Eriq’s Blag

I didn’t want to spend 5 days of my spring break in SF, so I drove home with my mom who was coming back for a choral rehearsal anyway. I missed my desktop.

Well, I don’t really feel like posting much more about my computer right now other than IT’S FUCKING AWESOMAZING!

Yeah, so I missed the fact that DirectX 10 only works with Vista…oh well, I can still play Portal!

It came, I built, I conquered. More tomorrow…

My new monitor came today. It is fucking sexy. 19″, 1680×1050 max resolution (apparently unusual for 19inchers), 5ms response time. It looks fabulous. I’d take a picture, but I’m too lazy.

I thought that my computer was coming tomorrow because that’s what the UPS tracker says. However, my dad failed to mention he got a second email telling him that the OTHER parts had been shipped, so all I’m getting tomorrow is my case and LCD. I guess I can play around with the screen, but I was really looking forward to putting my computer together tomorrow and not on the 12th.

I was hoping that my computer would come today, but my dad’s credit card company thought that it might be a fraudulent charge so they denied it the first time, now it probably won’t be here till Monday. [EDIT: Holy shit! I didn't realize wordpress did auto emoticons!]

Well, I just spent all of the money I had and $123 that I will have. I hope I didn’t make a mistake.

First, yes that was intentional. Here’s the Fragmat. It’s big. That’s my mouse on the right and my lappy on the left. Unfortunately, my mouse doesn’t work well with it, so I may just mount it on my wall.

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In other news, I may actually get my new computer soon…I hope…

Back in, oh, December, my friend Will was visiting from Canada. Before he came he had offered to buy me Unreal Tournament 3 (he really likes to spend his parent’s money on his friends), I however feel guilty accepting these presents so I said no. Then, a few days before he left he called to tell me that he had something for me, but I couldn’t go get it because I was busy that week. So, he gave it to his friend, that goes to my school, to give to me and told me that it was a mousepad. My thought was, “huh, why a mousepad,” the only thing I could think of was that it might be Half-Life themed. I talked to the guy he had given it to, who apparently knew nothing about it. A few days later he came to me and said that he did in fact have it, but not with him. He then forgot to bring it for a while. That is, until today. Guess what…I was right. It’s a fucking huge-ass Half-Life 2 themed mousepad or “Fragmat” as it is titled. This thing is bigger than my screen, which I suppose is good for gaming because it means you have more surface for looking around. In short, it’s fucking sweet, thanks Will.