Arkayn's life

Buick is toast

Arkayn — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:58:42 +0000

It is official, the Buick blew the head gasket. Time to start looking for something else now. Estimate for repairsRead the Rest...

Time to find that new job

Arkayn — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:06:47 +0000

Things at work are starting to get ridiculous, I got sent home because I refuse to tuck in my work shirt. I have good reason for not doing it.

Bonnie has her MIT position going to her head and has become power crazy. Looks like she will get to do some extra work today then.

So far I have applied at the State Prison, Hualapai Nation Correction Institution and now I am going to send a application to the Hualapai resort on the West rim.

I would prefer to get out of the hospitality business all together though.

PSU Ordered

Arkayn — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:46:55 +0000

Now I just have to wait for the new PSU and I will be rocking dual video cards in myRead the Rest...

Computer Updates

Arkayn — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:02:34 +0000

The iMac is still barely running, I use it for my 3 Nationstate nations and downloading my daily comic fix.

The Q8200 is currently running the GTX460 and doing mostly SETI on it.

The X4-630 has been recently upgraded to a newer motherboard that supports 2 PCI-E slots and DDR3-1600 RAM. Once I upgrade the PSU, I will put the HD5830 in it along side the GTX560 that is already in there.

ATI HD5830

Arkayn — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:31:44 +0000

Last Monday this card up and died on me. it was randomly crashing the computer, but I thought it was something else.

After the last freeze, I opened the computer and restarted the computer, got no video and then noticed that the fan on the card was not running at all.

Looked up on Newegg and discovered that I had a 2 year warranty, so I started the process for an RMA on the card.

I just sent it off today and I will most likely have to wait for several weeks before I get it back.

For the time being, I am using the older HD4830 in that machine.

I still want to get something like a GTX560 though.

iMac almost dead

Arkayn — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:20:06 +0000

My poor old iMac is getting worse every day, constant lockups and crashes.

I have to start saving for a new Mac, but for the time being I am using my AMD Quad as my running desktop.

I will most likely pick up a new Mac Mini after they are refreshed.

Vacation over

Arkayn — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:44:47 +0000

Now that I have had my vacation, I pretty much need another one.

Today was fairly interesting, did not really have to make anything as there was leftovers aplenty.

Need to find another event to go to so I can burn my other 2 days of vacation.

2 Weeks until vacation

Arkayn — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:26:59 +0000

I am looking forward to having 5 days off in a row, I really need the break.

Hopefully I will have several different food items to use when I come in on Saturday.

Still need to save a lot of money so I can replace my iMac, but real life keeps interfering.

Continuing sucky

Arkayn — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:20:41 +0000

Work continues to be fairly busy, never knowing what I will have to do day to day.

Right now I am back doing buffet 5 days a week since our morning team has either quit or will be gone in a week and a half. Need to get some more people hired and trained.

I still have to do a lot of the prep work like making soups, pastas, chili and spaghetti sauce for the line. Not to mention the steaks, sandwich meats and chicken fried steaks.

I am taking a vacation next month to go to Highlands War again.

Update

Arkayn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:27:10 +0000

Life has been fairly sucky recently.

WIth the change to having 2 in the morning and 2 at night I have ended up doing even more work that before as we do not have enough people who can handle the duties.

Hopefully soon I will get back to mornings only and a better work flow.