New Lappy

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I am writing this from the pretty bright widescreen goodness of my new laptop. The blue lights… the clear black plastic… the way the keys feel. Mmmmmm I’m in love.
Only thing that I’ll have to get used to is the resolution… 1280X800 is the maximum on this, and I’m used to having 1200 pixels of height. Meh. Whatever.
But yeah, finally got stuff set up today and it seems to be working well. Gotta download other drivers and foo when I get back to CMU, but that’s really it.

My camera memory card died again today. Same brand/make/model as the first one. Going to return it and try a non SanDisk UltraII SD 1GB card to see if it’s the camera that kills cards, of if it’s just the cards that are bad. Given that I used a SanDisk SD 256MB card in it with no problems, I’m guessing it’s a combination of the two.

Congrats to Ben (who may or may not read this) for landing an interview for a great job.

Went bowling with Kat, Jim, Tommy, Kendra, and $person today. I would have pictures, but my card died. Bleh.
I’m gonna miss Kat… :(

Um… yeah. I would also post a picture of my laptop, but my memory card died.
*sigh*

Oh yeah, yesterday was KoL run of amazing funnness. Went from mid-level 10 to level 11, beat the sorceress, leveled up to 12 to get the dual-wield skill, ascended, and went from level 1 to mid-level 5. Played over 350 adventures yesterday. Wheee.
This run would be a record run except it’s a myst class… and I always have trouble with level 9+ areas as a myst class.
Bleh.
The fact that I eat all my reagents doesn’t help either.

Oh, I had the weirdest dream the other night. Society thought masochism and torture were sexy and attractive… so I drilled holes in my toes and was chopping my fingers in half (long-ways). Then I woke up. It was the most disturbing dream I’ve ever had.

Laptop

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It’s always an amazing experience to get a new desktop or laptop, open it, and admire it. The way it looks… the way it feels… the way the keys click nicely under your fingers.
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And then you start setting it up as you want it, and it’s really quite disappointing. It happened with my last computer (this Dell). It’s happening with my new one.

Finally opened the HP laptop I bought today (decided to keep it) and started setting it up. First thing I noticed was the abundance of useless programs installed. Easy right? Just do a clean OS install and then start building it. Well, this laptop didn’t come with any OS or driver CDs… they’ve been replaced by a “System recovery” feature that eats up some of the hard drive (about ~12 GB) and allows for “complete or partial reinstllation of the system to factory specifications,” so that option is out.
Meh, fine, whatever. I’ll just uninstall stuff I don’t want.
I go to install Microsoft Office with the CD I have. Looks good. Go and start it.
It wants a CD key.
I already gave it a CD key.
*tries the key from the software again*
*doesn’t work*
Hm…
*continues to try*
Long story short, the trial version of Office that came preinstalled was conflicting with my installation, and I couldn’t remedy it by doing a complete uninstall and reinstall of Office. Ended up having to register and activate the trial version, THEN uninstall it, and then install my full version. Here’s hoping it worked.
Besides that, the max screen resolution is also lower than this computer (my old broken Dell) despite it having a bigger screen.
Meh, oh well. It’s still a very nice laptop, and it’s light as hell for the power that it packs. Gonna install more stuff on it tomorrow and start switching over to it.

Dad’s coming home from the hospital tomorrow. Yay.

Yesterday was Vicki’s last weekend here (before she heads off to Rice University), so I spent the afternoon/evening with her, David, Jennie, Laura, and Margaret. Was good. We played some ITG (on my laptop with pads) and Time Crisis 3, then watched Fantastic 4 and Rent and went to get coffee.

Today I saw Katie. We went to lunch and talked. Whee.

Um… yeah. My life is boring.

Ploo

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Went to visit my dad in the hospital today. He seems to be doing well, I think. I honestly didn’t spend that much time in the room. Hospitals kinda give me the creeps.

Went to Gameworks with David today, and he won me a stuffed Shadow from the claw game. David rules. <3 Shadow. Also beat House of the Dead 4 with him. The final boss isn’t that hard… then again, we went through about $20 worth of points to beat the game (which, at Gameworks, isn’t really that much). Meh.

Apparently there’s some sort of terrorist thingy going on right now? My mom says they’re not allowing gels or liquids as carry-ons, but are allowing them in checked baggage, since they recieved a threat of a liquid bomb or something. Um… correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t it be more prudent to disallow liquids in checked baggage? I mean, unless liquid bombs require human intervention to set off (I know nothing about them; they very well could), it would be better for a terrorist to stick one in baggage, check it, and then not get on the plane, no?
Meh.
This is why I don’t read newspapers or listen to the news anymore. The world is exploding.
Speaking of exploding, is there still stuff going on in Israel and Lebanon? I heard they were fighting each other or something. Blah.

Humans suck. Why can’t we all just get along? And why couldn’t the US just mind its own business instead of invading Iraq and Afghanistan and pissing off all the Muslims?

No picture. Still not in the mood for photography.