No Rest For the Wicked

So I'm all ready to have a nice four weeks off from school, relaxing, playing Starcraft 2, watch movies, surfing the web. Literally the day after my final, my desktop computer went on the fritz. My video card just suddenly died. Well, the upshot is that now I can upgrade the card, so the machine will be ready for Diablo 3, when it finally gets released.

After shopping online for a couple of days, looking around for what I might want, I decided to take a stroll to my local Fry's Electronics store. While I was cruising the memory aisle, I found an awesome deal on RAM! After the mail-in rebate, a 2GB stick of RAM would only cost me $9.99!! I just couldn't resist, so I bought two sticks. I also found a reasonable 1GB ATI Radeon video card for a reasonable price.

So far, since Friday, I've built an FTP server for my class, reinstalled Windows 7 on a Linux version Asus netbook for a classmate, troubleshot and installed a new video card, a new CMOS battery and 4GB of RAM in my main desktop PC. I'm totally in PC tech mode now, when I really should be in motorcycle mechanic mode! Still next week, I have to build up another PC for my wife, so she won't have to keep using laptops to log into work. (I'll let you in on a secret- Apple laptops ain't all that great- they have problems just like all other computers. But if I paid twice as much for a laptop, I wouldn't admit to anyone that my shit broke too. In their defense, they do have that cool Apple logo on the back and that's got to be worth a few hundred dollars.)

This week should be fun. More computer stuff, some school counseling stuff and lots of motorcycle building. Then my sister and her family blows into town from Los Angeles! I love seeing those little rugrats!