To make up for all the time I've been "away," I'm thinking maybe I should write in my journal at least once every couple of days, if not every day. I've really been away too long, plus I miss writing...ranting and raving on whatever. I'll the be the first to admit I don't see myself as a good writer but it's cathartic. Free therapy. And I get to hone my creative skills, too.
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I may have been whoring slaving over my "menial, meaningless" job for nearly two years now, but at least now I have something to show for it, which is my new PC. Yay! I really ♥ my new PC so much.
I still like my old PC, it did serve me well for how many years (uh, hello, its OS is still Windows98!) and has saved my sanity countless times (except for the two times it crashed and I nearly lost my "life"). But its time has come, and I had to upgrade.
I won't be boring by listing the specs, but I'm OC so I'm compelled to: 1.9GHz AMD Sempron, Gigabyte mobo, 512MB DDR2 memory, 256MB GeForce video card (should be higher because of my bro's video card), LAN, HP DVD writer...but what really is the best part for me is the HDD: 80GB!!! Yehey!!! I know that's 'standard' or may be small compared to others that can have up to 250GBs, but please take it in context: I was on my old PC for what felt like a million years on these specs: Pentium R, 32MB RAM, 8MB video, 56k modem and a 4GB HDD. No, I'm not kidding. When it was brand new, it was the fastest specs and largest HDD. Then factor in how quickly computer technology advances nowadays, and how cheaper everything becomes, too. I do wonder now I was able to exist with those specs, I guess it just shows how careful I am with the things that are dear to me :-)
Getting a PC upgrade was one of my priorities when I got employed. It took me this long because, hey, I have bills to pay, too. And it was tempting to just use the money I should set aside for my savings for shopping sprees. Actually, I just wanted to upgrade my old PC, get new hardware, etc. But since I needed a major (!) overhaul, might as well get a new one. It's just the CPU, not the entire package. I also had to get a new keyboard because these new CPUs have PS2 keyboard sockets, whereas my old keyboard had the big round socket.
I'm really grateful I was finally able to get a new CPU. It's given me new energy, at least when I'm here in the comforts of my room and my home. (Energy which should be put to use in writing and updating my websites, and not solely on arcade games. And I say "here" because if I talk about a different location, i.e., workplace, um, I have no energy there.)
"Protect my moon and shining sun."
29 January 2008
27 January 2008
I'm on wireless broadband, so there shouldn't be any problem...right?
Uh-oh, it's almost a week since my last post.
One of the reasons I couldn't frequently update my websites or diaries before was because I only had dial-up, and sometimes it took ages for me to connect to the Internet. Then my account was an off-peak subscription, meaning I could only login during 12mn to 1am. When I was working during the day shift, I was too tired to wait or wake up early so I could go online. Then obviously I couldn't use it anymore when I started working the graveyard shift.
Mary Anne had been persuading me to get broadband for the longest time. My excuse was I couldn't afford it, but it was only a few hundred pesos more than my dial-up subscription. So after seven loyal years with my ISP, I said goodbye and got Smart Bro installed last month.
OMG, so far I have no major problems here. I made the application on December 16, 2007 around 11am. It was our company's Christmas Party that night and I went home really late, or very early in the morning -- whichever way you look at it -- and good thing I went home right away, too, otherwise I would've arrived home at the same time the Smart technicians came to install my wireless broadband! I was probably just drifting off to a deeper sleep and my brother pounds on my door that the Smart technicians were here already...at 8am! Wow! Talk about Bilis Kabit.
There was no problem installing the outside antenna. Initially, my bro and I assumed they'd install it in our porch. But since the trees and the unfinished apartment buildings across the street were hindering our line-of-sight with the Smart antenna, they chose to install it right on our roof. So it looks kinda odd: we don't have a TV antenna but there's this other one right on top. I've looked it at it, and it does look odd if you didn't know if it was a wireless broadband antenna. It looks like an intercom on a pole, haha.
They did hit a snag installing it on my PC. The technician couldn't find the LAN installed even though I was told by the computer shop technicians it was included already. Well, to make things simpler, I just bought a wireless LAN card from the technicians at an additional price.
And I was connected to the Internet! It only took less than two hours, because they were out of here by 10am.
The major snag that day was when my bro hogged my PC. Since I was unable to clean my room, and fortunately my bro woke up early that day and had just finished cleaning his, I moved my PC to his room just for the installation. He has his own PC, too, but I'm really not quite sure why he can't use it right now.
So after the broadband installation, and after I had downloaded some of the programs I use -- instantaneously downloaded, mind you, because I was still in awe of how fast the connection was (gimme a break, I was on 56k dial-up for seven years ha! And it was usually just 33.6K connection), and after I had checked my email (i.e., deleted hundreds of spam) and browsed a bit, I let my bro use my PC. He had suggested on his own that he'd pay half of the monthly broadband bill as long he can get to play this online/LAN game he's addicted to. He also paid for an additional video card, because his game required a higher graphic resolution.
It took him the entire afternoon to download his game. And all that time I watched television because I was too excited to sleep some more. I'm not a big couch potato so I get bored if I don't see a good movie or program. Of course, I just wanted to use my PC...my PC!!!
The afternoon became evening and I couldn't wait anymore. I was in a bad mood already. So it was my turn to pound on my bro's door. It turns out he was sleeping (he works the night shift, too) so he was pissed I interrupted his sleep. Come on, if you were going to sleep, you could've at least returned my PC. I've told this to Mary Anne and she said I was quite mean. Well, in the first place, it's still my PC and I waited two long years to be able to upgrade my computer! And now I have both a good computer and a fast Internet connection, I'm yet again to have one of my selfish brothers have dibs at it?!? Please, give me a break!!!
(Yeah, in retrospect, it was a bit mean, but my reasons are valid, too.)
Anyway, I'm on wireless broadband for almost two months and I still haven't updated my websites or my diaries. At least I'm trying here!
The problem is I'm currently addicted to playing arcade games. Yep, again because I couldn't play games properly on my Jurassic but beloved old PC (slow, low specs) and I had a major blast playing them again here. Then I started trying all those arcade games on game websites... and coupled with my obsessive-compulsive nature, is it any wonder I don't do anything productive at all?
Here are the reasons why Mary Anne hasn't seen me on Skype (and because I'm OC I want to list all the games I've played so far): Diner Dash, SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash, Chocolatier, Wedding Dash, Cake Mania, Cake Mania 2, Little Shop Big City, Paradise Pet Salon, Sally's Salon, Turbo Subs, Build-a-lot, Dream Day Wedding, Fashion Fits, Fashion Craze, Granny in Paradise, Dress Shop Hop, Nanny Mania, Jane's Hotel, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Chicktionary. Whew!
I haven't finished ALL of them, only both Cake Mania's because I was nice enough to pay for them. But now I know better *wink wink*, I've also managed to finish Little Shop Big City (great memory game!), Turbo Subs, Sally's Salon, and Jane's Hotel. I didn't finish the others because it was either getting too difficult to play or too corny for me, haha.
Chicktionary and A Series of Unfortunate Events are not arcade games. Chicktionary is like Text Twist, only with chickens, and ASOUE is a puzzle game. Still both fun.
And right now, I'm downloading Turbo Pizzas, the precursor to Turbo Subs. Oh boy, here I go again.
PS. Finished DL'ing Season 1 of Miami Ink off BitTorrent at 6.34pm. Yay! Started this January 13, and again, I was "too lazy" to even open the program and too preoccupied with arcade games.
One of the reasons I couldn't frequently update my websites or diaries before was because I only had dial-up, and sometimes it took ages for me to connect to the Internet. Then my account was an off-peak subscription, meaning I could only login during 12mn to 1am. When I was working during the day shift, I was too tired to wait or wake up early so I could go online. Then obviously I couldn't use it anymore when I started working the graveyard shift.
Mary Anne had been persuading me to get broadband for the longest time. My excuse was I couldn't afford it, but it was only a few hundred pesos more than my dial-up subscription. So after seven loyal years with my ISP, I said goodbye and got Smart Bro installed last month.
OMG, so far I have no major problems here. I made the application on December 16, 2007 around 11am. It was our company's Christmas Party that night and I went home really late, or very early in the morning -- whichever way you look at it -- and good thing I went home right away, too, otherwise I would've arrived home at the same time the Smart technicians came to install my wireless broadband! I was probably just drifting off to a deeper sleep and my brother pounds on my door that the Smart technicians were here already...at 8am! Wow! Talk about Bilis Kabit.
There was no problem installing the outside antenna. Initially, my bro and I assumed they'd install it in our porch. But since the trees and the unfinished apartment buildings across the street were hindering our line-of-sight with the Smart antenna, they chose to install it right on our roof. So it looks kinda odd: we don't have a TV antenna but there's this other one right on top. I've looked it at it, and it does look odd if you didn't know if it was a wireless broadband antenna. It looks like an intercom on a pole, haha.
They did hit a snag installing it on my PC. The technician couldn't find the LAN installed even though I was told by the computer shop technicians it was included already. Well, to make things simpler, I just bought a wireless LAN card from the technicians at an additional price.
And I was connected to the Internet! It only took less than two hours, because they were out of here by 10am.
The major snag that day was when my bro hogged my PC. Since I was unable to clean my room, and fortunately my bro woke up early that day and had just finished cleaning his, I moved my PC to his room just for the installation. He has his own PC, too, but I'm really not quite sure why he can't use it right now.
So after the broadband installation, and after I had downloaded some of the programs I use -- instantaneously downloaded, mind you, because I was still in awe of how fast the connection was (gimme a break, I was on 56k dial-up for seven years ha! And it was usually just 33.6K connection), and after I had checked my email (i.e., deleted hundreds of spam) and browsed a bit, I let my bro use my PC. He had suggested on his own that he'd pay half of the monthly broadband bill as long he can get to play this online/LAN game he's addicted to. He also paid for an additional video card, because his game required a higher graphic resolution.
It took him the entire afternoon to download his game. And all that time I watched television because I was too excited to sleep some more. I'm not a big couch potato so I get bored if I don't see a good movie or program. Of course, I just wanted to use my PC...my PC!!!
The afternoon became evening and I couldn't wait anymore. I was in a bad mood already. So it was my turn to pound on my bro's door. It turns out he was sleeping (he works the night shift, too) so he was pissed I interrupted his sleep. Come on, if you were going to sleep, you could've at least returned my PC. I've told this to Mary Anne and she said I was quite mean. Well, in the first place, it's still my PC and I waited two long years to be able to upgrade my computer! And now I have both a good computer and a fast Internet connection, I'm yet again to have one of my selfish brothers have dibs at it?!? Please, give me a break!!!
(Yeah, in retrospect, it was a bit mean, but my reasons are valid, too.)
Anyway, I'm on wireless broadband for almost two months and I still haven't updated my websites or my diaries. At least I'm trying here!
The problem is I'm currently addicted to playing arcade games. Yep, again because I couldn't play games properly on my Jurassic but beloved old PC (slow, low specs) and I had a major blast playing them again here. Then I started trying all those arcade games on game websites... and coupled with my obsessive-compulsive nature, is it any wonder I don't do anything productive at all?
Here are the reasons why Mary Anne hasn't seen me on Skype (and because I'm OC I want to list all the games I've played so far): Diner Dash, SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash, Chocolatier, Wedding Dash, Cake Mania, Cake Mania 2, Little Shop Big City, Paradise Pet Salon, Sally's Salon, Turbo Subs, Build-a-lot, Dream Day Wedding, Fashion Fits, Fashion Craze, Granny in Paradise, Dress Shop Hop, Nanny Mania, Jane's Hotel, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Chicktionary. Whew!
I haven't finished ALL of them, only both Cake Mania's because I was nice enough to pay for them. But now I know better *wink wink*, I've also managed to finish Little Shop Big City (great memory game!), Turbo Subs, Sally's Salon, and Jane's Hotel. I didn't finish the others because it was either getting too difficult to play or too corny for me, haha.
Chicktionary and A Series of Unfortunate Events are not arcade games. Chicktionary is like Text Twist, only with chickens, and ASOUE is a puzzle game. Still both fun.
And right now, I'm downloading Turbo Pizzas, the precursor to Turbo Subs. Oh boy, here I go again.
PS. Finished DL'ing Season 1 of Miami Ink off BitTorrent at 6.34pm. Yay! Started this January 13, and again, I was "too lazy" to even open the program and too preoccupied with arcade games.
21 January 2008
The second step is even harder.
No, I did not fall off the face off the planet. More like I let myself drift away again.
If the first step is always the hardest, I think for this instance the second step is even harder -- considering what had happened.
For the past several years, I've been hosting my online journal at Diary-x.com. As anyone who has an online diary will attest, it was very convenient. There was actually no problems whatsoever, the site was friendly and idiot-friendly. So there I go drifting away in contentment.
Until sometime two years ago, I was unable to access the site...at all. Initially, I thought they were having a major site upgrade...but it was just taking too long.
So as most things goes in my life: if something worse will happen, it will happen -- especially to me. Inevitable Doom.
Apparently the server had a major crash. As was explained, it skipped its tracks so most data was lost. And unless you backed-up your files or was on a special account with them, sorry, they don't have your diary anymore.
WTF. Almost three years of documenting my life, from the serious to mundane, online for everyone to read, wiped out just.like.that.
I had been thinking of my saving, or copy-pasting, my diary to diskettes ever since, but I never got around to it because, yeah, I'm kinda lazy. Plus if you had to deal with my jurassic (but beloved) PC before, it was just too much for me.
I know, that's a really lame excuse. I just should've backed-up since the first entry. But then when you're dealing with saving stuff online, I didn't really worry about that.
I did manage to salvage a few of my earlier entries from an archive website which I've now forgotten. I do remember my very last entry. It was entitled "Should I stay or should I go?" about my employment status.
Obviously, I haven't gotten around to creating a new online diary until now. Wouldn't you be bummed out after losing years off your "life"? To think I even prioritised writing in my online diary rather than in my actual diary. Haaaay.
Anyway, it's high time I made amends. I miss writing.
Let's just hope I don't let myself drift away again.
If the first step is always the hardest, I think for this instance the second step is even harder -- considering what had happened.
For the past several years, I've been hosting my online journal at Diary-x.com. As anyone who has an online diary will attest, it was very convenient. There was actually no problems whatsoever, the site was friendly and idiot-friendly. So there I go drifting away in contentment.
Until sometime two years ago, I was unable to access the site...at all. Initially, I thought they were having a major site upgrade...but it was just taking too long.
So as most things goes in my life: if something worse will happen, it will happen -- especially to me. Inevitable Doom.
Apparently the server had a major crash. As was explained, it skipped its tracks so most data was lost. And unless you backed-up your files or was on a special account with them, sorry, they don't have your diary anymore.
WTF. Almost three years of documenting my life, from the serious to mundane, online for everyone to read, wiped out just.like.that.
I had been thinking of my saving, or copy-pasting, my diary to diskettes ever since, but I never got around to it because, yeah, I'm kinda lazy. Plus if you had to deal with my jurassic (but beloved) PC before, it was just too much for me.
I know, that's a really lame excuse. I just should've backed-up since the first entry. But then when you're dealing with saving stuff online, I didn't really worry about that.
I did manage to salvage a few of my earlier entries from an archive website which I've now forgotten. I do remember my very last entry. It was entitled "Should I stay or should I go?" about my employment status.
Obviously, I haven't gotten around to creating a new online diary until now. Wouldn't you be bummed out after losing years off your "life"? To think I even prioritised writing in my online diary rather than in my actual diary. Haaaay.
Anyway, it's high time I made amends. I miss writing.
Let's just hope I don't let myself drift away again.
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