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Tech Speak

timberwolfblues and I are going somewhere this weekend. Like gone gone from Friday until sometime Sunday. Like if you need me, call my cell but don't expect me to answer.

I'm also attempting to move all the data I want from Cronus' main HDD onto his secondary drive so that it can simply be installed into Gir. That's about the easiest way to move data. I will, of course, have to reinstall all my programs, which is the suck but I'll live. It's also helpful that I keep all my discs in one place and keep the majority of the install files for various web programs on my drive rather than delete them. This is very helpful with some programs that no longer seem to have the free version downloads available. Some things I'll have to have Jim replace when he gets back from his honeymoon because he set them up special for me, and I'm not sure how he did it.

Yesterday, my RAM and 200GB HDD for Gir game in. Wilbur went ahead and installed the RAM, HDD and my secondary CDR/RW DVD player combo drive. We're basically just waiting for my 3.4GHz Dual Core Processor (the 3.2 was sold out and upgrading to 3.4 was only $40 more) and my video card to come in. And, yeah, me to get the old comp in so Wilbur can switch my secondary HDD and my 4 port USB 2 card.

And I need to call the bank and get them to reset my online banking password (because they made me change it and I forgot it so now I'm locked out of my account) so I can transfer the necessary funds to pay for Gir from savings to checking. Everything is coming together nicely. Hopefully by the beginning of next week, I shall be squeeing happily over the splendor that is Gir.

ETA: Now I just need to figure out where Netscape keeps my bookmarks so I can save those.

Shiny!

CPU and video card arrived today.

Whee!

Now to call my bank and get my online checking unlocked.

ETA: Online banking unlocked and password reset and changed. Funds transferred to checking for purchase of computer. Whee!

I'm Gonna Make Waffles!

Final tally:

• Pentium D dual core 3.4GHz processor
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 200 GB HDD
  
• CD R/RW DVD player combo drive
  
• DVD R/RW Dual Layer drive
  
• 256MB nVidia GeForce 7600 GS video card
  
• 19" LCD monitor

Total cost: $1462.01

((It turns out that Gir's motherboard is stupid and only has two IDE drives. Thus, my secondary HDD from Cronus will not work in him. This is alright. 200GB will hold me until I purchase another SATA HDD for Gir at a later date when they've come down in price a little.))