Was working on my computers last night and didn’t get to bed until around 1am. Had practice this morning at 6:30….and now my butt is dragging the ground.
DOH…
I went upstairs to check on my computer yesterday around 11am when I noticed that it was off…as was every thing else in the room. Apparently the power supply went kaput…so I was faced with the delima to spend $100+ on a new power supply on an old computer or buy a new computer for ~$400.
I chose the latter. Best Buy had a great deal on an Acer desktop machine, a computer that is normally $800 for $490. They sold out earlier in the day, so I bought the display and saved about $50 in the process.
3gb DDR2 ram
500gb SATA hard drive (and 3 additional SATA ports!!!!)
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Built in firewire connector in the front (helpful when transferring video)
Windows Vista Premium (which to me is a good thing…I’m liking Vista on the laptop…and it’s about time to get it on a desktop of mine)
Hopefully I’ll be able to sell my old Lian-Li case for ~$80 and other various parts for whatever price I can get and make back a decent portion of the cost of the new beast.
What do these three things have in common?
Awesomeness.
If I had 3 grand to throw around I’d love to have a MacBook Air. But obviously I don’t. And I’d put that 3 grand towards a new vehicle before a laptop anyway.
One Tree Hill is back on (not sure if I like them fast forwarding 4 years, but I’ll deal), as is Prison Break and The Wire. Ordered HBO last week so that I could watch The Wire (and having HBO On Demand is nice too)…only cost $4 extra a month, not bad for premium channels.
Also went ahead and ordered a DVR to put in the bedroom, so the movie channels could be watched in there. It has a dual-tuner in it, which is awesome! Now I’ve got to figure out how much a TiVo dual tuner unit costs and if it can be upgraded like my current Tivo unit is.
Today is an early release day here at school….gotta love Wednesdays!
Freshman basketball team played Moberly last Saturday. The first time we played them (in late November) we got beat by 20-something. This time we won in overtime. We shot 35 free throws! (This is a good thing…we were being aggressive)
Hopefully we can keep up the good defense this coming weekend and get the shots to fall.
I haven’t posted to this blog in a while but I have been posting to my classroom blog.
