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same_skyOnce upon a time, there was a boy and a girl who were true nerds. They spent lots of time using their computers (because who could stand to share something like a computer? Gross. It's worse than sharing toothbrushes) but it had been five whole years since they had bought shiny new computers. The boy's machine kept crashing at very inopportune moments, like when he had been playing The Sims 2 for two hours and had just gotten to the top of his career without saving, and maybe some other times when it was less important (like when working on his second job stuff.) The girl's machine was doing okay but it was showing its age in other ways, but not so much that she couldn't use it.
One day, the girl decided that perhaps ...
oh, for pete's sake, even I am sick of this.
So M's computer has been sucking lately, and I told him that we could possibly replace it if he wanted to, given the tax rebate and all. He spent a while doing his research, and settled on a few different systems over the course of a couple of weeks. Finally, he found a Gateway with the approximate same specifications as some other systems we had been thinking about, only more than two hundred dollars cheaper, so Tuesday night, we bit the bullet and bought... two. ;) All along, we had just been talking about buying him one. When we found these at this price, we started talking about replacing mine as well--I am behind on Easter, birthday and Mother's Day gifts, plus I got some money from those holidays from my family. After we decided to go with it, I was all bouncing around because I wasn't expecting to get a new computer so it hadn't been that immediately exciting for me, but M finally admitted that he had been planning on buying me one all along. He's a nice boy. :) He had to drive to Circuit City yesterday during his lunch break to pick them up. Yay for new hardware! I would link to the ones we bought, but strangely, yesterday they were gone from the website, JUST after we had ordered them. Lucky us, just in time! For once.
Vista is awfully pretty, but we'll see how we like it long-term. We are curmudgeons who resist change.
So, that is the news in our little world. Evelyn was unimpressed, except by the boxes. She thought they were fun to sit on, and since she knew Mama was itching to go play with her new toy, she refused to go to bed until hours later than usual. Little bratsy.
Oh, speaking of Evelyn, she learned a new trick this weekend. She learned that she can just lift Mama's shirt right up if she wants to eat. Woohoo! Actually, it's really cute but only because she hasn't done it in public. I think she is drunk on the independence of it all because she has done it every five minutes since then, but she doesn't really want to eat once she's succeeded in getting to her goal. I guess she is officially at that age where the naysayers would make nasty comments if they ever saw her do it. Since the child does not actually eat real food (seriously, she cares so little for solid food that I am beginning to worry) I can't even imagine weaning her anytime in the near future, so those imaginary naysayers can just go jump off a cliff for all I care.
Let's see... oh, and I won something! I entered a contest at Stop, Drog and Blog recently, and I won a 4GB flash drive! How awesome is that? :) I never win anything so it was pretty exciting. :) I have decided to make entering contests my life's work. What? They say that lightning never strikes twice? Hmm.. aah, well.
One day, the girl decided that perhaps ...
oh, for pete's sake, even I am sick of this.
So M's computer has been sucking lately, and I told him that we could possibly replace it if he wanted to, given the tax rebate and all. He spent a while doing his research, and settled on a few different systems over the course of a couple of weeks. Finally, he found a Gateway with the approximate same specifications as some other systems we had been thinking about, only more than two hundred dollars cheaper, so Tuesday night, we bit the bullet and bought... two. ;) All along, we had just been talking about buying him one. When we found these at this price, we started talking about replacing mine as well--I am behind on Easter, birthday and Mother's Day gifts, plus I got some money from those holidays from my family. After we decided to go with it, I was all bouncing around because I wasn't expecting to get a new computer so it hadn't been that immediately exciting for me, but M finally admitted that he had been planning on buying me one all along. He's a nice boy. :) He had to drive to Circuit City yesterday during his lunch break to pick them up. Yay for new hardware! I would link to the ones we bought, but strangely, yesterday they were gone from the website, JUST after we had ordered them. Lucky us, just in time! For once.
Vista is awfully pretty, but we'll see how we like it long-term. We are curmudgeons who resist change.
So, that is the news in our little world. Evelyn was unimpressed, except by the boxes. She thought they were fun to sit on, and since she knew Mama was itching to go play with her new toy, she refused to go to bed until hours later than usual. Little bratsy.
Oh, speaking of Evelyn, she learned a new trick this weekend. She learned that she can just lift Mama's shirt right up if she wants to eat. Woohoo! Actually, it's really cute but only because she hasn't done it in public. I think she is drunk on the independence of it all because she has done it every five minutes since then, but she doesn't really want to eat once she's succeeded in getting to her goal. I guess she is officially at that age where the naysayers would make nasty comments if they ever saw her do it. Since the child does not actually eat real food (seriously, she cares so little for solid food that I am beginning to worry) I can't even imagine weaning her anytime in the near future, so those imaginary naysayers can just go jump off a cliff for all I care.
Let's see... oh, and I won something! I entered a contest at Stop, Drog and Blog recently, and I won a 4GB flash drive! How awesome is that? :) I never win anything so it was pretty exciting. :) I have decided to make entering contests my life's work. What? They say that lightning never strikes twice? Hmm.. aah, well.
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Date: 2008-05-15 06:08 pm (UTC)I was very anti-vista (on principle or something I guess) but after using it on my new laptop for several months, I have no complaints. I just made sure that when it came to my desktop, it game with 3GB because I didn't want to mess around later with memory constraints. And Vista hasn't managed to piss me off yet ;-)
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Date: 2008-05-15 08:55 pm (UTC)It's not available at CC anymore but this is the one we bought: GT5662, only we paid $528... which I think is extremely reasonable. M is already talking about possibly making a new graphics card his Christmas present, though, and he hasn't even tested it out yet. ;) He's kind of a gaming nerd though.
p.s. I have a kid's Swedish CD playing loudly at the moment. Can you believe that I am at a time in my life where I am listening to kid's Swedish language (therefore, easyish) music and my husband is speaking more (again, easyish) Swedish at home than ever before... and my own Swedish is the worst it's ever been? Bah! We were doing so well for a little while, weren't we? ;) haha.