It has been a crazy past week or so. Nothing special just kind of wacky. First off my friend was in one of those train bumper fender benders on the freeway – no one hurt but her car a total.  Our new and improved power bill arrived and the Smart Meter they installed decided for the first time in over 28 years we used almost four times our normal amount of electricity. Nothing to do but pay it as the big energy corps rule! Do not try applying common sense to this – it does not work.

The Storm in a Box

Next I have been working on moving the mother board from the hot (as in temperature) running little Gateway into a new case a CM Storm case.  It turned interesting when I discovered that many of the board connectors are not labeled and Gateway is not forth coming with info. A web search turned up lots of folks looking for the same info to no avail. the wiring is fairly straight forward in the Storm case but where oh were on the header block do these wires go!  Will I did figure it out. Lots of tiny wire connections and tiny screws later . … the Storm is done. Maybe later I will ad some of those sound sensor LED lights and a lighting cathode tube – hee hee make it look like a storm is going on inside.

So that is what I have been doing mostly.  No school this week – Spring break – you would think Spring might decided to arrive? The weather is overcast and almost looks like a storm is coming? Should watch the weather report this evening.

It is only day two into the break and I am already worn out.  Working with my clumsy hands on the Storm case install has my fingers – well not cooperating at the moment. Stayed up to late goofing with the computer and reading.  My typing is really bad right now so I made a video rather than type on.

The CM Storm Project Vid

 

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