Well. Since I haven’t really been posting on my own blog for some time now. I figure I should tell you what i’ve been up to…

Really, I’ve been busy with family and work. Around July we went to Iowa for the Eliason side of my family. We shot some fireworks and talked for a while, and spent the night. Then the following day we drove straight up to Minnasota for the Flemmer side of the family. We stayed there for a few days and blew a bunch of crap up! It was great.

After the 4th of July was over, my dad had to have surgery on his neck because he had a node on his thyroid. They did a half thyroidectomy and flash freezed it, and tested it for carcinoma… The test came back positive, and the next day we went BACK to Sioux Falls to remove the other half of his thyroid. He’s still healing and still has one hell of a wound.

After the surgery and all this. My daughter was born: Alexa Jean Cross. Born on July 19th at 12:24pm.
Alexa is my life. I love her so much. She’s beautiful. She’s smart. She’s alert. She’s my little girl! I’m so proud to be a father, but I’m also nervous. It’s something that I will have to get used to. I just want what’s best for her.

Though all of this time that I haven’t been posting I’ve been working on other websites of mine. These include this family website, and my own personal buisness’ website. I plan to earn a little extra cash y fixing computers around town.
I’ve also been working on my mother of a computer. I got a new hard drive disk, two new 19″ flash screen LCD monitors, fixed the 120mm fan in the back, got more and faster RAM, upgraded my badly needed graphics card, for my birthday i’m getting a new power supply, and with that I will be able to install my new processor.

My new system specs:

Case – Sunbeam Transformer (ATX Full Size)
Power Supply – Antec EA650 650W
Motherboard – GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S (Flash version 9)
Hard Drive Disks – Western Digital 250GB + Hitachi 1TB (1TB holds my Operating System)
CPU – AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma (2.8GHz Dual Core)
RAM – 3GB (1GB x 3) aData DDR2 800MHz
Video Card –  XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850

Yesterday was my birthday, I didn’t really do anything for it. My dad bought me the power supply and we ate a lunch with my family… On Saturday we plan on celebrating my 17th birthday…

This really sums up what I’ve been doing lately… I’ll try to post more later. Thanks.

~ Nick