Thursday, July 26, 2012

Finally My First Post (Sorry)

So here I am at work, bored for the time being, and I had this thought "You haven't posted anything on the blog yet."  So here I am.  It is old news, at least some of it, because my wife has been so great at posting things.  As you all know I have been spending the last week or so building a new computer that I ordered from Newegg.com.  I will tell you, for a computer person, that website is awesome!  Anyway, so I ended up buying basically a new computer.  I'll list the components for you computer nerds like me:
     AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Eight Core Processor
     G-Skill Sniper Series 8GB DDR3 1866 RAM
     ASUS M5A97 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Motherboard
     OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATA III Solid State Drive
     Corsair Carbide Series 400R Graphite Grey and Black ATX Case
So here is how I set this puppy up.  Previously I had 2 80GB Western Digital hard drives and 1 250GB Seagate drive.  So I installed my operating system on the 120GB solid state drive, during the install I moved the User profile and program data directories over to my E: drive which consists of the 2 80GB drives striped together, and then I set up my 250GB drive as a backup for all of it (obviously not everything is backed up 120+80+80=280 not 250).  My boot time is now under 15 seconds.  I will post a video later to show how fast that boot really is.  Loading screens on my games take only seconds because any programs that I install are installed to the solid state drive.  Posted with this is a picture of the machine.
As you can see it is actually pretty clean inside the computer. That is part of the reason why I bought the Corsair 400R case. It makes putting a PC together super easy, and makes it super clean inside. Hope you all have enjoyed this computer moment with me.

Now on to life.  Something funny happened the other day while I was at work.  My sweet wife made me a one of my favorite kinds of sandwiches, a PB&J sandwich (yeah, I'm a pretty simple guy when it comes to food).  I was looking forward to eating that sandwich, so I did like I do whenever I eat meals.  I save my favorite part for the end.  Well when I pulled it out of the bag and took a couple of bites, this is what I saw:
Well I really love PB&J, but this was a bit too much PB.  I couldn't even swallow.  I had to down a whole cup of water with this puppy.  Later on when talking with Joslyn, I found out that she put on that much PB because when she has made them for other people in the past she was criticized because she didn't put enough on.  So, she wanted to make sure it was perfect for me.  I love my wife, she is so good to me :)  We also found that day that we have the same taste, because she doesn't like a ton of PB on her PB&J sandwiches either.  Hope you have enjoyed my first post :)

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