On the new house. Got a call from our Realtor late this afternoon and she said that the Appraisal came through “at value” so the loan should be going through. Cool. I gotta get out of this house!

Been checking around for phone and internet availability at the new address. AT&T can give me a phone, but no internet. QWest has something called “broadband Phone” ($20/mo) but no Internet. Which sounds strange as “broadband” indicates “Internet.” Probably just the Tech in me… Still, I wonder about hooking in a modem and maybe getting internet. Guess it’s time SWMBO and I talked to neighbors to see what they’re doing. I’d hate to go back to dial up but will to check my mail. Which means I’d have to post via e-mail. Better get that set up just in case.

Windows 7: Finally gave up on it. Got the BSOD nineteen (19!) times last night installing software I usually use or using software I usually use. Crashed 5 times using Post2Blog! So, I got really tired of that, put my old drive in, booted up and installed the drivers for the new system and it has been working great. Except. There’s always an Except.

I’ve gotten the BSOD a couple of times using DVDFab to convert a dvd to an .mkv file when I have it output to the only SATA drive I have in this new system. I’m going to try having it output to the C: drive tonight and see if it does it again. If not, then the SATA drive may be going bad. Which means I’d have to move my data off it as I started using it as my data drive. Bummer. If I get the BSOD again I’ll take that drive out and see if it does it agian. And I’d have to get a new drive…

Not much else going on. SWMBO is starting to figure out about painting and stuff in the new house. Oh joy! If we get the okay to go in and paint then she has my Memorial Day weekend pretty much planned. Oh joy!

My new computer came in yesterday and it took a couple of hours, and a trip to Motherboards, Etc for a cpu fan, for me to get it up and running. I probably could have had it working faster but I was taking my time and working on 3 (three!) computers at once. Finally got it done and plugged in and started up and it’s working great! Fast! Haven’t had a chance to use the 4 Gig of ram; but I will!

Then I installed the realease candidate of Windows 7 that I downloaded the other day. Installed fairly quickly. Looks good. Kinda vista-ish. But the most surprising thing is that I managed to get the blue screen of death only 5 times while installing programs I normally use. Not bad! Of course, I haven’t seen the BSOD with XP Pro in a long time. Installing Java was a bitch; but I finally got it working. Everything else seems to be working okay. Video looks great even without installing drivers for my videocard.

Now, moving all my data and userfiles from the old computer to the new is going to be a bitch. Just my old Outlook file is 1.8 Gig! Not to mention all the ‘little’ settings and passwords and stuff that need to be moved over. Crap. It may be days before I can check my mail other than online. Which I hate.

OTT, not much going on. House is a mess with boxes piled all over the place. We ordered one of those PODS things and it will be delivered Monday. I’ll start filling it immediately to get this stuff out of the way for other things.

It’s supposed to get up in the 70’s (possible low 80’s) today so I’m gonna waste time out at the property. Later!

My life doesn’t change. Pretty boring.

Started packing our stuff in boxes for the (probable) move to the new house. Living room and Dining area both look like disaster zones with piles of boxes. SWMBO and I need to be skinnier to get around inside now! Even if the house deal falls through we’ll be moving from this house. I couldn’t stand another winter here with the wood stove going. Too many headaches.

Oh, SWMBO made dinner last night!

Yummy! Yummy! Crawdads!

Just not much going on. Trying to rip the last row of our DVD’s before packing them up for the move. Hard to do with the dvd drive not working on my computer. Oh, SWMBO let me order a new base system from TigerDirect. Intel Quad 3.75Ghz system with 4 Gig RAM. I have to assemble it but I’ve been building my own since forever. Got an e-mail that it’s been shipped and should be here by Friday. Cool!

We went to see that new Wolverine movie last Friday. It was okay. About half way through I was thinking that I could have waited for the DVD to come out. Really liked the opening sequence though. And that guy that played Victor (liev schreiber), well, I’ve never really liked him in anything he’s been in (except for maybe The Manchurian Candidate remake), but thought he did pretty good with this part.