might say “why didn’t you just get a Mac?”, like the sidebar gadgets and the animation of the windows opening, but to them I would say NEVER!!! We are a Windows PC family.

Heeee’s back

// February 2nd, 2007 // No Comments » // General, Updates

Current Mood: Esctatic

Yay!!! Craig made it safely home yesterday. I went to the airport right after work to pick him up. Traffic was no where near as bad as I thought it would be so I ended up having about 45 minutes to wait before his plane even landed, so I walked around the airport a bit, tried to figure out how to change the way my address book looks on my cell phone, played a few games of bubble breaker on my Axim and still had time to go “DUH”. I even got to watch the woman next to me try to use her tablet PC, only to have it not boot properlly. hehe.. it was so funny.

Since the section of the airport where Craig’s baggage area would be was under construction there were no monitors to find out if his flight was even on time so it made the wait even worse. At some point I finally decided to wait near the escalators where I thought he would be coming down from, and it felt like I was waiting there forever!! When I finally saw him coming down I was so relived and excited to see him, but I was confused.. do I look like a mush in front of all the people and plant a big sloppy kiss on him or do I wait for when we are alone. Being the chicken I am I opted for the later, but I so wanted to be the mushy one!! Oh well.. I’m just glad that he is safely back home.