a new day

Okay, it isn't really a big deal but I have a new way of adding entries to the blog and so I am trying it out. dashblog

meh. it doesn't have spell check and some of the other nice little features of blogger or blogthis.

We had visitors at work this morning. Powel (Paul) Kaminski and his wife and daughter, Paulina. He used to work here and as a matter of fact was once a room mate of mine. He left LU a year or so after I did so it was weird hearing my boss remember his little daughter playing and sleeping here in the office. I remembered the girl, but not her frolicking here. It's part of that weird time period from mid '97 to Dec '99 when I wasn't working here. There are thing that seem like they should be familiar from that time but are entirely foreign to me. This includes people who've worked here that I just don't know.. some I've never met.

The strange thing about seeing Paul is that my boss dominated the conversation. He's more personable than I and well, I don't know what happened in the year after I left. The experiences that were shared, etc. Oh well, it was still good to see them, even if I didn't have much to talk about.

I decided on a course of action for hard drive upgrades... at least the first step.


I intend to go to Sam's Club and buy a 160GB IDE hard drive they have there for a good price (if they have it in stock). I'll make a partition the size of the 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM drive. Hopefully I'll be able to use Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive after I have everything installed and updated. Later on, when I get the money to make the upgrades I'll buy the raptor and copy the image to that drive and use that as the system drive. Okay, so I don't know if that'll really work or not. I hope so. If I do so I'll just put the 160GB drive in an external USB2.0 case I have and use it for general storage and or backups.