movin right along

so today i didn't get any math done, but it was good.... did miscellaneous stuff around the house all morning and half the afternoon til eric made it over from getting his car fixed up (oil change, new tires, etc. as to be expected from driving cross country in one shot)

once eric was around, denny's for breakfast for late afternoon lunch... then circuit city... we examined the machines for a bit while the sales guy was finishing up with another customer and eric commented that what he paid extra for last year speed and storage wise on his computer looks to be pretty standard and he was amazed.... compare the specs:

old computer?
not even a pentium 1 processor, 1G of storage space, 16M of RAM

new computer?
pentium celuron processor, 80G of storage space, 512M of RAM

further advantages?
* i opted to get an LCD screen instead of the standard kind since the current monitor with the old machine doesn't show colors right (red comes and goes, and things get a bluish tint sometimes too) and it's the 3rd one attached to that tower that's developed that problem... i'm tired of it... so yay LCD and seeing colors right!
* sooo much faster! (i've been oohing and aahing all night about how much more quickly things happen and that the colors are all there and eric keeps laughing because these are things one should expect from a computer that i've been living without for quite some time :-P -- other eric quote of the day:
eric: (down the hall, salvaging some stuff from my old machine) *laughs hysterically*
me: dude, what's wrong with you?
eric: BIOS version 1.008... how can you still be running a machine with BIOS version 1.008... you should seriously take a picture of the startup screen -- that's so freakin hilarious)
* CD burner, DVD player both already built in, plus a series of jacks on the front of the machine already set up for digital cameras, etc. to plug in.
* new printer that came with the deal that i won't have to sit on the floor with and jam one sheet at a time into

only 2 minor frustrations so far
(1) i've spent so long with windows 98, which i know forwards and backwards, that XP goofs me up... things i could mindlessly click to and find before, i now have to go searching for... that'll just take time though
(2) as a result of #1 it took much longer than it should have to finally convince my old scanner (an HP scanjet 2100C) and the computer proper to play along nicely with each other... but,... i did ultimately succeed.

...and here it is 3am and i'm still up... my sleeping schedule is sooo off... :-(

anyhow, time to pretend to sleep... i actually have plans to tomorrow to do math studying with leigh so that i do get work done... math party at barnes and noble -- don't you wish you were invited? ;-P

night y'all.