travis' brain dump

Not too shabby… about 2 weeks turn around time during the holiday season at that!

I think Amanda was a bit more stoked than I was about having it back to be honest… To quote her text messages today:

“The xbox just got here!” and “Yay we finally have it back. I have missed it.”

Now how many other women do you know that would say that!? Gotta love her!

I think she digs it mainly for the DDR, Scene-It and it’s ability to play any media we have in the house, lol.

With that being said we’ve run into a little snag with how things work with that. While the Xbox was gone we did an upgrade which is causing me some grief. I installed Small Business Server 2003 into the house and placed all the drive arrays on the main server instead of the desktop…. *sigh* Now the Xbox can’t see any of the music, pictures or video…. I will figure it out but it’s a bit disappointing to say the least. I’m not going to move the drive arrays as there has to be some solution out there. For now at least we can play games and watch DVD’s again, lol.

The nice thing about SBS in the house is having the Exchange server. I know, it’s “geeky” to have one in your house, but all the functionality it gives for email and the ability to archive and back it up properly is awesome. That and the file server is actually stable again. So all in all it’s nice.

We finished up the spare room downstairs… I’ll have to post up some pictures later though when I have some time. It turned out really nice in the end despite some electrical issues that had to be worked out. (read: travis was being stupid). The desktop has been moved in there to keep it safe while I cause havoc in the family room over the next couple of months… *grin* I can’t wait to get that room done.

Anyway, things to do.