August 11th, 2004

1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.

4) You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

5) It’s frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers toask you the questions.

6) Time may be a great healer, ! but it’s a lousy beautician.

7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

2) Wrinkles don’t hurt.

3) Families are like fudge…mostly sweet, with a few nuts.

4) Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

5) Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.

6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

1) No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.

2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair.

3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person.

4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

5) You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.

6) Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.

You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

9) Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

10) The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.

Ordered some PC parts yesterday. Ita time for the annual upgrading of the machines where me and my mum buy new parts and upgrade both our machines. In most cases i get the new parts and she gets my parts that have been upgraded – so we both get a speed and performace upgrade.

This year we have extended it a bit and are including my Mums neighbour Mrs Taylor, so Mum gets my spare parts and Mrs Taylor gets mums spare parts.

Although somewhat confusing, in the end everyone ends up with a substantial upgrade for the least amount of money.

Parts i ordered:

AMD 64 3200+ CPU – Ive always been an AMD fan, and the AMD 64 processors have the performance and price which suits me jsut fine.

Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro Motherboard – Ive never had a Gigabyte motherboard before, ive always had Asus ones, so im going out on a limb here. Other people i know have gigabyte boards and they say they are good, and all the reviews ive read have been positive.

Western Digital 120gig SATA HD – Ive currently got a Western Digital SE 120gig IDE drive, and its sweet. IM going to give it to my mum so she has 120gig of space to use up. Plus the new motherbaord has SATA so i may as well get a SATA drive – they are around the same price as an IDE drive with a lot better performance.

Cooler Master Case – Mum needs a new case. She doesnt like her old one much, but this one should do. It was rather cheap and has a nice looking aluminium front bezel, plus it has front usb / friewire / heaadphones / microphone ports – which is jsut what mum likes.

So parts are ordered and paid for. I got told 3 days, so fingers crossed i might get them before the weekend.