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Fri, Jun. 29th, 2012 10:14 pm
Allow me to get my geek on for a little bit. I've been pondering, over the course of the last month or two, the idea of getting a new computer*. Today's announcement of the GW2 release date has pretty much clinched it. ( HERE'S WHY )
So basically, I need (or, at least, want):
o Motherboard
o Graphics card/monitor/both???
o RAM
o Box/power supply (I'm not falling in that trap again)
o Solid state hard disk
o CPU? idk. I have no idea. I'm assuming a 4 year old CPU won't be much use in a brand new computer.
Finally, the real kicker, money. It's the end of the financial year (and god don't I know it, working admin in what is basically a retail franchise) which means three things:
o TAX RETURN. FINALLY. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK, GOVERNMENT I DIDN'T VOTE FOR AND WISH I COULD VOTE OUT NOW.
o Pay rise comes into effect!
o Probably the biggest thing, along with the pay rise comes back-pay to February.
I haven't spent money, I mean SPENT money, since I moved out. I've bought an $80 book case, half a dozen books for about $12 each, two or three jumpers, a pair of leather gloves, and three Assassin's Creed games, on special for $20, $40 and $45 respectively. (And for those pointing out the electric frypan and wok, I got those with gift vouchers). My only genuine splurges (over $300 for each thing, omg) have been going to Sydney last year, and the Barossa this year, but I still budgeted for those things and bought sod-all in the month leading up to each thing. I've been so focused on buying a house and saving and scraping and need a deposit and bloody hell I'm bored of it.
So screw it. I'm spending money. I'm buying something awesome. I'm going to do my tax return as soon as I get my PAYG summary or whatever it's called, get all my tax back and my back-pay, and I'm going to tally it up and give a value to my brother and go BUILD ME A COMPUTER and it will be awesome.
* When my family says 'a new computer' we actually mean 'new bits combined with the old bits that still work that we will then construct into a computer.' I have an electrical engineer for a dad and a Java programmer for a brother. We don't buy 'a computer'.
So basically, I need (or, at least, want):
o Motherboard
o Graphics card/monitor/both???
o RAM
o Box/power supply (I'm not falling in that trap again)
o Solid state hard disk
o CPU? idk. I have no idea. I'm assuming a 4 year old CPU won't be much use in a brand new computer.
Finally, the real kicker, money. It's the end of the financial year (and god don't I know it, working admin in what is basically a retail franchise) which means three things:
o TAX RETURN. FINALLY. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK, GOVERNMENT I DIDN'T VOTE FOR AND WISH I COULD VOTE OUT NOW.
o Pay rise comes into effect!
o Probably the biggest thing, along with the pay rise comes back-pay to February.
I haven't spent money, I mean SPENT money, since I moved out. I've bought an $80 book case, half a dozen books for about $12 each, two or three jumpers, a pair of leather gloves, and three Assassin's Creed games, on special for $20, $40 and $45 respectively. (And for those pointing out the electric frypan and wok, I got those with gift vouchers). My only genuine splurges (over $300 for each thing, omg) have been going to Sydney last year, and the Barossa this year, but I still budgeted for those things and bought sod-all in the month leading up to each thing. I've been so focused on buying a house and saving and scraping and need a deposit and bloody hell I'm bored of it.
So screw it. I'm spending money. I'm buying something awesome. I'm going to do my tax return as soon as I get my PAYG summary or whatever it's called, get all my tax back and my back-pay, and I'm going to tally it up and give a value to my brother and go BUILD ME A COMPUTER and it will be awesome.
* When my family says 'a new computer' we actually mean 'new bits combined with the old bits that still work that we will then construct into a computer.' I have an electrical engineer for a dad and a Java programmer for a brother. We don't buy 'a computer'.
