As promised, here's the pictures Marcus posted of his tech tree.
Even though I specifically asked him not to get me much ('cause I knew he'd get me something and I did have one small gift for him that I ordered way back in October before I lost my job), Marcus got me a really cool gift. I opened a box Christmas morning that included stuff to upgrade my old PC tower—new motherboard, processor, ram and a video card. He also got the new Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD, The Lost Christmas (I will go see them live if they tour next year!) I felt horribly guilty for only getting him a t-shirt, but that was all that could be done this year. After spending the morning putting the new hardware in and the afternoon reinstalling Windows and drivers, my "new" computer was up and running. Marcus said, "There. Now you can play Harry Potter games and stuff." Well, as soon as I had some money, I told him, I would go out and get a game to try it out. Either that, or Mike could install one of his PC games on it and see how the machine held up. Marcus left and came back a minute later with a new copy of SIMS 2 that he was hiding! Dang him!
Those that have read here a long time know that I was a Sims Addict. That was until my poor old G4 became so ancient that it became incapable of playing the ever bloated expansion packs. Then came school and my life was too busy for such an addicting game and I was too busy trying to keep my own energy up with worrying about a poor game simulation. I wanted the Sims 2 when it came out for mac, but again, no money to upgrade the old machine, so there was no point. While at CompUsa one day looking at games, I told Marcus I should just upgrade the PC and play games on it since there are already several expansion packs for the Sims 2 for PC and none for mac yet, Parts for a pc are cheaper in general than parts for a mac, as well. That way I would keep the mac gameless and open for designing and surfing.
After one unsuccessful install (my boot hard drive needs to be replaced), a sucessful reinstall on the other drive had me up and playing. By then it was late and I needed to go to bed (stupid work pizza job), so breaking in the new game would have to wait until the next day.
So, guess what I did from the time I got home from work and finished a quick surf of blogs until 10:30 last night: YOU GUESSED IT!
Now when I have money, I'll have to upgrade my boot disk, buy more memory, a flat panel monitor, expansions packs..................
Marcus' mother sent me a "Taught Myself Knitting" kit. THANKS!!!!!! Now I can learn to knit this coming year as well. Whoo Hoo! I'll have that Harry Potter scarf done by the time book 7 is released!
OK, time to quit dawdling and get off to work. As soon as I take care of some delinquent bills, I'm quitting that job. I decided for sure yesterday. I've already told one of the managers that I probably won't be there more than another month. I just can't take it anymore. SSDD. Things are never going to change there, so I need to quit griping about it and move on. Plus, now that I have to commute to Larkspur, I really won't have time to get it all done, anyway. Maybe a couple of weeks working as a graphic designer for real will give me the confidence to start freelancing on the side (evenings and weekends). February 2006 will mark my 6 year anniversary working at that store and April 2006 will mark the 15 year anniversary of working for that company. I don't really want to mark those milestones.
OK, I'm out of here.
Even though I specifically asked him not to get me much ('cause I knew he'd get me something and I did have one small gift for him that I ordered way back in October before I lost my job), Marcus got me a really cool gift. I opened a box Christmas morning that included stuff to upgrade my old PC tower—new motherboard, processor, ram and a video card. He also got the new Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD, The Lost Christmas (I will go see them live if they tour next year!) I felt horribly guilty for only getting him a t-shirt, but that was all that could be done this year. After spending the morning putting the new hardware in and the afternoon reinstalling Windows and drivers, my "new" computer was up and running. Marcus said, "There. Now you can play Harry Potter games and stuff." Well, as soon as I had some money, I told him, I would go out and get a game to try it out. Either that, or Mike could install one of his PC games on it and see how the machine held up. Marcus left and came back a minute later with a new copy of SIMS 2 that he was hiding! Dang him!
Those that have read here a long time know that I was a Sims Addict. That was until my poor old G4 became so ancient that it became incapable of playing the ever bloated expansion packs. Then came school and my life was too busy for such an addicting game and I was too busy trying to keep my own energy up with worrying about a poor game simulation. I wanted the Sims 2 when it came out for mac, but again, no money to upgrade the old machine, so there was no point. While at CompUsa one day looking at games, I told Marcus I should just upgrade the PC and play games on it since there are already several expansion packs for the Sims 2 for PC and none for mac yet, Parts for a pc are cheaper in general than parts for a mac, as well. That way I would keep the mac gameless and open for designing and surfing.
After one unsuccessful install (my boot hard drive needs to be replaced), a sucessful reinstall on the other drive had me up and playing. By then it was late and I needed to go to bed (stupid work pizza job), so breaking in the new game would have to wait until the next day.
So, guess what I did from the time I got home from work and finished a quick surf of blogs until 10:30 last night: YOU GUESSED IT!
Now when I have money, I'll have to upgrade my boot disk, buy more memory, a flat panel monitor, expansions packs..................
Marcus' mother sent me a "Taught Myself Knitting" kit. THANKS!!!!!! Now I can learn to knit this coming year as well. Whoo Hoo! I'll have that Harry Potter scarf done by the time book 7 is released!
OK, time to quit dawdling and get off to work. As soon as I take care of some delinquent bills, I'm quitting that job. I decided for sure yesterday. I've already told one of the managers that I probably won't be there more than another month. I just can't take it anymore. SSDD. Things are never going to change there, so I need to quit griping about it and move on. Plus, now that I have to commute to Larkspur, I really won't have time to get it all done, anyway. Maybe a couple of weeks working as a graphic designer for real will give me the confidence to start freelancing on the side (evenings and weekends). February 2006 will mark my 6 year anniversary working at that store and April 2006 will mark the 15 year anniversary of working for that company. I don't really want to mark those milestones.
OK, I'm out of here.
Name: LaDonna
