I was sitting at my computer listening to music and writing a post when I noticed the monitor that shows the core temps on my processor was hitting around 40C. Considering that I'm sitting in an air-conditioned room, that's awfully high. (Normally, that's just about the max temperature it hits when I've been playing games for awhile. I wasn't doing anything like that, so seeing the temperature that high worried me a bit.) So I opened up the side of my case and noticed that the fans and vents were a little dusty. I didn't have any compressed air handy, and it's the middle of the night, so I just turned the computer off and cleaned the vents with a rag and the fans with some Q-Tips. Then I pulled the front of my case off and the vent beneath the front facade was the most clogged. Cleaned that off, put all of the case covering bits back on, and I'm back to idling between 26-29C.
So now I don't have to worry about my computer exploding.
After that I straightened up the computer desk a bit. I kept the essentials handy though. A sharpie, one of my USB thumb drives, a screwdriver, my iPod, 2 DVD-R spindles (one of blanks and one for recently burned discs), and of course, a big bottle of aspirin.
I also took the 3 foot tall tower of DVDs from the top of my computer case and put them in my bedroom. I've got enough DVDs piled up in there to build a fortress or castle out of the cases. One day I'll go back to organizing them all instead of stacking them on shelves or putting them in cardboard boxes.
I've been listening to the new Extreme album (Amazon link). Nuno Bettencourt is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. He has been since I discovered the band back when I was 13 or 14. I even went to his first ever guitar clinic back in 1990, right before the second album came out. One of the guitars that I own was autographed by him, which is why I bought it. So I was obviously interested to see what sort of album and band that hasn't put an album out in nearly 14 years would come out with. I'm not sure how much I like or dislike the new album. It'll probably take awhile to grow on me (if it ever does) like "Waiting For The Punchline" did. Still, they're a great live band, if you can get past the singer doing all of the goofy Freddie Mercury wannabe shit.
After that I straightened up the computer desk a bit. I kept the essentials handy though. A sharpie, one of my USB thumb drives, a screwdriver, my iPod, 2 DVD-R spindles (one of blanks and one for recently burned discs), and of course, a big bottle of aspirin.
I also took the 3 foot tall tower of DVDs from the top of my computer case and put them in my bedroom. I've got enough DVDs piled up in there to build a fortress or castle out of the cases. One day I'll go back to organizing them all instead of stacking them on shelves or putting them in cardboard boxes.
I've been listening to the new Extreme album (Amazon link). Nuno Bettencourt is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. He has been since I discovered the band back when I was 13 or 14. I even went to his first ever guitar clinic back in 1990, right before the second album came out. One of the guitars that I own was autographed by him, which is why I bought it. So I was obviously interested to see what sort of album and band that hasn't put an album out in nearly 14 years would come out with. I'm not sure how much I like or dislike the new album. It'll probably take awhile to grow on me (if it ever does) like "Waiting For The Punchline" did. Still, they're a great live band, if you can get past the singer doing all of the goofy Freddie Mercury wannabe shit.
Next on my agenda is trying to get through some of this week's comics and catch up on TV shows that I've missed (two weeks of VENTURE BROS and this week's MAD MEN).
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