Yeah…
Haven’t really been keeping up on that promise to write one post a month. Oh well. Let’s see, whats new since the last post. A lot, actually. The insurance companies sided with me, the dude that hit me had to pay. Woo! While my car was getting fixed, I had to drive around one of those PT Cruiser things. My friends and I “affectionately” referred to it as the “Clown Car”. It was bright red, and burned gas like you wouldn’t believe. Hmm…what else…
In August, my lease on the Civic was up, and I upgraded to the Accord EX. Its got loads of bells and whistles: 6-disc CD, cruise control, heated mirrors, a backseat (yay!), a moon roof, key less entry – you get the picture. I got a really good deal on it too, I got it right at the end of the model year, so I ended up getting about $5000 off the price of the car, plus since I had a Honda already I didn’t have to pay any sales tax. The car has been great so far, but I did have a little trouble with the heat. Apparently they didn’t plug in the motor that opens the vent so that heat can actually flow into your car. Yeah…there were some cold mornings before I got that fixed. Every time I tell the story someone says, “Why didn’t you test the heat before you bought the car?” To which I reply, “It was August and 110 degrees outside. I was happy the AC worked.”
A little more recently, I built a new computer. My old one was dead. A couple of months ago I was putting some new dvd burners in my PC when I noticed that two of the capacitors near the CPU had popped, and the rest were bulging. I knew then I didn’t have long.  Here’s the specs of the new computer:
- ASUS Maximus Formula Special Edition Motherboard
- 4 GB DDR2 @ 1066Mhz
- Two Western Digital 250GB 16MB Special Editions
- Intel Core2 Quad 2.4Ghz (thats 4 cores!)
- GeForce 8600GTS (Overclocked)
- Antec P182 Case
- 8 Channel HD Audio (on board)
- Two 16x DVD RAM drives (the ones I got before)
- Vista x64
Everyone I talk to says that Vista sucks. I must say that it is a very elegant OS. Like any other OS, it requires a fair amount of tweaking before you would really be comfortable with it. I will say that for the lack of new features, Microsoft really did take a long time to code it, but I guess I am happy just to be running something new. The only complaint I have is that Windows Explorer has been seriously dumbed down; it reminds me of the old school Mac OS (like 9 and older).
Well, I’m tapped. Lata.
Straight up, next level bullshit. 
