All in all it has been good this weekend. Friday, our company's entire IT department moved to the new office location in Richardson. We moved into the facility of a company we bought last year. All they had there is a NOC and a support call center. The cube at the new place is bigger, with more open space, half wall and a lot of clear glass. Will see how the noise is on Monday, when everyone will be there.

Saturday, spent most of the day in class for my real estate license. I want to be a broker, so I don't have to pay anyone when I start buying and selling real estate investments.

Started doing my taxes on Saturday night, almost finish except I realized I need the information on the disk in my desktop computer that crashed about a month ago for capital gain and loss.

Today after church I went to Ron Branson's meet and greet. Ron will be challenging the incumbent mayor in the upcoming May 10th municipal election. Hope we'll get her out of there because she's done nothing good in office but plenty of things to annoy, irritate the good people of Carrollton all around.

Afterward I headed over to Micro Center to grab me 3MB of memory for my Mac mini, and a couple of NAS so I can read the data of the disks. I had two disks in my desktop running Windows XP x64, one old IDE and an SATA, with certain critical data mirrored from one disk to the other. The problem is that the entire box crashed and I need information on long term capital gain and loss to do my taxes. So here I am going with a new strategy, Mac and NAS. I wanted the D-Link DNS-323 for my 500GB SATA disk and the Eagle Consus T-Series ET-CSTNASU2-BK for my 120GB IDE disk. It showed quantity of one in stock but neither I nor the guy who worked there could find the D-Link so I settled with a Vantec eSATA/FireWire/USB2.0 external enclosure instead.

Got home, tried the Eagle Consus, couldn't get it to work. I can assign an IP address to it but can't write anything to it to configure the SAMBA server or the FTP server. Tried to use the USB connection instead but my Mac mini couldn't recognize it and my Windows XP laptop recognized an "IDE to USB" mass storage device being plugged in but couldn't access it. So, do not buy the EagleTec T-Series if you are looking for network storage. The VanTec works perfect with my Mac mini, plugged it in with the FireWire cable, powered on and whoa la, it's right on my Mac mini desktop. I pulled the file I need, and now I need to go finish up my income tax return. Finally opened up my Mac mini again, stick the two new sticks of memory in and whoa la, I have 3GB of memory in my Mac mini. A very happy camper I am indeed.