The weekend trip was a success on all fronts. KC got to go scuba diving and Breezomatic got certified for scuba diving. Also, I picked up a few items at TigerDirect. I also have a special item purchased from Fry’s; it’s supposed to be a surprise, so I’ll not say any more about it until later.

My brother Al took the trip with me and suggested Portillo’s for lunch. If you’ve never had a Portillo’s hot dog (which I hadn’t before this weekend) you aren’t living! Anyway after going to both Fry’s and TigerDirect there, we went to Portillo’s for a late lunch. After a quick dessert stop at Dairy Queen, we went on home and I started putting together the “new” computer.

The specs are:

• Ultra case with 9 drive bays
• Ultra 400W modular power supply
• Chaintech 7NJL6 Socket A motherboard
• AMD AthlonXP 2700+ CPU
• 512 Mb 2700DDR RAM
• MSI GeForce 5200FX 128 Mb video card
• Maxtor 160 Gb hard drive
• 20 in 1 card reader