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Category acquired things

iPod

Well, I think I’ve decided what I’m going to do for music playing in the car and the living room. I think an Apple iPod will be the best solution. Now, which one to get… The 15GB is $399, but the 30GB, twice the size, is only $100 more. I’m thinking that if I don’t get the 30GB, I’ll be kicking myself in a few months wanting the larger one. Now, where to get it… And when… It’d be nice to have it engraved, just in case there was any confusion, it’d have my info on it. It’s also be nice to have AAC compression, but I can wait either until I get a Apple or iTunes for Windows comes out. We’ll have to see… Maybe I’ll hook up the RCA <-> 3.5mm cable today and see if this project is really something I want to do.

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Homey Stuff II

Well, today I went and got the moulding for putting around the ceiling of my bedroom. I also got a router. A router is the one thing I’ve been needing in order to finish working on building my new bed. The best part of getting the router, though… I’ll start from the beginning. When I was at Home Depot earlier today getting the moulding, I saw this $59.99 Ryobi router that seemed to be just about everything I needed. It locks so bit changes are easy, pistol grip handles with a locking on/off switch on the handle, 1 1/2 HP, easily adjustable, and cheap. So, that all works out. I go home, get the $25 Home Depot Gift Certificate that I got from my sister and brother-in-law for my birthday, then head over there. Well, when I was grabbing the gift certificate, I found another one gift cert that I thought had maybe $1 or $2 left on it. I took it along, figuring I’d use it up. When I got to the cash register it turns out that this gift card somehow had $50 on it. So there we go. Free router! Woo!

I’m going to borrow my dad’s Black And Decker Workmate and his chop saw. Then I’ll be able to cut the moulding, route out the mortises on the bed, and generally keep progressing towards a nice looking, comfortable bedroom, complete with a big, soft, comfy bed. Yay!

But now, it’s time for bed. I’m Mr. Sleepyhead and tomorrow night is the Underworld show. Woo! I took Wednesday off, that will be a good day of rest. Maybe I’ll get started on the bedroom then. I need to pull everything away from the walls, wash the walls, patch the little nail holes, clean up calk overflow from when the place was build, then start tacking up the moulding. After that comes the hardest part. Picking out colors. Then painting, then I’ll move all the furnature out, clean the carpet with my parents steam cleaner, then it’ll be all good to go.

Somewhere in there needs to be time to clean the bathrooms, eat, do laundry, and just generally live. Gah! heh.

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New Computer

I finally got around to ordering the parts for my new computer. Here’s what it’ll have:

Asus P4T533 Motherboard (i850E chipset)
512MB PC1066 32-bit RAM in the form of 2x256MB RIMMs
Intel P4A 2.26GHz CPU w/Retail HSF

I’ll be putting it all inside of the same Doggie Case that I’ve been using for a few months. It’ll also use all the existing parts, including the Riva TNT2, SCSI CD-ROM and CD-RW, Sony floppy, and fibre channel array. I did pick up a Soyo BayOne to get some front mounted USB ports and CompactFlash reader.

The parts were ordered from Runtime Computer in Canton (MB and RAM bundle for $420), Directron (Soyo BayOne for $29.99), and Googlegear (CPU for $234).

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