{"id":10730,"date":"2002-10-01T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2002-10-01T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2002-10-01T22:46:32","slug":"10730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2002\/10\/10730\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joydrop &#8211; Beautiful<br \/><BR>h8 onboard\/integrated LAN, sound, video<br \/><BR>So I thought I might look into getting a completely new computer. I wandered around Dell, found some decent stuff, wandered over to alienware&#8230; 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 &#8220;integrated or onboard&#8221; 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&#8230; it&#8217;s a really pretty board %) and has gotten nice reviews:<br \/><BR><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/MyImages\/ASUSP4S333.jpg\"><\/center><br \/><BR>YAY! It&#8217;s so pretty&#8230; I hope it comes into newegg soon, I&#8217;d really like to have it&#8230; with it I&#8217;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&#8230; stfu already, I&#8217;ve always had intel, and I like them %P). And I need ram&#8230; so I was thinking of getting a 512 mb chip of 2700 ddr ram %d yummie! My computer is gonna rock %D!<br \/><BR>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&#8217;s for dinner. I got to order a beer!!! it was fun, but they ID&#8217;ed (i didnt get id&#8217;ed on my birthday of course, hah) me and since it&#8217;s an out of state license they had to get it all verified with the bartender n stuff, heh&#8230;(heh, I&#8217;m bad, havent gotten a PA license yet). Anyway it was a nice dinner, we gave the waiter like a 50% tip &#8217;cause after that stupid icky waitress on my birthday this was a nice change&#8230; plus the food couldnt have been better, I was very pleased.<br \/><BR>Oh this morning I ordered some books %) I wanted to get a copy of Volume 2 of HG Well&#8217;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&#8230; except for a $45 version published by barnes and noble in august of this year&#8230; GAH! I dont want to pay that much&#8230; 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!)&#8230; after I bought them I realized I should have compared prices with amazon &#8217;cause on orders over $49 or something they offer free shipping dont they? oh well&#8230; 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!<br \/><BR>Yep&#8230; *wanders off*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joydrop &#8211; Beautifulh8 onboard\/integrated LAN, sound, videoSo I thought I might look into getting a completely new computer. I wandered around Dell, found some decent stuff, wandered over to alienware&#8230; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}