I’m Over It
Ok, no more rants and screams about my computer problem, I’m over it, and, once again, this site is child-friendly. What’s that? It was never child-friendly? Ok, forget that then, it’s not geared towards sailors today then.
I took my computer in to Eric and he worked on it today. When I went back this afternoon he suggested that we change the video card and put in a Radeon (as opposed to the nVidia card I had).
So far everything’s working fine – no black outs, no crashes, no problems. I guess we’ll see if that works cuz then I’ll assume the problem was my card. He told me to try it out for a week or so and I will.
The only problem I can see is that I never did get around to installing the games (Doom 3, Half Life 2, Painkiller). My old video card was a 256mg and this new one is only 128mgs. So I wonder how well it will work with those games, if I feel courageous enough to install them. Right now I feel like I should leave well enough alone.
So I didn’t tell you about yesterday where I took my daughter for her piano exam (I was a little preoccupied swearing). The exam lasted 15 minutes. If only all exams were like that. She’ll get her results in the mail, but I’m sure she must have passed, she’s very good at the music.
After that we went back to her dad’s house where I spent the whole day cleaning the house (and I didn’t even finish it all). That place was such a stinking pig sty, I couldn’t help but clean it because I was so bothered by the fact that my daughter was living like that.
I bought him 4 more dishtowels which I used when I cleaned all the dishes (which were hiding in stacks underneath the sink). I swept and washed the kitchen floor (and walls cuz apparently they can’t seem to hit the garbage can with their food remains).
I cleaned my daughter’s room and a partial living room cleaning. I did 3 loads of laundry. I used Fantastik to clean off the computer keyboard – I can’t tell you how much was caked onto that – after I turned it upside down and shook out all the crumbs.
There was lots left to be done. However, I didn’t have the time. Before I left I had to remove the spyware that was all over the computer and had to reactivate my daughter’s cell phone since I changed it to an easier number.
It was a busy day. Unlike today. However, I did apply for 3 jobs today… one for which I’m qualified (or it seems to me that I am) and two for store clerk jobs (or cashiers or whatever the hell jobs they have at those stores).
I’m assuming I won’t hear back from any of the jobs and, as much as I’d like to change what I do, I don’t know if I could live on the minimum wage stuff. My car loan by itself is $400 a month since I consolidated and my half of the rent and bills is $800. That means that the minimum wage job would have to let me clear over $1200 a month if we were also to afford groceries.
Enough about that, I’m not worrying. Not yet, it’s too soon.
Tonight we’ll watch American Idol, as usual (while we still have cable 
). There aren’t too many people left, and I’m still rooting for Carrie. If not Carrie, I’ll settle for Bo. That’s it.
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I love my nVidea card, come on say it with me, “I Looove ma nVideeea card”.
I have a Fx5700 series card, it took a whole bunch of tweeking the motherboard settings to get it to work. Manily because it gets right into the processor bus and sucks picture data out of the the processor directly, and this has to be set up just right to work. Most average Pc seller /fixer types have no-idea how to do it. You need a crazy “V” fed gamer to sort it out.
Some times you need to “patch” the bios and flashram and stuff too, but in the end it is worthit for the beautiful view of the blood and brainmatter flying from the head of the alien when BFG uses a BFG on him. Hahahahahahaha ha.
Oh and my video editing software totaly sucked until he made it go on the games too.
The trick is to download several versions of bios/flashram/drivers/game update patches/Direct X, and so on. Go on get yourself a pet gamer, you know you want one.
Tell me where to find a pet gamer – I want tweaking (don’t let my honey hear me say that out loud, I’ll never see the computer again).
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
I will also be rooting for Carrie. Wooo.