Crash

Yep, the computer bit the big one. I have to tell you what I went through with this thing. I had a CRC on the boot partition... so blue screen time. I got rolling blue screens on reboot. I back everything up so I decided to grab a new HDD and just reload. That's when the fun started. I had a burned copy of my XP CD and I lost the original. Apparently, the DVD burner I have has an issue with the default drivers that XP uses during install and will make the install crash with a blue screen randomly if using a burned CD-R. So I get a blue screen in the install. That was a first for me. No big, I have a old ATA CR-ROM so I slap it in and I'm good to go. In order to make the ATA drive work I had to reset my BIOS for ATA. When I did this it set the primary ATA bus off of my SATA bus. That meant that XP couldn't see any of my drives. Last time I had only SATA so it wasn't a problem. So, now I have to install a floppy, get a driver disk for the SATA I have and then do the install. Ok, that was done... and now I get to re-install everything. Yay fun!

Once I got it to a point that I knew was good I quit and we took the kids to the drive-through safari in Shertz, TX. It was really fun. We got some bags of feed at the gate... which Serenity decided to sample.


After cleaning out her mouth we were on our way! There was a 5mph speed limit so I had Seri on my lap. She wanted to hang out the window... and I though that was a good idea.


Well, maybe not the best idea.


Don't worry, she didn't fall. The kids even got to see a real buffalo. I told Hayden that I came from Buffalo... it really confused him.


Yep, it was a good time... until the ostriches attacked. If you didn't know, ostriches are big, stinky, mean birds. Now, when I say big... these things are HUGE!


Here's a fun little video of an ostrich trying to eat my fingers. Yes, I did get ticked and pelt it with a piece of food at the end. In my defense I must say that I don't care and I'd do it again.

Hayden got to meet a fireman who let him sit in the truck and press some buttons, which was really cool.

Hayden flipped out and now wants to be a fireman... or a Transformer. It's a toss up.

Well, I have a ton of homework to catch up on and I'm going to shampoo the rugs while the kids are sleeping. Apparently the MIL thinks that spill proof cups mean 1 yr old with chocolate milk in the living room is perfectly safe.