Posts Tagged “dust”

One clear sign that times are tough is when people start mowing their own lawns.  As money becomes tighter we are forced to look for areas where we can cut back.  Today this was my reality. Through this traumatic experience I’ve learned a few things about money, life, love, hard work, and lawn care technology.

Take the jump to see the rest of this gruesome photo, and to get the details of what I learned today…

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This week I sold my old G5 along with a 23″ Cinema Wide Display, a BlackMagic card, Sonnet Tempo eSata card, and a Sonnet Fusion 500P populated with 5 x 500GB hard drives. It was a complete edit system including lots of fast storage, but as part of my “out with the old – in with the new” theme, it all had to go.

Hindsight certainly is 20/20 and I like to review technology after the fact to reflect on how well it worked. Overall my G5 was a great machine and it was difficult to let it go. But a couple of the components were very hard to let go: the monitor, and the storage…
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This weekend we had the carpets cleaned which required that we picked up everything off the floors.  In several rooms this meant stacking items on top of a bed or a couch.  When the guys were finished, seeing all that fresh empty real estate was inspiring. (I like open spaces in a house.) So we decided to take on to the task of trying to clean things up enough to keep the floors clear of clutter.  In my home office the job was to clean my desk of several years of paper and junk and to move out the G5 mac to make room for my new 8-core mac pro.

The desert is dusty

Let me interject that the task was too daunting for me to do alone and that my wife helped a great deal with organization. But the real clean up was my responsibility.  I wish I had taken a picture before starting the project, but here it is after almost everything was removed from the table.

Skipping ahead ahead a few hours, past the boring cleaning process and way past the awful disgustingness I found underneath my amplifier, I finally had my 8-core placed up on the sterilized Ikea desk ready to plug in to my monitor, mouse and keyboard.  But I quickly realized that Apple had also done some house cleaning. Read… »