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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Holiday Break I can't believe the holiday break is over. My last day of work 12/19/03 and I did not return to work until 1/6/04. Isn't that amazing? That's 22 straight days off! I slept when I was tired, ate when I was hungry, drank when I was thirsty... it was pure paradise. I mostly worked on my computer, tweaking and maximizing every aspect of it. I created a few DVD home movies from 8mm, and had fun learning the software a little better. Right now I'm just suffering from post-holiday withdrawal (the fact that I lived 22 days without ANY stress). I don't know what to do with myself. I'm too used to going to bed at 7AM or 8AM, and waking up at noon. My whole time clock is skewed. Josh spent most of his time cleaning and updating his saltwater reef tank. He has a whole plethora of new coral, snails and fish! I donated a hundit to his cause, just because I enjoy the peace, joy, and tranquility that a saltwater tank offers. I swear you can examine a saltwater tank everyday, and discover something new every single time. You can see some pictures of his saltwater tank here (2003) and here (2004). My supercomputer fun can be seen here (2003) and here (2004). That computer ended up costing me $1700 from Newegg, and additional $400 for the extra 1 gig of RAM from Microcenter, and the rollover costs for the video card ($399) and DVD burner ($250). Don't forget to add the fluff like CPU coolers, video card coolers, fan controllers, and extra fans, which ended up costing me around $50 + $40 + $30 + $30. Oops. I almost forgot I purchased an additional 200 GB drive ($199), plus the rollover cost of my carryover 180 GB drive ($159). So the grand total of beast is: $3257. That's not too bad for having the biggest and baddest computer allowed by a living mortal. Also, if you read Maximum PC, you should notice an article about the 10,000 RPM WD Raptors I'm using in RAID 0. Maximum PC rated them a "10", which they very rarely give out. Individually, my drives read as fast from their platters in normal mode as Special Edition 7,200 drives read from their cache in burst mode. And I have two of these striped in RAID 0, which makes them doubly faster. It is nice to finally have a top-shelf computer. I've been dragging my feet for years. Finally, in doing some of these video captures, converting 8mm to DVD, I've been doing screen captures of some of the video frames. In doing so, I've been creating new photo directories in my photo archives. This is a great thing because I've been on a kick to consolidate all my videos and pictures under one virtual roof. Right now, I have some videos seperated from my photo archives. I don't like having photos and videos in two seperate locations. I know that nobody really cares about this. I'm just jotting this down for myself. :) Work Work has been killing me. I've only been back for two days, and it feels like there are not enough hours in the day. It's a hardship for me: I've been used to 24/7 leisure time for 22 days. Now, I'll be lucky to get in three hours of leisure in any given day, since I'm not getting home until 8PM. It's really affecting my fun factor of life. I hate working. I wish I won the lotto. I would REALLY have fun. As far as my workload goes, I'm trying to fit a two-year program into a three-month block. Literally. It's tough. And it hurts. posted by Dino at 2:22 PM (permanent link) |