Wow... just came back from a whirl-wind
trip out to my folx house and back, and man, its an incredible evning here in the North End. I finally finsihed the switcher-roo I did with 2 computers/mainboards that I had, I swapped out the K6 system that was my Linux Fedora box, and upgraded to a Athlon 850 system. Rocks now soooo much faster than before.
My mom at home is running my brothers hand-me-down old pentium I system, and its sloooow as molasses just doing web-browsing with Firefox, so I upgraded her to my old K6 system I had, and tonight I snagged ZipCar so I could drive the Mid-tower ATX case home to them. I also loaded up about 30 flattened boxes that I had.. little parental storage.. hehehehe
So I snagged a Toyota Matrix from Sargent Wharf, which is basically diagnoally acorss the North End from where I am, so I walked all the way ( less than 1 mile.. gasp! ) across this lovely neighborhood to snag the car. Drove over to my place, loaded in the ATX box and 30 boxes and a bag of old clothing, and then headed for the Used clothing place in Allston. Awesome amazing drive down Storrow, sun was setting over the Charles, pink and orange sky. get to Allston, park on the other side of Linden, walk the clothes up to Brighton ave, and the damn place was closed. wasted trip. Zoom out on the Pike, and start heading west, and hit tons of 'evening' repaving traffic.. lanes closed.. finally make it out to Framingfish, dump off my stuff, talk to my mom. Find out that my dad had a 'heart issue' last nite around midnight, and they went to the hospital for 3 hours... turns out he stressed himself way to much in the heat+humity yesterday... bicycling all oiver town, doing tons of things at nite, and basically he diluted his system of electroylytes, drank a ton of fluids and his heart ended up start beating out of rythym. They shocked him back and they are all good. My dad just doesnt wanna admit that hes not a kid anymore. so funny.
Dump off my stuff, chat for 15, head back into boston. had a AWESOME drive back in on the pike... Cranking Joe90's 'Big love' mix CD, and just zooming thru the construction. I ended up racing some kid for a couple minutes on the Allston Flats part, just before the tollbooths. The Matrix is good to about 85 or so and then it gets a little hairy. Hitting the bridge decks under construction at about 105 MPH was not cool, bounced in a slightly bad way.. eeep. Take my time from there all the way down to south station, take the Big Dig north one exit to gvt center, loop around the north end on commercial street, and Wham! have zip car back 10 minutes before it was due. Walk back across the north end, stop off at the CVS for some OJ and cookies, come back home. Picture perfect nite on hanover street. I defineitly do not spend enough time hanging out in my own hood.
*sigh*
get back into my place, and I had put a fan in one of my windows cranked on high to blow the heat out.. didnt work, still 78 degrees in here. This building retains sooo much heat, take 2-3 days after hot weather for it to shed all the heat.. downside of living in a very solid brick and concrete building.
a really good and fun nite, and productive! clearing junk out of my place, hopefully soon my living room will start to become usable a little.. heh
ok, outta heah...
frustrated
sleepy