Not A Bad Weekend

It's always great to have my kids up over the weekend and this weekend was no exception. We went to see the new Star Wars movie, which was good. We had root beer floats. We grilled outside. We did laundry and dishes. We watched a few episides from Season 2 of The Greatest American Hero. We attended church. We played ball tag outside. We played some Uno. It was really fun!

I didn't get to keep the girls an extra day due to Memorial Day, but I did get some overtime at work that day. I have so much fun with my kids. I hope that they are equally having a good time. My roommate Derek did the grilling out for us and Uno followed the game. We have a picnic table that was in our shed and I hosed it off and it has come in handy twice already. The evenings have been wonderful. The girls were even catching and releaseing lightening bugs.

My oldest daughter just shocks me sometimes. She really likes watching The Greatest American Hero! Really! When she found out that I had season 2 she wanted to start watching right away. I think we made it through 3 episodes this weekend. I like doing it a little at a time so that we do plenty of other things.

We have had so much fun playing outdoors. Paige tries to get us to do it more often and sometimes we just run out of time. She has so much energy! Brittany is really getting more and more energy with her weight loss. I bought her some size 14 jeans for her birthday, which was down two sizes and they seemed a tad loose on her this weekend.

My other roommate has a new girlfriend. I make sure that we don't have "guests" over when my kids are here. He's been fairly good about it, but he's had parking issues with letting friends park in the driveway that we pay for and he has tried sneaking girls in and out during the night while my kids are sleeping. This just doesn't fly and it's just not cool when you agree to certain things in your living arrangements. He will get better, though.

This new girlfriend reminds me of Chrissy Snow from Three's Company. She is young, flighty, and funny. The young part of her gets a tad emotional very quick, but she's funny and really tries to put on a good face. There have been a couple of things that have put me off a bit, though. She asked me if I wanted anything when she went to our basement to get something to drink for herself and my roommate. I wasn't sure she was talking to me since I live with two guys and we don't necessarily ask those types of things. I made a joke about it and she half-jokingly replied that it was the reason she should be a roommate. That just hit me the wrong way. I'm glad he finally found someone that he seems pretty serious about, although not totally, but I don't like the way she is coming into our lives.

I mentioned early last weekend when talking to Derek that we should all go bowling again since we had fun the previous week doing that as roommates. When I brought it up, she overheard and said that she thought that was a great idea. Well, I apparently didn't make it clear that I just meant us 3 guys. When we went bowling last week, we were joined by her.

Now don't get me wrong. She's a nice girl and is pretty funny, but it's just weird how she is suddenly becoming a part of my life and Derek's in more a more personal way. I'm used to our other roommate bringing over girls, sometimes 3-4 at a time, but he entertains them in the basement as we are to do and we may only see them a couple of times or less in a month. We don't do anything with them but clown around in the basement and then send them on their way. Of course, the other roommate does a little more with them at various times. I'm just not sure I like this and since she is coming upstairs and staying overnight often, it's bothering me. I'm used to the upstairs being our personal space and I don't like it invaded. We will see how this goes, I guess.

GOOD NEWS!! I finally have my main computer back up and running. It has been down since before Christmas. I had to fight with the company I purchased it from to finally get it replaced. They claimed to do it last time, but their paperwork shows otherwise. Now that the motherboard has finally been replaced I have a running computer!

In case I haven't mentioned it before, my main PC is a monster. I have an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1.5GB RAM, 6 Hard Drives totalling aver 800GB in space, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum, ATI All-In-Wonder with 128MB RAM and dual monitor support, an ATI PCI 7500 dual monitor card, 4 19" monitors, DVD Dual Layer burner and DVD player, all hooked up to two TV's, two VCR's, an external DVD player, and our cable box. I will also soon have it hooked up to the cable box in a way to record off the DVR stuff onto DVD. I have a digital camera, a live camera, remotes for the AIW and Audigy, and a headset with mic for voice. Oh, and two subwoofers in the speaker setup.

Oh, and I have another computer under that desk. It's an AMD 1900+ with 768MB RAM and over 200GB of hard drive space. It's got 3 19" monitors hooked up to it, but one is part of a KVM setup so that I can work on the small desk that the third monitor is on with another PC if needed. It's pretty intimidating to some people to see 7 - 19" monitors on my desk in a moon shape and then 2 - 27" TV's hanging on the wall above it.

I have most everything loaded, but need to get the USB devices connected and then start on some projects. It's so nice to have this about done.

Not a bad weekend overall, eh?