Spring has come to the borderland. Those aren’t clouds, but rather dust originating from Northern Chihuahua that has blocked out the sun. If you want to talk about the real invasion at the border, this it: Mexico coming over the border by the sky full of sand. The forecast for the rest of the day is 40mph sustained…

I never got around to posting the finished product of my mostly new build from last week, so here it is:

Four hours of my Monday was spent in the dentist’s chair this morning getting four crowns and a filling. I’ve now got four new front teeth in the form of temporary crowns with the real ones getting put on in a few weeks. While not pleasant, it also wasn’t unexpected. I had known for a decade that I would eventually…

The CPU cooler showed up today, which means I could finish* the build. My PC now has a radiator.

Amazon brought me boxes today. I’m just waiting on the CPU cooler to show up tomorrow to see if I end up with a functioning computer out of this project.

For those following my computerlopnik escapades of the last week, the new case came today. Amazon sent me a Fractal Design Define R6, with the USB-C front port and tempered glass side panel so I can enjoy staring at my future machine. I’m pretty sure I’ll have a use for a front USB-C port in the future, and I’m a…

I got home from work today and was greeted by Amazon’s erection on a box. Inside revealed my new GPU in the form of a Sapphire Nitro+ RX590. Modern hardware is marvelous thing. Unplugged the old GPU, plugged in the new GPU, booted up and the thing just plain works even on whatever default driver windows 10 used until…

On Monday this past week a friend brought over his chainsaw and we cut down the three dead trees next to the house in the backyard. They weren’t huge, but at 30-40 feet tall the weren’t small either. It was a successful endeavor in that we got all three trees down without dropping any on the house or two walls that…

I decided to pickup an ethernet over powerline adapter this morning and see what I might gain over running my PC via wifi. My Netgear AC1750 router ain’t bad, but it is also setup on the other side of the house with a couple of walls between it and my PC in the spare bedroom. The placement makes sense in that most of…

Doggo has claimed my arm. Shelby is going to be disappointed when I move at some point. Doggos had an eventful day in going to the doggie country club for a spa day in the form of baths and nail trims.

I saw this car in the parking lot this afternoon at the post office. I need to meet the person who drives it, as he also works for the university and daily drives it. It isn’t the prettiest, and it isn’t the smoothest running old car out there, but it seems like I need to know this person anyway.  Maybe he’d be…

This morning I’m taking my Dad’s car back up north. No snow this time, which will make for a less interesting drive, but there should be some freezing fog further North. I imagine the truck will welcome stretching its legs, as I don’t think it’s gone over 30mph this past week.

My dad’s car is now done (which is good, because I go back to work tomorrow). It just has to go back to Albuquerque next weekend.

My cousin-in-law gave me a variety pack of European beers for Christmas, many of which I’ve not had before. This is one of them. It’s a bit on the malty side for my preferences, but it is indeed flavorful. ESBs aren’t my beer of choice, but I’d have this one again. It does get extra points for Crimean War references.

A Rockauto box showed up for the Mustang. It contained a way better than average magnet. This one I’ll actually keep.

Marble is one of the great breweries of New Mexico. I found this guy and five of his friends at Spec’s in El Paso, and I felt I had to repatriate them back to New Mexico.

I worked on this Miata a bit this morning.  So far, all this work equates to the cam and crank seals being replaced, but atleast pretty much everything from here is on the putting things back together side of the job.  First, lunch.

I’ve got my Dad’s Miata down here for a timing belt service/tune up/svending for the next week or two. The racecar gets some fellow red company in the garage. His 05 Miata has finally hit 61k, which is another way of saying his commute is 3 miles round-trip (and he only works 3 days per week/semi-retired) and their…

We got a little bit of snow today in Southern New Mexico. Ellie votes for snow, and she’ll even play fetch with snow balls.