Woke up rather early today, given my 4am sleep time… I woke up, continued the arduous process of getting this computer to be configured to my liking.. After talking with on the phone for awhile, I decided to head out to CompUSA. My old motherboard didn’t have any spare fan headers on the board, so I had to rig the fan I had in there with a drive power connector to get it to spin. Since this new mobo has 2 extra fan headers, I decided to get a few fans to help keep this monster cool. I also got another USB Visor cradle (I had brought the other one to work, since the USB one didn’t work on the old mobo, and used a serial one here)…

On my bus ride to CompUSA (surrounded by sexy french exchange students, no less), Adam and Frances called…. We had talked about going Pumpkin and Apple picking this weekend, but it had kinda slipped my mind. I told them to pick me up at CompUSA and we were off. The place was really cool, and I honestly don’t know if I had ever been apple picking before… Anyway, we scored a beautiful half bushel of some weird apple variety I had never heard of before, and I also got a bitchin’ pumpkin (pictures to come)… We came back to my place, and made Pork Tenderloin, which was first soaked in an Apple brine, and then basted with quasi-homemade Apple Barbeque sauce while on the grill. In addition we made up some mashed potatoes and Apple Pie and Apple Crisp while the meat cooked…. Mmmm, those apples are so good!

After dinner, we watched Episode I and then parted ways… We had talked about catching the midnight showing of Silence of the Lambs at the Fenway Theater tonight, but I am kinda tired….