Yrae Chronicles

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, we have a new PM. Don't really care, didn't vote for Krudd and sure as hell not voting for her, either :D With any luck, she'll be the shortest-serving PM in Australian history.

In other, more exciting news, Colin's birthday was yesterday, so I took him out to lunch. Huuuuuge bowl of Vietnamese soup, very noice X9 Followed by duck Windy Point style for dinner, homg. So delicious. I love my Mum <3

Also~ I bought a terrabyte external hard drive, so I can put all my movies and tv shows on that now. This'll be my project for the evening, then over the weekend I might see about getting Windows 7 on this computer. I've got it on the laptop, and it's on the computers at work, so I may as well. Also gives me the excuse to get Adobe CS5 8D Mmm, tasty.

This comes because I got my first pay check this week :DDDDDD SO EXCITING. Going clothes shopping this weekend cos my winter wardrobe is seriously depleted. All but one pair of jeans have holes in them, as do various tops, undies and socks. And I only have two pairs of pjs left. So yes, mmm money.

2010 is apparently the year of new tech in our house, most of it involuntary XD; Our laser printer's on its last legs so that every page comes out decidedly grey, the colour printer is dead, Mum's little EeePC is dead, Dad dropped his Palm and broke half the screen so that's dead, and he's also finally realised that taking a full minute to just open up an explorer window is not efficient and it's time to replace his desktop PC. Oh, and Mum's radio in the kitchen is sorta losing it, too. The voluntary bits have been the server in the shed and my laptop, which are both awesome. Everything else? lolbroken.

THERE. My laptop is miiiiiine complete with all its programs and preferences and desktop and everything set up. YAY now I can actually use it :D

LAPTOP~! :DDDD

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS.

I FINISHED.

SILENT HARMONY IS FINISHED.

WELL, ONLY BOOK ONE IS FINISHED, BUT I FEEL PRETTY FUCKING AWESOME RIGHT NOW.

READ IT BITCHES.

(If you can't see the chapters there, you fail and aren't a member of yrae, so go and join so you can see them and read them and holy crap I finished it you guys! I FINISHED!)

*PLAYS P!NK AS LOUD AS THE HEADPHONES WILL ALLOW WITHOUT SOUNDING SHIT*

Updated the GW gallery again from here =D

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This morning:
Phone: RING RING aren't I pretty? I have a shiny ringtone and everything!
Me: Hello~
Boss: Hi, did you know you were supposed to be working today at eleven?
Clock: 11:23, bitch.
Me: ... Noooo~? oO It is Friday, right?
Boss: Yeah...
Me: I rang on Tuesday to get the roster and I was told Saturday and Sunday.
Boss: Oh. Right. Well, can you still come in?
Me: Sure! .-.
Boss: You really should have checked the roster when you were in last weekend.
Me: . . .

alsdghalksjdghak The reason I DON'T check the roster, and ring up halfway through the week, is because it's usually NOT there, AND ALSO, IT CHANGES DURING THE WEEK. WITHOUT THEM TELLING ME. AJLSDGBSLJ I can't wiiin~ D:

Yeah~ >< On the one hand, yay, money I wasn't expecting. On the other... I missed out on an hour of work because the person who told me on Tuesday didn't say a thing about today. Arg and stuff.

Completely unrelated, got Colin to help with missing drivers and codecs and whatever else, so now I can properly play DVDs and all the video files that weren't working before, woooo. Been meaning to get onto that for about a month. Yay I can watch Moulin Rouge! again <3 And also At World's End that Colin got me for Chrissy, wai!