Really Smart... or Stupid

I cannot decide which I am. I spent $40 last night buying a non-working desktop computer (the guy threw in a second one just so he wouldn't have to deal with disposing of it). I got it home, put some memory in it (as it was missing) as well as a hard drive I had laying around. It turns out it's a P4 2.6 GHz processor with a DVD reader and a CD burning drive. The guy said the motherboard has issues, but it passed my diag and tests so I'm gonna run it till I have problems. I started installing Linux on it this morning to stress test it, and if everything passes, I'll put Windows XP Home on and give it to my mom or brother (it has the license for the software on the case). They both need upgrades, but that isn't where they put their money, so I find good fixer-uppers and pass them along if everything checks out.

I have no clue why I do stuff like this. I do it all the time. I have another great (working and fast) computer I bought from a computer repair store they couldn't get working. All I did was reset the basic input/output settings on it and it started working again. I had a good laugh at the store's misfortune in selling it as non-working. I got some good hardware from that deal.

Skiing in May

This weekend I went skiing. I don't know of many places you can do that in May. It was so much fun! There was almost a foot of fresh snow that fell that morning while we were driving up. We took the high pass instead of going the long way... they closed to road shortly after we got on it, so it was interesting riding over the pass in a blizzard where we couldn't see the car 5 feet in front of us. We got our gear rentals once we got there and got on the slopes. It was beautiful! The sun came out, the wind was good. We really enjoyed one of the nicer ski areas around.

A good friend (Lisa) I grew up with in Florida was moving away, and she came up with the idea of hitting the powder one last time before she left this morning. Her friend Mary drove in from Utah Friday, and I joined them when I got off work. We crashed for the night after eating some homemade popcorn chicken and got up really early to make the two hour drive to Arapahoe Basin (A-Basin to the locals). Sunday morning we tried to recover from the soreness of windburn and boots that didn't fit perfectly while we packed Lisa up and saw Mary off. I finished helping Lisa pack her car and threw some boxes in my car she was going to mail.

Around 1 pm she turned in final rent (they charged her a partial month because they forgot she was moving out...) and her keys, and followed me up to my place where we watched a movie. to wind down and then crashed after posting pics on facebook and such. I loaned her my couch for the night since she had no furniture left and needed some sleep before the 8 hour drive today. We got her boxes mailed this morning and then said our goodbyes. I got to the office parking lot in time to wave as she drove by on her way to the interstate.

First Trad Multi-Pitch

Saturday was amazing. I threw a few pics and videos up on Facebook. Nothing special. Eckard and I did our first trad multi-pitch climb. Now I just need to buy like $300 worth of hardware (pro) and a bunch of runners. But I did want to share a link to some amazing climbing videos. Yeah, I know it's google. So search trad multi-pitch if you don't know what that means...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=climbing