Well, probably no one has noticed, but it has been over a week since I’ve posted anything here on IronSharpensIron.\u00a0 But what a week it was!<\/p>\n
The week was “set up” actually two weekends ago, when my sweet wife leaned over my shoulder, and invitingly whispered into my ear, “Mark, that computer is just so slowwww.. you really need to get another one!”\u00a0 I thought she was just trying to get on my good side [sometimes she doesn’t remember that she is ALWAYS on my good side, no matter what!] and so kept working on what I was working on.\u00a0 But then a little later she said, “You know, I really mean it.\u00a0 And isn’t ‘You need to get a new computer’ on the Top Ten list of what you would like your wife to tell you?”<\/p>\n
Wow.\u00a0 I decided she was serious.\u00a0 So of course I went out and followed instruction like any devoted husband.\u00a0 Those of\u00a0 you who know me very well know already that I don’t “buy a computer;” I buy components.\u00a0 So, for the techies out there who really care, I got an Intel dual core 3.16 GHz CPU, plugged it into a new shiny ASUS motherboard with\u00a04 GB of RAM (I’m staying with 16-bit computing for awhile, so there wasn’t much point in getting more than 4 GB right now), got two 1 TB whiz-bang disks to replace my two smallest disks, a pair of 250 GB Western Digitals, to bring my spinning disk total capacity to 3.6 TB.\u00a0 I hasten to add that I don’t actually USE all that, sort of — half is for active storage, and the other half is for cloning the first half occasionally, for disaster recovery purposes.<\/p>\n
What in the world does any of that have to do with not posting on my ISI blog?\u00a0 Just this:\u00a0 If you’ve ever put together those sorts of components, and forced them to play nicely together, you have a clue how much time it takes.\u00a0 And on top of that, once that is achieved, THEN one has to reinstall tons and tons (well, pounds anyway) of software, and I’m still only perhaps one-third done with all that.<\/p>\n
I’ll get it done eventually.\u00a0 Then you’ll see more regular postings.\u00a0 Promise!<\/p>\n
Go with God.<\/p>\n
–Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, probably no one has noticed, but it has been over a week since I’ve posted anything here on IronSharpensIron.\u00a0 But what a week it was! The week was “set up” actually two weekends ago, when my sweet wife leaned … Continue reading