Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Coming up on my 27th rotation around the sun

so it’s my 27th year..
strangely I don’t feel 27.

Most of the people my age are married and have 1-3 kids..
I thank God that I don’t have either.
granted I don’t mind the niece and nephew..

I still feel like a kid at heart..case in point.My “big” Christmas present from my dad..
a Nerf Vulcan battery powered dart gun.
Its about as close as you can get to a belt fed machinegun without you know..bullets,Class III papers,tons of money..etc.

I’d like to mod my Nerf CS-6 Longshot by adding in a spring and removing the air restrictors and giving it a custom paint job.

however my first “love” (if you will)
is building computers..
Nothing more fun than taking a couple of boxes of stuff and creating something cool..say like a 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 with PCI-e graphics and all that stuff.

which reminds me..
I ordered a SATA Pioneer DVD burner,single plug IDE cable,2xEVGA 9800GTs and a Saitek X52 controller/throttle combo for my Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

I’m thinking I might give my old Saitek joystick to my dad and give him my copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator: Century of Flight.
Aaaand put the 3.0Ghz pentium 4 micro-atx motherboard in his old AMD 586 computer..I just need 2GB of DDR2-800 for it.

5 comments:

  1. I'm actually going to be building a new desktop soon. The last two I've built have been for other people and mine is now running at... oh, 4 years old? It's been upgraded a few times between then and now, but I want to start from scratch again. Makes me all warm inside with the new shiny-ness.

    Before that I'm going to throw together a new external (why do people buy those when they are SO much cheaper to build?) and catch all the important shit off the desktop.

    Hell, you're twenty-seven.
    I'm not even that old yet, have a birthday coming in april and actually felt like I was getting old when I realized how soon it all was.

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  2. Even at 27 you still look and sound a lot younger, plus you have the spirit of a young person as well. It probably doesn't mean much now, but in your later years your friends and family are going to be jealous.

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  3. I agree with Brian, you're young at heart. And you don't even look 27! Happy birthday!!

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  4. Happy Birthday! My Bff bout her son one of those Nerf guns. Quinn was so jealous. I will leave the building computers part to my husband.

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