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OMG! OMG! OMG! Wow. 57th journal
16 years ago
This is my head.
Oh my god! oh my god! Oh my god! At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, an event occurred that made my day. An awesome artist 
jace , whose work I been admiring for a long long time, watched me. Made the sting of losing two watchers yesterday vanish (one watched me just previously and then unwatched a few days later).
This is in addition of :ianrsoulfox: favoring one of my drawing that I mentioned in my last journal. Seems I am getting noticed by a couple of the heavy hitters lately. I hope it is a tend that continues though that is unlikely as lightning striking the same place twice. But who knows.
Ok, enough gushing. I have a few items to go through. Those few that reads my journals knows about my brother going to the hospital. They finally drained all that fluid that made him bloated. He is still at the nursing home but no longer has a huge, pregnant looking gut. He has his on and off days, bored no doubt stuck there. At least he can't smoke or doing drugs there so I feel he is better off there. He might get out before Christmas though.
Well, I surged on a few computer goodies for myself. Last month I bought a 25 inch LCD monitor for a great deal. But the on-board Intel video on my old P4 3.0GHz not where near cutting it displaying full resolution. So I waited for Black Friday and ordered myself a modern graphics card. Again I got a great deal (I love sales) and snatched a PNY 9800GT EE 1GB DDR3 card for $80US. I grabbed a 500 watt power supply too since this Dell mid-tower one is not up the the task. Had to cut the sheet metal in the back but otherwise the standard ATX supply fits.
The result? Let's say lots. I ran a old 3D benchmark program (newer ones refuse to run on the Intel crap) and got an average of 5 FPS. With the new card, I was getting 15 to 20 times that. Even those the system on the whole still slow by today's level, it is still a huge improvement. At least it makes it a little more bearable before I finally invest myself in a new computer early (hopefully) next year. All in all, I indulged myself lately much more than I did in years. But I think it is worth it as I can squeeze my old stuff a bit more. Plus I can play those 3D FPS games like I used to do.
Lots of things happening at work. I am not going to bored you with it. A bunch of remodeling and shifting is gist og it. And business is picking up in the fourth quarter and next year looking to be much better. We are even getting a Christmas bonus but going to be about half of last year. Still getting it unlike most companies. We didn't make any money as a whole but at least we are not going bankrupt.
I think I pretty much covered everything. I most likely missed something but everyone (yeah, both of them) probably fell asleep by now.
jace , whose work I been admiring for a long long time, watched me. Made the sting of losing two watchers yesterday vanish (one watched me just previously and then unwatched a few days later).This is in addition of :ianrsoulfox: favoring one of my drawing that I mentioned in my last journal. Seems I am getting noticed by a couple of the heavy hitters lately. I hope it is a tend that continues though that is unlikely as lightning striking the same place twice. But who knows.
Ok, enough gushing. I have a few items to go through. Those few that reads my journals knows about my brother going to the hospital. They finally drained all that fluid that made him bloated. He is still at the nursing home but no longer has a huge, pregnant looking gut. He has his on and off days, bored no doubt stuck there. At least he can't smoke or doing drugs there so I feel he is better off there. He might get out before Christmas though.
Well, I surged on a few computer goodies for myself. Last month I bought a 25 inch LCD monitor for a great deal. But the on-board Intel video on my old P4 3.0GHz not where near cutting it displaying full resolution. So I waited for Black Friday and ordered myself a modern graphics card. Again I got a great deal (I love sales) and snatched a PNY 9800GT EE 1GB DDR3 card for $80US. I grabbed a 500 watt power supply too since this Dell mid-tower one is not up the the task. Had to cut the sheet metal in the back but otherwise the standard ATX supply fits.
The result? Let's say lots. I ran a old 3D benchmark program (newer ones refuse to run on the Intel crap) and got an average of 5 FPS. With the new card, I was getting 15 to 20 times that. Even those the system on the whole still slow by today's level, it is still a huge improvement. At least it makes it a little more bearable before I finally invest myself in a new computer early (hopefully) next year. All in all, I indulged myself lately much more than I did in years. But I think it is worth it as I can squeeze my old stuff a bit more. Plus I can play those 3D FPS games like I used to do.
Lots of things happening at work. I am not going to bored you with it. A bunch of remodeling and shifting is gist og it. And business is picking up in the fourth quarter and next year looking to be much better. We are even getting a Christmas bonus but going to be about half of last year. Still getting it unlike most companies. We didn't make any money as a whole but at least we are not going bankrupt.
I think I pretty much covered everything. I most likely missed something but everyone (yeah, both of them) probably fell asleep by now.
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