Friday, March 28, 2008
Softball time
Its that time of year again. Its getting warmer, lawn mowers are revving up, and Apollo is taking longer to ride across the sky. Yes my friends, it's time to lace up the cleats 'cause it is softball season!
I've been playing with this team for 2.5 years now (and changed our name 3 times), and last year we pretty much had a tie season so that is pretty good. We hope to at least keep the same record as last year even though we've had a lot of turnover this year. Some people left on good terms...other's are still in our league but won't look us in the eyes at coaches meetings...but hey that's another issue entirely.
As much as I didn't like playing 1st base at the beginning of last year, it actually turns out that I like it, and will be playing there this season. Good times. I will try to remember to post after each game, score, any memorable events of the game, etc.
Here is our
team website for any interested.
So this year look out for 'Scared Hitless' on the diamonds.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
House Search update
So heard back from one mortgage lender about a home loan. And everything is looking good.
It is for a decent amount, so I should be able to get something pretty nice. I'm hoping for a at least a 2 bedroom 2 bath, and a garage or shed for my motorcycle some where in Chesterfield County. And thats pretty much it. I mean I'd like a 3 bedroom but not really necessary. So I guess in the next week or so I'll go talk to a realtor, and start the search for a house.
Just thought I'd make an update...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
OS woes
So its kinda a slow day here, so I've spent the better part of the day working on getting Ubuntu installed on the home computer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ubuntu it is a linux based Operating System that is supposed to be one of the best out there.
I've installed it before on other machines and have had little problems. But today I seem to be running into all sorts of problems.
The first thing I ran into was support for my Radeon 9200 video card. Its not exactly top of the line here, I didn't think it would be any sort of problem. But apparently it is. So I take that out dig out the video card that came with the computer and installed that one....ok moving on now.
Takes a while to install, no surprises here. It installs successfully and then it proceeds to install a plethora of updates. Ok, so all those are done.
I should have mentioned earlier that I am trying to dual boot XP and Ubuntu on two different hard drives. I have my XP hard drive sitting next to me. So, after Ubuntu is done with everything, I attempt to slave the XP hard drive. I only have one jumper so, I put it on the Ubuntu drive to make it the master, in order to slave the other I need another jumper. I don't know why both hard drives don't have a jumper, but whatever. So I plug both of them in, and hit the power button. and then i just get a black screen....nothing happens. This is cause of the only one jumper and both drives apparently thinking that they are the master.
Ok, so I unplug the XP drive, and just figure I'll run out to CompUSA or something and pick up another jumper and I'll be set.
So I remove the XP drive and just left the Ubuntu one in as master/single drive. So you'd think it just boot up like it did last time, and everything would be fine. Well you'd be wrong, much like I was.
I can't get the graphics card to work anymore. I don't know what the difference is. So I'm sitting here watching the install all over again. And I just thought that I'd let the blogosphere know.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Mild Rant on Housing
Ok, so yesterday I get a letter from my apartment complex stating my renewal is coming up in June and since they need at least 60 days notice if I'm going to be moving out that the need to know by the middle of next month. Ok cool, no problem. So i go to the second page of this letter and they proceed to tell me that they are planning on jacking my rent up a good $100 a month.
Well I was planning on staying in that apt for a while, if the rent was still reasonable. But that was just crazy. Its not like they added anything to the services they are providing me. Shouldn't I be grandfathered in to my current rate or something? Its nuts.
So now instead of re-newing my lease I am starting to look at buying a house. A big big step, but well at least I'd be actually putting money toward something instead of essentially throwing it away. I'll keep ya'll posted on my house buying process. Going to talk to some loan officers this weekend I think.
I'm also planning on tuning up the bike and start riding again this weekend. Take that high gas prices. WHOOHOO
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