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Jan. 11th, 2005 12:34 amSo I'm driving down the Alaska Way Viaduct to work and I think, hey, I should take the 1st Avenue street exit, cut over to 4th Avenue, and stop at Yak's for some good barbeque pork and a humbow.
I tend to think this a lot, but then I always decide that getting off I-99 and onto the traffic-clogged streets of Seattle is a bad idea. And I made the same decision today. Nope, I left early for one reason only, and that's to go get me a new video card. I don't have time to go to Yak's.
And then I see traffic ahead of me coming to a screeching halt, just past the 1st Avenue street exit. There's a fire truck trying to force its way through traffic, and behind me a police car is doing the same thing. I stop to let the police car through, then I force my way into the left lane and take the 1st Avenue exit. Only later at work did I hear that there'd been a fatality accident just a short ways South of there, and the viaduct was shut down for hours.
So I went to Yak's and got barbeque pork with hot mustard and two humbows. Then I turned right and headed South on 4th Avenue. Thinking that I needed to get over to 1st Avenue so I could just drive onto the 1st Avenue bridge, I turned right at Spokane. This was a big mistake, because A) I was trapped by a train for over ten minutes, with no way out because I was hemmed in by traffic or concrete on all sides, B) Once the train was gone I realized that you can't make a left turn onto 1st from the street I was on, and C) After going through the intersection and finding a way to turn around and head back East towards 1st Street, I was stuck in more traffic that had built up from the stupid train.
So that was a waste of 15 minutes, but otherwise traffic was a breeze all the way South, and I managed to stop in at CompUSA (pronounced COMP-OOO-SAH) at Southcenter and buy myself a video card like the one I got for Tom. (It has SICK GRAPHICS! It says so on the box!).
And now I'm going to install my new card into my computer in back. It's an Xtasy Radeon 9600 w/256mb in case anyone wondered. If anyone wants the card that I'm pulling out, I have no need for it. If I recall correctly it's a Geforce MX400 or somesuch, maybe a Geforce 4 MX400, with 128mb memory I think.
Well to be honest I don't remember exactly what it is, although I'm pretty sure it's one of the MX cards and that it doesn't have SICK GRAPHICS.
I tend to think this a lot, but then I always decide that getting off I-99 and onto the traffic-clogged streets of Seattle is a bad idea. And I made the same decision today. Nope, I left early for one reason only, and that's to go get me a new video card. I don't have time to go to Yak's.
And then I see traffic ahead of me coming to a screeching halt, just past the 1st Avenue street exit. There's a fire truck trying to force its way through traffic, and behind me a police car is doing the same thing. I stop to let the police car through, then I force my way into the left lane and take the 1st Avenue exit. Only later at work did I hear that there'd been a fatality accident just a short ways South of there, and the viaduct was shut down for hours.
So I went to Yak's and got barbeque pork with hot mustard and two humbows. Then I turned right and headed South on 4th Avenue. Thinking that I needed to get over to 1st Avenue so I could just drive onto the 1st Avenue bridge, I turned right at Spokane. This was a big mistake, because A) I was trapped by a train for over ten minutes, with no way out because I was hemmed in by traffic or concrete on all sides, B) Once the train was gone I realized that you can't make a left turn onto 1st from the street I was on, and C) After going through the intersection and finding a way to turn around and head back East towards 1st Street, I was stuck in more traffic that had built up from the stupid train.
So that was a waste of 15 minutes, but otherwise traffic was a breeze all the way South, and I managed to stop in at CompUSA (pronounced COMP-OOO-SAH) at Southcenter and buy myself a video card like the one I got for Tom. (It has SICK GRAPHICS! It says so on the box!).
And now I'm going to install my new card into my computer in back. It's an Xtasy Radeon 9600 w/256mb in case anyone wondered. If anyone wants the card that I'm pulling out, I have no need for it. If I recall correctly it's a Geforce MX400 or somesuch, maybe a Geforce 4 MX400, with 128mb memory I think.
Well to be honest I don't remember exactly what it is, although I'm pretty sure it's one of the MX cards and that it doesn't have SICK GRAPHICS.
