Two Geeks!

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Originally uploaded by bmwrider.

Who could resist getting their pic made in front of the geek mobile at best buy! I love this car.

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New hard drives installed.

I have always used the plugin USB and Firewire drives from Lacie and work great. These external drives are a little pricey, but work great. I decided to install some western digital hard drives for my scratch disks for Photoshop. If you want to make Photoshop run at it's optimum, it needs it's own hard drive! If your scratch disk is the same as your data disk or the same volume as your programs, photshop is not working as best as it can.

This process was really easy to do and the hardest part was figuring out how to get the drive in the slot. After a bit of looking, there was a button to press that allowed the drive bay to swing out and the install was easy from that point. I do think I want to install some round IDE cables in my system to make it easier to use as well as to hel out the cooling.
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Skunk last night!

So I am off to bed early last night from a long day at the studio. Becky and Talia was watching TV and fell asleep on the couch. I heard the TV station go off the air and turned the TV off. The dogs were still out and I told Becky to put the dogs up. Well she decides to take them out to go pee. Now it's 1:30 in the morning andI hear Becky screaming at Patty to "leave it alone" and to find out there is a skunk on the porch. All four dogs get sprayed! What a night! Becky is blaming it all on me for waking her up. The whole house was stinking and Becky went to Wal-Mart to get some lemon juice and tomato juice to get the smell off the dogs.

So I am in the dog house right now! Guess I won't wake her up anymore, let the sleeping dogs sleep!

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