PCs, headaches and inconsequential nonesense.

My "new" laptop is working out beautifully. Except for having a bit of a small HD (which I can deal with pretty easily) it runs close enough to the way I want it. It's a bit faster than my old one - faster processor, more memory, better graphics memory, etc. It's odd to have such an improvement but effectively be looking at the same computer (they're the exact same model). I've been using it for several days now, and so far, since I haven't done anything impressive on it yet, the biggest differences I've noticed have been in how fast applications load and graphics in some games. And they keyboard is fucking terrific. I've missed having a keyboard that works correctly 100% of the time. I do my best, but sometimes it's hard to keep things perfect around, y'know, babies. Hopefully I'll be able to maintain this one, though. :D

I slept on the couch last night ("slept" being a relative term, I suppose) for probably about 2, maybe MAYBE 2 and a half hours. The baby woke up SUPER early (5am) and hubby agreed to take care of him for a couple hours and let me sleep a little more in the bed. So, 2 hours, an hour of sleep, and a FUCKING POUNDING headache later, and I end up having to get up because hubby just can't stay awake anymore. Overnights, fine, I understand, but then he tells me how AWESOME he is at his job (woot) and because of that awesomeness he got um... Starburst. His HUGE AWESOME news of AWESOME DOOM was that he got *Starburst* for being good at his job. I was expecting some bonus or something the way he was going on, but no.... candy. I don't even know how to react to that. Especially since he gave me the candy. Hahahahaha! I guess all I can do is laugh, because... well, yeah.

I hate the unpredictability of online orders. Never know what money's going to come out when. Especially when what is ordered doesn't have a release date yet. Fucking TOR.

Okay. We desperately need a new router. DESPERATELY. This one is off more often than it's on these days. I hate the fact that I can't do *anything* right now, thanks to the fact that my internet connection is so damn iffy because the router is failing. It's not so bad for those who have direct connections via cat5 cables, but.... those of us with wireless connections are just screwed.

Time for me to go run errands.

The Old Switcheroo

God, switching computers sucks. I do it every few years, and every time I forget what a damn hassle it is to get done! I'm on a new laptop (which is a hand-me-down and fortunately the previous owner, my friend and roommate M, left a few things on so I wouldnt' have to worry), and the HD is half the size of my old one. So there's not a lot I can do except store stuff on my external (which I am) until I either stick my external in here (hah, it's a laptop drive in a case, muahaha) or just get a new drive in general. It sucks having no space - my old laptop was a 250 gig, the new one is a 130 (130!!!!! How did my friend survive on 130 gig??!!), and my external is a 320. I'd really like at least a 500, so I've got room for not only my games (yeah, despite my last post, I *do* still own, and play, some PC games) but my music, pictures, videos, and at least a few movies so I don't have to stick them on my hubby's stupid-big 3tb (two 1.5tb really) drive.

Last night I was up until after 4am just messing with all my music, trying to get it into iTunes without all the damn duplicates (don't know why, but when I added my music it duplicated all 3,000 files, aaahhh!!!), deleting everything, re-adding everything, re-making my playlist, blargle blargle. I wish I could say 'fuckin iPod' but y'know, it would have taken more time with just my mp3's than with iTunes. Now I just have to do the rest! Whee!

Pretty graphics, though. That's one of the biggest reasons I switched out, even though this has a smaller HD, is because it's a faster processor with more memory and a better graphics card. All of this means it'll be so much easier to run my more graphics intensive games, like oh say WoW... Heeh.

Some time in the next year I'll probably be taking advantage of my hubby's work program, they have a partnership with Dell and for a 10% down payment you can finance a computer through the company instead of through Dell directly, and the payments are taken out of paychecks instead of your bank account. Awesome Alienware FTW. I Heart Alienware, and fully intend on getting one someday.

Uhmm.... I think I ran out of things to say. My son is being a whiny-butt and my daughter's playing the Xbox, my hubby's out doing yardwork and both roommates are sleeping. Rawr.