Weekend Happenings

Two posts prior to this one I lamented about my laptop and its dreadful performance. I could sense the end was near; I just didn't realize how soon. Saturday morning it kicked the bucket. I'm not entirely sure what happened. It's not getting any power. When I unplugged the power cord and plugged it back it, there was a slight spark. Usually I can diagnose the problem and fix it (when you've had a buggy computer for 5 years, you get good at these things.) All I can say at this time is there is a power issue. I'm currently taking it apart to see what the cause is. I also ordered a hard drive adapter that allows you to attach a hard drive to it, which then plugs into another computer via USB cable. So, unless my hard drive is fried, I should be able to access all of my files and transfer them to Christi's PC. I'm also looking at external hard drives for the backup of files. I've been meaning to get one of these forever but I've always put it off for whatever reason.


So, now we're in the market for another laptop. I've always wanted an Apple laptop but they just released their new models and they are crazy expensive. That's out of the picture. I've only used Windows Vista sparingly on my grandfather's laptop and it has been ok, but I've heard and read tons of horror stories about how miserable it is. There are still some places where you can downgrade to XP, but I'm not sure if I want to do that, either. It's an aging platform, but is has proven to be fairly reliable and steady for the most part. I'm not sure what we'll get. We're on the lookout for a good deal. Let us know if you see anything good!


Christi and her parents went to the Mossy Creek festival. They spent most of Saturday morning and afternoon there. It's like a big crafts / decorations festival. Christi got some cool Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decorations. I'm going to take some picture of them once we put them up. While they were there, I stayed at home and did 8 million loads of laundry plus various other chores around the house. I also watched GT beat Clemson. It was another good win for the Jackets. We're now 6-1, ranked #21 in the country. Let's keep it going. Up next: a vastly improved Virginia team that is on a tear. Hopefully we send them packing back to Charlottesville.


Besides festivals and football, we also watched a movie (The Prestige - very good!) with Christi's parents and Jason. For some reason we woke up Sunday morning very tired so we ended up not going to church, although we should have. I used my grill to cook lunch and made some awesome bacon cheeseburgers. Very delicious. The weather was great this weekend and I found some time to practice my golf game in the yard and Christi and I tossed the frisbee around some too. Christi and Jessica went to a few stores to shop for some clothes while I went to Barnes and Noble to check out what they had. I have a gift certificate I got for graduation that I haven't used. I looked around for a while, but couldn't find anything I HAD to have. I did think of a good post while walking around. It's too long to continue in this post, which is getting very long. Time to wrap things up.


Overall it was a productive yet relaxing weekend. It seems to work best when we do a lot of chores / errands on Saturday and take Sunday to lay around the house and do a lot of nothing. We gets things done and also get to relax and recover for the upcoming work week. A good weekend. That's all. Thanks for reading!