Life 2.0
by Slack, on April 9th, 2003
We’re almost in the new house. It’s right around the corner. We’ll be moving around the 21st. I can’t wait. I have some cool plans for the office. :) This time next year, I hope we will have quite the setup going there. My old boss, Tom, said he will help me hook things up. He’s quite the handyman type. I wish I had half the skill he does with some of those things. Anyway, router, server, modem, and punch blocks will be mounted in the closet or in the garage. Haven’t decided. I’ve been up and down with the idea of getting a server rack in the garage. How cool would that be? Boy, I’m a geek. The entertainment center will be a linux server running Freevo. Talk about kewl shit. :) I also hope to have enough jacks in the garage to have a small lan party. We’ll see how all that goes.
So anyway, we’ve been dealing with KB Homes for this new house of ours. This company builds great homes, but their sales department is a nightmare. :) They’ve repeatedly tried to sell us a loan, and sell us their Home Insurance. This in spite of Heidi repeatedly telling them no. So, we got an “acceptance” letter in the mail today from their insurance folks thanking us for going with them. Heidi called them and said, “Uh… No.” But, we also took this lender’s business card and stuck it in our return envelope for a Sears card (another company bugging us all the time). We wrote a note in there saying that “I REALLY WANT A SEAS CARD! CALL ME!”. So, I hope our friends at KB start getting calls. :) If they keep up, I’ll find a way to get their FAX machines put on advertisment lists! LOL So, if you guys haven’t heard about this junk mail thing, you should definately do it. Save your non-descript junkmail, and whenever you get one with a return envelope (postage paid, of course), stuff that thing to the gills with other company’s junk mail. :) hehehe I know it doesn’t hurt them much. But if we all did it, it sure would. Also it makes me feel better when I can stick it to these companies even in some small way.
So, I will be quitting smoking again once we move into the new house. Hopefully the lifechange will help me ride the storm out. This time I will do it! I PROMISE! :) Well, my sleeping pills are kicking into overdrive, so I’m gonna hit the hay. Take care out there!
Hey…if you put enough jacks in the garage to have a lan party, you’d better have either a ton of fans or a big A/C unit in there. Otherwise, it’d get damn hot ;)
And congrats on the new house! Do we get pics soon? Some of us can’t come swing by and see it you know ;)
LAN part at Allen’s!! :)
*party that is, :) I should have used the preview button…..
LAN party wont be for awhile. Gotta get server running well, get a game machine for myself, and then jack the garage up for it. I think it will be cool enough however. One of the perks at this new place is an insulated garage! lol How cool is that!