Supplies

We'd heard that Sen Trang brought back the ol' Pho Binh lunch buffet so we went and tried it. There were no chicken wings unfortunately, but there was lemongrass tofu (of course). It was pretty good but some of the quality was a bit down from what it was before and what you'd get from the menu (lemongrass tofu was and a couple other things were up to standard though, but the egg rolls were especially a little weird). Anyway, I sound like I'm complaining but I'm not, it was a good lunch. We quickly swung by TFM for a few things. In the afternoon I worked on finally getting my new power supply into my Monorocket case. I got the old power supply out. Once it's all ready, I can tell it's going to be a whole lot lighter because it won't have that huge transformer (I think it is) that's very heavy for its size. It's all just in the board. But I'm getting into it and I realize the connections aren't all the same as in the old one, because of that transformer. The connections to the buses are the same quick-disconnect terminals, but with the old transformer, it had the connections to the power inlet soldered directly in. The new power supply just has the standard leads for the quick-disconnect, like the bus connections. Long story short, while I can connect the buses I can't connect the power inlet with what's already in the case. It took me a while to figure this out, but I ended up ordering some terminals to put on the ends of the wires that I cut off from the transformer. Hopefully I got the right size (I ordered two different ones just in case). We'll see and I'll try to finish it when the parts arrive (makes you really miss Radio Shack). Later at night Mary Beth and I watched Brotherhood of the Wolf. I saw it a long time ago and didn't remember a lot of it, but I think I had a similar reaction as to when I saw it before, as noted in my journal as being "OKAY" (definitely not super into the post-Matrix kung fu stylings)...(but on the other hand that journal entry is really embarrassing because I watched it the same night as Fight Club and I was really into THAT the first time I saw it, oof!).