We have an old equipment auction at work every so often.  This last auction there were 4 Sparc 5's up for bid. Two were marked as 'Boots' and two were marked as 'Doesn't boot.'  So I bid $2 on one of the 'boots'.  A few minutes later I was outbid for $3.  Which was odd, since there were two that worked, so why start a bidding war?  So I bid $9, and was outbid again.  So I bid $2 on the other working Sparc 5.  And I won that auction and the other guy was stuck paying 10 bucks for the other machine.  I picked up the machine today.  No monitor, no power cord, no keyboard.  It does have a CD-rom, 2 serial ports ( wide not the PC narrow type ), and various kinds of things I don't recognize.  I'll either see how difficult it would be to get it running as some sort of server, or I'll sell it on Ebay.  It's a heavy fucker.  As a bonus I was also given one of the ones that did not boot for parts.

I now have the cable Internet.  Why a tech had to come out and do something I could have done, is beyond me.  A female tech too.  Unfortunately she didn't have to climb my pole.  I also found that I can split the cable and hook it up to my stereo's external antenna and pick up FM stations.  WRTI comes in crystal clear.  21 stations total.  Once I get all my email crap taken care of, I'm dumping Verizon DSL.  Double the speed and 12 bucks cheaper.

My friend from Philly wants me to come visit Friday night, then travel to NYC and walk down 42nd Street and hang out.  I don't get paid til the week after and if I say no, he'll be mad.  Technically it's his turn to visit me and do things I wanna do, but he'll not see it that way.  He also got a new laptop and it was giving him some warning about a missing file.  I told him to ignore it, was not important.  Does he listen?  No he pays Microsoft to get the same answer.

I bought a 'Bubba keg' at Walmart.  It's a water jug, 52 ounces.  The small size was too small and the big size was a whole gallon.  At Target it'd be called a big thermos or something but at Walmart ya have to market to your clientele.  I drank 1.5 of a Bubba keg today.  Wow.

I now own a vacuum, three new skillets and a pitcher. Also I need to get that manual for my entertainment center as well as some furniture.  Gah.

Anyway my back is killin me.  Time for bed.

Have a good one.