Black Friday to Widescreen Tuesday
I actually took part in the consumer-fest on Friday since I am looking for a few gadgets. Specifically, a monitor and a CD player for my car. My old monitor was the last piece of my first computer I bought myself back in 2001, and that old Dell CRT was still chugging along nicely and still had a beautiful, clear picture. Eventually though, you just want more real estate and shell out for something a little bigger. Newegg had a nice deal on a widescreen 23" monitor, with free 3-day shipping, so I jumped right on that, and there is quite a difference between 1024x768 and 1920x1080. WoW looks terrific and I can see the entirety of websites designed for higher res screens! But there's a part of me that still feels a little guilty about getting rid of that trusty old monitor, and it sits awkwardly in the middle of my bedroom floor since I hadn't considered where to put a 19" CRT... perhaps I'll keep it around as backup, or give it a good home to anyone who's interested.
WoW is going well. I'm ready for some new content, that's for sure. But the guild continues to rock and be drama-free, the bosses continue to drop (even Yogg!), and my dps continues to kick ass. I switched over to troll when the race change went live, because a) best racial for an arcane mage and b) bright red dreadlocks and an evil cackle. Last couple of weeks have seen me getting things done that I've wanted to complete before Cataclysm, ie. Loremaster (annoying as that was, it was a lot of fun to do Classic WoW stuff, even though I can't find enough people interested in AQ40). Fake Life is good.
As for car stereos, that's something I'm going to have to research a little more, and take a look at what's out there. I just need something basic - a single disc player is fine if it can play MP3 discs. But it also has to have an intuitive interface so I can operate it without taking my eyes off the road. And then there's figuring out what the price range is and what's a good deal...
I saw my tiny gecko eat a fly today, which is the first time I've actually seen him eat (being entirely nocturnal, he tends to come out and party when I've gone to sleep). He has an insane appetite for fruit flies and I can hardly feed him enough; any food I put in his little container is usually all gone by the next morning. He's about twice as big as he was when I got him, around 2 inches, so he's not full grown yet but definitely thriving. Maybe I'll bring him to the company Christmas party.
Now I need to pop some pills and head to bed. Apparently the combination of a shitty chair at work and wearing my wallet in my back pocket has gone and borked up my sciatic nerve, and hopefully this weird cocktail of corticosteroids and anti-inflammatories will help. Sigh.
WoW is going well. I'm ready for some new content, that's for sure. But the guild continues to rock and be drama-free, the bosses continue to drop (even Yogg!), and my dps continues to kick ass. I switched over to troll when the race change went live, because a) best racial for an arcane mage and b) bright red dreadlocks and an evil cackle. Last couple of weeks have seen me getting things done that I've wanted to complete before Cataclysm, ie. Loremaster (annoying as that was, it was a lot of fun to do Classic WoW stuff, even though I can't find enough people interested in AQ40). Fake Life is good.
As for car stereos, that's something I'm going to have to research a little more, and take a look at what's out there. I just need something basic - a single disc player is fine if it can play MP3 discs. But it also has to have an intuitive interface so I can operate it without taking my eyes off the road. And then there's figuring out what the price range is and what's a good deal...
I saw my tiny gecko eat a fly today, which is the first time I've actually seen him eat (being entirely nocturnal, he tends to come out and party when I've gone to sleep). He has an insane appetite for fruit flies and I can hardly feed him enough; any food I put in his little container is usually all gone by the next morning. He's about twice as big as he was when I got him, around 2 inches, so he's not full grown yet but definitely thriving. Maybe I'll bring him to the company Christmas party.
Now I need to pop some pills and head to bed. Apparently the combination of a shitty chair at work and wearing my wallet in my back pocket has gone and borked up my sciatic nerve, and hopefully this weird cocktail of corticosteroids and anti-inflammatories will help. Sigh.