It's A Good Thing
Jesus, almost a month since updating? Really?
Well, right now we're fostering three kittens that we're attempting to find homes for... I think this will come out as a positive push on the great wheel of karma for me, and I suspect that it's already beginning to pay positive dividends. Why, you ask? Two reasons:
1) My three literary torpedoes are still in the water, running hot and true, and have yet to be turned away from their prospective targets.
2) OMG MY NEW LAPTOP WILL ARRIVE ON MONDAY!11!1!!!!1!11
I've been using the same Dell Inspiron 6000 since about March 2004 and while I love it it to death and have done a lot of quality writing (he prayed devoutly) on its keys, time marches on and does with with a particularly heavy tread over electronics. I occasionally get the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), the DVD-ROM drive does not always wish to eject discs and most distressingly, the sound is completely kaput. Not even headphones will work, my devoted peeps. In the last few months, I have gotten to experience a silent world via my Inspiron and... and quite honestly, it sucks.
Enter Nemesis.
It's an Alienware laptop, which means that not only is it dreadfully expensive, it will also play Doom 3 at speeds and graphic resolutions that previously I could only pray bitterly for. I love Doom 3. Loooooooove it, but unfortunately it requires more oomph than my wife's laptop can provide. The new model will have this in spades (drool), plus Microsoft Office (sweet), a sturdy-as-fuck alumnium chassis (hell yes) and glowing red backlit keys (positively deadly). Yes, it is aptly named. Nemesis, goddess of divine retribution. Oh, and with a Blu-ray DVD player.
It's my Christmas present, but I don't have to wait to open it up; it will be here in time for my vacation and therefore for National Novel Writing Month. When it was ordered, the build date was scheduled around the end of the month, something which past experience has taught us is usually off by about two weeks at the least.
This time, the time lapse is in our favor.
What's good in your life lately?
Well, right now we're fostering three kittens that we're attempting to find homes for... I think this will come out as a positive push on the great wheel of karma for me, and I suspect that it's already beginning to pay positive dividends. Why, you ask? Two reasons:
1) My three literary torpedoes are still in the water, running hot and true, and have yet to be turned away from their prospective targets.
2) OMG MY NEW LAPTOP WILL ARRIVE ON MONDAY!11!1!!!!1!11
I've been using the same Dell Inspiron 6000 since about March 2004 and while I love it it to death and have done a lot of quality writing (he prayed devoutly) on its keys, time marches on and does with with a particularly heavy tread over electronics. I occasionally get the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), the DVD-ROM drive does not always wish to eject discs and most distressingly, the sound is completely kaput. Not even headphones will work, my devoted peeps. In the last few months, I have gotten to experience a silent world via my Inspiron and... and quite honestly, it sucks.
Enter Nemesis.
It's an Alienware laptop, which means that not only is it dreadfully expensive, it will also play Doom 3 at speeds and graphic resolutions that previously I could only pray bitterly for. I love Doom 3. Loooooooove it, but unfortunately it requires more oomph than my wife's laptop can provide. The new model will have this in spades (drool), plus Microsoft Office (sweet), a sturdy-as-fuck alumnium chassis (hell yes) and glowing red backlit keys (positively deadly). Yes, it is aptly named. Nemesis, goddess of divine retribution. Oh, and with a Blu-ray DVD player.
It's my Christmas present, but I don't have to wait to open it up; it will be here in time for my vacation and therefore for National Novel Writing Month. When it was ordered, the build date was scheduled around the end of the month, something which past experience has taught us is usually off by about two weeks at the least.
This time, the time lapse is in our favor.
What's good in your life lately?