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Just when you thought it was safe to stop checking my blog... BAM! Another post! Ok, bad humour aside, I regret taking so long to churn out another post... The past month has been a little crazy in terms of everything. So in order to get you folks caught up, I'm gonna fire down the happenings of me in a list-like form. -Laptop I bought a laptop. Specs (IBM 570): PII 333Mhz 192MB RAM 13.3" LCD Screen (Only 1.5" Thick!) Silly Dock-like bottom half which adds a CD-ROM and floppy drive 10GB Hard Disk Other Stuff I'm Too Lazy to Mention This Laptop I bought used (duh) from the parents of a friend for an agreeable price. The first order of business was (of course) to remove windoze and install a proper OS. Once I found out that Slack 10 was released, I used the laptop as the pioneer system to see what new features the latest release of my favorite distro had to offer. So far, things are turning out great. According to divx's site, you need a 450 to watch DIVX video. Well, I can get two full-sized movies running simultaneously without invoking framedrop. Yes, I'm quite proud of what I'm able to accomplish with this little thing. It works out perfectly for everything I mean to do on it. Granted, it's no gaming powerhouse, but then again, to get gaming power in a laptop is rare and expensive. -Summer Class Yes, I started taking a summer class: Political Science. As my Mother works at the local community college I get tuition free. So I found a class which transfers to EMU and am hacking away at it currently. It's more like learning by osmosis. I generally sit in back and mess around with my laptop, but still manage to do quite well. I'm going to hae to look into this "osmosis" thing. -Apartment The inevitable could be delayed no longer. I got together with Mike Steffke, a friend and fellow trumpet player, and signed a lease for a two-bedroom apartment in Ypsilanti. The place will work out well, I imagine, and it is close enough to EMU to make gas expenses negligible. -Girlfriend Jessica is still putting up with me. Poor girl. -Marching Band I'm one of the two Trumpet Section Leaders for EMU's 2004 Marching band, and without sounding cliche, I am very excited about this upcoming year. The trumpets are now the largest section at least as far as the wind instruments go, with a number of at least 24 players. There's a lot talent in the section, and Jayme (the other section leader) and I have managed the parts so that we will be much more balanced in terms of power. Talent + Balance = Wall of Sound -Car I cleaned it. I know it doesn't sound like a big deal, but trust me, it is. I'm not 100% certain the last time I cleaned it was, but I was digging out Easter Candy as I began to reach the bottom of the mess. Scary. -WiFi Yes, this should prolly be closer to the Laptop section, but I deem this important, so shut up. I bought a WiFi card for the slacktop. It works good. WiFi is good. Good. -Desktop Bad Blocks are named as such for a reason. They are very... very... bad. I'm currently w/o an operating system on the larger machine. Which is really a terrible waste, as I just invested $115 at the beginning of the summer for a new processor. I just have a hard time accepting fate and reverting to my old 40GB drive. As I'm typing I've realized that this "Desktop" subsection may seem a little cryptic. Long Story Short: My Hard Drive Broke (which is bad). -Work This week my bosses deserted me, and I'm here holding the fort down all by my lonesome. Despite the temptation of the recently installed cable internet, I intend to finish a great amount of work before they return. (after I check slashdot) -Sleep Contrary to my norm, I've actually been getting some! -Sense of Humour Still Socially Unacceptable. -DOS Yes, that's right. The unendurable boredom of school has forced me to delve deeper into gaming possibilities. Unfortunatley, the Linux gaming movement is still relatively new, so most natively available games require any graphics card without the name "neomagic." As my luck is, that just so happens to be the card in my laptop! So I'm looking to oldschool answers. Nintendo Emulators and DOS games. These have hardcore gameplay and graphics which the slacktop can manage. So don't go knockin' DOS games until you're forced to play them. (p.s. Jetpack r0x0rs!) -Exuberance! Insubstantial! Phew, this is getting lengthy. There's more to come, but I've got a number of things to get done this evening, so it'll have to await another month. Until Next time! -Me (-Not You [-unless you are Dave])