MacBrave's Journal: Weekend Update

This was the first weekend in quite a while where we didn't have an overwhelming list of things to do. So it was quite relaxed, relatively speaking...

Saturday
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* went to a few garage sales in the morning, until it started raining.
* Trevor's baseball practice - rained out
* Griffin's soccer game - rained out
* messed around with my old 450mhz box. I have it dual-booted with win98 and Fedora Core. The video card was acting strange under win98 so I tried to fix it. Ending up have to reload win98, but still didn't fix the problem. I think I'm going to pitch the dual-boot and run linux-only.
* Read a book
* fixed the flat tire on Griffin's bike
* Last week a friend gave me shoebox containing about 10 Atari 2600 games. Since I don't have a 2600 I thought I would have go searching for one (hence the aformentioned garage saling), but then I remembered the same friend about a year ago gave me an Intellivision 2 with one of those 'system changer' modules that plays 2600 games. So I pulled out the whole messed and voila! It worked. Well, all but two of the games worked. And the paddles for super breakout are mucked up. I also spent a lot of time cleaning the various hardware of several years of dust and dirt. Pics here: Geek stuff

Sunday
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* skipped church to sleep in (at my wife's request of course)
* lazed around the house most of the moring
* went to child protection training at the church in the afternoon. Only lasted about an hour.
* helped spray paint Evan's school project.
* went to church youth-group at the associate pastor's home. Had a good time.
* played some civ3 and BF1942.

All in all, a pretty relaxed weekend. The coming week should be fun though, with either scouts, a track meet, baseball game, or soccer game pretty much every night. Ah the joys of parenthood!