The Sugar's Only Sweetness

My local (Stabby/Shooty) Kroger has been undergoing a remodel.  Don't know how to feel about product placement sometimes!

Forget The Hearse 'Cause I'll Never Die

In case anyone was wondering, here is a small selection of my Christmas Music playlist from work.

She Left Me Roses By The Stairs

Today was a bittersweet day...

It has been an extremely long time since anyone other than myself has done any work on this old thing.  Probably the last time was when the transmission crapped out in 2008. 

But since I'm moving in like two and a half weeks, it kind of needs to be transportable.  The ignition system is super sketchy.  I suspect some idiot of a college kid tried to hotwire it this past summer.

Ah well, we shall see what it ends up being.

Because I’m Back In Black

All I See Turns To Brown

Went to Yellowwood State Forest today…Hooray! That place is fun!

Often we do this toward the end of October, and it is a great reason to break out a camera (or minimum 3).

This year the colors were kind of boring so I did most of my picture takery in black and white, I really like how they came out.

Mars Ain't The Kind Of Place To Raise A Kid - Revisited

Coming soon (for real this time!)

Communication Breakdown

It entertains me to no end that I am able to install a very old version of AOL Instant Messenger on 64-bit Windows 7.  If only I were able to remember any of my passwords!

Carry On My Wayward Son

Okay.  I'm going to start off by saying this thing is stupid long.

Like seriously stupidly long. 

This is one of the last public builds of the Pre-Reset Windows Longhorn.  It was still heavily influenced by and borrowed a lot from Windows XP.

I'm not going to lie...I had an awful lot of fun with this one.  Don't ask how or why, but I was really enjoying my time here.  

First off, the installation Process.

We have our standard Preinstallation loading screen.

New OS, new splash screen.  Awesome.

Wait...What? No blue text based installation?  What kind of nonsense is this?

Pretty straightforward so far.

Plug in a serial number...

Agree to a license agreement that you (probably) won't even read.

Yay for a summary with things you can sometimes change.

Disk Manager app that has become such a familiar sight.

Name your PC

Backtrack to an updated settings screen.

Now we wait.

And wait.

Keep with the waiting.

Setup is detecting stuff...Hooray!

I did this on a laptop.  Now we have the updated battery screen.

I really like the clock and calendar here. 

Wish it had stuck around.

Control Panel.

More of that.

Notification screen.  Yes. That is Office 2000 Professional

installing in the background.

Hooray...My battery doesn't suck!

The My Computer screen.  I haven't really decided

how to feel about things like the sidebar.

Yet more control panel.

Looking over the power options.