WackyPants

New Floor

2010-03-28T14:54:00.002-05:00

Time for spring cleaning!! What better way to freshen up a room then to install a new floor and repaint.

Venice Shorebase Flood

2009-05-31T11:34:00.008-05:00

When the wind blows in from the south and the tides are right Venice floods. Venice LA. is only good for testing missles, and pogey plants. Only the second hitch with the new car and it floods, Chevron sucks. There is no place like Shell!!!

New Car!!

2009-05-03T20:22:00.004-05:00

Time to upgrade the old computer!!

2008-03-20T11:04:00.007-05:00

I swapped out an Intel Motherboard, Pentium 3 450Mhz processor, and an old 9GB SCSI harddrive , for an Asus motherboard, Athlon64 2.4 Ghz processor, replaced the old drive with a WD Raptor 150GB SATA drive. Here is the old girl, after I cleaned her out with the vacuum cleaner.

The new motherboard, processor, and memory bolted into the tray ready to install.
The new harddrive, a WD Raptor, 150GB but very FAST!!Ok the moment of truth, we kept the magic smoke inside the box.
If you let the smoke out, electrical parts stop working!Hurray!! now for some diagnostic tests. Ok everything is working.
Now for the longest part of the project, downloading and installing the Operating System.
No Microsoft here, Only open source, Linux for this computer!!!!Twelve hours later... Full system installed. Internet, watching DVDs and looking at pictures.
Much faster now, I love the new system... welcome to the 21st century!!!

ASUS A8V-X socket 939 motherboard
AMD A64 4000+ 2.40 GHz processor
ULTRA DDR PC3200 400MHz 1024MB memory
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 16MB Cache 10,000RPM SATA hardrive
SONY DVD-ROM DDU-1632
old parts re-used...
ATI RADEON 9200 128MB AGP video card
TOSHIBA DVD+RW

New Computer

2008-03-20T10:41:00.008-05:00

Here is all the new stuff. I changed the computer from a Intel motherboard and Pentium 3 450Mhz to an Athlon 64 2.40Ghz and swapped an old 9GB SCSI harddrive for a 150GB WD Raptor SATA harddrive!!, and added a DVD-ROM.

Next is a picture of the old computer, you think it's dirty now,this is after I used the vacuum cleaner to suck out the dust bunnies.

Now the new motherboard and proccessor and memory in the tray ready to install.
Now for the the new hardrive, boy this thing is FAST!!

Christmas Mayhem

2007-12-23T15:31:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas! Having to work over the holidays, we had Christmas early. What a mess!!

Late Night? Early Morning?

2007-04-16T09:09:00.000-05:00

Here we are with the closest of friends. Congrats. Erin!!!

New Orleans

2006-11-11T18:55:00.000-06:00

Nice Time In N.O.L.A.
Took the family to New Orleans this week.
perfect weather, and good friends make for a great trip.

... In with the New!!!

2006-09-07T21:04:00.000-05:00

Something borrowed, something blue...
Happy Anniversary, Honey!!!

Out with Old...

2006-09-07T21:00:00.000-05:00

Old Minivan served us well.
Kept the kids safe, but now she's off to the glue factory.

Pretty Princess Birthday

2006-08-17T20:32:00.000-05:00

Pretty Princess, and Bratz. (the urban new age Barbie) Made for a great Birthday.
Mommie did a great job on the homemade Barbie B'Day Cake. The pictures don't do it justice this thing was huge!

Big Trouble, Little Girl

2006-07-19T19:45:00.000-05:00

Little Girl has the cute market cornered.

Featherfairy

2006-03-20T15:58:00.000-06:00

I found this today. My wife had done this some time ago as a gift for her niece.
She doesn't give it much credit, but I think it is worth posting. Comments welcome

Caught

2006-03-19T17:35:00.000-06:00

We figured out why we spend so much money on wipies, it is all the incidental costs that make child rearing so expensive.

To Windows Or Not to WinDoze

2006-03-18T22:24:00.000-06:00

I have been running Linux for several years now. I went from windows 3.1 to linux when I felt that Windows 95 was a piece of crap. My new laptop is the first time I've really played with XP. Ya know it's not so bad, games are fun. Putting linux on this thing and have all the cool features work ain't going to be easy. I think a great deal of research is in order.

New Computer

2006-03-09T20:29:00.000-06:00

Look, I've gone mobile! I love this laptop. I can Email and chat with my wife from around the world. I got a great deal from ITXchange, an off lease reseller for IBM. My wife is getting jealous of the "other woman"

Big time java junkie

2006-01-13T14:42:00.000-06:00

Watch out Starbuck's we're just a couple of brewin' fools. No more girly man Mr. coffee P.O.S. coffee pots 'round here. And all this can be yours for less than a month's worth of Grande Lattes.

Hooking up oil export riser

2005-12-20T19:13:00.000-06:00

Hooking up export riser
Originally uploaded by wilburleo.

Sometimes I get to do really cool fun things.
I had to hang from the crane to get down there.

Happy Place

2005-11-28T19:19:00.000-06:00

Here is a picture of our house. We are the annoying neighbors in our neighborhood. We are loud, messy and ride our bicycles through your garden.

To the fifth power

2005-11-28T19:09:00.000-06:00

Leo is 9, Sam is 7, Max is 5, Sadie is 3, and Gracie is 10 mos.
Once we got together, we just started spilling out all over.

Leo's Birthday

2005-10-27T19:32:00.000-05:00

Family Freak

2005-10-10T17:13:00.000-05:00

You can see the freak coming out in our youngest child

Mud Bug

2005-09-27T10:06:00.000-05:00

Sadie playing in the mud puddle with her shrimp boots

Lucky Us

2005-09-26T18:59:00.000-05:00

We really dodged a bullet with this last storm. It was scary that night with the wind howling and debris hitting the house. Kids thought it was fun, getting to sleep downstairs in the the "safe refuge".

Gracie Mouse

2005-09-21T15:06:00.000-05:00

Grace is now mobile. While sitting surfing the "net" I could hear noise from the other room. Gracie mouse rearranging the self to make a nest.
Here is the proof

nincom·pooper·y n.

2005-09-17T18:54:00.000-05:00