The weather is finally starting to be somewhat nice here. Still not as nice as it was way back in April, but it’ll do. I just hope that it’s nice next weekend, when I have 5 days off (yay for my long weekend plus Canada Day!).
Computer upgrades… I recently bought a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT, to replace my aging GeForce2 GTS. Which was a nice card, but was suffering more and more with newer games. I’m quite happy with this Radeon, though. Much nicer for gaming :) There are other things I want to get, but I’m not sure how badly I want them. Another friend is going to be selling some DDR RAM soon, so I might get that. Cheap upgrade, and an easier upgrade path for the future. Since my current motherboard can use both SDRAM and DDR, but most new boards just use DDR. I could also use a new CPU, maybe an Athlon XP2400+ - the fastest this motherboard can handle - to replace my Duron 1.2 GHz. But I might wait on that a while longer, since it’s fine for the games I’m currently playing. I was thinking about ordering one this week, but I might as well wait.
Other nice things to have would be a DVD burner and LCD monitor. I should hold off on the DVD burner, since there is new stuff coming out that will either make it obsolete, or much cheaper. Even though they are already pretty cheap. Cheaper than what I paid for my 32×10x40 CD-RW. LCD monitors are still a little on the expensive side, although they are slowly dropping in price, it seems. I’m somewhat annoyed at the resolutions they use, though. Like a 19″ LCD limited to 1280×1024 or worse? Just seems wrong. I’d want to use 1600×1200 with a screen that big. Wouldn’t be so bad on a 17″, at least.
So other than those things, and more hard drive space, my computer is handling things just fine. And I use my laptop for a lot of other stuff, that doesn’t necessarily need super fast speeds. So it should be quite useful for a long time.
I’m coming up on two years working at Wal-Mart. Doesn’t seem like that long at all. So that also means I’ll be getting a raise in a few weeks. Nothing great, but it’s better than nothing at all. I’ll probably just dump whatever extra money I’ll be getting into my savings account. I’m used to the money I’m getting now, so it won’t hurt to just save the rest. After I get a new pair of glasses in the next month or so, at least.
So much to spend money on, but so little that I really need to spend that money on. Living at home does make things easier, since I have a student loan to pay back. I’d love to get my own place, but I can’t quite afford to do it on my own right now. Plus, it would be rather lonely. I really hate just sitting around when nobody else is around. It makes me not want to do anything at all. With a roommate or two it would be ok, though.
Still reading? :) Not that it matters too much, since I’m writing this more for me than whatever “audience” I have.
One of these days, I’m going to have to start working on bplog again with Niv. So far, we haven’t had free time to work on it at the same times. Soon, hopefully. Since I’d like to start using it for my weblog here instead of Movable Type. I definitely have no plans to upgrade to their newest version. Maybe we’ll get to do that sometime this summer. Things to (possibly) implement: trackback, some kind of comment blacklist thing since comment spam sucks, a nicer installation system, a better admin interface, maybe even an update client thing using one of the GTK UI things for Windows/Linux. Possibly an excuse to learn some Python.
Another rambling entry coming to an end. I tend to just talk about all sorts of stuff, since I don’t update this as often as I do on LJ. So whatever thoughts are bouncing around in my head end up on here in whatever order they come out.
