My half of a life is doomed, I quake in fear
Today I ordered a neato keen swell computer system from Dell. 3.4GHz chip, XP Pro, 2G of RAM, 19-inch flat panel digital monitor, 160G hard drive, dvd drive plus read/writeable dvd/cd drive, one of the best graphics cards on the market, plus nice sound card and speakers, 100G external hard drive (for backups) and some other things.
It will be a nice gaming platform. And I might do some work on it from time to time.
We have a tax refund coming, and we were going to use some of it for this. Qwest has an employee discount program with Dell, so that knocked off a decent chunk of the price. I wouldn't have gotten this system otherwise. As it is, it is a mite expensive, but it's a good system that will last me for awhile.
Not sure what I'll do with the current one. Likely option is, I might take it and turn it into a Linux box. I've wanted one to play with, and a likely upcoming project for school involves a program that will need to run on a Linux box. Would be nice to have one to work on.
Just saw a press release that XM is going to be the exclusive (i.e. not Sirius) satellite radio home of the 2006 World Cup! Yeessssss!! I love the World Cup. XM is going to have all the games, maybe even some of the qualifying games. It's like a Christmas present. (Sirius has the English Premier League though, which I wish was on XM.)
In other news, John is still having troubles in school. The transitions from activity to activity are hard, and he just can't sit still around other kids for very long. By the end of his preschool time he is often not doing too well. Not sure what we'll end up doing. Clearly he needs some different kind of help than the usual school guidance. We are going to have to investigate. So, remember our little guy in your prayers.
It will be a nice gaming platform. And I might do some work on it from time to time.
We have a tax refund coming, and we were going to use some of it for this. Qwest has an employee discount program with Dell, so that knocked off a decent chunk of the price. I wouldn't have gotten this system otherwise. As it is, it is a mite expensive, but it's a good system that will last me for awhile.
Not sure what I'll do with the current one. Likely option is, I might take it and turn it into a Linux box. I've wanted one to play with, and a likely upcoming project for school involves a program that will need to run on a Linux box. Would be nice to have one to work on.
Just saw a press release that XM is going to be the exclusive (i.e. not Sirius) satellite radio home of the 2006 World Cup! Yeessssss!! I love the World Cup. XM is going to have all the games, maybe even some of the qualifying games. It's like a Christmas present. (Sirius has the English Premier League though, which I wish was on XM.)
In other news, John is still having troubles in school. The transitions from activity to activity are hard, and he just can't sit still around other kids for very long. By the end of his preschool time he is often not doing too well. Not sure what we'll end up doing. Clearly he needs some different kind of help than the usual school guidance. We are going to have to investigate. So, remember our little guy in your prayers.
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