Sickles Insight

In recent discussions with my roommates we compiled a quick list of accumulated hard disk storage capacity between the four of us. This conversation surfaced after Ryan found a steal on 200GB hard drives at just 40 dollars! After I purchased one, and Paul two - we realized we were disk store crazed! Truthfully though, I believe we are using the majority of the disk space we own. The list below is what we added up. This equates to almost 3 Terabytes of disk storage. That’s a lot of disk! For not so tech adept, that’s equivalent to the storage of 100 of those shiny silver computers from CU (dell D600 @ 30gb). Wow, imagine if we had the processing power of 100 D600’s. Hmmmm….. And for you nerds, yes I mentioned hard disk above, but the following may include small quantities of flash memory. There I prefaced, now you can’t complain about the invalidity of the list.

Look at the breakdown:

TOTAL: 2.86TB

Alright, yeah I’m a nerd. Whatever. Go ahead and say it. Now that that’s out of the way, I am thoroughly pleased at my recent winnings of $23,744!!! After counting the total of my winnings I sat there for a moment imagining what I could and would want to do with all that surprise capital. Several more seconds of that amount of cash in hand and I returned the money to the designated monopoly banker. Several weeks ago I won a timed game of Monopoly involving Paul, Krista, Brittnay, and myself. All demanded a rematch, and so we set out to play until full monopoly Monday night. Just under four hours later I monopolized the entire board for an end cash equivalent of the above total. It was a good game, tight game, and very much enjoyable. I wonder if there will be a third match coming down the road.

Last night I went through the day very much anticipating a challenging game or Risk later in the evening. If you can’t tell, I enjoy the challenge and competition involved in strategy types of games. Well, 6pm rolled around and persons 1,2 and 3 were already there. Persons 4 and 5 arrived, and then person 6, and 7. Wait, what seven? Dang it. Risk is a 6 player game! At the risk of injuring friendship for the sake of keeping the game on target, I relaxed and reluctantly chimed in for an undemanding straightforward game of Phase 10. I guess it turned out alright, Persons 3 and 5 weren’t really all that into the risk concept anyway. Hmmm…perhaps they should have played phase 10! Nearly three hours later we completed the ‘game.’ I’m fairly confident someone could have conquered the entire Risk board in that amount of time. Oh well, another night, another Risk.

That’s all for now, enjoy today!

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