[elky] Re: First email from the sea monster [keeping busy on the house]
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: El Camino List <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 06:52:32 -0600
Nice place!
The dust is settling from moving the store from one location to another, so
I can get back to my place.
The shower tile is done, and we are finishing the walls and ceiling today
(I'm off). My part will be priming and painting wainscoting for the bottom
36" of the walls. We decided to keep the old sink from the 30's and use the
sink-less wash cabinet for storage. Got to figure out what to do with the
lighting and mirror cabinet. The vanity and sink with hardware is just too
pricey at this point. Easy 600-1000 bucks and that is not in the budget at
Xmas time.
JC
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John Christensen
1984 El Camino "Elkenstein" 350 TBI
NECOA #042 http://www.myelcamino.net
Maple Park, IL
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, I revived a much older box for the music.
>
> The desktop images are from a theme called "Sports Cars" and the one on
> the right is one of the best shots of a Ferrari 330 P3/4 I've ever seen.
>
> Nice-lookin prospective daughter-in-law. :)
>
> Btw, my oldest son is doing pretty much the same thing you are. They
> bought their first house a coupla weeks ago. Nice place.
>
>
>
> Robert: I don't think I'm up to dealing with mass quantities of mineral
> oil. Reminds me of the "Wesson oil orgies" of the 70s. :)
>
> A note about Windoze 8. I've done everything I can to make it NOT look
> like Windoze 8. I'm using a program called Start6 and one called Classic
> Start Menu. I'm still playing around with a way to make it look like it
> has a Quick Launch bar, including creating my own toolbar/folder and
> putting shortcuts there. There's some stuff that's ok, and some that
> sucks...network stuff is fine, unless you do something out of the
> ordinary. And to get all my computers on one network, I've had to put
> passwords on 'em. That ain't too smart in my way of thinking....but I've
> got all the boxes tolking to each other and me talking to myself. :)
>
> r
>
>
> On 11/24/2013 10:07 AM, John Christensen wrote:
>
> Outstanding Ray.
>
> So you rehabbed the old one anyway instead of replacing it with the new
> project?
>
> A for effort.
>
> Like your desktops too.
>
> I am catching up on paperwork, Lions club roll call for about 6 weeks,
> and paperwork that has just piled up on the desk while I have been working
> 3 or 4 am to 7 or sometimes 9:45 like the other night. Day off...... I am
> making use of that but will have to relax some today too.
>
> Got to meet Nate's new flame from the city, they stayed here last night.
> Glad he has found someone.
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> I have been doing things like polishing the solid brass 100 year old
> pantry door knob today. Jerry (bro in law) is putting tile up around the
> upstairs bath. It has the 2 shower heads in it now, one on each end, with a
> real pricey diverter to control them. Looking great.
>
> I am finishing paint in the kitchen around the windows and doors. All the
> latest is on the site up to about 2 weeks ago. Still have to get
> appliances, and build the bottom cabinets to work better.
>
> Back to it,
> JC
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sea Monster: Leviathan.
>>
>> I dunno how much of this I've posted, but...well, here's the status.
>>
>> After getting 2 bad motherboards and fighting a faulty SATA cable, Ye
>> Olde Leviathan is running. All HDDs (and the OS SSD) are installed.
>>
>> As John mentioned somewhere, I have to reload everything. I have most
>> of the activation keys, and install files, but it's still gonna take me (as
>> they say in the century-old mystery audiobooks I've been listening to)
>> "some little time" to get everything back to where it was Here's a shot of
>> the more or less wired up system:
>>
>>
>>
>> I've got a different keyboard mouse and USB mouse pad (I'll have to get a
>> photo of that to 'splain it) and there are other things to work on, but I
>> think I'm over the crest of the hill.
>>
>> While I was at it, I upgraded an old box to use an i7 4-core processor
>> and 8 gig of ram:
>>
>>
>>
>> I ended up doing this cuz the big box can't handle the high-end audio
>> card (different card slot configuration) so I can run WinAmp to play my
>> mp3s thru my component stereo like I did with the old box. It saved 1/2
>> terabyte on the HDD that I use for photos. (It's a Western Digital "black"
>> 2 TB drive and a 1 TB drive on "Cerberus"...3-headed hellhounds from
>> Greek and Roman mythology.) So I have a sea monster and a monster of the
>> underground on the network. Big deal. :)
>>
>> No, Frank...it won't make coffee, but I think I may have something to
>> take care of that....sorta. LOL! I have 2 liquid cooling systems for the
>> big box, (one for each processor chip) but they have black tubes connecting
>> things and I wanna use clear tubing and colored coolant. Just a whizz-bang
>> deal (the tubing, not the coolers.) I'm thinkin about running 'em in
>> series and add an external tower reservoir.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll add some sort of coloring to whatever coolant I use...probably
>> distilled water and some biocide to keep goop from growing in the system.
>> Or I may use a coil of silver to act as a natural biocide/algaecide:
>>
>>
>>
>> More whizz-bang stuff. I'll have to work out the system and run it on
>> a test bench before putting it into the system. Water and computers has
>> the possibility of bad stuff happening. :)
>>
>> Ok. I've been thrashing on this since zero dark-thirty it's time to take
>> a break.
>>
>> r
>>
>>
>>
>>
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