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The last few months have gone by pretty quickly. I guess being really busy with work was part of that. It seems like just yesterday it was the beginning of October. And here it is now, the last day of 2004.

More computer updates! :) My sister gave me a Logitech MX1000 wireless laser mouse for Christmas. It’s a damn nice mouse. Wireless is great to have, and it’s just as smooth (or more) as my corded Intellimouse Optical. The battery life on this is supposed to be pretty good. It has its own internal battery, and has a charging base. Quick charging time too, I think. Now I just need to get myself a new keyboard. Maybe even a wireless Logitech one. I’m not too impressed with Microsoft’s current keyboard offerings.

And I bought a 17″ LCD monitor yesterday, I love it. Doesn’t have a brand name on it anywhere, and it’s just analog. But it was cheap – just $298 CAD at Wal-Mart for the Boxing Week sale. So I got my normal 10% discount, too :) The screen looks really nice, clear at various resolutions. And much larger than I’m used to. My old 17″ CRT was really only 16″ or so viewable, and I’ve been using a 15″ CRT for a few months. It’s a nice change.

To celebrate the new year… I’m working! Heheh. This past week has just been full of work for me. I worked on Christmas Day for something like 11 hours. Plus 4 other normal shifts. Plus the one tonight. So that’s a lot of overtime/doubeltime, as well as two days of holiday pay. Looking forward to that paycheque in two weeks. I’ll get to relax next weekend, I have five days off then.

See you next year!

…lots more to go! At the rate I’m taking courses, that is. Two or three a semester is going to go pretty slow towards getting something finished, but I think it’ll be worth it. I’m not going to get any more student loans, so I need to keep working fulltime to be able to pay for school.

Been pretty busy this month. Christmas in retail is just crazy. So much to do all the time. I’ve gotten plenty of extra shifts and hours, at least. I just finished working eight days straight. Then I had to study for an exam that I had yesterday. I think I did pretty well on it, just like the other tests. I’ll find out soon enough. It could have been 9 or 10 days of working, actually – except I decided to take a night off to finish up my ten page assignment. My manager called me that night to see if I wanted to work. I did want to, but I figured that school was slightly more important than getting an extra shift (most of which would go to taxes anyway, damn overtime).

Having lots of fun with Everquest II still. Well, except for last night, when they had massive problems and took all of the servers down. They’re still working on it, and are finally bringing one server up to get a few people on it to see if everything is stable and working. I guess the downtime is coming up on 24 hours by now, I’m not sure what time they went down, exactly. I don’t think they slept much, if at all. It gave me a chance and slight motivation to do some other things I’ve been putting off, at least.

Yesterday, I finally got my eyes checked again, and will have my new glasses by Tuesday or Wednesday. I need to send off the stuff for my insurance though, I’ll be getting half of that back. I had my eyes checked over two years ago, but got my fulltime job shortly after so I decided to wait for my benefits to start before getting the glasses. Except I never did get around to it. My eyes are slightly worse now than two years ago, but not by a lot. I didn’t really notice, because I was having slight problems seeing as it was. Can’t wait to get them, though. I’ve had these damn frames for long enough.

Now, one more night off before I have to go back to work. Then I get all of Christmas Eve off, and work a couple more nights (voluntarily working Christmas Day night). Off for two, work two more, and then I get New Year’s Eve off. I worked last New Year’s Eve, but I was extremely broke due to having to pay off an old credit card, and didn’t have any plans anyway. Not doing that this year. I don’t have plans, other than not going to work.

And speaking of Christmas, I think I’m going to pick up a 17″ LCD monitor on the 27th. Not going into much detail here, but they’ll be a good price during the Boxing Week Blowout sale. Not sure of the brand and it’s probably just analog, but it’s a good size and can do 1280×1024. It’ll do for now. I need a new monitor anyway, and that’s better than what I’m using at the moment.