Nute Gunray Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 At some point in the last two weeks, I think I finally grew up. Frankly it scared me. It started when I got a new shower curtain. I hung it up and thought "that looks so much nicer, and it makes it a lot brighter in here." Then I rearranged my living room and liked the way that everything flows a lot more than it used to. Then my toys started going into boxes and put away. And today most of my movie and actress posters started coming down, even though I just got a new one in the mail yesterday. Now I'm looking at real deal art to get. Art, by artists! That people have heard of! Of course, all the kiddie movie posters and whatnot are probably going into my bedroom because, well, I dont want to throw them away. I swear, if I go out and get a job tomorrow I'll explode. Every seen that movie Big, starring a young Tom Hanks? You know how just all the sudden the one day he was all grown up? Not the part where he was physically grown up, the part where he sleeps with the girl and then the next day is all like "i'm an adult" and acts like a total bastard to his friend. That's happening to me. The rest of you: save yourselves while you still can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Funny, but that still hasn't happened to me yet... I have a mortgage and a car payment and student loans to pay off... but I still don't feel any more adult than I did when I was 17 and planning on being a rock star. Hmmm... Spent last night mixing for an Iranian band. They were supposed to bring their own engineer, but he didn't show. If I had known I would have chosen much different mics than the ones he specified in the rider. Made it a lot harder to mix with the mics he wanted. Still, I guess it went alright... It's hard to really enjoy a show when you have no clue what they're saying, though. Need to do some errands today. Still don't feel much like doing them. I feel more like going back to bed. Maybe tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Funny, but that still hasn't happened to me yet... I have a mortgage and a car payment and student loans to pay off... but I still don't feel any more adult than I did when I was 17 and planning on being a rock star. Hmmm... Spent last night mixing for an Iranian band. They were supposed to bring their own engineer, but he didn't show. If I had known I would have chosen much different mics than the ones he specified in the rider. Made it a lot harder to mix with the mics he wanted. Still, I guess it went alright... It's hard to really enjoy a show when you have no clue what they're saying, though. Need to do some errands today. Still don't feel much like doing them. I feel more like going back to bed. Maybe tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 why can't i delete a double post? -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 played san andreas most of the day.....trying to get past 4 stars, but the swat teams are too tough. -_- got my car back, it only cost $120. forgot about insurance so tomorrow it'll pass in the mail. o well. they don't need the money that bad anyway. XD I acquired a sore throat upon waking up! its been sore all day. tylenol didnt do the job. maybe i should gargle some crushed glass. almost finished dloading the patches for galaxies. tomorrow i work 12-9. not gonna be fun, it'll be nice out and people are stupid to waste it shopping at walmart. especially the damn seniors that got back from their damn class trips. anyway, march is almost over. I'll be going bowling on sunday, hunting maybe on monday or next tuesday. Here's some pics of the monster truck jam: Safe Auto won. Grave Digger's transmission got trashed so it couldn't compete freestyle. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 My car finally died its last death. It was eleven years old. This certainly puts a dent in my job search, as now I can't, you know, get to work. But ironically it accelerates the urgency of it. Also I broke down and got a Michael Buble CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 My C: drive is acting up again. I didn't think my PC was going to boot up this morning... but after a few tries it did eventually. It's been fine for a while now... I almost forgot about the warnings it gave me earlier. This would be the week for it to croak if it's really going to... I'd have the time to deal with it. After this week my work schedule is booked pretty solid right until the end of the semester... so if it's not going to die, then it had better behave itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 You know edlib, there is such a thing as preventive maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Well, he appears not to be that type of guy, m'kay? And as I see it, the world's still turning 'round once a day.. what's with the girl and Nute's gunray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Eh... once booted up, it is still working fine at the moment, so if I can get away with not spending several long days reinstalling everything, I'm gonna take that option. And I've already done every scan, defrag, clean-up, etc... that I can think of... and all my critical data off of it has already been backed up. Also, I've found out that this is a common ailment in Dells of this vintage, and sometimes just goes away on it's own for no reason. I thought it had, since it hasn't really been a problem for the last couple of months until this morning. Why spend a lot of money for a new drive on a 6-year old computer that I hope to retire soon, anyway? My next PC will have all SATA drives, so any drive I get for this now will be stuck to live in this old machine. Which will probably be given away, or sent to some dark corner of the house to just check e-mail on. I could gut one of the drives out another computer I have around the house... but that would leave me with a different pile of dead equipment, instead. I guess I could keep this one as a network server... to keep music files on or something. If I am forced to get a new drive for it then that's probably what will happen... Besides; I'd like to see how long I can get it to stretch out in this state before it dies completely. I'm curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 What I said, exactly. ^^ On a different note, I wish I could juggle with computers like you do, man how I hate having less than no money. If my notebook decides to pass out, there will be no chance for replacing it anytime soon. I currently find myself without even a stupid dialup connection due to a lack of being connected to anything near a "P.O.T.S." thinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Well, most of the other gear is much older than this one. This one is a Pentium 3, bought in 2000... the others are both P2's from the 90's. And they were both given to me for free. I never did anything to them except upgrade the OS... and maybe put a couple pieces of old hardware in them that I picked up in my travels... or that I had laying around from when I upgraded this one over the years. I have a line in my budget that I call "Edlib's first law of Consumer Electronics." Basically it states that as long as I have a working piece of electronics, even if it's very, very old, I cannot upgrade it until I can afford to pay cash for it without significantly destroying my checking or savings accounts... UNLESS that piece of gear dies completely, and repairing it will not be worth the effort. Right now I am several hundred dollars away from getting the new PC I really want. As long as this one keeps holding out, I can't afford to replace it with anything new at this time by following my self-imposed law. But I also can't see the value of keeping it alive by reducing the money put aside for the new one to buy replacement parts. The day this one dies, though, I will feel less guilty about saying "Well, I guess it's time to get a new one, even though I'm not really ready to buy it yet." Yeah... it's pretzel logic. But until my savings are a bit higher (which is much harder to do these days now that I own a house that needs upkeep,) or this one really dies, I probably won't be getting a new one. If this one dies though, it will probably force my hand, and I'll break down and sink a pile o' dough into a new one. Until that happens I really have trouble justifying the expense. Worst case scenario: Computer dies at an inopportune time, and I'm forced to check e-mail and forum postings on my downstairs computer. Or move one of the CPU towers up here and hook it up temporarily. Maybe I'll just go into work a bit earlier each day to check e-mail and goof around here. If I can find time I could gut and reformat the biggest of the drives from one of those (a 20-gig, I think) and put it in this one. Or see if I can scavenge one of the retired PCs at work for parts. I think one of them got a new HDD shortly before it went out of service. Even if I had no PC at home I don't see it as such a hardship... I can always play games on my Gamecube. Or maybe I'll just spend more time reading or playing guitar... or perhaps even get more exercise! Things I'm always telling myself I should do more of as it is. I probably spend way too much time at the computer anyway. Maybe if it dies it could be the best thing in the world for me for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 And as I see it, the world's still turning 'round once a day.. what's with the girl and Nute's gunray? Its hard to complain about things that go well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I'm back on Galaxies. Finally got the whole patches/publishes downloaded. moved to a different server than the one that I was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 26, 2006 Author Share Posted March 26, 2006 Watched "Goblet of Fire" last night. Pretty good. The best Harry Potter movie so far. Did laundry most of the day yesterday. Seems like I just did it, not that long ago... but having more clothes than laundry baskets tells me otherwise. Time is really flying by much too fast these days. I can't believe we are almost into April already. Have to work today. Bah!... I really don't feel like it. Give me a little time off, and it never feels like enough. And getting up this early on a Sunday morning is just... wrong. A crime against nature. I've got a really busy week ahead of me, too. At least 4 long days in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 well you know what they say about march..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Its hard to complain about things that go well. I want to travel back in time so I can slap you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I guess I can stop freaking out about the Apocalypse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Yeah, I'd put off repenting and waiting for the End of Days for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I want to travel back in time so I can slap you. What is it this time? You seriously seem to need relaxation, I tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 nute is the cause of that solar eclipse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Loyaltist Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Yay! An RL trend finally catching on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 Yup. Just like a venereal disease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 How many of you could picture me teaching english? What about media studies? Well, get used to it, 'cause I got accepted to St. Thomas University today, where I'll be doing an English/Media Studies major/minor (or maybe double-major) B.A., followed by a B.Ed. I'll probably be teaching high school kids by the time your wee fella's of that age, Gunner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Loyaltist Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Yup. Just like a venereal disease. Hey, they all come from fun don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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