geek girl wigs out...
been a while, n'est pas? well, i've got tons of updates to bring you right up to date with my super duper exciting life...

on the work side of things...there's not much news other than the previously mentioned impending unemployment effective jan 16...i've had a few bites for temp gigs, but nothing solid yet. i'm super keen on doing something with hp, but i'll have to keep my fingers crossed.

i woke up early this morning to do a mass hunt for jobs, but quickly became frustrated with my monitor. back in september my monitor decided to do this crazy thing where the picture shrank horizontally along the centre...kinda like |) (| .... very annoying to look at for extended periods of time. so i did something which i may come to regret, or appreciate greatly....I went out and bought a new monitor. not such a smart move for someone with no job soon, but i think i will encourage me to be more proactive in my search for a new employer. we shall see....it's an LG t710 ez-flat shadow mask 0.24mm...it's kinda ghetto, but dang it pretty to look at.
so while i'm down there, i figure i saved a bunch of cash for buying a 17" instead of 19, so I decided to replace my mono soundblaster live (more like sb dead) with a shiny new Audigy 2 zs.

i got them both installed, yanked the tvwonder pci out of the tvslave and for the first time in about 9 installations over 6 months, got the puppy to work on the pretty hate machine.

in all, the hate machine should be a power machine after the amount of cash i've dumped into it lately...it's not hideously shabby, but it's not quite up to stuff. a few weeks back, i popped in a thermaltake silent purepower 480w w/pfc in black and an lg 16x dvd+/-rw, dual layer burner in black...

now of course, if you read my entry a few weeks back, you're saying to yourself "what the hell happened to the hardware procuring priority list? is she mad?" my answer to you is an astounding 'YES!' get over it. so the list is revised somewhat...same order, but the monitor and soundcard have now been removed. now just need mobo and processor....mmmmm, i can't wait.

life is stupid right now, so i'll leave that out from the update. just waiting for the recycle bin to empty...the junk is just sitting out on the curb...I know its there, and kind of miss it, but fighting the urge to go bring it back inside. i'll be much better once it's collected and taken away...hows that for an analogy?

the broken kitten has proved to be less broken than i thought. i was sitting here earlier calibrating my new soundcard/speaker setup and noticed the cat was playing...the cat never plays, so this was a bit odd...and she kept at it for a long while...i took a peek around the back of the monitor and noticed she was batting around something, which i assumed was a a bug....then i saw it move....so i got up and took a closer look, and by god, the broken kitten had beaten up a mouse. i was truly astounded and even attempted to take pictures (the lighting in here is hideous, so they didn't turn out so well.) i realized the mouse may have been poisoned, so it probably wasn't a good idea for me to sit and watch my cat gnaw on the corpse...but i had no idea what i was supposed to do. so i called trevor over and we removed the mouse to the outdoors....about 10 minutes later, the flipping cat had another one! this time, i was prepared...once she was done batting the thing around, i collected the beaten rodent and sent it flying off the back stairwell to the snowy abyss....kinda funny how the very process that alerted me to a problem with mice, eliminated the problem....i have a mouser...how sweet.



- posted by tart @ 1:49 a.m.