Tonight I went up to boulder and brewed some
beer.
We go to a place called The
beer store. Basically they have all the ingrediants and
all the stuff you need to brew in one place, and are happy to
help you as much or as little as you like. It’s pretty nice. We
made a red ale tonight.
So, I left Las Cruces at about 9:30am saturday. I saw on the weather
pages that there was possible snow in santa fe and colorado, so
I wanted to try and get an early start. About 7 hours of the
trip was totally uneventfull and normal. When I got to about
pueblo there started to be slick roads. Which of course brings
out the other thing: stupid drivers. There were at least 2
pileups in colorado springs, and one really nasty looking roll
over. Even after driving by these I still had people try and
blast past me at 50mph with no clue. Luckily I avoided them
all. About where the ren faire is the roads cleared up and it
was smooth sailing back home. Got in about 8:30pm.
Of course then the fun begins. Looked over my main box and found out
that the problem with it was the cpu fan. It would fire up,
make some really really scary noises and then power off. At
least it’s good that it powered off instead of crisping the
CPU. No problem says I, I will just move the drive to another
machine and bring it right up. Well, before the CPU died it
appears to have done a good job scribbling on the hard
drive. Ran a fsck on it for about 2 hours and managed to get a
few things off it, but not much. Decided to zorch it and just
re-install and restore the user data. Of course then I had to
burn some install cd’s since I gave my last set away on the
trip. Finished that, re-installed, restored all the user
files. Since I didn’t have any backups of the config area, I
basically had to resetup mail, news, etc. Got it mostly working
and turned on, and then it was 4am. 🙁
Thursday was a pretty laid back. We just sat around and didn’t do too
much. About 1pm we needed to find some food, so we started the
food quest. Pretty much everything was closed for new
years. Finally we found that gardinios was open, so we went
there. It wasn’t too bad. They weren’t very crowded and the food
was ok.
Looks like about 9:30am this morning, brand.scrye.com, my main machine
decided to commit suicide. Since I am still in New Mexico it’s
hard to say whats going on. I did have someone come by and look
at it, but it would only power on for a second, beep and then
power off again. 🙁 Looks like it might be power supply or
motherboard. I guess I will take a look when I get home tomorrow
night.
We finally made it out to the dessert for a quick walk. We went out to
the west mesa near the airport and watched the sunset and walked
around some. Some pictures
here.
Tonight we are having a BBQ and some party games here at kurts.
Happy new year everyone! Had a very nice party down here in Las
Cruces, NM last night/this morning. Things finally broke up
around 4am or so. We had a nice mix of people and lots of good
visiting and catching up.
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Some
pictures
of the rio “sand” grande. There was no water at all in it, except for
what was coming out the water treatment plant outlet. It was a
nice walk though. The weather was great. 60s and slightly
cloudy.