The Seasons of a System Builder ..

(Originally posted on OCN)

dava4444
Posted 7/9/13
[This is intended to be a light-hearted fun article, please enjoy ...and try not to be too serious, as it would make the ponies cry!]

Hi guys!


Well it's summer.. which I call 'building season' , I like staying up late at night working on a build with the window fully open, hearing the sounds of my town during the night.. I pretend I am in some sort of Alfred Hitchcock-ian New York, like the movie 'Rear Window' except without all the murder business. Recently I thought this should be dubbed 'Building and Case Tidying season' ..and if you have no money for parts.. then a case tidy is not the worst thing you could do instead.

Summer is too hot to bench.. as you may know, it is not until Winter that the usual main benching happens, this is called by many 'Benching Season'. I live in Scotland and during Winter It gets pretty cold.. not too bad.. but sometimes pretty cold. Ambients from 0C to 8C is the norm. I have my PC on my Windowsil, so the heat escapes straight away, in winter I enclose my curtains around my Rig, leave both windows open a crack. warm inside the house and cold outside. nice!

Summer has many mixed blessings for builders, gaming gets a little harder because of the ambient temps, and so the noise must increase, but on the other hand.. you get to build! those long..loooong sunny lazy evenings.. leading quietly into the night ahead..as dark falls.. sometimes its hard.. pouring of sweating, sometimes peaceful..

The '1 am break' for me is not really a 'break' but I always seem to stop for a little bit and think about life. then around 2:30am .. it suddenly gets cold here.. good thing because.. otherwise I would forget to eat.. I go into my kitchen and close the rear window and get something to eat.

Autumn (for me YMMV) is 'Gaming Season'.. the new releases come out.. like a débutante meeting her male fancies at a ball. This happens in Spring also, but if you indulge me a thought, Spring is for new friends, Autumn is for old friends. Spring gaming is harder with the temps vs noise, but all that didn't seem to matter.. as 'we' are just coming out of the darkness to see the sunshine.

peace

Dava

I realize this is is not my usual canter, I write about the clutter that fills our lives that should be gotten rid of.. your rights to not have old junk annoying you when you are doing something technical. but y'know gotta have a heart too..