Category: Random Crap

I’ve never been into politics. I’d rather work with my hands than my mouth, but enough is enough. I don’t like the socialist road the current administration is taking us down.  To tell the truth I was not a big fan of the previous administration either for starting a war for bogus reasons and stealing our personal privacy rights. If you take all of the yearly profits from all of the fortune 500 companies and add them together they do not equal a Trillion Dollars. How will America ever pay back the Trillions of Dollars it is currently borrowing from other countries?

Maybe it’s time to join the Libertarian Party of Delaware?

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Recently we experienced a nasty nor’easter and what felt like two weeks of rain. There was a good deal of Coastal flooding and I myself had a good deal of water pooling in my yard.
As I was about to leave the house this morning I took a look into my crawlspace access and noticed almost a foot of water.  This would not be the first time I had rainwater accumulate in this location.  To remedy this I took the fountain pump from our pond and stuck it in the access expecting it to take less than two minutes to remove the water.  After five minutes and a hundred gallons of water I realized the water level had not gone down at all. Removing the access hatch I realized there was actually a good 12 inches of water under the entire house.  To make matters worse one of my five naughty cats decided it would be a good idea to jump into the water filled crawlspace only to land upon the semi-floating plastic moisture barrier which wrapped itself around the cat and started to pull her under water about 15 feet from the access area.  I could let the cat drown or go in after her. I ended up crawling in up to my chin in the cold dark crawl space and scooped her up from the water. As thanks she scratched the $hit out of my hand.

All’s well that ends well.  The cat is safe. The crawl space is almost dry and we will have a new liner and dehumidifier installed later this week. No damage was done to the house other than the brick getting wet.

Aftermath

Years ago I was always on the bleeding edge of technology. I had dual processor computers years before the Core Duo became standard, I used to overclock my processors to squeeze every bit of processing power I could out of them and I spent a lot of money in the process trying to keep up with technology.  I typically built myself at least three new computers each year with the latest and greatest parts. These days I can honestly say I don’t run any applications that need more than middle of the line processors and memory. I am very content running a year or two behind the times. Every now and then one of my older machines has an issue and I have to replace something like a power supply or a hard drive which is what led me to write this post. I cannot believe how far technology has come in such a short time and how low the prices have become.  I just had an older Maxtor 320 GB hard drive start to act up and I prudently replaced it before it had the chance to seize up and vaporized my data. Browsing the shelves of the local Staples I found a One Terra-byte hard drive for $119.00. $119.00 for a 1 TB Drive??? Five years ago I would have expected to pay $1900 for a 1TB drive.  The funny thing is that this is nowhere near the top of the line or the largest drive on the market these days.  1 TB is now just a run of the mill size storage device.  In 2000 I remember saying something foolish like “Why would anyone ever need anything larger than an 80GB hard drive?” My, how times have changed.