New Computer

My home computer has been chronically freezing now for the last few months, and progressively getting worse. I tried reinstalled W98 to no avail. I ran an assortment of diagnostic programs and found that either the RAM was bad, or the motherboard's RAM ports were bad. The computer (1GHz AMD Athlon, Via motherboard, built-in sound, 512MB RAM, 60GB IBM hard drive, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DLink 10/100 PCI NIC, GeForce2 32MB AGP card) was two years old and I didn't feel like wasting any more time. I'd been wanting to upgrade anyway, and here was a good excuse.

I had originally purchased the RAM from ChipsandMemory.com in San Diego with a Lifetime warranty. When the system went down I contacted them and the owner Alex told me that the Lifetime for that style of RAM was over, the manufactuer had stopped supporting it, as had they. However, he would give me store credit of my original costs if I bought new equipment. Excellent Customer Service!

Today I went by ChipsandMemory.Com and Best Buy to purchase hardware to assemble a new computer.

[06/15/04 Update: You can see a full list of the completed computer here.]

Disneyland - Larz & I

Larry & I went up to D-Land. Good times. Good times.

Six Flags over Texas

Shawn, Sandy & I spent the day at Six Flags over Texas. I'd never been there before and it's not qutie Magic Mountain, but we still had a BLAST!!!

There were few people people in the park and we rode (nearly) all the rides. I especially enjoyed the Superman Tower of Power and the Texas Giant. The latter being one of the funest roller coasters I've ever been on, so much so I rode it three times. Wheeee!

Update - Friday, March 30, 2007
Pictures now available here.

More time in Texas

Today the gang spent more time shopping and looking around the DFW area. Being a Grapevine City Planner, Cindy was very keen to show us the new Gaylord Texan resort. I must say it is quite impressive!We finished the day with a showing of Shrek II which I really enjoyed and thought was better than the first.

Update - Friday, March 30, 2007
Pictures now available here.

Off to Texas for Shawn's Graduation

Amy, Mr. & Mrs Lee, Sandy and I arrived yesterday at Dallas Fortworth Airport. We're here visiting Cindy, Richard, and Shawn in the small suburb of Grapevine, TX (just north of DFW) for Shawn's graduation from Colleyville Heritage High School. We spent the day shopping and looking around downtown Grapevine and tonight we start the celebrations with a BBQ Dinner Party.

Update - Friday, March 30, 2007
Pictures now available here.

Tower of Whee

Sandy and I got back from the Disneyland Resort, spending the day at Disneyland and California Adventure. We rode the new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror for the first time. We were underwhelmed. It's Ok, it's Fun, but overrated. Anyway, we had our usual good time at D-Land, so that's what counts. :)

Here's a picture of us on California Screamin'.

JPL with Mr. Lee

Mr. Lee and I drove up to Pasadena earlier today for the JPL Open House. They had various exhibits, the highlight of which was the Mars Tour that included life-size models of the MERs: Spirit and Opportunity.

On the way down we stopped off at Tom's Farm which is kind of like a baby Knott's Berry Farm. Neat little place. We ate at Señor Tom's and it was pretty good food!