So, it's been awhile since I put anything here. It's like old times, when I used to update once, maybe twice, a month. Ah, nostalgia. Then, then . . . .Yeah, just like back then, I'd put up a little bit explaining why there's been nothing new here for weeks, and, yeah, it's almost like I actually am apologetic, but, in reality, I don't give a fuck, and I know that everybody else feels the same way. Whoo yeah, just like old days.
For Christmas, I got everything I wanted, basically. New computer hardware, new CD Walkman, new anime DVDs, money to buy the Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition Player's Handbook and music CDs. Right, back to the computer hardware, though. Getting it was easy enough, making use of it, i.e. installing it, wasn't. Cut to late Christmas Eve, processor is fried. Fault of user, fault of hardware? Whatever. Cut to day after Christmas, computer is in a shop. Cut to a week later, and I'm finally back up and online, sort of. I still have things to do, like format again after a backup. But, in the end, I got a new motherboard, new processor, and more RAM (AMD Athlon XP 2400+ on an ASUS A7V333 motherboard, with 512 MB of DDR2700 SDRAM). Oh, and a new burner, 52x24x52. Good stuff, good stuff. No, Dad, I never blamed it on you. I thank you deeply for just getting me the new shit, and that more than enough makes up for the problems. I could've had a computer for a week, but it would've still been one that chugged along on minimum settings with Warcraft III. Right, right, anyway . . .
Oh, if you're wondering, I got a Sony Discman (D-EJ756CK) with G-Protection, and this is soime helluva effective shock protection. I mean, I dropped it and it didn't even skip. That's nice, I missed having portable music. My old Sony Discman's headphone jack died. One tiny fucking piece of it dies, and the whole thing is useless. Well, not entirely useless, I can still use it to hook into a stereo or cassette, since that goes into the Line In jack.
The anime I got was the box set of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Heh, months ago, when I first discovered they sell them at Best Buy for 110$, my dad made an agreement that if I got a job and made 55$, he'd split the other half with me. Needless to say, I never succeeded at getting a job, so my parents just gave it to me for Christmas, since they actually bought it the day after I pointed it out. Best Buy turns me into a little kid in a candy store. "Ooh, look, the newly-released End of Evangelion movie DVD! Only twenty bucks! Ah, ah, and a 6-piece Altec Lansing speaker system for only 99$! Ooh, Warcraft III, for thirty?! Oh sweet God, get me a new pair of underwear . . . "
You know what I'd like to understand? Why my parents insist on making the trash and recycle bin the biggest event of Thursday. Every fifteen minutes, "You know what day it is. Don't forget the trash and recycle. Don't forget. You better get it. When are you going to get it? By when?" I've pointed out on more than one occasion that the trashman isn't going to show up twelve hours early for any reason, so there's no real rush to get it to the street. But, no, they act like I would forget to do it if I'm not told fifty times by the time I've walked from my bedroom to the bathroom in the morning. There was once or twice that I forgot the recycle bin, but I still took out the trash. I think I did forget both once, but with an almost ten year tenure on trash detail, I'd think that's a decent track record, you know?
Okay, off that tangent. I almost picked up three new CDs, which I will rate at a later time, I'm sure. Primus' Fizzle Fry, Soundgarden's Ultramega OK, and Miles Davis' Greatest Hits. Without going into any real detail, it's all groovy stuff. I'd buy more music and anime with my Christmas money, but I need to save up for Marscon in mid-January. You know, I've never mentioned that I'm a big enough of a geek to be a convention-goer, but I attended an anime-related one, Nekocon, last year in November and the year before that, too. I'll have to put up an entry about last Nekocon last time, because I have a lot to say about that con.
Whatever, I put this entry up because I wanted to say one thing: I'm taking a break from this for a long while, again. All of my creative entry is going every which way except into this, and it's causing it to degenerate into something more like an online journal than what I intended it to be, which is my personal forum for ranting and rambling. A lot like an online journal, mind you, but not exactly one; mostly, I didn't want it to come across as inane and trivial, and it's been feeling that way lately, which disgusts me. I'm half-tempted to take down the last few entries, and not even post this one. But, whatever, it's all part of the development process, so I shouldn't be ashamed as long as I get past this particular phase.
Well, until February . . .
Adios.
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For Christmas, I got everything I wanted, basically. New computer hardware, new CD Walkman, new anime DVDs, money to buy the Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition Player's Handbook and music CDs. Right, back to the computer hardware, though. Getting it was easy enough, making use of it, i.e. installing it, wasn't. Cut to late Christmas Eve, processor is fried. Fault of user, fault of hardware? Whatever. Cut to day after Christmas, computer is in a shop. Cut to a week later, and I'm finally back up and online, sort of. I still have things to do, like format again after a backup. But, in the end, I got a new motherboard, new processor, and more RAM (AMD Athlon XP 2400+ on an ASUS A7V333 motherboard, with 512 MB of DDR2700 SDRAM). Oh, and a new burner, 52x24x52. Good stuff, good stuff. No, Dad, I never blamed it on you. I thank you deeply for just getting me the new shit, and that more than enough makes up for the problems. I could've had a computer for a week, but it would've still been one that chugged along on minimum settings with Warcraft III. Right, right, anyway . . .
Oh, if you're wondering, I got a Sony Discman (D-EJ756CK) with G-Protection, and this is soime helluva effective shock protection. I mean, I dropped it and it didn't even skip. That's nice, I missed having portable music. My old Sony Discman's headphone jack died. One tiny fucking piece of it dies, and the whole thing is useless. Well, not entirely useless, I can still use it to hook into a stereo or cassette, since that goes into the Line In jack.
The anime I got was the box set of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Heh, months ago, when I first discovered they sell them at Best Buy for 110$, my dad made an agreement that if I got a job and made 55$, he'd split the other half with me. Needless to say, I never succeeded at getting a job, so my parents just gave it to me for Christmas, since they actually bought it the day after I pointed it out. Best Buy turns me into a little kid in a candy store. "Ooh, look, the newly-released End of Evangelion movie DVD! Only twenty bucks! Ah, ah, and a 6-piece Altec Lansing speaker system for only 99$! Ooh, Warcraft III, for thirty?! Oh sweet God, get me a new pair of underwear . . . "
You know what I'd like to understand? Why my parents insist on making the trash and recycle bin the biggest event of Thursday. Every fifteen minutes, "You know what day it is. Don't forget the trash and recycle. Don't forget. You better get it. When are you going to get it? By when?" I've pointed out on more than one occasion that the trashman isn't going to show up twelve hours early for any reason, so there's no real rush to get it to the street. But, no, they act like I would forget to do it if I'm not told fifty times by the time I've walked from my bedroom to the bathroom in the morning. There was once or twice that I forgot the recycle bin, but I still took out the trash. I think I did forget both once, but with an almost ten year tenure on trash detail, I'd think that's a decent track record, you know?
Okay, off that tangent. I almost picked up three new CDs, which I will rate at a later time, I'm sure. Primus' Fizzle Fry, Soundgarden's Ultramega OK, and Miles Davis' Greatest Hits. Without going into any real detail, it's all groovy stuff. I'd buy more music and anime with my Christmas money, but I need to save up for Marscon in mid-January. You know, I've never mentioned that I'm a big enough of a geek to be a convention-goer, but I attended an anime-related one, Nekocon, last year in November and the year before that, too. I'll have to put up an entry about last Nekocon last time, because I have a lot to say about that con.
Whatever, I put this entry up because I wanted to say one thing: I'm taking a break from this for a long while, again. All of my creative entry is going every which way except into this, and it's causing it to degenerate into something more like an online journal than what I intended it to be, which is my personal forum for ranting and rambling. A lot like an online journal, mind you, but not exactly one; mostly, I didn't want it to come across as inane and trivial, and it's been feeling that way lately, which disgusts me. I'm half-tempted to take down the last few entries, and not even post this one. But, whatever, it's all part of the development process, so I shouldn't be ashamed as long as I get past this particular phase.
Well, until February . . .
Adios.
EOF
posted by c.Jay Wrong at
5:46 PM
