An exciting morning at the Hewett house. Barnesy and I woke up late as all hell and finally got moving well into the afternoon. After a few morsels of food we begin to function and started in on a discussion about his absurdly slow and outdated laptop. I have had the bad luck of having to use it before, so I know first hand how abysmal its performance is. I suggested looking into getting the rusty thing some new RAM and – a Google or two later – we found out that it could handle up to 2GB of RAM, which is pretty damn impressive considering that the thing was running on 256MB up until now (how on earth could WindowsXP even boot with that little I have no idea…) So after the revelation of adding in some new RAM, we hopped back online and grabbed 2 gigs of RAM for about $40 (not bad!) and then reinstalled XP to make everything squeaky clean. Hopefully in a week or so the new RAM will arrive and Barnesy will have a computer worth using. Go team Hewett!
Once the laptop situation was adequately covered, I started getting my Pops laptop up and running (after I stole it from his work the other day) by installing the remainder of programs I need and adjusting some of the settings to get things running smoothly. I finally got my development environment setup and working for Oasis, which was nice since I really couldn’t do any work with it. I’m thinking of offering to buy the laptop from Pops since it is pretty nice, I need one, and he doesn’t have a huge need for it right now. We will see…
I shoveled a bowl full of some bizarre pasta concoction into my face before heading out to softball practice, which turned out to be decent but not as good a showing as I would like. About eight brave souls showed up and we got a good hour to an hour and a half of grounders, fly balls and batting practice in. A few more people – Nikki and Dustin – dropped from the roster today because they can’t commit to the 2 hours a week that we play, so our numbers are even lower now. I guess it’s good since now all we have is the dependable, healthy people left.
I drove home from practice and started talking to Matt about doing some animation in the studio and he was all for it, so we grabbed some supplies and made our way downstairs. We spent a good 30 minutes figuring out what we wanted to do and finally decided on making a whiteboard animation of a song we both like (”Jupiter Room” by Digitalism.) We spent the next three or so hours doing the stopmotion animation for the intro of the video which consisted of the title of the song and the band. The animation turned out well, although it wasn’t a final product and it wasn’t something we were really psyched over.
All in all, I’d say it was a good day. Nothing too fantastic happened, but nothing horrible happened either. Just a good all around day, I would say. Ooo, that rhymed.
Cheers.