Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tuscan Night

I've seen Subway advertising the Tuscan chicken sandwich for quite some time now.  There hasn't been a driving reason to try the thing as far as I can tell.

That changed with Tuesday's trip to Subway.  Seeing as how I tend to be lazy and thus eat out there a couple times a week, the employees have become familiar with me.  They treat me more as a friend than as a customer, which is kind of nice.  All that is required of me for an order is a bread type and a meat.  From there they know it will have cheddar cheese, be toasted, have all available vegetables, and no dressing of any kind.  Furthermore, they know to ring it up with a bag of chips and no drink.

During this last trip, we started discussing which sandwiches we like.  They find it kind of strange that I order pretty much the same thing every time (either chicken or roast beef on honey oat or Italian herb), but I explained that I just never get tired of it and also do like virtually everything there.

One of them regards the Tuscan chicken sandwich as something really special, so I've decided to give it a try.  With any luck it will be something special for me as well.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Long Time, Nice Hat

I haven't posted in a while.  No, I'm not dead.  Tomorrow marks the day that I will receive four more Fujitsu 15K hard drives.  Yes, this is a nerd post.  =)  I'll have eight MBA3147RCs working together in RAID-5 for my boot and application partitions.  That ought to be interesting, though I'm pretty sure this PERC5/i is maxed in terms of throughput and latency.  R5 with four drives already raises my average random access time from 5.2ms to 6.5ms.

Oh well.  At least it's bigger.  It's not just bigger, it's 1TB of 15K space.  It's absurdo.