2016 Summer Projects

School's about to be out for summer! I'm literally sitting in my last class which is taking their final! Pretty much all the paperwork is done. I'm not moving rooms this year and neither is my wife. Plus we're not moving houses either! As far as getting projects done; last summer was a complete wasteland where all of the above happened. So yeah, I'm really beginning to contemplate what-all I plan on getting done this summer.

The number one priority is to get the "Globemaster" server off the ground. It's pretty much put together, just not "finished". Now that all the TVs have fully functioning and updated HTPCs, they're just waiting for me to get the server done to serve the media. However; it won't be the first thing to get done.

No.... this will be first. That is moving the downstairs HTPC from it's temporary home in the Silverstone SG-05 case to the Silverstone PT-13b case. It's really that small and should be sitting on my porch right about now. Some other HTPC equipment will move into that old case and it will go live with my brother/sister-in-law. I'm excited. I've been waiting some time to find this case at the $53 price I paid for it on Amazon. 

This is also on the horizon. I've got an appointment on Monday to take in our dozen or so computers in to be recycled at an actual eCycler in Dallas. That's been hanging over my head for months, so it'll be great to get done.

 

But the BIG project will be this. Ripping our movies and the rest of the CDs into the server. 

Then there's this. Yup, scanning our old photos into digital form. 

If you get the impression that there's going to be a lot of digital "grunt-work", you'd be right! I'm kinda looking forward to it though.