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Today I was greeted with a “Drive Failure(0)" alert as I booted up my
main machine. Despite the warning, I booted up with no apparent issues. Curious, I started up the
Intel Matrix Storage Manager to discover one of my
four year old RAID drives was finally
showing it’s age. I can only guess the error in question is a
SMART alert signaling impending doom for one of my 4 drives. Daily backups from my home server eliminate any concern, so the mystery is afoot as to when it will actually fail. With SSDs still not affordable, I’ll probably just dial back to a 3 drive configuration and make due with 74GB less space.

During my
visit to Enorym, it was Philippine tradition that the guest get the best bed in the house. Unfortunately that was the same bed Enorym and his wife perform ciotus, so I declined after using the "Guest is always right" rule to override the bed rule. My recent entrapment of Enorym with an Xbox had him feeling a need to equalize the gift defecit refusing to accept his participation in Xbox parties as more than sufficient repayment. The resulting (attempt) to gift back yielded
this jewel created by
Stavos. It's nod to achivement point addiction, of which I suffer, and not so subtle gay reference immediately followed by an awkward "not gay" proclamation makes it an instant classic.

Every year the world holds it's breath, wondering when my frost warning light in my Cougar will illuminate. Well today is that day, and on a positive note, it's the latest it's turned on since I started
keeping track. Whether this means we're in for a mild winter, or if it's another sign of global warming I can't say, but I did exercise caution for possible ice on the road as my manual dictated despite the bright sun and lack of any kind of moisture.

With
Senator Kelleys house cleaned for showings, his annual event was transferred to the same bowling alley
Enorym had his
birthday party 6 years ago. While Enorym has since moved on to California, Whiney Ho and Schwartz returned, along with
Tigerbomb, Gina,
Morlock and Arizona. A generous helping of $1.75 games and $2 beer contributed to the perfect mix of intoxication and shenanigans that carried over into the after party. Fun was mandated and confirmed to have occured for everyone involved, despite a showing of
the crappiest Halloween movie ever. Thanks to the Senator and Lisa for all the planning, and to everyone else who showed up and prevented me from spending Halloween on my Xbox.

Thanks to
Forza 3, I finally own a Focus RS
of my very own. While it's only a virtual version, it helps fill the hole created by the announcement it will not be arriving in North America in the real world. Camping trips, picnics, and long relaxing drives are all planned around the tracks in the game using my unequalled imagination. I've even set aside some time for Lisa to tell me I'm driving too fast and have some syrup of ipecac to simulate her motion sickness.
NFS: SHIFT had a nice Focus ST but without the bigger engine and
revoknuckle it just wasn't the same. Yet another reason to never leave my basement has arrived.
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