Thursday, September 30, 2004
Well that was weird.
I got an e-mail a few days ago from Dell telling my that my computer order had been delayed until October 12. Nearly two weeks! Super-bummer. They mentioned in the note, however, that I now had the option to cancel my order. Mother offered the quite-sage advice that I should attempt to fix my computer, and if I got it working well-enough before they were supposed to ship my computer, I could cancel it. Good idea.
And as it turns out, I think I managed to get my computer working at least a little alright. I installed Mozilla Firefox ™ © (all rights reserved) which has blown the pants off of both my old Netscape install and Internet Explorer in terms of running without crashing to the desktop. Plus some random disc scan stuff and a system re-install, and I think I may have everything pretty much on the path of righteousness. And it only took two days after Dell sent me my delay notice.
And actually, I’m kind of glad, because that means I can delay my computer buying moment further still and perhaps get an even better computer. (You know how these things go). So I go to check up on my order and see if I can cancel it, and it looks like Dell has already shipped it.
…Huh?
I’m actually a little torn about this. Now that my current computer is working again, I really would rather not have a new computer. Between paying USC for my class and not getting reimbursed until next year, vacation stuff, new computer, and random other bits, I’m surprised I still have any money at all. I do, granted, it’s not like I’m in straights anything at all like ‘dire’, but I think I may have overextended my budget a little. I checked over my finances, and it looks, actually, like my biggest unnecessary expenses have been in what I’ve labeled in quicken as ‘entertainment’. Video games, not surprisingly, go in here.
So the first step is to admit I’ve made a mistake. Which I have, though not, perhaps, a catastrophic one. Pretty recoverable. Wiser men than I have said that when you realize you have made a mistake, you must take immediate steps to rectify it. In my case, the best thing to do is to cut back on spending. Especially unnecessary spending. This is pretty all right for me, though, being as I’ve spent so much on the beloved PS2 entertainment, I actually have quite a few games to play through. I think I should be pretty well sated until ~ Christmas.
And speaking of Christmas, I would like to come home for Christmas, but I’m guessing that the primary stopper on the success or failure of that plan will be $$$. I certainly have the time. (Raytheon gives us nearly two weeks off at the end of every year. Quite kind, really.) I’ll have to make the decision soon, though, tickets being what they are.
Very little else of note has happened recently, though. I’m going to a housewarming party this weekend, but not a whole lot of ‘going out’ or ‘clubbing’ or ‘tearing it up.’ This might be a bad sign, it might not. Time will tell.
-N
I got an e-mail a few days ago from Dell telling my that my computer order had been delayed until October 12. Nearly two weeks! Super-bummer. They mentioned in the note, however, that I now had the option to cancel my order. Mother offered the quite-sage advice that I should attempt to fix my computer, and if I got it working well-enough before they were supposed to ship my computer, I could cancel it. Good idea.
And as it turns out, I think I managed to get my computer working at least a little alright. I installed Mozilla Firefox ™ © (all rights reserved) which has blown the pants off of both my old Netscape install and Internet Explorer in terms of running without crashing to the desktop. Plus some random disc scan stuff and a system re-install, and I think I may have everything pretty much on the path of righteousness. And it only took two days after Dell sent me my delay notice.
And actually, I’m kind of glad, because that means I can delay my computer buying moment further still and perhaps get an even better computer. (You know how these things go). So I go to check up on my order and see if I can cancel it, and it looks like Dell has already shipped it.
…Huh?
I’m actually a little torn about this. Now that my current computer is working again, I really would rather not have a new computer. Between paying USC for my class and not getting reimbursed until next year, vacation stuff, new computer, and random other bits, I’m surprised I still have any money at all. I do, granted, it’s not like I’m in straights anything at all like ‘dire’, but I think I may have overextended my budget a little. I checked over my finances, and it looks, actually, like my biggest unnecessary expenses have been in what I’ve labeled in quicken as ‘entertainment’. Video games, not surprisingly, go in here.
So the first step is to admit I’ve made a mistake. Which I have, though not, perhaps, a catastrophic one. Pretty recoverable. Wiser men than I have said that when you realize you have made a mistake, you must take immediate steps to rectify it. In my case, the best thing to do is to cut back on spending. Especially unnecessary spending. This is pretty all right for me, though, being as I’ve spent so much on the beloved PS2 entertainment, I actually have quite a few games to play through. I think I should be pretty well sated until ~ Christmas.
And speaking of Christmas, I would like to come home for Christmas, but I’m guessing that the primary stopper on the success or failure of that plan will be $$$. I certainly have the time. (Raytheon gives us nearly two weeks off at the end of every year. Quite kind, really.) I’ll have to make the decision soon, though, tickets being what they are.
Very little else of note has happened recently, though. I’m going to a housewarming party this weekend, but not a whole lot of ‘going out’ or ‘clubbing’ or ‘tearing it up.’ This might be a bad sign, it might not. Time will tell.
-N
Comments:
Does this new budgeting concern mean you'll have to put off buying Doom 3- which I thought had been something of a motivating factor in the purchase of the better machine? If so, that is sad irony.
-- Sandlin
-- Sandlin
# posted by 
: September 30, 2004 at 1:56 PM
: September 30, 2004 at 1:56 PM
Heh. No. It's not so much that I wanted to buy/play doom 3 as it was that even if I wanted to, I couldn't, cause my computer was too slow. Much more a 'processing speed' benchmark, much less a 'game wanting' benchmark.
-N
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