Lots to report on today. One of my friends and I got into a little tiff and my friend made some negative comments about my online journal. We got over our differences, but I just wanted to say that I'm not at all embarrassed about what I'm doing here. I try to take care to be very considerate of my privacy and others' privacy when I enter this text and make it available for others to view online. I do try to be discrete.

We got the house

Yep, we got the house in Riverton. Well, at least, we submitted the winning bid. We're preapproved for the financing as well. So we're on our way to getting this house. There's still possibilities, I guess, the deal could fall through. Maybe we are really dissatisfied with what we find out after a home inspection is performed. Who knows.

So, what about this house? Well, it's a brick and stucco rambler with a basement. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It is about 2450 square feet total. It sits on a very rectangular 0.26 acre lot which is on a slightly sloping hill. There is a new development in progress to the north, but right now there is a beautiful view of the Salt Lake valley to the north. If the homes aren't too tall, that view will remain as the lot is a little higher than those being developed.

We have a meeting with our realtor tomorrow morning to begin the arduous process of completing paperwork which must be submitted.

The house does not have any appliances, so we will need to purchase those. Fortunately, one of my best friends does sales at a local Maytag store. I talked to him tonight and he assures me he can find us some great deals.

There's also that repair work that needs to be done on the ceiling in the bathroom and master bedroom. That's probably the only repair that we would insist on being done before we moved in. The other things can be done after we move in, if necessary. I'm guessing my brother can get that done in a matter of a week or so.

Work work work

I spent 12 hours away from home to do work today. I had to go to Logan and do some onsite programming work for an Iodynamics client. We have another client that needs some programming work done which will keep me VERY busy the next couple of days and into next week.

This is good news, of course, because I'm going to need to start thinking about budgeting for a house payment come November or December.

New motherboard and CPU

foo got a new motherboard and CPU tonight. The motherboard is an MicroStar K7N2 - which is based on the nVidia NForce2 chipset. The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with the “Barton” core with a 333Mhz front-side bus speed. (I can dream they created this new generation of the Athlon architecture in my name).

The K7N2 motherboard supports dual-channel DDR RAM, so I got 2 512MB PC2700 RAM modules for the board. This gives me a total of 1GB of RAM, but because of the dual-channel nature of the motherboard, it is able to read and write to both modules at the same time - nearly doubling access speed.

Why did we upgrade? Oh, because my buddy Dave is looking to build a PC to run Linux and that was a good excuse to sell him my “old” hardware (Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT266 motherboard).