Joydrop – Beautiful
h8 onboard/integrated LAN, sound, video
So I thought I might look into getting a completely new computer. I wandered around Dell, found some decent stuff, wandered over to alienware… found some REALLY nice stuff, then realized I am poor and I should probably just upgrade r2d2. I started looking for a motherboard at pricewatch.com, but there really isnt enough information from that site, so I went to newegg (where some friends have bought stuff in the past) and I found some pretty nice stuff. I have decided I am gonna get an ASUS P4S333 motherboard (I had the WORST time finding a board with nothing “integrated or onboard” rar), they are currently out of stock at newegg.com, which is disappointing.. especially since they DO have them at other sites, but most of them have the onboard stuff. I called newegg and they dont have an ETA on the board, so I guess I can just wait, and look around at other places in the meantime… it’s a really pretty board %) and has gotten nice reviews:
YAY! It’s so pretty… I hope it comes into newegg soon, I’d really like to have it… with it I’m getting a 2 ghz pentium 4 (DONT START!!! Each time I mention I am getting an Intel chip I have 435656 people screaming at me about how they love AMD and I should get an AMD chip instead… stfu already, I’ve always had intel, and I like them %P). And I need ram… so I was thinking of getting a 512 mb chip of 2700 ddr ram %d yummie! My computer is gonna rock %D!
Ok, so Long Island Iced Tea. No it doesnt contain iced tea, but it has the sickeningly sweet lemony taste that I hate so much in most cheap commercial tea, at least the Long Island Iced Tea I had did. Speaking of drinking, I was really depressed yesterday about not getting the house (dispite being able to upgrade my computer now), so we decided to go out to Uno’s for dinner. I got to order a beer!!! it was fun, but they ID’ed (i didnt get id’ed on my birthday of course, hah) me and since it’s an out of state license they had to get it all verified with the bartender n stuff, heh…(heh, I’m bad, havent gotten a PA license yet). Anyway it was a nice dinner, we gave the waiter like a 50% tip ’cause after that stupid icky waitress on my birthday this was a nice change… plus the food couldnt have been better, I was very pleased.
Oh this morning I ordered some books %) I wanted to get a copy of Volume 2 of HG Well’s An Outline Of History (I have volume one, even if it IS a beat up copy from 1940). But of course I find out the book is out of print… except for a $45 version published by barnes and noble in august of this year… GAH! I dont want to pay that much… So through Amazon I found just volume 2, a 1960 something copy in decent condition for like $7 with shipping, yay! From Barnes and Noble I bought a bunch of new books (ended up spending $51.23, with a 5% discount!)… after I bought them I realized I should have compared prices with amazon ’cause on orders over $49 or something they offer free shipping dont they? oh well… The books I got: Mort (terry pratchett, book 4 of the discworld series), Treasure Box: A Novel (an orson scott card book), The Redemption of Althalus (david eddings), Myth Directions/Hit or Myth (robert asprin, second in a series), Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy #1), then book 7 and 8 of the Wheel of Time series, YAY!
Yep… *wanders off*