I've been taking the wrong approach to life.  After my mom died, I became a rock, more or less severing all ties to family and friends.  Truth is, I don't know when my time is up, or any one else's, so the best action is to enjoy what you have, right now.

I had an interesting dream last night. I was traveling across the country in a tractor trailer tractor I had just bought. No trailer, just cruising around exploring and sleeping in the truck. I taught myself how to drive it. I think I won the lottery, and thus able to afford to do whatever. I stopped on the interstate somewhere in Michigan, at ( Read more... )

So I ended up ordering the ECS / Foxconn MCP61SM-AM with a AMD X2 6000+ 3.0 GHZ with 1 GB ram. I swapped out the parts, bought a new hard drive for install win7 on (2 TB!), and copied both of my 149 GB twin SATA drives. Now all I need is two SATA ports (all that's on the mobo) to have 3 TB of hard drive space. Everything seems to be working ( Read more... )

considering buying new mobo/cpu/ram. The system I want to build is over $500 for just those three, but I think I might build the cheapest system possible, just for stability, and maybe at some future point build a high performance system. Here's what I'm looking at now, for cheap - $270 including shipping:

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I had a cold a couple weeks ago, it lasted a couple weeks. I noticed today that I really feel healthy and fully recovered ( Read more... )

whew, just checked my email for the first time in ten days.

I realized tonight that my machine only turns off when windows is running or loading. never in dos based shell which chkdsk uses before loading windows. never doing BIOS ops or during POST. I wonder if there's no hardware problem to be found, and the OS is simply corrupt.

I saw episode 14 of Fullmetal Alchemist on Cartoon Network - it was dubbed. I'm now watching it subtitled on Hulu, and I realize that the japanese voice actor for Fullmetal is the same as for Naruto.

My computer seems to work longer if I baby sit it ( Read more... )

my computer's been on for over an hour. I'm going to go downstairs and get a beer. I really, really hope it's still on when I get back. I dunno WTF is going on any more. as soon I think I have it figured out, it changes. fucking piece of shit!!!