After my day off

It has been a good day.

An alien object was spotted in the sky this morning – I looked but it was, like blindingly bright!  I was doing the volunteer gig downstairs this morning and reeled back in the community room, and cried  "Oh what is it?" to the others.  In the last 32 days it has rained for 31 of them.  We are like 268% above average for rainfall this year – last year they were whining about a possible drought now it’s floods here and there.

It has rained a fuck of a lot.

Yesterday it was pouring as I motored over to Curcuit City to buy the memory – 512M for 60 bucks after rebate.  That’s a good price.  My first Windows computer, the one that I used until recently, came with 64M of memory, which to me was a lot.  The Amiga I used for years has only 2M of memory, so 64M seemed like a lot.  Of course, it really wasn’t, so I bought another 64M of memory for it for about a hundred bucks at Fry’s in 2000.  Memory prices kept falling, so I traded out the 64M modules for 128’s, so ultimately, that computer had 256M of memory, all cheaper than before.  Windows in that time has become a huge bloated beast (ok, I really like this XP though) to where 256M of memory is like the minimum with XP.  There’s one thing you can always never have too much of- memory, so when I saw the price for a 512M module, I had to have it, and lucky for me, I had the $ to get it.

Of course at that kind of price, they sold out before I got there, but I got a raincheck and went back today and there it was, waiting for me.  I brought it home, put on the anti-static wristband, and opened up the new computer for the first time.  (note: space for another hard drive and the motherboard is set up for a RAID setup. 1 Empty AGP port and two PCI ports available. Room for growth)  I put a nVidia video card and a Soundblaster sound card in the other computer, so I’m going to take ’em out and move ’em to this one and I will have one fine machine.

The next storm is coming in tomorrow night, right during my work time. 

Yaaa hoo.  cough cough

After up loading like 999,000 pictures to this hard drive and like 3 million cd’s worth of music (Overstatement alarm!  2.3 gigs of photos and 3 something or other gigs of music) I’ve got this machine set up kind of like I want it.  This is a new operating system to me, and while I got used to W98SE after six years of it, boy oh boy I’m really liking the XP!

I have ComCast cable internet,and one of the benes of paying ’em 43 bucks a month for hi-speed serice (5062M down, not that 28.8 kbs shit I put up with on dial-up) is that you get a free subscription to McAffee anti-virus software, a McAfee firewall, and a privacy service, and those things are the very first things I downloaded from the net when I hooked this up.  Have I mentioned that I am fairly security conscious?  Updated Windows after that and set my Internet Explorer security setting higher, and I’m on the net.

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Anyway, my new computer now has 736M of memory, the most I have ever had in my home computer.  I was playing with Nikon Editor, bundled with my camera, and it works seamlessly and noticably better on this computer than on the old one.

So, in a few hours, it’s back to work for me, but-

It’s been a good day.

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