Life's a bit more than computers, but not much

Run down of computer stuff briefly and then I may actually privelage the few people who read this with a bit more. First things first with my computer. I don't have an unbroken tower yet. I have now been sent 3 and the 4th is on it's way and thus far all have come busted. I have been told to keep 2 of them and I have a feeling I'm gonna be told the same for the 3rd so I'll have 3 extra 450 W PSUs lieing around. I'm thinking that I might try to hot glue the pegs that hold the face on back on and thereby fix the cases to be used at later dates but I'm not about to used a broken case for my computer when I paid for it and I know darn well that I can really get a good one...one of these times. Gosh, when I actually say it, it sounds really self-centered of me. I guess it is. The whole thing with building a computer is that I wanted a new toy type thing in the first place I think so it started out as a selfish ambition. I really hope that it doesn't stay completely selfish...anyways, moving on. I also got $10 off a purchase from NewEgg because of the hassle I've been recieving with this thing. I have now applied that to a TV tuner card for my computer which takes the final price of the card down to about $8 once I get in the mail-in-rebate. One final thing about my computer and then I'll move into other computers and then finally into something other than technology related stuff. I'm sending my monitor back because there are portions of it which appear fuzzy when displaying text in a command line setting so my computer will not be done for quite sometime even when the case does get here. I'm gonna see if I can borrow a monitor so I can actually get some stuff done.

OK, that's all about my computer. Now, a quick rundown of other computers I've had the privalege to work on. I fixed a girls computer that needed a new video card because the integrated graphics had gone bad. This thing was so old that I had to get it a PCI graphics card. It was crazy. Anyways, the only reason I was even able to do that was because I was given a couple of free old computers that needed to get out of a guys house who's computer I worked on a bit. Kinda nice, if you ask me. I also was able to salvage a 3.5 HD and 6.5 HD from the computers as well. I'm gonna get $40 for fixing the girls computer.

One of the other computers seemed to be working fine and I formatted the HD and installed Windows 98 but then I must have somehow inadverntently fried the MB because now it won't boot from anything. Such is life, I guess. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Praise Him in all.

That brings me to my next point which, finally, is not on the subject of computers. Nathan, David, Gabe, Aaron and I met together last night for our first bible study time. Last week was deciding what we would do and prep and this week was the real deal, baby. We're going over the book of Romans, good stuff (duh, it's the Bible). Unfortuanetly, I had to leave early to pick my brother up from football practice. Once again, such is life.

I've also been meeting semi-regurally with about the same group of guys for cards. Those are fun times as well. Play some rook, some euchre, and sometimes I even get them to play a bit of poker--though no one seems to want to play for ANY money, not even a dollar. I mean, come on! It's one dollar and it completely changes the dynamics of the game in such a way that people don't [as often] go out on crazy limbs and actually have to play with a bit more strategy because something's actually at stake.

Other than all that stuff that I just mentioned, there's really not much going on in life. Just work as usual :-D. Well, I think that that about does it for the evening. Hope you all are having good summers and that God is blessing you in many ways. Later!

Computers, computers, computers

Update on my life, it continues.

Now to expound on that a bit. The biggest thing is that my computer case replacement STILL hasn't been shipped. I was told it would ship Monday, it didn't. I called Tuesday and they told me it would ship Wedensday or Thursday at the lastest. Well, it's Thursday and, according to NewEgg's website, it still hasn't been shipped. I am really getting quite frusterated at this point. I could see where they had to wait a bit for the Fedex claim thing to be processed and what not, but it's been over a week and a half since I contacted them (last Monday) and today makes 2 weeks exactly since I recieved my broken case and I am getting more than a little upset at the lack of speed here. They are getting yet another call today because I am tired of this. I should get some sorta coupon or something for making me wait this long. AHHHHHHH

I was so anxious yesterday to actually get something done with that thing that I took out the PSU from the busted case and hooked everything up. It looked awesome and I'd have a picture to show you but the digital camera did not appear to be around the house *sigh*. I backed up a girls HD from work who is having problems with her computer and then I formatted the HD that I was given for my computer. (Which is a shame because it already had Windows XP Professional installed on it but that was the stipulation with which I recieved the drive.)

I should be getting another computer to work on in a couple of days as well. Yet another person at work who is having issues. Apparently the video and audio are not working correctly. From what she's told me it's almost certianly software related so I doubt it will take that long to actually get fixed. Either the drives aren't properly installed of the programs she's using aren't properly configured. I'm not worring about it to much.

Well, that's all that I'm gonna update on you with for now. (Hopefully the next one won't take me so long to get out.) Take care and God bless.

House-sitting and computer woes

I have decided that before I'm done with school I either need to A) Find good friends that I can room with after school, or B) Get married. I'm serious. I'm just about to go insane being isolated in this house! Hopefully, it will be over soon and I can go back home and be a little more grateful about my family...even though they're gonna get on my nerves about 10 min after I'm home. That's OK though, because at least I will have actual human contact!

And if isolation wasn't enough, I have to send my computer case back because the face was broken off when it arrived. I can not tell you just how disappointing that is to me. I get everything and am all ready to put it together just to realize that it's gonna take an extra week or so. *sigh* such is life I guess.

Other than being bored out of my skull and all, I guess lifes going OK. I've got a headache so it's not all good but...Well, I'm out of here. God bless.

New Computer!

I know I haven't posted in a while and I apoligize to anyone who actually reads this anymore. I do have something very exciting (at least in my eyes) to post about right now though. I have purchased a new computer! I ordered the parts seperately and the final part came in today and I'm gonna go home in a little while to put it together. I'm so excited!

It's a AMD 64-bit 3000+ processor (with a Venice core), a GeForce 256 mb graphics card, a DVD burner, a 40 Gb HD (I got this for free so I'm really not complaining about the size), a 17 inch LCD, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard (got this for free as well), a Gb of RAM, a nice motherboard that should last me through multiple upgrades, and a very sweet looking case! All for about $850 (including S&H). I love NewEgg! Well, I'm off to get a few things done before I open up all my stuff :-D. Take care everyone and God bless.