Ready for school and other summer activities.

This has been an interesting summer.  Kat is accepted into the History and Education programs at Southwest Minnesota State University.  So now we get to go through the whole game of financial aid, setting up her dorm, getting books, and the most scary... moving her out of the house.

You see, I have this very ODD sense of humor.  For the past 20 years, Kat has been the one that "gets it".
It's going to be quiet around here, but I guess they all grow up some day.

We got notification this week that all the loans and aid stuff is final and we have her year covered.  Now it's just getting her all the other things.

Started planning for building JD's next computer.  Dad's going to have fun with this.  He does a lot of first person action stuff so I'm planning the build with that in mind.  Here's what I'm planning so far.  We are trying as much as possible to use PCGold as our source for materials.  They are a bunch of good folks down there.  It's where I do most of my DIY stuff.

• Case - Found one with a 450W power supply and tool-less drive bays for $55.  Looks cool and JD liked it.
• Motherboard - ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 (It's an AMD AM3 board with SATA 3 6Gb/s and USB3 on board.  It's $168, but it has better on-board graphics than the $110 unit with the same I/O specs.
• Looking at a 6 core AMD AM3 for the processor with 8GB of DDR3 RAM.
• PCGold sells WD 1TB SATA III 6Gb/s drives for $W

We're doing this piece by piece, so it may take a few months. I may have to start a topic line to follow this project.