Tomorrow evening I leave for California once again. The last day is always the hardest. My bags are packed and the timer begins; it's just a matter of counting down the minutes until I have to leave. I've been fortunate to have had an extended stay home for the holidays. I left two weeks ago …
The Force Awakens & Rediscovering Star Wars
Sally and I saw The Force Awakens on Sunday and we really liked it. For a movie whose job is to both reboot and continue one of the most successful and beloved franchises in history it does a fine job. While the story line contains similarities in structure to A New Hope and has its fair share …
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Heading Home
Well it's been about two weeks since I arrived in California and now it's time to head home for a couple days. I'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon and should be home around 2 AM Saturday after adding on a 3 hour time difference, 1 hour bus wait, and 2 hour bus ride. I'm staying for …
LA: The First Week
I've been in LA for a week now it's been a bit of a rollercoaster. My flight out was delayed by about 40 minutes because the crew was trying to find a flight path out of the strong jet stream to save time. Unfortunately there was no alternate route and we wouldn't have enough fuel to make …
Shaking Things Up
In a week I will embark on a new adventure in my life: I'm going to fly out to California for six months to work at a startup. That's right, I'm going to leave my family to live across the country and work at an entirely different company until February or April. I'm not quitting …
LED Paradise
Every so many years we have upgraded the lighting in our house. The first time was soon after we moved in. We swapped all of our incandescent lamp bulbs for CFLs because the prices had finally come down enough to justify them. They used less than a third of the power of the equivalent incandescent …
My SLI Saga
I bought a customized Gaming PC so that I could expand it in the future. Most importantly, I wanted to swap out the graphics card for a newer model in a few years when mine started to struggle. I also wanted the option to combine multiple graphics cards together. This is called SLI (or Crossfire …
Far Cry 4
Since I published my first impressions of several of the games that I played over holiday vacation I started playing another that needs to be added to the list: Far Cry 4. Far Cry 4 is the newest game that I own, having been released in November. I didn't get it from Steam; instead it …
Game Impressions
I've purchased a bunch of games recently to play on my new PC. I took a breadth over depth approach over Christmas vacation so that I could get a general impression of most of what I bought. Here are my thoughts. The games are listed based on the time I've spent playing, starting with those …
Gaming PC Initial Impressions
I've had my gaming PC for a few weeks now. Here are my initial impressions. Build & Shipping Speed When I originally ordered the machine on Black Friday, it had a ship date of 12/18 and would take 5 - 7 days to ship after that. I wanted it before Christmas so I paid extra …
Relatively Ambitious 